Harlequin Intrigue — Multiple Authors

• Aug-1984
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How much would she risk to find the key? For Callier Lester, the dream was always the same. She would be so close to the warmth of home, just a step away, yet she couldn't have a key to unlock the front door. It didn't help that Callie tra...

• Aug-1984
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Where there was adventure, she was in for a penny... In her wildest imaginings, Penny Greenaway could never have believed the bizarre twist of events since meeting Andrew Keller. First there was the remarkable sum of money she was to earn for rest...

• Aug-1984
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It was clearly a case of mistaken identity... At least that's what Julie Domino kept telling herself. Normally, she taught economic theory at New York University and led a quiet life. But when Julie's radical filmmaker-sister, Emery, is re...

• Aug-1984
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Only love could unlock the secrets of the heart Investigative reporting was Melissa McKee's lifeblood. Even, though she had given up her job with a top Washington, D.C. newspaper to move to Rockport, Maryland, Melissa still had a feel for news...

• Sep-1984
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She was all caught up in his tangled lies... The porcelain butterflies arrived like clockwork every year on her birthday. Rachel Chandler received gifts postmarked from exotic places all over the world from her brother Emmett Chandler, who had bee...

• Oct-1984
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Who would be brave enough to touch a wild heart? Chela was proud of herself and her people. Teaching English to Mexican immigrants in the pear orchards of Oregon, Chela felt she was making a contribution, bettering the lives of those for whom she ...

• Nov-1984
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She was determined to discover the answer despite the odds Becky Sherman's life changed with one phone call. Early one Sunday morning Becky's father called frantically with news of a disastrous fish kill at the family-owned trout farm. Becky tried...

• Dec-1984
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Amanda risked everything to see Craig just one last time... Brandy and orange juice. Hot chocolate and vanilla ice cream. Beer and fried seafood. Missing pieces of the past that were the puzzle of a woman named Laura Collins. Craig Brandon had be...

• Jan-1985
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It was like a scene from an old romantic movie... Ferris Byrd didn't know what to expect when she first met Patrick Blackheart. Aside from reading that he was one of San Francisco's most eligible bachelors, she really didn't know too much about hi...

• Jan-1985
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"Come into my parlor," said the spider to the fly Honor Mayfield didn't know it yet, but she was about to walk into a trap. She thought that her chance meeting with Conn Landry was a fortunate stroke of luck, but actually Conn had planned to lure ...

• Feb-1985
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She had to find the exit... Lenore fought her rapidly rising panic. She tried the door she had used earlier to enter the auditorium, but it was locked. She ran down a hallway behind the stage, only to find walls without doors. Just at the moment L...

• Feb-1985
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Nothing is as frightening as shadows of the night... Beth Page knew the odds. Her job was dangerous, but she felt her work was important. Besides, it gave for a feeling of extreme accomplishment to know that she had qualified for such a difficult...

• Mar-1985
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Things were running smoothly ... too smoothly Meredith Griffin had found her way into the inner workings of the Temple of the Enlightenment with not trouble at all. As a matter of fact, it was like taking candy from a baby. After all, why lock you...

• Mar-1985
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An epidemic threatened the coastal town... Karen Ashley looked forward to her move from Jackson to Oceanport, Mississippi. A Pollution Control Board inspector of the seafood industry, she was proud of her ability to maintain her professionalism......

• Apr-1985
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Did they meet by chance -- or was it fate? For Astrid Rasmussen, meeting Derek McKenna was a fluke. She was entertaining a client for the Chicago-based department store where she worked and saw Derek across the room. The attraction she felt was im...

• Apr-1985
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Would no one listen to her cry for help? When several people suffering from a rare illness were brought into the northern California hospital where Janina Scott worked, she became alarmed. As patient coordinator, Janina had witnessed outbreaks of ...

• May-1985
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The answer was crystal clear... Sara Frazer had no choice. She had to break into Adrian Saville's house to look for clues to the whereabouts of her Uncle Lowell. And once she was inside, she couldn't help doing some additional snooping around - just...

• May-1985
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Sara would have traded her fortune for some privacy... Sara Chance was a jet-setter. As the wealthy widow of the beloved Maxwell Chance, she led a glamorous, opulent life. Yet Sara was miserable. All the money in the world couldn't make up for...

• Jun-1985
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Was she foolish or wise to follow her instincts? The house had stood vacant for ten years, but Maggie Fitzgerald knew she could call it home. An award-winning songwriter, Maggie had sought peace and solitude from the Los Angeles celebrity hounds a...

