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When veterinarian Rachel Goddard and Deputy Sheriff Tom Bridger take teenagers on an outing to clean up roadside trash in rural Mason County, Virginia, they make a grisly discovery: the plastic-wrapped body of a young woman. One teen peers at the face through the plastic and screams. The dead girl is her sister, Shelley, a law student who has been missing for a month.
As Tom launches the investigation, Rachel copes with a visit from her own sister,...
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Pregnant veterinarian Maura Kelly, along with U.S. Marshall Jack Menard, risks everything, including the life of her unborn child, to unravel the mystery of a smuggler's cache of mutated animals, a puzzle that involves fractal intelligence, stem-cell research, and a secret history of the Book of Genesis.
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First book in the Posadas County Mystery Series
When a series of crimes disrupts the tranquil community in Posadas County, New Mexico, a group of small-town cops will have to fight for their lives to keep the county safe
Posadas County, New Mexico, has very few mean streets and no city-slick cop shop. But it has an earnest, elected County Sheriff and his aging Undersheriff-William C. Gastner. Pushing sixty, widower Bill has no other life than in...
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2019 recipient of the Derrick Murdoch award from the Crime Writers of Canada
Passionate environmentalist, old-time hippy Lucky Smith and Chief Constable of Trafalgar, British Columbia Paul Keller are an unlikely couple. Their vacation to the Rocky Mountains is a chance to explore their fledging late-in-life relationship. But trouble interferes when the pair run into Paul's estranged son, Matt.
This chance encounter soon becomes a quagmire of trouble...
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Poisoned Pen Press
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2007
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First edition.
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1 online resource (223 pages)
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Canadan Mennonite veterinarian Abner Dueck battles Indonesian politics and the attempts of local businessmen, military rulers, and international "advisors" to manipulate development projects, as he unravels the mysterious deaths of both cattle and people.
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Lakeshore chronicles volume 4
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After surviving a hostage situation, lawyer Sophie Bellamy returns home to the peaceful Catskills village of Avalon where she, while repairing the bonds with her family, falls in love with the local veterinarian.
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Presents the experiences of a veterinarian who has practiced in South Africa for a period of twenty-five years, describing his treatments of such wild animals as a lion, bull elephant, king cobra, rhinoceros, and crocodile, and the dangers he has encountered in his practice.
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This heartwarming and funny collection of stories by a dedicated veterinarian features wild horses, porcupine quill-covered dogs, male cats in labor, an extremely ornery pygmy donkey, an enormous hog, and many other domestic--and not so domestic--animals. Wells begins as an inexperienced recent graduate and emerges as a caring and beloved veterinarian, narrating many uplifting, life-altering, life-threatening, and hilarious episodes along the way....
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"Home to a cowboy. In a split second, a tragic accident ends Kathleen Somers's ballet career. Her dreams shattered, she returns home to the Soaring S ranch...and her first love. Suddenly the local veterinarian, Dr. Nate Sterling, goes from her ex to her champion. With the help of a lively poodle therapy dog, the cowboy vet sets out to challenge Kathleen's strength and heal her heart. He'll show her there's life beyond dance, even if it means she leaves...
15) Blessings
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Sommerfeld trilogy volume 3
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Trina Muller is passionate about helping animals, but when she makes plans to attend college and earn a degree in veterinary medicine, her parents and prospective husband express their disapproval about her intentions.
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"The hilarious and the heartbreaking come together in this collection of true tales, all gathered from his lifelong career. MacVean finds himself riding backwards atop a potbelly pig that bucks and kicks its way down the hall, knocking over a china cabinet in the process. One woman with terminal cancer earnestly wants to know where pets go when they pass away?will her beloved cat and dog join her in the afterlife? Navigating the finer elements of...
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Christmas Tree Ranch volume 2
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Veterinarian J. T. "Rush" Rushford isn't looking forward to Christmas. It'll be his first without his beloved four-year-old daughter, Claire. A year ago, Rush's wife divorced him for another man, then broke his heart further by revealing that Claire was her lover's child. The final blow was Rush losing all parental rights. Now he's in Branding Iron, Texas, with his mobile vet practice, just hoping to get through the season-until something like a Christmas...
20) Broken places
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Summer is deadly in the mountain community of Mason County, Virginia. Deputy Sheriff Tom Bridger and veterinarian Rachel Goddard are caught in a maelstrom of lies that stretch far into the past and suspicions that threaten the future. Cam and Meredith Taylor are murdered within hours of one another, and Rachel is dragged into the case because she heard-but didn't see-Cam's murder. The Taylors arrived in Mason County as volunteers in the 1960s War...
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