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Ernest Cunningham volume 1
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English
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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"Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let's get started"--...
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Pub. Date:
2023
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Other
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"Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let's get started"--...
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Series:
Ernest Cunningham volume 2
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
"On a famous Australian train between Darwin and Adelaide for the Mystery Writers' Society one of the attendees is murdered for real in the new mystery from the author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone"--
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830L
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English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"When four best friends with a hunger for human flesh attend a music festival in the desert they discover a murderous plot to expose and vilify the girls and everyone like them. This summer is going to get gory."--Publisher's description.
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Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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"Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone meets The Goonies in The Treasure Hunters Club-a rollicking murder mystery set in a seaside town filled with pirate lore, family secrets, unforgiveable grudges, secret societies, and of course, a treasure lost totime. Welcome to Maple Bay, Nova Scotia. For nearly a century, people have ventured to the idyllic seaside town of Maple Bay in search of a legendary lost pirate treasure, but locals know there's more...
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Classic tales of changing lives and loves from one of Russia's greatest playwrights, a master of the modern short story. Morality, philosophy, and science merge in "The Duel," the classic tale of transformation in which educated Russian aristocrat Ivan Andreitch Laevsky falls in love with the married Nadya Fyodorovna and runs off to the Black Sea with her. As their passion wanes, Nadya turns to other men for comfort, while Ivan indulges in heavy drinking...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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"This is a very difficult letter to write. I hope you will not hate us too much... My son broke into your home recently while you were out." In a quiet, leafy suburb in upstate New York, a teenager has been sneaking into houses--and into the owners' computers as well--learning their secrets, and maybe sharing some of them, too. Who is he, and what might he have uncovered? After two anonymous letters are received, whispers start to circulate, and suspicion...
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Series:
Secret Histories volume 6
Language:
English
Description:
"The name is Bond, Shaman Bond. Better known as Drood, Eddie Drood. Yes, I'm one of those Droods--the family who've been keeping the forces of evil contained in the shadows for as long as humans have walked the earth. Recently I suffered a slight case of death, but thanks to Molly, my best girl (who happens to be a powerful witch), I got over that right quick. Unfortunately my family wasn't so lucky. In my absence, Drood Hall was destroyed and all...
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Language:
English
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This is a boxset of books 7-9 in The Father Tom Mysteries. Meet Father Tom Greer and Detective Helen Parr, former lovers reunited after twenty years, as they solve crimes old and new--and explore the profound mysteries of the human heart. The Purloined Paintings (Book 7)--Detective Helen Parr is recovering from being shot in Leslie Williams' basement and is anxious to get back to work. With the police department in the hands of Acting Chief Detective...
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RAFFERTY & LLEWELLYN BRITISH MYSTERY SERIES #2'I have fallen in love with her slow-paced but interesting books.'For those who like mysteries, with Detectives who have a sense of humour. When beautiful Barbara Longman is found murdered in a meadow, uprooted wildflowers strewn about her, and, in her hand, a single marigold, British Detective Joe Rafferty at first believes the murder may be the work of the serial killer over the county border in Suffolk....
11. The Fall
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Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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'The term pageturner was made for books like this' Andrea Mara 'Thoroughly addictive, The Fall is full of twists you won't see coming' Kathryn Croft She promised not to tell. They made sure she couldn't… At her surprise 40th birthday party, Kate Granger feels like the luckiest woman in the world but just hours later her fifteen-year-old daughter, Caily, is found unconscious underneath a bridge when she should have been at school. Now, Caily lies...
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
A fact-based novel of what happens to a family and a community when a soldier is killede. If you look at the Vietnam War Memorial you will see the name of a Marine named Michael Conroy who was killed in Vietnam. Our middle initials were different but we were both of the same rank and in the same division. Due to an error, my family was notified that I has been killed. The news had an astonishing impact upon everyone who knew me, from the extended...
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HarperCollins Publishers
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English
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If they knew the truth, there'd be no going back . . . Nobody in Barbara Marsden's family knows about her past, least of all her daughter Helen. But someone wants the truth to come out. When Helen discovers a sinister note at Barbara's house, she can't understand who would want to threaten her mother. She's determined to find out who sent it, but soon realises her search might hurt her own family and put Barbara at risk… What really happened all...
14. Headcase
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Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Timothy Blake returns in a tense, unputdownable thriller from the author of Hangman. A Chinese astronaut is found dead in a NASA training environment in Houston, Texas. No one can explain how he got there. Amid fears of a diplomatic catastrophe, the CIA dispatches Timothy 'Hangman' Blake to investigate a convicted kidnapper who works in the facility - someone Blake put away seven years ago. Blake is deeply insane, afflicted by terrible urges he can...
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Publisher:
ValmoreDaniels.com
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Description:
Angel Fire My name is Darcy Anderson, and I am cursed with a dark power: Whenever my life is in danger, something inside me summons elemental fire to protect me. I cannot control this. One night, I was attacked in my home. The fire ... it raged out of control. I survived the inferno, but my house burned to the ground - with my parents inside. I was at a loss to explain to the courts what happened, and so they sent me to prison for ten years for manslaughter....
16. Nitro
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Publisher:
Kj Dahlen
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
Hell's Fire Riders MC, the Devils Advocates & the Crimson Tide, all join in Born Of DesperationNitroWhen I went to war, I expected to find myself in hell but hell was so much more than bombs going off and being shot at by the enemy. It came from all sides and when the smoke cleared, we found the real horrors of war when we found the guns the enemy were using… were our own.We tracked them as far as we could over there and when the military was done...
17. Head Rush
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Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Rush All I want is to finish college, live life as a musician, and love the man of my dreams. That man, however, is Simon Manos, nephew of crime boss Christopher Manos, and there's a war brewing on the streets of Haven Hart. Achieving my dreams has to be done while ducking bullets, trying not to get blown up, and hoping enemies don't kill me. Simon I love Rush and want him to have everything he could ever hope for-all that his father denied him. As...
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Publisher:
Pearl Tate
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
MihileI hate being trapped underground. With the planet Quasar uninhabitable on the surface, my entire life has been spent without sunlight. Since I was born blind, it's kind of fitting. With my lack of vision and light skin and hair, I represent not only the most unique features of our species, but also the most shunned. Even with my political connections, I have few friends and no female prospects for any kind of commitment. I think I'll always...
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Publisher:
Maggie Thom
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
Four women are unknowingly caught up in a web of secrets, lies and deceit.Four women are determined to get their lives back.Four women find themselves having to do the unthinkable. Captured LiesBailey is not who she thought she was. Confused, she travels back through her recently deceased mother's past to find answers. What she discovers is eye opening and deadly. Everyone has a story who is telling the truth and who wants her dead? (Book 1 of The...
20. Hush hush
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Series:
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
On a searing August day, Melisandre Harris Dawes committed the unthinkable: she left her two-month-old daughter locked in a car while she sat nearby on the shores of the Patapsco River. Melisandre was found not guilty by reason of criminal insanity, although there was much skepticism about her mental state. Freed, she left the country, her husband and her two surviving children, determined to start over. But now Melisandre has returned to Baltimore...