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Spenser, a Boston PI, is once again hired by April Kyle who was a teenage runaway that turned to prostitution. Now she is a madam of an up-scale, all-female operation that some men are trying to take away from her. April claims she doesn't know who is after her business, but Spenser finds ties to organized crime. Spenser without much surprise also finds that April, the thugs and everyone else involved is lying to him.
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2006
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When an English tycoon dies mysteriously, he leaves a note naming six people who might have wanted him dead. Daisy Kean and PI Harry Montana team up to take the suspects-and also six "red herrings"-on a Mediterranean cruise, culminating at his beautiful villa on Capri, where his will is to be read and the killer unmasked. With the beautiful seaside settings plus the beginnings of a romance between loner Montana and wary Daisy, passions flare and
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Caroline's child. Who's the father of Caroline Daniels's child? Everyone in town wants to know, but no one's ever asked--or ever will. The people of Promise are protective of Caroline and five-year-old Maggie. They care. Especially rancher Grady Weston, who's beginning to realize he more than cares.
Dr. Texas. They call her Dr. Texas. She'e Jane Dickinson, a newly graduated physician from California who's working at the Promise clinic--but just for...
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Thorndike Press
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2007
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A master storyteller delights readers with two classic tales of love. In Woman Hater, everyone in the office describes the boss's mysterious older brother as wary of the female of the species, so when Nicole White has to travel with her ailing employer to his brother's home in Montana, she is prepared for the worst. In If Winter Comes, charismatic Phoenix mayor Bryan Moreland has already won the devotion of his constituents, including reporter Carla...
10) Sliver of truth
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2007
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Freelance writer Ridley Jones, trying to rebuild her life after a year of chaos in which she learned everything about her past is a lie, instead becomes further trapped in a web of mystery and violence when she discovers she is being watched by everyone from the federal government to the underworld, all of whom are seeking Max Smiley, an uncle figure and friend of her dad who she has since learned is her biological father and an unscrupulous criminal...
12) Foreign Body
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IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
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In this chilling novel from the bestselling “master of the medical thriller” (The New York Times), NYC medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton rush to India to help a UCLA student investigating medical tourism—and a sinister global conspiracy.
Devastated by the news that her beloved granmother has died after hip surgery in New Delhi, UCLA medical student Jennifer Hernandez flies to India,...
Devastated by the news that her beloved granmother has died after hip surgery in New Delhi, UCLA medical student Jennifer Hernandez flies to India,...
14) Hot mahogany
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Stone Barrington, having accepted an assignment to watch over CIA agent Lance Cabot's brother who is suffering from amnesia, finds out that the man he is guarding had stolen gold coins from the South Vietnamese government and may be responsible for the theft of a twenty-four million dollar antique secretary.
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In the late 1800s two friends, Hallie Wolcott and Pearl Parsons, decide to leave Whiskey Bend, Colorado to find a better place for women to live. The final straw came when they witnessed their friend Mary being assaulted by her stepbrother and no one stepped forward to help her. One night along the way they are caught in a violent storm and Mary nearly drowns. She is saved by a rancher who brings them back to his home to stay until Mary recovers....
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Thorndike Press
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2008.
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After her mother died, vivacious Katey Tyler fled her dull Connecticut town, hoping to meet her relatives in England and find adventure and romance on a grand tour of Europe. She had no idea that her life-changing travels would have both in spades, as well as danger and intrigue, when she catches the eye of ship owner Boyd Anderson and inadvertently stumbles upon a high-stakes kidnapping. When Sir Anthony Malory's young daughter is abducted from London's...
17) Phantom prey
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Terrified by her goth-associated daughter's disappearance and the signs of a deadly struggle in their home, a widow implores Lucas Davenport to use his connections to local authorities to expedite the investigation, which subsequently reveals the work of a serial killer.
18) Santa Fe dead
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Ed Eagle finds the tables turned when he testifies as a witness for the prosecution in the trial of his ex-wife, who has been a very, very bad girl.
19) Smoke screen
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When newswoman Britt Shelley wakes up to find herself in bed with Jay Burgess, a rising star detective in the Charleston PD, she remembers nothing of how she got there ... or of how Jay wound up dead. A disgraced firefighter realizes that the newswoman, Jay's last sexual conquest, might be his only chance to get personal vindication -- and justice for the seven victims of a police station fire.
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