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Glory Broussard mysteries volume 1
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"It's a hot and sticky Sunday in Lafayette, Louisiana, and Glory has settled into her usual after-church routine, meeting gamblers at the local coffee shop, where she works as a small-time bookie. Sitting at her corner table, Glory hears that her best friend--a nun beloved by the community--has been found dead in her apartment. When police declare the mysterious death a suicide, Glory is convinced that there must be more to the story. With her reluctant...
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Hannah seems to have a perfect life. She has a perfect job, perfect boyfriend and perfect university grades. Planning her life away, Hannah is deliriously happy. That is, until two mysterious deaths plague her, throwing her life into chaos and despair and pain. Hannah's world is turned upside down; everything she thought she knew is a lie. Jay, her perfect boyfriend is a successful businessman. He treats her wonderfully and makes her happier than...
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"Meg works for a casino in LA, catching cheaters and popping a few too many pain pills to cope, following a far different path than her sister Haley, a famous actress. But suddenly reports surface of Haley dying at the remote rehab facility where she hadbeen forced to go to get her addictions under control. There are whispers of suicide, but Meg can't believe it. She decides that the best way to find out what happened to her sister is to check in...
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---The hometown everyone wants to call their own gets a spotlight-Even with all her experience, Gloria Bachman, retired banker and candy entrepreneur, didn't see this coming.Sweeties, the beloved Comfort chocolate shop, was ready for its cameo in Jazzy Mezcal's famous travel and food show-advertising extraordinaire! Comfort town folks had worked hard all summer to get their shops "Hallmark movie ready." On the eve of TV crews taking over the town,...
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Story Four: Changes of the Heart
After a break-up with her significant other and with no employment opportunities near her parents' farm, Sloane accepts a temporary position as an adjunct in a university in NYC. She "apartment-sits" for her best friend, MJ, who is on a sabbatical with her significant-other during the fall semester. The family that has the apartment next to hers becomes friends and the son, a well-known TV veterinarian (Dr. Lance...
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The Last Alchemist
What if an aging Nazi scientist hid away on an American farm, pretending that he was dead because he knew too much? This thriller, grounded in historical research, reveals the frightening prospect of "Hitler's children."
Jake Kincaid's chance encounter with an elderly scientist, who calls himself an alchemist, introduces him to a diabolical plot. A past associate of the alchemist has reanimated a mad dream of a eugenics...
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When her brother, Henry, is murdered, Kate is grief stricken. Nothing in her background has prepared her for this. The family's successful import/export business in Chicago provided a wealthy lifestyle. When her father died, Henry ran the business while she took care of their mother, Grace. When Henry's ten-year marriage failed, he came home to live. After Grace died, Henry sold the business. Kate had adjusted to those changes; they were normal, but...
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Secrets are revealed. Lies are exposed. And in order to have a future, William and Eva will have to delve into the past.
William Templeton, widower and police chief of Eden, North Carolina is working the scene of a local woman's drowning when the body is found with an old gold coin in her pocket – identical to a coin that was discovered on Catherine's body, his estranged wife, over a year ago. Catherine's case, originally deemed a tragic accident,...
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During a lucid moment, an Alzheimer's patient tells amateur sleuth BIodina d'Angelo that 40 years ago he killed his lumberyard partner in the Cascades of Washington state. Biodina begins searching historical records, and a clever fraud scheme is uncovered, along with news articles about a missing lumberyard owner. Along the way, her intuitive nature and nosiness helps her uncover another murder of a well-respected record producer. Will the murderess...
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When a Member of Parliament is found murdered and hidden behind a statue in the entrance of Westminster, retired Detective Chief Inspector Friender is called upon by Scotland Yard to use his skills and expertise to solve the case. As Friender delves into the victim's life and relationships, he follows a trail of clues that takes him on a journey along the River Thames and into the heart of the House of Commons. Along the way, he must use his divergent...
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For two years Evie Cranford has a perfect marriage. And then she discovers her husband, Morgan, can read her mind. Having a husband who loves her is heaven. Having one who knows her every thought is hell. She makes Morgan move out and insists on a divorce. But before she can do that a dear friend of Evie and Morgan is murdered. She sets aside her own plans and agrees to help Morgan uncover the killer.
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Nancy Douillard, a widowed, retired lawyer, and former judge has just returned to her 55+ community after a frustrating meeting at a local law firm. Nancy felt invalidated and angry at being patronized as if her "use-by date" had expired when offering her services. She had hoped to reignite her passion for her profession and give a purposeful meaning to her life. She looks forward to a drink and venting her disgust with the previous interview, with...
14) Highway One
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Laura Olsen, whose life is interrupted by a pending divorce, travels to northern California to housesit a bed and breakfast inn for an old college friend. From the beginning, she gets involved with the small village of Mendocino and the death of one of its residents. She finds herself in great danger.The town sheriff, a handsome man of her age, tries to get her to stay out of the mystery, but Laura doesn't heed his advice. She inadvertently discovers...
15) Mountain Shadows
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Nicola Henderson, victims services advocate, has a stalker. When a sinister delivery arrives at her home, she and her family flee to a remote location, deep in the rockies, called Mountain Shadows Lodge. Although Nicola has fled her stalker, what she encounters at Mountain Shadows Lodge is so much worse. There are only a few other guests, and the first night begins with fun. There's a campfire, a ghost story, a prank that goes wrong, and too much...
16) The Blue Rose
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Wyatt Antone's life as a gig-to-gig jazz musician folds back upon itself when he meets a mysterious young woman we eventually come to know as 'Jazmine'. After a series of 'coincidental' encounters, Wyatt begins to suspect there is a cunning design behind the meetings. With the help of his jazz mate and would be lover, Elise Marchant, Wyatt attempts to unravel the puzzle of the woman's true identity and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation...
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Have you ever felt like you have to don your Yosemite Sam persona to protect your home from marauders? But not because you flaunt and hoard treasure. Oh no. It's because the marauders aren't in it for the loot alone.The marauders get their kicks from breaking and turning everything in their path inside out. It's like they get their jollies from turning tidy, functional, and organized needs into heaps of trash.The cost in dollars, time, and outside...
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A woman in wartime Hollywood and her dream of the perfect motion picture. Renie Lee has climbed the ladder in a man's world to be head of the Story Department at Warner Bros. Studios. Renie is an idealist who believes that "the perfect film" can be created. When she pulls an unproduced stage play set in Morocco out of the slush pile, she has a feeling this one is special, maybe not perfect but special enough to secure her place as an equal to the...
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The curtain is about to go up on an original play in the medieval village of Dunster. But will a local murder and a crashing chandelier bring down the first performance just two days before opening night? Rochelle Reid and her boyfriend Jon Tapping are in town to support a former neighbor's debut as an actor with an amateur theatre troupe. Unscripted moments with the show's beloved director, tensions with the wife of a player booted from the cast,...
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On the annual Ghost Night when spirits wander, newlyweds Catherine Roxborough and her partner Chance Yang never imagined death would stalk their summery seaside destination. Excited to meet her husband's family on their honeymoon, Catherine crosses paths with new acquaintances, young and old, as they journey from London to northern coastal China. However, the couple's celebrations are marred when ghosts of the past come back to haunt the Yangs, as...
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