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41. Dark passage
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Hannah Ives mysteries volume 12.
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5 stars
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Hannah, her sisters and teenage niece Julie set sail for Bermuda, but events take a disturbing turn. Julie vanishes and suffers a terrifying assault. Could David Warren, whose daughter also vanished from a previous cruise, be correct in his claims that her killer is on board? And when the ship's attempts at an investigation prove lacking, can Hannah see through the smoke and mirrors to identity a predator?
44. Dead and buried
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Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 12.
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4 stars
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As moorland fires sweep across the Peak District National Park, hundreds of firefighters and park rangers battle to prevent flames reaching a remote inn, once a famous landmark but now abandoned and boarded up. The blaze is just one of a series of random acts of arson which have destroyed miles of heather moorland -- and once the flames have died, a grim surprise awaits DS Ben Cooper and DI Diane Fry: a body -- dead for years.
45. Deadline
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4 stars
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An ambitious reporter haunted by memories of the war in Afghanistan follows an FBI tip to investigate the mysterious disappearance — and likely murder — of a former Marine.Dawson Scott is a haunted man. A well-respected journalist recently returned from an assignment in Afghanistan, he's privately suffering from battle fatigue, and it has begun to threaten every aspect of his life. But when Dawson gets a call from a source within...
46. Death angel
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Alexandra Cooper novels volume 15.
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4.4 stars
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Discovering the murdered body of a young woman in Central Park, New York Assistant DA Alex Cooper and Detective Mike Chapman uncover disturbing links between the savage crime and a string of cold-case disappearances.
Discovering the murdered body of a young woman in Ramble urban park, New York Assistant DA Alex Cooper and Detective Mike Chapman uncover disturbing links between the savage crime and a string of cold-case disappearances.
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 3.
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4.8 stars
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The Paradise Men's Softball League has wrapped up another game, and Jesse Stone is lingering in the parking lot with his teammates, drinking beer, swapping stories of double plays and beautiful women in the late-summer twilight. But then a frightened voice calls out to him from the edge of a nearby lake. There, two men squat at the water's edge. In front of them, facedown, was something that used to be a girl. The local cops haven't seen anything...
48. The defector
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 9.
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4.4 stars
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Grigori Bulganov once saved Gabriel Allon's life in Moscow--and Allon always repays his debts. So when the former Russian intelligence officer vanishes, Allon gathers his team of operatives to go after those responsible. But, in a running battle that rages across the globe, Allon soon realizes that his enemy may already hold the key to victory. And that if he continues, it will cost him more than he can bear...
49. A delicate truth
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4.2 stars
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2008. A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's personal private secretary, Toby Bell,...
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"A ... visual record of an unprecedented time, following the headlines from the first appearance of the coronavirus to the inauguration of President Joe Biden. Made in real time, Elise Engler's ... immediate images recapture what it was like to live through 2020, bringing texture, feeling, and even charm to what we might not remember and what we will never forget"--
51. Don't blink
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3.3 stars
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The good: New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons, the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. The bad: Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad boy. In the chaos, he accidentally...
52. Double play
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1947: Jackie Robinson breaks major-league baseball's color barrier--and changes the world. The event also changes the life of Joseph Burke, veteran of World War II and Robinson's bodyguard--because under the media spotlight, hard truths are easier than ever to see, and harder to escape. And some can prove fatal.
53. Edge: a novel
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Jack Reacher novels volume 8.
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3.9 stars
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Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier's son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army's brightest stars. But in every cop's life there is one case that changes everything. For Jack Reacher, this is that case. New Year's Day, 1990. In a North Carolina motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. Within hours the general's wife...
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4.3 stars
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The New York Times best-selling author of Maine returns with an exhilarating novel about Frances Gerety, the real pioneering ad woman who coined the famous slogan "A Diamond is Forever," and four unique marriages that will test how true--or not--those words might be. Evelyn has been married to her husband for forty years, but their son's messy divorce has put them at rare odds; James, a beleaguered paramedic, has spent most of his marriage haunted...
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 13
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4.1 stars
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The wayward son of Israeli intelligence, Gabriel Allon is plunged into a high stakes game of murder, espionage, and corruption after a beautiful young British woman vanishes on the island of Corsica, which threatens to destroy a prime minister's career.
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3 stars
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Two little girls banished from a neighborhood birthday party take a wrong turn down an unfamiliar Baltimore street, and encounter an abandoned stroller with an infant inside. What happens next is shocking and terrible, and three families are irreparably destroyed. Seven years later, Alice Manning and Ronnie Fuller, now eighteen, are released from "kid prison" to begin their lives over again. But the secrets swirling around the original crime continue...
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Carter Ross mysteries volume 2.
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3 stars
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Traces the investigation of reporter Carter Ross into the house fire deaths of two boys whose mother claims she was working two jobs to support them, a story that is thrown into dispute by a corrupt government program and the disappearance of the mother's boyfriend.
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Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 12.
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4 stars
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The great war between Fabletown and the mighty empire of the Adversary is over, but the victorious free Fables cannot escape the law of unintended consequences--in the post-war chaos of the Adversary's former realm, a terrible force is about to be unleashed, an evil that threatens not only Fabletown, but the entire mundane world.