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China
Lake - An Evan Delaney Mystery
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Author
: Meg Gardiner
Description:
Evan
Delaney learns that not only has her former sister-in-law joined
a religious cult, but the unstable mother plans to regain
custody of her son and disappear with him into the fold of the
fanatical group. When murder raises the stakes, Evan is dragged
deeper into the nightmare.
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High
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: Rebecca Kent (aka Kate
Kingsbury) Description:
Meet
Headmistress and sometime sleuth Meredith Llewellyn of
Bellehaven House, a finishing school for girls. It’s the
height of elegance, the seat of sophistication, the scene of
murder? Teacher Kathleen Duncan was killed in the school garden
at night. Judging by a bloody branch, Miss Meredith Llewellyn
assumes it was an accident, until she learns that the limb
didn’t break off, it was neatly sawn. As she searches for a
killer, Meredith wonders if her eyes are playing tricks on her.
How else can she explain her foggy images of Kathleen pointing
to the flowerbeds? Without the help of the lazy constable or her
petrified teachers, Meredith will have to find a link between
flowers and the killing, take heed of her own safety, and get an
education in murder.
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Double
Dog Dare - A Kendra Ballantyne, Pet-Sitter Mystery |
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: Linda O. Johnston Description:
Private
investigator Jeff Hubbard is missing, and his girlfriend,
Kendra, is having a difficult time concentrating on her law and
pet-sitting careers. When Jeff's car is found submerged in a
canal, with blood on the seats, Kendra fears that he's been
murdered or kidnapped, so she looks into the cases Jeff was
working on at the time of his disappearance. Kendra's
investigation leads her to Jeff's Aunt Lois, who paid a company
to clone her dog, but the canine died. Lois had asked Jeff to
quietly see if they were guilty of any wrongdoing. In the
meantime, one of the cloners is found murdered. Is Lois a
killer? Is Jeff dead or alive? Kendra needs answers.
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Author
: Claudia Bishop Description:
Animals
and justice have found their hero in Dr. McKenzie. When a randy
milk inspector is found dead in 400 gallons of goat milk,
veterinarian Austin McKenzie and his wife Madeline will have to
cull a killer from a herd of suspects. And along the way, the
vet might just save some bleating hearts.
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Author
: Taylor Smith Description:
Hired by
a gallery owner to transport a painting to
Puerto Vallarta
, private security contractor Hannah Nicks is wary but takes the
job because she needs the cash. A surprise visit from the FBI
prior to her departure makes her even more suspicious, but
that's nothing compared to the shocking scene awaiting her at
the drop-off point, the home of arms dealer Moises Gladding: The
place is strewn with fresh corpses. Back in the
United States
, people begin to die too - and Hannah's wanted for questioning
by everyone from the L.A. Sheriff's Department to the FBI and
Scotland Yard. Keeping herself, and her friends and family,
alive is her top priority, but she's also determined to discover
who's setting her up and just what she took to Mexico.
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Author
: Lori
Andrews
Description:
For
as long as she can remember, successful young physician Megan
Blair has tried to silence the voices in her head, voices that
bring her to the edge of madness and terror. Megan possesses
psychic powers that have been dormant for years, hidden deep in
the past she's tried so desperately to forget but now everything
has come to a boiling point, someone is trying to kill her and
others are trying to use her, including the deadly and seductive
Neal Grady. Shocking secrets about her life and her mother's
death bombard her as she fights to take control of her heritage
and save herself and everything she believes in. Grady holds the
key to understanding her future, a future in which Megan's life
will never be the same.
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The
Ghost and the Femme Fatale - A Haunted Bookshop Mystery
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Author
: Alice Kimberley
Description:
When a John Doe with a bayonet wound in
his chest is discovered in a
Washington
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D.C.
