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Author
Series
J. P. Beaumont volume 18
Language
English
Description
Given a classified assignment involving the true fate of a deceased ex-con, Seattle investigator J.P. Beaumont discovers that the victim had recently attempted to turn his life around and had been murdered for the effort.
Author
Series
Puller volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
After he receives a posthumous note from his aunt hinting that things are horribly amiss in her Florida Gulf Coast town, Army Special Agent John Puller uncovers a shocking conspiracy.
3) Dead sleep
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A mysterious series of paintings in a Hong Kong art museum, including one featuring a woman who bears a striking resemblance to her, draws photojournalist Jordan Glass into a painful search for the murderer of her twin sister.
4) Shock wave
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Superstore chain PyeMart has its sights set on a Minnesota river town, but two groups want to stop it: local merchants and environmentalists. The protests don't seem to be slowing the project, though, until someone decides to take matters into his own hands. The first bomb goes off on the top floor of PyeMart's headquarters. The second explodes at the construction site itself. Who's behind the bombs, and how far will they go? It's Virgil Flowers's...
5) Edge of evil
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
390 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fired from her high-profile broadcasting career and in the process of divorcing her adulterous husband, Alison Reynolds heads home to Sedona, Arizona, to recover, and launches an online blog to help others that exposes her to a killer.
6) The widow
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Homicide detective Abigail Browning, still seeking answers about her husband's death seven years earlier, follows an anonymous tip back home to Maine, where she teams up with search-and-rescue worker Owen Garrison to unravel this mystery.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
viii, 259 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When two of Ruth Winthrop's paintings are stolen, artworks depicting a former lover who died mysteriously, Ruth calls in her best friend, dedicated librarian-turned-amateur sleuth Helma Zukas, to uncover the truth about both the theft and her late lover.
8) Bone box
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
On a bright and crisp September morning, while walking a bucolic woodland trail, Rina Decker stumbles upon human remains once buried deep beneath the forest grounds. Immediately, she calls her husband, Peter, a former detective lieutenant with LAPD, now working for the local Greenbury Police. Within hours, a vista of beauty and tranquility is transformed into a frenetic crime scene. The body has been interred for years and there is scant physical...
9) Last kiss
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Description
Devastated by the senseless murder of her eighteen-year-old son, Charlie, Sheridan Rosslare has been unable to cope with her grief, until Charlie's heartbroken girlfriend enlists the aid of Sheridan's long-ago soul mate, Gavin Dawson, to uncover the truth.
10) Gotcha!
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Series
Language
English
Description
Sometimes, justice is a long time coming. That's the case with Julie Wyatt, whose story strikes close to home for the original founder of the Sisterhood, Myra Rutledge, and her best friend--and fellow sister--Annie. Julie is convinced her greedy daughter-in-law Darlene had something to do with the mysterious circumstances surrounding her son Larry's death.
11) Live to tell
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
390 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Lauren Walsh tries to protect her children from her messy divorce from her cheating husband, she becomes the target of a cold-blooded mastermind who reveals to her an unimaginable secret that he will never let her live to tell.
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Language
English
Formats
Description
"With Valentine's Day just around the corner, Jane Steward is organizing a week of activities for fans of love stories at her book-themed resort. But her Regency readers barely have time to brush up on their Jane Austen before tragedy strikes Storyton Hall. Rosamund York, one of the most celebrated authors in attendance, is killed. Rosamund had as many enemies as she did admirers, including envious fellow novelists, a jealous former lover, and dozens...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Language
English
Description
"When Grace's estranged sister Liza shows up on her doorstep, the timing couldn't be worse. Grace's beloved boss and benefactor, Bennett Marshfield, has finally gotten her to agree to a DNA test to establish if he is, in fact, her uncle. If so, Grace would move from being the trusted curator and manager of Marshfield Manor to Bennett's heir. And her duplicitous sister would be right behind her in the line of inheritance. Liza is not the only mysterious...
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
252 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Winning mother/daughter makeovers in Manhattan from Jolie magazine, Lucy Stone and her daughter Elizabeth, immersed in the glamour of haute couture, witness a murder that casts a negative light on several high-style fashionistas and places Elizabeth's life in danger.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harpercollins
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
352 p.
Language
English
Description
With her culinary career on the brink of success, dilettante chef Angie Amalfi is summoned to Rome when her realtor sister Caterina is accused of murdering the stranger she had found dead in the abandoned mansion of an absent client and of stealing a priceless religious artifact, but Angie's investigation is complicated by an ever mounting array of corpses.
16) Line of fire
Author
Publisher
Signet Book
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
456 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forest fires are reducing chunks of the Boulder Valley to tinder and ash; Colorado clinical psychologist Alan Gregory's colleague and close friend, still recovering from a terrible trauma, appears to be approaching a psychological breakdown; and new evidence in an old case causes Alan to reexamine decisions he made in the past, putting his entire career at risk.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
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Language
English
Description
Interior designer, Erin Gilbert can't help but fall in love at first sight with her newest design job – a delightful little bungalow set on a quiet street. Until she steps inside. What looks neat and tidy as a postcard from the outside, looks like Hurricane Clutter on the inside! It seems the bungalow's eccentric owner, widow Helen Walker, hasn't thrown a thing out since 1942. Newspapers are piled high, almost reaching the ceiling, bric-a-brac covers...
18) Born to be wild
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Series
Language
English
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Description
When someone tries to kill her, believing her to be the evil character she plays on a popular soap opera, daytime drama superstar Mary Lisa Beverly is forced to get help from an unexpected source.