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Stafford Lee Penney is a small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation for winning every case he tries. In his sharp suits and polished Oxford shoes, Penney is Biloxi, Mississippi's #1 Lawyer and top local celebrity. Just as Penney notches his latest courtroom victory, his wife is scandalously killed. He spirals into a legal and personal losing streak, damaging his reputation and ruining his career. That's when Penney makes a bold decision. He stops...

Another deadly fun Chef-to-Go mystery from New York Times bestselling author Denise Swanson! The back-to-school season can be murder It's the beginning of the university's fall semester and Dani can't wait for the college students to return to Normalton, Illinois-after all, without them, there is no one to support her Lunch-to-Go service, which is a vital part of her Chef-to-Go business. But Normalton University's orientation week is marred by a mysterious...

"From UK bestselling author Gillian McAllister comes an astonishing, compulsively twisty psychological thriller about a mother who witnesses her teenage son stab a man and then seizes on an unconventional way to try to save him. Can you stop a murder after it's already happened? Late October. After midnight. You're waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He's late. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn't alone: he's...

"Narrada por varias voces a lo largo del tiempo, La hija del relojero es la historia de un asesinato, un misterio y un robo, una reflexión sobre el arte, la verdad y la belleza, el amor y las pérdidas. Por sus páginas fluye como un río la voz de una mujer ya libre de las ataduras del tiempo y cuyo nombre ha caído en el olvido: Birdie Bell, la hija del relojero, la única persona que vio todo lo sucedido"--

"Time Travel with a twist! Just before she dies, Veronica McAllister admits, "I wasn't very good at life." After she passes, she opens her eyes to find herself in her teenage body, all memories of her previous life still intact. Given the rarest of gifts, a second chance, can the woman who "wasn't very good at life" change that?" -- back cover.

A retired detective is getting ready to go up into his attic to retrieve the Christmas tree that he had been decorating for the last eighteen years. Before he could do that, his partner from homicide, also retired, called him to see if he was willing to go out to a tree farm to cut down a live tree for Christmas. Against his better judgment, he agreed to do that. Before the day was over a corpse was discovered under a Christmas tree and the two detectives...

"Crissy Dowling has created a world that suits her perfectly. She passes her days by the pool in a private cabana, she splurges on ice cream but never gains an ounce, and each evening she transforms into a Princess, performing her musical cabaret inspired by the life of the late Diana Spencer. Some might find her strange or even delusional, an American speaking with a British accent, hair feathered into a style twenty years old, living and working...

"The single greatest work of art in the world is not in the Louvre or The Met, or in any private collection. In fact, its whereabouts are unknown. Once in a long while, a child is born possessing the rarest of gifts, the innate ability to feel impossible beauty, to recognize priceless works of art. When such a child is discovered, a 250-year-old secret organization called Our World trains them to acquire the greatest works of art through theft, bribery,...

"Mia is starting work at Belle View, her father's catering hall, a popular spot for weddings, office parties, and more--despite the planes that occasionally roar overhead on their way to LaGuardia and rattle the crystal chandelier. Soon she's planning a bachelor party for a less-than-gentlemanly groom. But it goes awry when the gigantic cake is wheeled in and a deadly surprise is revealed . . . Since some of her family's associates are on the shady...

Legends, no matter how outlandish, are often grounded in reality. This has been the guiding principle behind the exhilarating career of Jeremy Logan, the "enigmologist"--an investigator who specializes in analyzing phenomena that have no obvious explanation. Logan has often found himself in situations where keeping an open mind could mean the difference between life and death, and that has never been more true than now. Logan travels to an isolated...