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2015
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Rachel sees the same couple breakfasting on their deck each morning as she passes by in her commuter train. She thinks their life looks perfect until, one day, she sees something shocking. The train moves on immediately, but she can't keep it to herself and informs the police. Has she done more harm than good?
2) The whistler
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Lacy Stoltz, an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct, takes on a case involving a corrupt judge, a Native American casino, and the mafia when a previously disbarred lawyer approaches her on behalf of a client who claims to know the truth.
3) Identity
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Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does Morgan's job as a bartender. But after she and Nina host their first dinner party--attended by Luke, the flirtatious IT guy who'd been chatting her up at the bar--her carefully built world is shattered. The back door glass is broken, cash and jewelry are missing, her car is...
4) The fallen
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Amos Decker novels volume 4
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2018.
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While Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison visit Alex's sister in Baronville, Pennsylvania, Amos discovers two dead men in a nearby house, but finds the police and unseen forces are stonewalling the investigation.
5) The duchess
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A tale set in early 19th-century England, Paris, and New York follows the endeavors of a noble orphan who, after being thrown out of her ancestral home by a vicious half-sibling, makes her way to Paris, where she takes in abused streetwalkers and transforms them into upper-crust courtesans in an exclusive bordello.
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2018.
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When a lavish wedding ends in disaster before it can begin--with the bride-to-be dead in Nantucket Harbor, hours before the ceremony--everyone in the wedding party is a suspect. Chief of Police Ed Kapenash learns that every wedding is a minefield, and no couple is perfect.
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Detective Jacob Lev wakes one morning, dazed and confused: He seems to have picked up a beautiful woman in a bar the night before, but he can’t remember anything about the encounter, and before he knows it, she has gone. But this mystery pales in comparison to the one he’s about to be called on to solve. Newly reassigned to a Special Projects squad he didn’t even know existed, he’s sent to a murder scene far up in the hills of Hollywood Division....
10) Silken prey
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2013.
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At 1:15 a.m, a Minnesota political fixer answers his doorbell. The next thing he knows, he's waking up on the floor of a moving car, lying on a plastic sheet, his body wet with blood. And that's the last thing he ever knows. Lucas Davenport is investigating another case when the trail leads to the man's disappearance, then to the Minneapolis police department itself, and then to a woman with very definite ideas about the way the world should work...
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Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and...
12) The investigator
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A Letty Davenport novel volume 1
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Letty Davenport, adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, has seen more action and uncovered more secrets than many law enforcement professionals. She's restless and bored in a desk job for U.S. Senator Colles. Letty's ready to quit, but he offers her a carrot: feet-on-the-ground investigative work, in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security. Several oil companies in Texas have reported thefts of crude. Rumor has it that a fairly ugly militia...
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2021
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Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about to propose on their romantic getaway to the Galapagos-days before her thirtieth birthday. But then a virus that felt worlds away has appeared in the city, and on the eve of their departure, Finn breaks the news: It's all hands on deck at the hospital. He has to stay behind. Reluctantly, she goes. Almost immediately, Diana's dream vacation goes awry. The...
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Winter Street Inn novels volume 3
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2016.
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Winter Storms is the third book in the Winter Street series where author Elin Hilderbrand brings back together again the Quinn Family. The family is going through illness, as the oldest son is in jail, while the youngest son who is in the Army, is missing in the Middle East.
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Winter Street Inn novels volume 4
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2017.
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Preparing for a particularly joyful holiday season after Bart's safe return from Afghanistan, the Quinn family members count their blessings, from Kevin's marriage to Patrick's rehabilitation, only to encounter unexpected challenges.
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In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything...
17) One by one
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When the cofounder of Snoop, a trendy London-based tech startup, organizes a weeklong trip for the team in the French Alps, tensions simmer and loyalties are tested. Then an avalanche leaves the group cut off from all access to the outside world. As each hour passes without any sign of rescue, panic mounts, the chalet grows colder, and the group dwindles, one by one.
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Meredith White was one of Hollywood's most recognizable faces. But a personal tragedy cut her acting career short and alienated her from her family. For the last fifteen years, Meredith has been living alone in San Francisco with two trusted caretakers. Then, on a muggy late summer day, a massive earthquake strikes Northern California, plunging the Bay Area into chaos. Without a moment's hesitation, Meredith invites her stunned and shaken neighbors...
19) Sandpiper Cove
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Hope Harbor volume 3
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While raising her son alone and contemplating a rise in petty crimes, Hope Harbor's busy police chief, Lexie Graham, finds herself pleasantly distracted by a handsome ex-con.
20) The great alone
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1974. Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America?s last true frontier. Thirteen-year-old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultuous time, caught in the riptide of her parents? passionate, stormy relationship, dares to hope that a new land will lead to a...
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