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  Ocean Drive

  Sam Wiebe

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  A paroled killer and a small-town cop find themselves on a collision course when the murder-by-arson of a college student sparks off gang violence along the forty-ninth parallel. 
   
   
   
  His first day out of prison, paroled killer Cameron Shaw meets with a mysterious lawyer who offers him a small fortune to infiltrate the League of Nations crime syndicate. Shaw turns her down, intending to go straight. But with no job, no family, and no prospects, he's soon compelled to take her offer. 
   
   
   
  In the small Pacific Northwest town of White Rock, a body is pulled from a burning house. Staff Sgt. Meghan Quick identifies the victim as grad student Alexa Reed. Alexa's behavior during her last few days strikes Quick as bizarre. Why did she remove the for-sale sign from her parents' house, and why was she trying to meet with the League of Nations? 
   
   
   
  As Quick tries to solve Alexa's homicide, Shaw moves deeper into the League's cross-border drug trade. 
   
   
   
  With the threat of a gang war looming, and long-buried secrets coming to light, Quick must find Alexa's killer, while rescuing Shaw from the brutal gang violence that threatens the future of White Rock.

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  Caravan to Vaccares

  Alistair MacLean

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  From the acclaimed master of action and suspense comes this classic tale of suspense set in Provence, where an English tourist investigates a series of mysterious deaths. 
  From all over Europe, even from behind the Iron Curtain, gypsies make an annual pilgrimage to the holy shrine of their patron saint in Provence. But something is different about this year's gathering; this year people are dying. 
  Cecile Dubois and Neil Bowman are also in Provence, and discover that someone is financing the gypsies. What is the secret they are so determined to hide? As they follow the caravan, Bowman and Cecile come too close to it for safety, and before long are running for their lives. 
  What begins as a story of pilgrimage becomes a razor-edged thriller, blending mystery and suspense as Cecile and Bowman follow the caravan deeper into danger. This best-selling classic adventure novel from a top author delivers page-turning fiction with a detective’s urgency. 
  For fans of Robert Harris (Act of Oblivion), Frederick Forsyth (Revenge of Odessa), Rory Clements (Revenger), Edward Marston (Murder in Transit), and Eric Ambler (The Schirmer Inheritance). 
  HarperCollins 2025

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  Thistlewood Manor: Murder at the...

  Fiona Grace

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  "Very entertaining. I highly recommend this book to the permanent library of any reader that appreciates a very well written mystery, with some twists and an intelligent plot. You will not be disappointed. Excellent way to spend a cold weekend!"
  --Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (regarding Murder in the Manor)
  
  THISTLEWOOD MANOR: MURDER AT THE HEDGEROW (AN ELIZA MONTAGU COZY MYSTERY—BOOK 1) is the debut novel in a charming 1920s cozy mystery series by Fiona Grace, #1 bestselling author of Murder in the Manor, which has over 300 five star reviews!
  
  For centuries, Thistlewood Manor has stood as home to the Montagu family, a beacon to British aristocracy in rural England. But it’s 1928, and in this new age of women’s rights, Eliza Montagu, 27, a free spirit, has turned her back on her family to live an artist’s life in London.
  
  But when an unexpected family crisis arrives, Eliza has no choice but to return home to the demands of her family, to help her father, and to meet the Lord they hope she’ll marry.
  
  When a dead body appears in the midst of the reunion, Eliza quickly realizes that if she doesn’t solve the mystery, the crime may just be pinned on her, and dash her hopes for a life as a free woman.
  
  A charming historical cozy mystery series that transports readers back in time, THISTLEWOOD MANOR is mystery at its finest: spellbinding, atmospheric and impossible to put down. A page-turner packed with shocking twists, turns and a mystery that’s hard to solve, it will leave you reading late into the night, all while you fall in love with its unforgettable heroine.
  
  Books #2 and #3 in the series (A DOLLOP OF DEATH and CALAMITY AT THE BALL) are now also available!

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  On the Rocks

  Kerry J. Donovan

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  Ryan Kaine is on the rocks . . . 
   
   
   
  Fueled by his guilt at the loss of eighty-three civilians onboard aircraft BE1555, international fugitive, Ryan Kaine, vows to protect their grieving families—The 83—at all costs. When schoolboy Martin Princeton lies alone and dying on a Scottish mountainside, news of his disappearance spurs Kaine to abandon the pursuit of evidence that could clear his name. Officially, the authorities want Kaine in custody—unofficially, there's a bounty on his head. Still hampered by injuries from events that turned him into the most wanted man in Europe, Kaine must convince the mountain rescue team of his good intentions and find out everything he can about Martin's disappearance . . . before they discover who Kaine really is.

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  The Heedless Plague

  Percy Valentine

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  Since before the dawn of humankind, the genders have complemented and supported each other. Central to that has always been the primal desire of men for women. But what happens if that primal desire were to change. What if men no longer desired women, but focused their energies on themselves and their own interests. What would happen to civilization? What would it mean for relations between the sexes? What could even cause such a thing, and can it be stopped before it is too late? Two scientists race against time in search of these answers, even as many ordinary people face these same questions in their own lives, and then must answer, what does this mean for the future?

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  Mount Verity - A Novel

  Therese Bohman

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  On the night of Easter Eve 1989, twelve-year-old Hanna's older brother Erik and some friends go to the infamous Mount Verity, where there is a cave that, according to legend, was used in the witch trials in Östergötland during the seventeenth century. Rumor has it that whoever does not tell the truth and goes down into the cave will disappear into the mountain. Erik never comes home that night.Over the years, Hanna and her childhood friend Marcus develop an increasingly symbiotic relationship, until life takes them in different directions. He pursues an academic career, while she fails to get into art school, feeling uncertain about her path and doubting her talent. When Hanna finally becomes a successful artist, she cannot let go of what it has cost her. What justice decided that she was allowed to live while Erik vanished? What is there left to believe in when the worst has happened? And can the story of Mount Verity be more than a fable?Mount Verity is an atmospheric, naturalistic tale of survivor's guilt told in prose at once dreamy, almost magical, and yet realistic and rife with slowly building suspense.

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