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A Suitable Vengeance
Award-winning author Elizabeth George gives us an early glimpse into the lives of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James, and Lady Helen Clyde in a superlative mystery that is also a fascinating inquiry into the crimes of the heart. Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton, has brought to Howenstow, his family home, the young woman he has asked to be his bride. But the savage murder of a local journalist is the catalyst for a lethal series of events that shatters the calm of a picturesque Cornwall village and embroils Lynley and St. James in a case far outside their jurisdiction—and a little too close to home. When a second death follows closely on the heels of the first, Lynley finds he can't help taking the investigation personally—because the evidence points to a killer within his own family.
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The Devil's Heiress
The PreyShe is called the Devil's Heiress. Burdened with the wealth of a man she despised, Clarissa Greystone is a fortune-hunter's dream.The HawkNo one needs a fortune more than Major George Hawkinville. Fresh from the battlefields of Waterloo, he embarks on a campaign to win Clarissa's money.The HuntTo protect his family's good name, Hawk must ignore the hunger in his heart. But nothing can prepare him for the truths that come to light-or the passion that ignites-when Clarissa boldly steps into his trap....
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Black Market
The threat was absolute. At 5.05p.m. Wall Street would be destroyed. No demands, no ransom, no negotiations. A multiple firebombing-orchestrated by a secret militia group-would wipe out the financial heart of America. Stop the world's financial system dead.Faced with catastrophe on an unimaginable scale, Federal agent Archer Carroll and Wall lawyer Caitlin Dillon are pitched into a heart-stopping race against time, tracking the unknown enemy through a maze of intrigue, rumour and betrayal towards a truly shocking climax.
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Oliver's Story
Sometimes, when you can't find love -- it finds you…Oliver loved Jenny. Now, two lonely years later, Jenny is gone and Oliver Barrett IV feels he will never love again -- should never love again. Then, one day while jogging in Central Park he meets a beautiful and mysterious woman.... With all the excitement and emotion that made Love Story a worldwide bestseller, here is a stirring romantic novel that sweeps from New York's fashionable East Side to a snowy Christmas in Massachusetts to a shattering moment of truth in exotic Hong Kong -- the story of one young man's journey out of sadness and into love.
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The Scarecrow
Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporter. Forced to take a buy-out from the Los Angeles Times as the newspaper grapples with dwindling revenues, he's got only a few days left on the job. His last assignment? Training his replacement, a low-cost reporter just out of journalism school. But Jack has other plans for his exit. He is going to go out with a bang — a final story that will win the newspaper journalism's highest honor — a Pulitzer prize.Jack focuses on a 16-year-old drug dealer who has confessed to a brutal murder. But Jack soon realises that the so-called confession is bogus. The investigation leads him to a killer known as The Scarecrow who has worked completely below the police radar. Jack is off and running on the biggest story he's had since The Poet crossed his path twelve years before - but The Scarecrow knows he's coming ...
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Run For Your Life
A man who calls himself 'the Teacher' is devising a meticulous plan. Cold-hearted and cunning, it is time for everyone to learn his name as he teaches New York a lesson it will never forget. Intent on exacting revenge and causing mass hysteria, he embarks on the worst killing spree the city has ever seen. The whole New York Police Department is tested to its limits; none more so than Detective Michael Bennett as the Teacher leads him on a terrifying chase that brings danger perilously close to home.
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The Many Conditions Of Love
Mr Ali's marriage bureau is flourishing but trouble isn't far away once son Rehman begins secretly to woo TV journalist Usha in the small cafes and on the beautiful beaches of South Indian Vizag
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Match Made In Wyoming
Wyoming Wildflowers - These Wyoming women are as strong and feminine as the men are bold and rugged....When Cal Ruskoff was literally thrown into the arms of Taylor Larsen by a matchmaking friend, his world suddenly tilted. And when she became snowbound in his cabin, he looked temptation straight in the face again - and temptation won the battle. But Cal had secrets to keep... for the moment.Taylor thought she'd managed to crack the shell that Cal retreated to. But when he hired her as his lawyer, she sensed she was being kept at a 'safe' distance. Could she finally break down the barriers around his heart and show him she was meant to be his perfect match?
