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Claire Ingram hasn’t been back to her family’s estate in Falls Village since that summer before she went off to college to study fashion and design. It was the same summer she lost her virginity to a man older than her, a man she had fallen in love with, but knew their taboo relationship would only bring more rumors and speculation to her family. Now grown and returning to the place where she became a woman, Claire hadn’t expected her past to be waiting there for her. The Feud of Falls Village is about to debut in town and tell the story Hollywood created.

The novel opens with the teenage protagonist suddenly awakening to find himself in a state mental institution, one that looks more like a prison than a hospital. When he demands to know why he is being held against his will, none of the hospital personnel give him a straight answer. To make matters worse, he realizes he has a serious case of amnesia, especially when he is asked to recount any details about a tragic incident that occurred on Hampton Road.

After a police officer's family is taken hostage, he faces a deadly choice: One of his family members will live, and the other will die. He must make the decision, and time is running out. Homicide Investigators Vincent Falcone and Farrah Richards take the case, and a team is assembled. Every effort is made to catch the psychopath before the next murder. The killer makes mistakes; it's almost as if getting caught doesn’t matter. But can they reach him in time?

A casual trip to Puerto Rico. Fun, sun, and hot senoritas. What could possibly go wrong? Everything. A Spanish Don gets whacked. We get blamed for it. The cops, the mob, and even the cigar lady over on Esmeralda Avenue are out to kill us. We barely escape from the El Conquistador hotel with the cloths on our back. Wet bathing suits, no less. We’re not alter boys. I mean, we’ve left a few bloodstains on the wall. But we had no part in this tropical execution. But come hell or high water, we were going to even the score.

While her mother had been alive, Cindi had not been allowed to see her father. Now that she is alone, she is determined to get to know her father again. She accepts an invitation to fly half-way across the country to visit the Louisiana home shared by her father and his fiancée. Upon her arrival at the home, named Always Magnolia, Cindi is greeted by the caretaker, Dell, a handsome young man with chiseled features. Dell’s casual air is disconcerting, and Cindi finds herself wanting to know more about him.

A riveting story of greed, addiction, and betrayal. Some say a curse was born when the bodies of six children were uncovered in the small town of East Durham, and after a series of mysterious tragedies, Ben Flowers is starting to believe it. What begins as a streamlined plot to seek revenge on those responsible for the horrendous crimes evolves into a nightmarish slip up of fatalities, and a whirlwind chase to find the killer.

When a local fisherman hires Weston Wolf to find out what happened to his talented daughter, the savvy detective and his partner Angie Stallone discover a series of clues that lead to salacious crimes and celebrity scandal. Along the way, Wolf meets Freyja Beck, a unique and beautiful woman who was once an aspiring singer and actress. Her connection to the movie industry could be the key to unraveling the mystery of the missing girl and acquiring the evidence to nail one of Hollywood’s most celebrated producers.

Curl up by the fire, and dive into this cozy murder mystery with old friends Byrd Jeffcoast and Emmaline Beard, as they work to discover the truth behind the death of an old high school chum. For decades, it has been believed by most that their friend, David, had driven to the river and jumped in, never to be seen again. As fortune would have it, Emmaline's purse, left at a long-closed amusement park, turns up with a mysterious note, and the pieces of the truth begins to unfold.

Assassination in Santo Domingo is a combination of political satire and action/adventure taking place in the Dominican Republic, a banana republic with a blotchy history of dictators and military takeovers. It is the story of Raphael Trompero, a narcissistic dunce with autocratic ambitions and a corrupt mentality, who is elected president of the country in furtherance of a nefarious plan by Iran to gain influence in Central America.

The antebellum spring mansion tours are in full swing in the little South Louisiana town of Ville Nouvelle. Emmaline Beard, local leading citizen and theatrical producer, is tour hostess at LeFevre House, an ancestor’s former home. Emmaline is astonished when an old friend’s granddaughter, Carol Powell, arrives and thrusts a package into her hands and then flees as hastily as she arrived. Emmaline chases after her unsuccessfully. The package contains valuable black pearls.

