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1) Fractured
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Will Trent series volume 2
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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...
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THE PRINCIPALS: Paul Wheeler: CEO of the Wheeler Enterprises empire, is shot dead during an armed robbery. Julie Rutledge: A savvy, cultured, and attractive Southern woman, was hand-inhand with Paul Wheeler at the time of his death. Derek Mitchell: A defense lawyer of renown, he goes to the mat to make a case for every client -- and headlines for himself. Creighton Wheeler: The prodigal nephew of Paul and a playboy with a passion for movies. Even...
4) Beyond reach
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Grant County series volume 6
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"In a stifling jail cell in a hardscrabble Georgia town, Detective Lena Adams sits in stubborn silence: bruised, angry, and the only suspect in a horrific murder that left a woman incinerated beyond recognition. A hundred miles away, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver has gotten the call that his young detective has been arrested. Jeffrey's wife, pediatrician and medical examiner Sara Linton, has little patience for Lena or her dramas. Fighting a heartbreaking...
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A smalltown girl, Smoky O'Donnell, moves to Atlanta to work for a magazine and becomes involved with three men: a rebellious photographer, a black freedom fighter, and the scion of an aristocratic Southern family. The civil rights movement serves as a background. By the author of Hill Towns
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Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft...
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When Pru Bonner falls off the wagon, "the girls" stage a hilarious kidnapping in Vegas to help their childhood friend clean up her act. As the women confront their pasts along with their hazardous adventure, they discover surprising strength in themselves and their friendships.
8) Triptych
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Will Trent series volume 1
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In the city of Atlanta, young women are dying - at the hands of a killer who signs his work with a single, chilling act of mutilation. Leaving behind enough evidence to fuel a frenzied police hunt, this cunning madman is bringing together dozens of disparate lives. And in this new novel, Karin Slaughter plunges us into their midst ... as investigators, bystanders, and one very guilty man become part of a harrowing, unpredictable drama - and the shocking...
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Will Trent series volume 9
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On a serene summer Sunday, a routine admission for a run- of-the-mill surgery at Atlanta's Emory Hospital goes tragically wrong, setting off a catastrophic wave of destruction that sends the facility and the surrounding area into lockdown. One of the city's largest and most prestigious institutions, Emory is situated near the Centers for Disease Control, the FBI counter-terrorism headquarters, and a large children's hospital. Anything that happens...
10) Undone : A novel
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Will Trent series volume 1
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When a tortured young woman enters the trauma center of an Atlanta hospital, Dr. Sara Linton is thrust into a desperate police investigation with Special Agent Will Trent and his partner, Faith Mitchell. Though guarding their own wounds and their own secrets, Sara, Will, and Faith find that they are all that stand between a madman and his next victim.
11) Silver Sparrow
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"With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist, author Tayari Jones unveils a ...story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon's two families the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them...
12) Cop town
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Atlanta, 1974: As a brutal murder and a furious manhunt rock the citys police department, Kate Murphy wonders if her first day on the job will also be her last. Shes determined to defy her privileged background by making her own way-wearing a badge and carrying a gun. But for a beautiful young woman, life will be anything but easy in the macho world of the Atlanta PD, where even the female cops have little mercy for rookies. Kate isnt the only woman...
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Tai Randolph mysteries volume 1
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[2011]
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Tai is still adjusting to a newly inherited Confederate-themed gun shop when she finds a murdered corpse in her brother's driveway. Potential suspects abound, including violent stalkers, vengeful sisters, and a paparazzo with a taste for meth.
15) Criminal
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Will Trent series volume 6
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Karin Slaughters new novel is an epic tale of love, loyalty, and murder that encompasses forty years, two chillingly similar murder cases, and a good mans deepest secrets. Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda...
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Keye Street novels volume 1
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Offered a second chance by the Atlanta Police Department to catch a serial killer who has eluded them for years, former FBI profiler and alcoholic Keye Street begins a deadly cat-and-mouse chase with an adversary who has taken a personal interest in her.
17) Deep dish
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When Chef Gina Foxton, host of her own PBS show Fresh Start catches her producer boyfriend and the boss's wife in a compromising position and her show gets cancelled, she realizes she is meant for better things, namely a gig on national television's the cooking channel. But her competition for a spot on the cooking channel is a hunky guy who challenges her to the cook-off of their lives with a dash of romance.
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[2004]
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"...Sleeping with a client's gorgeous girlfriend may have been the gutsiest move in Jack Hammond's formerly booming law career, but it wasn't the smartest. Booted from his elite law firm, Jack now scrapes by as a court-appointed attorney, his client list a revolving door of small-time drug offenders and petty thieves. When his friend -- a computer whiz and former addict who'd brought his life back from the brink -- is found dead in his apartment with...
19) Magic breaks
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"As the mate of the Beast Lord, Curran, former mercenary Kate Daniels has more responsibilities than it seems possible to juggle. Not only is she still struggling to keep her investigative business afloat, she must now deal with the affairs of the pack, including preparing her people for attack from Roland, a cruel ancient being with god-like powers. Since Kate's connection to Roland has come out into the open, no one is safe-especially those closest...
20) Thirteen
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Winnie years volume 3
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[2008]
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Winnie's thirteenth year brings many joys and challenges as she negotiates her relationship with her first boyfriend and realizes that change is inevitable in her friends, family, and even herself.