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Previously Hoag introduced millions of fans to Oak Knoll, a small California town that, in the mid-eighties, seemed idyllic until the See-No-Evil killer shattered that notion. It took FBI agent Vince Leone and a new technique called "profiling" to put an end to the trauma. Now, through Leone's pioneering science-based investigative skills, Hoag explores the early days of forensic police work.
2) Dead Aim
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"[Thomas Perry is] a master of nail-biting suspense." -Los Angeles Times In this explosive new novel from the Edgar Award-winning author of The Butcher's Boy, Blood Money, and other novels of "dazzling ingenuity" (The New York Times Book Review), Thomas Perry gives us a thriller even more startling than his most recent bestseller, Pursuit. In Dead Aim, an unsuspecting man tries to help a young woman on the edge, and finds himself drawn into a lethal...
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"With her divorce settlement about to run out and a mortgage she can't afford, Robyn Caldwell needs a plan. But how's she supposed to think when her daughter has become the most demanding bride ever, her son won't even consider college, her best friend is on the brink of marital disaster and her ex is making a bad decision that could bring everything crashing down on Robyn's head? When her great-aunt Lillian invites her to Santa Barbara for the summer,...
4) True colors
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2013
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Jamie Garland loved working for the eccentric Miss Isabel. Her job often threw her into the company of the most fascinating people . . . like Cade Santerre. From the start, he made no secret of the fact that he desired her. And only last night, he'd tenderly made love to her.... A morning visit from the authorities changed everything. And, angry over Cade's apparent betrayal, Jamie sent him away. But weeks later a question still burned within her--one...
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[1996]
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PI Kate Blanchard, a former policewoman, is hired by a California heiress to investigate the death of her boyfriend, said to have committed suicide while in jail on a drugs charge. Blanchard's investigation leads her to a conspiracy involving oil companies, the Mexican mafia and Las Vegas casinos, one which will ruin the countryside. At that, people try to kill her. By the author of Against the Wind.
7) Aussie rules
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c2006
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Mel and Dimi were only 16 when their world fell apart, and for the past 10 years, the young women have been pretending to themselves and everyone else that their mentor and role model, Sally, will be back any time now to resume control of the airport where they've been covering for her all this time. But when Bo Black unexpectedly arrives from Australia looking for Sally to exact vengeance for her theft of his father's hard-earned money and prized...
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Meant to be volume 2
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2022.
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Isabelle is completely lost. When she first began her career in publishing right out of college, she did not expect to be twenty-five, living at home, still an editorial assistant, and the only Black employee at her publishing house. Overworked and underpaid, constantly torn between speaking up or stifling herself, Izzy thinks there must be more to this publishing life. So when she overhears her boss complaining about a beastly high-profile author...
9) Party
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c2010
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IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
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As eleven different high school students recount, in their own voices, events before, during, and after the same end-of-year party, the stories intersect and combine in unexpected ways.
10) The dream
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2013.
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Some secrets haunt you forever.... Genny Austin, tormented by nightmares of a past life; Jack Brennan's nightmares are now...his business under siege, his life threatened. They meet one restless night on a Santa Barbara beach, Jack wanting nothing more than a one-night stand, but Genny isn't the type. Then they're drawn into a world of passion and deadly riddles. Jamaica holds the answers...if they can find them, and live.
11) Life after theft
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[2013]
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
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"Jeff is the new guy in school and the only one who can see Kimberlee, a ghost with a lot of (stolen) baggage. To help her move on, Jeff must return everything she stole when she was alive. But being Kimberlee's accomplice turns into more than he bargained for when his crush and the cops get involved"--