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alley, geneticist Dr. Alexandra Blake of the Armed Forces
Institute of Pathology is pulled away from her bio-terrorism
work to aid in the investigation. Just a little digging reveals
a corpse that's nothing like the homeless robbery victim it was
set up to resemble and Alex and her colleagues find themselves
wrapped up in a complicated mystery of high-stakes international
financial intrigue. The homicide investigation is just heating
up when a political firestorm erupts over the AFIP's possession
of human skulls brought back from
Vietnam
thirty years earlier by American servicemen. Alex is handed the
delicate task of managing the restoration and return of these
grisly souvenirs. The skulls take on urgent significance when
she uncovers evidence of a much bigger crime and suddenly Alex
discovers she's a target, and the White House itself is under
fire.
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Hooked
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Author
: Betty Hechtman Description:
When
bookstore event coordinator Molly Pink stumbles across the dead
body of a crochet group's leader, her complicated past with the
woman makes her a prime suspect. While Molly's fending off a
detective with a personal grudge and navigating the pitfalls of
crochet group politics, the real killer remains at large and
it's up to her to catch the culprit, before she winds up in a
tight knot.
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Index
to Murder - A Miss Zukas Mystery |
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Author
: Jo Dereske Description:
No
one could be more orderly or organized than dedicated librarian
Helma Zukas. No one could be more rash and raucous than
avant-garde artist Ruth Winthrop. Yet the two women are best
friends and a resourceful, ingenious, crime-solving team. So
when two of Ruth's latest paintings, each depicting an ex-lover
who met a very untimely and mysterious end are stolen, the
amazing amateur detectives get to work. Digging through Ruth's
romantic rendezvous turns up more than broken hearts. There's an
angry ex-wife, a jealous fellow artist, and a rampaging group of
local tree-huggers. There's trouble brewing in Bellehaven and
only Helma and Ruth can make certain that mayhem doesn't lead to
murder.
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: Jim & Joyce Lavene Description:
While attending a funeral in nearby Badin, Peggy
learns of more bad news, a diver performing routine work on the
local dam is found dead. The police call on Peggy's new training
as a contract forensic botanist to help answer questions, but
her findings only raise more questions. Peggy is happy to lend
her green thumb to the investigation between remodelling the
Potting Shed and finding time for her relationship with Steve,
but this may be the one time digging for a killer leaves her
empty handed.
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: Earlene Fowler Description:
With Christmas just a few weeks away, Benni's queenly boss,
Constance Sinclair, demands that she investigate the death of a
local socialite. It's not long before Benni recognizes that
there may be some deadly truth to
Constance
's suspicions. With a famously reclusive artist about to put
Benni's quilting museum on the map, and her daunting
mother-in-law and her surprise
new husband visiting, Benni's holiday is already hectic.
Nevertheless, she'll need to crack the exclusive circle of
suspects before one more gourmet goose gets cooked.
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Author
: Iris
Johansen
Description:
For
as long as she can remember, successful young physician Megan
Blair has tried to silence the voices in her head, voices that
bring her to the edge of madness and terror. Megan possesses
psychic powers that have been dormant for years, hidden deep in
the past she's tried so desperately to forget but now everything
has come to a boiling point, someone is trying to kill her and
others are trying to use her, including the deadly and seductive
Neal Grady. Shocking secrets about her life and her mother's
death bombard her as she fights to take control of her heritage
and save herself and everything she believes in. Grady holds the
key to understanding her future, a future in which Megan's life
will never be the same.
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Author
: Elizabeth Bevarly
Description: In
the world of international espionage, Lila Moreau is as tough as
they come but she may finally be ready to trade in her secret
double life, once she takes care of a final vendetta - bring in
rogue agent Adrian Padgett before he unleashes disaster. To find
him and his band of merry hackers, she’ll have to infiltrate
small, snooty
Waverly
College
and she’ll have to do it while breaking in her sexy new
partner, Joel Faraday. Hey, no problem for a super spy, right?
Wrong. It isn’t long before Joel starts to distract her, in
more ways than just the professional and he has something in
mind that’s way more dangerous than a one-night stand or a
mission impossible. After all, what could be more dangerous than
falling in love?
