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"THE WRONG GOOD DEED is a Sun City mystery that finds Clemmie caught up in another drama against her wishes when her neighbor Muffin drags her from Sunday morning service at Trinity Hill, convinced that the man she's just spotted across the aisle is a dangerous figure from her past. It turns out that Muffin, like Clemmie, has her own dark secret that she's been keeping for decades-and whether or not the man at Trinity Hill is who she thinks he is,...
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Based on the author's own experiences a "heartrending" (People) and haunting story about a magazine editor and mother whose life is changed by a phone call revealing that her husband has vanished without a trace.
On a steamy August morning, Sarah Larkin drops her six-year-old daughter, Eliza, off at camp and heads to her office, where she works as an editor of a women's magazine. She is sitting at her desk testing a $450 face cream when the phone...
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A young lifeguard in an Austin suburb vanishes one night while returning from a screening of The Third Man.
A doctor, ill with cancer, goes missing from his home and is later seen, bearded and ragged, wandering the aisles of a grocery store.
A car is stolen, the unseen consequences tragic. One child is given up to adoption, another is lost up a tree.
The absences are so keenly felt, in the drifting lucidity of the author's sentences, that every...
44) La última viuda
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"On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a shopping center parking lot. The authorities are desperate to save the doctor who's been vanished into thin air. One month later, the serenity of a sunny Sunday afternoon is shattered by the boom of a ground-shaking blast--followed by another seconds later. One of Atlanta's busiest and most important neighborhoods has been bombed--the location...
45) Will haunt you
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This is the story of Jesse Wheeler. He just disappeared a couple of years ago, Rumor has it he had just finished reading a book like the one you're holding now. He's not the only one, either. Supposedly there's a whole bunch of people who've disappeared. But that's probably just a folktale, wouldn't you say?
46) Stormwalker
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Janet Begay is a Stormwalker, capable of wielding the raw elemental power of nature, a power that threatens to overwhelm her. Only her lover, Mick, is able to calm the storm within her-even as their passion reaches unimaginable heights of ecstasy. Janet and Mick have come to the desert town of Mageellan to ivestigate the mysterious disappearance of the police chief's daughter. The batten land is full of vortexes, the gateways that connect the human...
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Upon the sudden and tragic death of his father, Tory's marital bliss comes to a halt. His wife, Nya tries to help him cope with the pain, but Tory turns to alcohol instead. Then Tory vanishes. Although Nya looks for him with the help of law enforcement and a hired private investigator, no one turns up anything and eventually Nya gives up hope of ever finding Tory. Nya meets another man and finds happiness again. After years missing in action, Tory...
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"Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and perpetually ill at ease, he spends his evenings quietly drinking and surreptitiously observing Adèle Bedeau, the sullen but alluring waitress at a drab bistro in the unremarkable small French town of Saint-Louis. One day, she simply vanishes into thin air and Georges Gorski, a detective haunted by his failure to solve one of his first murder cases, is called in to investigate the girl's disappearance....
50) Island of time
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The Geneva branch of Interpol - the international agency tasked with policing magic and the arcane arts - is where careers go to die. Action is rare as Switzerland banned magic seven hundred years ago. That's how Agent Jackson Burnett likes it. But then reports of an explosion lead Jackson to the home of businessman Bernard Bouchon. What's there is unfathomable: The family and their possessions have vanished into ash. Jackson's enigmatic new partner...
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With plans for a new performing arts center at Wynter Castle taking up all her time, baker Merry Wynter has been all but unaware of the fringe group compound near her small town--until a street preacher accosts her with taunts of doom and damnation. Worried that some of her close friends may have been lured in by the group and its charismatic leader, Merry begins digging into the ministry--and soon suspects they may have ties to the recent death of...
52) Mercy
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After she infiltrated his business and betrayed his trust, a disavowed CIA agent must seek sanctuary in the bedroom of a man who will either help her, kill her, or bring her to her knees? Becca Ford is on her own. Eight months after she headed up a sting operation to take down millionaire club owner Jarrett Holt, the other agents in her special ops team have been eliminated under odd circumstances, and she needs a place to hide. Jarrett is a man who...
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"¿Qué es el amor? Le preguntó una niña de cinco años a su hermano mayor. Y él respondió: El amor, es cuando tú me robas cada día mi trozo de chocolate del almuerzo y yo, aún así, sigo dejándolo en el mismo sitio para ti todos las días. William y Lía son hermanos. Almas gemelas. Una infancia dfícil ha hecho que William y Lía dependan el uno del otro desde siempre. Todo cambia cuando William desaparece sin dejar rastro, el mismo día...
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Marie Walker has vanished. Her besotted boyfriend, newspaper photographer Richard Thompson, vows to find her, convinced that Marie's unusual beliefs hold the key. But a shocking discovery makes him question if he ever really knew his girlfriend. And when people around him start to die, Richard is plunged into terrrible danger. --Publisher.
59) Death fugue
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""Sometimes art is the only means by which we may find out the truth." One morning, a nine-story tower of excrement inexplicably appears in the capital of Dayang. The government performs a hasty cover-up, sparking protests that quickly explode in unrest. Mengliu, a young poet, and his girlfriend Qizi are swept up in the movement -- but in the brutal crackdown that follows, Qizi, along with thousands of other protestors, disappears. Years later, while...
60) Surrender
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"For former Navy SEAL Dare O'Rourke, Section 8 was legendary. The son of one of its missing members, he grew up in the shadow of its secrets. All he knew was that it was a cabal of operatives discharged from branches of the military and reassigned to extremely dangerous, off-the-books international missions. And that their handler was as shrouded in mystery as the missions themselves. Now the handler of Section 8 has given extreme orders to kill any...