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  Beasts and Baking - A Cozy...

  S. Usher Evans

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  Spring is on the horizon, and the Weary Dragon Inn is getting its annual deep clean. But before Bev can even finish scrubbing the windows, Carpenter Earl's workshop goes up in flames. Earl's convinced the local kids are behind the mischief, but when more buildings come crashing down under mysterious circumstances, Bev's on the case once more.  
   The cozy follow-up to Secrets and Snowflakes, Beasts and Baking is the fourth installment in the Weary Dragon Inn series, following amnesiac innkeeper Bev and the curiosities that occur in the quaint fantasy village of Pigsend. 

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  Sherlock Holmes: The Engineer's...

  Sir Aarthur Conan Doyl

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  In the summer of 1889, a young Londoner and consultant hydraulic engineer, Victor Hatherley, recounts the strange events that occurred to him the night before, initially to Dr. Watson and later to Sherlock Holmes. 
  Hatherley was visited by a man who identified himself as Colonel Lysander Stark and offered a confidential 50 guinea (£52.50, equivalent to £6,173 in 2021[1]) commission to examine a hydraulic press at a country house in Eyford, Berkshire that Stark claimed was used to compress fuller's earth into bricks. Despite his misgivings and theorising that Stark was lying about the machine's true purpose, Hatherley felt compelled to accept the offer, as his business was newly established and he had little work. 
  Upon arriving at an appointed train station, Hatherley was picked up by a carriage with frosted glass windows and traveled what he believed was a considerable distance to the house. Distracted by his desire to be paid, Hatherley ignored a woman's warnings to escape before he examined the press and made recommendations on how to fix it. Upon further investigation however, he discovered the floor was covered in a "crust of metallic deposit." Realising his theory was right, he confronted Stark, who then tried to kill him with the press. After the woman helped Hatherley escape, a murderous Stark pursued him with a cleaver, forcing Hatherley to jump from a second-storey window, losing his thumb to Stark in the process. Surviving the fall and landing within some rose bushes, Hatherley passed out and later awoke by a hedge near the train station.

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  Blood Before Dawn

  Daniel V. Meier Jr.

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  Death of a 130-year Oligarchy.Volume 2 in The Dung Beetles of Liberia series.In April of 1979, Ken Verrier and his wife, Sam, return to Liberia to buy diamonds. They did not return to get caught up in a rice riot and a coup de'etat. But that's what happens. Ken witnesses and unwittingly participates in a period of Liberia's tumultuous yet poorly documented history---the overthrow of the Tolbert presidency and ultimately the end of the Americo-Liberian one hundred thirty-three years of political and social dominance.Details of President Tolbert's assassination are sketchy, but through Ken's association with his Americo friends from the past, the CIA agents he meets, and the Liberian military he is forced to deal with, a believable scenario emerges.While describing the once beautiful country and a kind and generous people, Meier intertwines terrifying tales of the atrocities committed that account for the future pain of an entire nation.

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  Cabin The: A Murder Mystery - None

  W.D. Frolick

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  On sabbatical, a stressed-out NYPD homicide detective, Buck Woods, returns home to Orono, Maine. His goal is to relax and fix up an old log cabin he inherited from his grandfather. 
  Upon arriving back in town, Buck meets his old high school friend in a local bar. Jim Barkowsky, a detective with the Orono PD invites Buck to stay with him, his wife Shawna, and their two children, Christina and Nicolas. 
  The following day, the two men head to Pushaw Lake to check out the cabin to see what work needs to be done. They are shocked when they find a decomposing body of an unidentified man lying on the floor of the master bedroom. The man died from a single gunshot wound to the head.  
  Buck and Jim set out to solve the murder by putting the pieces of the puzzle together. Twists and turns and unexpected obstacles abound, leading to a climax that puts Buck's life on the line.

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  The Last Storm - The Shadows

  Sam Sisavath

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  The storm of the century. A ghost city. Law enforcement all but suspended. 
   
  Hurricane Matthew is a force to be reckoned with. It has been forecasted to drown the city of Houston in an unrelenting torrent of rain. In the days before its arrival, the city was evacuated, leaving behind only a skeleton police force and civilians unable to flee its destructive path. 
   
  It’s the perfect time and the perfect place for the perfect crime. 
   
  Richter has it all figured out. A professional with years of experience, he leads a group of similar professionals that have seen and done it all. The plan goes down without a hitch, just as Richter envisioned. It’s everything else that goes off the rails. 
   
  Forced to seek refuge in an abandoned apartment building to wait out the storm, Richter crosses paths with a police officer and her partner. They think they’re each other’s worst enemies, but they’re wrong. Very wrong. There is a creature of endless hunger waiting in the shadows, and it’s ready to feed. 
   
  Good guys? Bad guys? None of it matters tonight.

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  Run Away: Book Summary & Analysis

  Jack Rylan

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  This audiobook is an independent and unofficial overview, created solely for educational and informational purposes. It is not associated with, authorized by, or endorsed by the original author or publisher.
  
   
  When his seemingly perfect daughter disappears into the underworld of drugs and danger, a desperate father tracks her down in Central Park—only to find that rescuing her pulls him into a web of secrets, lies, and violent conspiracies. As he digs deeper, he discovers that the truth behind her disappearance could destroy everything he thought he knew about his family. A gripping thriller about how far a parent will go to protect their child—and what happens when you cross the point of no return.

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