Tag: Mystery

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    Some Kind of Wonderful Over 220 5-Star Reviews!

    #1 NYT Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy is known for her unforgettable stories, where ordinary people find extraordinary love–and where unexpected soulmates are sometimes found right next door…

    It’s the kind of story investigative reporter Matt Winters writes about – not the kind he wants to be living. When he discovers a newborn baby girl on his doorstep, he panics… then he desperately turns to his temptingly pretty neighbor Caitlyn Devereaux for help. After all, women are supposed to know everything about babies!

    Caitlyn’s natural sensuality intrigues Matt… and her aching vulnerability as she holds the precious bundle piques his curiosity. The wedding gowns she creates are famous for fulfilling every bride’s fantasies, yet she firmly says that marriage – and motherhood – are not for her. But her kisses suddenly have Matt dreaming of something wonderful – and soon he’s determined to get this reluctant woman to change her mind.

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    Son of Justice For more than a dozen years, Eli has studied the art of war from some of the most skilled fighters on three planets. There’s no question, he has what it takes to be a professional soldier.

    There’s just one problem. His father is General Grant Justice, the most famous man in the galaxy and leader of a new governmental alliance that unites four alien races.

    When it comes time to enlist, the younger Justice has to make a choice. Rely on his last name and claim an automatic commission as an officer? Or enter basic training as a lowly private and earn his way to the top?

    For Eli, the decision is an easy one. He changes his name and enlists as an anonymous recruit.

    Unfortunately, not all of life’s choices have such clear-cut answers. An alien-led rebellion is brewing in the ranks of the army he has just joined, and Eli is forced to choose sides. His actions will determine the fate of his father, the alliance, and the entire human race.

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    The Secret Ingredient Murders: A Eugenia Potter Mystery A DINNER TO DIE FOR

    Summoned from her Arizona ranch to take charge of her teenage great-nephew and his twin sister, Genia Potter takes a rental on the Rhode Island coast. Old acquaintance Stanley Parker is only too happy to welcome her. And soon Genia is busily preparing for the tasting party that she and Stanley are hosting that evening at her cottage.

    An avid cook and recipe collector, Stanley has already roped Genia into collaborating on The Secret Ingredient Cookbook, chock-full of Rhode Island culinary mysteries. Now is their chance to test some recipes and solicit others from each of the invited. Stanley has carefully selected six guests. And each has been asked to contribute a recipe with one secret ingredient.

    Genia asks no questions–until the lobster bisque is cold and all but one are present. Where is Stanley? Dead. And unlamented. Has one of the guests concocted a secret recipe for murder? Everyone has a motive. And everyone has a secret–including Genia’s troubled great-nephew, the prime suspect…

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    Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected--A Memoir (P.S.) Bloom is an inspiring and heartfelt memoir that celebrates the beauty found in the unexpected, the strength of a mother’s love, and, ultimately, the amazing power of perspective.

    The author of the popular blog Enjoying the Small Things, Kelle Hampton interweaves lyrical prose and stunning four-color photography as she recounts the unforgettable story of the first year in the life of her daughter Nella, who has Down syndrome.

    Poignant, eye-opening, and heart-soaring, Hampton’s Bloom is ultimately about embracing life and really living it.

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    Blurred Lines (Love Unexpectedly) Over 370 5-Star Reviews!

    Can a guy and a girl really be “just friends”?

    When Parker Blanton meets Ben Olsen during her freshman year of college, the connection is immediate—and platonic. Six years later, they’re still best friends, sharing an apartment in Portland’s trendy Northwest District as they happily settle into adult life. But when Parker’s boyfriend dumps her out of the blue, she starts to wonder about Ben’s no-strings-attached approach to dating. The trouble is, even with Ben as her wingman, Parker can’t seem to get the hang of casual sex—until she tries it with him.

    The arrangement works perfectly… at first. The sex is mind-blowing, and their friendship remains as solid as ever, without any of the usual messy romantic entanglements. But when Parker’s ex decides he wants her back, Ben is shocked by a fierce stab of possessiveness. And when Ben starts seeing a girl from work, Parker finds herself plagued by unfamiliar jealousy. With their friendship on the rocks for the first time, Parker and Ben face an alarming truth: Maybe they can’t go back. And maybe, deep down, they never want to.

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    Bruno, Chief of Police: A Novel of the French Countryside [1] (Bruno Chief Of Police) Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    Meet Benoît Courrèges, aka Bruno, a policeman in a small village in the South of France.  He’s a former soldier who has embraced the pleasures and slow rhythms of country life. He has a gun but never wears it; he has the power to arrest but never uses it.  But then the murder of an elderly North African who fought in the French army changes all that. 

    Now Bruno must balance his beloved routines—living in his restored shepherd’s cottage, shopping at the local market, drinking wine, strolling the countryside—with a politically delicate investigation.  He’s paired with a young policewoman from Paris and the two suspect anti-immigrant militants.  As they learn more about the dead man’s past, Bruno’s suspicions turn toward a more complex motive.

