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2) The alibi
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MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION (POST C 1945). Assistant DA Hammond Cross has his sights set on the DA's office. Prosecuting a high-profile murder case practically ensures him the job. But a Saturday night encounter with a mysterious woman is the start of a living nightmare.
3) Ink or swim
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"The manor is hosting the New England Whaling in History and Literature Conference. The place is transformed into a scene from a rugged high sea adventure. Before the conference begins one of the guests makes waves. Raymond refuses to show his valuable scrimshaw. Raymond then is found murdered. His widow then claims the scrimshaw is missing." --
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"Shop owner Kaylee Bleu is overwhelmed with the surge in business, but she delights in every minute she spends assisting her customers. That is until Vivienne Gherson enters the shop seeking Kaylee's professional expertise as a forensic botanist. She asks Kaylee to analyze an herbal supplement her brother-in-law purchased from Tyrone Greene, aka Dr. T. Kayle hesitates to get involved, but while she mulls over the request, the unseakable happens. Vivienne...
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When the Nancy Drew Clue Colloquium converges on Castleton Manor, fans and scholars, dressed as their favorite detective, arrive in their 1930s roadsters. Soon Nancy A and Nancy Z--the good-natured bad girls of Nancy Drew fandom--start their pranks, as librarian Faith Newberry strives to keep the peace. The event takes a sinister turn when an ominous letter arrives and mysteries from the Nancy Drew series leap out of the books and into real life....
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"Nothing is coming up roses for Kaylee Bleu. Not only are the all of the plants in her flower shop going thirsty because of a busted well pump, but a competing florist on Orcas Island is stealing customers from The Flower Patch. But all of this seems like no big deal when Kaylee's plumber discovers a fractured skull in her shop's yard. The remains belong to Danny Lane, a troubled teenager accused of killing a high school girl in a boating accident...
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Jake Paynter is a doomed man. Haunted by an abusive childhood and his participation in atrocities of the Civil War, he seeks the isolation of the Plains Cavalry as a white officer for an all-Black buffalo soldier troop. Now, he is in irons and certain to be hanged for killing his captain after refusing an inhumane order. Despite his best efforts to maintain isolation, he starts to make friends on his journey to trial. The people of the wagon train...
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"22-year-old Olivia has been missing for one day...and counting. She was last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley. And not coming back out again. Julia, the detective heading up the search for Olivia, thinks she knows what to expect. A desperate family, a ticking clock, and long hours away from her husband and daughter. But she has no idea just how close to home this case is going to get. Because the criminal at the heart of the disappearance...
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Librarian Faith Newberry gets herself into a jam when she agrees to deliver a lecture at the So Noir literary retreat. Then when Oscar North, chef and restaurant owner, falls from a balcony and dies, Watson the cat gets his first case.
Join Faith Newberry and her cat, Watson, in the quaint town of Lighthouse Bay on Cape Cod in Massachusetts as she marries her love of books to a penchant for sleuthing. After landing her dream job as librarian at Castleton...
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Augustus Yarrow is a top lawman, noted for going undercover to ferret out criminals: everyone from bank robbers to corrupt officials. He's the best of the best ... until he winds up dead. Isaac Scott is looking for something better than his life of riding the rails when the man he's sharing a car with is shot. There's money and mysterious papers on the man, who attempts to tell Ike something with his dying breat, right before Ike himself is arrested....
11) Double take
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Detective James Cross has been honorably discharged from the Army Criminal Investigation Division due to wounds sustained when an IED blew up near him. Now with the Lake City Police Department, he's rooming with this good buddy and partner, Cole, while he figures out his family dynamics.
Physician Assistant Lainie Jackson is eighteen months out from an attempted murder perpetrated by her ex, which ended when she managed to grab the weapon and shoot...
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"Jane and her fiancé, Edwin, are headed to the North Carolina coast for a much-needed vacation. Their harborside loft has floor-to-ceiling bookcases and breathtaking views, but Jane's hopes of exploring the town with her man are stymied when Edwin steps on a stingray. Things take an even less romantic turn when Jane stumbles across a dead body . . . Instead of taking leisurely beach strolls, Jane is suddenly on a literary chase through time, unearthing...
14) Raising Caine
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"Marshal Dan Caine is sworn to uphold the law. But sometimes justice isn't served. Sometimes killers go free. And sometimes a lawman has to take off his badge to make those killers pay--the old-fashioned way... They broke into the cabin of a harmless old man. First, they tortured him to find out where he hid his tin pan gold. Then, they murdered him--brutally, viciously--when the man insisted he had no gold. Afterward, the three killers got drunk...
15) The toll
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Citra and Rowan have disappeared. Endura is gone. It seems like nothing stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute dominion over the world scythedom. With the silence of the Thunderhead and the reverberations of the Great Resonance still shaking the earth to its core, the question remains: Is there anyone left who can stop him? The answer lies in the Tone, the Toll, and the Thunder.
"Citra and Rowan have disappeared. Endura is gone. It seems like...
16) Pay dirt
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"V .I. Warshawski is famous for her cool under fire, her intelligence, her humor, her unflinching courage, and her love of good coffee. But even the strongest people sometimes need a break to recharge, so her friends send her to Kansas for a weekend of college basketball where Angela, one of her protégées, is playing. And that’s where trouble finds V.I. Sabrina, one of Angela’s roommates, disappears and V.I. agrees to try to find her....
17) A Safe House
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"Stone Barrington is looking forward to some quiet time in New York City, until he is asked to transport precious, top-secret cargo across the Atlantic. Taking on the challenge, Stone flies off unaware of what--or who--he is bringing with him. But his plans to lie low are quickly spoiled when a dangerous dispatcher tracks down Stone and his tantalizing mystery guest, intent on payback--and silencing anyone who poses a threat. From the English countryside...
18) Reilly's luck
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Abandoned at four, card sharp at eight, and now full of experiences, Val Darrant owes his life to Will Reilly, a gambling man, and when Will is shot, Val is forced to revisit his own past to discover what happened.
19) Tailspin
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Dispatched to the Kentucky mountains to discern the fates of a missing special agent and a doctor who is being protected by the FBI, agents Savich and Sherlock find the case further complicated by a young woman on the run and the doctor's mental deterioration.
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"When a scandalous murder shocks London high society, seventeen-year-old aspiring lawyer Lizzie Bennet seizes the opportunity to prove herself, despite the interference of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, the stern young heir to the prestigious firm Pemberley Associates.
Convinced the authorities have imprisoned the wrong person, Lizzie vows to solve the murder on her own. But as the case—and her feelings for Darcy—become more complicated, Lizzie discovers...
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