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The Moonstone Castle Mystery

When Nancy Drew receives a valuable moonstone as a gift from an unknown person, she is amazed and puzzled. But it is only the first of several startling events in this complex mystery that challenge the ingenuity of the pretty sleuth. Why are the Bowens--a missionary couple who recently returned to the United States--having so much trouble finding their missing seventeen-year-old granddaughter?
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Carolyn Keene

Bon Appétit

Jim Money bites off more than he can chew when he goes to collect a gambling debt. He's beaten, shot at, finds out that his girlfriend is involved with his best friend, and is forced to work with a woman he despises all in one day.In trying to discover what is going on, a more sinister truth is brought to light.Jim Money just wants his money back from Chuck. Chuck refuses to pay it back, and when Chuck's hardened brothers show up, Jim is forced to back down as shots are fired as he narrowly escaped danger.Jim calls his best friend Steve to go collect from Chuck. Meanwhile, Jessica explains to Jim that although she loves the money he makes from illegal gambling and hustling, she wants a normal life free of the dangers associated with his lifestyle. After spending years building his gambling empire, Jim is reluctant at first, but he thinks about it awhile and decides to take a gamble. Besides, he would have a loving wife, and a stable family life free of the criminal elements that haunt him. He realizes that he could have that with Jessica. But before Jim could tell her, she receives a phone call and shuts Jim out.THE NEXT DAY...Jim receives a phone call from Carla, Steve's wife. She insists that her husband and Jessica are having a fling. Jim denies that Jessica or Steve would do that to him, but he humors Carla. He picks her up and they go to Jessica's house. But when they arrive, they are greeted with a more sinister truth.Will Jim Money get the wife and family life that he wants, or is he biting off more than he can chew?THIS IS THE FIRST INSTALLMENT OF THE JIM MONEY STORIES.Here are the other stories in chronological order:Bon Appétit EscapeOn the RunJamesBUSTED: a Prequel to the Jim Money Stories
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Glenn Gamble

The Wonders of Vale

We're all mad here... Dispatched overseas — far, far overseas — Ves and Jay face their most challenging assignment yet. Following in the footsteps of a long-lost king, their latest adventure will take them all the way to the mysterious Vales of Wonder, and all the magickal marvels which doubtless await. And dangers, because who said adventure would be easy? Fortunately, they've got help. One reviled but aggravatingly handy beast specialist: check. One world-famous, awe-inspiring, purple-clad troll scholar: check. One perambulatory, half-mad house with a crush on Jay: check. Not to mention a magickal pup, an even more magickal unicorn, a talking book, a jewelled scroll-case map, a magic Wand, an ethereal faerie lyre, and an excitingly untested tool from the Society's own hermit genius. With an arsenal like this, the mission can only be an unqualified success. Right...?
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Charlotte E. English

On Borrowed Time

Book two in a stunning new crime series from 2m+ international bestseller Adam Croft.


Each morning, the first train of the day leaves Oakham station and thunders through a tunnel under the village of Manton. But today the driver sees something that changes his life. A dead body hangs in the tunnel's exit.


DI Caroline Hills knows this isn't a suicide. It's murder. And when a second apparent suicide appears in Rutland, Caroline uncovers a shocking link: the victims knew each other.


As Rutland Police fight to catch the killer, a group of friends is left with an even more shocking realisation. One of them is the murderer. And one of them will be the next to die.


'Incredible' — BBC...

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Adam Croft

Fatal Roots

Some secrets are too big to stay buried...A few months ago, Boston expat Maura Donovan was rekindled with her mother after more than twenty years of absence. Since then, Maura has been getting accustomed to Irish living, complete with an inherited house and a pub named Sullivan's. But now, her mother has returned—and she's brought Maura's half-sister in tow. To make matters more confusing, a handful of Cork University students are knocking on Maura's door asking about a mystical fairy fort that happens to be located on Maura's piece of land.The lore indicates that messing with the fort can cause bad luck, and most everyone is telling Maura not to get too involved for fear of its powers, but Maura is curious about her own land, and she definitely doesn't buy into the superstition. Then one of the students disappears after a day of scoping out the fort on Maura's property.Maura treads carefully, asking the folks around town who might have an idea, but no one...
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Sheila Connolly

Paris Is Always a Good Idea

A thirty-year-old woman retraces her gap year through Ireland, France, and Italy to find love—and herself—in this hilarious and heartfelt novel from New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay.It's been seven years since Chelsea Martin embarked on her yearlong post-college European adventure. Since then, she's lost her mother to cancer and watched her sister marry twice, while Chelsea's thrown herself into work, becoming one of the most talented fundraisers for the American Cancer Coalition, and with the exception of one annoyingly competent coworker, Jason Knightley, her status as most talented fundraiser is unquestioned.When her introverted mathematician father announces he's getting remarried, Chelsea is forced to acknowledge that her life stopped after her mother died, and that the last time she can remember being happy, in love, or enjoying her life was on her gap year. Inspired to retrace her steps—to find Colin in Ireland, Jean...
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Jenn McKinlay