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Author
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Jane Graves Description:
Accountant Heather Montgomery is a planner. So never in her
wildest dreams did she think she'd run into sexy charmer Tony
McCaffrey in Vegas, play lady luck, and celebrate his jackpot
with a champagne soaked night. She certainly never expected to
wake up the next morning married! How could this good girl pick
a man whose fridge is empty and whose apartment is a disaster
zone, yet still drives her so crazy with lust she can't see
straight? Quickly hitched and happily ditched, Tony can't wait
to get back to his playboy ways but when Heather's family is
thrilled that their no-nonsense daughter is finally in love, he
proposes a plan - stay married for a month to repay his good
luck charm, even though she sterilizes his toothbrush and
forbids anything between the sheets. Heather is more than he
bargained for, a sharp-witted, passionate woman who just might
turn his near miss into wedded bliss!
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Author
: Kathleen Givens Description:
1290: Turmoil erupts when the seven-year-old queen of
Scotland
perishes en route to claim the crown. Two bitter foes, John
Balliol and Robert Bruce emerge as possible successors, but
England
's Edward I has his own designs on
Scotland
. In
London
, Edward has expelled all Jews from his kingdom. Rachel de Anjou
is heartbroken to leave behind her best friend, Isabel de Burke,
and travel with her family to the Scottish border town of
Berwick
. Danger is everywhere, but the tall, dark Highlander Kieran
MacDonald presents a risk of a different sort. Isabel, appointed
as lady-in-waiting to Edward's queen, Eleanor, is soon immersed
in a world of privilege and peril where she attracts the notice
of two men, Henry de Boyer, an English knight, and Rory
MacGannon, a Highland warrior and outlaw. Isabel and Rachel are
soon reunited in Berwick, but as the enmity between
Scotland
and
England
reaches its violent peak, each woman must decide where her
loyalty, and her destiny, lies.
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Author
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Jane Candia Coleman
Description:
Allie Earp always said the West was no place for sissies. That
held especially true for a woman married to one of the wild Earp
brothers. She had no fear of cussing a blue streak if someone
crossed her, patching up a bullet wound, or defending her home
against rustlers. Every day was a new adventure, from the rough
streets of Deadwood to the infamous OK Corral in
Tombstone
. Through it all one thing remained constant - her deep
and abiding love for one of the most formidable lawmen of the
West.
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Author
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Lynn
Kurland
Description: Sunshine Phillips' heart
lies in
Scotland
, a land of rain, legend, and dangerously handsome
Highland
lords. She longs to call the magical place home, but after a day
which includes such delights as blackening the eye of her
lecherous boss and changing a flat tyre in a chilly spring
deluge, she'll settle for an evening spent curled up in front of
a fire with a cup of tea. What Sunny wants is not what Sunny
gets. When Robert Cameron pounds on Sunny's door, he isn't
paying a social call. With one brother killed in battle and
another fighting for his life, the medieval laird has braved a
trip onto enemy soil to fetch the MacLeod witch, a crone
rumoured to have healing powers but the woman who opens her door
to him is enchanting and young - and not from his century. Now,
it seems that they've both found just what they need, if only
time will let them keep it.
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Author
: L A Banks
Description: The
Chairman has been slaughtered, along with Hell's first almost
successful attempt at creating an Anti-Christ, using Carlos
Rivera's body-double. Dante's son has also been vanquished. Now
the evil Lilith sits on Dante's old throne, a prize won in her
negotiations with Cain. She is The Vampire Council's new
Chairwoman and Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. All
Lilith needs is Damali's newly discovered angelic powers to
allow her evil progeny to walk through the veil between worlds
and usher in the true Anti-Christ. Damali and her crew enter a
desperate race against time to stop Lilith, even if doing so
brings the Neteru Councils out of the clouds and into the
Biblical Holy Lands - and kicks off the Armageddon.
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Author
: Kresley Cole
Description: Neomi
Laress, a famous ballerina from a past century, became a phantom
the night she was murdered. Imbued with otherworldly powers but
invisible to the living, she haunts her beloved home, scaring
away trespassers - until she encounters a ruthless immortal even
more terrifying than Neomi herself. To prevent him from harming
others, Conrad Wroth's brothers imprison him in an abandoned
manor but there, a female only he can see seems determined to
drive him further into madness. The exquisite creature torments
him with desire, leaving his body racked with lust and his soul
torn as he finds himself coveting her for his own. Yet even if
Conrad can win Neomi, evil still surrounds her. Once he returns
to the brutality of his past to protect her, will he succumb to
the dark needs seething inside him?
