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6282) Hard candy saga
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Collects two stories in which Candice Hardaway, the daughter of rising New York drug kingpin Eric "Easy" Hardaway, finds her whole family murdered and resolves to take revenge on those responsible.
6283) Scones and scoundrels
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Inversgail, on the west coast of the Scottish Highlands, welcomes home native daughter and best-selling environmental writer Daphne Wood. Known as the icon of ecology, Daphne will spend three months as the author in residence for the Inversgail schools. Janet Marsh and her business partners at Yon Bonnie Books are looking forward to hosting a gala book signing for her. Daphne, who hasn't set foot in Scotland in thirty years, is--eccentric. She lives...
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"A trip to Northern Ireland becomes unexpectedly grim for Jessica Fletcher in this new entry in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series. Jessica Fletcher is quick to accept an invitation to replace a speaker who couldn't attend a Book Festival in Belfast, Ireland. When her Cabot Cove neighbor Maeve O'Bannon hears about the trip, she asks Jessica to deliver some paintings to her family in the village of Bushmills. Happy to extend her travels...
6286) Playing dead
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Jean, a 40-year old unemployed actor, has hit rock bottom. Insufferably clueless and egotistical, his over-the-top acting and high-maintenance personality have gotten him fired from countless jobs. At the unemployment office, his counselor sets him up with a rather odd job: helping the police reconstruct crime scenes by standing in for the dead victim.
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Through the darkest tunnel comes the light, but for Caesar King, there is nothing but more darkness on the other side. After the failed attempt on his life, he is placed into hiding while the world crumbles around him. The Pact, the saving grace for peace between the five families, is no more, and Boogie is out for more than just revenge for the murder of his father. With Caesar out of the picture, Boogie decides that it's time to dub himself king,...
6289) El anticuario
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Enrique Alonso, escritor, recibe una carta de su padre adoptivo, Artur Aiguader, un conocido anticuario de Barcelona. En ella, éste le relata el hallazgo de un antiguo manuscrito redactado en Latín y Catalan que parece ponerle sobre la pista de una joya de un pasado remoto. Por desgracia, Aiguader no verá cumplido su sueño de encontrarla pues será asesinado. Alonso se trasladará a Barcelona con el objetivo de desvelar la incógnita del manuscrito,...
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""In 1946, my great-grandfather murdered a black man named Bill Spann and got away with it." So begins Travis Wilkerson's critically-acclaimed, immensely powerful documentary, which takes us on a journey through the American South to uncover the truth behind a horrific incident and the societal mores that allowed it to happen." -- Container.
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"Teen detectives Frank and Joe Hardy have investigated many crimes in their lives, but nothing that hits this close to home. Their best friend died mysteriously after taking down a major crime organization. They must put together their clues--joined by an unlikely ally--to find out who's really behind this crime, but discover it takes them in a stunningly unexpected direction!"--Back cover.
6293) The potter's field
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When Viagata is wracked by storms, Inspector Salvo Montalbano is called to attend the discovery of a dismembered body in a field of clay. It looks like the work of the notorious local mafia. But who is the victim? Why was the body divided into 30 pieces? And what is the significance of the Potter's Field?
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"Jessica Fletcher's favorite gin rummy partner, Mimi Van Dorn, checks into the brand-new Clifton Care Partners, a private hospital that's just opened up shop in town, for a simple procedure--one that leads tragically, and inexplicably, to her death. Seeking justice in her inimitable fashion, Jessica decides to pursue her own investigation on the hospital and its shadowy business dealings. On the trail of what initially appears to be medical malpractice,...
6295) Traces: Series 2
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Lab assistant Emma Hedges is now training to be a forensic chemist and is on the cusp of seeing her mother's murder case finally resolved. Daniel is to give evidence against his father. Will Emma and Daniel's relationship withstand the pressure? Will justice be served? Meanwhile, professors Sarah Gordon and Kathy Torrance are investigating a deadly bombing campaign. Homemade devices are going off around Dundee, with critical clues hidden inside the...
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""An atmospheric and complicated saga of crimes that criss-cross the narrow strait between Sweden and Denmark...great cop characters...and some imaginatively grisly perps."-- Sunday Times Would you kill for the one you love? That's the question that international bestseller Stefan Ahnhem's The Ninth Grave: A Fabian Risk Novel seeks to answer in this spine-tingling thriller set six months before the events in Victim Without a Face. On a cold winter...