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"There is missing, then there is being made to disappear." Mick Hart Private Investigation Agency finds deadbeat parents whose child supports payments are in arrears. On occasion, P.I. Hart will take on a case to find a missing person. In The Shakers, Sapphire Jenkins (Mary's Little Lamb) asks Hart to find her younger brother Gerald who is away at college and has been missing for two weeks from his classes. Hart travels to Atlanta, Georgia, searching...
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"Nothing brings an estranged family together like a murder next door. High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of: her keen intelligence, impeccable taste, and the L.A. real estate empire she's built. But when she finds herself trapped 300 miles north of the city, convalescing in a sleepy coastal town with her adult daughter Beth and teenage granddaughter Jack, Lana is stuck counting otters instead of square footage - and hoping...
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A woman in wartime Hollywood and her dream of the perfect motion picture. Renie Lee has climbed the ladder in a man's world to be head of the Story Department at Warner Bros. Studios. Renie is an idealist who believes that "the perfect film" can be created. When she pulls an unproduced stage play set in Morocco out of the slush pile, she has a feeling this one is special, maybe not perfect but special enough to secure her place as an equal to the...
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Hannah seems to have a perfect life. She has a perfect job, perfect boyfriend and perfect university grades. Planning her life away, Hannah is deliriously happy. That is, until two mysterious deaths plague her, throwing her life into chaos and despair and pain. Hannah's world is turned upside down; everything she thought she knew is a lie. Jay, her perfect boyfriend is a successful businessman. He treats her wonderfully and makes her happier than...
5) Friend & Foe
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St Andrews, 1583. The young king, James VI, is confined at Falkland Palace, plotting his escape. Dissension rages between Kirk and Crown, the king and his "lord enterprisers," and between the separate factions of the church. In St Andrews Castle, a bishop in decline plays out his darkest fantasies while lawyer Hew Cullan and his friend, Giles, investigate the true source of his sickness, uncovering corruption at its heart. The death of a young soldier...
6) Dead Red
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New York City school teacher Raymond Donne had no idea how bad his night was going to get when he picked up the phone. Ricky Torres, his old friend from his days as a cop, needs Ray's help, and he needs it right now in the middle of the night. Ricky picks Ray up in the taxi he has been driving since returning from serving as a Marine in Iraq, but before Ricky can tell Ray what's going on the windows of the taxi explode under a hail of bullets killing...
9) No Good Deed
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Director of media relations Bert Swain is called in to solve a murder at the Krinsky Research Center's sister hospital A man has been poisoned on the premises, and as far as Westside General Hospital is concerned, bad publicity is not better than no publicity. When the law enforcement can't catch the killer, officials have no choice but to turn to accidental sleuth Bert Swain, who quickly learns that the victim had been involved in a scandalous child-abuse...
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The Last Alchemist
What if an aging Nazi scientist hid away on an American farm, pretending that he was dead because he knew too much? This thriller, grounded in historical research, reveals the frightening prospect of "Hitler's children."
Jake Kincaid's chance encounter with an elderly scientist, who calls himself an alchemist, introduces him to a diabolical plot. A past associate of the alchemist has reanimated a mad dream of a eugenics...
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When her brother, Henry, is murdered, Kate is grief stricken. Nothing in her background has prepared her for this. The family's successful import/export business in Chicago provided a wealthy lifestyle. When her father died, Henry ran the business while she took care of their mother, Grace. When Henry's ten-year marriage failed, he came home to live. After Grace died, Henry sold the business. Kate had adjusted to those changes; they were normal, but...
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Michael Biehl's first two novels, mysteries featuring medical law, were highly critically acclaimed. Now he enters new territory with an intensely introspective mystery, so finely written that Seven Mile Bridge transcends the genre-but still keeps you turning pages to find out who, if anyone, did it.
Jonathan Bruckner, a middle-aged Florida Keys diveshop owner with a taste for whiskey and not much else, has returned to his Wisconsin childhood home...
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Story Four: Changes of the Heart
After a break-up with her significant other and with no employment opportunities near her parents' farm, Sloane accepts a temporary position as an adjunct in a university in NYC. She "apartment-sits" for her best friend, MJ, who is on a sabbatical with her significant-other during the fall semester. The family that has the apartment next to hers becomes friends and the son, a well-known TV veterinarian (Dr. Lance...
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For two years Evie Cranford has a perfect marriage. And then she discovers her husband, Morgan, can read her mind. Having a husband who loves her is heaven. Having one who knows her every thought is hell. She makes Morgan move out and insists on a divorce. But before she can do that a dear friend of Evie and Morgan is murdered. She sets aside her own plans and agrees to help Morgan uncover the killer.
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Nancy Douillard, a widowed, retired lawyer, and former judge has just returned to her 55+ community after a frustrating meeting at a local law firm. Nancy felt invalidated and angry at being patronized as if her "use-by date" had expired when offering her services. She had hoped to reignite her passion for her profession and give a purposeful meaning to her life. She looks forward to a drink and venting her disgust with the previous interview, with...
16) The Dummy Did It
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Pelican Harbor is starting to look festive with Halloween displays, but Piper Avery and her dog Daisy have stumbled onto a gruesome discovery; a dead body that has nothing to do with holiday decorations. Piper has arrived for her meeting with Samual Weston to discuss adding his wood carvings to the gallery when she finds the body in his office. Sitting in the chair by the body is Samual's ventriloquist dummy; a gruel note pinned to it.
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Seventy-plus Floridian Lorilee Porter is only allowed eight cats, per Homeowners' Association rule. But after Hurricane Ian, so many cats need a temporary home that she simply has to help out. If her nemesis neighbor Mitzi finds out her cat count has doubled, she's sure to tell on Lorilee, but right now Mitzi is distracted. Her teenage son has been accused of several crimes, and Mitzi actually has the nerve to ask Lorilee to help clear his name. With...
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Hired as director of media relations for New York's famous Krinsky Research Center, ex-reporter Bert Swain is thrust into the role of detective when a member of the staff drops out of sight and a laboratory chief becomes the victim of a violent death. The great medical complex to which Krinsky belongs is engaged in a $100-million building-fund campaign and many in the community oppose the planned construction, but is their hostility so intense that...
19) Death and Taxis
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Haley Storm was having a rough enough day. The last thing she needed was to have to share a taxi with – him
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Georgia Thackery is feeling pretty good about her summer job teaching at prestigious Overfeld College, and she's renting a rustic cabin right by a lake for herself, her daughter, Madison, and her best friend, Sid the Skeleton. Together again, the trio are enjoying the quiet when a teenager named Jen shows up looking for her friend. Georgia doesn't recognize the name, but she learns that the person Jen was looking for is actually Sid.
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