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21) Trace of doubt
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"Fifteen years ago, Shelby Pearce confessed to murdering her brother-in-law and was sent to prison. Now she's out on parole and looking for a fresh start in the small town of Valleysburg, Texas. But starting over won't be easy for an ex-con. FBI Special Agent Denton McClure was a rookie fresh out of Quantico when he was first assigned the Pearce case. He's always believed Shelby embezzled five hundred thousand dollars from her brother-in-law's account....
22) This could be us
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"Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She's a domestic goddess who's never met a party she couldn't host or a charge she couldn't lead. The one with all the answers and the perfect vinaigrette for that summer salad. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes, and the life she built with the man who was supposed to be...
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When a wealthy woman is found battered and abandoned, her womanizing embezzler of a husband mysteriously vanishes. His sister arrives from the East to avenge his reputation, and Carson City's spunky and beloved Judith Kingston, wife of Judge Hollis A. Kingston, finds herself caught up in a hurricane of intrigue and innuendo. Will she stay safe in the eye of the storm until justice is served?
24) House Privilege
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Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 14
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"The fourteenth novel in Mike Lawson's acclaimed series takes political fixer Joe DeMarco to Boston and beyond, to expose an embezzler and the lengths to which she'll go to protect her wealth."--Provided by publisher.
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Texas Cattleman's Club: Heir apparent volume 7
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Texas Cattleman's Club Heir apparent volume 7
Harlequin desire volume no. 2821
Texas Cattleman's Club Heir apparent volume 7
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Bailing her onetime lover out of jail is Lani Li's ticket to a big career. The Dallas PI needs accused embezzler Asher Edmond to lead her to a cache of missing millions--whether or not he's innocent, like he claims. But Lani didn't count on pesky old passions reigniting the minute they make contact. With suspicion and scandal swirling around them and her future on the line, Lani can't let the sexy playboy sweep her off her feet again. Surely he can't...
26) The gatekeeper
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"James Byrne's The Gatekeeper introduces Dez Limerick in the most anticipated new thriller in years. A highly trained team of mercenaries launches a well-planned, coordinated attack on a well-guarded military contractor - but they didn't count on one thing, the right man being in the wrong place at the right time. Desmond Aloysius Limerick ("Dez" to all) is a retired mercenary, and enthusiastic amateur musician, currently in Southern California, enjoying...
27) Dead water
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Benjamin January mysteries volume 8
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Nineteenth-century New Orleans is a blazing hotbed of scorching politics and personal vendettas. And it's into this fire that Benjamin January falls when he is hired to follow Oliver Weems, a bank official who has absconded with $100,000 in gold and securities. But it's more than just a job for January. The missing money is vital to the survival of the school for freed slaves that he and his wife Rose have founded.
Following the suspected embezzler—and...
Following the suspected embezzler—and...
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Paradise Cafe volume 1
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"From the author of the Murdoch Mysteries books. July 1936 and Toronto is under a record-breaking heat wave. Charlotte Frayne is the junior associate in a two-person private investigation firm, owned by T. Gilmore. Two events set the book's plot in motion: an anti-Semitic hate letter is delivered to Gilmore, who up to now has not acknowledged his religion, and Hilliard Taylor, a veteran of the First World War requests the firm's assistance in uncovering...
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"An unnerving and riveting psychological drama that challenges our notions of how we view others and how we construct our own sense of self. Mia is an elementary schoolteacher in Denmark, while her husband, Frederik, is the talented, highly respected headmaster of a local private school. During a vacation in Spain, Frederik has an accident and his visit to the hospital reveals a brain tumor that is gradually altering his personality, confirming Mia's...
31) The do-over
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"Career-driven McKenna Keaton has devoted her life to attaining the senior partnership at her law firm. So asking a man on a date should be nothing. But the past four days have been the worst of her life and have called everything she thought she knew about herself into question. Besides, she can't remember her last real date--one that didn't involve using a blind date as an opportunity to get a stranger's perspective on effective cross-examination...
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Danny Barrett volume 1
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"In this thrilling new series from Edgar-nominated author Ron Corbett, the most dangerous predator in the Maine wilderness walks on two feet-and it is Danny Barrett's job to bring him down. Something is not right in the North Maine Woods. A small family-run lumber company should not have more than two hundred million unaccountable dollars on their books. Money like that comes from moving something other than wood across the border. The first agent...
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When fifteen-year-old Cathy decides to carpool from Norwalk to tony Greenwich, Connecticut, to study Latin in summer school, she does not expect the shocking events that occured five years earlier to suddenly come flooding back into her relatively settled life.
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Parker Stern novels volume 1
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A Los Angeles church, considered by some to be a powerful cult, charges Rich Baxter with embezzling millions. Rich reaches out to former colleague and star trial attorney Parker Stern to come to his defense. Parker despises the cult, but he hasn't entered a courtroom since developing severe stage fright after his mentor, Harmon Cherry, committed suicide. Rich claims that Cherry did not kill himself—he was murdered by someone connected to
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Dez Limerick novels volume 2
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"Desmond Aloysius Limerick ('Dez' to his friends and close personal enemies) is a man with a shadowy past, certain useful hard-won skills, and, if one digs deep enough, a reputation as a good man to have at your back. Now retired from his previous life, Dez is just a bloke with a winning smile, a bass guitar, and bullet wounds that paint a road map of past lives. Laleh Swann, a business journalist hot on the trail of an auditor who was mugged and...
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They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. But old cowboys? that's a different story--especially when those cowboys are trail-hardened cattlemen like Casey Tubbs and Levi Doolin. When these longtime buddies learn that their bosses are getting out of the beef business, there's nothing left to do now but deliver the last two-thousand cows to Abilene and collect their pay. Except for one problem. Their bosses' lawyer is skipping town with all the...
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Cat Who mysteries volume 17
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The affluent owner of a historic steam locomotive and private railcar disappears with millions of dollars belonging to Moose county investors. Journalist-detective Jim Quill probes the embezzlement with the aid of his Siamese sleuths, Koko and Yum Yum. The case is complicated by a train wreck and a murder in a railroad tavern. By the author of The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, the book which launched the 17-volume series in 1966.
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"To save an innocent man's life, amateur sleuth and cook Kat Holloway must expose a financial scam that could ruin the most powerful aristocrats in Victorian-era London, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret of Bow Lane. Kat Holloway is distressed to learn that Samuel Millburn, husband of the woman who looks after her daughter, has been accused of embezzling funds from the bank where he works as a clerk. The accusation is absurd,...
39) Traicionada
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"A sus treinta y nueve años, Tallie Jones, directora de grandes éxitos de crítica y de público, no casa con el glamour de Hollywood, prefiere quedar al margen de los focos. En su vida privada, disfruta de una estabilidad emocional basada en el amor y en la confianza en su pareja y productor, Hunter, y en el cariño de su hija, Maxine, y de su padre, Sam. En el día a día, la cineasta se apoya en un equipo de fieles colaboradores como Brigitte,...
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"Ryan Hathaway isn't about to let his friend marry the wrong guy--not when the right guy is him. But getting out of Jessie Acosta's friend zone could destroy his plans to become Black Crescent's CEO. He can't afford to give in to the overwhelming temptation of wanting her. But with another man looming in Jessie's life, Ryan can't afford not to..."-- Page [4] of cover.
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