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1) Taken
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"Years after being abducted as a teenager and being forced to assist a crime family, Shannon contacts private investigator Matthew Dane for help, desperate for resolution to the mysteries and pain of her past and hoping for the freedom to begin a new life"--
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Ten years later, Katie, a struggling actress in New York, is still haunted by the tragedy. Her friend Carly remains in a coma, and Katie desperately wants to achieve success and stardom not only for herself but also for her two old friends. Her big chance comes when she is discovered and wins a major role in a Broadway play. A promising love affair adds to the excitement of working in the theater; but Katie must face...
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Brutally raped and murdered by a deceptively mild-mannered neighbor, Susie begins with a compelling description of her death. During the next ten years, she watches over her family and friends as they struggle to cope with her murder. She observes their disintegrating lives with compassion and occasionally attempts, sometimes successfully, to communicate her love to them. Although the lives of all who knew her well are shaped by her tragic death,...
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 11
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25-year LAPD veteran Harry Bosch comes back to the force after 3 years of retirement. This time, he and his partner, Kiz Rider, are working in "Open Unsolved," a top-notch homicide unit that applies new technology and cutting-edge investigative techniques to closed cases. The evidence (such as it is) is old, and the leads are far from fresh. Harry's first assignment involves a cold hit on a DNA sample from an unsolved 1998 crime: the disappearance...
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Detective Elouise Norton novels volume 1
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A skeptical Lou Norton of the Los Angeles police department investigates increasingly compelling parallels between the suspicious suicide of a teenage girl and the unsolved murder of Lou's sister.
6) Promise me
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Entertainment agent Myron Bolitar, determined to keep his friends' children safe in their last pressure-cooker months of high school, makes two neighborhood girls promise that if they are ever in a bind and afraid to call their parents, they will call him. A few nights later, one of the girls does call, and he takes her to where she says her friend lives. When the girl is reported missing the next day, and her parents learn that Myron was the last...
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There are excellent reasons why New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has won the Edgar®, Agatha, Anthony, Nero Wolfe, and every other major award the mystery genre has to offer. To the Power of Three is just one of those reasons. Lippman's brilliant and disturbing tale of three inseparable high school girlfriends in an affluent Baltimore suburb who share dark secrets literally until death, To the Power of Three is this "writing powerhouse"...
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When the strangled corpse of a nearly seventeen-year-old girl, a bright, gifted student, talented artist, and musician respected by her teachers and peers at an excellent all-girls church school, is discovered in a London park near her home, dressed like a tart, Slider and his team investigate.
9) After Anna
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"Nobody cuts deeper than family... Noah Alderman, a doctor and a widower, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie, and for the first time in a long time he and his son are happy. But their lives are turned upside down when Maggie's daughter Anna moves in with them. Anna is a gorgeous seventeen-year-old who balks at living under their rules though Maggie, ecstatic to have her daughter back, ignores the red flags that hint at the trouble that is brewing....
11) Breaker's reef
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c2005
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326 p. : map, ports. ; 22 cm.
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A Cape Refuge teenager is dead. Then another body is found ... will Sadie Caruso be the next to die?
12) 10th anniversary
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Women's Murder Club volume 10
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Detective Lindsay Boxer's long awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals, but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well. At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her...
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Searchers (Karen Ellis) volume 1
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2018.
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295 pages ; 25 cm.
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Racing against time to find a teenage girl who has gone missing from Queens, FBI agent Elsa Myers navigates a frustrating series of false leads while enduring the collapse of her own carefully compartmentalized world.
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2008
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227 p. ; 21 cm.
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When the corpse of a teenager turns up in an area known as the borderlands between the North and South of Ireland, Inspector Benedict Devlin heads up an investigation whose only clues are a gold ring placed on the girl's finger and an old photograph, but things are complicated by the killing of another teenager, and Devlin unearths a link between the killings.
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2022.
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343 pages ; 21 cm
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"Emily, a popular but bookish prep school senior, goes missing after a night out with friends. She was last seen leaving a party with Alex, a football player with a dubious reputation. But no one is talking. Now three mothers, Catherine, Leslie, and Morgan, friends turned frenemies, have their lives turned upside down as they are forced to look to their own children--and each other's--for answers to questions they don't want to ask."--
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Molly Blume series volume 4
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c2005
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xii, 333 p. ; 21 cm.
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Recently married true-crime writer Molly Blume is delighted with the success of her latest book, until an ardent fan, Reuben Jastrow, begins to show up at consecutive book signings, claiming that he needs Molly's help to find his missing daughter Hadassah, who has run away with a man she had met on the Internet.
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Penn Cage novels volume 2
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2005
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#1 New York Times bestselling author of Mississippi Blood and The Bone Tree keeps the secrets of the South alive in this "powerful...heartfelt...entirely gripping" (The Washington Post) novel of infatuation, murder, and sexual intrigue set in his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi.
When the nude body of a beautiful young female student is found near the Mississippi River, the entire community is shocked—but...
When the nude body of a beautiful young female student is found near the Mississippi River, the entire community is shocked—but...
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Frankie Elkin novels volume 1
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Frankie Elkin is a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will--searching out missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up and the public no longer remembers, Frankie starts looking. A new case brings her to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager who vanished from her high school....
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