March 2019 list by Donalee Jacobs
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American Duchess
by Karen Harper
The best-selling author of Dark Angel reimagines the life of American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt as the reluctant and bullied bride of the Duke of Marlborough before she finds the inner strength to fight for women's equality.
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Before She Knew Him
by Peter Swanson
A Boston artist with bipolar disorder, while she is in a new neighbor's home, spots an item that once belonged to the victim of an unsolved murder.
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The Border
by Don Winslow
Promoted by the DEA after a crucial victory, Art Keller is targeted by the power-hungry traffickers behind an American heroin epidemic.
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California Girls
by Susan Mallery
Three sisters wrestling with difficulties in their personal and professional lives tackle secrets and old wounds while helping their mother relocate from the family home to a condo.
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Celtic Empire
by Clive Cussler
The murders of a U.N. science team in El Salvador, a deadly collision in the Detroit waterways and an attack on the Nile are linked to the ancient story of a fugitive Egyptian princess.
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Cemetery Road
by Greg Iles
His father's terminal illness, his family's struggling newspaper and a politically charged murder trial force a Washington journalist to return to his small Mississippi hometown.
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Chocolate Cream Pie Murder
by Joanne Fluke
The filming of a television special at brokenhearted Hannah Swensen's bakery is complicated by her shifty ex, an intrusive gang of bodyguards and an untimely murder that compels her alliance with an old flame.
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The Fifth Doctrine
by Karen Robards
Offered her freedom in exchange for a dangerous undercover assignment, master manipulator Bianca St. Ives poses as an elite hacker to feed strategic misinformation to North Korea's tyrannical regime.
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The First Lady
by James Patterson
When the First Lady disappears after her husband’s affair goes public, top secret agent Sally Grissom is charged with finding her and is faced with a twisted case after the White House receives a ransom note along with the First Lady’s finger.
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The Huntress
by Kate Quinn
Stranded behind enemy lines, brave bomber pilot Nina Markova becomes the prey of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress and joins forces with a Nazi hunter and British war correspondent to find her before she finds them.
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The Island of Sea Women
by Lisa See
The ostracized daughter of a Japanese collaborator and the daughter of their Korean village's head female diver share nearly a century of friendship that is tested by their island's torn position between two warring empires.
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A Justified Murder
by Jude Deveraux
When a longtime resident is found murdered by three possible methods, unlikely friends Sara, Kate and Jack assist the authorities, only to discover unexpected realities about the victim's true nature.
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The Malta Exchange
by Steve Berry
Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone races to Italy to secure a history-changing document with ties to a 900-year-old organization that would manipulate the selection of the next pope.
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Open Carry
by Marc Cameron
Skilled tracker U.S. Marshal Arliss Cutter must leave his comfort zone in the Florida swamplands to investigate the murder of a Tlingit Indian girl in the wilds of southeast Alaska.
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The Perfect Alibi
by Phillip Margolin
Two rape cases at the same bar are complicated by a prominent athlete's threats, baffling DNA evidence, suspicious attacks on case lawyers and a D.A.'s resolve to prosecute a killing in self-defense.
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Queenie
by Candice Carty-Williams
Constantly compared to her white middle-class peers, a young Jamaican-British woman in London makes a series of questionable decisions in the aftermath of a messy breakup before challenging herself to figure out who she wants to be.
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The River
by Peter Heller
Two college students on a wilderness canoe trip find their survival skills and longtime best friendship tested by a wildfire, white-water hazards and two mysterious strangers.
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Run Away
by Harlan Coben
Discovering their drug-addicted daughter playing guitar in Central Park, a desperate narrator follows the young woman into a dark and dangerous world of unspeakable evil.
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Silent Night
by Danielle Steel
A psychiatrist gives up her uncomplicated life when she becomes the guardian of her niece, a child star turned emotionally traumatized patient in the aftermath of a devastating tragedy.
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The Stranger Diaries
by Elly Griffiths
A first stand-alone mystery by the author of the Ruth Galloway series finds a high-school English teacher chronicling her suspicions about the murder of a colleague before discovering a sinister message in her own diary.
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Toxic Game
by Christine Feehan
A GhostWalker doctor and a woman with enhanced senses discover the power of their new anti-terrorism partnership at the same time they are infected by a deadly biological weapon.
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We Must Be Brave
by Frances Liardet
Caring for a lost child during the chaotic 1940 evacuation of her once-quiet Southampton village, a woman who never believed she wanted children finds herself unexpectedly at a loss when the child is taken away.
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When All Is Said
by Anne Griffin
An 84-year-old loner, sitting at a grand hotel bar in Ireland, toasts the five people who have meant the most to him while recalling unspoken losses and joys, a tragic secret and a fierce love.
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Wolf Pack
by C. J Box
A wealthy poacher he has been ordered to ignore and the murderous acts of a local cartel complicate both the professional and personal lives of a newly reinstated Joe Pickett.
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