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1. Five found dead

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Author:
Gentill, Sulari
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Poisoned Pen Press
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"After a brutal year battling what should have been a terminal cancer diagnosis, mystery author Joe Penvale and his twin sister Meredith decide to celebrate this new beginning with a holiday on the famed Orient Express. Joining them in carriage 16 are a medically retired French police detective, a female British detective inspector, a travel blogger and her husband, two true crime podcasters who are seeking an interview with Joe, a widowed duchess,...

2. Sandra Nichols Found Dead

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Author:
Higgins, George V.
Series:
Jerry Kennedy volume 4
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English
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A dead body discovered in a rural Massachusetts wetland turns out to belong to a woman with a past: Sandra Nichols, missing for seven months. Wrongful death? Murder one? We'll leave that to Jerry Kennedy. Judge Henry Lawler has his own reasons for appointing classmate Jerry Kennedy to try the case of the Estate of Sandra Nichols v. Peter Wade, on behalf of Sandra's three orphaned children. An old hand at criminal cases, Jerry makes an exception for...

3. The racketeer

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Author:
Grisham, John
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900L
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English
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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 and why. Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only...

4. The family upstairs

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Author:
Jewell, Lisa
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"Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she's been waiting for her entire life ... She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London's fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby's life is about to change. But what she can't possibly know is that others have...

5. One of us is lying

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Author:
McManus, Karen M.
Series:
One of us is lying volume 1
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English
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Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule. Sports star Cooper only knows what he's doing in the baseball diamond. Bad body Nate is one misstep away from a life of crime. Prom queen Addy is holding together the cracks in her perfect life. And outsider Simon, creator of the notorious gossip app at Bayview High, won't ever talk about any of them again. He dies 24 hours before he could post their deepest secrets online. Investigators conclude...

6. If something happens to me: a novel

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Finlay, Alex
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"For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open. The crushing blow to the head. The hands yanking him from the vehicle. His girlfriend Ali's piercing scream as she is taken. With no trace of Ali or the car, a cloud of suspicion hangs over Ryan. But with no proof and a good lawyer, he's never charged, though that doesn't matter to the podcasters and internet trolls. Now, Ryan has changed his last...

7. Spawn

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Author:
McFarlane, Todd
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Image Comics
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Beginning The Satan Saga Wars! The Four-Part Story Chronicling The Final Fate Of Wanda Simmons Soul! This Story Will Forever Change The Way Spawn Will Live His Life! In the entire run of the Spawn comic, our hero has never had to face his greatest threat: Satan himself! Starting with this issue, Al Simmons will come face to face with Lucifer for the very first time. A battle of epic proportion will begin and the prize Wanda's soul. This story will...

8. The stranger in the lifeboat: a novel

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Author:
Albom, Mitch, 1958-
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After a deadly ship explosion, nine people, adrift in a raft, struggle to survive at sea and pull a strange man from the sea who claims to be the Lord.

9. "J" is for judgment

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Author:
Grafton, Sue
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G.K. Hall large print for young readers
Kinsey Millhone
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 10
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English
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While investigating the reappearance of the long-presumed-dead Wendell Jaffe on behalf of the insurance company that paid out on his death, Kinsey Millhone uncovers some unpleasant truths about her own family in the process.

10. The rising tide

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Author:
Cleeves, Ann
Series:
Vera Stanhope volume 10
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English
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For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebrating the school trip where they met, and the friend that they lost to the rising causeway tide five years later. Now, when one of them is found hanged, Vera is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends are hiding, and whether the events of many years before...

11. Friends, lovers, and the big terrible thing: a memoir

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Author:
Perry, Matthew, 1969-2023
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Thorndike Press large print nonfiction
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English
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"The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistence In an extraordinary story that only he could tell, Matthew Perry takes readers onto the soundstage of the most successful sitcom of all time while opening up about his private struggles with addiction. Candid, self-aware, and told with his trademark...

12. Robert B. Parker's the Devil wins

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Author:
Coleman, Reed Farrel, 1956-
Series:
Jesse Stone novel
Thorndike Press large print core
Jesse Stone novels volume 14
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English
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4.3 stars
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"In the wake of a huge storm, three bodies are discovered in the rubble of an abandoned factory building in an industrial part of Paradise known as The Swap. One body, a man’s, wrapped in a blue tarp, is only hours old. But found within feet of that body are the skeletal remains of two teenage girls who had gone missing during a Fourth of July celebration twenty-five years earlier. Not only does that crime predate Jesse Stone’s arrival in Paradise,...

13. The cold dish

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Author:
Johnson, Craig, 1961-
Series:
Walt Longmire mystery volume 1
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English
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When a local boy is found dead near the North Cheyenne reservation, most people assume it was an isolated incident, but when Sheriff Walt Longmire launches an investigation, he discovers that two years earlier, the dead boy and three other high school boys had been given suspended sentences for raping a Cheyenne girl. Soon, a second boy is gunned down, and only Sheriff Longmire can keep the other two safe.

14. Dry bones

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Author:
Johnson, Craig, 1961-
Series:
Walt Longmire mystery volume 11
Thorndike Press large print mystery
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English
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Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire recruits a team of helpers to investigate the murder of a rancher whose body has been found near a T. rex fossil that is claimed by multiple parties.

15. The thirty nine steps

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Author:
Buchan, John, 1875-1940
Series:
Great classic
Vintage Classics
Richard Hannay volume 1
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1000L
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English
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May 1914. Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger he stumbles into a hair-raising adventure - a desperate hunt across the country and against the clock, pursued by the police and a cunning, ruthless enemy. Hannay's life and the security of Britain are in grave peril, and everything rests on the solution to a baffling enigma: what are the thirty-nine...

16. The mother-in-law: Sally Hepworth

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Author:
Hepworth, Sally
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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"A twisty, compelling new novel about one woman's complicated relationship with her mother-in-law that ends in death... From the moment Lucy met her husband's mother, Diana, she was kept at arm's length. Diana was exquisitely polite, and properly friendly, but Lucy knew that she was not what Diana envisioned. But who could fault Diana? She was a pillar of the community, an advocate for social justice who helped female refugees assimilate to their...

17. Play dirty

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Author:
Brown, Sandra, 1948-
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After five long years in federal prison, Griff Burkett is a free man. But the disgraced Cowboys quarterback can never return to life as he knew it before he was caught cheating. In a place where football is practically a religion, Griff committed a cardinal sin, and no one is forgiving. Foster Speakman, owner and CEO of SunSouth Airlines, and his wife, Laura, are a golden couple. Successful and wealthy, they lived a charmed life before fate cruelly...

18. Twelfth night

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Author:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Series:
New Penguin Shakespeare
Shakespeare appreciated
Timeless Shakespeare
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English
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An overview of Shakespeare's theatrical career, commentary on past productions, and a scene-by-scene analysis accompany Shakespeare's play about unrequited love and mistaken identity.

19. The frozen river: a novel

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Author:
Lawhon, Ariel
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"A gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who found herself at the center of a murder trial"--

20. Bright young women

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Knoll, Jessica
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"The book opens on a Saturday night in 1978, hours before a soon-to-be-infamous murderer descends upon a Florida sorority house with deadly results. The lives of those who survive, including sorority president and key witness, Pamela Schumacher, are forever changed. Across the country, Tina Cannon is convinced her missing friend was targeted by the man papers refer to as the All-American Sex Killer--and that he's struck again. Determined to find justice,...
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