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Sigrid Harald mysteries volume 5.
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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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3.8 stars
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"Bloomsbury Books is an old-fashioned new and rare book store that has persisted and resisted change for a hundred years, run by men and guided by the general manager's unbreakable fifty-one rules. But in 1950, the world is changing, especially the world of books and publishing, and at Bloomsbury Books, the girls in the shop have plans: Vivien Lowry: Single since her aristocratic fiance was killed in action during World War II, the brilliant and stylish...
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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.
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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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3.5 stars
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"A ... portrait of the jet-age stewardesses serving on iconic Pan Am Airways between 1966 and 1975"--
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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.
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 19.
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 19.
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When Deborah Knott's terminally ill aunt, Rachel, is found smothered to death in her bed at a hospice center, all of her Colleton County kith and kin are shocked. Who kills a dying woman? As Deborah and her husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, try to find Rachel's killer, they cross paths with the Designated Daughters, a support group for caregivers, not all of whom are women. Rachel's flamboyant daughter, Sally, is a member, and when a con artist...
13. 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...
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3.9 stars
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"At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril's son Danny, as he and his older...
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3.8 stars
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"This beautiful novel tells the love story of young Arthur Moses and Nola, and how a young man grew up to become the wise old man known as Arthur trulove. Set in the 1950s in the warm community of Mason, Missouri, Arthur is a shy, unathletic teenage boy, in love with the most beautiful girl in his class. He is thrilled when they become friends, but he wants more than friendship. Alas, he learns that Nola has a crush on the wrong Moses--Arthur's older...
16. 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.
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3.6 stars
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Prior's rich, heartwarming, and charming debut novel reminds readers that sometimes love can be found in the most unexpected places.
18. 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.
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3.3 stars
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"Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who'd amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie...