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When a day trip out of Las Vegas with his wife takes a turn for the worse, Jack is sure he has the ability to get them home. But he has driven into something far beyond reason. Rescue comes in the form of a desert hermit, but hope fades as the couple comes to realize that the nomad has no intention of letting them leave. A chance encounter with a kidnapped runaway and her crazed abductor leads them all farther into the wilderness--and closer to the...
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"In a small Georgia town where racial tensions run high and lives are at stake, can one lawyer stand up for justice against the tide of prejudice on every side? Adisa Johnson, a young African American attorney, is living her dream of practicing law with aprestigious firm in downtown Atlanta. Then a split-second mistake changes the course of her career. Left with no other options, Adisa returns to her hometown where a few days earlier a white police...
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"What if a balm for your greatest pain appeared in a lost corridor on the far side of a remote lake? Would you search for it? Or dismiss it as nonsense? Jake Palmer's annual lake-house vacation with longtime friends was supposed to be relaxing--it was supposed to take his mind off his recent divorce. But when he meets an elderly man early one morning on the lake, his world tips on its side. The old man claims there's a forgotten corridor at the far...
4) Code 13
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"A billion-dollar contract for the sale of drones to the Navy, the largest drone contract in history, puts two Navy JAG officers in the gun sights of a mysterious killer. Caroline is just getting her feet wet at the prestigious Code 13, but is thankful for at least one familiar face--old flame, PJ McDonald. He loops her into the assignment he is currently working on--the legality of a proposed drone-sharing contract with Homeland Security that would...
5) Rule of law
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For SEAL Team Six, it was a rare mission ordered by the president, monitored from the Situation Room. They would break out an American journalist and a Saudi royal scheduled for execution by rebels in Yemen. When the mission is a spectacular failure, fingers point all the way to the top. Did the president play political games with the lives of U.S. service members?
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Corbin Gage is slowly drinking himself into the grave while running a small law practice in a small Georgia town. The assistant DA in the same community is his son Ray, poised for a professional breakthrough based on a job offer to work for the best law firm in the area. Roxy is Corbin's daughter, a rising star associate in Atlanta for an international law firm that specializes in high stakes, multi-million-dollar litigation. Against the advice of...
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"Young lawyer Parker House is on the rise--until his grandfather's mysterious past puts both of their lives in danger. The fresh-faced North Carolina attorney shares his German grandfather's ability to see future events in his mind's eye--a gift that has haunted 82-year-old Frank House, who is trying to erase a murderous wartime past"--From the publisher's web site.
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As a teenager, Dinah Westlake had witnessed the murder of her pregnant cousin, but a concussion blocked her memories of that night. Now, ten years later, her cousin's widower, Marc Devlin, had returned to Charleston to give his young son a true Southern Christmas.
It was a chance to make amends in a family torn apart by the tragedy-and the suspicion that Marc was responsible for his wife's demise. But when several dangerous "accidents" occurred amid...
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"In 1910 Toronto, while other bachelor girls perfect their domestic skills and find husbands, two friends perfect their sleuthing skills and find a murderer. Inspired by their fascination with all things Sherlock Holmes, best friends and flatmates Merinda and Jem launch a consulting detective business. The deaths of young Irish women lead Merinda and Jem deeper into the mire of the city's underbelly, where the high hopes of those dreaming to make...
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"Opera star Maggie Lee escapes her opulent lifestyle when threatened by a powerful politician who aims to ruin her life. She runs off to the wilds of the moors to live in anonymity. All that changes the day she discovers a half-dead man near her house. Escaped convict Oliver Ward is on the run to prove his innocence, until he gets hurt and is taken in by Maggie. He discovers some jewels in her possession--the very same jewels that got him convicted....
11) Fatal frost
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U.S. Marshal Mercy Brennan followed in her father's footsteps in a law enforcement career. When she's assigned to a joint task force with the St. Louis PD, it puts her back into contact with her father-- and in the sights of St. Louis's most powerful gang. Mark St. Laurent, a Deputy U.S. Marshal and Mercy's ex-boyfriend, is assigned to get her out of town until they can guarantee her safety. When a freak ice storm strands them at a remote location...
12) Dark deception
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"Kate O'Brien led a quiet life in small-town Shelter Cove, Arkansas, until her past came roaring back to life. Four years ago, she and her twin sister were attacked by a serial killer and only Kate survived. Her drawing of the attacker helped convict the suspect, and she's been in witness protection ever since. Now new evidence suggests the convicted man isn't the murderer, and Kate's been subpoenaed to testify. Nervous about the risk, she'll...
14) The crow's call
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"When Vernon King, his son, and son-in-law are involved in a terrible accident, three women are left to cope with their deaths, as they become the sole providers of the family they have left. The women's only income must come from the family greenhouse, but someone seems to be trying to force them out of business. Amy King has just lost her father and brother, and her mother needs her to help run the family's greenhouse. It doesn't seem fair to ask...
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"When a wealthy socialite is found dead on her luxury yacht, her daughter Lainey hires private investigator Kate Weller to look into the matter. Agnes Westin created plenty of enemies during her climb to the top of society, many with a taste for revenge -- but did any of them feel strongly enough to kill her? Kate has another reason altogether for returning to Pensacola, Florida, the only town she has ever called home. Her brother Liam has spent the...
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"The legacy of Sherlock Holmes is alive and well in 1912 Canada, where best friends Merinda Herringford and Jem Watts continue to develop their skills as consulting detectives. Toronto has been thrown into upheaval by the arrival of radical anarchist Emma Goldman. Amid the chaos, Benny Citrone of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police arrives at Merinda and Jem's flat, requesting assistance in locating his runaway cousin--a man with a deadly talent....
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Toronto, 1914. Merinda Herringford and Jem Watts never could have imagined their crime-solving skills would set them up as emblems of female empowerment in a city preparing to enter World War I. Yet a war measure adopted by the mayor puts a target on Jem and her Italian husband, Ray DeLuca. In spite of these distractions, they join with other honorable and courageous cit leaders in the Cartier Club, which exists to aid newly arrived residents of Toronto....
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Lady Trent's sleuthing skills are put to the test in a Victorian mystery about mischief, murder, and a lost heir.
With the aid of her partner Dylan Tremayne, Lady Serafina Trent aims to help her neighbors-the Haydens-determine who the true heir is to their sizable estate. After some investigating, she shocks the Haydens when she reveals that the child they believed had died at birth is actually alive and living as a criminal in London's worst slum.
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20) Days & hours
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Readers of suspense fiction will once again be enthralled with the latest entry in the compelling series featuring attorney Rachael Flynn and her continuing cast of intriguing characters. A newborn is found alive in a trash bin and a young, single mother insists her baby was abducted. While St. Paul police are skeptical, attorney Rachael Flynn's strange dreams lead her to believe the mother is telling the truth. But who would steal a baby only to...
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