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3) First family
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First lady Jane Cox insists on hiring private detectives Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to help when her twelve-year-old niece is abducted and the child's mother killed following a birthday party at Camp David, and while the investigators have no trouble identifying the assailant, they cannot figure out the motive for his obsession with the first family.
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The members of the Women's Murder Club are thrown into turmoil when one of them is injured in a shooting incident on a crowded ferry, and homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer has her hands full trying to find out who tried to kill her friend while at the same time investigating the kidnappings of children from well-to-do families, along with their nannies.
8) The husband
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Small-time landscaper Mitch Rafferty's life becomes a nightmare when he receives a call on his cell phone from a stranger who has kidnapped his wife and is giving him sixty hours to come up with an impossible two million dollars for her safe return.
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Jake Grafton is back, and is sent to Hong Kong to find out how deeply the U.S. consul-general, Tiger Cole, is embedded in a dangerous plan to overthrow the Chinese regime. Hong Kong is a powder keg ready to explode, with a political murder and the Chinese government's closure of a foreign bank as its fuse. St. Martin's Press.
11) Ask the Dark
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Ask the Dark will keep you up all night, and its flawed, real hero will haunt your day. I wish I’d written it. Michael Grant, New York Times best-selling author of Gone and BZRK Billy Zeets has a story to tell.
About being a vandal and petty thief.
About missing boys and an elusive killer.
12) Caraval
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"Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their ruthless father. Now Scarlett's father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the legendary, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over. But this year, Scarlett's long-dreamt-of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor who she has just met, Tella whisks...
14) The cellar
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For months, Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet.
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In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis' parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents -- telekinesis and telepathy -- who got to this place the same...
16) Vanishing acts
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Thirty-two-year-old New Hampshire search-and-rescue worker Delia Hopkins, a soon-to-be-married mother of a five-year-old daughter, begins having strange flashbacks of a forgotten childhood and learns that her father, whom she always believed to be a widower, kidnapped her when she was four--and that her mother is still alive.
17) Split second
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Two retired Secret Service agents have each had similar experiences losing presidential candidates while assigned to protect them. As the discredited agents enter a maze of lies, secrets, and deadly coincidences, they uncover a shocking truth: that the separate acts of violence that shattered their lives were really a long time in the making --and are a long way from over.
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After three years in exile Kestra Dallisor has been summoned back to Antora by her father, right-hand man of the seemingly immortal king, Lord Endrick, but she is intercepted and kidnapped by the Coracks who want to use her to get the Olden Blade, which they believe can be used to kill the despot--Simon, one of the rebels with his own grudge against the Dallisors, is assigned to accompany her, but Kestra has her own plans and she does not intend to...
20) Kill Alex Cross
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The President's son and daughter are abducted, and Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene, but someone very high-up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark. Meanwhile, a deadly contagion in the water supply cripples half of the capital, and Alex discovers that someone may be about to unleash the most devastating attack the United States has ever experienced.
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