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2022
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"April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford. Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends—Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily—during their first term. By the end of the year, April was dead. Now, a decade later, Hannah and Will are expecting their first child, and the man convicted of killing...
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Regan Merritt novels volume 1
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Senior Lucas Vega is obsessed with the death of Candace Swain, who left a sorority party three years ago and never came back. Her body was later found, but the culprit never was. Lucas thinks he has uncovered new evidence, but to prove it he creates a podcast that traces Candace's last hours. Listeners crowdsource what they remember as college lecturer and former US marshal Regan Merritt adds her expertise. Then one caller turns up dead. Another hints...
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David Loogan mysteries volume Prequel
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"David Loogan's dark past is revealed in this prequel to 'Bad Things Happen' ... On a rainy night in April, a chance encounter on a lonely road draws David into a romance with Jana Fletcher, a beautiful young law student. Jana is an enigma: living in a run-down apartment and sporting a bruise on her cheek that she refuses to explain. David would like to know her secrets, but he lets them lie--until it's too late. When Jana is brutally murdered, the...
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Kelly Flynn is happy to teach new students in the university town of Fort Connor how to knit, even Holly, the young woman who had appeared in Kelly's backyard dazed and confused. When Holly is found dead on the river trail near Kelly's house, Kelly is compelled to investigate.
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When private detective Dana Cutler is hired by an attorney with powerful political connections, the assignment seems simple enough: follow a pretty college student named Charlotte Walsh and report on where she goes and whom she sees. But then the unexpected happens. One night, Cutler follows Walsh to a secret meeting with Christopher Farrington, the president of the United States. The following morning, Walsh's dead body shows up and Cutler has to...
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Heather Wells mysteries volume 2
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[2006]
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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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Pop star-turned-detective Heather Wells begins her second semester as an assistant dormatory director only to find herself investigating the grisly beheading of a campus cheerleader.
8) Lost souls
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Twenty-seven-year-old Kristi Bentz is lucky to be alive. Not many people her age have nearly died twice at the hands of a serial killer, and lived to tell about it. Her dad, New Orleans detective, Rick Bentz, wants Kristi to stay in New Orleans and out of danger. But if anything, Kristi's experiences have made her even more fascinated by the mind of the serial killer. She hasn't given up her dream of being a true-crime writer - of exploring the darkest...
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Anna Curtis novels volume 5
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[2016]
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" Emily Shapiro has gone missing. A freshman at a Michigan university, Emily was last seen leaving a bar near Beta Psi, a prestigious and secretive fraternity. The main suspect is Dylan Highsmith, the son of one of the most powerful politiocians in the state. At first, the only cluye is pieced-together surveillance footage of Emily leaving the bar that night . . . and Dylan running down the street after her. When prosecutor Anna Curtis discovers...
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Justice seekers volume 3
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"When Gina Ford, the daughter of a prominent Tennessee politician, goes missing from the University of Memphis a week after another girl was murdered on the same campus, police call in the FBI. Nick Hagar, married to his job as Special Agent in Charge, is assigned to the case, and when Gina's body is found, her father demands justice. Maddie Baxter is the forensic expert running DNA tests from the crime scene. When they come back without a match,...
11) Private London
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Private Detective Agency novels volume 4
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For Hannah Shapiro, a beautiful young American student, this particular nightmare began eight years ago in Los Angeles, when Jack Morgan, owner of Private--the world's most exclusive detective agency--saved her from a horrific death. She has fled her country, but can't flee her past. The terror has followed her to London, and now it is down to former Royal Military Police Sergeant Dan Carter, head of Private London, to save her all over again. In...
12) A secret rage
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2011.
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Former model Nickie Callahan moves to a sleepy Tennessee college twn, where she is swept up in a string of brutally violent crimes and must take matters of justice into her own hands.
13) Hidden
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Bone secrets novels volume 1
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[2012]
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"Eleven years ago, the Co-ed Slayer murdered nine female students on the Oregon State University campus. Lacey Campbell barely escaped his attack, but lost her best friend whose remains were never found. As the sole surviving victim, Lacey helped send the sadistic serial killer to prison for life. Now a forensic odontologist examining teeth and bones for the state Medical Examiner, Lacey is devastated when she arrives at a crime scene and identifies...
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Augusta Goodnight mysteries volume 6
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c2007
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Guardian angel and heavenly sleuth Augusta Goodnight joins forces with Lucy Nan Pilgrim, a long-time resident of Stone's Throw, South Carolina, to investigate the mysterious disappearances of a number of young women.
16) 212
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Ellie Hatcher novels volume 3
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When New York University sophomore Megan Gunther finds personal threats posted to a Web site specializing in campus gossip, she's taken aback by their menacing tone. Someone knows her daily routine down to the minute and is watching her - but thanks to the anonymity provided by the Internet, the police tell her there's nothing they can do. Her friends are sure it's someone's idea of a joke, but when Megan is murdered in a vicious attack, NYPD Detective...
17) Old bones
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Sarah Alt novels volume 2
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[2017]
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"During a vigil calling for police reform, students from Spelman College, a historically black women's institution, are assaulted by rifle fire from a passing vehicle. On her way to interview witnesses, Detective Sarah 'Salt' Alt confronts the fleeing vehicle of the suspects, but they get away ... While other detectives take the lead on the Spelman murders, Salt is tasked to investigate the case of a recently discovered decomposed body. When she combs...
18) Therapy
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Alex Delaware novels volume 18
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Homicide detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware investigate the murder of Gavin Quick, a man with a troubled past, and an unidentified woman, found dead in a car in a secluded spot, and discover greed, corruption, and betrayal.
19) Crashing heat
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Nikki Heat mysteries volume 10
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2019.
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New York Police Captain Nikki Heat is accustomed to dealing with murders, even those with no leads and no motives. But having her husband as a suspect makes her newest case the most personal one yet. Nikki Heat does not like to be away from her husband, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jameson Rook. But when Rook is given the honor to be a visiting professor at his alma mater, he can't pass up the opportunity to mentor bourgeoning journalists at...
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[2011]
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Phoebe Halls Manhattan life has suddenly begun to unravel. Right after her long-term boyfriend breaks off their relationship, shes falsely accused of plagiarizing her latest bestselling celebrity biography. Looking for a quiet place to put her life back together, Phoebe jumps at the offer to teach in a sleepy Pennsylvania town at a small private college run by her former boarding school roommate and close friend, Glenda Johns. But behind the campus...