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"Living in the Buckingham Palace Casino, Crissy Dowling, a Princess Diana impersonator with her own musical cabaret, finds her carefully constructed kingdom crashing down around her when the owner of the casino is brutally murdered and she is drawn in a world of organized crime, cryptocurrency and obsession."--
"The book revolves around Crissy, the star of a beloved Princess Diana tribute show in Las Vegas, and her estranged sister Betsy, a therapist...
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Cotton Malone novels volume 18
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast quantities of gold and other stolen valuables in boobytrapped underground caches all across the Philippines. By 1947 some of that loot was recovered, not by treasure hunters, but by the United States government, which told no one about the find. Instead, those assets were stamped classified, shipped to Europe, and secretly assimilated into something called the Black Eagle Trust. Present day....
3) Night sins
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Searching for a boy who has disappeared from the quiet streets of Deer Lake, regional officer Megan O'Malley tackles her first assignment in an all-male unit, while police chief Mitch Holt struggles with the past."--
4) Indelible
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Grant County series volume 4
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English
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The internationally bestselling author "squarely in the ranks of Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs" (Publishers Weekly) shows off her superb talent with this brilliantly conceived, skillfully executed tale of suspense.
In Karin Slaughter's exciting new thriller, an officer is shot point-blank in the Grant County police station and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver is wounded, setting off a terrifying hostage situation with medical examiner
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Harley Wolfhart volume 1
Publisher
Kimberly Love
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Plagued by nightmares after her partner's death, Officer Harley Wolfhart heads to the beaches of Thailand for some much-needed R & R. The islands hold a great mystery, and a sadistic killer named The Butcher knows them by heart. As her friends go missing one by one, Harley is pulled into a dangerous game that could cost her life or her limbs. Torn between trying to help her friends and afraid that she will fail to save them, just as she failed her...
6) September
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"A place you will never forget: Rosamunde Pilcher's Scotland ... where the fields flourish with greenery, the bills bloom with purple, and the lochs glitter with the bright blue of the sky. A time you will never forget: September ... when the heather is in full flower, the first chill of autumn cools the air, and the countryside stirs with the hunt, balls, dinner parties, and dance. A novel you will never forget: Rosamunde Pilcher's September ......
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Lore and lust volume 3
Publisher
Karla Nikole Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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How does lust turn into love? Slowly. And it might hurt. Contrary to popular belief, we don't like feeding from humans because they taste like dirt. But I date them. They're excellent for that. Vampires are demanding, arrogant and too focused on mating. I realize this sounds odd, considering I'm a vampire, but I like to explore. I need my freedom. Even if it means staying in this hellish situation orchestrated by my father. But lately, there's a bright...
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Sons of Sinclair volume 3
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Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"As the new chief of Clan Mackay, Gideon Sinclair knows the importance of maintaining order at any cost. To keep the conquered clan in line, Gideon must mete out ruthless justice or risk losing their precious new peace. But from the moment he meets Cait Mackay--aye, from the moment the sweetness of her lips captures his--all of Gideon's careful objectivity is well and thoroughly compromised. Cait knows that kissing the brawny Highlander is a dangerous...
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Karla Nikole Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Nearly two centuries ago, hundreds of purebred vampires disappeared without any explanation -- vanished like mist swept away in the breeze. Nino Bianchi and Haruka Hirano are mated purebred vampires: madly in love and exploring the depths of their young bond. But an unexpected event brings their cozy lives to a screeching halt. A new vanishing, much too close to home."--Page [4] of cover.
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Karla Nikole Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Haruka is alive, but not quite living. Surviving but not thriving. As an elite purebred vampire in the twenty-first century, he is broken. Content in his subpar existence. He is done with life. But life is not finished with him. When he receives a formal request to oversee an antiquated vampire ritual at Hertsmonceux Castle, Haruka grudgingly leaves his home to meet another purebred. The vampire is not what he expects. Truly, he is unlike any vampire...
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"When he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée and his favorite chair, Benny Catspaw gets a strange inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of - a seven-foot-tall self-described "bad weather friend" named Spike whose mission is to help people who are just too good for this world."--
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Titania
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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Alexander Ventura is the ghost nose of the Barcelona fashion house Lladó. His talent, his charisma and his knowledge of perfumery have not been enough to keep his job. The president of the house has just warned him: either he creates a best-selling fragrance or he will be fired. He has three months to complete the task, a ridiculous deadline, but he will have help. Alma Trinidad is the new artistic director of Lladó's perfumery division. Mariano,...
13) Wild things
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Series
Shifters unbound novel volume 7.75
Publisher
[JA / AG Publishing]
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Wolf Shifter Mason McNaughton is tired of the crazy feral living in his house, endangering him, his brothers, and his sweet auntie Cora. Ferals are Shifters who've reverted to the wild stage, forgetting all about the joys of pizza and satellite TV. Not to mention, Mason is sick of waking up to the feral's rampages, one of which nearly killed him. The feral has been given sanctuary, so Mason can't throw him out--the only thing to do is to find a way...
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Tom Kedrick earned his stripes during the Civil War, fought Apaches, and even soldiered overseas. But in the high desert country of New Mexico, the battle-hardened Kedrick is entangled in a different kind of war, fueled by greed and deception. Hired by Alton Burwick to drive a pack of renegades and outlaws off the government land recently set aside for an Indian reservation, Kedrick begins to notice that things are not as they seem. As his suspicions...
15) Dark rooms
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Jane Tennison mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Jane Tennison is leading a murder investigation into the recent brutal death of a young girl, her decomposed starved body discovered in an old air raid shelter in the garden of the Lanark's now derelict house. Initially the focus is on identifying the victim, until another body is found, hidden in the walls of the shelter.
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Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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"En una época en que la fotografía llegó para atajar el tiempo y los ríos de petróleo manaban como un milagro oscuro de la tierra, Alejandro Plata, un inspector de obras férreas, desaparece cerca del puerto del Cacique. Su hermano y su madre lo buscan en distintos tiempos. Su amante lo aguarda por años. Y, en el trasegar de la búsqueda y a la espera del reencuentro, desembarcan en Colombia el progreso y la explotación petrolera, que no solo...
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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"An insurance adjuster for California Fire and Life Mutual, Jack Wade investigates the destruction of one of the area's valuable estates in a fire that also kills the owner's wife and finds himself embroiled in a bizarre conspiracy involving the Russian mob, Vietnamese gangs, corporate corruption, and murder."--
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[Ashley & JaQuavis]
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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In the world of the Cartel, there are many pitfalls and family curses. In the city of Miami, the good die young and the bad live forever. The first family of Miami, The Diamonds, are back and more ruthless than ever. When the family has to deal with the sins of the father, karma comes back and rests on the shoulders of Carter "CJ" Jones II . The life his father never wanted for him, calls him and the allure of family tradition sucks him in so deep,...
20) Seed on the wind
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Hard Case Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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The lawyer, the jeweler, the art critic, and the oil-company man...self-possessed, independent Lora Winter has had a child with each of them. But when one of these men drives up to her house with a fifth man in the car, Lora runs to hide. That's how this extraordinary novel opens - and by the time it ends, you'll have pieced together a masterful psychological jigsaw puzzle that is miles from a traditional crime novel, but whose desperate characters...
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