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Ghouls
Gone Wild - A Ghost Hunter Mystery
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Author
: Victoria Laurie
Description:
Psychic
M.J. Holliday finds herself in a witchy situation. When M.J. and
her friends travel to a small town near Edinburgh, Scotland, to
film the first instalment of their new cable TV show Ghoul
Getters" they find plenty of spooky action in a series
of supposedly haunted caverns. When they discover the body of a
maintenance worker, the cause of death is reminiscent of an old
legend involving a witch's wrath.
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: J.T. Ellison Description:
He can truly love her only once her heart
stops. Homicide detective Taylor Jackson thinks she's seen it
all in Nashville, from the Southern Strangler to the Snow White
Killer but she's never seen anything as perverse as The
Conductor. Once his victim is captured, he contains her in a
glass coffin, slowly starving her to death, only then does he
give in to his attraction. When he's finished, he creatively
disposes of the body by re-enacting scenes from famous
paintings. Similar macabre works are being found in Europe.
Taylor teams up with her fiancé, FBI profiler Dr. John Baldwin,
and New Scotland Yard detective James "Memphis"
Highsmythe, a haunted man who has eyes only for Taylor, to put
an end to this horror. Has
the killer gone international with his craft or are there two
"artists," competing to create the ultimate
masterpiece?
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: Tori
Carrington Description:
Sofie Metropolis's PI business is so
successful at finding missing spouses and lost pets and at
proving insurance fraud that she's hired new staff, including
her (formerly) layabout cousin. There are two men in Sofie's
life, sexy Greek baker Dino, who found a place in her heart and
bed and man-of-mystery Jake Porter, whose Australian accent is
guaranteed to turn Sofie's knees to water. The week before
Halloween, a body disappears from Sofie's Aunt's funeral home.
It might be a holiday prank, but Sofie's barely begun to
investigate when she's handed a truly hot case, prove the
innocence of someone already on trial for murder!
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Author
: Lisa
Jackson Description:
The perfect moment is here at last, the humiliation and pain
he put her through is about to be repaid. Soon Rick Bentz will
know the torment of losing the person he loves most and better
yet, he’ll have to watch. Since the accident that nearly
claimed his life, New Orleans detective Rick Bentz has been on
edge. That must explain why his mind is playing tricks, making
him think he sees his first wife, Jennifer, his dead wife. He
can’t bring himself to tell his new wife, Olivia, about the
sightings, or his fears that he’s losing his sanity. To find
answers, he has to return to Los Angeles, where Jennifer died
and it’s there that the murders begin.
Each victim is linked to Jennifer’s past, and each corpse points to
Bentz as the prime suspect but the worst is yet to come because
now Olivia is missing, and the only way to save her is to
uncover the terrifying truth about a woman he never really knew
and a hatred that runs deep enough to kill.
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Freeze
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: Peter May Description:
A promise made to a dying man leads forensics ace Enzo Macleod, a Scot
who's been teaching in France for many years, to the study which
the man's heir has preserved for nearly twenty years. The dead
man left several clues there designed to reveal the killer's
identity to the man's son, but ironically the son died soon
after the father. So begins the fourth of seven cold cases
written up in a bestselling book by Parisian journalist Roger
Raffin that Enzo rashly boasted he could solve (he's been
successful with the first three). It takes Enzo to a tiny island
off the coast of Brittany in France, where he must confront the
hostility of locals who have no desire to see the infamous
murder back in the headlines. An attractive widow, a man charged
but acquitted of the murder but still the viable suspect, a
crime scene frozen in time, a dangerous hell hole by the cliffs,
and a collection of impenetrable messages, make this one of
Enzo's most difficult cases.
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Author
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Frank Tallis
Description:
In
Freud's dangerous, dazzling Vienna of 1903, an ingenious doctor
and an intrepid detective again challenge psychotic criminals
across a landscape teetering between the sophisticated and the
savage, the thrilling future and the primitive past. On opposite
sides of the city, two men are found beheaded on church grounds.
Detective Inspector Oskar Reinhardt is baffled. Could the killer
be mentally ill, someone the victims came into contact with?
