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Center Point Publishing
Edition
Large Print Edition
Language
English
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It wasn't until Jill Conrad arrived at Cliff House that her doubts mushroomed into fears. And the fears grew with each subtle reference to a girl who'd died a quarter century before....a girl whose name seemed to conjure only silence..a girl Jill had never known, but was being manipulated into meeting ......in the grave.
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Publisher
Center Point Publishing
Edition
Center Point large print ed.
Language
English
Description
Upon his Great-Aunt Belle's death, Harrison Black inherits her candle shop. When he begins to suspect foul play in her death, he does a bit of sleuthing. But it looks like he's playing with fire-because somebody wants Harrison to mind his own beeswax...
3) Known dead
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Carl Houseman novels volume 2
Publisher
Beeler Large Print
Language
English
Description
A police stakeout on a marijuana field in Iowa ends in a shootout, leaving one officer and one drug dealer dead. An autopsy reveals the dealer was not killed by a police bullet, so deputy sheriff Carl Houseman sets out to investigate a local drug lord.
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Edition
Center Point large print ed.
Language
English
Description
Hamilton combines clear, crisp writing, wily, colorful characters and an offbeat locale (Michigan's Upper Peninsula) in an impressive debut. Alex McKnight is a retired Detroit cop living in Paradise, Mich., on disability with a bullet next to his heart. He rents cabins to hunters and has recently taken out a private-detective license at the suggestion of Lane Uttley, a local lawyer. The book begins fast, with a lot of background deftly woven into...
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Miss Zukas mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Beeler Large Print
Language
English
Description
When a dead body turns up right in the middle of fiction the police are baffled. Miss Zukas and her best friend Ruth are in hot pursuit of the truth and getting close enough to find they are about to become the next victims.
8) Red Light
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Series
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Language
English
Description
The murders of two prostitutes 30 years apart provide the framework for this fine crime melodrama about police corruption and political ambition in Southern California's Orange County. The sequel to 1997's The Blue Hour finds homicide detective Merci Rayborn investigating the shooting death of a young hooker. As much as Rayborn hates to admit it, the primary suspect is her own boyfriend, Sgt. Mike McNally, who was a close friend of the prostitute,...
10) Belle ruin
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English
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Twelve-year-old Emma Graham, a waitress at her mother's decaying resort hotel and now the youngest cub reporter in the history of La Porte's Conservative newspaper, discovers the crumbling shell of a fabulous hotel hidden in the woods near her small town of Spirit Lake. She never imagines that the mysteries it holds will bring her one step closer to solving a forty-year-old crime --and force a new transgression to light. The sumptuous Belle Rouen,...
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Series
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Edition
Large print ed.
Language
English
Description
Despite a full schedule, frazzled suburban single mom Jane Jeffry has agreed to lend a hand during a two-day gathering of her friend Shelley's former high school girl's club. So while the reunited ladies are dishing dirt, Jane is sweeping it up -- and she inadvertently becomes privy to all sorts of interesting postgraduate gossip and long-smoldering resentments. But then a corpse turns up among the one-time student body, the unfortunate victim of...
14) McNally's alibi
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Series
Archy McNally mysteries volume 11
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Description
Hired to locate the complete text of Truman Capote's "Answered Prayers," Archy McNally encounters a series of dead ends before finding the manuscript's owner murdered in a sleazy motel.
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Series
Boxcar children volume 100
Language
English
Description
The Alden children have discovered a ghost in the old boxacar that once was their home.
18) Jackpot Bay
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Publisher
Beeler Large Print
Language
English
Description
Johnnie The Dime Kosko: don't be fooled, he's not really a gangster. But he'd like to be one, and that just might make him more dangerous.
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