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Anthony Peardew is the keeper of lost things. Forty years ago, he carelessly lost a keepsake from his beloved fiancée, Therese. That very same day, she died unexpectedly. Brokenhearted, Anthony sought consolation in rescuing lost objects -- the things others have dropped, misplaced, or accidentally left behind -- and writing stories about them. Now, in the twilight of his life, Anthony worries that he has not fully discharged his duty to reconcile...
2) Once a laird
Author
Series
Rogues redeemed volume 6
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After the death of his fiancée, Kai Ramsey left Scotland to roam distant lands. Having escaped certain death after being imprisoned as a spy during the Napoleonic War, Ramsay has lived on the edge of danger for years - but everything changes when a letter arrives for him from Scotland. Signy Matheson has dedicated her life to the people of Scotland's remote Thorsay Islands. With a fiery spirit and agile mind, she is a faithful ally to the aging laird....
3) Mirror maze
Author
Publisher
Pyre
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Jacob Aldridge is still utterly devastated by the death of his fiancee when he suddenly encounters her doppelganger. Livia Aram's uncanny resemblance to the late Rhoda Carothers so transcends coincidence that Jacob becomes obsessed with her. The intensity of his passion terrifies her until her compassion is roused by his desperate plight. A demon is stalking him, a succubus-like entity that feeds on human pain and desire. With the help of Jacob's...
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 22
Language
English
Description
California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fiancé, several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for him.
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English
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"Summer's looking forward to a break when she, her husband Gabe, and Gabe's nine-year-old son arrive at the annual family get-together at her in-laws' sprawling Pennsylvania estate. On the agenda are leisurely gourmet meals, tennis matches, and plenty of relaxation by the pool. But this year, Gabe's brother Nick has invited his new flame Hannah, whom Summer immediately recognizes from an acting gig they both did a few years before. Oddly, Hannah claims...
7) The swell
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English
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A former surfer who hung up her surfboard after her boyfriend drowned, Kenna Ward must get back into the game when she, arriving on a remote Australian beach to meet her best friend's fiancee, is plunged into a world of murder, passion and obsession.
8) Livid
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 26
Language
English
Description
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta testifies in a case, fumbled by the initial pathologist, concerning a drowned beauty queen whose fiancé is charged with her death. Then the judge's sister is murdered.
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has just inherited one of the most notorious cases of her career. Two years ago, a former beauty queen's body washed up on the shore of Wallops Island, Virginia. She was last seen on a boat with her fiancé, who...
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Series
In Death series volume 52
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The scene in the West Village studio appears to be classic crime-of-passion: two wineglasses by the bed, music playing, and a young sculptor named Ariel Byrd with the back of her head bashed in. But when Dallas tracks down the wealthy Upper East Side woman who called 911, the details don't add up. Gwen Huffman is wealthy, elegant, comforted by her handsome fiancé as she sheds tears over the trauma of finding the body - but why did it take an hour...
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Series
Keeper of Night volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Half British Reaper, half Japanese Shinigami, Ren Scarborough is no longer the girl who was chased out of England: she is the Goddess of Death ruling Japan's underworld. But her Shinigami see her as a foreigner on the throne. Her brother, Neven, is gone, lost in the deep darkness. And her fiancé, Hiro, has been killed by her own hand. When Reapers are spotted in Japan, it is only a matter of time before Ivy, now Britain's Death Goddess, comes to...
11) A dream of home
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Series
Hearts of the Lancaster Grand Hotel volume 3
Language
English
Description
Following the death of her fiance, Former Air Force flight nurse Madeleine finds herself working as a maid at the Lancaster Grand Hotel, where she meets Amish single parent Saul Beiler and his daughter, and begins to feel close to them.
12) A place of peace
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Series
Kauffman Amish bakery volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
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Miriam Lapp returns to the Amish community she once belonged to when she hears of her mother's death. Amidst her grief and some painful lies from her past, she is forced to face the people who rejected her. Losing her once fiancé and being shunned by her father becomes an excruciating test of her faith.
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Series
Nils Shapiro novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Nils Shapiro accepts what appears to be an easy, lucrative job: find out if Beverly Mayer's grandson is foolishly throwing away his trust fund in Hollywood in the wake of his fiancée's tragic death. Once Nils arrives in Los Angeles he quickly suspects that Ebben Mayer's fiancée was murdered, and that Ebben himself may have been the target. Moving into Ebben's inner circle, he discovers that everyone in Ebben's professional life-- his agent, manager,...
14) Unsolved
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Series
Invisible volume 2
Language
English
Description
"FBI agent Emmy Dockery is absolutely relentless. She's young and driven, and her unique skill at seeing connections others miss has brought her an impressive string of arrests. But a shocking new case -- unfolding across the country -- has left her utterly baffled. The victims all appear to have died by accident, and have seemingly nothing in common. But this many deaths can't be coincidence. And the killer is somehow one step ahead of every move...
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Series
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English
Description
"It's early summer, and while Richard Muir and his dance partner, Karla, are preparing their new choreographic piece, Richard's wife, Amy, is gathering the dance's source materials. Based on folktales and the music of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the production is set to premiere at an old cinema that has been converted to a theater. But when dancer Meredith Fox Richard's former fiancee is found dead backstage, Amy is once again propelled into a murder...
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Maddie West discovers that she was adopted as an embryo and may have a sister, she feels betrayed, angry, and confused. Maddie moves away, leaving her job, fiancé, and family. Dawson Gage is mourning the death of his best friend, London Quinn. Then London's mother reveals she and her husband donated a frozen embryo decades ago, meaning that London might have a sibling. When Dawson finds Maddie and takes her to the Quinns, they welcome her into...
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Series
Shana Merchant volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A storm-struck island. A blood-soaked bed. A missing man. Senior Investigator Shana Merchant believes it all adds up to a killer in their midst - and that murder is a family affair. Thirteen months ago, former NYPD detective Shana Merchant barely survived being abducted by a serial killer. Now hoping to leave grisly murder cases behind, she's taken a job in her fiancé's sleepy hometown in the Thousand Islands region of Upstate New York. But as a...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"In this lush, magical, queer, and feminist take on Hamlet in modern-day New York City, a neuro-atypical philosopher, along with his best friend Horatio and artist ex-fiancé Lia, are caught up in the otherworldly events surrounding the death of his father"--
19) The spider's web
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Series
Language
English
Description
When Arapaho Ned Windsong is shot to death, his fiancé Marcy is the only witness. And when the men Marcy has accused of murdering her fiancé are found dead in an abandoned barn, Vicky and Father John realize they are caught in a web of lies and deceit woven by a master.
Author
Series
Ty Buchanan novels volume 1
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A fast-paced legal thriller in which lawyer Ty Buchanan will enter a world of unbelievable evil to discover the cause of his fiancee's death, prepared to kill for the truth"--Provided by the publisher
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