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After journeying alongside our gripping tale's twists and triumphs across the vivid landscapes of Kenya, a truly fitting title would capture the spirit of adventure, social justice, and romance that has left us all breathless... The title encapsulates the wild essence of Kenya itself, alongside the unfettered longing that draws Reza and Nali together as kindred forces of nature. It hints at both the untamed wildlife domains they fight to preserve...
303) Hidden Truths
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In the heart of a vibrant village-wide celebration, the shocking discovery of Amelia Jones's lifeless body plunges the tight-knit community into a tormenting state of fear and suspicion. Detective Ethan Morgan, renowned for his ability to decipher intricate mysteries, is summoned to piece together the puzzling events surrounding Amelia's demise. As he unravels the tangled web of secrets, lies, and hidden motives surrounding the mayor's secret lover,...
304) Devil's Food
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With her low-level law-enforcement career on the rocks, it's make-it-or-break-it time for zaftig Loretta Kovacs. She's been assigned to the ragtag Parole Violators Search Unit, a.k.a. the Jump Squad. All her buttons are pushed when she goes undercover as a desperate dieter at a Florida fat farm in order to nab an embezzler who's a perfect size 2. But untangling the mysteries surrounding this case is going to be harder than passing up a pastry . ....
305) Night Cover
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Lt. Leroy Powder, Indianapolis PD, investigates a series of gruesome murders and the disappearance of a teenage girl. Six burglaries, two assaults, one armed robbery, and a bomb scare all come in at the tail end of Lt. Leroy Powder's swing shift in the night cover room of the Indianapolis PD - a shift he's been working for nineteen years. About to wrap up, he gets a call from low-level criminal Johnny Uncle, who claims to have found a body. The cause...
306) Trouble in Spades
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Nina Quinn mysteries volume 2
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Landscaping is Nina Quinn's business, but trouble seems to be her middle name. Saddled with a recently expelled, faithless local–cop husband, a teenaged terror of a stepson, and the yappiest, most unhousebreakable Chihuahua in captivity, Nina needs a respite –– and the backyard makeover she's undertaking for her sister Maria and Nate, Maria's fiance, may do the trick.
But, of course, Nate vanishes mysteriously, and Nina's gardening magic inadvertently...
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A Portland activist ventures into rural militia country to face a threat from his past in this crime thriller by the author of the Kaspar Brothers series.
Greg Simmons is an idealist. From his home in Portland, he's a major proponent of the Cascadia independence movement. All of which makes him an unlikely informant for the FBI. But when the Bureau calls on Greg to investigate a dangerous militia group in rural Oregon, he knows exactly why: his...
308) Whispers of the Dead
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David Hunter thrillers volume 3
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While visiting his mentor in Tennessee, a forensics expert matches wits with a killer of terrifying skill in this acclaimed crime series.
To escape the violence that nearly killed him, forensic pathologist Dr. David Hunter leaves the United Kingdom for America, returning to the Body Farm-the Tennessee research center where he once trained. David is there to find out if he's still up to the job of confronting death in all its strange and terrible...
309) Tagged for Murder
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Molly Doyle mysteries volume 2
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The second page-turning instalment in the acclaimed mystery series featuring striking, sarcastic antique dealer Molly Doyle, set in picturesque Carmel, California.
Molly Doyle crossed a continent to escape trouble, but it's becoming increasingly dangerous to be in the antique business in her small adopted corner of California. The murder of a friend and fellow antiques dealer has shaken Molly to the core. And matters aren't helped any by the arrival...
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NYPD's top cop, Homicide Commander Lt. John Driscoll, believes there's a sociopathic killer on the loose murdering prostitutes in New York City-someone who calls himself "Tilden" and claims to have been sexually abused as a child by his mother's john.
But he soon discovers Tilden's not a run-of-the-mill sociopath. After all, would a common murderer have taken the time to embalm his victims, which the city's chief medical examiner determined was...
311) Bloodborn
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Anya Crichton thrillers volume 3
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"Kathryn Fox has created a forensic physician who readers of Patricia Cornwell will adore."
-James Patterson
Dr. Anya Crichton, the protagonist of Kathryn Fox's critically acclaimed thrillers Without Consent and Malicious Intent returns in Bloodborn, a spellbinding new masterwork of crime fiction that fans of C.S.I. and Bones will adore. New York Times bestseller Kathy Reichs raves, "Like Fox, her creator, Anya Crichton is a force of nature....
312) Foundation and chaos
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Second foundation trilogy volume 2
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Isaac Asimov's renowned Foundation Trilogy pioneered many of the familiar themes of modern science fiction and shaped many of its best writers. With the permission and blessing of the Asimov estate, the epic saga left unfinished by the Grand Master himself now continues with this second masterful volume.
With Hari Seldon on trial for treason, the Galactic Empire's long-anticipated migration to Star's End is about to begin. But the mission's brilliant...
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"There is something special about the relationship we all have with our mothers . . . "
Meet Pat McNab, forty-five years old, and about to embark on a homicidal rampage sparked by matricide. Or is he?
Pat spent endless hours chain-smoking and propping up the counter of Sullivan's Select Bar (not that Mrs. McNab knew anything about it-she and Timmy the barman didn't get along at all) or sitting on his mother's knee singing away together like some...
314) The silence: a novel
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Reluctantly returning to her Sydney hometown when her father is implicated in a disappearance from 30 years earlier, Isla confronts devastating secrets about her parents and their long-ago next-door neighbors.
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Reid Bennett and his dog Sam serve as the police force for not-so-quaint Murphy's Harbor, Ontario. They have yet another perilous but important task. There are some pretty nasty bikers disrupting the façade of serenity of Murphy's Harbor, and Reid must find a way to make them take a hike without "disrespecting their civil rights." Reid really just wants to kill them, but he knows that he must act with discretion in order to keep hidden a secret from...
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1975 Former detective and spy-catcher Dan Delaney and his West Auckland family are on a visit to the Holy Land which goes horribly wrong from the moment they land at Ben-Gurion Airport. A plot is underway to desecrate the most sacred sites and incite conflict between the three great religions whose worship centres on a small area of inner Jerusalem. The Jewish authorities are determined at any cost to prevent another terrorist outrage such as that...
317) Missing Women
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TEN BEAUTIFUL WOMEN. VANISHED WITHOUT A TRACE. A riveting collection of unsolved disappearances including the cases of Tara Grinstead, Misty Copsey, Bethany Decker, Joyce Chiang, Jodi Huisentruit, Patricia Meehan, Kelsie Schelling, Natalee Holloway, Jennifer Kesse, and Tara Calico.
319) Dance of the Dwarfs
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A scientist working alone in the Amazon is drawn by local superstition into a terrifying nightmare of brutality and death Deep in the heart of darkness, Dr. Owen Dawnay has stumbled across an unimaginable horror. A dedicated agricultural scientist, he has set up a lonely outpost on the outskirts of Colombia's Amazon to study the flora that thrives in one of the most remote and inhospitable regions on the face of the Earth. It is the odd behavior of...
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A vengeful scientist uses his brilliant discovery to unleash terror on the world in this timeless science fiction classic from an early-twentieth-century master The scientific community has always shunned William Carpenter. A strange, hulking giant, a talented biochemical investigator, and the self-styled "greatest mind in the western world," he has locked himself inside a house with no windows, in the most desolate reaches of New Jersey, where he...
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