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2) Dead ringer
Author
Series
Rosato and Associates novels volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
339 p. ; 24 cm.
3) About a girl
Author
Series
Tess Brooks novels volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 20 cm
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
535 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
"In order to pursue his quest to catch a killer while keeping the high-society husband-hunters at bay, the Earl of St. Merryn hires the sensible Elenora Lodge to pose as his fianc?e during the upcoming London season."--Publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
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Description
"Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha'arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she's certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer. So when someone murders the members of a secret brotherhood dedicated to one of the most famous men in history, al-Jahiz, Agent Fatma is called onto the case. Al-Jahiz transformed the world forty years ago when...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"...when a glamorous teen from a more affluent, cultured home goes missing, Cindy escapes her own family's poverty and slips into the missing teen's life. As Jude Vanderjohn, Cindy is suddenly surrounded by books and art, by new foods and traditions, and most important, by a startling sense of possibility. In her borrowed life she also finds herself accepting the confused love of a mother who is constitutionally incapable of grasping what has happened...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Florence Darrow is a low-level publishing employee who believes that she's destined to be a famous writer. When she stumbles into a job the assistant to the brilliant, enigmatic novelist known as Maud Dixon - whose true identity is a secret - it appears that the universe is finally providing Florence's big chance. The arrangement seems perfect. Maud Dixon (whose real name, Florence discovers, is Helen Wilcox) can be prickly, but she is full of pointed...
10) The other Emily
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Description
"A decade ago, Emily Carlino vanished after her car broke down on a California highway. She was presumed to be one of serial killer Ronny Lee Jessup's victims whose remains were never found. Writer David Thorne still hasn't recovered from losing the love of his life, or from the guilt of not being there to save her. Since then, he's sought closure any way he can. He even visits regularly with Jessup in prison, desperate for answers about Emily's final...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
Desde su terraza, Samuel observa el trajín cotidiano como quien está de vuelta sin haber llegado a nada. Él es una persona que no se compromete con nada ni con nadie. Una madrugada, alguien anuncia por teléfono que Clara ha muerto en un accidente. Aunque Samuel no conoce ninguna Clara, decide asistir el funeral, empujado por una mezcla de curiosidad y aburrimiento. Fascinado por la posibilidad de suplantar a la persona con la que lo confunden,...
Author
Series
Crooked heart volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2021.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Description
It's late 1944. Hitler's rockets are raining down on London with vicious regularity and it's the coldest winter in living memory. The Allies are gaining ground, but victory is certainly dragging its feet. In a large house next to Hampstead Heath, Vee Sedge is barely scraping by with a herd of lodgers to feed and her young charge Noel, almost fifteen now, to clothe and educate. When she witnesses an accident and finds herself in court, the repercussions...
Author
Series
Max Rupert novels volume 2
Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Alexander Rupert, a Minnesota detective and Medal of Valor winner, is under subpoena by a grand jury on suspicion of corruption. Reassigned to the Frauds Unit, he is shunned by his fellow detectives, and he fears his wife may be having an affair. When he happens across a complex case of identity theft, Rupert sees an opportunity to rehabilitate his tattered reputation. But the case puts him in the path of trained assassin Drago Basta, who has been...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
626 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Born into Russian aristocracy, wealth, and security, Moura never had any reason to worry. But in the upheaval of the Bolshevik Revolution, her entire world crumbles. As her family and friends are being persecuted by Vladimir Lenin's ruthless police, she falls into a passionate affair with British secret agent Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart. But when he's abruptly and mysteriously deported from Russia, Moura is left alone and vulnerable. Now, she must...
15) The black book
Author
Publisher
Vintage International/Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xiii, 466 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective-novel-loving Ru?ya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband, Cela?l, a popular newspaper columnist? But Cela?l, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Cela?l's identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursues every conceivable clue, but the nature of the mystery keeps...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Description
"Cynical and insecure, Iris has long been envious of her twin sister Summer's seemingly never-ending good fortune... including her perfect husband Adam. Called to Thailand to help her sister sail the family yacht to the Seychelles, Iris unexpectedly finds herself alone in the middle of the Indian Ocean. When she makes it to land, Iris allows herself to be swept up by Adam, who assumes that she is Summer. Now she has the golden life she's always envied,...
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"Ariel Lawhon, a rising star in historical suspense, has set her sights on one of history's most beguiling mysteries: Did Anastasia Romanov survive the Russian Revolution, or was Anna Anderson, the woman who notoriously claimed her identity, an impostor? Russia, July 17, 1918: Under direct orders from Vladimir Lenin, Bolshevik secret police force Anastasia Romanov, along with the entire imperial family, into a damp basement in Siberia where they...
18) The body double
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
A strange man discovers our nameless narrator selling popcorn at a decrepit small-town movie theater and offers her an odd and lucrative position: she will forget her job, her acquaintances, even her name, and move to Los Angeles, where she will become the body double of the famous and troubled celebrity Rosanna Feld. A nervous breakdown has forced Rosanna out of the public eye, and she needs a look-alike to take her place in the tabloid media circus...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Robin Voigt is dead. If her sister Leslie had arrived at her cramped Las Vegas apartment just hours earlier, this would have been their first reunion in a decade. In the years since Robin ran away from home as a teenager, Leslie has stayed in New Mexico, taking care of their dying father, even as she began building a family of her own. But when their father passed away, Leslie received a rude awakening: she and Robin would receive the inheritance...
20) The winner
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Description
"Helen Wilcox has one desire: to successfully launch her daughters into society. From the upper crust herself, Helen's unconventional--if happy--marriage has made the girls' social position precarious. Then her husband gambles the family fortunes on an elevated railroad that he claims will transform the face of the city and the way the people of New York live, but will it ruin the Wilcoxes first? As daughters Jemima and Alice navigate the rise and...
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