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On a very hot morning in Southern California, Tim Ryder brings his coffee out to the front porch. Before he can take a sip, he sees the dead body of a young man laid out on his lawn. Neither Tim nor his wife, Deirdre, has ever seen the man before, but the youth's death stirs up unhappy memories of the lives they were living twenty-years earlier.
Up to this point, they had done a good job of leaving behind their troubled pasts. Deirdre overcame her...
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First published in 1927, "Oil!" is an unflinching portrayal of greed and betrayal by Pulitzer Prize winning author Upton Sinclair. Famous for his groundbreaking work "The Jungle", which exposed the horribly unsafe conditions in the American meatpacking industry, Sinclair turned his critical eye toward the immorality of the emerging oil-drilling business. Set in Southern California and inspired by the Teapot Dome Scandal, "Oil!" follows the fortunes...
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Savannah Reid is hired to investigate when eighty-year-old matriarch Helene Strauss has several brushes with death, and while she finds plenty of friends and family members who want to inherit Helene's money, things get really complicated when two key players turn up dead.
11) Ticktock
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Ballantine Books
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1997
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English
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Tommy Phan, a thirty-year-old Vietnamese-American detective novelist, is forced to run for his life when the odd rag doll he found lying on his doorstep turns into an indestructible reptilian creature with evil intent.
12) No Harm
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
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[2011]
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After her mother's savage murder, Kate Teague becomes the killer's next target Ash falls on the cemetery like grey snow, blown in from a wildfire that burns a mile off. A crowd has turned out to watch Kate bury her mother, not because they loved her -- nobody loved her -- but out of curiosity. This town has never seen a murder so brutal. Suspecting a mugging gone wrong, the police comb the area for drug addicts. But then they find the rich old lady's...
13) The Grudge
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
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[2021]
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English
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"This crime novel from the authors of The Man Who Followed Women features two Los Angeles railroad detectives and explosive suspense. Tommy Collins has escaped from a midwestern prison, using dynamite to blast his way out -- and killing a nurse in the process. The explosion was felt over a thousand miles away, where Tommy's sister lives in fear in Los Angeles. She has squirreled her mother and younger sister away, afraid Tommy will come after them...
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Bantam Books
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2007
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
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Amy Redwing has dedicated her life to the southern California organization she founded to rescue abandoned and endangered golden retrievers. No one is surprised when Amy risks her life to save Nickie, nor when she takes the female golden into her home. The bond between Amy and Nickie is immediate and uncanny. Even her two other goldens, Fred and Ethel, recognize Nickie as special, a natural alpha. But the instant joy Nickie brings is shadowed by a...
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Thomas & Mercer
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2020.
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Best friends Lindsey, Kendra, and Dani endure every parent's nightmare when a tragic accident befalls their teenage boys, leaving one dead, another in a coma, and a third too traumatized to speak. Reeling from the worst night of their lives, the three mothers plunge into a desperate investigation of the bizarre incident. How could something so horrible happen in their wealthy Southern California suburb? They soon discover that the accident was just...
17) Rouge: a novel
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Marysue Rucci Books
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2023.
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English
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"For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother's considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother's demise, followed by a cryptic...
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