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"Longtime personal assistant Georgie Mulcahy has made a career out of putting others before herself. When an unexpected upheaval sends her away from her hectic job in L.A. and back to her hometown, Georgie must confront an uncomfortable truth... But then Georgie comes across a forgotten artifact--a 'friendfic' diary she wrote as a teenager... a guidebook for getting started on a new path. Georgie's plans hit a snag when she comes face to face with...
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"We didn't call the police right away. When Mia's father doesn't come home from a walk in the local nature reserve, she doesn't think much of it. He must've turned off his phone. Or his battery died. Or he probably stopped for an errand-but doing what exactly? Soon more questions arise and it becomes clear to Mia and her family that he is missing. Or is he?"--
"We didn't call the police right away." Those are the first words of this extraordinary...
3) As you wish
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Gathering in Summer Hill, Virginia, three women from different generations reflect on their experiences with love and support one another through marital woes.
Sixty-year-old Olivia is a newlywed, thrilled to finally be starting her life with the man she's always truly loved. Kathy, in her forties, is married to a handsome, successful businessman-- who is passionately in love with someone else. Twentysomething Elise is stuck with the husband her...
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Investigating the brutal murders of two vacationing families in sunny Virginia Beach, FBI agents Ryan Sinclair and Buzz Crane suspect the work of a notorious serial killer and tap the skills of preeminent clinical expert Charlotte Stone, who is also the culprit's only known survivor.
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 9
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Virginia medical examiner Kay Scarpetta finds herself up against a killer who hids his crimes with fire.
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"Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call...
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"Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who'd amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie...
9) Trace
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 13
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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....
12) Autopsy
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 25
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Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has come almost full circle, returning to Virginia as the chief medical examiner, the state where she launched her storied career. Finding herself the new girl in town once again after being away for many years, she's inherited not only an overbearing secretary, but also a legacy of neglect and potential corruption. She and her husband Benton Wesley, now a forensic psychologist with the U.S. Secret Service, have...
13) Divine justice
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Camel Club novels volume 4
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2008
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Oliver Stone and the Camel Club return in Baldacci's most astonishing thriller yet when the assassinations Stone carries out prompt the highest levels of the government to unleash a massive manhunt.
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 8
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Dr. Kay Scarpetta becomes both investigator and victim when she is contacted over the Internet by a murderer who is threatening to loose a deadly virus on the world.
15) Fast track
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Back in the United States and ensconced in a new home on Big Pine Mountain in North Carolina, Myra, Kathryn, Annie, Alexis, Isabelle, Yoko, and Nikki of the Sisterhood are meeting their new employers, who have a dangerous new assignment in mind.
16) Cause of death
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 7
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Featuring a new Introduction by Cornwell, this classic #1 "New York Times" bestseller featuring Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta now comes in an electrifying new package. Reissue.
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"The acclaimed, bestselling author--winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize--tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly--thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining...
18) About that man
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Trinity Harbor volume 1
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Sensible spinster Daisy Spencer decides to take in a precocious youngster, much to the town's surprise, and finds herself up against the boy's uncle, rugged D.C. cop Walker Ames, only to find herself attracted to him.
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Postmistress of Crozet, Virginia, Mary Harry Haristeen has a bad habit of reading postcards not addressed to her. But as murders are discovered all over Crozet, Harry remembers that every victim received a postcard with a picture of a graveyard on the front and the message "wish you were here" on the back.
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