• Jun-1985
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The best-laid plans often go astray... Clare Eckert hated lies. She'd had enough dishonesty during her marriage. Now in serious financial straits, she was working part-time as a bookkeeper. But living with her sister and brother-in-law in thei...

• Jul-1985
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In pursuit of adventure... By Alexis Taylor's standards, she led a very ordinary life. Being a librarian in New York City suited her conservative nature and her love of books. When the library received a bequest from the estate of a man in Wes...

• Jul-1985
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She would risk all... Andrea Barrie knew that the man called Gage was easygoing yet remote. But that was all she knew about him. She'd met Gage on a plane to Seattle, where she was being sent to recruit a group of engineers for her head-hunting co...

• Aug-1985
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She let him take control of her life--lock, stock, and truffles... Kate Manning's life as a struggling actress in the Big Apple--an existence supported by selling her homemade chocolates--was relatively calm until Tony Kendall completely disrupted...

• Aug-1985
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He was full of contradictions Misty Chandler had moved to Colorado for the simple lifestyle that funning a country inn offered. But with the arrival of her first guest, virile ex-pilot Craig Sutherland, Misty's peace was shattered. Tough and gentl...

• Sep-1985
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She set a trap only to be caught in it herself! Bettina Bacheller had just lost everything to the IRS because her dead father had owed a fortune in back taxes. Then she learned that he was still alive, and was being sought as an international jewe...

• Sep-1985
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The truth could be a dangerous enemy... As research director of the Association for Honesty in Government, Susan Franks was involved in one of its biggest cases. Various law-enforcement agencies were suspected of circulating false reports on privat...

• Oct-1985
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Was it a dream come true--or a nightmare? Blair MacKenzie had a successful modeling career, but her lifelong dream was to own a stable of horses, as her estranged grandfather had. When he died and left his reputable California farm to her, she tho...

• Oct-1985
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She never suspected what awaited her in Rio... As a junior corporate attorney, Bethany Grey bemoaned the lack of glamour in her life. So when her aunt Zoe asked her to come to Rio de Janeiro, Bethany readily accepted. There, she became reacquainte...

• Nov-1985
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Fear was not a stranger to her--but could she conquer it now? Kit Brunswick was thirteen years old when she witnessed the fatal shooting of her policeman father. Ever since then, she'd kept a wary distance from the Halifax police force. A fairl...

• Nov-1985
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One rash act -- but how many more would follow? If Sheera O'Malley had never acted on an impulse early one morning, she'd never have been suspected of being a spy. But the dark-haired man on the New York subway had an appealing sparkle in his eye -...

• Dec-1985
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Had the man she loved put her in danger? When Lauren Malin went to Budapest in hope of adventure and romance, she got more than she'd bargained for. On her way home, she was harassed by Hungarian customs agents. Strange events continued once Laure...

• Dec-1985
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A deadly game was being played out... Blythe Daniels had looked forward to spending a week camping in the Adirondack mountains. After reaching the shelter high up in the woods, she discovered that someone else was there--a man wearing a shoulder h...

• Jan-1986
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The carnival would reveal many surprises .. . Nicole Reid looked forward to leaving Tangier, Morocco, and returning to New Orleans in time for Mardi Gras. Being pursued by a gray-eyed Arab through crowded bazaars was more than unsettling. Then ...

• Jan-1986
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Mistaken identity ... or the real thing? Lauren Stevenson still felt self-conscious about the way she looked after having undergone plastic surgery in the Bahamas. But she'd opened a frame shop in Boston with a friend and welcomed starting afresh....

• Feb-1986
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The beginning of her career might mean the end of her life Kaitlin Harper had landed the job of her dreams--as Moon Lady, queen of late-night radio for CSKY in Toronto. Nothing could stop her now. She had been on the air only a few weeks when t...

• Feb-1986
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A dangerous association led to an equally dangerous scheme... Sara Madison agreed to Malcolm Brand's unorthodox request, but for one reason only: a chance for revenge. Brand wanted her to copy several of his valuable paintings--and grand was the m...

• Mar-1986
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No one would believe she was not a traitor Julie Smith, flight attendant, stepped off the plane in Honolulu and was arrested. The charge was theft of government property -- spying! A top secret computer disk was missing. In the wrong hands, the in...

• Mar-1986
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The music was hot -- but would she get burned? Keri Lacey was enjoying moderate success as a director of music videos in Chicago. Then she took on the job of co-directing a video of a top rock-and-roll group, and before she knew it, her success ha...

