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Mercy

Julie Garwood · 454 pages

Attorney Theo Buchanan-brother of seasoned FBI agent Nick Buchanan, the hero of HEARTBREAKER-is in New Orleans to receive an award for his work with the Department of Justice. When he becomes unexpectedly ill at the gala ceremony, a beautiful stranger rushes him to the hospital and ultimately saves his life. The woman-a brilliant surgeon named Michelle Renard-intrigues Theo, but before he can lear

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A Calamity of Souls

David Baldacci

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The Night Before

Lisa Jackson · 456 pages

Caitlyn Montgomery Bandeaux wakes up one Savannah morning with a pounding headache and covered in blood, the news of her estranged husband's brutal murder a cruel taunt in her ears. Now the police want answers - and Caitlyn finds she has none.

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Trial by Fire

Terri Blackstock · 347 pages

Pastor and fireman Nick Foster found the body in the inferno engulfing his church. From the bullet wound in the head, it's clear this is no ordinary fire victim. The quiet community of Newpointe, reeling from the shock of the dead man's identity, struggles with the agonizing question: who did it --- and why? Paramedic Issie Mattreaux is no icon of virtue, but she cares enough about her teenage

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Bait

Karen Robards · 400 pages

When beautiful advertising executive Maddie Fitzgerald is attacked in a New Orleans hotel, she thinks that she's a victim of random, senseless violence. FBI agent Sam McCabe thinks otherwise--that she's the target of a serial killer who's eluded the FBI for weeks. He also knows that there's only one way to catch him: use Maddie as the enticing bait. But as McCabe's intimate protection ignites irre

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Scream for Me

Karen Rose · 448 pages

For her exciting debut in hardcover, New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose delivers a heart-stopping suspense novel that picks up where DIE FOR ME left off, with a detective determined to track down a brutal murderer.Special Agent Daniel Vartanian has sworn to find the perpetrator of multiple killings that mimic a 13-year-old murder linked to a collection of photographs that belonged to his

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Carnal Innocence

Nora Roberts · 512 pages

In the small town of Innocence, Mississippi, days are long, nights are fragrant, and secrets are hard to keep. But when a brutal killer starts claiming the lives of the town's most attractive women, lifelong neighbors are forced to wonder if the culprit is a stranger lurking in the bayou. Or someone right next door. Burned out by a whirlwind career, world famous concert violinist Caroline Waver

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The General's Daughter

Nelson DeMille · 464 pages

Here is an intriguing and sophisticated murder mystery of an upstanding military officer - the base commander's daughter - who's been leading an unsavory double life.When a professional military woman with a pristine reputation is found raped and murdered, a preliminary search turns up certain paraphernalia, and sex toys that point to a scandal of major proportions, The chief investigator is relu

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Heart of Evil

Heather Graham · 389 pages

When a corpse is found swinging from the marble angel in her family's cemetery, heiress Ashley Donegal turns to an elite team of paranormal investigators to find the truth and must risk everything unravel family secrets with the help of Jack Mallory, a gifted New Orleans musician with a special ability.

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The Runaway Jury

John Grisham · 496 pages

An anonymous woman tips officials that the jury for a multimillion dollar trial surrounding the tobacco industry may be tampered with.

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Midnight in Ruby Bayou

Elizabeth Lowell · 438 pages

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Die Easy

Zoe Sharp · 431 pages

Professionally, Charlie Fox is at the top of her game, but her personal life is in ruins. Her lover, bodyguard Sean Meyer, has woken from a coma with his memory in tatters. Working with Sean again was never going to be easy, but a celebrity fundraising event in New Orleans should have been the ideal opportunity for them both to take things nice and slow - but then an ambitious robbery explodes int

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Erased

Jennifer Rush · 352 pages

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Down River

John Hart · 446 pages

Adam Chase has spent the last five years in New York trying to wipe out the memory of his family's rejection. Until a phone call from his best friend Summons him back to Red Water Farm. When he left North Carolina, Adam left for good. Now he has no choice but to return - and being remembered as a murderer doesn't help. Within hours of arriving, Adam is beaten up, accosted and has to face the hosti

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Dead By Midnight

Beverly Barton · 444 pages

In the ten years since her Hollywood career imploded, Lorie Hammonds has built a good life in her Alabama hometown. When the first death threat arrives, she assumes it's a joke. Then she gets a second note. Sheriff Mike Birkett, her high-school sweetheart, has avoided Lorie since she returned to Dunmore, but when investigators uncover her connection to a string of recent murders, he's drawn into a

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Cry Wolf

Tami Hoag · 531 pages

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Come Love a Stranger

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss · 501 pages

A woman with no name and no memory...The two men who claim her:one with love, the other with fear...A dazzling tale of secret passions--and a love tragically lost and miraculously reborn--by the incomparable storyteller.Mere days after Ashton Wingate's wedding to the enchanting Lierin, capricious Fate stole the Mississippi plantation owner's beloved from him. Now, three years later, his carriage

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Blood Memory

Greg Iles · 767 pages

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Unlawful Contact

Pamela Clare · 392 pages

When a young woman disappears, journalist Sophie Alton investigates and is led to the woman's brother, a convicted killer who is running from the law. Together, they follow a dangerous path toward the truth-and unforgettable passion.

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Cross Justice

James Patterson · 448 pages

Returning to his North Carolina hometown to defend a cousin accused of a heinous crime, Alex cross is drawn into the search for a brutal murderer before his world is shattered by the revelation of a devastating family secret.

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Altar of Eden

James Rollins · 398 pages

Following the fall of Baghdad, two Iraqi boys stumble upon armed men looting the city zoo. The floodgates have been opened for the smuggling of hundreds of exotic birds, mammals, and reptiles to Western nations, but this crime hides a deeper secret. Amid a hail of bullets, a concealed underground weapons lab is ransacked—and something even more horrific is set free.Seven years later, Louisiana sta

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The Long Way Home

Andrew Klavan

As eighteen-year-old Charlie West continues to elude the law and the group of terrorists looking for him, he tries to remember what happened a year ago and find out who has framed him so he can clear his name.

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Justice Redeemed

Scott Pratt · 310 pages

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Watch Me

Brenda Novak · 440 pages

Someone tried to kill her twelve years agoTeenagers Sheridan Kohl and Jason Wyatt were parked at the lake in Whiterock, Tennessee, when a stranger wearing a ski mask shot them both. Sheridan lived but Jason died--and the stranger was never caught. Even though Sheridan's family moved away right afterward, she's never been able to put the crime behind her.And now that someone doesn't want her to com

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