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2) The widow
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Kate Waters novels (Fiona Barton) volume 1
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"Following the twists and turns of an unimaginable crime, The Widow is an electrifying debut thriller that will take you into the dark spaces that exist between a husband and a wife. When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband to carry on when more bad things began to happen. . . But that woman's husband died last week. And Jean doesn't have to be her anymore. There's a lot...
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In Death series volume 42
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Sometimes brotherhood can be another word for conspiracy. . . Dennis Mira just had two unpleasant surprises. First he learned that his cousin Edward was secretly meeting with a real estate agent about their late grandfather's magnificent West Village brownstone, despite the promise they both made to keep it in the family. Then, when he went to the house to confront Edward about it, he got a blunt object to the back of the head. Luckily Dennis is...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
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In this book, the author, deadliest sniper in U.S. history tracks down and shoots the ten most important American firearms, from a flintlock rifle to a Colt revolver to the latest high-tech weapon he used as a Navy SEAL. He uses these guns as a window on United States history, making the sweeping argument that the American story has been tied to and shaped by the gun. He revisits turning points in American history, including the single sniper shot...
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Wolf Stockburn novels volume 1
Wolf Stockburn railroad detective volume 1
[Wolf Stockburn Railroad Detective] volume 1
Wolf Stockburn railroad detective volume 1
[Wolf Stockburn Railroad Detective] volume 1
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"The newspapers call them the Devil's Horde. A well oiled team of cutthroat bandits who terrorize the Northern Pacific Railway on route to the coast through Dakota Territory. They dynamite the tracks, blow open the express car door, murder the crewmen, rob the passengers, and empty the safe of gold and cash. If Wells Fargo & Company can't find a way to stop the Devil's Horde, there'll be hell to pay... Enter Wolf Stockburn. A tall rangy Scotsman...
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2013.
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"Sarah Brandt is shattered when she learns that a woman has inquired at Hope's Daughters Mission for Catherine, the abandoned child she has taken as her daughter. The woman claims she was Catherine's nursemaid, now acting on behalf of the girl's mother to reunite them. Unwilling to simply hand Catherine over to a complete stranger, Sarah asks Malloy to investigate. But when he goes to interview the woman at her tenement in Chelsea, he finds she has...
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2014.
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Police detective Andrea Finch is a rising star in her department until a split-second decision derails her career. Disgraced and disillusioned, shes on leave from her job when she gets an urgent call from her younger brother. Shed prefer to ignore his latest plea for cash, but this time instinct tells her something is very wrong. Andreas search for answers takes her to a dusty Texas border town where danger lurks in plain sight and nothing is quite...
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 54
Pub. Date
1994
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"Robert Goldsborough returns with his seventh stunning Nero Wolfe novel. Follow along into Wolfe's famed West Thirty-fifth Street brownstone, where the corpulent orchid-tending genius devours meals, books, and murderers with a passion - and where this time he gets the chance to send a writer's killer to the pen." "Charles Childress, the author tapped to continue the beloved Sergeant Barnstable detective stories when the originator died, may not have...