• Apr-1986
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The mission was secret, the danger was overt . . . Amanda Perry was the manager of the Tri-Cola bottling plant in Mexico City and therefore no stranger to challenge. But agreeing to assist the U.S. government in a covert operation was quite anothe...

• Apr-1986
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Caught in the middle, she had nowhere to turn Annie Barron needed adventure. Signing up as a deckhand on an all-male Alaskan fishing ship was just the thing. She anticipated problems, but nothing she couldn't handle. Until she met Joe Rawlins, ...

• May-1986
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One man had been killed .. . would she be next? Greece was a choice location for an embassy post. Or so Janelle Lindsey had thought when she'd first arrived there. Then the body of Nikos Marinatos, a known smuggler, was found in her bedroom, and s...

• May-1986
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First her vacation was sunny... Then it became a nightmare In Spain to visit her younger sister, Melanie Royce discovered that Cecily was friendly with a group of idealistic Basque students. Then Cecily was kidnapped for a half-million-dollar rans...

• Jun-1986
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Romance at the Pentagon! When Valerie Carruthers walked into the briefing room, the last thing she expected was a two-star general who gave new meaning to the word charisma. His name was Richard P. Gilchrist. She didn't know Richard had spe...

• Jun-1986
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It was more than a hunch The death of Lee Hanaford's father was just the impetus she needed to return home to California. But the moment she arrived, her finely honed instincts as a journalist told her the car crash that killed her father had been...

• Jul-1986
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Could she distinguish between reality and make-believe? The assignment to cover a mystery weekend appealed to the reporter in Vicky Rand. She would have to stay on her toes every minute to figure out who among the nine other participants was reall...

• Jul-1986
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She was his last resort The battered old envelope delivered to Annie Winston Rossi had seemed harmless enough. But its contents shocked her. "Hummingbird Hill" was all it said -- the code that told her Cody Hale, her teenage sweetheart,...

• Aug-1986
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Nothing was as simple as it seemed.... When Lena Carter landed in Albuquerque, all she had in mind was doing research for her book and visiting her grandmother. But her plans were preempted. She found herself the unwilling houseguest of a promi...

• Aug-1986
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The secret had lasted nearly four hundred years... Leigh Galandale and her brother had come from America to the mist-shrouded Scottish village of Invergles for a gathering of the Clan MacDenin, to which they belonged. Shortly before Leigh's...

• Sep-1986
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The game of diplomatic intrigue was deadly.. . As an economics adviser for the United States Mission, Marti Holland attended many diplomatic receptions at the United Nations. But never before had she heard two men discuss plans for the assassinati...

• Sep-1986
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Some people would kill for diamonds.... Paula Renfrew was proud to follow in her father's footsteps as a diamond finisher for the House of Kohl in Amsterdam. But years ago her father had been implicated in the theft of a valuable gem. And now...

• Oct-1986
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A deadly game of cat and mouse ... U.S. Customs agent Diana Mackenzie was sent to London to investigate Peter Foxe. But her real target was his stepbrother, Lord Matthew Raleton, who was suspected of masterminding the smuggling of U.S. high-tech e...

• Oct-1986
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Death was her strongest opponent... Dana Sloan dismissed the threatening letters as the work of a prankster. After three years as Denver's mayor, she had come to view harassment as an expected but unpleasant aspect of her life as a public figure. ...

• Nov-1986
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She was guilty until proven innocent Malcolm Spencer was missing, and Carina Rawlins was left holding the bag. The success of the Myrmidon's opening play of the season depended on her. She certainly didn't expect Damian Fleming to show up. Holl...

• Nov-1986
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The nightmare began when she stepped off the plane Sarah Guthrie needed a holiday. When her friend Chris Browning suggested Mazatlan, she jumped at the chance. But what began as a vacation turned into a deadly game of hide-and-seek. Michael Fly...

• Dec-1986
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A magician's life offered more than illusions... Camille Bayard had left Paris because her ex-husband had made her an unwitting accomplice in a coin theft. Then Justin St. Cyr arrived at one of her magic shows. Camille had known him ever since he...

• Dec-1986
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The Seaport had its own brand of terror... The summer job as promotions consultant to the South Street Seaport Museum seemed like a smart career move to Abbie Tanner. But her first day there proved otherwise. An anonymous note on her desk warne...

• Jan-1987
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She could get burned playing with fire Firefighter Sarie Appleton thought she'd seen the last of the arson fires, But she was wrong. Obviously the culprit was still on the loose. The latest building destroyed was owned by one of Boston's leading c...

