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A family is devastated by the sudden, unexplained illness and death of their mother, Caroline. The cause of death is initially unknown, and tensions rise over a dispute for an autopsy.

Warner Saint James is a decorated Navy Seal. He is also a brilliant artist. From his imagination, he paints the woman of his dreams; an olive-skinned, black-headed, brown-eyed beauty. But when he hangs the canvas in the window of his Key West gallery, he inherited from his late Aunt, a Mafia Capo storms in the door and demands to know where the woman in the painting is. He angrily tells Warner that the woman in the painting is real and alive. Her name is Olivia DiAngelo, and he has been searching for her for over 10 years.

Private Detective Angie Stallone opens her fledgling agency in the quaint town of Buxton, North Carolina on the Outer Banks. Struggling to establish a credible business, she teams up with local bookstore owner Mee Mee Roberts to solve a cold case from the 1960s.

Almost every society has professional judges, but from ancient Athens to modern Asia, cultures have wanted ordinary people involved in legal decisions. The use of juries comes with challenges; societies must determine how to select jurors, what cases jurors should decide and by what rules, and how to inform jurors about the law and evidence. This Very Short Introduction shows how and why societies around the world have used juries, charting the spread of the twelve-person jury from England to the British colonies in America, Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand, and the Caribbean.

A deadly pathogen is missing from a clandestine US lab. The government is staying silent about the breach, even as they assemble a task force to track it down. Worse, other nefarious groups are searching for it too.

When a freelance photographer stumbles across a dead body, she is plunged into a homicide investigation and is brought closer to her uncle and aunt, the only family she has. To a handsome police detective who holds her life in his hands. To a suspect who holds her heart. And to a killer who is closer than she knows—in this spellbinding thriller by a masterful new storyteller.

In the fourth and final book in the Before Watson series, Sherlock Holmes and his companion and assistant, Dr. Poppy Stamford, embark on their greatest adventure yet. They are charged with solving not just one case, but three.

One year after the suicide, Carson Long still hates his father. He hates him for abandoning his sister Georgie and for turning his mother into a young widow. And he hates his father for leaving behind his stupid tree. Four of them are planted outside the restaurant, one for each family member. That is until Carson's mother hires a local landscaper to remove them in the middle of the night. This seemingly unremarkable act soon sets in motion a series of events that leaves more than just young Carson groping in the dark for answers.

Oleta Greene was born on the banks of the Yockanookany River in 1912. She has never known her father, who abandoned her mother before the baby took her first breath. Her youngest son, Otis Alexnder Bell, is rebellious and resentful in a world where the color of your skin ascertains justice or injustice.

Gathered together for the very first time, these often hard to find tales include "Grass Dancer," a Nebula Award Nominee for best short story of the year. The collection includes the first four chapters of the forthcoming novel "Coyote Rage", the first book in a trilogy featuring shape-shifters, talking animals, giants, Little People and a horde of other critters and people from Native American history and folklore.

Five detectives across five states are dead, victims of an assailant known as the Judge. As the murderer cuts across the country, the FBI invites Sam to be a part of the investigation. Sam is a county cop with an unsettled past and an uncertain future. She’s also a talented investigator with a knack for catching serial killers. Her skill set makes her an asset to the Bureau. It also marks her as a target.

When 64-year-old Kay O'Brien hears her young Ojibwe neighbor, Shawna, scream out on the lake behind her house, she wants to help. Kay knows the girl's mother was killed years ago by a white man, but what she doesn’t know is that Shawna may soon be in trouble herself. At the same time, Kay and her son, Douglas, are both fighting ghosts of their own. Kay keeps her husband’s ashes on top of the TV and talks to him every day while drinking stiff Manhattans and trying to ignore the onset of Alzheimer’s.

FBI Agent Angel Blondeaux is the focus of a man the press has labeled the Blindfold Killer. With each victim, she receives the call informing her where the dead body is to be found. The New Orleans Police have no choice but to enlist her help in his capture.

Kat, a lapsed Catholic and promiscuous stripper, never thought she would get into Heaven. Even as she stands there at the Pearly Gates, she naturally expects to be sent directly to Hell. She picks a fight with St. Peter just for fun, but rules are rules, and Kat makes it into Heaven on a minor technicality.

Human connection is a basic human need. In her second memoir, The Power of Meeting and Connecting with Strangers, author Irene Sardanis captures the importance of connection and illustrates how it can be met in the most unlikely places: with strangers.