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2023.
Description
Former actress Becca Ransom lived her dream in Hollywood for seven years before returning to her hometown of Larch Haven, known as the Venice of North America. The Vermont town has canals instead of roads, gondolas instead of cars, and charming cottages plucked from the pages of a fairy tale. It’s also where Becca is pursuing her newest passion as a chocolatier at True Confections, the chocolate shop owned by her grandparents, Lolly and Pops. ...
23404) Where monsters dwell
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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
A murder at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, bears a close resemblance to one in Trondheim, Norway. The corpse of the museum curator in Virginia is found flayed in his office by the cleaning staff; the corpse of an archivist at the library in Norway, is found inside a locked vault used to store delicate and rare books. Richmond homicide detective Felicia Stone and Trondheim police inspector Odd Singsaker find themselves working on...
23407) Last high ground
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Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
Japanese gangsters try to gain control of the Boeing aircraft company by causing its planes to crash, thereby depressing the company's stock. Two men--an American accident investigator and a Japanese police officer--join forces to learn what has caused the crashes and who is behind them. By the author of The Sword of Orion.
23408) Hark! the herald angel falls
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Series
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Sugarcreek is a wonderful place anytime, but especially at Christmas if you ask Cheryl Miller. And this year is extra special because her husband, Levi, has been asked to help construct a live nativity set for their church. But tragedy strikes on the very first day when Rudy, the actor playing angel, falls from the roof of the stable. The police discover that the set was sabotaged, and they arrest Levi, who not only built the stable but has a long-standing...
23410) The silent suspect
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Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 95
Pub. Date
1990
Description
In San Francisco Nancy Drew helps an architect investigate the suspicious fires at his construction sites and tries to explain the evidence implicating his own daughter.
23411) Escape (#20): Butch Karp
Author
Series
Butch Karp volume 20
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Robert K. Tanenbaum's latest thriller, ESCAPE, slices even deeper, chilling down to the marrow with a story as topical and real as the pages in your hand. As challenging as it is riveting, here is a story that delves into the root of evil and leaves one questioning where morality ends and insanity begins.
23412) Shadow of a tiger
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Pub. Date
1972, 2011
Description
It's summer in New York, and the city is boiling. Unable to stand the heat, Dan Fortune's girlfriend Marty asks him to pawn her diamond ring in order to buy them a few weeks by the seashore. Fortune does as told, but picks up some business while at the pawnshop. There he meets Claude Marais, brother of the pawnbroker and veteran of the humiliating French defeats in Vietnam and Algiers. Fearing her husband's life is in danger, Claude's wife hires Fortune...
23414) Eleven hours
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Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
A woman nine months pregnant is abducted from a shopping mall by a man who wants her baby. The novel describes the woman's terror as the spasms begin, the man planning to kill her after she gives birth.
23415) By a slow river
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Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
As the First World War rages on, the daily life of a small town near the front is hardly disturbed by the report of artillery fire and the parade of wounded in its streets. But within the space of a year, this illusion of ordinary days is shattered by the deaths of three innocents-a charming schoolmistress from "the north," who captured every male heart only to take her own life without apparent reason; an angelic eight-year-old girl, who is strangled,...
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2016.
Description
"What if it turns out that the newsmakers are actually making the news happen? Television reporter Erica Sparks has just landed her dream job at Global News Network. Beautiful, talented, and ambitious, Erica grew up dirt poor, worked her way through Yale, and is carrying a terrible secret. She moves to Manhattan to join GNN, leaving Jenny, her adored 7-year-old daughter, in the custody of her ex-husband. Erica's producer at the network, Greg Underwood,...
23417) Deadly garland
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Shannon McClain discovers the body of a slain worker at the Olson's Tree Farm. With turkey bow-and-arrow season open and a hunting tract nearby, was the man's death an accident or murder?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1985, c1982
Description
Pretty teenager April Kyle is in grown-up-trouble, involved with people who'd beat her up for a dollar and kill her for five. Now she's disappeared, last seen in the Combat Zone, that side of Boston where nothing's proper, especially the sex for sale. With Hawk, his sidekick, Spenser takes on the whole X-rated industry. From a specialty whorehouse in Providence to stylish Back Bay bordellos, he pits muscle and wit against bullets and brawn until he...
Author
Series
Hardy boys casefiles volume 71
Pub. Date
1993
Description
Mark Stevens, America's king of horror writers, has invited two of his greatest fans, Frank and Joe Hardy, into his home, to investigate a bizarre series of threats against his life.
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