One Little Lie

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Colleen Coble

Bubba and the Dead Woman

Bubba is a good old boy with lots of problems. His ex-fiancee is deader than a door nail and everyone thinks he dun did it. His house is haunted. His mother is running an illegal gambling ring. His dog likes to bite people too much. And he's got to find out who really did it before the sheriff throws him in jail...again.This novel has been recently revised.In ONE LAST BITE, national bestselling author Heidi Betts brings you the tantalizing happily-ever-after finale to her full-length vampire romance MUST LOVE VAMPIRES. Visit HeidiBetts.com for details.“Must Love Vampires is drop dead funny! If you are in a bad mood, pick this book up and I swear you will laugh your butt off! Must Love Vampires is a guaranteed pick me up! Heidi Betts’s Must Love Vampires features wondrous characters and killer plots guaranteed to make you giggle and swoon!” ~JoyfullyReviewed.com"Heidi Betts pens another culinary masterpiece for our reading pleasure. Must Love Vampires is filled with humor...used in such a way as to delight and entrance the reader. [This story] will take its place on your keeper shelf.” ~SingleTitles.com
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C.L. Bevill

A Fall in Denver: An Em Hansen Mystery

In her second mystery, the cantankerous geologist and sleuth Em Hansen travels from the oil fields of Wyoming to the corporate boardrooms of Blackfeet Oil in Denver, where something deadly is on the rise. From Publishers WeeklyGeologist/amateur detective Em Hansen, a lowly mudlogger in Tensleep, is struggling up the professional ladder in her second appearance. On her first day at Denver's Blackfeet Oil, where she's just been hired as a geologist, a body falls past the 12th-floor office window of CEO Josiah Carberry Menken?who's only momentarily distracted from the saccharine welcome spiel he's flinging at Em. For Em, who's more comfortable on a horse than at a desk, this is a fitting introduction to corporate culture, which continues to baffle her. She wonders why she's been assigned to evaluate the pros and cons of drilling a particular field when colleague Pete Tutaraitis is clearly more qualified; and she wonders what drove Gerald Luftweiller to throw himself through some very thick glass on the 16th floor. Then, after awkwardly trying to alert Em to some danger, a co-worker hurtles to his death from the same building. The author's scientific explanations make geology come to life; Em's first-person narrative gives the prose added punch. With this cliche-free plot and memorable supporting players?notably foul-tongued colleague Maddy McNutt; gnomic detective Ortega; and the wily Mencken?Andrews solidly establishes her series. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library JournalEmily "Em" Hansen, Tensleep's (LJ 5/1/94) Wyoming oil-rig "mudlogger," goes to work in the main office of Blackfeet Oil in Denver. Strange things begin to happen immediately: at least two men leap to "suicidal" deaths from her high-rise office building; most of Em's co-workers ignore her; and a particularly successful oil field is shrouded in mystery. Em gathers information, falls for a hunky but secretive senior geologist, and yearns for the tomboy life of Wyoming. Andrews has honed her narrative skills to concoct a nicely complicated plot with an appealing heroine. Recommended.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Sarah Andrews

The Scarlet Slipper Mystery

Nancy meets Helene and Henri Fontaine, refugees from Centrovia who own a dancing school in River Heights. Strange circumstances have brought the brother and sister to the United States. When they receive an anonymous note threatening their lives, Nancy offers to help. Encountering numerous puzzles during her investigation, Nancy wonders if the Fontaines are involved with the Centrovian underground. Are they being threatened by their own countrymen? Is a series of paintings by Henri Fontaine being used for a sinister purpose? What is the significance of the scarlet ballet slippers that had once belonged to their mother? The girl detective faces grave danger while looking for answers to these intriguing and intricate questions. This book is the revised text. The plot of the original story (©1954) is similar with minor revisions.
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Carolyn Keene

Saboteurs on the River

Mildred A. Wirt was an American author. She is best known for her work on the early Nancy Drew series.
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Mildred A. Wirt

The Boss of the Lazy Y

Charles Alden Seltzer was one of 20th century America\'s most prolific authors, and his specialty was Westerns that were so popular in the country in the decades after the frontier had been completely settled. In addition to the books he wrote, Seltzer would have a role in dozens of films as well, making him one of the most instrumental figures in the genre.
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The Boss of the Lazy Y

Empires Will Fall (An Eva Driscoll Thriller Book 5)

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Alan McDermott

The Fall: The Rift Book I

An ancient evil, trapped in the ruins of a lost Mayan temple for centuries, has been unleashed. It takes the form of a deadly virus, one that causes violent insanity in the living and the recently departed to rise and walk. It spreads around the globe, pitting brother against brother and throwing the world into chaos and war.Evil comes to pass during the fallPUBLISHER'S NOTE:The entire series of The Rift is nowalso available in a reasonably priced two-volume set, reworked and with added content,complete with all the illustrations the original books offered.The Rift (Volume One)The Rift (Volume Two)--------------------------------An ancient evil, trapped in the ruins of a lost Mayan temple for centuries, has been unleashed. It takes the form of a deadly virus that causes violent insanity in the living and the recently departed to rise and walk. The blight spreads around the globe, throwing the world into chaos and war.Regular people are hurled into an existence outside their control, left to deal with a terror they aren't prepared to handle. Life becomes a nightmare, and that nightmare is spreading.The Rift is comprised of four books:The FallDead of Winter (Available Now)Death Springs Eternal (Available Now)The Summer Son (Available Now)
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Robert J. Duperre

Mystery at the Ski Jump

When Nancy learns the Drews’ housekeeper has been duped by an elegantly dressed woman into buying a stolen fur piece, the young detective starts a search for the clever swindler. To Nancy’s astonishment, she discovers the woman is using the name Nancy Drew! The dishonest acts of the impostor point the finger of suspicion at Nancy herself! Following the trail of the clever fur thieves and stock swindlers to New York and into Canada, Nancy is tireless in her quest for justice, determined to clear her good name! This book is the revised text. The plot of the original story (©1952) is similar with minor revisions.
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Carolyn Keene
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