Two unscrupulous antiquity dealers, Hugh Underdonk and Alfred Bacon, hope to get their hands on the Dare Diary, a long lost journal written by Eleanor Dare, one of the original members of Roanoke Island's Lost Colony. Detective Weston Wolf is drawn into this web of deception and murder by a beautiful woman who claims to be a descendant of Eleanor. As the bodies pile up, Wolf must untangle this web to save his own neck.

Taking a detour on his way back to Vegas, Bull, one of Big Red Fortunato’s righthand men, visits his old army buddy, Sal Stark. Upon arriving at the Lucky Lady, Bull is dismayed to discover Sal severely beaten by local “businessmen” who want to claim the casino as their own. Further investigation reveals that a group of little girls is being held captive. But Red and Bull find out the kidnapping is just the tip of the iceberg. In this 11th installment, take a ride through the roads of the Nevada desert in the 1960s - when the local law was often subject to interpretation!

When LA detective Jim Lloyd reluctantly returns to his NJ hometown for a final funeral, he is pulled into his troubled past and a world of secrets, deceit, and danger.

One of the last novels by international best seller Irving Wallace. The villain in this book is none other than the infamous H. H. Holmes...a historical suspense novel based in Chicago near the time of the World's Fair.... Welcome to the Everleigh club - the world's most sumptuous bordello. Minna and Aida Everleigh - proprietors of the famous “house of pleasure” on Chicago's Levee. Karen - the mayor's elegant, gorgeous secretary who is playing a dangerous masquerade. Cathleen - the Evereighs' socialite niece, a sweet Southern girl soon to learn all about becoming a woman.

Private detective Grant Dawson is looking for his first big money case. When the mayor of a small town calls him to help solve a murder, he doesn't think twice - especially since the money offered was right up his alley. But nothing would prepare him for the horrors he would face. His body and mind will be pushed to the limit, as the line between right and wrong blurs. Can Grant solve the case, or will he be driven mad by the killer's mind games?

New Bedford, the Whaling City where, for generations, men have rolled the dice to harvest the sea's bounty. Storms, reefs and fickle catches have traditionally plagued the New Bedford fishermen and their whalemen forebearers, but still, New Bedford men go to sea. When times are tough, desperate men will resort to desperate means to keep their boat and livelihood intact.

Rabbi Avrum Steinberg is so much more than just a horror movie loving rabbi of a small, run-down synagogue on New York City's Lower East Side - he is also a small time private eye, albeit with cases no more exhilarating than locating debtors and errant, deadbeat husbands. Following the bizarre murder of a young woman in his synagogue, Steinberg begins to suspect that a vampire may be loose in New York, and before long, his suspicions are proven true.

One Sunday, mid-August morning, Ben and Liz take their dogs for a romp on the beach below their house. The dogs come upon an apparent pile of rags, which turns out to be an obliterated corpse. A tailor's name tag, too, easily enables the police to identify the otherwise unidentifiable body as an international fugitive known as James Terry.

A Tale of Two Lawyers is a novel that chronicles the professional and personal lives of two Chicago attorneys - Mel Foster and Jerry Sloan - as they follow divergent pathways, beginning as law school roommates and continuing through their colorful, contrasting legal careers. Love and marriages come and go in the progression of their lives, but one woman becomes of key importance in the final confrontation that ends their careers - successfully and happily for one, and ignominiously for the other.

Although the presidential election of 1944 placed FDR in the White House for an unprecedented fourth term, historical memory of the election itself has been overshadowed by the war, Roosevelt’s health and his death the following April, Truman's ascendancy, and the decision to drop the atomic bomb. Today most people assume that FDR’s reelection was assured. Yet, as David M. Jordan’s engrossing account reveals, neither the outcome of the campaign nor even the choice of candidates was assured.