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Nell Fitzgerald is thrilled when she receives a gorgeous. handmade quilt in a lover’s knot pattern from her. grandmother Eleanor as an engagement gift. Her joy is. short-lived, however, when her fiancé announces he’s calling. off the wedding. Heartbroken, 25-year-old Nell flees New. York City for her grandmother’s home in quaint Archers. Rest. In this small town Eleanor’s life revolves around her. quilt shop, Someday Quilts, and the members of the shop’s. quilting circle. When the body of a local handyman known for his. flirting is found in the quilt shop, murdered with a pair of. quilting scissors, Nell finds herself drawn into the case—. and drawn to the handsome police chief. As a pattern of. clues begins to emerge, one of the prime suspects is Nell’s. ex-fiancé, whose arrival in Archers Rest seems suspicious. The ladies of the quilting circle continue to piece together. their quilts as Nell unravels the mystery. For quilters and. mystery lovers alike, The Lover’s Knot is a delightful and. promising debut. more...

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The use of drugs in date rapes has become an increasing problem. When it is combined with a couple of murders, a visiting detective who wants a piece of Nick Bancroft, and people who kill to keep their secrets, Nick is caught in a case of Murder by the Book Bancroft, a reporter who inherits a run-down detective agency, hopes to get paid for the story and by his client for solving the murders. He becomes the target of a shooter, the wrath of his stormy lover, Maggie Atley, and the recipient of the scorn of a visiting detective. more...

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FBI agent Rachel Walling finally she gets the call she's been dreading for years. The Poet has returned. Years earlier, she worked on the famous case tracking the serial killer who wove lines of poetry into his hideous crimes. Rachel has never forgotten the Poet-and apparently he has not forgotten her. Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, too, from an old friend whose husband recently died. The death appeared natural, but this man's ties to the hunt for the Poet make Harry dig deep. What he finds leads him into the most terrifying situation he has ever encountered. So begins the most deeply compelling, frightening, and masterful novel Michael Connelly has ever written, placing Harry Bosch squarely in the path of the most ruthless and ingenious murderer in Los Angeles's history. This spectacularly dramatic and shocking novel will have Michael Connelly's readers desperately hungry for the next novel from "one of America's best writers."(Cleveland Plain Dealer). more...

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Lunacy was Nate Burke's last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he'd watched his partner die on the street-and the guilt still haunts him. With nowhere else to go, he accepts the job as Chief of Police in this tiny, remote Alaskan town. Meg Galloway, born and raised in Lunacy, is used to being alone. She was a young girl when her father disappeared, and she has learned to be independent, flying her small plane, living on the outskirts of town with just her huskies for company. After her New Year's kiss with the Chief of Police, she allows herself to give in to passion-while remaining determined to keep things as simple as possible. But there's something about Nate's sad eyes that gets under her skin and warms her frozen heart. And now, things in Lunacy are heating up. Years ago, on one of the majestic mountains shadowing the town, a crime occurred that is unsolved to this day-and Nate suspects that a killer still walks the snowy streets. His investigation will unearth the secrets and suspicions that lurk beneath the placid surface, as well as bring out the big-city survival instincts that made him a cop in the first place. And his discovery will threaten the new life-and the new love-that he has finally found for himself. more...

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