Kate Reading
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 11
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Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner is under criminal investigation. The nightmare perpetrated on Scarpettas's doorstep coninues as she discovers that the so-called Werewolf murders may have extended to New York City.
62) Point of origin
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 9
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Virginia's chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta matches wits with a wily killer who uses fire to mask his crimes. The case begins with a fire in which many horses die and the embers yield a human body.
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 10
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The most delectable sleuthing couple since Nick met Nora, Annie and Max Darling manage to find quite a bit of murder in their allegedly safe and serene South Carolina island resort town. After all, murder is Annie's business -- well, sort of. She's the proprietor of the popular Death on Demand mystery bookstore and cafe, and her establishment seems to attract trouble like Annie's pesky felines, Dorothy L. and Agatha, attract hairballs. Now, Annie...
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Henrie O mysteries volume 7
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Retired newspaper reporter Henrietta responds to a former lover's call for help, she accompanies him, his wife and her stepchildren on a cruise to investigate suspicious accidents that keep befalling his wife.
66) Black notice
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 10
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Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta of Richmond, Virginia, investigates a body found in a ship's container from Europe. A tattoo on the body sends her flying to Interpol headquarters in Lyon, France, where she learns of a killer known as The Werewolf.
67) Predator
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 14
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Kay Scarpetta and her colleague Pete Marino investigate the case of a man killed by a shotgun blast to the chest, while a woman is trapped in an abandoned house in the South after being kidnapped by an unknown captor.
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 4
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Mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance and detective Max Darling are finally tying the knot, but events threaten to unravel this marriage before it begins.
69) Death on demand
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 1
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At Annie Laurance's Death on Demand bookstore on Broward's Rock Island, South Carolina, murder suddenly isn't confined to the well-stocked shelves. Author Elliot Morgan's abrupt demise during a weekly gathering of famous mystery writers called the Sunday Night Regulars is proof positive that a bloody sword is sometimes mightier than a brilliant pen.
70) Something wicked
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 3
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Something has poisoned a local summer stock production of Arsenic and Old Lace as cast members stab each other in the back and props are sabotaged. Someone decides to draw his final curtain. A pompous prosecutor tries to pin the murder on Max, Annie Laurance's own leading man. Unless Annie can prove Max's innocence, their wedding date's off. Annie checks the greasepaint and glitter of backstage life. She'll be next to star in a knock-'em dead scene...
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“There’s plenty to enjoy in the crime-solving side of Jane....[She] is as worthy a detective as Columbo.” –USA Today
On a raw February morning, Jane Austen first learns of the case of Captain Tom Seagrave, who faces execution for a murder he swears he didn’t commit. Together, she and her brother Frank, a post captain in the Royal Navy, set out to uncover the truth.
It is a journey that...
On a raw February morning, Jane Austen first learns of the case of Captain Tom Seagrave, who faces execution for a murder he swears he didn’t commit. Together, she and her brother Frank, a post captain in the Royal Navy, set out to uncover the truth.
It is a journey that...
72) A Long Way Down
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A wise, affecting novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Dickens and Prince, High Fidelity, and About A Boy.
New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line. A Long Way Down is now a major motion picture from Magnolia Pictures starring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, and Imogen Poots.
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New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line. A Long Way Down is now a major motion picture from Magnolia Pictures starring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, and Imogen Poots.
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Hanne Wilhelmsen novels volume 3
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"In a foster home outside Oslo, a twelve-year-old boy is causing havoc. The institution's steely director, Agnes Vestavik, sees something chilling in Olav's eyes: sheer hatred. When Vestavik is found murdered at her desk, stabbed in the back with an Ikea kitchen knife--with Olav nowhere to be found--the case goes to maverick investigator Hanne Wilhelmsen, recently promoted to chief inspector in the Oslo Police. Could the child be a murderer? As police...
74) Emma's Secret
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The legendary Emma Harte, heroine of A Woman of Substance, returns in Emma's Secret, an audio book that showcases the storytelling power of Barbara Taylor Bradford. Paula O'Neill, beloved granddaughter of Emma Harte and the guardian of her vast business empire, believes that everything Emma left to the family is secure. However, beneath the surface, sibling rivalry and discontent flare. Linnet and Tessa, her daughters, are as different as two women...
76) Letter from home
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p2008
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7 sound discs (ca. 71 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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In small-town Oklahoma in the summer of 1944, a young reporter investigates the murder of her acquaintance.
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p1999
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12 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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A sentimental look at small-town life featuring Dena Nordstrom, a New York TV show hostess. Sent by her doctor home to Missouri to nurse her ulcer, she hopes to learn why her mother abandoned her when she was 15 years old.
78) A far country
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p2007
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7 sound discs (ca. 74 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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A young girl with prophetic powers is sent to the city to live with relatives by her poor parents. When she arrives she finds that her older brother is missing and goes searching in the teeming chaos of the country's major city.
80) Sugarplum dead
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 12
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p2000
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10 sound discs (ca. 72 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Annie Darling's yuletide preparations have been put on hold because her mother-in-law, Laurel, has taken to chatting up ghosts in the local graveyard. And, onetime movie star Marguerite Dumaney Ladson has called together all of her kin and exes for a gala celebration. Among the honored guests are Annie's deadbeat father and Dr. Emory Swanson, a New-Age-pseudo-occult charlatan. Right after the announcement that she's leaving her fortune to Swanson's...