January-April 2017 by Joan Christensen
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The Advocate's Daughter
by Anthony J Franze
Among Washington, D.C. power players, everyone has secrets they desperately want to keep hidden, including Sean Serrat, a Supreme Court lawyer; and just as he learns he's on the short list to be nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, his daughter, Abby, a talented and dedicated law student, goes missing.
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The Age of Treachery
by Gavin Scott
It is the winter of 1946, and ex-SOE agent Duncan Forrester is back at his Oxford college as a junior Fellow. But his peace is shattered when a hated colleague is found murdered. A suspect is arrested, but Forrester is not convinced of his guilt; the dead man had many enemies, and there are rumors that he was in possession of a mysterious Viking manuscript.
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The Bachelor Girl's Guide to Murder
by Rachel McMillan
As Herringford and Watts launch their private investigation business, the deaths of young Irish women lead them deep into the mire of Toronto's underbelly.
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Behind the Throne
by K. B Wagers
Hail Bristol is known throughout the galaxy for being a renegade with a space ship, but when she becomes head of the Indranan Empire she is faced with assassination attempts and plots and has to discover who murdered her sisters in order to survive.
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Borderline
by Mishell Baker
A cynical, paraplegic screenwriter with borderline personality disorder is recruited into a secret organization that oversees relations between Hollywood and Fairyland, and assigned to search for a missing fae movie star.
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Collecting the Dead
by Spencer Kope
Working for the FBI as a tracker who uses his unique form of synesthesia to trail suspects, Magnus "Steps" Craig recognizes common hallmarks from two murder scenes at the same time he is targeted by a killer he has been pursuing for more than a decade.
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The Defense
by Steve Cavanagh
Using skills gleaned from a past as a confidence man to pursue a legal career, Eddie Flynn turns his back on the legal system after a disastrous case only to be drawn back to the courtroom when the Russian mob in New York kidnaps his young daughter. A first novel.
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The Hating Game
by Sally Thorne
Resolving to achieve professional success without compromising her ethics, Lucy embarks on a ruthless game of one-upmanship against cold and efficient nemesis Joshua, a rivalry that is impossibly complicated by her growing attraction to him. A first novel.
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The Invisible Library
by Genevieve Cogman
An undercover librarian who works for an occult organization that collects books from different realities must determine what happened to a particularly dangerous book that has been stolen and becomes mired in a mystery infused with peril and conflicting clues.
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The Last One
by Alexandra Oliva
Participating in an endurance-based reality show that cuts contestants off from society, a woman dubbed "Zoo" by the show's producers stumbles on evidence of a massive destruction of unknown origin and addresses it as a show challenge before realizing that something terrible may be happening in the outside world. A first novel.
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The Little Old Lady Who Broke all the Rules
by C. Ingelman-Sundberg
Fed up when the new management of their retirement home begins cutting corners, a group of seniors begin a life of white collar crime and plot to carry out a complex, untraceable heist at the National Museum.
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Louisiana Saves the Library
by Emily Beck Cogburn
Librarian Louisiana Richardson must resort to unconventional methods if she is going to save Alligator Bayou Parish's struggling library from being closed.
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Mary Green
by Melanie Kerr
Mary, an orphaned war of her uncle Sir Richard Hargreaves decides on her 21t birthday to leave behind his Oxforshire house along with her cousins' and aunt's air of superiority. But before she has the chance, a lawyer unexpectedly arrives to hand her a shockingly large inheritance from her adoptive parens, Sir Richard's sister and her husband, who died when Mary was five. Suddenly, wealthy and independent, she sets off her a new life in London
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Nine Women, One Dress
by Jane L. Rosen
Nine unrelated women whose circumstances are shaped by unrequited love, infidelity and fame find their lives touched by the same little black dress and its seemingly magical properties.
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A Robot in the Garden
by Deborah Install
A man failing miserably at his job and his marriage discovers Tang, a battered robot, hiding in his garden in need of an essential bit of machinery and sets out to repair him, ultimately repairing himself as well.
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What the Waves Know
by Tamara Valentine
Unable to speak for eight years after her father's abandonment, 14-year-old Iz takes a ferry around her coastal Rhode Island home as a therapeutic exercise and wonders at dark community secrets amid preparations for an annual festival. A first novel.
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The Widow
by Fiona Barton
After Jean's husband dies, the community wants to know the real truth about the crime he was suspected of—but Jean has secrets of her own.
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