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In England's young silent-film industry, the megalomaniacal Randolph Fflytte is king. Nevertheless, at the request of Scotland Yard, Mary Russell is dispatched to investigate rumors of criminal activities that swirl around Fflytte's popular movie studio. So Russell is traveling undercover to Portugal, along with the film crew that is gearing up to shoot a cinematic extravaganza, Pirate King. Based on Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance,...
2) Caught
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Wendy is an investigative reporter chasing a big story and she's euphoric when her pursuit of a sexual predator masquerading as a child advocate pays off. Months later, she barely notices that he is missing and presumed dead. A mysterious phone call changes everything.
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Tessa Leoni novels volume 2
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When Justin and Libby Denbe, along with their beautiful 15-year-old daughter, disappear, investigator Tessa Leone must race against time to expose the Denbes' darkest secrets to discover who would want to kidnap such a perfect little family and just how far they are willing to go.
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A "girl's vanishing--on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning, all the more devastating for its mystery--is the beginning [of her family's] harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths, until all that continues to bind them to each other are the questions they can never bring themselves to ask: at what point does a family stop searching? At what point does a girl stop fighting for her life?"--
5) Blind tiger
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2021.
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1920. Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble...and lands in more than he bargained for. On the day he arrives in Foley, Texas, a local woman goes missing. Thatcher, the only stranger in town, is suspected of her abduction, and worse. Standing between him and exoneration are a corrupt mayor, a crooked sheriff, a notorious cathouse madam, a sly bootlegger, feuding moonshiners...
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Ben Packard mysteries volume 1
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English
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"When misguided teenagers Jesse Crawford and Jenny Wheeler are forced to rob Emmett Brown to escape impossible circumstances, what starts as a home invasion quickly turns into a nightmare for the teens. What Jesse and Jenny don't know is that although Emmett is now old, severely obese, and in chronic pain, Emmett was responsible for the kidnapping and deaths of two young women almost twenty years ago, crimes that have never been solved. So Emmett...
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Twelve-year-old Simon is obsessed with aliens. The ones who take people and do experiments. When he's too worried about them to sleep, he listens to the owls hoot outside. Owls that have the same eyes as aliens-dark and foreboding. Then something strange happens on a camping trip, and Simon begins to suspect he's been abducted. But is it real, or just the overactive imagination of a kid who loves fantasy and role-playing games and is the target of...
10) Dash of peril
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Love undercover volume 4
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To bring down a sleazy abduction ring, Lieutenant Margo Peterson has set herself up as bait. But recruiting Dashiel Riske as her unofficial partner is a whole other kind of danger. Dash is six feet four inches of laid-back masculine charm, a man who loves life -- and women -- to the limit. Until Margo is threatened, and he reveals a dark side that may just match her own. Beneath Margo's tough facade is a slow-burning sexiness that drives Dash crazy....
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Deeper than the dead novels volume 3
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Dutton
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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1980s California FBI agent Vince Leone taps into the powers of science-based forensic techniques to unveil dark secrets and stop a killer who is terrorizing the citizens of Oak Knoll.
14) Little green men
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Random House
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[1999]
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English
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A comedy on a Washington TV pundit who is abducted by aliens and becomes a crusading UFO believer. In reality, the abduction was staged by the government to gain support for space research. By the author of Thank You for Smoking.
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"Somewhere in the Washington, D.C., area, a woman lies helpless in a box. Beneath the earth. Barely breathing. Buried alive. In Quantico, the FBI receives a coded message from the woman's abductor. He wants to play a game with them: decipher the clues, find the grave, save the girl. The FBI's top cryptanalysts crack the code and Special Agent Meg Jennings and her K-9 partner, Hawk, scramble to the scene of the crime. Cryptic clues lead them astray...
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G. K. Hall
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[1980]
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English
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Goldsmith's only novel, The Vicar of Wakefield, is also considered his finest work. Rich with wisdom and gentle irony, the story tells of an unworldly and generous vicar who lives contentedly with his large family until disaster strikes. But bankruptcy, his daughter's abduction, and the vicar's imprisonment fail to conquer his spirit. First published in 1766, this book soon became - and has since remained - a classic.
18) Bloody heart
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Brutal birthright romances volume 4
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Bloom Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"When you get a second chance, you don't wait for a third...Simone Solomon lives in a gilded cage. She's been raised to wealth, privilege, and above all, obedience. Hiding in the back of a limousine, dreading another tedious gala, Simone is abducted by a mafioso who intended to steal a car, not a girl...and everything changes. Dante Gallo looks like a beast and behaves like one, too -- until he lays eyes on Simone. Their attraction is irresistible,...
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Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, L.L.C
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2021.
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English
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Nothing ever happens in Dawson, Colorado... until high school senior Cassidy Roekiem's mom checks into a "wellness center" but nothing is wrong with her. Then people start seeing lights in the sky and missing chunks of time. But the town insists nothing is going on.... Now Hayden, the new boy at school who keeps to himself, starts to notice Cassidy. She's starting to fall for him: the boy with too many dark secrets for his kind heart. The boy she's...
20) The missing
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Pocket Star Books
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[2015]
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English
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Darby McCormack was in high school when she first encountered the killer: someone murdered a woman in the woods where Darby and her two best friends were partying. His race to silence the witnesses was sure-footed and violent - but somehow Darby survived. Twenty-five years later, Darby is a crime-scene investigator for the Boston Police Department, and a chilling case - a woman's late-night abduction - has her uncovering strange leads to missing women,...
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