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1) Trace
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to Richmond, Virginia from freelancing in South Florida at the request of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner to solve the murder of a 14-year-old girl, but she finds that nothing is as she left it. Her former lab is being demolished; the chief isn't really the one who requested her; her former assistant chief has has personal problems that he refuses to reveal; and a glamorous FBI agent meddles with the case.
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Pia Grazdani is an exceptional yet aloof medical student working closely with Columbia University Medical Center's premier scientist. Their cutting edge research could revolutionize health care; creating replacement organs. Thorough her work with the brilliant molecular geneticist Dr Tobias Rothman, Pia knows she will not only be given the chance to fulfil her professional ambitions but also maybe finally all push aside memories of her difficult,...
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In utter disbelief, Miss Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr. Rafiel, an acquaintance she had met briefly on her travels. He had left instructions for her to investigate a crime after his death. The only problem was, he had failed to tell her who was involved or where and when the crime had been committed. It was most intriguing. Soon she is faced with a new crime, the ultimate crime, murder. It seems someone is...
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 10
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A strange message attached to the leg of a wounded homing pigeon involves Nancy in a dangerous mission to find and free an elderly woman held prisoner in an old mansion.
8) The clocks
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The whole thing was fantastic! A dead man whom no one could identify found in a blind woman's sitting room. Four strange clocks all set to the same time -- thirteen minutes past four! Who had brought them there? What did they mean? And who was the dead man? --
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Sylvie Mason?s parents have an unusual occupation?helping “haunted souls” find peace. After receiving a strange phone call one winter?s night, they leave the house and are later murdered in an old church in a horrifying act of violence. A year later, Sylvie is living in the care of her older sister, who may be to blame for what happened to their parents. Now, the inquisitive teenager pursues the mystery, moving closer to the knowledge of what...
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aMister Max volume 1
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2013.
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Max's parents are missing. They are actors, and thus unpredictable, but sailing away, leaving Max with only a cryptic note, is unusual even for them. Did they intend to leave him behind? Have they been kidnapped? Until he can figure it out, Max feels it's safer to keep a low profile. Hiding out is no problem for a child of the theater. Max has played many roles, he can be whoever he needs to be to blend in. But finding a job is tricky, no matter what...
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"Enjoying dinner at Commander's Palace with her beau, Detective Edgar Babcock, Carmela finds the food and the company equally divine--with the exception of Isabelle Black stopping by to brag about her upcoming wedding. Leaving the restaurant, the couple is interrupted once again--this time by a terrifying scream from inside the cemetery. Rushing to investigate, Carmela and Edgar find Isabelle lying across an aboveground tomb, strangled with a piece...
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 8
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Nancy receives a letter meant for a British heiress who has the same name and, in her attempts to contact the other young woman, faces danger from a man who operates a Lonely Hearts Club mail fraud.
16) To the hilt
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Al Kinloch, a young painter who lives in seclusion on a Scottish mountain, is called to London to save his family from financial ruin after the director of the family brewery embezzles the funds.
20) 10 lb. penalty
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Entering the political arena as the trusted confidant of his politician father, ex-jockey Benedict Juliard finds himself the target of a vicious attack by his father's dangerous enemies, an assault that could not only destroy his own reputation but that of his father, a prospective prime minister.