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"With plenty of suspense, plot twists and turns and the kind of fast-paced love story that will keep you on your toes, it's exactly the kind of summer escape you've been craving."—BookTrib
To prove her father's innocence, she'll have to turn a killer's sights on herself
When journalist Jessie Kegan's father is accused of espionage and treason, Jessie has no doubt the man she looked up...
To prove her father's innocence, she'll have to turn a killer's sights on herself
When journalist Jessie Kegan's father is accused of espionage and treason, Jessie has no doubt the man she looked up...
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When travel journalist Lo Blacklock is invited on a boutique luxury cruise around the Norwegian fjords, it seems like a dream career opportunity. But the trip takes on a nightmarish turn when she wakes in the middle of the night to hear a body being thrown overboard; only to discover that no-one has been reported missing from the boat.
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Confronted by a restraining order and the threat of a lawsuit, failed journalist Leah Stevens needs to get out of Boston when she runs into an old friend, Emmy Grey. Soon Leah's credibility is at stake, and she is forced to revisit her past: the article that ruined her career. To save herself, Leah must uncover the truth about Emmy Grey--and along the way, confront her old demons, find out who she can really trust, and clear her own name.
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The impact of Alzheimer's disease on a family of three women. The one diagnosed with it is Grace Dorian, a 61-year-old syndicated newspaper columnist who dispenses advice to women. Francine, her daughter, takes over writing the column with the help of her daughter, Sophie. But Sophie is jealous of the relationship between her mother and her grandmother.
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Fiona Davis's debut novel pulls readers into the lush world of New York City's glamorous Barbizon Hotel for Women, where a generation of aspiring models, secretaries, and editors lived side-by-side while attempting to claw their way to fairy-tale success in the 1950s, and where a present-day journalist becomes consumed with uncovering a dark secret buried deep within the Barbizon's glitzy past.
10) Hello, summer
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"Conley Hawkins left her family's small-town newspaper, the Silver Bay Beacon, years ago. now a star reporter for a big-city paper, Conley is offered a new position in Washington, D.C.--but the job goes up in smoke. Conley finds herself back working for her sister at the Silver Bay Beacon, and she's been assigned the locla gossip column, "Hello, Summer." Then Conley witnesses an accident that kills a local congressman-- a beloved war hero with a shady...
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Britt Montero is a crime reporter for a major Miami newspaper, and an oddity in a man's domain: a blond, green-eyed Cuban-American woman tough enough to investigate even the most terrifying of homicides, but with a tender spot for the city's underdogs. The latest report to come in seems fairly cut and dried: several cops on the midnight shift chase a black motorist, and the fleeing man, a former football hero, winds up dead. However, as Britt begins...
12) The night crew
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Putnam
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c1997
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A freelance TV crew roams the night streets of Los Angeles, searching for action to film and sell to TV stations. When a cameraman is murdered, Anna, the crew chief, sets out to find his killer and discovers the death is linked to a suicide they filmed.
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Star quarterback and heartthrob Tyson Palmer has it all: a million-dollar arm, a winning season and the promise of a Superbowl ring. But more importantly, football’s biggest star is the ultimate comeback kid. After an addiction to painkillers nearly derailed his career, Tyson got sober and went from zero to hero in the eyes of the public. But sports commentator Dani Carr, whose negative comments about his performance draw high ratings and spectacular...
14) Look again
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When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away. But something makes her look again, and her heart stops - the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will. Her every instinct tells her to deny the similarity between the boys, because she knows her adoption was legal. But she's a journalist, and she won't be able to stop thinking about the photo until she figures out the truth....
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Jordan Manning novels volume 1
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When crime reporter Jordan Manning leaves her hometown in Texas to take a job at a television station in Chicago, she’s one step closer to her dream: a coveted anchor chair on a national network. Armed with a master’s degree in forensic science and impeccable instincts, Jordan has been able to balance her dueling motivations: breaking every big story—and giving a voice to the voiceless. Jordan can navigate a crime scene as well as she can a...
16) Untamed
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After losing her entire family, Clarisse Carrington is closed off and not welcoming to her pursuer, Stanton Rourke. With a rocky past between them she struggles to keep herself distant.
17) The lady's mine
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1875. Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather, she has come to claim an inheritance from the uncle she never knew: a defunct newspaper office on a main street overflowing with brothels and saloons, and a seemingly worthless mine. Moved by the oppression of the local miners and their families, Kathryn decides to relaunch her uncle's newspaper-- and finds herself...
18) American drifter
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River Roulet abandons the world he knows and flees to Brazil. He soon meets Natal, and as their romance blossoms they must flee into the interior of Brazil, where they are pursued by a sadistic drug lord.
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Simon & Schuster
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2014.
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Investigating a World War II Russian sniper who was hunted by both Stalin and Hitler, former marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger wonders why such pains were taken to erase the woman's records before finding himself targeted by an unknown adversary.
20) Abandoned
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Investigative reporter Max Revere has cracked many cases, but the one investigation she's never attempted is the mystery from her own past. Her mother abandoned her when she was nine, sending her periodic postcards, but never returning to reclaim her daughter. Seven years after the postcards stop coming, Martha Revere is declared legally dead, with no sign of what may have happened to her. Until now. With a single clue--that her mother's car disappeared...
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