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Serge Storms, that loveable thermonuclear vigilante and one-stop-Florida-trivia-shop, has been leaving corpses strewn across the Sunshine State for more than a decade. The authorities---especially one tenacious state agent---have begun to notice the exponential body count, and send a police task force to track down Serge. Could his luck finally have run out? Meanwhile, armed with his perpetually baked sidekick, Coleman, Serge decides to blitz the...
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Welcome to Paradise! Freshly laid-off Wisconsinites Patrick and Barbara McDougall are going to sunny Florida for a modest romantic vacation. But the motel they picked isn't quite pastel paradise, and they have to be midwesterners and make the best of a bad situation. Except bad goes to worse, and a string of misfortunes renders them unable to leave the state. Meanwhile, the next Mexican-American War is being fought, this time in Fort Lauderdale, between...
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Who is the racketeer? And what does he have to do with the judge's untimely demise? His name is Malcolm Bannister, a former attorney now incarcerated at the Federal Prison Camp near Frostburg, Maryland. When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge...
4) Tangerine
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After the accident at Bennington, the two friends--once inseparable roommates--haven't spoken in over a year.
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She was gorgeous, sixteen, and rich, and---when Atlanta cop Frank Clemons got involved with her---she was dead. Even as a corpse, Angelica Devereaux is beautiful, and as enigmatic as the means by which she met her violent end. After the shattering suicide of his own teen-aged daughter, the Devereaux case is the last thing Clemons needs. But, like everybody whose life is touched by Angelica's, Frank cannot escape her irresistible allure--even from...
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When The Cookie Jar becomes the setting of a star-studded TV special about movies filmed in Minnesota, Hannah hopes to shine the spotlight on her bakery--not the unsavory scandal swirling around her personal life. But that's practically impossible with a disturbing visit from a shifty character she once believed was her one and only love, a group of bodyguards following her every move, and a murder victim in her bedroom. Now, swapping the crime scene...
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Life in Lake Eden, Minnesota, is usually pleasantly uneventful. Lately, though, it seems everyone has more than their fair share of drama to manage. With so much on her plate, Hannah Swensen can barely find the time to think about her bakery - let alone the town's most recent murder... Hannah is nervous about the upcoming trial for her involvement in a tragic accident. She's eager to clear her name once and for all, but her troubles only double when...
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Lucy Sharpe is magnetic, addictive, bold, and dangerous. Margot, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at college, is the shy one, always the sidekick and never the center of attention. But when Lucy singles her out and asks her to room together, something in Margot can't say no. And so Margot finds herself living in an off-campus house with three other girls, Lucy, the ringleader; Sloane, the sarcastic one; and Nicole, the nice one. Margot...
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" For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe that she would be abandoned as a young child, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice's old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries...
10) Past due
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Victor Carl volume 4
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A man who lives his life in shades of gray, doing all the wrong things for all the right reasons. A criminal defense attorney who stands by a client no matter what. Even if that happens to be dead. Like Joey Cheaps, who just took a knife to the throat down on the waterfront. But not before he told Victor a terrible secret--one that will lead Victor to a treacherous investigation involving a missing suitcase stuffed with money, a Supreme Court justice,...
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Thanks to the growth of the Internet, America finds itself plagued by a noxious epidemic of ruthless scam artists. Where do they all come from? If you guessed 110 percent of them are spawned in Florida, you win the cigar. . . When a new digital scheme goes horribly awry--causing innocents to die and a young woman to go missing--only one person can set things right: obsessive Florida trivia buff and reluctant serial killer Serge Storms. Aided by his...
12) The Heist
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An Isaac Bell Adventure volume 14
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1914. As America's century of dominance dawns, he country's greatest detective, Van Dorn agent Isaac Bell, is pitted against a master thief and his accomplice. They're plotting to pull off the theft of a billion dollars from the newly created Federal Reserve. When an aerial attack is launched against Woodrow Wilson's yacht, Bell thwarts it, only to find that the strike was just the opening of an even deadlier gambit. The deeper Bell delves into the...
13) Three-inch teeth
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A Joe Pickett novel volume 24
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"A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage--killing, among others, the potential fianc�e of Joe's daughter. At the same time, Dallas Cates, who Joe helped lock up years ago, is released from prison with a special list tattooed on his skin. He wants revenge on the people who sent him away: the six people he blames for the deaths of his entire family and the loss of his reputation and property. Using the grizzly attacks as cover, Cates sets out to...
14) Where you end
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When twenty-two-year-old Kat Bird wakes up from a coma, she sees Jude, her twin sister. Jude's face and name are the only memories Kat has from before her accident. As Kat tries to relearn her history and identity, she trusts Jude will provide the answers. Growing up in a New Age cult, isolated from society, the girls studied poetry and literature but also played dangerous games with dark lessons that followed them into adulthood. Now, with Kat's...
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While business is booming at the ScotShop in Hamelin, Vermont, proprietor Peggy Winn doesn't have time to toast her good fortune thanks to her hot-tempered fourteenth-century Scottish companion. Being thrust into the modern world hasn't been easy for Dirk, and Peggy is at her wit's end trying to keep the ghostly galoot in line. But when local police chief finds the body of Peggy's friend Karaline's college professor in a deserted mountain cabin, everyone...
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An atmospheric debut novel set on the gritty streets of Victorian London, Some Danger Involved introduces detective Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, as they work to solve the gruesome murder of a young scholar in London's Jewish ghetto. When the eccentric and enigmatic Barker takes the case, he must hire an assistant, and out of all who answer an ad for a position with "some danger involved," he chooses downtrodden Llewelyn, a gutsy...
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October 1942: it's been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. Since then, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney, her former handler, drags her back into the fray for a risky three-pronged mission in Paris. Each task is more dangerous than the last: Deliver...
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September 1943. Berlin is the last place Dr. Elin Lund wishes to be. An expert in psychological profiling, She's been summoned from Copenhagen to investigate the gruesome murders of eight young women. Even in the midst of unspeakable evil, these killings stand out. And with her homeland under Nazi occupation and a young son to protect, Elin can't refuse such a request. Racing to complete the investigation and return to her son, Elin feels the net...
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Defense Attorney Robin Lockwood is summoned by retired District Attorney Francis Melville to meet with him at Black Oaks, the manor he owns up in the Oregon mountains. The manor has an interesting history----originally built in 1628 in England, there's a murderous legend and curse attached to the mansion. Melville, however, wants Lockwood's help in a legal matter---righting a wrongful conviction from his days as a DA.
20) The grey wolf
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"The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. Reine-Marie watches with increasing unease as her husband refuses to pick up, though he clearly...