Some are even blaming the murders on the devil. When
psychoanalyst Dr. Max Liebermann learns that both victims were
vocal members of a shadowy anti-Semitic group, he turns his gaze
to the city's close-knit Hasidic community. The doctor is drawn
into an urban underworld that hosts and hides virulent racists
on one side and followers of kabbalah on the other. As the
evidence, and bodies, pile up, Liebermann must reconsider his
own path, the one that led him away from the miraculous and
toward a life of the mind.
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Avenging
Angels - A Beaufort & Company Mystery
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Author
: Mary Stanton
Description:
Law
school hasn't prepared Bree to appeal cases for the dead. After
inheriting her great-uncle's haunted law firm, she must now
represent ex-banker O'Rourke, who supposedly killed himself
after losing a fortune. With a merry widow and evidence
mounting, it's beginning to look like murder, so Bree and her
team of angels begin to investigate. Bree soon discovers that
someone would rather see her deceased than debriefed.
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Author
: Linda Ladd Description:
Della
Carmichael, owner of a cooking school in Santa Monica,
California, and star of a new cable TV cooking show, is one of
three judges for an A-list cook-off but it's the celebrities who
are getting cooked off. Includes recipes.
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Sleeping
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Author
: Kate Collins Description:
Maybe
Abby Knight shouldn't have chosen a home and garden show
sponsored by Uniworld Food as the venue for her protest against
the corporation's harmful farming practices but being bodily
removed from the event won't stop her campaign. Nor will a
burning brick thrown through her flower shop's window. After she
narrowly escapes being kidnapped three times, Abby calls in the
big guns-her ex-Ranger boyfriend Marco and her friends and
family. Then the stakes are raised by murder.
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Author
: Erica
Spindler Description:
Hot
on the heels of their last case, partners Mary Catherine (M.C.)
Riggio and Kitt Lundgren, detectives in the police department's
Violent Crimes Bureau in industrial, blue-collar Rockford,
Illinois, are called out to a college student's apartment where
a young man with no criminal record, not even a noise complaint
from his neighbours, appears to have been murdered in his sleep.
The trail seems cold, until another victim turns up, and then
another, each one striking closer to home for M.C. The growing
list of seemingly emotionless kills leaves M.C. and Kitt little
to follow, like the first victim, all the targets are young
adults, kid-next-door types who've never taken a step outside
the law. Meanwhile, the case starts to take its toll on M.C.'s
personal life, setting her on edge with her partner and putting
their hard-earned friendship in jeopardy. As M.C. and Kitt hunt
a faceless killer, they are led deep into the cyber-universe,
where no one is who he seems and you never know who's watching.
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Living
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Author
: Jane Haddam Description:
In
her 91 years, Ann-Victoria Hadley has often been the most hated
person in Snow Hill, Pennsylvania. Now, it’s worse than ever.
After a new school board inserted “intelligent design” into
the curriculum, they were sued by a coalition including Hadley,
the one member of the board who wouldn’t go along with the
rest. With the trial about to start and the town a national
laughing stock, Annie-Vic is found clubbed into unconsciousness
and not expected to survive. The local police chief, one of the
school board members, can’t investigate it himself and
doesn’t trust the state police so he brings in Gregor
Demarkian. Gregor
Demarkian, former FBI agent, is happy to help, his wedding is
coming up and he’s desperate for a bit of time away from his
too involved neighbours on Cavanaugh Street in Philadelphia,
even if it is to investigate a brutal crime in a powder-keg of a
small town.
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Author
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C. J. Samson
Description:
The
year is 1543 and King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr,
a woman sympathetic to reform, whom he wants for his sixth wife,
much to the dismay of Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled
Protestant faction at court. Meanwhile, Matthew Shardlake is
working to defend a teenage boy, a religious fanatic who is
being held in the infamous Bedlam hospital for the insane. When
an old friend of Shardlake’s is murdered, he vows to bring the
killer to justice. His search leads him back to Bedlam but also
to Catherine Parr, and the dark prophecies of the Book of
Revelation. As Bishop Bonner prepares to purge London of
Protestants, Shardlake, with his assistant Jack Barak, uncovers
a series of horrific murders that shake them all to the core.
