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While Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree has moved on from fixing up houses, she still can't resist the urge to snoop into the occasional murder. Something sinister is brewing in the kitchen of The Chocolate Moose - retired health inspector Alan Blake is found murdered. Jake's best friend Ellie never made a secret of her distaste for Alan. Now, with no alibi for the night of the murder, she's in a sticky situation with the police - and it's up to Jake to catch...
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"Someone is knocking at the door to Grace Adams' house, and he won't stop. Grace thinks she knows who it is, but when she goes to her second floor window for a look she sees a woman she doesn't recognize. The woman isn't alone for long before a man emerges from the dark of the surrounding woods, stabs her, and leaves her for dead. Trying to help, Grace goes to the woman and is shocked to find that it's her mother Leanne--a woman who abandoned her...
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"Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates a gruesome murder that reveals a little-known chapter of early Amish history in this next riveting installment of the bestselling series by Linda Castillo. Newlywed Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is awakenedby an urgent midnight call summoning her to a suspicious fire in the woods. When she arrives at the scene, she discovers a charred body. According to the coroner, the deceased, an Amish man named Milan...
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"El viaje del Astray: El viaje final de la sombra del vacío y Astray" es una fascinante epopeya de ciencia ficción que explora la delgada línea que separa la fantasía digital de la realidad apocalíptica. Mientras la Tierra se enfrenta a una amenaza sin precedentes por parte de una misteriosa fuerza cósmica, un popular juego de realidad virtual refleja inquietantemente la inminente fatalidad. Dentro de este inmersivo mundo virtual, los jugadores...
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It's May in Aoi's second year of university, and to celebrate her twentieth birthday, she and Kiyotaka take a trip to Kyushu on an extravagant overnight train. As they're enjoying their vacation on rails, they run into Shiro Amamiya, one of the people involved with the drug cult in Ohara. He has two stolen hanging scrolls on him, which were supposed to have been sold at an overseas auction! In order to reclaim their friend's paintings, Aoi and Kiyotaka...
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If there is a scam operating anywhere, sooner or later it will find Fred Fitch. The pure-hearted, gullible man seems to get taken every time he turns around. At this point, he's been ripped off so many times he's got a regular contact at New York's bunco squad. Now Fred's late Uncle Matt, who he never even heard of before, has willed him $317,000. Along with the inheritance comes the devoted Gertie Divine, Uncle Matt's old friend who is all too willing...
9) Vl45
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A gang comes to Houston, Texas, but when innocent kids are killed Detective Wyatt Earp wants the killers brought to justice. When a vigilante starts killing the same gang members who are killing kids the FBI is brought in to take over the case. Wyatt does not want to stop this vigilante because he is doing what the police can not. Will justice prevail or will the vigilante be caught?
10) The Stoat
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Gore's assistance is sought by his old army colleague Colonel Margesson, who was having difficulties with his wife and children. When not only Margesson but his two children are killed, the case proves baffling until a visit to Ireland reveals the explanation.
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I-sei Province is still reeling in the aftermath of the insect plague. Jinshi resolves to do everything in his power to help the people of this land-but how far does his power really go in the western capital? And will he regret his efforts when all the credit seems to go to Gyoku-ou? The local lord seems to have an agenda of his own, but Jinshi still doesn't know what it might be. Meanwhile Maomao must deal with problems of her own, from finding...
13) Dead Man's Touch
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"Hidden away from the glittering stage of thoroughbred racing, with its flashing silks and gleaming horseflesh, is a place they call 'the backside.' In Dead Man's Touch . . . Ehrman refers to this behind-the-scenes area--where trainers, grooms, barn managers and stable hands minister around the clock to the needs of their high-strung charges--as 'a world unto itself.' Ehrman strikes a solid claim to this gritty territory with another heels-up thriller...
14) She Didn't Smile
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Sandy Meyers had everything going for her. Good looks and a great job as host of television's "That's News". But one night her life tragically comes to an end at the hands of an unknown assailant. The country is shocked to hear of the demise of 'Sunny Sandy'.Her assistant, Kathy, hires Rex Mathers to investigate. Was it a crew member from her show or a deranged fan? Or someone else?
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David(Deadly)Dancing a financial consultant and womaniser is holed up on Majorca evading the tax man and the IRA.Jenny McGuire an Irish artist becomes his girlfriend. Then a car follows him everywhere. Who are they? Is Jenny part of the gang out to get him? He's imprisoned, threatened with death, offered as a hostage.This tale of romance and intrigue will have you guessing to the end.
16) Downtown Dance
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A drive-by shooting at a ritzy café in downtown Pittsburgh has the Pennsylvania Department of Investigation scrambling to find the shooter. Rookie Jordan Bell goes undercover in Pittsburgh's society scene at an expensive college for the performing arts, where evil lurks behind the spotlight. He finds himself stretched thin as he is pulled deeper into a covert drug investigation with ties to a vast criminal enterprise. Greed, lust, and desperation...
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When Torbin Yates PI to influential clients takes on a fresh case, he begins an extraordinary journey. From the moment a hit-and-run driver mows down his client's daughter, to the discovery that his own daughter has special powers, his world is turned on its head. Will he discover who is behind the murder? Or be able to live with the answer?
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A newspaperman investigates a war correspondent's hotel room murder As snow falls on Manhattan, three old colleagues warm themselves in the wood-paneled confines of the Midtown Press Club. Two are editors at highbrow New York publications; the other is Timothy Colt, a daring war correspondent whose face is not famous but whose byline is known the world over. New York Star crime reporter John Wells listens as they rehash old times, then follows Colt...
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El hallazgo, en medio de un bosque de montaña, de los restos descarnados de un brazo humano y la extraña desaparición de varios vecinos han sembrado la inquietud en la cercana población de Cangas del Narcea. La versión oficial se escuda en abandonos voluntarios de hogares conflictivos o en la huida de realidades desagradables, pero la gente sabe la verdad: la montaña los devora, pues, de cuando en cuando, exige la ofrenda de ese pequeño sacrificio.
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20) Sins Of Edom
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When the beloved Pastor of a local church is murdered, members of the congregation ask Marjorie Kane, retired exotic dancer Kandy Kane, for help. She turns immediately to her partner in puzzle-solving, retired army intelligence officer, Alan Lockem. Together the pair of retired citizens have formed a special bond that allows them to interact adeptly with multiple agencies of law enforcement across the world, and dip into sometime grungy elements of...
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