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Penn Cage finds the former prosecutor and bestselling novelist serving as the mayor of Natchez, Miss., his hometown. Frustrated by his limited ability to change the system, Cage is plunged into a deadly duel of wits with some bad guys after a childhood friend, Tim Jessup, now a card dealer, alerts him to illegal dog fighting and sexual abuse connected with a floating casino. Before Jessup can deliver proof of his allegations, he's tortured and killed....
43) The lost key
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"Freshly minted FBI agent Nicholas Drummond is barely out of his Quantico training when he and his partner, Mike Caine, are called to investigate a stabbing on Wall Street. Their investigation, however, yields more questions than answers. It quickly becomes clear that the victim, John Pearce, was more than the naval historian and antiquities dealer he appeared to be. What Drummond doesn't know is that buying and selling rare books was Pearce's cover,...
45) Home at night
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2023.
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"Beware the blackbirds... It's Halloween in Vermont, winter is coming, and five humans, two dogs, and a cat are a crowd in Mercy Carr's small cabin. She needs more room--and she knows just the place: Grackle Tree Farm, with thirty acres of woods and wetlands and a Victorian manor to die for. They say it's haunted by the ghosts of missing children and lost poets and a murderer or two, but Mercy loves it anyway. Even when Elvis finds a dead body in...
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Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 1
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[2010]
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The Depression-era women of a Darling, Alabama, garden club get to the bottom of a mysterious buried treasure and a young woman's murder.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Tom Sagan and an unscrupulous zealot, Zachariah Simon, square off in a dangerous game to find the key to a 500 year-old mystery--a treasure with explosive political significance in the modern world: the lost treasures of the Temple of Jerusalem.
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Gilded wolves volume 2
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2020.
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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"Returning to the dark and glamorous world of her New York Times instant bestseller, The Gilded Wolves, Roshani Chokshi dazzles us with another riveting tale as full of mystery and danger as ever. Séverin and his team members might have successfully thwarted the Fallen House, but victory came at a terrible cost - one that still haunts all of them. Desperate to make amends, Séverin pursues a dangerous lead to find a long lost artifact rumored to...
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Tales of the Ketty Jay volume 2
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c2010
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Deep in the heart of the Kurg rainforest lies a long-forgotten wreck. On board, behind a magically protected door, an elusive treasure awaits. Good thing Darian Frey, captain of the airship Ketty Jay, has the daemonist Crake on board. Crake is their best chance of getting that door open-- if they can sober him up. For a prize this enticing, Frey is willing to brave the legendary monsters of the forbidding island and to ally himself with a partner...
50) The grave tattoo
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2007.
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The discovery of strangely tattooed body in a bog gives rise to rumors regarding William Wordsworth's ties to the infamous Fletcher Christian, as Wordsworth specialist Jane Gresham searches for a manuscript that could hold the key to the historical mystery.
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[1999]
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"Money is a problem for Ben Lindberg. As a college professor, he's fought long and hard to keep his intellectual life - and his family life - safe and secure. But he can't afford to replace his broken-down car, can't even afford to fix it, can't afford to move his family into a better part of Austin."--BOOK JACKET. "Then, one night, things change. Searching for the stray family cat, Ben finds in the basement of an abandoned feed store eight coolers...
52) Rogue wave
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Crime by design volume Book 1
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2014.
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Unemployed textile artist Phoebe McCabe wants desperately to find her missing brother and to knit the fraying edges of her life together, so when her godfather, Max Baker, asks her help to track Toby's last steps in Bermuda, she can't refuse. Only Max, an arts and antiques dealer, isn't telling the whole story ...
54) Reef of death
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[1998]
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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While helping a beautiful Aboriginal girl search for her people's missing treasure near the Great Barrier Reef, seventeen-year-old PC finds himself fighting an evil scientist and a deadly underwater monster.
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2011
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Since her Uncle Oscar passed away and left Rebecca his odd little antique shop specializing in Gold Rush history, her cat Rupert has sniffed out several tightly wrapped bundles of cash that Oscar had apparently hidden throughout his apartment. But now Rupert has turned up something else--a dusty gree vase with a toy bear inside holding a tiny paper flag that reads "Nevada City". Rebecca assumes that this is just another of Oscar's infamous clues to...
56) Deception
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Olympia Wingfield, an old maid at twenty-five, is saddled with raising her motherless nephews. But her dreary life gets a bit more interesting when Mr. Jared Chillhurst arrives to tutor her three incorrigible charges. His plundering kisses and traveler's tales quickly win Olympia's heart . And soon she is swept up in a scandalous affair with a dangerous, desirable man who is haunted by old enemies and an even older mystery.
57) Riptide
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
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For generations, treasure hunters have tried to unlock the deadly puzzle known as the Water Pit: a labyrinth of shafts and tunnels that honeycombs the heart of a small island off the coast of Maine. Reputed to be the hiding place of pirate treasure, the Water Pit possesses an inexplicable ability to kill those who venture into it, from professionals to innocent explorers. The most comprehensive, high-tech expedition ever assembled has come to Maine...
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2021.
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Forced into an unlikely partnership by the FBI, Special Agent Kate O'Hare and international conman Nick Fox have brought down some major criminals together, but nobody this big: A vast international organization known as The Brotherhood. Directly descended from the World War II Vatican Bank priests who served Hitler, they're now searching for a lost train loaded with $30 billion in Nazi gold that has been hidden deep inside a labyrinthine maze of...
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Twelve-year old orphan Emma Casey lives by a haunted graveyard in her Tennessee town, giving tours, and helping her brother and Granny Blue with the family bakery, and waiting for the destiny dream of her ancestors--but when it comes it shows her only a key, and she finds that she must solve a ghostly mystery that has haunted her town for generations.