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Author
: Robyn Carr
Description: With her beloved younger siblings settled and happy, Erin Foley has got
empty nest syndrome. At age thirty-five. So she’s
hitting the pause button on her life and holing up in a secluded
(but totally upgraded, she’s not into roughing it) cabin near
Virgin River. Erin is looking forward to really getting to know
herself, not some shaggy-haired mountain man she meets wandering
the woods. In fact, beneath his faded fatigues and bushy beard,
Aiden Riordan is a doctor, recharging for a summer after leaving
the Navy. He’s intrigued by the pretty, slightly snooty
refugee from the rat race meditating,
journaling and definitely keeping him at arm’s length. He’d
love to get closer if his scruffy exterior and crazy ex-wife
don’t hold him back. Maybe it’s something in the water,
unlikely romances seem to take root in Virgin River helped along
with some well-intentioned meddling, of course.
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Susan Wiggs Description:
First we have
Claire, who is in a witness protection program and destined to
stay in hiding for the rest of her life. Claire has chosen a
life of isolation, providing end-of-life care for people. Her
current client is George Bellamy. At the end of his life, George
wants to return to the place where he found his greatest
happiness, the place where his story began Camp Kioga, on Willow
Lake. Despite his circumstances, he's learned to face things
with love and laughter. George
is also determined to look after the people he loves, chief
among them, his grandson Ross Bellamy, newly back from war and
dealing with all the leftover fallout from his service as a
medivac chopper pilot. There is nothing Ross won't do for him,
except fall in love. Of course, that's what happens to two
unlikely people determined to resist getting involved at all
costs, and of course, the more they resist, well.
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Author
: Lisa Kleypas Description: Billionaire playboy, and all-around ladies'
man, Jake Travis has a reputation as big as the state of Texas.
He drives too fast, lives too hard, and loves too many women to
count. In her advice column, and her love life, Ella Varner is
always practical so when she's left holding her reckless
sister's baby, she decides to ask Jake Travis to take a
paternity test. Ella is instantly struck by Jake's bold good
looks and easy charm but she's not falling for his sweet talk.
This big sexy tomcat needs to take responsibility for his
actions, and Ella's making him stick to his word. Now if she can
only ignore the unspoken attraction that smoulders between them.
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Author
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Brenda Joyce
Description:
Once a lady , she has given up everything to take
care of her sisters and her wastrel father. Now, Alexandra
Bolton sews the clothing of those who were once her peers to
make ends meet. Yet her life is about to forever change. He is
the most powerful peer in the realm and the most sought after
bachelor. The Duke of Clarewood has rejected the crème de la crème
of society for over a decade. When he first sees Alexandra, he
is instantly intrigued and he offers her a scandalous
proposition and her stunning refusal only whets his ambition.
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Kathleen
Nance
Description: One by one,
practitioners of magic are dying in violence, as if fired from
within and the last words of a dead mage identify Grace
Armatrading as the next victim. Adam Zolton is the last person
in the world Grace wants to trust. Once before, he brought her
to a fever pitch of need, then sacrificed her to pursue his own
agenda. Now she has no choice but to team up with the darkly
dangerous enigma. Drawn into a twisting maze of fiery danger and
desire, Grace fights off a deadly computer virus, violent thugs
and her own uncontrollable blackouts but with Adam to balance
her frightening paranormal gift, she will see the dragon
unmasked.
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Author Cathy
Maxwell
Description: The woman who will one day
wear Richard Lynsted's ring will be genteel, dainty, and
well-bred. This eliminates Grace MacEachin on all three counts.
A hellion of the first order, the alluring, infuriating woman
would be nothing more than a passing temptation to an upstanding
gentleman like Richard if it weren't for the fact that she's
trying to blackmail his father! Or, as Grace sees it, trying to
get justice and maybe just the slightest hint of revenge on the
family that tore her life asunder when she was just a girl. As
for Lynsted, well, the stuffy, humourless man wouldn't suffer
for time spent in company more exciting than that of his company
ledgers. Only when Richard gets Grace alone, she discovers he
may know a thing or two about excitement after all
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Author
: Stephanie Laurens
Description: A second battle-hardened, completely
unstoppable, all-male hero, an ex-officer of the Crown,
confronts the deadly enemy known only as the Black Cobra. He's
focused on his mission, then sees a lady he never dreamed he'd
see again, with an assassin on her heels. She secretly followed
him, unaware her path is deadly or that she'll join him to
battle a treacherous foe. Through ever-present peril, through
passion, desire, and ecstasy, they race to reach England, and
their destiny.
