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What would you do if you had to kill someone to save your own life?
January Chevalier is on her first mission as a bounty hunter but she's already having second thoughts. Vampires are meant to be the bad guys. So why does her target seem to be the perfect gentleman?
Alone in Paris, January starts to wonder if she's made a terrible mistake. The large cash injection that's been added to her bank balance only serves as a daily reminder of the warning...
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Jahohora Petronella Inaavinuise, who came to be known as Mama Penee, was a young girl of eleven when her parents were shot in cold blood before her during the 1904–1908 genocidal war in Namibia. Waved away from the scene by a German soldier, she realised that it was her destiny to live. Finding water and food for herself and learning to avoid danger, she spent several months in hiding. Courageous and self-sufficient, she learned lessons in wisdom,...
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"Be warned, once you start reading, you won't be able to stop…" She keeps her true emotions hidden.He must unlock her heart if they are both to survive. Keira Puana's day couldn't get much worse. Her husband is murdered in cold blood right before her eyes, while a deadly lava flow destroys her house. Now, she's become the next target of a brutal criminal gang. When bounty hunter, Dalton Kealoha stumbles across Keira hiding in his back shed, his...
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When it comes to female killers, the most common type of crime is mariticide or murdering their husbands. There are many motivations behind taking someone's life but killing a person so close to you is often fueled by passion, financial gain, jealousy, or betrayal. The case of Shari Tobyne is the perfect example of a woman scorned. Her husband of thirty-five years wanted to divorce her due to the financial problems she caused by mishandling the couple's...
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Winner, 2014 IP Rolling Picks Best Creative Non-fiction
A Compulsion to Kill is a dramatic chronological account of 19th-century Tasmanian serial murderers. Never before revealed in such depth, the story is the culmination of extensive research and adept craftsmanship as it probes the essence of both the crimes and the killers themselves.
Beginning in 1806 with Australia's first serial killers, John Brown and Richard Lemon, A Compulsion to Kill...
6) The Stalker
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Infatuation turned deadly. Can a psychiatrist and a detective's growing connection survive a madman's obsession? Tampa, Florida. Dr. Audrey Ellis's whole world revolves around the human psyche. So when a bouquet of white roses shows up on her doorstep, she quickly realizes someone has developed an unhealthy fixation. Now anxious that predatory eyes follow her every movement, she's suspicious when she encounters a handsome stranger in the parking lot....
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"Axelrod packs plenty of layers and surprises into this intelligent, twisty tale. Henry's wry humor as well as his affection for the residents he serves exude warmth and will appeal to fans of Bill Crider's Sheriff Dan Rhodes." -Booklist
During a long winter and short, chilly spring, a series of disturbing incidents rock the small resort island of Nantucket. A Land Bank executive dies in a suspicious hunting accident, a prominent local family's historic...
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Replication and Open Communication As Methods of Finding the Truth combines academic research with significant real world experiences that will surprise and amaze. In this book you will follow Dr. Tompkins' first-person narrative of moving from a failed replication of an experiment in a chemistry lab to his investigative work as he attempted to replicate the facts of Truman Capote in his "non-fiction novel" In Cold Blood. This search for replication...
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Under suspicion (Mary Higgins Clark) volume 8
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2024
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The two identical brothers seemed perfect in every way, handsome, intelligent, popular, until a shocking summer night when one brother killed his parents in cold blood while the other brother had an iron-clad alibi. But which twin was where during the murders? And is it possible the two of them planned the perfect crime together? Years later, the twins are long estranged, each of them claiming to be convinced that the other is responsible for the...
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Consortium Book Sales & Distribution [distributor]
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�1999
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Named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly, Teducation gathers previously published and unpublished poems by Ted Joans, one of the first black poets to become involved in surrealism and an important figure of the Beat generation. This major collection of poems written over the past forty years is a significant contribution to American letters. "Jazz is my religion and surrealism is my point of view. Poetically I'm first of all concerned...
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"Midwife Sarah Malloy and her private investigator husband, Frank, must shine a light on the truth and catch the fiend who killed a young reporter in this new entry in the USA Today bestselling Gaslight Mystery series. Louisa Rodgers is working as a magazine reporter and is hoping midwife Sarah Malloy can help her. New Century Magazine, like Colliers and McClure's, is branching out into investigative articles on pressing social issues. Louisa explains...
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