• Jan-1987
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She was a craftsman, not a criminal Only a few jewelers in the world used black pearls. Brianna Wells was one of them. She knew they were priceless and hard to find. So when Nick Severin invited her to St. Bart's to see a black pearl beyond compar...

• Feb-1987
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Death wore a puppet's mask . . . Judith Daniels knew that her friend, Lacey, feared for her life. And when Lacey died suddenly, Judith was convinced that her death had not been an accident. Desperate to learn the truth, she applied for Lacey's job...

• Feb-1987
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Trouble followed her wherever she went Jenny Landers needed help. But when she arrived in Brennig, Wales, she found her Uncle Trefor had his own problems. He blamed them on Michael Davies. Yet Michael denied the accusation, and Trefor's sus...

• Mar-1987
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Who was the unknown accomplice? Willow Laughlin was the last person to see her best friend, Cassie Clayton, alive. Cassie had just died in prison. Although she and another man had been sentenced for armed robbery, a third culprit was still at larg...

• Mar-1987
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She'd let the wolf in her door As long as Alison could remember, there had never been trouble at Holbrook's Hideaway. The family resort on Lake Superior was her pride and joy. But the arrival of Stewart Dalton and his mysterious wife cha...

• Apr-1987
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She refused to leave but was afraid to stay Jesse Layton had barely arrived in Greece when the police appeared at her door. Her sister, Melissa, whom she was to meet, was dead -- drowned. She couldn't believe it. Had it not been for the kin...

• Apr-1987
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Following her heart had been a fatal mistake Lured to France by a lonely hearts ad, Karen St. Clair's friend had then simply vanished. Luke Donovan offered to help. Maybe he wasn't the best detective in the world. but he was all she had. ...

• May-1987
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She couldn't let them get away with murder P. J. Fitzjames, Jr., had a score to settle: four elderly bachelors had swindled her out of four million dollars, and P.J. wanted it back. Enter Eli Holder, king of con men. He had a foolproof pla...

• May-1987
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She vowed to clear her dead friend's name Laura Gibson was convinced that her childhood friend, Joan Connor, would never have worked for an "escort service." Yet the police insisted that Joan was a call girl and had been murdered by a deranged cli...

• Jun-1987
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She should have asked for a doggy bag! Mariah Perkins' lunch was interrupted by the sound of her tour bus leaving, and now she was stranded miles from Cancun. So she did what any shy, retiring schoolteacher would do -- she stowed away on the n...

• Jun-1987
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One thing led to another It was shocking enough for Dina Pappas to discover her dead husband had been a criminal. Now she was suspected of being one, too. When Ran Constantine was assigned to investigate, Dina was prepared for a fight -- not fo...

• Jul-1987
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Her conscience was her undoing.... Ten years ago, as a live-for-the-moment college student, Melinda Harding had committed an act of folly while vacationing in the Guatemalan Highlands. Now, on her second visit, she intended to right the past wrong...

• Jul-1987
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She couldn't believe she'd been so gullible When her fiance disappeared, along with most of her life savings, Pam Jordan had little choice but to believe she had been the victim of an elaborate con. And if Matt O'Neil were to be believ...

• Aug-1987
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How long could she keep up the lie? "What's the matter, sweetheart? Did you forget your story?" Matt's voice was thick with sarcasm. Lara shook her head. "No, I didn't forget." What good would it do to tell him the t...

• Aug-1987
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Stranger things had never happened Sara Brennan was a bodyguard, not a murderess. But Nicholas Kingsley was determined to prove she'd killed his aunt. How else could she have gotten the secret formula that by rights belonged to him? But when Ni...

• Sep-1987
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They had only uncovered the tip of the iceberg Jennifer Logan couldn't believe it. During a routine check on security clearances, she'd found a spy. Who would believe her? Then she remembered Colonel Michael Thoreson, Chief of Security at the P...

• Sep-1987
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The options were limited . . . When Natalie Lundgren aided the victim of a rockslide in the French Alps, she didn't know that the man was a famed Russian skating coach--or that he was defecting. Natalie was further surprised when Mikhail Korolev a...

• Oct-1987
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She was torn between loyalty...and suspicion Trouble began for Boston-bred Molly Ryder when her tape recorder was stolen from her handbag. Later that day she found a dead man lying on her living room floor. Rick Boulter, an assistant district a...

• Oct-1987
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Two for the price of one Tracy Hannon had seen little action during her term as sheriff of San Isabel County. The tranquil atmosphere was shattered, however, when a sniper took aim at Shane Keegan, the dynamic chairman of Trans-world Systems. Shan...