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Eileen Wilkes Description:
As
they plan their wedding, Lily Yu and lupus prince Rule Turner
are facing a great deal of tension from both their families. Not
everyone can accept their mixed marriage, she’s Chinese and
he’s a werewolf. Even Lily’s grandmother is acting strangely
distant, though Lily and Rule are about to discover that her
behaviour has nothing to do with their upcoming nuptials. A
powerful, undying nemesis has come to San Diego to exact
vengeance on Lily’s family and turn the city into a feeding
ground. It’s up to Lily and Rule to stop her, in spite of
ancient treaties and an inheritance passed down through the
blood otherwise San Diego could go up in flames and they won’t
live to make it to the altar.
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Author
: Janet Chapman Description: When
an anonymous letter stuns shipping magnate and confirmed
bachelor Ben Sinclair with the news that he has a teenage son,
he's determined to make good on the past, but Emma Sands doesn't
trust him. The beautiful, fiery blonde has raised her nephew in
the peaceful woods of Maine since he was five, and just because
fifteen-year-old Michael is the spitting image of his tall,
handsome father doesn't give Ben the right to march in and
change their lives forever. Or so she thinks, until his return
mysteriously unearths a dangerous small-town secret. With
Michael's help, Ben will do whatever it takes to prove to
fiercely independent Emma that he can be the fearless protector
she never knew she wanted and the passionate lover she always
thought she could resist.
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Heidi Betts
Description:
When
it comes to relationships, talk show host Grace Fisher won’t
stand for cheating especially not from her fiancé, star hockey
goalie Zack Hoolihan. Her weekly knitting group backs her up
when she calls it off, but it doesn’t entirely ease the sting
of betrayal. She won’t listen to Zack’s indignant
explanations of innocence she just wants to tie up loose ends
and move on. Until he winds up injured, that is, and she finds
herself playing nursemaid. Zack doesn’t know how that
woman got into his hotel room, but he does know losing
Grace has put him so far off his game, he ended up with a busted
knee and a broken heart. If things aren’t mended fast,
he’ll miss the playoffs, miss his girl, and lose everything.
If Grace is willing to push him into physical therapy, maybe he
can pull her back into his arms before their truce unravels.
This time, he’ll do everything it takes to knit their
relationship back together.
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Hank
Phillippi Ryan
Description: When everyone has a secret, the real
mystery is knowing when to tell. Investigative reporter
Charlotte McNally is an expert at keeping things confidential,
but suddenly everyone has something to hide and even Charlie
realizes it's possible to know too much. Her latest television
scoop, an expose of a dangerous car scam, complete with
stakeouts, high-speed chases and hidden-camera footage is
ratings gold. Now, in the prime time of her journalism career,
it seems like Charlie's dreams are about to come true if she can
just balance her career and her upcoming wedding, perhaps she
can really have it all. Soon
Charlie's personal and professional lives are put on a
terrifying collision course. Her fiancé is privy to information
about ugly phone calls at an elite private school, threats that
are suddenly turning deadly. There's a mysterious death and then
another. Her soon-to-be stepdaughter may be in danger and her
fiancé comes under suspicion. Then Charlie's career takes a
turn she never could have predicted. Charlie was starting to
believe in second chances, but now she must face the chilling
reality, revenge, extortion, family secrets, and murder may
leave her alone again or even dead.
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Author Lori
Foster
Description: Gillian
Noode's job is to clean up Drew Black's act. As president of the
SBC fight organization, he needs to be a more presentable
figurehead, not the foul-mouthed braggart he is. After meeting
Drew, Gillian fears she may have bitten off more than she can
chew, yet when he proposes a private, secret fling, she can't
help but agree. Meanwhile, fighter Brett Bullman is pursuing
Audrey Porter, the leader of Women Against Violent Sports, who
has targeted the SBC, the organization Brett hopes to fight for.
When Drew receives an anonymous threat, Audrey and the WAVS are
prime suspects, causing problems that affect all the budding
relationships.
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