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Alison is happy for her best friend, Max. Really, she is. She loves Max, and the guy Max is marrying completely adores her. Even being in the wedding wouldn't be so bad, if it'd keep her from thinking about her off-again relationship with NYPD homicide detective Bobby Crawford. However, Bobby's the best man, and that forces them into all kinds of awkward situations. Then, when Alison’s ex turns up dead, she's dragged into another murder investigation. Romance, humor, and murder are sure to mix and mingle whenever Alison and Bobby link up in Extracurricular Activities.

College English professor Alison Bergeron thought that dating a cute NYPD detective like Bobby Crawford would be exciting and involve a lot of riding around in cruisers and putting away sleazy crooks, but he has yet to invite her on any stakeouts.... Then when a friend asks her to help him find his nephew, she goes to Bobby for advice only to find out that he already knows about the case. He pulled the boy out of the Hudson River a few days earlier. The boy’s employer calls it an accident, but Alison and Bobby aren’t convinced.

A fashion magazine features editor, Leah McDevitt is haunted by the memory of her cherished younger sister, Melissa, who vanished years ago. Missy, whose extraordinary eyes - one blue, one brown - may have lured her abductor to her. When Leah receives a letter from death-row inmate Raymond Lambert, she eagerly agrees to pay him the long-standing reward for information about Melissa - even if it means coming face-to-face with a notorious serial killer. But before Lambert can impart his secrets, he himself is killed.

Recently engaged and deeply ensconced in her third year of surgical residency in Chicago, Emily Hartford gets a shock when she is called home to Freeport, Michigan, the small town she fled a decade ago after the death of her mother. Her estranged father, the local medical examiner, has had a massive heart attack. At the hospital, she finds her father in near total denial of the seriousness of his condition. He insists that the best thing Emily can do to help him is to take on the autopsy of a senator's teen daughter whose sudden, unexplained death has just rocked the sleepy town.

Connie MacAdair è una donna piuttosto insolita. Così almeno la considerano molte delle persone con cui ha a che fare. Lavora come matematica presso una prestigiosa università inglese, in un ambiente, si sa, quasi interamente popolato da uomini, e i suoi capelli, rossi come il fuoco, non la aiutano certo a passare inosservata. Tra i suoi colleghi c'è Luke Beith, la persona più singolare che abbia mai conosciuto, un genio dei numeri affascinante e allo stesso tempo sfuggente, verso cui sente un'inspiegabile attrazione.

Francese con un lavoro a Parigi e un appartamentino a Montmartre, Vivienne Vuloir è una ragazza buffa e imbranata che colleziona una figuraccia dopo l'altra, fa i conti con una fallimentare carriera di scrittrice e soffre di un numero indefinito di fobie. A trent'anni ha dimenticato il sapore di un bacio, si è adattata a essere identificata come “quella che si occupa di gossip”, ma soprattutto ha perso completamente fiducia nel genere umano, specialmente se maschile.

L'aiuto cuoco Aimee Tierney ha trovato la ricetta per la vita perfetta: sposare il ragazzo che ama fin da quando è una bambina, creare una famiglia e poi chissà, un giorno rilevare il ristorante dei genitori. Il futuro che aveva sognato le passa però davanti in un lampo, come strappato dal vento, quando il suo fidanzato James perde la vita in un incidente in barca. Dal giorno in cui la chiesa che avrebbe dovuto ospitare il loro matrimonio è diventata il triste scenario per il funerale di James, Aimee non ha pace.

Fuggita da un passato difficile e tormentato, Molly Brennan è riuscita a ricostruire una nuova esistenza per sé e la sua bambina di otto anni, Cassie, in un ambiente sicuro e pieno d'affetto. Appassionata cultrice e insegnante di storia dell'arte, ha imparato a scorgere la bellezza nascosta nelle piccole cose, come nei vetri di mare che raccoglie sulla spiaggia e che trasforma in magnifici gioielli, forse imperfetti ma unici e preziosi come la vita.

When Cordelia Thorn ventures to Summer Green, Wisconsin, for a reunion with some old college friends, she finds trouble in paradise. Twenty-plus years have definitely changed things. Soap opera star Diana has become an alcoholic. Curt and Annie's marriage is falling apart. Orson is hostile and surly. And Theo, the most passionate of them all, suddenly dies - of an apparent heart attack. Alarmed, Cordelia sends for her old friend Jane Lawless to do some quiet snooping. Together they follow their hunches - into the not-so-carefree past and back to the troubled present, where they find a single match could blow up all their lives....

