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Character Witness
Hired by a woman who wants to sue her ex-husband's estate to collect his life insurance, attorney Kathleen Cotter follows a dangerous trail of corruption and betrayal that reaches to the highest levels of government as she tries to prove that the late Lionel Brooker did not commit suicide. Original.
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Honest Doubt
Professor Charles Haycock is dead from a hearty dose of his own heart medication. The mystery is not why Haycock was murdered-very few could stomach the woman-hating prof?but who did the deed. Estelle "Woody" Woodhaven, a private investigator hired to find the killer, naturally enlists the help of that indefatigable amateur sleuth, Kate Fansler. Together, they start to pull at the loose ends of the very tangled Clifton College English Department. The list of suspects is longer than the freshman survey reading list. And as the women defuse the host of literary landmines set out for them, Woody suspects they?re only scratching the surface of a very large and sinister plot. . . .
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Cold Cold Heart
He's a Russian defector given a new life in America by the U.S. government. Now he's exploded into violence--driven by a mad lust to kill young women. An embarrassed CIA knows it must stop him--and that only one man can do the job. But former agent Mike Culley is in prison, sold out by his bosses, stripped of his family and everything he holds dear. Now they'll free him: to hunt down a killer before he kills again. The CIA has betrayed Culley once. It won't happen again. He will find his man. And with the help of a beautiful reporter, he'll bring him down. But suddenly the rules change. Culley's target has answered back: snatching the one person who means more to Mike Culley than life itself.
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Shades of Grace
The "New York Times" bestselling author of "Together Alone" and "For My Daughters" delivers a compelling human drama about the limits of love and responsibility in a family whose matriarch is diagnosed with a serious illness. "New York Times" bestselling author Barbara Delinsky delivers a touching and heartfelt story in which love and devotion are put to the ultimate test, first published in 1996. Grace Dorian is The Confidante, America's favorite advice columnist. Her wisdom has helped to guide two generations--including her daughter, Francine, and granddaughter, Sophie, who manage the vast Dorian empire and oversee the thousand details of Grace's world. But a national treasure is losing her brilliance. Her once razor-sharp mind is showing strain; her columns have begun to wander. Concerned about Grace's health and future, Francine must step in to fill her legendary mother's shoes and somehow also live her own life, which now suddenly includes her confusing feelings for Grace's handsome doctor and new worries about tempestuous Sophie, who needs more guidance than Grace's public.
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Three to Get Deadly
A "saintly" old candy-store owner is on the lam-and bounty hunter extraordinaire Stephanie Plum is on the case. As the body count rises, Stephanie finds herself dealing with dead drug dealers and slippery fugitives on the chase of her life. And with the help of eccentric friends and family, Steph must see to it that this case doesn't end up being her last...
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Remember
An electrifying new novel by Barbara Taylor Bradford, who demonstrates her superb storytelling gifts in this passionate tale of Nicky Wells. Beautfiul and fabulously successful as a television war correspondent, she deeply mourns the loss of her great love, only to be confronted with disturbing suspicions that this remarkable man led a mysterious double life....
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Dying for Chocolate
The Caterer Meet Goldy Bear: a bright, opinionated, wildly inventive caterer whose personal life has become a recipe for disaster. She's got an abusive ex-husband who's into making tasteless threats, a rash of mounting bills that are taking a huge bite out of her budget, and two enticing men knocking on her door. The Dish Now determined to take control of her life, Goldy moves her business and her son to ritzy Aspen Meadow Country Club, where she accepts a job as a live-in cook. But just as she's beginning to think she's got it made--catering decadent dinners and posh society picnics and enjoying the favors of Philip Miller, a handsome local shrink, and Tom Shulz, her more-than-friendly neighborhood cop--the dishy doctor inexplicably drives his BMW into an oncoming bus. The Unsavory Killer Convinced that Philip's bizarre death was no accident, Goldy decides to do a little investigating of her own. But sifting through the unpalatable secrets of the dead doc's life will toss her into a case seasoned with unexpected danger and even more unexpected revelations--the kind that could get a caterer and the son she loves. . .killed.