• Nov-1987
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Someone had maliciously deceived her .. . When Courtney Long woke up in a mental hospital, the doctors told her she had tried to commit suicide. Courtney knew that wasn't true, but how could she prove her sanity? After a daring escape from ...

• Nov-1987
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Sarah was a hunted woman Alone in Europe, on the trail of her missing husband, Sarah Fontaine had walked straight into a nest of spies, counterspies and cold-blooded assassins. They would stop at nothing to find the man she'd known as Geoffrey...

• Dec-1987
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Their search ended abruptly When Kari Daniels flew to Costa Rica to get a deposition from Wade Cadell, she assumed that the boldly attractive American promoter had stolen two million dollars from his investors. The development company he represent...

• Dec-1987
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A sinister spell had been cast... As a troubleshooter for Sunshine Tours, Marti Winston found her work sometimes routine and sometimes exciting. On her latest assignment in the Dominican Republic, it had taken on a whole new dimension. Peril. To h...

• Jan-1988
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She had to find the murderer -- before he found her On the morning after the annual Christmas bash, Shelby Corbin woke up in the executive suite of Westbrook's department store. Beside her was Westbrook's co-owner, Dutch Vanleer. He was dressed in...

• Jan-1988
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She would never be the same again The Yukon had been good to Betsy Archer. Born and raised in Dawson City, she now ran a busy Klondike-style saloon. Her life was fun and full -- she had no complaints. Then her world came crashing down the day s...

• Feb-1988
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The job was waiting but her sister wasn't Ellen Shaw arrived in London, England, to take her ideal job -- managing an antiquarian bookshop -- and met her ideal man. Strong and solid, warm and loving, Hugh Weston, the shop's owner, was a po...

• Feb-1988
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Terry's working vacation nearly scared her to death The ghost town of Jerome, Arizona, was an eerie combination of decaying buildings and gloom-shrouded streets. Pleased to have found the perfect setting for her latest comic strip, Terry Morse set u...

• Mar-1988
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Break the chain...and he'd break your neck Vicky Green had been leading a pleasant but quiet life, running her gift store in Madison, Wisconsin, and nursing her drooping plants. If she hadn't received the chain letter, she never would have met Jus...

• Mar-1988
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Ronnie Sheffield had the scoop of her career At stake was the most controversial bill in Mississippi's history. At risk was State Senator Jeff Stuart, who'd introduced the bill, and who'd been the target of a would-be murderer. But at the center o...

• Apr-1988
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Someone wanted her dead but she didn't know why When waitress Karen Alling borrowed an expensive camera from the restaurant's Lost and Found, her world suddenly went haywire. Within twenty-four hours she was mugged and shot at--and that was just t...

• Apr-1988
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Bremerhaven, Massachusetts, was proud of its macabre history But the haunted houses that attracted tourists were horribly eclipsed by the skeletons that turned up during detective Rhianna Curtis's visit to her hometown. Discovered behind a brick w...

• May-1988
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It was a case of mistaken identity Allie Martin got more than she bargained for when she opened her Denver motel room the day before her lingerie fashion presentation: Reeve Chandler, rugged, resourceful and very desperate. He'd been expecting a f...

• May-1988
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She was in over her head any way she looked at it Julie Lind had no complaints. She had a good job, a nice apartment, and lived in the most exciting city in the world--New York. Being assigned to audit the Stanton Group was a feather in her cap...

• Jun-1988
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She vowed to nab her uncle's assailant Antique expert Claire Hoffner returned to her Minnesota hometown to help her beloved uncle inventory his antique shop. But when she arrived, to her horror, he was in a coma, the victim of a late-night intruder....

• Jun-1988
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She had made a promise to a dying woman Nothing less would have convinced Breanna Morgan to return to the Crescent Moon claim -- to face the doubt she'd fled so long ago. But what she faced was not who she'd anticipated. Prowlers, vandals ...

• Jul-1988
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The missile had disappeared into thin air And First Lieutenant Molly Grant was held responsible. Her mission was to find the huge hidden missile and its tank-sized carrier. But first she had a lot of questions to answer from Captain Hank Benningto...

• Jul-1988
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It began as a simple case of lost and found When Doug Maitland reported his father missing, guest-relations manager Marianne Spencer began a routine search of Children's World. What turned up was the body of a Naval Intelligence officer and eviden...

• Aug-1988
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Would Sidewinder claim a third victim? It was a lawless, treacherous town where the wrong move could mean death.... No one in Sidewinder could be trusted, especially an outsider. Detective Libby Tate had one mission in life: to find the mysteri...

