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Carrie settles into the shadow of Slains Castle in Scotland, creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors, and starts to write about the Jacobite invasion of 1708. When she can no longer tell the difference between today and centuries ago, is she dealing with an ancestral memory, or a memory that might destroy her?
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When successful writer Annie Barnes returns to Middle River following her mother's death, many of the residents fear she plans to write a novel about their town, just as they believe Grace Metalious did years ago with Peyton Place. Actually, Annie visits for a month to investigate why her mother got sick and one of her sisters is now ill.
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c2003
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343 p. ; 24 cm.
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Recovering from her father's suicide and her boyfriend's betrayal, aspiring author Tracey Sullivan is offered a job as ghostwriter for a fading film star living in a Greek villa, which brings her face to face with scandal and dark secrets.
8) Last Things
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Father Dowling mysteries volume 22
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c2003
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307 p. ; 25 cm.
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Open Book mysteries volume 4
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When the owner of Upper Chumley-on-Stokes's proposed first high-end gourmet shop is poisoned, American novelist and bookstore owner Penelope Parish is faced with a long list of suspects that makes this page-turning mystery her toughest yet.
10) Fractured
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[2016]
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349 pages ; 22 cm
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After moving with her family across the country to Cincinnati to get away from a stalker, novelist Julie Prentice seems to click with her new neighbor, until a series of misunderstandings lead Julie and her family to become the victims of troubling harassment.
11) Augusta Hawke
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"While Augusta Hawke is a successful author of eighteen crime novels, since her husband's death she's been living vicariously through her Jules Maigret-like detective Claude and his assistant Caroline. Then a handsome police detective appears investigating a real-life mystery: where are her neighbors, the Normans?"--Publisher marketing.
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Jane Jeffry Mystery volume 15
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Having donated a theater to a local university, drama department benefactor Shelley invites Jane Jeffry to help her sample cuisine by new caterers, until a new production's cast member is found dead under suspicious circumstances.
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Jane Jeffry Mystery volume 14
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In the wake of a murder at a local mystery writers' convention, aspiring novelist and part-time investigator Jane Jeffry and her sidekick, Shelley, investigate to find out who might be responsible for poisoning a legendary editor.
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Wind River Valley romances volume 1
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"From the moment Roan Taggart picked up the pretty redhead at the Jackson Hole airport, his training and experience told him she was spooked. She's left New York City to visit the Wind River Ranch, where Roan is a wrangler, and just as he can pick up a horse's mood, he can feel the tension coming off her body. And that vulnerability is triggering all his protective instincts ... Shiloh Gallagher likes the gray-eyed cowboy's dry humor--and the Special...
17) Low pressure
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2012
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Bellamy Lyston was only 12 years old when her older sister Susan was killed on a stormy Memorial Day. Bellamy's fear of storms is a legacy of the tornado that destroyed the crime scene along with her memory of what really happened during the day's most devastating moments. Now, 18 years later, Bellamy has written a sensational, bestselling novel based on Susan's murder. Because the book was inspired by the tragic event that still pains her family,...
18) Pearl of China
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In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century, young Willow and young Pearl S. Buck, the headstrong daughter of zealous Christian missionaries, bump heads and embark on a friendship that will sustain both of them through one of the most tumultuous periods in Chinese history.
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The disappearance of her fawningly dependent husband catapults best-selling mystery writer Lucy Harper into dark memories about her brother who went missing under suspicious circumstances thirty years earlier.
Bestselling mystery writer Lucy Harper has fame, fortune, an army of adoring readers-- and her fawning husband Dan. When Dan goes missing, it evokes dark memories that take Lucy back thirty years to the day her brother vanished without a trace....
20) The living room
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As she begins to write her third book, legal secretary and novelist Amy Clarke finds that the nature of her dreams shifts. Where she used to take inspiration for her writing from her dreams, now they are filled with scenes foreshadowing real life. Then they spill over into her waking hours and a high stakes case at work, implicating someone dear to her and causing her to question everything.
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