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41) Brimstone
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Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole track down Virgil's sweetheart Allie and the three head north to start over in the town of Brimstone. Given their reputations as guns for hire, Everett and Virgil are able to secure positions as the town's deputies. But a sanctimonious leader of a local church stirs up trouble at the local saloons, and as the violence escalates into murder, the two struggle to keep the peace.
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"Tell me what happened while there's still time, demands the dying Senator Adam Sunraider to the itinerate preacher whom he calls Daddy Hickman. As a young man, Sunraider was Bliss, an orphan taken in by Hickman and raised to be a preacher like himself. Bliss's history encompasses the joys of young southern boyhood; bucolic days as a filmmaker, lovemaking in a field in the Oklahoma sun. And behind it all lies a mystery: how did this chosen child become...
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It's a cold, snowy December in the upstate New York town of Millers Kill, and newly ordained Clare Fergusson is on thin ice as the first female priest of its small Episcopal church. The ancient regime running the parish covertly demands that she prove herself as a leader. However, her blunt manner, honed by years as an army pilot, is meeting with a chilly reception from some members of her congregation and Chief of Police Russ Van Alystyne, in particular,...
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Canterbury Cathedral mysteries volume 1
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St. Martin's Press
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1991.
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English
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Now a New York Times bestselling author, Julia Spencer-Fleming rises to the accolade with a powerful, and emotionally charged novel fans have been yearning for.
On a frigid January night, Chief of Police Russ Van Alstyne and Reverend Clare Fergusson are called to the scene of a raging fire, that quickly becomes a double homicide and kidnapping. Which is the very last thing Russ needs...Currently he's struggling with the prospect of impending
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"An unconventional vicar moves to a remote corner of the English countryside, only to discover a community haunted by death and disappearances both past and present--and intent on keeping its dark secrets--in this explosive, unsettling thriller from acclaimed author C. J. Tudor. Welcome to Chapel Croft. Five hundred years ago, eight protestant martyrs were burned at the stake here. Thirty years ago, two teenage girls disappeared without a trace. And...
49) Heartbreaker
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Buchanan novels (Julie Garwood) volume 1
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English
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In the still shadows of the confessional, the penitent kneels and makes a bone-chilling disclousure: Bless me father, for I will sin. The man describes his murderous past and his plan to kill again. Only this time, he reveals the name of his next intended victim. FBI Agent Nick Buchanan is called in for the case of a murderer who confesses, in advance, that he's planning to kill Laurant Madden, the sister of Buchanan's best friend.
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Book of Psalms mysteries volume 1
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Felony & Mayhem Press
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2011.
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English
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Secrets of the Isles volume 1
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"Fleeing to the beautiful Isles of Scilly, Lady Elizabeth Sinclair stumbles upon dangerous secrets left behind by her cottage's former occupant, and agrees to help the missing girl's brother, Oliver Tremayne, find his sister. As the two work together, they uncover ancient legends, pirate wrecks, betrayal, and the most mysterious phenomenon of all: love"--
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Book of Psalms mysteries volume 5
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Mysterious Press
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1996.
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In England, a mystery centered on a church in a Norfolk village. On Sunday, the congregation prays together, during the week they play dirty tricks on each other--from obscene calls to the vicar's wife, to murder. The vicar calls in two sleuths to unmask the evil members. They are lawyer David Middleton-Brown and artist Lucy Kingsley.
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When a violent attack on a doctor triggers a series of gay hate crimes in the Adirondack town of Miller's Kill, Episcopalian priest Clare Fergusson and police chief Russ Van Alstyne investigate a range of suspects.
It's the Fourth of July, and a violent attack on the town's medical examiner triggers a series of assaults on other gay men in Millers Kill, New York. Episcopal priest Clare Fergusson wants to call them out as hate crimes. With tourist...
55) The thorn birds
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The epic story of a priest torn between God and human passion and a beautiful girl desiring only what she cannot have, spanning five decades of ambition, fear, longing and revenge, and set against the vast horizons of Australia's Outback.
57) Secret sins
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Callie Anson mysteries volume 2
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Poisoned Pen Press
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2007.
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English
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Callie Anson needs to come to the defense of her mentor, Frances Cherry, when Father Jonah Adimolah, a conservative Nigerian priest Cherry had criticized, is found murdered.
59) Jade Star
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Star quartet volume 4
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Severn House
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1999.
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Kidnapped by a lecherous white slaver, Juliana DuPres, the lovely daughter of a Hawaiian missionary, finds herself the coveted prize of a San Francisco slave auction until she is rescued from degradation by the handsome doctor, Saint Morris. Vowing to save Jules from her painful past, Saint Morris marries her out of duty. He thinks of himself as her protector and brother, but Jules has other ideas.
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Father Dowling mysteries volume Related works
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Five Star
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[2011]
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English
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