• Aug-1988
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Now you see a corpse Now you don't Julie Hunter was pleased with her quiet life as a partner in Lustre, Inc., a Chicago silver-recovery plant. Until the night she stumbled on a corpse and a killer in the plant's parking lot. Most baffling: wh...

• Sep-1988
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Deception was the name of the game Museum curator Nora Castle was in Tokyo on business, putting her grief over her lover Win Eliot's death behind her. She was there to negotiate the sale of a rare jade figurine with the prime minister of Janan. Bu...

• Sep-1988
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She'd been given another chance Letting Raul Devlin slip by her was a mistake border patrol agent Tally Gordon couldn't afford to repeat. He'd been called a threat, a spy, a traitor, a patriot. He had as many roles as he had enemies, and more enem...

• Oct-1988
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Fantasy can be fatal Sara Moreland was the third Morganna to be hired by the animation studio known as the Sketch Shop. Sara's predecessors had died under bizarre circumstances, giving rise to talk of a curse--and to rumors that Sara was marked fo...

• Oct-1988
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Someone was out to ruin her. Ann Tate was not going to stand by and let the dream of success for her horse breeding farm come to failure. With the arrival of Matt Roper and his mare at Singing Water Ranch, her dream of creating a Derby winner had...

• Nov-1988
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She sought justice Canadian advertising executive Nadia Roberts immediately boarded a plane to Athens when told her beloved brother, Gerald, had been found. Murdered. Next to a marble quarry in northwestern Greece. The case was supposed to be open...

• Nov-1988
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Everything about the case was odd With no enemies and no money, a motive for the murder of heiress Joni Wilson could not be established. And when Detective Samantha Turner sought information from Joni's loyal, trusted friends, those bastions of L.A....

• Dec-1988
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Blackheart had promised to give up a life of crime. Ferris Byrd had no intention of marrying a cat burglar. She trust her fiance, but when news came of jewel robberies in European cities Blackheart had recently visited, she began to wonder. Had h...

• Dec-1988
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Her best friend's death looked like suicide But Jessica Lowell, a reporter for her hometown newspaper in Ohio, knew it was murder. And all because Suzette had spun dreams of glory, having joined a senator's staff in Washington, D.C., to gather mat...

• Jan-1989
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A sequence of three suicides with only one thing in common -- they had all been roommates of Liz Meacham. And Liz was the only person in Denver who was convinced that they had all been murdered. Was she being set up to be the next victim? Her only ho...

• Jan-1989
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Someone was stalking her The house in Carmel was the perfect retreat for working on her detective novel, but suddenly Sarah O'Shaughnessy found herself in the middle of a thriller come to life. It had to be a case of mistaken identity, but no one ...

• Feb-1989
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Secrets... ...secrets of the past. What happened long ago in the cellars of Airstone Hall in Dorset, England, was coming back to haunt the present. Sue-Ellen Hill didn't realize that taking on the task of turning the old Elizabethan house into a b...

• Feb-1989
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Her best reporter had been found -- dead on the docks Rachel Morgan felt personally responsible when her business reporter turned up dead on the Puget Sound wharves. Police insisted it was a mugging gone awry. But Rachel suspected something more s...

• Mar-1989
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Andy O'Riley was dead . . . Suddenly, tragically, violently . . . and no one knew why. His partner, private investigator Melanie Cardenas, was desperate for answers. His estranged son, Patrick, was out for revenge. Their qualifications were excell...

• Mar-1989
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If books could kill... Plagiarism was an ugly word. And Tony Nichols kept repeating it. Could Claire Kennedy's reclusive bestselling author have stolen her latest mystery novel from one of Tony's students? Was Claire's reputation, and the future o...

• Apr-1989
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There was a killer on the island The police called the criminal Enigma because their only clue was a cryptic note indicating the killer's next destination. So Addie Cordero, psychologist and graphologist, was sent to isolated Galbraith Island to f...

• Apr-1989
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Paris held deadly allure From Notre Dame to quaint Montmartre, Jill Fremont savored the world's most romantic city--until she discovered it harbored deadly traps. Cici Madison, Jill's prized pupil and an exquisite model, had fallen into one of the...

• May-1989
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Sinners... How many were there at the Osmond Wright Ministry? Bliss Griffith had to find the answer quick--if she was to save her sister. Melody had vanished without a trace. Had she met with foul play? Was the charismatic reverend hiding behind h...

• May-1989
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Michael De Lorio was tall, dark and desperate For genealogist Sarah Montague, finding an adoptee's natural parents, even with few clues, was routine. But in Michael's case, the only clue was the terrifying nightmare that has haunted him al...