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    How to win friends & influence people You can go after the job you want…and get it! You can take the job you have…and improve it! You can take any situation you’re in…and make it work for you!

    Since its release in 1936, How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold more than 15 million copies. Dale Carnegie’s first book is a timeless bestseller, packed with rock-solid advice that has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives.

    As relevant as ever before, Dale Carnegie’s principles endure, and will help you achieve your maximum potential in the complex and competitive modern age.

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    Just What Kind of Mother Are You? Lisa Kallisto—overwhelmed working mother—is the not-so-perfect model of the modern woman. She holds down a busy job running an animal shelter, she cares for three demanding children, and she worries that her marriage isn’t getting enough attention.

    During an impossibly hectic week, Lisa takes her eye off the ball for a moment and her world descends into a living nightmare. Not only is her best friend’s thirteen-year-old daughter missing, but it’s Lisa’s fault. To make matters worse, Lucinda is the second teenage girl to disappear within the past two weeks. The first one turned up stripped bare and abandoned on the main street after a horrible ordeal.

    Wracked with guilt over her mistake, and after having been publicly blamed by Lucinda’s family, Lisa sets out to right the wrong. As she begins digging under the surface, Lisa learns that everything is not quite what it first appears to be.

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    Decimation: The Girl Who Survived How far would you go to save the human race?

    In 2017 a virus sweeps across the world and infects every living person. It lies dormant until a woman gives birth. Then she dies.
    Fifteen years later, nobody has survived childbirth since the outbreak began.

    Teenage wheelchair athlete Antimone, thought she would be competing in the 2032 Paralympics. Instead, she is nine months pregnant and commencing labour. When she unexpectedly survives, she becomes a vital clue in the race to develop a cure before the global population declines beyond the point of no return.

    But survival comes at a price. As her doctors try to understand why she is still alive, she must choose between preserving humanity’s future and protecting the life of her newborn child.

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    Nora & Kettle (A Paper Stars Novel Book 1) After World War II, orphaned Kettle faces prejudice as a Japanese American but manages to scrape by and care for his makeshift family of homeless children. When he crosses paths with the privileged but traumatized Nora, both of their lives are forever changed…

    Set in 1953, Nora and Kettle explores the collision of two teenagers facing extraordinary hardship. Their meeting is inevitable, devastating, and ultimately healing. Their stories, a collection of events, are each on their own harmless. But together, one after the other, they change the world.

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    The Return of Rafe MacKade: The MacKade Brothers, Book One Over 590 5-Star Reviews!

    Ten years after disappearing from Antietam, Maryland, the bad boy has returned. Cleaned up and successful now—and still dangerously good-looking, —Rafe MacKade sets the town on fire, and tongues wagging.

    Lovely newcomer Regan Jones is intrigued— what kind of man could cause this sort of talk? She’ s just about to find out…

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    Trackers: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Thriller From USA Today bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith comes a harrowing story of survival in a post-apocalyptic world.

    The end of the world is just the beginning of the hunt…

    Police Chief Marcus Colton and tracker Raven Spears have never liked one another, but when a young girl goes missing in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colton hires Spears to help find her. Their search ends after a night of devastating horror.

    When word comes that the nation has been hit by a coordinated electromagnetic pulse attack, Colton and Spears are forced to work together again. But they quickly realize they aren’t just tracking a killer–they are tracking a madman. As the United States descends into chaos, the hunters become the hunted…

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    Home Is Where Your Boots Are Heartbreak. Home. Gunshots. Former small town girl turned big city lawyer Lilly Atkins has tidily checked off her adult to-do list.

    Prestigious law degree Flourishing career Designer wardrobe Well-bred fiancé In a moment of cliché, her list gets whipped out the window. And run over a few times. So she heads home to Brooks where the creek is cool and the gossip is always hot. With nothing better to do, Lilly sets up shop to work off her broken heart.

    Before the paint can dry, her former flame, Dr. Cash Stetson, shows up requesting representation. For his divorce. Two new clients involve a possible negligent homicide and the desecration of human remains, both cases stemming from the local hospital. Run by Cash. When her not so unrequited love’s wife turns up dead, Lilly begins to wonder if the former bad-boy is up to no good.

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    The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (P.S.) Over 520 5-Star Reviews!

    The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is the immensely engaging and inspiring true account of an enterprising African teenager who constructed a windmill from scraps to create electricity for his entire community.

    William Kamkwamba shares the remarkable story of his youth in Malawi, Africa—a nation crippled by intense poverty, famine, and the AIDS plague—and how, with tenacity and imagination, he built a better life for himself, his family, and his village. The poignant and uplifting story of Kamkwamba’s inspiration and personal triumph, co-written with Bryan Mealer, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind has already won ringing praise from former Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore as well as Paolo Coelho, internationally bestselling author of The Alchemist.

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    Grave Mistake (Codex Blair Book 1) Screw Up. Outcast. Wizard.

