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  The Ingrate I Sponsored

  Sloane Carver

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  The scholarship girl Faye's mother had sponsored for three years moved into Faye's house—and into Faye's life. She slept in Faye's bed, wore Faye's clothes, copied Faye's hair, and set her sights on Faye's boyfriend. When she got caught, she just blinked up at Faye's mother with wounded eyes and called her "Godmother."
  
  Faye let her keep playing. She even got her a job—as an assistant. At Faye's company.
  
  Because here's what the ingrate never bothered to learn: sweet, harmless Faye isn't the pampered young miss living off the family money. She's the twenty-four-year-old chairman who built the company everyone's so desperate to get into.
  
  So go ahead. Wear her face. Take her seat at the table. Faye will simply wait, smiling, for the moment it all comes crashing down.
  
  A razor-sharp, deeply satisfying revenge comedy about gratitude, entitlement, and consequence.

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  The Empty House - The Adventures...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "The Adventure of the Empty House" is a Sherlock Holmes short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, included in The Return of Sherlock Holmes collection. It was first published in Collier's in the US on September 26, 1903, and in The Strand Magazine in the UK in October 1903. The plot centers on a locked-room murder and Holmes's reunion with Watson, revealing Holmes's survival and continued pursuit of justice.

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  The murder of Roger Ackroyd -...

  James Harvey

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  In the quiet, gossipy village of King's Abbot, secrets are the currency of choice. But when a wealthy widow suddenly dies and her rumored fiancé, the affluent Roger Ackroyd, is found stabbed to death in his locked study, the village's whispered rumors turn into a chilling reality. 
  As the local police flounder in a sea of perplexing clues—a missing nephew, a mysterious stranger in the night, and a beautiful Moroccan dagger—it becomes clear that this is no ordinary murder. Enter Hercule Poirot, a brilliant and eccentric retired detective who recently moved next door to cultivate vegetable marrows. Reluctantly drawn into the tangled web of blackmail and deceit, Poirot must peer behind the polite masks of Ackroyd's household. 
  Written by James Harvey, The murder of Roger Ackroyd is a masterpiece of misdirection and suspense. Every character has a motive. Every alibi is paper-thin. Step into the study, examine the evidence, and prepare for one of the most astonishing twists in the history of detective fiction.

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  Risk Factor

  Michael Brandman

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  "The perfect substitute for that good-time trip to California you've decided not to take after all." —Kirkus Reviews 
   
   
   
  A new breed of brazen criminal forces Buddy Steel into unfamiliar territory. Will he outsmart the ingenious thieves before they get the best of him? 
   
   
   
  Buddy Steel, acting Sheriff of Freedom, California, is enjoying some well-deserved R&R at a friend's mountain hideaway when he's called home to investigate a home invasion—at his father's address. The break-in is just one in a series, perpetrated by ingeniously inventive burglars. To complicate matters, Buddy must also investigate a spate of cyber crimes targeting local businesses and individuals—an area well outside of his experience and comfort zone. 
   
   
   
  Already on the trail of the cybercriminals is LAPD Gang Enforcement's foremost computer geek, Detective Quinn Anthony. Buddy teams up with the unconventional—and much younger—brainiac to trace the convoluted trail of the hackers. From the adjunct of a vicious LA-based cartel to outside of US borders, Buddy and Quinn race to take down the hackers and recover the spoils. The closer they get, the more danger they face; and the more danger they face, the closer they become . . .

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  Grail Protocol

  Douglas W. Jones

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  What happens when a husband suddenly returns to youthful vigor while his wife remains in a nursing home? What happens when a grandmother is suddenly younger than her grandchildren? Over the millennia many have sought the secret of immortality. But be careful what you wish for, you just might get it...and it might not be what you think.  
  Geneticist, Simon Barstow, stumbles on the secret to immortality. Billionaire Gregory Noble, who has planned decades for precisely this event, ruthlessly strikes to steal this world-changing breakthrough and eliminate the few who know of its existence. His goal—keep the discovery secret and sell eternal life only to those who will pledge fealty and pay a king’s ransom for the privilege. If he succeeds, he will place all of humanity at his feet. Barstow has two options, stop the obsessed billionaire, or die. Noble has planned years for every contingency, forcing Barstow to take an insane gamble.

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  The Bittermeads Mystery

  E. R. Punshon

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  A young man takes a post at a lonely house called Bittermeads under a false name, looking for a missing man, and finds a packing case, a girl who will not explain herself, and a household where everyone is watching everyone. Punshon spent years as a laborer in Canada and America before settling to write some seventy detective novels; Dorothy L. Sayers reviewed him with real admiration, and this early one shows why.

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