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Rafe Caradec--gambler, wanderer, soldier of fortune--was as hard a man as the battlefields and waterfronts of Latin America could fashion, but his word was good. As Charles Rodney lay dying in a dank ship's fo'c'sle, Rafe swore to make sure that Rodney's ranch went to his daughter, Ann. In Painted Rock, Wyoming, Caradec found land for a man to love, miles of rolling grasslands and towering mountains. He also found that one of the most ruthless men...
5) Dear Emily
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"Chin up, Emily Thorn is facing the heartache of love lost. She had put her life on hold to pay her husband's way through medical school, and believed his promise that one day she would have the children, education, and career she wanted. What she got was overweight, out of shape -- and dumped. Reclaming her life at forty, Emily slims down and starts up a chain of fitness centers. Soon she's skyrocketing toward entrepreneurial success and into relationships...
8) Plain truth
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At the family dairy farm in Pennsylvania Amish country, eighteen-year-old unwed Katie Fisher is accused of birthing and then smothering her baby. Although Katie claims her innocence and says she didn't even bear the child, Philadelphia lawyer Ellie Hathaway may be Katie's only hope.
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It started with the murder of Kinsey Millhone's sometime drinking buddy, an insurance claims adjuster. But before long Kinsey stumbles onto a massive insurance scam. Going undercover as a wisecracking vamp, Millhone descends into the Los Angeles nether world of machismo and gang hideouts. Her companion, terrified at having crossed the violent crook Raymond Maldonado, is Bibianna Diaz--no Girl Scout herself.
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Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum becomes persona non grata while tracking down a beloved neighborhood candy store owner who has failed to show up for a court appearance, and whom Stephanie suspects of having become a vigilante intent on ridding the Trenton streets of drug dealers.
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When Morley Shine, a fellow PI, dies from a heart attack, Kinsey Millhone takes over the seemingly simple task of gathering evidence for Lonnie Kingman, a local attorney immersed in a civil suit. Stakes are high. David Birney, acquitted of his wealthy wife's murder five years ago, got his hands on her fortune. Now Kingman wants to divest Birney of the money in favor of the wife's child by an earlier marriage. But the statute of limitations has about...
16) Grass roots
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A Southern lawyer with political aspirations defends a white man accused of raping a black woman, and finds himself the target of a fiery TV evangelist and a murderous white supremacist group.
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Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, a frightened Yorkshire villager smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey while hiding from Cromwell's raiders. Now Lynley and Havers are sent to Keldale to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside.
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