• Jun-1989
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Speed Dancer was missing, and the mysteriously sent video was the first clue in three years that he might still be alive. As horse trainer at Dancing Water Ranch, Dawn Markey had every reason to want to get their prize stallion back. Even when the tr...

• Jun-1989
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Evil inhabited the town Some kind of madness had overtaken everyone but Valery Essex. Lifetime neighbors were lying under oath. Planting evidence in her backyard. Making midnight phone calls designed to terrorize her. Unless Valery got to the hear...

• Jul-1989
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Strange dreams haunted her Shadows on a staircase ... a hand without a body ... heartbroken, unearthly sobs. The images never varied through the years, nor the feeling of stark terror. The photograph Karen Barnett discovered in her mother's effect...

• Jul-1989
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A century after his death, Adrian Brock lived The vital question was: did the infamous Raven Man live only in memory? Or was the death of Dr. Blair Connelly's aunt proof that Adrian had returned from the grave to complete the cycle of murders he'd...

• Aug-1989
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Revenge was cold comfort But it was all that Maggie Flemming had, She'd come to Geneva to track down her husband's assassin, the spy known as Isaac, and bring him to justice. Maggie had bet her life on her ability to expose Isaac -- and she knew s...

• Aug-1989
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Her father had left a puzzling legacy Linsey Deane was hit with some shocking revelations soon after her father's death. She learned that she and her two sisters had a brother they had never met. And that her father had left them a fortune in ...

• Sep-1989
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She was in the wrong place at the wrong time On a fog-shrouded Chicago night, Eden Payne saw three men disposing of a woman's body. One of the men she recognized as a powerful politician. Unfortunately, he found out her identity, too. Now, to prev...

• Sep-1989
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It was a deadly game... A treasure in gold had disappeared, and Kate Deane was hot on its trail. But so were others. Kate was determined to get back the heritage left to her and her sisters, Linsey and Abby, by their father. The chase led from De...

• Oct-1989
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She was no stranger to the dead But the venerable scholar on Kristin Wallace's bed was recently dead -- and Charles Belmain blamed her for the demise of the Belmain-family archivist. In England to conduct research, Kristin put her historical m...

• Oct-1989
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Matching wits with a murderer was a deadly dare... Abigail Deane had made it her mission to ensure that the fortune in Confederate gold left to her and her sisters, Linsey and Kate, was safely banked and invested. But the bank accounts now showed ...

• Nov-1989
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Could home cooking catch a killer? On the trail of an old injustice, Atlanta attorney Sara O'Rourke journeyed to Pecan Cove, Louisiana. And in the tiny Acadian hamlet, all roads led to the kitchen. Cajun cuisine was an essential ingredient of frie...

• Nov-1989
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Could sleepwalking be fatal? Geneva Ashford had never been able to remember her nighttime excursions, though she'd heard plenty about them. Sometimes they'd seemed funny, sometimes embarrassing, but never dangerous ... until she'd come to Hot Spri...

• Dec-1989
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She'd been betrayed by love . . . Years ago a spy had lured schoolgirl Ann Bennett into a false marriage, then callously ordered her death and fled to the Soviet Union. Ann had lived, but could not escape the shadow of her "husband's" espionage. ...

• Dec-1989
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The only rule in this game was survival. It was a high-risk, high-stakes, high-tech game of hide-and-seek. At one end of Varifoods International's state-of-the-art computer system was Personnel Manager B. A. Lee. At the other end were the ruthless...

• Jan-1990
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Terrors lurked off Bourbon Street As a favor, vacationer Kim Campbell visited Madame Loulou's shop in New Orleans. On a lark, Kim ordered a voodoo doll made of herself. Twenty-four hours later Madame Loulou was dead, the doll was missing, and Kim ...

• Jan-1990
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Blackmail makes strange bedfellows .. . Someone had killed her mentor, investigative reporter Brian Fenton, and made his death look like a suicide. But Cassie O'Connor wasn't fooled by their deadly game. She was determined to use fair means or fou...

• Feb-1990
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Sacred land... To the Tewa tribe, Black Mesa was a land for secrets and for ritual. Navajo FBI Agent Justin Makai had traveled a long way to reach it -- to see his old friend John Romero -- only to find the Tewa man missing and John's beautif...

• Feb-1990
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A slipped word could spell d-e-a-t-h Tony knew that the elegant woman who'd fainted the lobby of his posh London hotel had disguised her origin, her identity, her accent. But she couldn't disguise the fear in her eyes. For months, Saman...