Piper Dove è una ragazza ambiziosa e determinata: il suo sogno è diventare la migliore detective di Chicago e riscattare un passato difficile e tormentato. Il suo primo incarico consiste nel pedinare Cooper Graham, celebre ex quarterback dei Chicago Stars, una vera e propria star in città. Peccato che venga scoperta quasi subito... Ora che rischia di perdere casa e agenzia, Piper non ha altra scelta che accettare il lavoro nel club alla moda di Cooper, lo Spiral, ma la vita dell'ex campione negli ultimi tempi è diventata piuttosto movimentata e rischia di coinvolgere la ragazza in affari ben più pericolosi di una crisi finanziaria.

Brought to you by Penguin. Get ready for your next reading obsession, the spicy small-town romance filled with mystery and suspense from the New York Times bestselling author, perfect for fans of Elsie Silver and Colleen Hoover. Braedyn Winslow never expected to return to Starlight Grove—the...

Intelligent, tough, beautiful, and sole heir to a billion-dollar fortune, Elizabeth suddenly finds herself head of an empire after her father mysteriously dies. Surrounded by cash-hungry family members, the young heiress fights to save the family business. And after narrowly escaping death, she realizes that someone is determined to kill her. Unsure of who she can trust, Elizabeth must figure out who the assassin is before it's too late.

Murder has a way of bringing people together… Harriet Baker thought that when she left Logan Island, she was leaving for good. But after getting fired from her dream magazine job, she finds herself stuck back in the sleepy New Jersey beach town living with her eccentric mother and desperate to...

Veronica and Stoker are practically dying for a new adventure, but when their wish is granted, they find themselves up against a secret society and a darkly seductive duo in this landmark historical mystery from beloved New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–nominated author Deanna...

Riley Thorn and her hot tattooed private investigator boyfriend are all moved in to their new fixer-upper. Not only do they finally have their own place they also haven’t found any new dead bodies on the premises. Yep. It looks like summer is over, and so is Riley’s bad luck. Or is it? While Nick gives up sleeping and showering to obsess over the cold case that still haunts him, his business partner Mrs. Penny is calling the investigative shots. It’s every bit as bad as you can imagine.

Photographer Jo Ellen Hathaway thought she'd escaped the house called Sanctuary long ago. She'd spent her loneliest years there, after the sudden, unexplained disappearance of her mother. Yet the sprawling inn on an island off the Georgia coast continues to haunt her dreams. And now, even more haunting are the pictures someone is sending her: strange close-ups and candids, culminating in the most shocking portrait of all - a photo of her mother - naked, beautiful, and dead.

Winslow Covington a Montana-beli Quincy új rendőrfőnöke. Mindenáron bizonyítani szeretné, hogy az állását nem nagyapja befolyásának köszönheti. De nem könnyíti meg a helyzetét, hogy egyéjszakás kalandja volt a legidősebb Eden fiúval, Griffinnel. Óriási hiba volt a légyott, és próbál megfeledkezni róla. De amikor holtan találnak egy nőt az Eden-birtokon, kénytelenek együttműködni. A nyomok arra utalnak, hogy a tettes a város egyik lakója, és Griffin rájön, hogy nagyon alábecsülte Winslow-t. A gyönyörű és intelligens nő ellenállhatatlannak bizonyul. Számára. És a gyilkos számára is.

What if they hadn't gone? That's the question Clementine can't stop asking herself. It was just a backyard barbeque. They didn't know their hosts that well. They were friends of friends. They could so easily have said no. But she and her husband, Sam, said yes, and now they can never change what they did and didn't do that beautiful winter's day. Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One yapping dog. It's a normal weekend in the suburbs. What could possibly go wrong?

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Jana DeLeon, a companion novella to Trouble in Mudbug. Do you love Helena Henry? Did you wonder what she was thinking during Trouble in Mudbug, or what she was up to when she was not in the novel? If so, then this novella is for you. All of Helena's thoughts and actions during Trouble in Mudbug, compiled in a diary for you to enjoy.

"Wendy Darling, I have your brothers. You'll never see them again. They're in Neverland now." Isobel "Bel" Emerson finds her life disrupted once again when Eamon Stone receives a disturbing phone call from an old friend's daughter. Her family is in danger, but she can't call the police. Eamon is the only person she can turn to, and he agrees to help under one condition: Bel comes with him. Working undercover with only Eamon for backup, Bel arrives at Wendy Darling's expansive estate where she learns that both of Wendy's younger brothers have been kidnapped.