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Author
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Michele Bardsley Description:
Even
though all the non-vamps in Broken Heart,
Oklahoma
, skipped town, Patsy Donahue has kept her hair salon up and
running thanks to the werewolves prowling around. They know how
important good grooming is, especially a certain rogue shape
shifter who's as sexy as he is deadly. Now, if only she could
put a leash on her wild teenage son, who's up to his neck in
danger. The stress would kill Patsy, if she wasn't already
undead, but her maternal instinct is still alive and kicking and
no one had better mess with her own flesh and blood.
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Author
: Jordan Dane Description:
The
body of a brutally slain man is found on the holy grounds of a
chapel, and a cryptic message pinned to his chest unravels the
lives of people touched by a dark secret. Detective Raven
Mackenzie and her partner uncover the dead man's connection to a
powerful female crime boss, leading them to her mysterious head
of security, Christian Delacorte, who soon becomes the prime
suspect. Yet when Raven sifts through Christian's past, she
discovers the man is plagued by deeply rooted nightmares and a
shadowy childhood tragedy linking him to the case. Convinced his
past holds the key to finding the real killer, she defies her
partner, following her gut instincts and trusting her undeniable
bond with Christian. Raven shares her own date with destiny when
she crosses paths with a heartless killer and when he unleashes
his rage, there will be no one left to tell.
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Author
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Hannah Howell
Description:
For
six years, Sine Catriona Brodie has clung to a vow of vengeance.
A pickpocket and street performer by trade, Sine bides her time
until she can defeat her treacherous kinsmen. Nothing will sway
her from her path, not even Gamel Logan, a tall, lean knight
whose hungry gaze and heated embrace stir a longing that is both
delicious and distracting. From his first glimpse of her at a
roadside camp, Gamel knows that Sine, with violet eyes and hair
like silken moonlight, is the soul mate he has sought. Yet Sine
insists she belongs to another man, though her eager response to
his seduction belies her every word. Gamel pledges to help Sine
win back her lands from a cunning enemy, but the greater battle
will be convincing her to conquer her past and trust in his
enduring love.
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Author
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Renee
Bernard
Description:
Lovely
Eve Reynolds plays the role of a naive young debutante, but her
demure appearance hides an experienced card player who, at her
uncle's instigation, is engaged in fleecing
London
aristocrats in the high-stakes card games favoured by society.
Only
London
's most notorious rake, Julian Clay, the Earl of Westleigh, sees
through her wiles, for he recognizes a fellow gambler when he
sees one. Lured by the passion in Eve's stormy eyes, so at odds
with her reserved elegance, Julian lays impassioned siege to
her. Eve responds with a rising fire of desire that leaves
behind all sensible caution, until both Julian and Eve can think
of nothing but the searing hours they spend in each other's
arms. Eve's uncle wants her to play for the highest
stakes by making a respectable match with a wealthy lord and Eve
has her own secret reason for following his plan. Although
Julian began to play recklessly to seduce a clever young lady,
now he wants much more from Eve, and no one will stop him from
risking everything on one final game that might win him Eve's
heart and soul forever.
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Author
: Linda Howard
Description: Bailey
Wingate's scheming adult stepchildren are surprised when their
father's will leaves Bailey in control of their fortune, and war
ensues. A year later, while flying from
Seattle
to
Denver
in a small plane, Bailey nearly dies herself when the engine
sputters and then fails.
Cam Justice, her sexy Texan pilot, manages to crash land the
aircraft. Stranded in the wilderness, and struggling to douse
her feelings for the ruggedly handsome man by her side, Bailey
begins to wonder whether this was a mere accident. Who tampered
with their plane? Who's trying to reunite Bailey and her husband
in the afterlife? Cut off from the world, and with little hope
of rescue, Bailey must trust her life, and heart, to
Cam
, as they battle the harsh elements to find a way out of the
unforgiving wilds and back to civilization where a killer may be
waiting to finish the job.
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