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Jack Reacher novels volume 9.
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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Five people are killed when a shooter opens fire in a small unnamed Indiana city. But when ex-infantry specialist James Barr is apprehended, he refuses to talk, saying only, "Get Jack Reacher for me." But Reacher's already en route; having seen a news story on the shooting, he heads to the scene with disturbing news of his own.
122. The other woman
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Jane Ryland mysteries volume 1.
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2 stars
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Tracking down a candidate's secret mistress days before a pivotal Senate election, reporter Jane Ryland discovers links between her story and a serial killer investigation by detective Jake Brogan, with whom she partners to stop a killer in the face of dirty politics and betrayal.
123. The perfect ghost
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recommended by the N&O
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Required to complete a celebrity biography on her own after the suspicious death of her charismatic partner, agoraphobic ghost writer Em Moore struggles through the job's required interviews with alluring film director Garrett Malcolm, who alludes to dark family secrets and trouble with a fellow star.
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Lowcountry tales (Dorothea Benton Frank) volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Caroline Wimbley Levine returns to her childhood home of Tall Pines Plantation in South Carolina to help her brother deal with their eccentric and headstrong mother, Miss Lavinia, in a story of family bonds, secrets, betrayal, and understanding.
125. Play dead
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5 stars
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When her husband, David Baskin, the Boston Celtics' star player, dies on their Australian honeymoon, fashion model Laura Ayars returns home to discover a half million dollars missing from his account and their house ransacked, prompting her to launch her own investigation into David's death.
126. Porch lights
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Lowcountry tales (Dorothea Benton Frank) volume 10.
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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When Jimmy McMullen, a fireman with the NYFD, is killed in the line of duty, his wife, Jackie, and ten-year-old son, Charlie, are devastated. Charlie idolized his dad, and now the outgoing, curious boy has become quiet and reserved. Trusting in the healing power of family, Jackie decides to return to her childhood home on Sullivans Island. Crossing the bridge from the mainland, Jackie and Charlie enter a world full of wonder and magic--lush green...
127. Portrait of a spy
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 11.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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It was supposed to be the start of a pleasant weekend in London for master art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon and his wife, Chiara. But a deadly pair of bombings in Paris and Copenhagen has already marred this lovely autumn day. Then, before he can stop a man he suspects is about to launch a third attack in Covent Garden, Gabriel is knocked to the pavement--and he can only watch helplessly as the nightmare unfolds. The haunting memory of his failure...
129. Prince of fire
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 5.
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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After an explosion in Rome destroys the Israeli embassy, Gabriel Allon makes a disturbing discovery--the existence of a dossier in terrorist hands that strips away his secrets, and lays bare his history. Drawn into the heart of a service he'd once forsaken, Allon finds himself stalking a master terrorist across a bloody landscape generations in the making. But soon, Allon will wonder who is stalking whom. When the final showdown comes, it won't be...
130. Purple cane road
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 11.
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Dave Robicheaux has spent his life confronting the age-old adage that the sins of the father pass onto the son. But what has his mother's legacy left him? Dead to him since youth, Mae Guillory has been shuttered away in the deep recesses of Dave's mind. He's lived with the fact that he would never really know what happened to the woman who left him to the devices of his whiskey-driven father. But deep down, he still feels the loss of his mother and...
131. Rage
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Alex Delaware novels volume 19.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Psychologist Alex Delaware is stunned when Rand Duchay, a patient whom he has been treating since his release from prison, asks for a meeting to confide a dangerous secret to him, only to turn up dead before their arranged rendezvous.
132. Rain gods
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Hackberry Holland novels volume 2.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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In a heat-cracked southern border town, the bodies of nine women, killed execution-style, are unearthed in a shallow grave. One teenager might even have been buried alive. They had been serving as drug mules for the terrifyingly powerful crime boss Hugo Cistranos. To help with the slayings, Cistranos hired a damaged young Iraq War vet named Pete Flores. But Flores bolted in fear, and now he and his girlfriend, Vikki, are running for their lives. To...
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Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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It's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles--a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of the hurting business and into the housing (and favor) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax evasion. Special Agent Darryl T. Craxton, FBI, offers to bail him out if he agrees to infiltrate the First American Baptist Church and spy on alleged communist organizer Chaim Wenzler. That's when the murders begin....
134. The redbreast
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Detective Harry Hole volume 3
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4.2 stars
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A tale moving from the final months of World War II to the present, and from the Russian front to contemporary South Africa, follows the dual adventures of a freedom-seeking war martyr and an alcoholic police officer who is drawn into a mystery with past origins.
135. Remember me?
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3.2 stars
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Awakening in the hospital after a car crash believing that she is a single, twenty-five-year-old sales associate, Lexi discovers that she has lost three years in her life and she is married to a handsome millionaire, but her perfect new life soon begins to go awry.
When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, having survived a car accident, she has lost a big chunk of her memory--three years to be exact. And that's not all....
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 11.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Summer in Paradise, Massachusetts, is usually an idyllic season?--but not this time. A Hollywood movie company has come to town, and brought with it a huge cast, crew, and a troubled star. Marisol Hinton is very beautiful, reasonably talented, and scared out of her wits that her estranged husband's jealousy might take a dangerous turn. When she becomes the subject of a death threat, Jesse and the rest of the Paradise police department go on high alert....
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Spenser novels volume 41.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favor. Until now. A developer is trying to buy up Henry's condo on Revere Beach--with a push from local thugs. Soon Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, are on the trail of a mysterious woman, a megalomaniacal Las Vegas kingpin, and a shady plan to turn a chunk of land north of Boston into a sprawling casino. As alliances...
138. The rosewood casket
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Ballad novels volume 4.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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With a career spanning decades, and superlatives from reviewers nationwide whose bestselling novels have been named Notable Books by the New York Times and the LA Times this is a unique opportunity to publish one of Sharyn McCrumb's most cherished novels. Now in trade paperback for the first time, fresh on the heels of McCrumb's return to the bestseller list!$1
139. Run for your life
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Michael Bennett mysteries volume 2.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Detective Mike Bennett takes on New York's most terrifying epidemic in James Patterson's gripping blockbuster novel.
A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on New York City, killing the powerful and the arrogant. His message is clear: remember your manners or suffer the consequences! For some, it seems that the rich are finally getting what they deserve. For New York's elite, it is a call to terror.
Only one man...
A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on New York City, killing the powerful and the arrogant. His message is clear: remember your manners or suffer the consequences! For some, it seems that the rich are finally getting what they deserve. For New York's elite, it is a call to terror.
Only one man...