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Twenty years ago he'd disappeared without a word, leaving her alone on their wedding day...
Now Will Combray has returned, older, but still handsome and unpredictable, throwing Casey Becket's ordered life into chaos. After his cruel and mysterious disappearance, Casey had turned to her best friend, Michael, the man who knew her as no one else.
Michael had promised to take care of Casey and give her a happy life, and he has kept his word. But now,...
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A novel of subtle suspense and creeping tension, A Case to Answer is effortlessly crafted crime fiction, in which human weakness and vulnerability lead to secrets, lies and tragedy.
The day Jerry Hunt meets Charlotte Frost is the day he decides to abandon his rebellious, criminal ways. Despite the fact that Jerry's been to prison and has vowed never to return, he continues to run a successful scam with his friend Pete in which Jerry sweet-talks...
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They say you never forget your first love. What they don't say though, is that sometimes your first love won't forget you. Angela Petitjean sits in a cold, dull room. The police have been interrogating her for hours, asking about Saskia Parker. She's the wife of Angela's high school sweetheart, HP, and the mother of his child. She has vanished. Homicide Detective J. Novak believes Angela knows what happened to Saskia. He wants the truth, and he wants...
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Harlequin Romantic Suspense
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[2024]
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"When Officer Stacy Waltz is abducted and stranded on the mountainside, police corporal Jesse "Mac" MacDonald risks his own life to save hers. She's the best partner he's ever had. Working together to find her would-be killer brings them closer together than ever--something Mac can't admit he wants, even to himself. Finding the man who left Stacy for dead might prove easier than resisting the desire that pulses between them..."--Amazon.
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Beware the wild volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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A teenaged girl and her boyfriend must find her older brother after he wanders into their town's swamp and a mysterious girl appears in his place.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2024]
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"Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family's cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home. What happened to Nina? Nobody knows. Simon's explanation about what happened in their last hours together doesn't add up. Nina's parents push the police for answers, and Simon's parents rush to protect him. They hire expensive lawyers and a PR firm that quickly ramps up a vicious, nothing-is-off-limits...
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Orla and Kate have been best friends forever. Together they've faced it all - be it Orla's struggles as a new mother or Kate's messy divorce. And whatever else happens in their lives, they can always look forward to their annual weekend away. This year, they're off to Lisbon: the perfect flat, the perfect view, the perfect itinerary. And what better way to kick things off in style than with the perfect night out? But when Orla wakes up the next morning,...
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The stereotypical image of a pirate is that of a middle-aged man with an eyepatch, cocked hat, and possibly a metal hook for an arm, like Captain Hook. Classic literature such as "Treasure Island" and movies with Jack Sparrow built the love for pirates and enhanced their mythical condition. But real pirates don't look like the "cartoon" version. Sea pirates were and still are the type of people you definitely never want to be around, as their only...
9) I Am God
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Will the Monster of Florence ever be found? To this day his (or her or their) identity remains a frustrating mystery to both Italian law enforcement and INTERPOL. But here's what they know: the Monster, who was once the inspiration for Thomas Harris's cannibalistic serial killer, Hannibal Lector, not only needed to kill his victims, he also felt the need to brutally mutilate them. This story, which is graphic in nature, explores the mind of the Monster,...
11) Winter's rescue
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Winter Black volume 11
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When Private Detective Winter Black-Dalton receives a slew of messages from a mother desperate to protect her children after a traumatizing divorce, she takes the case without hesitation. Not only is it a welcome distraction from unpacking boxes, but Winter hopes to assuage the guilt still fusing her to her past. She should have known better. But the more Winter investigates, she fears something far more sinister lurks beneath the surface. And when...
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"Maple Bishop is ready to put WWII and the grief of losing her husband, Bill, behind her. But when she discovers that Bill left her penniless, Maple realizes she could lose her Vermont home next and sets out to make money the only way she knows how: by selling her intricately crafted dollhouses. Business is off to a good start--until Maple discovers her first customer dead, his body hanging precariously in his own barn. Something about the supposed...
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A collection of True Crime in the porn industry
Such scripts as existed for sleazy flicks such as Debbie Does Dallas were threadbare. Often, they consisted of little more than a hint of dialogue to be improvised in whatever location had been hi-jacked for filming-this was still a time when obscenity laws could see an entire cast and crew apprehended, arrested and tried for acts committed in the face of public decency. It was best not to advertise...
14) Valerie McDaniel
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Truth stranger than fiction? We've all heard the phrase. Actually, it's a bit of a falsehood. Invention acting as truth. Reality always wins out in the end. Doesn't it? But, in the case of Valerie McDaniel, truth runs even the most bizarre fiction close.
Had Valerie survived her darkest days of 2017, she may well now be serving time behind bars. Certainly, prosecutors in Houston, Texas, have little doubt about that. Then again, it is the prosecutors'...
15) Manson's Girls
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A look back at the many women who become followers of Charles Manson during his Helter Skelter siege in California in the 60s & 70s. All were hippie girls who became loyal to the maniac who told them to kill for him...Among those featured here are the stripper Susan Atkins, a sweet-voiced stripper whose looks belied a devil within. Leslie Van Houten who was an educated young woman that became a murderous animal under Manson's control. Patricia Krenwinkel...
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Is Wayne Williams one of the most evil men to have ever walked the earth, or are the Atlanta child murders the cause of one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in the judicial history of the United States? It is a tough question, and one to which we are even further from answering today than we were back in the early 1980s. That was the time when Williams was convicted on two counts of first-degree murder. It also marked the closure of the files...
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AN ANTHOLOGY OF WOMEN GONE MISSING
AMY LYNN BRADLEY
For most people, a cruise to the Caribbean is an exhilarating, fascinating experience-but for others, the holiday can be memorable for the entirely wrong reasons. The Caribbean is one of the top cruise destination for many major cruise operators, and millions of people travel there each year. It's the perfect place to enjoy exotic sights, sounds, and flavors while taking advantage of the Caribbean's...
18) One Evil Bitch
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Judith and Alvin Neelley are an American married couple who were convicted of two torture murders in the early 1980s in Georgia and Alabama. Judith became the youngest woman to ever be sentenced to death in the United States, however, the Alabama governor at the time commuted her death penalty to life imprisonment in 1999, likely due to her age. Alvin died in prison in 2005 at the age of 52 due to complications resulting from surgery. Unlike most...
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Robert Hansen was dubbed the "Butcher Baker" by the media after he kidnapped, raped and killed at least seventeen women with possibly more victims that have yet to be identified. The murders took place in and around his hometown of Anchorage, Alaska as Hansen would hunt down his victims in the woods with a variety of weapons. It would take over twelve years before authorities would finally capture and convict Hansen in 1983. His case would remain...
20) Sex Criminals
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The horrifying true stories of two of the most psychopathic serial killers in recent memory. Christopher Wilder, nicknamed the Beauty Queen Killer, was a serial killer who kidnapped and raped at least twelve women and killed at least eight during a cross-country crime spree where he started in Florida and made his way all the way to California. Wilder had a counterpart in Charles Sobhraj, who was a French serial killer that preyed upon female tourists...
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