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The Daybreakers
Tyrel Sackett was born to trouble, but vowed to justice. After having to kill a man in Tennessee, he hit the trail west with his brother Orrin. Those were the years when decent men and women lived in fear of Indians, rustlers, and killers, but the Sackett brothers worked to make the West a place where people could raise their children in peace. Orrin brought law and order from Santa Fe to Montana, and his brother Tye backed him up every step of the way. Till the day the job was done, Tye Sackett was the fastest gun alive.
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Picture Me Dead
When rookie Miami cop Ashley Montague discovers a body, her investigation leads her to Detective Jack Dilessio. Dragged into the world of drug trafficking, they're soon fighting for their lives and for each other. Ashley Montague is a rookie cop who discovers a body on the side of the highway in Miami. Her investigation leads her to Detective Jack Dilessio, an arrogant Veteran who is determined to exact revenge for a murder that happened years earlier. Together they're dragged into the dangerous world of drug trafficking, only to find that they're now fighting for their lives...and for each other.
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Guarding Laura
She was still holding court...but the pampered girl Cole had loved a lifetime ago was now posing as a tennis teacher and on the run for her life. He'd wanted to refuse his latest assignment--guarding Laura--preferring covert jungle missions to a forced reunion with his boyhood infatuation. Yet seeing the leggy, enigmatic woman Laura had become...well, what he was feeling now was all man. But Laura still had secrets--secrets that went beyond the target currently on her back. Because she was pushing Cole away a little too hard. A little too desperately. He could keep her safe because he was the best at his job. But could he learn why she denied the tender feelings growing between them?
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Strong Spirits
Welcome to sunny Pasadena, California, just a stone's throw from Hollywood. The 1920s are in full roar. Prohibition isn't stopping anybody, and Daisy Gumm Majesty is getting by the best way she knows how - catering to the rich and famous as a medium who put the "con" in conjuror.
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Master of Moonspell
While in Moonspell in the Florida Keys to serve as governess to the motherless child of the grand estate's master, Julienne Vale resists the advances of the virile, raven-haired Captain Buccaneer LaFlamme.
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Scavenger
A bestselling author with a love of the macabre...A devoted fan with a passion for games...A serial killer with a taste for revenge... What they have in common is scaring the hell out of critics. Just ask them.... "Scavenger is stylish and surprising. Tom Savage is playing mind games and you are his victim...But you'll love every minute of it."-Washington Post Book World "Scavenger is compelling. I'll have to get even with Savage for keeping me awake half the night reading this page-turner in one sitting. Great job!"-Jeffery Deaver, author of The Bone Collector "Scavenger grabs you and never lets go. Tom Savage is the master of the high-speed thriller."-Michael Connelly Praise for Valentine : "Suspense with a twist."-James Patterson "A truly surprising twist...stylish suspense."-Washington Post Book World "A thriller with heart. Savage writes with fierce energy."-Lorenzo Carcaterra "Genuinely shocking."-Booklist "Pulse-pounding...burns its way right into the reader's mind."-Abilene Reporter-News Praise for The Inheritance: "Chilling...fiendishly stunning twists...diabolically clever." -Booklist "Thoroughly spellbinding...The ending is an absolute shocker."-Tulsa World
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Her Father's House
For her he would give up everything: his home, his work and even his freedom. When his marriage fails, he does just that. A chance meeting with a stranger on a train changes his life - and his daughter's - in ways he could never have imagined. From her earliest years Tina is exceptional, a brilliant student and a joyous person with a loving spirit. At university she falls in love with Gilbert who, three years older than she, graduates from law school just as she is about to enter medical school. Together they go to New York, where they learn a truth about Donald that shatters Tina's regard for the father who has for so long protected and cherished her. When a terrible lie has been told for love, can it be forgiven?