    I am Blair Sheach, and my life will never be the same. New found powers don’t make a hero overnight, but somehow I’ve become the last line of defense for the city of London. Vampires and demons crawl the streets, magic cops suck at keeping them in line, and the easy job I took to pay my rent has turned into something far more complicated. The cheating deadbeat my client hired me to find just so happens to be the necromancer hell bent on destroying London, and it’s up to me to stop him.

    I’m out of luck and out of time. And to save my city, the decision I have to make is one I can’t take back.

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    50 Harbor Street (A Cedar Cove Novel) From Bestselling Author Debbie Macomber!

    Olivia Lockhart-Griffin 
    Cedar Cove, Washington 

    Dear Reader, 

    Believe it or not, we have another mystery in Cedar Cove! This one, ironically enough, involves the McAfees—Roy, who’s a private investigator, and his wife, Corrie. They’ve been receiving anonymous postcards and messages asking if they "regret the past." Corrie says she has no idea what any of it means…. 

    On a more positive note, they’re both delighted that their daughter, Linnette, has moved to Cedar Cove to work at the new medical clinic. And when Corrie attended the humane society’s "Dog and Bachelor Auction," she bought Linnette a date with Cal Washburn, who works at Cliff Harding’s horse farm. Unfortunately, Linnette seems less enthusiastic about this than Corrie is. 

    Speaking of Cliff, the romance between him and Grace Sherman is back on. But that’s only one of the many interesting stories here in town. Corrie’s invited you and me for a coffee at the McAfee house—that’s 50 Harbor Street—and we’ll tell you everything we know! 

    Olivia

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    Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs Edgar Award Finalist: The “sensational” true story of two desperate housewives and the killing that shocked a Texas community (Los Angeles Times Book Review).

    Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the north Dallas suburbs known as Silicon Prairie. But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires.
     
    On a hot summer day in 1980, the secret passions and jealousies that linked Candy and Betty exploded into murderous rage. What happened next is usually the stuff of fiction. But the bizarre and terrible act of violence that occurred in Betty’s utility room that morning was all too real.
     
    Based on exclusive interviews with the Gore and Montgomery families, Evidence of Love is the “superbly written” account of a gruesome tragedy and the trial that made national headlines when the defendant entered the most unexpected of pleas: not guilty by reason of self-defense…

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    A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel Over 2,000 5-Star Reviews!

    I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice – not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother’s death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.

    In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old best friends are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy’s mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn’t believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God’s instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary and terrifying.

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    The Faerie Guardian (Creepy Hollow Book 1) Enter a hidden world of magic, mystery, danger and romance in this YA fantasy from bestselling author, Rachel Morgan…

    Protecting humans from dangerous magical creatures is all in a day’s work for a faerie training to be a guardian. Seventeen-year-old Violet Fairdale knows this better than anyone – she’s about to become the best guardian the Guild has seen in years. That is, until a cute human boy who can somehow see through her faerie glamour follows her into the fae realm. Now she’s broken Guild Law, a crime that could lead to her expulsion.

    The last thing Vi wants to do is spend any more time with the boy who got her into this mess, but the Guild requires that she return Nate to his home and make him forget everything he’s discovered of the fae realm. Easy, right? Not when you factor in evil faeries, long-lost family members, and inconvenient feelings of the romantic kind. Vi is about to find herself tangled up in a dangerous plot – and it’ll take all her training to get out of it alive.

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    Dead in Their Tracks (Mitch Kearns Combat Tracker Series Book 1) FBI Agent Mitch Kearns had just finished teaching a mantracking course and was looking forward to time off when the daughter of a former mentor shows up on his doorstep in desperate need of help. The Aeneid Corporation, a military contractor that provides mercenaries to third-world governments, wants Devorah Leitner dead and the secrets she carries buried.

    With his life taking a drastic turn as the two are pursued by trained killers through the desert, Mitch has to use every trick in his arsenal as a former combat tracker to elude their pursuers until they can thwart the sinister plot to launch a terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

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  • Book of the Day: Wish You Were Here: A Mrs. Murphy Cat Mystery

    Wish You Were Here: A Mrs. Murphy MysteryWish You Were Here: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
    by Rita Mae Brown

    Curiosity just might be the death of Mrs. Murphy–and her human companion, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen.  Small towns are like families:  Everyone lives very close together… and everyone keeps secrets.  

    Crozet, Virginia, is a typical small town-until its secrets explode into murder.  Crozet’s thirty-something post-mistress, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, has a tiger cat (Mrs. Murphy) and a Welsh Corgi (Tucker), a pending divorce, and a bad habit of reading postcards not addressed to her.  When Crozet’s citizens start turning up murdered, Harry remembers that each received a card with a tombstone on the front and the message "Wish you were here" on the back.  Intent on protecting their human friend, Mrs. Murphy and Tucker begin to scent out clues.  Meanwhile, Harry is conducting her own investigation, unaware her pets are one step ahead of her.  If only Mrs. Murphy could alert her somehow, Harry could uncover the culprit before the murder occurs–and before Harry finds herself on the killer’s mailing list.

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