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21) Those who knew
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"On an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a brutal regime, Lena suspects the powerful senator she was involved with back in her student activist days may be guilty of murder. She says nothing, assuming no one will believe her, given her family's shameful support of the former regime and her lack of evidence. They are the same reasons she told no one, a decade earlier, what happened with the senator while they were dating"-- Provided...
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2021.
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English
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"It is 1943 and Sweden's neutrality in the war is under pressure. Laura Dahlgren, the bright, young right-hand of the chief negotiator to Germany, is privy to these tensions, even as she tries to keep her head down in the mounting fray. However, when Laura's best friend from university, Britta, is discovered murdered in cold blood, Laura is determined to find the killer. Prior to her death, Britta sent a report on the racial profiling in Scandinavia...
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Michael Kelly mysteries volume 5
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Receiving a lucrative anonymous offer to track down an escaped criminal, private investigator Michael Kelly unwinds the past of the fugitive's wife, who harbors deeply complicated and dangerous reasons for standing by her husband.
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William Morrow Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"After her brother is arrested for murder, Theresa's quiet life is turned upside down as she immerses herself in a world of political and legal scandal, white-collar crimes and controversial convictions in order to prove his innocence in the next gripping literary mystery by critically acclaimed author, Emily Arsenault"-- Provided by publisher.
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Bywater Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Charlie Mack and her investigative team with an old friend as they work to infiltrate a hate group with ties that run all the way to Washington, D.C.
A hate group operating in Oakland County, Michigan has claimed responsibility for a six-month-long string of arson fires and robberies at mosques, temples, and black churches around Detroit, eluding police and federal agencies. The most recent fire, at a mosque in Dearborn, kills a respected imam. His...
27) Scammed
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Vale Hall volume 2
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Tor Teen, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Brynn's new assignment, to try to bring Grayson's father to justice, threatens not only the future graduating from Vale Hall would ensure, but her relationships with her friends and almost-boyfriend.
30) Turbulence
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Stone Barrington novels volume 46
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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Stone Barrington and several friends are vacationing in Florida when an extreme weather event puts a damper on their trip. Even worse, the hurricane-force winds blow a powerful, noxious politician straight onto Stone's doorstep. Though they part ways before long, Stone soon learns that he hasn't seen the last of his new acquaintance. It turns out that this official has some shady associates who may have destructive plans afoot, and Stone needs an...
31) Last snow
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Jack McClure novels volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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Jack McClure, Special Advisor and closest friend to the new President of the United States, takes on a personal mission along with his official one: keeping safe from harm his two incompatible companions-- Annika Dementieva, a rogue Russian FSB agent, and Alli Carson, the President's daughter-- and finding the people responsible for murdering an American senator who was supposedly on a political trip to the Ukraine.
32) Null states
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Centenal cycle volume 2
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A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
©2017.
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English
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"After the last controversial global election, the global infomocracy that has ensured thirty years of world peace is fraying at the edges. As the new Supermajority government struggles to establish its legitimacy, agents of Information across the globe strive to keep the peace and maintain the flows of data that feed the new world order. In the newly-incorporated DarFur, a governor dies in a fiery explosion. In Geneva, a superpower hatches plans...
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The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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As the United Kingdom decides whether or not to remain a member of the European Union or go its own way in September of 2017, a group of ruthless killers will stop at nothing to keep a shocking secret at the very heart of the government that could change everything in an instant from being revealed.
34) Gunslinger girl
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Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Seventeen-year-old Serendipity "Pity" Jones inherited two things from her mother: a pair of six shooters and perfect aim. She's been offered a life of fame and fortune in Cessation, a glittering city where lawlessness is a way of life. But the price she pays for her freedom may be too great.... In this extraordinary debut from Lyndsay Ely, the West is once again wild after a Second Civil War fractures the U.S. into a broken, dangerous land. Pity's...
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2021.
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"Jeffrey B. Burton's The Keepers is the next installment of the Mace Reid K9 series, featuring golden retriever cadaver dog Vira and her handler, Mason Reid. Mason "Mace" Reid lives on the outskirts of Chicago and specializes in human remains detection--that is, he trains dogs to hunt for dead bodies. He calls his pack of cadaver dogs The Finders, and his prize pupil is a golden retriever named Vira. When Mace Reid and Vira are called in to search...
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Regal House Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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""If you found us, you're likely lost, we like to tease strangers." When Birdie Barker Price finds an old ballot box on her front porch, she opens a Pandora' s Box full of clues to Coweetsee County' s corrupt elections, hidden crimes, and guilty passions. She enlists the help of her ex-husband, Roy Barker, currently campaigning for sheriff. Suspicions soon fall on Charlie Clyde Harmon, a felon who served time for a fatal arson at a Black church. He...
37) The deceivers
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Series
Vale Hall volume 1
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Welcome to Vale Hall, the school for aspiring con artists. When Brynn Hilder is recruited to Vale, it seems like the elite academy is her chance to start over, away from her mom's loser boyfriend and her rundown neighborhood. But she soon learns that Vale chooses students not so much for their scholastic talent as for their extracurricular activities, such as her time spent conning rich North Shore kids out of their extravagant allowances. At first,...
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Jack Marino thriller volume 1
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Boston star-prosecutor-turned-corporate-attorney Jack Marino is savagely beaten in retaliation for his work as head of the District Attorney's Urban Gang Unit. He is then fired because his powerful boss is running for governor. Jack turns to practicing corporate law at his father-in-law's mega law firm. Two years later he is given a chance to get back into criminal law: as a defense counsel in a capital murder case. The case will take Jack back to...
40) Isolate
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The grand illusion volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Steffan Dekkard is an isolate, one of the small percentage of people who are immune to the projections of empaths. As an isolate, he has been trained as a security specialist and he and his security partner Avraal Ysella, a highly trained empath are employed by Axel Obreduur, a senior Craft Minister and the de facto political strategist of his party. When a respected Landor Councilor dies of "heart failure" at a social event, because of his political...
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