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Detective Lou Eisenfall likes to keep the peace in his wealthy Napa Valley town. He does not like problems, but now he has two of them. John Manis, aka Johnny Manic--charming, stylish, impulsive, and reckless--has just rolled into town with a flashy car and a success story that doesn't add up. Marilyn Dupree, passionate and volatile, wants out of her marriage to the town's richest man. Johnny and Marilyn have a chemistry like nitrogen and glycerine,...
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A missing child. A broken community. A horrifying secret. When a baby is kidnapped in broad daylight with no witnesses, an otherwise sleepy suburb is rocked by scandal and ten-year-old Flora Lanyon is terrified. Decades later, Flora takes a job as a live-in carer for elderly couple, Agnes and Abraham, moving into the decrepit watermill where they live. As strange and unexplainable occurrences start to happen, Flora grows increasingly suspicious. What...
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"Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, leaving Sara bereft with grief. But Aunt Rosie's death also opens an escape from her life and a window into the past by way of a plane ticket to Sicily, a deed to a possibly valuable plot of land, and a bombshell family secret. Rosie believes Sara's great-grandmother Serafina, the family matriarch...
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"The police call him Merkury. He's a killer who chooses his victims seemingly at random. He leaves no evidence behind, and no witnesses. Except for one. When Kate Summerlin was eleven years old, she climbed out her bedroom window on a spring night, looking for a taste of freedom in the small college town where she was living with her parents. But what she found as she wandered in the woods near her house was something else: the body of a beautiful...
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Hard Case Crime book volume 133
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Titan Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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"An innocent woman lies dead in the street, felled by a stray bullet. Now it's up to the woman who killed her to pick up the threads of her victim's life, carrying out a mission of vengeance on her behalf against the man she loved and lost--and the nightclub-singing femme fatale who drove them apart."--
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Baen Publishing Enterprises
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2024.
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""It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able to preserve with our own strength." -Subhas Chandra Bose. Lieutenant Brandy Bolgeo has come home from the Battle of Hancock station wounded in both body and spirit. She will need months to regenerate her lost leg, but how long will it take to heal her heart? She's come home to find that her wounds, her ship's...
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[Publisher not indicated]
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2023.
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1934: the bank panics are over, unemployment is down to twenty-one percent, and the Oklahoma dirt deposited by the latest Dust Bowl storm has been washed from the windows. From her office in Washington, DC, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in a president's cabinet, fights to enact Social Security. She is demonized by Republicans, communists, businessmen, and union organizers alike. FDR supports her one minute and leaves...
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Titania
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2024.
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"Hallie Welch se enamoró perdidamente de Julian Vos a los catorce años, cuando estuvieron a punto de besarse en los viñedos de su familia. Ahora el atractivo Julian ha regresado al valle de Napa, y cuando contratan a Hallie para renovar los jardines de la finca familiar, ella se pregunta si por fin podrá conseguir ese ansiado beso. Pero el rígido profesor poco tiene que ver con el adolescente que ella recuerda y sus personalidades, ahora radicalmente...
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