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1) Winter Kill
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The winter around Cheyenne, Wyoming, is devastating, killing both people and livestock. John Henry Cole lives three miles out of town on his small ranch, where he waits out the storm that is quickly killing his cattle and horses. Everything he owns is dying before his eyes, and there isn't anything he can do about it. His dreams of a settled life are as dead as everything else. He knows it's time to move on, and move on he does -- but not in the direction...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
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[2015]
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English
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You can never escape your past ... ' The Lies We Tell has a sense of tension and skewed reality from page one. Delightfully creepy and skilfully plotted ... it's a can't-wait-to-get-back-to-it book and I thoroughly enjoyed it.' Hilary Boyd, author of Thursdays in the Park. 'After a dramatic opening, The Lies We Tell develops into an intriguing story full of slow-burning suspense.' Sophie McKenzie, author of Close My Eyes and Here We Lie. The last...
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New York Times -bestselling author: "In the art of true-crime reportage, Jerry Bledsoe is the best in the country ... Before He Wakes has the suspense of a novel" ( The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ). Barbara Stager was known as a devoted mother, loving wife, and dedicated church leader in her Durham, North Carolina, community. When she "accidentally" shot her husband, popular high school coach, Russ, the police were inclined to believe her-until...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"A complex and chilling tale of friends, family and the often murderous secrets that hide in the dark" from the award-winning author of Bone White (Robert McCammon, New York Times --bestselling author). The Piper has come to take the children away... In the fall of 1993, fifteen-year-old Angelo Mazzone sees his first dead body. The murder is linked to the Piper, the possible abductor of three other children--who haven't been found--over the past...
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Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Helen Kendal's woes begin when she receives a phone call from her vanished uncle Franklin, long presumed dead, who urges her to make contact with criminal defense attorney Perry Mason; soon after, she finds herself the main suspect in the murder of an unfamiliar man. Her kitten has just survived a poisoning attempt, as has her aunt Matilda, the woman who always maintained that Franklin was alive in spite of his disappearance. Lucky that Helen took...
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Harlequin
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2021.
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English
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She broke his heart. Will the truth shatter hers? When Eva Rowson left her motorcycle gang life behind her, Jesse Wyman chose the club over her. Now that he's been hired to protect Eva from vengeful death threats, their reunion is fractious at best. Sparks fly between the widow and her biker bodyguard, but will passion survive when Eva reveals her secret--and discovers who her protector really is? From Harlequin Romantic Suspense: Danger. Passion....
8) The Rapids
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From New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers
With international criminals on the loose, danger is a rising tide…
When US Diplomatic Security Agent Maggie Spencer receives an anonymous tip, she's able to do what no one has before: apprehend Nicholas Janssen, the internationally most-wanted fugitive. Her acclaim puts her in the sights of US marshal Rob Dunnemore, who turns up asking tough questions about the case. Maggie has no reason...
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Thomas Nelson
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[2018]
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English
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Hannah is distraught when her parents are murdered-but what makes it worse is that she should have been at home with them ... not meeting her forbidden love, Reece. Unable to face the community and her guilt, she runs away and marries him. But Reece isn't the man she thought he was. He controls her completely, and when she gets pregnant-against his wishes-he pushes her down the stairs as she approaches her due date. When she wakes in the hospital...
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Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Essays that use "gender as a critical lens for staging intersectional, multidisciplinary investigations of genocide in the 20th and 21st centuries" ( Reading Religion ). The genocides of modern history -- Rwanda, Armenia, Guatemala, the Holocaust, and countless others -- and their effects have been well documented, but how do the experiences of female victims and perpetrators differ from those of men? In Women and Genocide, human rights advocates...
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Spinifex Press
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[2016]
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English
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For too long the global sex industry and its vested interests have dominated the prostitution debate repeating the same old line that 'sex work' is just like any job. In large sections of the media, academia, public policy, government and the law, the sex industry has had its way. Little is said of the damage, violation, suffering, and torment of prostitution on the bodies and minds of mostly women and children, nor of the deaths, suicides and murders...
12) Fidelity
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As she investigates the murder of her private investigator husband, Emily Kramer, unaware that a hitman has been hired to kill her, links the crime to a wealthy playboy.
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When her husband's scholarly interest turns to obsession, Lydia Carroll will do whatever it takes to save her family. On a stormy night in 1939, Mary Stone Walker disappears from her home in White Hill, Michigan. Everyone knew the talented poet was desperate to escape her demons, but when Mary goes missing without a trace, one question lingers in the small town: Did Mary successfully break free of her troubled past and flee, or did her life end that...
14) Wife or Death
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A journalist accused of murdering his unfaithful wife searches for the real killer Angel Denton's extramarital activities are the worst-kept secret in town. Jim Denton has endured the cuckold's horns for ages, but by midnight on Halloween he's finally fed up. Deserted at a masquerade ball, he takes refuge at the bar while his wife flirts her way up and down the dance floor in a costume so revealing she risks being arrested for indecency. Lightning...
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When successful London businessman is found savagely and bizarrely murdered in a medieval tithe barn on his estate in Somerset, Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge is called upon to investigate and soon discovers that the victim was universally despised.
Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge finds himself with no shortage of suspects when he sets out to investigate the murder of a universally despised London businessman--an inquiry that leads Rutledge...
16) Deadly harvest
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While in Salem, Massachusetts, looking for his friend's wife, who mysteriously vanished, cop Jeremy Flynn is drawn into a murder investigation involving the infamous Harvest Man and teams up with a local occult expert who disagrees with his methods.
17) Bedelia
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The Feminist Press at CUNY
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[2012]
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English
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"You must read Bedelia ", the seductive black-widow thriller by the author of the classic film noir, Laura ( The New York Times ). Charlie Horst has returned with his new bride, Bedelia, to his family home in Connecticut. Indulgently infatuated, Charlie is the luckiest man alive. What's not to love about Bedelia? She's gorgeous and complacent. She's also a gracious and ideal party host -- luscious and decorative in blue velvet. And in public, she...
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Martyr maker volume 1
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Ebony Magazine Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"New York City. Fall 2011. A priest is found murdered in the most gruesome of crime scenes. The brutal slaying is the work of 'The Martyr Maker,' a serial killer that for the past 30 years has left behind a legacy of torture and fear around the U.S. Every ten years, he butchers 12 clergymen in twisted scenes reflecting the martyrdom of Jesus and his disciples. NYPD detectives Quincy Cavanaugh and Phee Freeman, along with FBI agent Janet Maclin, know...
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A decade after elderly multimillionaire Andrew Jakes is found murdered and his young wife raped and beaten, his estranged son Andres Jakes investigates, notices similar cases around the world, and finds evidence pointing to one woman, known by the police as the Angel of Death.
20) The Vision
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Classic paranormal romantic suspense from the queen of the genre! Rediscover this thrilling world where the dead can speak, only from New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham.
When Deep Down Salvage begins the hunt for the Josephine Marie, it seems like any other dive...until Genevieve Wallace sees the vision of a dead woman in the water, her vacant eyes boring into Genevieve's very soul.
Terrified and confused by what she saw, Genevieve...
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