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Laid off from her department store job, Carmen has perilously little cash and few options. The prospect of spending Christmas with her perfect sister Sofia, in Sofia's perfect house with her perfect children and her perfectly ordered yuppie life does not appeal. Frankly, Sofia doesn't exactly want her prickly sister Carmen there either. But Sofia has yet another baby on the way, a mother desperate to see her daughters get along, and a client who needs...
9) Exit music
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In his final case, Detective Inspector John Rebus examines the murder of a dissident Russian poet and tracks the activities of an elite delegation of Russian businessmen whose seemingly professional endeavors are rocked by the killing of a local gangster.
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A couple who are old friends of Isabel's ask for her help in a rather tricky situation: A successor is being sought for the headmaster position at their alma mater. The board has four final candidates but has received an anonymous letter alleging that one of them has a very serious skeleton in the closet. Could Isabel discreetly look into it? And so she does. What she discovers about all the candidates is surprising, but what she discovers in herself...
13) Temptation
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Temperance O'Neil travels to Scotland in 1908 to escape her stingy stepfather Angus McCairn.
14) Northanger Abbey
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In this modern retelling of Austen's classic, bookish minister's daughter Cat Morland joins her well-to-do friends in Edinburgh and falls for an up-and-coming lawyer who may harbor unsettling secrets.
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"A missing private investigator is found locked in a car hidden deep in the woods. Worse still - both for his family and the police - the body was in an area that had already been searched 10 years ago. Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is part of a new inquiry, combing through the mistakes of the original case. There were always suspicions over how the investigation was handled, and now - after a decade without answers - it's time for the truth....
16) On Dublin Street
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Jocelyn left her tragic past behind in the States and started over in Scotland, burying her grief, ignoring her demons, and forging ahead without attachments. When she moves into a new apartment on Dublin Street, she meets a man who shakes her carefully guarded world to its core. Braden Carmichael is used to getting what he wants, and he's determined to get Jocelyn into his bed. Knowing how skittish she is about entering a relationship, Braden proposes...
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"When Hannah Nichols last saw Marco D'Alesandro five long years ago, he broke her heart. The bad boy with a hidden sweet side was the only guy Hannah ever loved--and the only man she's ever been with. After one intense night of giving in to temptation, Marco took off, leaving Scotland and Hannah behind. Shattered by the consequences of their night together, Hannah has never truly moved on. Leaving Hannah was the biggest mistake of Marco's life--something...
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Let it bleed: In the midst of another bleak Edinburgh winter, Rebus becomes involved in a web of intrigue that poses more questions then answers.
Black & blue: Rebus juggles four cases in the course of trying to find one killer--who may lead back to the infamous Bible John--while the subject of an internal inquiry led by the man he's just accused of taking bribes.
The hanging garden: While on the paper trail of a World War II criminal, Rebus finds...
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When a young woman is found unconscious at the wheel of her car, evidence at the scene suggests this was no ordinary crash. Especially when it turns out her boyfriend is the son of the Scottish Justice Minister and neither of them is willing to talk to the police. Meanwhile, John Rebus is back on the force, albeit with a big demotion and an even larger chip on his shoulder. A new law has been passed allowing the Scottish police to re-prosecute old...
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