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Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea

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It’s 1963. Twelve-year-old Florine Gilham is enjoying an idyllic summer in her Maine village — goofing  off with her three best friends, baking bread with her grandmother, and swimming at the beach with her lively mom, Carlie, while her lobsterman father, Leeman, is busy making a living. Everything is as it should be until Carlie leaves for her annual weekend trip up the coast with her best friend, Patty. They have been gone two days when Patty calls to say that Carlie has gone missing. 
 

The Other Typist

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"Take a dollop of Alfred Hitchcock, a dollop of Patricia Highsmith, throw in some Great Gatsby flourishes, and the result is Rindell's debut, a pitch-black comedy about a police stenographer accused of murder in 1920s Manhattan.... A deliciously addictive, cinematically influenced page-turner, both comic and provocative."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
 
For fans of The Talented Mr. Ripley and The Great Gatsby comes one of the most memorable unreliable narrators in years.
 

In Love's Place

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The ratmobile
 
A steep, wet night-wind courses across Johannesburg International. The plane
shudders as it rises.
Christian is thrust back against his seat by the plane’s speed. He loosens the
elastic band binding his ponytail and shakes out his dark brown hair. Opposite
him sits an air hostess, her safety belt secured. As the wind rocks the plane, her
head tilts lazily from side to side against the backrest. Her eyes are fixed on the

A Passion for Him: The Georgian Series (Book 3)

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This excerpt contains adult material. It is intended for readers 18 years of age or older.
 
The man in the white mask was following her.
 
Amelia Benbridge was uncertain of how long he had been moving surreptitiously behind her, but he most definitely was.
 
She strolled carefully around the perimeter of the Langston ballroom, her senses attuned to his movements, her head turning with feigned interest in her surroundings so that she might study him further.

Passion for the Game: The Georgian Series (Book 2)

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This excerpt contains adult material. It is intended for readers 18 years of age or older.
 
Maria rose to her feet without haste, her movements leisurely as she set the post of her parasol to her shoulder and began to stroll. A carelessly affected glance behind her found Simon intercepting a couple intent on the same gravel pathway she took. Secure in the knowledge that he would handle things beautifully as he always did, she set her mind to the task ahead.
 

Ask for it

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“Thank you for allowing me to repair myself here,” Elizabeth said softly from the doorway that led to the bedroom.
 
She’d used the room that was meant to be hers–that of the lady of the house. Turning to face her, he saw her staring down at her clasped hands. “William would have known something was amiss if I’d returned home looking a mess.”
 

A bookseller reviews Glenn Agliotti: A Biography

17 July 2013 -- penguinbooks
This book, as the title suggests, is all about Glenn Agliotti. It delves into his murky past of crime and the South African underworld and makes an attempt to beseech all those who read it into seeing the world through Glenn Agliotti’s eyes and follow his account of what happened during the trials and accusations that beset him from all sides. Everything from the murder of mining magnate Brett Kebble, to surveillance cameras being installed throughout Agliotti’s home, and even a robbery of his house is contained within this book.
 

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