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2009: #44 – Fractured (Karin Slaughter)

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With its gracious homes and tree-lined streets, Ansley Park is one of Atlanta’s most desirable neighborhoods. But in one gleaming mansion, in a teenager’s lavish bedroom, a girl has been savagely murdered. And in the hallway, her horrified mother stands amid shattered glass, having killed her daughter’s attacker with her bare hands.

Detective Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is here only to do a political favor; the murder site belongs to the Atlanta police. But Trent soon sees something that the cops are missing, something in the trail of blood, in a matrix of forensic evidence, and in the eyes of the shell-shocked mother.

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2009: #43 – Full Blast (Janet Evanovich)

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There’s never a dull moment for the residents of Beaumont, South Carolina. Lately, a heat wave’s spiked the mercury-and everyone’s sex drive! These days, when Jamie runs into Max, it’s all she can do not to tear his clothes off-and the feeling is mutual. But trouble seems to follow Max like moths to a flame, and Jamie suspects he’s all wrong for her. Meanwhile, the lingerie shop is having a sale on edible underwear, while the bakery’s selling aphrodisiac-laced brownies and x-rated birthday cakes. Even Jamie’s dog, Fleas, is dodging passes from the amorous French poodle next door! But when someone starts bumping off some of the town’s more annoying citizens, all clues lead straight to the new personals section in Jamie’s newspaper. Pretty soon, things are getting hot and heavy, as Max and Jamie start uncovering secrets-and undressing each other…

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2009: #41 – Drop Shot (Harlan Coben)

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Valerie Simpson is a young female tennis star with a troubled past who’s now on the verge of a comeback and wants Myron as her agent. Myron, who’s also got the hottest young male tennis star, Duane Richwood, primed to take his first grand slam tournament, couldn’t be happier. That is, until Valerie is murdered in broad daylight at the U.S. Open and Myron’s number one client becomes the number one suspect.

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2009: #33 – The Kiss Murder (Mehmet Murat Somer)

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As night falls over Istanbul, our heroine, a fabulous drag queen who is a dead ringer for Audrey Hepburn, heads out to her nightclub, one of the most popular hangouts in the city’s underworld. Impossibly chic and charming, she’s ready for anything, and when one of her employees ends up dead as the result of blackmail, she’ll need to use all of her wit and quick thinking–as well as her Thai kickboxing skills–to find the killers before they find her.

Outrageous, hilarious, and page-turning, Mehmet Murat Somer’s unique series is set to take the mystery world by storm.

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