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Filled with the bestselling, award-winning author's trademark wordplay and inventive storytelling, here is the dizzyingly entertaining, wickedly humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance during a family’s summer holiday transforms four variously unhappy people.
Each of the Smarts—parents Eve and Michael, son Magnus, and the youngest, daughter Astrid—encounter Amber in his or her own
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"I spent my entire youth idolizing Nancy Drew. I'm pushing forty now, but some fantasies die hard." Besides her beloved collection of vintage designer clothing, there is nothing Cece Caruso cherishes more than her childhood memories of Nancy Drew. Her near obsession with the fictional teenage sleuth led her to become a professional biographer of classic mystery writers. And now that she's working on a book about Nancy's pseudonymous creator, "Carolyn...
3) Jigsaw
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Rona Parish mysteries volume 2
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The return of Rona Parish - Rona Parish is ready to embark on a new assignment. She is to write a series of articles for the 600th anniversary of the local market town of Buckford, looking at its churches, schools and celebrated inhabitants. But her first encounter with the elderly Edna Rosebury raises unresolved questions about a recent tragic murder and Rona's investigative antennae are instantly on the alert . . .
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Rona Parish mysteries volume 1
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When successful biographer Rona Parish is asked to write the life-story of a bestselling author, recently deceased, she is intrigued, to say the least. After all, Theo Harvey led a very colourful life, and died in mysterious circumstances. But Rona's husband Max is wary and, it soon becomes apparent, with good reason...As Rona begins to delve into Theo Harvey's life and death, and to interview his friends and family - some more willing than others...
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I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason is the debut novel in a hip, sexy, smart and, yes, cozy mystery series with a great hook. Think Sex and the City collides with Murder, She Wrote. All that writer Cece Caruso really wants to do is complete her biography of mystery legend Erle Stanley Gardner, find a vintage 1970's Ossie Clark gown to add to her collection, and fix the doorknob on her picturesque West Hollywood bungalow. Then a chance visit with a prison...
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THE PRINCE'S SECRET LOVE CHILD!
Shocking news has rocked the Mediterranean Principality of Agon. Prince Theseus-;second in line to the throne-;is rumored to have fathered a secret love child.
Reports surfaced the moment stunning royal biographer Joanne Brooks was hired to memorialize King Astraeus's reign. It seems she's brought more than pens and paper!
Witnesses suggest that five years ago, our onetime bad boy prince traveled the world...
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The architect Klaus Lehmann loves his wife, Elsa, with a passion that continues throughout their married life despite long periods of separation. Almost half a century after Lehmann's death in the village of Steerborough, a young woman, Lily, arrives to research his life and work. Pouring over Klaus's letters to Elsa, Lily pieces together the story of their lives together and apart. And alone in her rented cottage by the sea, she begins to sense an...
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Los Angeles writer Cece Caruso is thrilled that her biography of the legendary Dashiell Hammett is headed for the big screen. Rafe Simic, the actor cast as the lead, may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but the money she'll make tutoring him in the ABCs of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man should be good enough to feed Cece's addiction to vintage Yves St. Laurent. But when the dead body of one of Rafe's old flames is discovered-and neither...
9) Hame
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'Hame, n. Scottish form of 'home': a valued place regarded as a refuge or place of origin.' In the wake of the breakdown of her relationship, Mhairi McPhail dismantles her life in New York and moves with her 9-year-old daughter, Agnes, to the remote Scottish island of Fascaray. Mhairi has been commissioned to write a biography of the late Bard of Fascaray, Grigor McWatt, a cantankerous poet with an international reputation. But who was Grigor McWatt?...
10) Small ceremonies
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On the surface Judith Gill, the protagonist, is a nobody, a middle-class housewife with two children living in a small town. But her job as a biographer has taught her it is the little things in life that count, and from that point of view her story is alive with action. By the author of The Stone Diaries, for which she won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
13) Tell-all
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New York City writer Kat Callahan is just finishing an explosive unauthorized biography of Hollywood's golden couple: Alex and Victoria Janssen, when they mysteriously disappear along with their 7-year-old son. Little does Kat know, the charming cowboy who's just strolled into her life is actually Alex Janssen's brother Luke, dead-set on stopping the book and the revelation of a fiercely guarded secret.
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"Cuando a Sandra Valdés, joven historiadora en paro, le encargan que escriba la biografía de Ofelia Arráez -la gran empresaria y constructora, referente obligado en el mundo de la moda del calzado femenino-, ella acepta el reto sin imaginar los secretos que se ocultan en los noventa años de esa mujer contradictoria y poderosa, sin saber que lo que va a descubrir cambiará también su vida."--Page [4] of cover.
15) La última página
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"Tras una vida de desengaños, Soledad es contratada para preservar en un Banco de Recuerdos la memoria de un paciente con alzheimer. La paga es buena y el trabajo se vincula con su vocación literaria, incluso el hombre tiene un extraño atractivo; sin embargo, esta actividad aparentemente fácil se va llenando de sorpresas: él tuvo una profesión cuya trayectoria ha sido velada por motivos secretos. La protagonista irá descifrando las claves de...
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"When Kate's agent gets her the job of writing Trent's autobiography, she almost balks. The charismatic founder of his own outdoor clothing company dumped her when they were in college. But she needs the money. Trent's been so busy lately, he completely forgot he was supposed to be writing a book, and the draft is due soon He wants Kate as the ghostwriter: she's experienced, and she was always smart and hard-working. They can keep things professional,...
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