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  Selected The: A Novella...

  Ron Collins Jr

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  Daniel Aurora thought a jury duty notice would give him a break from the job that had been wearing him down - a healthcare insurance company where denying coverage had become routine, and every decision felt like it could cost someone their life. Instead, he is drafted into The Selected, a new government program that eliminates due process and sends its members into the streets to deliver judgment on the crimes they witness. 
  Given authority he never asked for, Daniel is pushed into a role that changes his life overnight. Life-changing money appears without warning. His access opens every door. And he is trained at a level this country has never seen before. The rules are simple, strict, and final. 
  As the weight of his new role settles in, Daniel struggles to understand whether he is serving justice or becoming another tool of corruption. Every judgment leaves a mark. Every decision forces him to confront the line between right and wrong. 
  He never wanted any of this. But once he steps inside the program, there is no way back - only the truth that he’ll take the power they force into his hands, but he will never belong to them.

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  To Catch a Thief

  David Dodge

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  It takes a thief … 
    
  "Le Chat" ("The Cat"), an infamous thief, has come out of retirement and is again liberating expensive jewelry from wealthy tourists on the French Riviera. Or is it a "copycat" who is stealing fortunes?  
    
  John Robie thought he had left his larcenous past behind. Once responsible for a string of daring thefts and escapes, he was caught and sent to prison just before the outbreak of World War II. Freed during the German occupation of France, Robie joined the French Resistance and received unofficial amnesty after the war ended. He retired to a simple life in the country where he befriended the local commissaire, Oriol, and tended his gardens. Now it's 1951, and someone has been at work using his old MO. When the police come to arrest him, Robie escapes to Cannes. There, he reconnects with his former comrade Bellini, who convinces Robie to help catch the copycat.  
    
  Disguised as a pudgy, middle-aged American businessman, Robie scouts the local nightclubs and casinos and tries to outthink the new thief. When he meets Francie Stevens, the daughter of a wealthy tourist, she becomes Robie's unwelcome ally, and together they hatch a dangerous plan to catch the thief at a gala party. But soon they both realize that Robie really is a thief at heart. With Oriol and the police on his trail, will he escape capture? Will the real thief be caught? And will Robie give up the thief? 
    
  "Fans of the movie and classic crime fiction will enjoy this story of honor among thieves."—Library Journal

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  BIG HORN - A Jenn Herrington...

  Pamela Fagan Hutchins

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  Nora Roberts meets Yellowstone in this gripping new mystery series from USA Today bestselling author Pamela Fagan Hutchins—perfect for fans of small-town secrets, emotional suspense, and rugged romance. 
  Jennifer Herrington has everything she ever wanted—an elite job as a Texas prosecutor and a shot at becoming the youngest female DA in Houston history. But when her husband buys a crumbling lodge on Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains, she’s forced to trade stilettos for snow boots—and she’s not thrilled about it. 
  Then a wealthy investor turns up dead in the lodge’s septic tank, a knife in his head… and the caretaker—gentle, grief-stricken George—is covered in blood with no memory of the night before. 
  Suddenly, Jennifer is defending the man everyone else believes is guilty. She’s convinced George didn’t do it—not the guy who rescues baby skunks, spoils an incontinent old dog, and mourns the wife he lost to the man now dead. But evidence piles up, a blizzard traps them in, and Jennifer’s own buried Wyoming past starts clawing to the surface. 
  With crossover characters from What Doesn’t Kill You, Delaney Pace, and Patrick Flint, this edge-of-your-seat mystery is packed with emotional stakes, vivid wilderness, and the kind of twisted turns only Pamela Fagan Hutchins can deliver. 
  Readers are raving: 
  “A Bob Ross painting with Alfred Hitchcock hidden among the trees.” 
  “Absolutely unputdownable wonder of a story.” 
  “A nail-biter... beautifully descriptive and deeply human.” 
  “Read it in one fell swoop—I could not put it down.” 
  Perfect for fans of C.J. Box, Sandra Brown, and Kristin Hannah—with a rugged twist!

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  The Adventure of the Norwood...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the second tale from The Return of Sherlock Holmes. The story was first published in The Strand Magazine in 1903 with original illustrations by Sidney Paget.
  Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are visited by "the unhappy John Hector McFarlane", a young lawyer from Blackheath who has been accused of murdering one of his clients, a builder called Jonas Oldacre. McFarlane explains to Holmes that Oldacre had come to his office only a day earlier and asked him to draw up his will in legal language. McFarlane saw, to his surprise, that Oldacre was making him the sole beneficiary and even heir to a considerable bequest, and McFarlane cannot imagine why Oldacre would do so. That business took McFarlane to Oldacre's house in Lower Norwood, where some documents had to be examined for legal purposes. They had been kept in the safe, where the murder allegedly took place. McFarlane left quite late and stayed at a local inn. He claims to have read about the murder in the newspaper the next morning on the train. The paper said quite clearly that the police were looking for him.

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  Descent from Xanadu

  Harold Robbins

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  A decadent billionaire pursues immortality in this raucous, raunchy, globe-hopping novel by “the dirty old man of American letters” (Hollywood Reporter). 
   
  The wealthiest man in the world, Judd Crane is also ruthless, sexually irresistible, and determined to conquer man's last frontier—eternal life. A man who always gets what he wants, Judd pursues his dream on a dangerous, obsessive journey from Yugoslavia to China, from his lush private island to a secret atomic city in the Brazilian jungle.  
   
  Crane is willing to spend billions, risk death, outwit foreign agents, lose his entire empire and the woman he loves . . . until, at the moment of victory, he discovers the most important secret of all.

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  Dead Man's Folly - A Hercule...

  Anonymous

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  When a mock murder game staged for charity threatens to turn into the real thing, the intrepid Hercule Poirot is called in to take part in this Dead Man’s Folly, a classic from the queen of suspense, Agatha Christie. 
  Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well-known crime writer, agrees to organize their murder hunt. 
  Despite weeks of meticulous planning, at the last minute Ariadne calls her friend Hercule Poirot for his expert assistance. Instinctively, she senses that’s something sinister is about to happen….

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