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Nobody cuts deeper than family...Dr. Noah Alderman, a widower and single father, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie Ippolitti, and for the first time in a long time, he and his young son are happy. Despite her longing for the daughter she hasn't seen since she was a baby, Maggie is happy too, and she's even more overjoyed when she unexpectedly gets another chance to be a mother to the child she thought she'd lost forever, her only daughter Anna.Maggie...

She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry of California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had littke to go on. The woman was young, her hands were bound with a length of wire, there were multiple stab wounds, and her throat had been slashed. After months of investigation, the case remained unsolved. That was eighteen years ago....

Set before the Civil War, in the first half of the nineteenth century, this novel of Mark Twain's delves into the ironies of racial prejudice. A young would-be lawyer, Wilson, sets out to solve a murder using the (at that time) unproven method of fingerprinting. Thought to be a simpleton or 'puddenhead', he eventually makes his critics look like puddenheads themselves. The main focus of the novel, however, deals with the identities of two young...

Tortured and left for dead at sixteen, Evelyn Talbot turned her personal nightmare into her life's work - studying psychopathy at some of the world's most vicious serieal killers. Now a leading psychiatrist at Hanover House in a small Alaskan town, she tries to believe the past will never come back to haunt her.

"Six days ago, Joe Lynch was a happily married man, a devoted father, and a respected teacher living in a well-to-do London suburb. But that was before he spotted his wife's car entering a hotel parking garage. Before he saw her in a heated argument with her best friend's husband. Before Joe confronted the other man in an altercation where he left him for dead, bleeding and unconscious. Now, Joe's life is unraveling. His wife has lied to him. Her...

Mrs. Murphy thinks the new man in town is the cat's meow.... Maybe she should think again. Small towns don't take kindly to strangers--unless the stranger happens to be a drop-dead gorgeous and seemingly unattached male. When Blair Bainbridge comes to Crozet, Virginia, the local matchmakers lose no time in declaring him perfect for their newly divorced postmistress, Marry Minor "Harry Haristeen." Even Harry's tiger cat, Ms. Murphy, and her Welsh Corgi,...

Why has the twenty-eight year old graphic artist Scarlett Reid been sent an anonymous email with one line written in the subject line: 'I need your help' and attached, a story written by an eighteen year old named Kendra describing her discovery of a body in a campground west of Boulder, Colorado? She soon finds herself at the helm of a 30 year old mystery that only she is mean to unravel. Little does she know how connected to the mystery she really...

A film crew--led by the smug, smarmy Grantley Smith--has descended on the tiny Welsh village of Llanfair, to document the raising of a World War II plane from the lake where it landed long ago. And Constable Evans is keeping order and helping them out, trying to find local people with stories to tell of that time. But aside form the wreckage, some other unpleasant things are starting to surface in Llanfair. Romantic tensionsl. Secret schemes. Bitter...

"When the biggest legal case of her career brings Eliza Carmody back to Kinsale, the hometown she thought she had left forever, she witnesses an old friend commit a crime that sends her on a dangerous quest to uncover the mysteries of her childhood that the rest of the town seems willing to ignore. With her friend on the run and the police investigating the bones of an unidentified dead body at a historic homestead near town, Eliza becomes convinced...

In a community theater in Boulder, Colorado, a man is tortured and left to bleed to death atop a concert piano. Psychologist-investigator Dr. Alan Gregory, a friend of the victim, finds that the man's belongings point to a mysterious hidden life. By the author of Higher Authority.