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Exit Wounds
by Judith A. Jance
Juggling the demands of her career and her family, Southwestern Sheriff Joanna Brady faces her most unsettling case yet in the disturbing murder of a loner and her seventeen dogs, a crime that could be linked to the killing of two women whose bodies are found on a nearby rancher's land.
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Independence Day : a Dewey Andreas Novel
by Ben Coes
Sidelined after a series of missteps, former Delta agent Dewey Andreas goes rogue to surreptitiously augment intelligence efforts to stop a Russian hacker who is routing money to al-Qaida terror cells. By the New York Times best-selling author of Eye for an Eye.
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Signature Wounds
by Kirk Russell
While in Las Vegas on his way to a family Fourth of July celebration, FBI bomb expert Paul Grale hears a deep blast and sees the smoke rising. In an unfolding nightmare, Grale discovers his sister, brother-in-law, and many friends were caught up in the explosion. Grief stricken, he is pulled from the main bomb investigation to sift orphan leads. Quietly he begins a relentless search for the bomb maker. When the FBI suspects his friend and disgruntled former drone pilot for the blast, Grale thinks they're getting it all wrong. Propelled by deep personal loss and an intense need to do the right thing, he picks his way through the smallest of leads and into a maze of twists, turns, and sudden dead ends. When he uncovers another threat, time is already quickly running out. With the lives of so many at stake, Grale won't let himself fail -- and he won't rest until there's justice for his family.
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Eden : a Novel
by Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg
"Becca Meister Fitzpatrick - wife, mother, grandmother, and pillar of the community - is the dutiful steward of her family's iconic summer tradition. That is until she discovers her recently deceased husband squandered their nest egg. As she struggles to accept that this is likely her last season in Long Harbor, Becca is inspired by her granddaughter's boldness in the face of impending single-motherhood and summons the courage to reveal a secret she was forced to bury long ago. She has a daughter she gave up fifty years ago. The question now is how her other daughter, Rachel with whom Becca has always had a strained relationship, will react. Eden is the account of the days leading up to the Fourth of July weekend, as Becca prepares to disclose her secret and her son and brothers conspire to put the estate on the market, interwoven with the century-old history of Becca's family - her parents beginnings and ascent into affluence, and her mother's own secret struggles in the grand home her father named Eden." -- Back cover.
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Star Spangled Murder : A Lucy Stone Mystery
by Leslie Meier
When her Houdini-esque canine instigates a feud with her neighbor Mrs. Pratt, Lucy Stone becomes the number one suspect when Mrs. Pratt is murdered, while nudists, cranky lobstermen, and a rare purple-spotted lichen wreak havoc on the town of Tinker's Cove.
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Red, White, and Blue Murder
by Bill Crider
Struggling with a series of frustrations including the cancellation of the Fourth of July fireworks display, an uprising in the local prison, and false accusations by a reporter, Blacklin County sheriff Dan Rhodes begins to wonder at the reporter's hidden agenda in the wake of a murder and arson case.
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The Body in the Birches
by Katherine Hall Page
A recipe-complemented latest entry in the popular series traces Faith's sweltering Fourth of July investigation into a dispute involving the death of a housekeeper and a generations-old family fight for control of a wealthy estate.
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Buffalo Jump Blues
by Keith McCafferty
While Sheriff Martha Ettinger investigates the death of a young Native American at the site of a ritualistic buffalo-jump site, private detective Sean Stranahan helps a beautiful swimmer track down a childhood friend only to find his case intersecting with the Sheriff's in unexpected ways. By the author of The Royal Wulff Murders.
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Denny's Law
by Elizabeth Gunn
Sarah Burke and her crew of detectives must solve the murder of a man seen fighting in a house during a Fourth of July street parade.
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Death on Nantucket
by Francine Mathews
Investigating the suspicious death of an aging journalist famed for his work as a correspondent during the Vietnam War, Nantucket police detective Meredith Folger struggles to uncover the truth when another member of the victim's family is killed and the remaining members demonstrate tendencies to spin wild tales or keep dangerous secrets.
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