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A Question Of Trust
Billie was everything Travis Kent claimed to despise in a woman: she was an impetuous tomboy, who lived in a ramshackle cottage with a mischievous cat. But every time they met, magic filled the air between themTravis did his best to ignore Billie...a difficult task, since they worked side by side. Then he was forced to spend a weekend with his bewitching colleague and almost every one of Travis's good resolutions flew out of the window.Soon, Travis was rethinking his life, in order to make Billie his, but then he made a serious mistake and Billie disappeared. Travis couldn't understand why Billie had left him. But Billie knew that she couldn't stay with the man she loved if he didn't trust her..
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Headhunter
The Headhunter is loose on the streets of Vancouver. The Headhunter's victims are everywhere. Floating in the river. Buried in a shallow grave. Tacked to an Indian totem pole. All women. All headless.Magic, voodoo, ritual murder, sexual slavery: these are the roots of the Headhunter's mystery. It is the toughest challenge the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have ever faced. This time, will the Mounties get their man?
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Linda Lael Miller
SHAY KENDALL...She had always lived in the shadow of her movie-star mother, Rosamond Shay. But now the glamorous star had been forced into retirement and obscurity, and Shay's life was spent doing her duty and never thinking of herself...MITCH PRESCOTT...He was known as the author of scathing expose's. A forceful, probing man, Mitch had expected Rosamond's biography to be an easy assignment. But he hadn't anticipated the unsettling presence--or unusual pleasure--of Shay Kendall..."
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The Secrets Of Harry Bright
Seventeen months ago the California desert revealed the remains of Jack Watson. The rich man's son was found incinerated in a Rolls-Royce, a bullet in his head. Now, a year and a half later, Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective Sidney Blackpool is called into the desert to take on the case. But what begins for Blackpool is an investigation sandwiched between golf games in nearby Palm Springs quickly becomes an obsession.For the savage beauty of the wastelands holds man secrets. Secrets that stir up Blackpool's long suppressed nightmares of his own son's death. Secrets that threaten to destroy an entire police department. Secrets that, by rights, should remain forever buried by the wind in the ageless desert sands.In this riveting new novel bestselling author Joseph Wambaugh jolts our emotions with a powerful new theme, while continuing to entertain use with his special brand of bawdy, beautiful, dark humor.
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The Ransomed Bride
Kidnapped by rebels, Belle Winters discovers her rescuer is Rafiq al Akhtar, Sovereign Prince of the desert kingdom of Q'roum. Whisked away to his exotic palace, Rafiq expects her to show her gratitude by marrying him!Rafiq demands Belle perform all her royal duties both in public and in private. Soon she succumbs to the sultry heat of the desert and to Rafiq's seduction. Belle is no longer an unwilling wife, now she is the sheikh's very willing lover....
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Ruby
In the heart of the bayou, Ruby Landry lives a simple, happy life. But innocence can't last forever....The only family Ruby Landry has ever known are her loving guardian, Grandmère Catherine, a Cajun spiritual healer, and her drunken, outcast Grandpère Jack. Although thinking about her dead mother and mysterious father sometimes makes her feel as mournful as the wind sighing through the Spanish moss, Ruby is grateful for all she has. Her life is filled with hope and promise... especially when her attraction for handsome Paul Tate blossoms into a mysterious, wonderful love. But Paul's wealthy parents forbid him to associate with a poor Landry, and Grandmère urges her to follow her dream of becoming a great painter, foreseeing a time when Ruby will be surrounded with riches in the dazzling city of New Orleans! Yet she cannot know how close that uncertain future looms....In a faded photograph, Ruby glimpses for the first time the image of her father -- and learns of a shameful deception and a shocking scheme of blackmail that now must come to light. Stunned by these revelations, she is devastated when Grandmère dies, leaving her to seek out her father in his vast New Orleans mansion. There, in a house of lies, madness, and cruel torment. Ruby clings to her memories of Paul to keep her heart alive. For only their love can save her now...