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1) Alone
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Alone . . . Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. Just across the street, in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. The man’s finger tightens on the trigger and Dodge has only a split second to react . . . and forever pay the consequences.
Alone . . . that’s where the nightmare began for cool, beautiful,...
Alone . . . that’s where the nightmare began for cool, beautiful,...
2) The damage
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English
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"When a small-town family is pushed to the brink, how far will they go to protect one of their own? Tony has always looked out for his younger brother, Nick. So when he's called to a hospital bed where Nick is lying battered and bruised after a violent attack, his protective instincts flare, and a white-hot rage begins to build. Nick didn't ask for any of this. One moment he was partying at college; the next, he was at the center of an investigation...
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Andrea Oliver novels volume 1
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English
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"What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all? Andrea knows everything about her mother, Laura. She knows she's spent her whole life in the small beachside town of Belle Isle; she knows she's never wanted anything more than to live a quiet life as a pillar of the community; she knows she's never kept a secret in her life. Because we all know our mothers, don't we? But all that changes when a trip to the...
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Siri Bergman novels volume 2
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2013, ©2010.
Language
English
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In the chilling follow-up to "Some Kind of Peace, " Siri Bergman returns to investigate a brutal murder case centered in the dark world of domestic abuse.
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Tess Monaghan mysteries volume 7
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English
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Tess Monaghan agrees to look into a series of unsolved homicides that date back over the past six years despite the fact that the assignment originates from a troubling source: wealthy Baltimore benefactor Luisa O'Neal, who was both instrumental in launching Tess's present career and intimately connected with the murder of Tess's former boyfriend. Apart from the suspicion that each death was the result of domestic violence, nothing else seems to connect...
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Bruno Johnson novels volume 7
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Court bailiff Bruno Johnson reverts to violent crime mode when his daughter is threatened by a violent killer awaiting trial --
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Touchstone
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
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Actress Clarissa Lisle has always been famous for her beauty -- and her unscrupulous manipulations. Now her schemes have won her a starring role in a nightmare in which she can trust no one. Private detective Cordelia Gray is invited to the sunlit island of Courcy to protect the actress from veiled threats on her life. But when the curtain goes up on Courcy, nothing is as it seems, and Detective Gray quickly finds that the stage is set for death.
8) Syndrome E
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Lucie Hennebelle novels volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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"Lucie Henebelle, single mother and beleaguered detective, has just about enough on her plate with one daughter in the hospital and another off at summer camp when she receives a panicked call from an ex-lover. Lucie's old friend has developed a case of hysterical blindness after watching an obscure and mysterious film from the 1950s. Embedded in the film are subliminal images so unspeakably heinous that Lucie realizes she must get to the bottom of...
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Sometimes, there's a thin line between love and hate. Or at least that's one theory for DI Zoe Dolan, tracking the Creeper - a stalker who's been breaking into women's homes and attacking them. But the Creeper's violence is escalating and there's no pattern, no clue as to how he's getting in, and no clue as to who's next. Until Jane Webster gets a call to the helpline where she volunteers. It's meant to be a confidential service and Jane is torn -...
10) Repentance
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Agora
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"1981. Argentina is in the grip of a brutal military dictatorship. Inspector Joaquín Alzada's work in the Buenos Aires police force exposes him to the many realities of life under a repressive regime: desperate people, terrified people and--worst of all--missing people. Personally, he prefers to stay out of politics, enjoying a simple life with his wife Paula. But when his revolutionary brother Jorge is disappeared, Alzada will stop at nothing to...
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Revenge isn't the only dish served cold... Ali Reynolds's longtime friend and Taser-carrying nun, Sister Anselm, rushes to the bedside of a young pregnant woman hospitalized for severe injuries after she was hit by a car on a deserted Arizona highway. The girl had been running away from The Family, a polygamous cult with no patience for those who try to leave its ranks. Meanwhile, married life agrees with Ali. But any hopes that she and her husband,...
12) American tabloid
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Series
Underworld U.S.A. trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A novel of the Kennedy era, portraying the president in a far from flattering light. There are three protagonists: a CIA agent who pimps for JFK, another agent who trains anti-Castro rebels, and a lawyer who is a Mafia hunter. Through their eyes are seen the conflicting interests of the Kennedys, the director of the FBI, organized crime, organized labor, Castro and Cuban exiles. By the author of White Jazz.
We are behind, and below, the scenes of...
13) False diamond
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Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
"Bea is drawn back into the questionable doings of the members of the multi-billionaire Holland family, including an engagement with a fake diamond ring, an alleged suicide attempt, an abusive man who tries to put the frighteners on Bea, and the ambiguous behaviour of the black sheep of the family, who turns out to be the joker in the pack"--author's website.
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