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81) Die for love
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Jacqueline Kirby, the assistant head librarian at Nebraska's Coldwater College, attends a New York writers' conference and finds herself in the midst of a murder mystery and romantic entanglements at the convention of the Historical Romance Writers of the World.
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Walter Snow is doomed. He stares at the blank pages in his typewriter, hoping for the spark that will finally ignite his ambition to write the Great Armenian Novel.
And then he meets Clyde Potts. She is beautiful, intelligent, charming, perhaps psychic, and, for better or worse, very possibly unbalanced. With Potts's joie de vivre and her certified-insane partner in crime, Fox Harris, Snow is caught up in a series of pranks against corporate sprawl...
83) Misery
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After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.
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Ellery Queen investigates a mobster whose bizarre death is marked by the number 9 Nino Importuna has a soft face, but when he smiles, it's terrifying. His Central Park penthouse is lavish, but it was bought with the blood of his enemies. His criminal empire controls mining, electronics, and food-legitimate corporations that he runs with a murderer's touch. When he catches one of his capos stealing from him, Importuna could either kill the man or...
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There was an old woman who owned a mammoth shoe company and was worth many millions of dollars. She also had one of the most dysfunctional families imaginable. But when her children began to get killed, it did not make any sense. On one level, the explanation seemed obvious, but surely it could not be as easy as that? As Ellery Queen endeavors to solve the case, he tries to make sense of a family that defies rationality.
86) The drowning
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"Christian Thydell's dream has come true. His debut novel, The Mermaid, has been published to rave reviews. So why is he as distant and unhappy as ever? When crime writer Erica Falk, who helped Christian discover and develop his talents, learns he has been receiving anonymous threats, she investigates not just [the] messages but also the young [author's] mysterious past. Then, one of Christian's closet friends, Magnus, goes missing. Erica's husband,...
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Gregory Keays is a writer whose brilliant future is behind him. Corroded with envy, Gregory watches as his contemporaries produce better work and live happier lives while he teaches community college composition classes and compiles books about other books. One day, Gregory is convinced, the world will recognize his talents. In the meantime, his marriage to a new-age feng shui artist has become cold and distant, and his relationship with his reclusive...
89) Snowfall
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An ex-cop protects a beautiful mystery author from a killer fan in this romantic suspense novel by the New York Times-bestselling author of Remember Me.
As an heiress to a broadcasting fortune, successful mystery author Caitlin Bennett is used to people saying she bought her way into fame. But the taunts become terrifying when she starts receiving menacing letters from a deranged fan. Meanwhile, the news that a woman has been found murdered-her...
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Coerced by Alexandre Drake--one of her fictional characters who has become all too real--to attend the WAR (We Are Romance) conference, mystery writer Maggie Kelly is faced with murderous fanatics, backstabbing colleagues, overzealous writers, and NYPD Lieutenant Steve Wendell.
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"From Edgar-Award nominee Elle Cosimano, comes Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead-the hilarious and heart-pounding follow-up to Finlay Donovan is Killing It. "A funny and smart, twisty and surprising series."-Megan Miranda Finlay Donovan is-once again-struggling to finish her next novel and keep her head above water as a single mother of two. On the bright side, she has her live-in nanny and confidant Vero to rely on, and the only dead body she's dealt...
94) Mr. Fox
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Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding, and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, the celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Daphne. It's not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject that his story begins to unfold differently.
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1. Holiday: a period in which a break is taken from work or studies for rest, travel, or recreation. [literally: holy day]
Many years ago, Mr. Golightly wrote a work of dramatic fiction that grew to be an astonishing international bestseller. But, his reputation is on the decline and he finds himself badly out of touch with the modern world. He decides to take a holiday and comes to the historic village of Great Calne, hoping to use the opportunity...
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"A fantasia of a double tale skimming through the art capitals of Europe with double muses, double love pursuits, double Raphaels, even double authors, a tale dripping with idealized romantic settings, mystery, art, and a touch of magic, The Sidewalk Artist will keep readers wondering what is real and what is artifice--as fine paintings always do."
--Susan Vreeland, author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue
While in Europe researching her next novel, twenty-something...
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A painter's death sets into motion a story of desire-past and present-and its enduring repercussions
Catherine and Vinny are sisters and writers living in contemporary London. Catherine, a professor, publishes erotic novels under an assumed name, keeping her acclaimed novelist husband, Adam, in the dark. When not writing her poetry, Vinny wanders the streets of the city marking the houses of female authors with chalk quotations from their work.
When...
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A young writer-to-be embarks on a comic coming-of-age journey through the crushing mediocrity of work, the vagaries of fate, and the mysteries of sex A confused and conflicted but not altogether angry young man shares his observations, disappointments, rants, and sexual desires in a revealing series of letters to an unnamed friend. Our hero wants to be a writer, but is stuck doing mind-numbing work for an unscrupulous encyclopedia publisher. He muddles...
99) Dead weight
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E.J. Pugh's Weight Watchers' group is supposed to help members lose pounds – not their lives...- When Berta Harris of E.J.'s Weight Watchers' group succumbs to an untimely death, amateur sleuth E.J. is puzzled. Why was Kerry Killian, the realtor selling Berta's house, was murdered the day after E.J. questioned her? What does this have to do with Berta's mysterious death? And why would anyone in the group want to put on weight? As E.J. immerses herself...
100) Abbie and the cowboy
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The Cowboy Kidnaps A Bride.
Dylan Janos had no intention of getting married for real. When he whisked Abbie Turner away, the footloose rancher was simply reviving a romantic Gypsy tradition. All he wanted were sizzling memories to take along when he left. And he would leave. He always did...
The Bride Isn't Objecting!
Abbie knew Dylan was kidding about marriage. He wasn't interested in settling down-just as Abbie had no intention of falling...
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