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  The Chosen Dead - Coroner Jenny...

  Matthew Hall

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  Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates . . . 
   An unlikely suicide or a deadly conspiracy? 
   When Bristol Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates the fatal plunge of a man from a motorway bridge, she little suspects that it has any connection with the sudden death of a friend’s thirteen year old daughter from a deadly strain of meningitis. But as Jenny pieces together the dead man’s last days, she’s drawn into a mystery whose dark ripples stretch across continents and back through decades. 
   In an investigation which will take her into the sinister realms of unbridled human ambition and corrupt scientific endeavour, Jenny is soon forced to risk the love and lives of those closest to her, as a deadly race to uncover the truth begins . . .

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  Under Fire

  Scarlett Cole

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  RITA nominee Scarlett Cole's Under Fire pairs a hot Navy SEAL with a medical researcher who finds herself in too deep.Hot, hard-bodied Sixton Rapp is a former SEAL who's raring to begin his brand-new civilian life. He and his Navy "brothers" start a security firm that offers the kind of services only a team of military-trained professionals can provide. But nothing prepared Six for his new client: an innocent woman on a mission to improve thousands of lives...unless someone takes hers first.Dr. Louisa North knows time is against her as she tries to create a "miracle" medical treatment for a disease with no known cure, until she creates a sample so powerful that the wrong people want to use it as a chemical weapon. At first, Six is unwilling to accept Louisa as his client. But soon he realizes that the danger is real and that there's much more to this plain-Jane scientist...including a burning passion between them that neither of them can resist.And now that an enemy is on Louisa's trail, Six will do whatever it takes to protect her — or die trying.

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  Abducted in Appalachia

  Drew Strickland

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  Where is the line drawn between doing what is lawful, and doing what is right?  
     
  After a body is found gutted in the road, Sheriff Elven Hallie discovers the murder was collateral damage to an abduction. One that leads out of his jurisdiction. And one that pushes the boundaries of everything he stands for.  
     
  Madds is missing.  
     
  Monacan County is rooted in criminal activity, corrupt law enforcement, and most of all, superstition. Elven will do whatever it takes to find Madds, even if it means forming a partnership with the man he despises most.  
     
  Hollis Starcher.  
     
  But how many of his own values will it cost him? And will it be enough to save Madds before it’s too late?

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  Ghost Dancer

  Robert Westbrook

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  A Native American working on his PhD. A cop blinded in the line of duty. A chic resort's only hope to stop a killer cold in his tracks. 
  Once a land of Pueblo dwellers, the town of San Geronimo Peak, New Mexico, is prime ski country. P.I. Howard Moon Deer and ex-cop Jack Wilder are headed there to meet their first client—a former U.S. senator and the ski slope's owner. Instead, they find his body—and a murder case to solve. 
  Overrun with pleasure seekers, plunderers, and fanatics, San Geronimo has no shortage of suspects. But investigating the senator's two very different daughters, his political enemies, and his complex business dealings leads only to false clues. Then the senator's granddaughter is kidnapped—and the new detectives are plunged into a dangerous race for a little girl's life . . . and for their own.

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  Mission Canyon - An Evan Delaney...

  Meg Gardiner

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  While bicycling in the foothills of Santa Barbara, Jesse Blackburn and his friend Isaac are struck down by a hit-and-run driver. Isaac is killed, but Jesse survives. Now he wants revenge, and his fiancée, Evan Delaney, wants justice. Neither is simple. Evan and Jesse underestimate the power of the person with whom they're dealing, and of the dark places where retribution will take them. As witnesses to the crime start dying one by one, it is apparent that no one can stop the killer-least of all Evan, who's next on his list. 
   
  "A harrowing (and all too timely) story of corporate greed and evildoing in quirky Southern California." -Jeffery Deaver 
  "A rattling good read with an unexpected twist." -The Sunday Telegraph

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  The Birthday of Eternity

  A.D. Price

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  In postwar Tinseltown, how far would a lonely heart go to find a soulmate? How deep into the treacherous world of the occult would L.A.'s disaffected dive? P.I.s Kit and Henry are posed to find out after they're hired to track down Lillian, the estranged wife of a prominent physician, who has gone missing with her "spirit" lover Tashin. The detectives' hunt leads to a Hollywood cult run by the ambitious Reverend, and his accomplice, the operator of a séance racket. To zero in on Lillian and the mysterious Tashin, Kit goes undercover, while Henry digs into the Reverend's unsavory past. Helping to unravel the con artists' tricks are Kit's psychiatrist lover Luca and her combat veteran brother Stanley. As danger and intrigue intensify, Kit and Henry discover that surviving the spirit trade will take all of their cunning and a whole lot of luck.

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