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Sigrid Harald mysteries volume 5.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Sigrid Harald mysteries volume 5.
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When a shadowy figure kills a dancer in a little Greenwich Village theatre before an audience of horrified children, Sigrid is outraged. Her instincts tell her it was a crime of passion, but she has no evidence. To find out the truth she uses special dolls to get the children to talk about what happened that fateful night ? for the solution of the crimes lies in what an innocent child witnessed.
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4 stars
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"Just before Henry Aster's birth, his father -- outsized literary ambition and pregnant wife in tow -- reluctantly returns to the small Appalachian town in which he was raised and installs his young family in an immense house of iron and glass perched high on the side of a mountain. There, Henry grows up under the writing desk of this fiercely brilliant man. But when tragedy tips his father toward a fearsome unraveling, what was once a young son's...
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 1.
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Deborah Knott, an attorney attempting to infiltrate the old boy network of tobacco country by running for district judge, is distracted from the race, and almost eliminated, when she finds new evidence to an old small-town murder.
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 18.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 18.
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Judge Deborah Knott and her husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, are back home in Colleton County amid family and old friends. But the winter winds have blown in several new faces as well. Lt. Sigrid Harald and her mother, Anne, a well-known photographer, are down from New York to visit Mrs. Lattimore, Anne's dying mother. When the group gathers for dinner at Mrs. Lattimore's Victorian home, they meet the enigmatic Martin Crawford, an ornithologist...
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4.3 stars
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"A gripping historical mystery for fans of Kate Morton and Natasha Lester's The Paris Seamstress, The Cartographer's Secret follows a young woman's quest to heal a family rift as she becomes entangled in one of Australia's greatest historical puzzles"--
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 16.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 16.
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North Carolina judge Deborah Knott and her husband Deputy Dwight Bryant are looking forward to Christmas until a traffic fatality turns out not to be an accident.
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Sigrid Harald mysteries volume 6.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Sigrid Harald mysteries volume 6.
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A relic of Manhattan's Gilded Age, the Erich Bruel House on Gramercy Park contained three floors of glorious art--and one Christmas corpse. Now it's up to Lieutenant Sigrid Harald to wrap up this homicide before the killer strikes again in this classic mystery by the author of "Rituals of the Season."
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Sigrid Harald mysteries volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Sigrid Harald mysteries volume 3.
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"Attorney Clayton Gladwell keeps 'special' cases in blue folders that only he can access, but when Gladwell announces his impending retirement, someone decides that Blue Folder secrets aren't safe unless everyone connected to them is dead. From a long-dead movie star, the owner of a trendy art gallery, and an Algonquin Roundtable personality to a senile resident in a nursing home and a broken-down cleaning woman, Lt. Harald must figure out who hated...
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 14.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 14.
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"Margaret Maron is back with a new mystery featuring her critically acclaimed sleuth Judge Deborah Knott"--Provided by publisher.
Conflicts between family farmers and real estate developers in Colleton County lead to the murder of a controversial commissioner and pulls Judge Deborah Knott and her husband, sheriff's deputy Dwight Bryant, into the fray.
10. Doc: a novel
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Doc novels (Mary Doria Russell) volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Born to the life of an educated Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday is given a choice at the age of twenty-two: die within months in Atlanta or leave everyone he loves in hopes of finding health in the West. Soon he's gambling professionally and living with a high-strung, classically educated Hungarian prostitute who insists that they follow the money to Dodge City. And that is where the unlikely friendship of Doc Holliday and a lawman named...
11. Echoes
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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After Clare O'Brien, a poor shopkeeper's daughter, and David Power, a son of a wealthy family of Castlebay, marry, they find the confinements of life in the small Irish seaside town of Castlebay once again closing in.
12. Fugitive Colors
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Sigrid Harald mysteries volume 8.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Sigrid Harald mysteries volume 8.
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Lieutenant Sigrid Harald of the NYPD, who inherited a fortune in paintings from the artist Oscar Nauman, investigates the death of gallery owner Hal DiPietro. DiPietro was organizing a show of Nauman's works which Harald is selling off. By the author of Past Imperfect.
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4.7 stars
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Depicts the hardships and suffering endured by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression.
14. Hard row
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 13.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 13.
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"As Judge Deborah Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it becomes clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are simmering just below the surface in the North Carolina countryside."--Provided by publisher.
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 10.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 10.
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Taking an out-of-town assignment to put distance between herself and her hyper-reactive family, recently engaged judge Deborah Knott finds her peaceful break disrupted by a local murder that she becomes determined to solve.
16. Home fires
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 6.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 6.
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One place the two Souths--black and white--meet is in Judge Deborah Knott's courtroom. From the pretty yet aggressive D.A. who requests harsh sentences for her fellow African-Americans to the three white teens caught desecrating a family graveyard with hate slogans, racial bias still tries the soul and tests the sense of justice in Colleton County, North Carolina. Busy with her reelection campaign and building a new house on land that has been in...
17. Killer market
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 5.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 5.
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Sent to High Point, North Carolina, to substitute for a vacationing colleague, Deborah finds there is no room at the inn. Or anywhere else for that matter. The International Home Furnishings Market has taken over the town and all the hotels. All Deborah wants is a bed for the night, not thousands of living room suites and dining room ensembles. And the last thing she needs is murder. A chilling misadventure begins when she is befriended by Mrs. Jernigan,...
18. The lioness
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Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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"A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this ... historical thriller"--
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never thinks of herself as lonely...but still she looks forward to that time every day when old curmudgeon Arthur McLachlan comes to browse the shelves and cheerfully insult her. Their sparring is such a highlight of Sloane's day that when Arthur doesn't show up one morning, she's instantly concerned. And then another day passes, and another. Anxious, Sloane...