• Mar-1990
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They seemed innocent enough... First a blue chrysanthemum. Then a lion bookend, followed by a paper crown. Someone was breaking into Laura Penn's home to leave these cryptic messages. They seemed harmless, but then an identical bookend ws discover...

• Mar-1990
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They say that cats have nine lives It was Familiar's most recent life that worried her. Since she'd found the cat in the university parking lot, Professor Eleanor Duncan had been assaulted, interrogated by the CIA, her apartment invaded by a craz...

• Apr-1990
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Trust no one... When kidnappers stole Mallory Christiani's little daughter Emily, her world threatened to crumble. She'd been warned not to tell anyone -- not her family, not her friends and most definitely not the police. But, despite her...

• Apr-1990
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Malpractice ... or murder? Dr. Kate Chesne knew that no surgery was ever routine, but when a colleague and friend perished on the operating table during a simple gallbladder extraction, her very profession was threatened. Had she misread an EKG .....

• May-1990
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Little Jenny was missing And Leigh Chandler, a kindergarten teacher, felt the dreadful echoes from her recent past return. Were the same forces from that previous experience at work? One moment Jenny Buchanon was skiing with classmates at the lavi...

• May-1990
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Nothing had prepared her for this Thick fog seeping off the Devon moor. The brooding ruins of an alchemist's castle. And the carnival itself, whose maze of tents and caravans hid the priceless Saxony jewels -- and the identity of the carny who'd kil...

• Jun-1990
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She was the perfect witness -- and the perfect target Until Linda Miller witnessed the murder of a U.S. Senator, she hadn't known what fear was. Now it was her constant companion. If Special Agent Michael Rosen managed to keep her alive until t...

• Jun-1990
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Merry Anders was playing with fire Why did a dying man collapse on her, a pair of thugs try to kidnap her from the staid Smithsonian Museum and a powerfully built stranger help fend off her attackers--then vanish? When Merry caught up with her dar...

• Jul-1990
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Murder... The ugly accusation made Ann Dixon's life a nightmare. She hadn't done anything wrong, but the evidence against her was damning. For her son's sake, Ann needed to prove her innocence quickly, and get their lives back to normal. For as th...

• Jul-1990
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Nicole had a second chance...to live One moment Nicole Ellis stood in the doorway of a deli, smiling at a handsome stranger. The next, she was reaching out to stop a crazed gunman who'd suddenly appeared out of nowhere that rain-shrouded Manhattan...

• Aug-1990
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Love eternal ... murder infernal There seemed to be something very odd about the Sterling Clinic ... and when her former patient died in an apparent suicide, psychologist Abby Franklin determined to find out what. Abby locked horns with the dea...

• Aug-1990
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In the wilderness, the most dangerous predator is man Home to the majestic peregrine falcon, the San Juan Mountains were an idyllic backdrop for blossoming love. But aerie warden Corey McCalley sensed a strange tension in Ross Sinclair that kept h...

• Sep-1990
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Was it her imagination? At NORStar Space Park, fantasy became reality. There, robots ruled the far reaches of the galaxy, and good battled evil. At NORStar, dreams came true... . But so did nightmares. Especially for Kristian Ellis, who witness...

• Sep-1990
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Dead men don't rob banks Bank executive Emma Kingston was on vacation when the vault blew up. A man was killed -- and his identity strangely obliterated. A king's ransom littered the floor -- but not a thing was stolen. Philip Rowlands ...

• Oct-1990
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Who's got the button? It's an old fashioned game of hide and seek. Only, Jenny Spaulding doesn't know who's hiding or what she's looking for. What she does know is the loser end up dead. The police say Jenny's journalist father committed suicid...

• Oct-1990
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In some cases crime pays... And Sandy DiGianni found the switch to a police gazette more challenging than the women's magazine where she first cut her teeth. Her brainstorm to write a series about unsolved murders yielded a sinister turn. Police se...

• Nov-1990
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Through the looking glass .. . Joanna Clark was trapped in a deadly masquerade--adopting another woman's life and risks in a top secret world of make-believe and danger. She was anything but a willing conspirator--determined to hate both her ro...

• Nov-1990
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Nanny came with curious credentials A crack shot and a brown belt in karate, Lindsey Olson specialized in protecting the children of the rich, powerful and famous. Byron Cyril was all three--and an eccentric. The multitalented automotive magnat...

• Dec-1990
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Eerie sounds... that went bump in the night were part of Hawthorne Towers's history. When Ginnie Price heard rumors that the building was haunted, she decided it was time to move. But her decision was made too late. For when she arrived home one e...

• Dec-1990
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Murder was her business... For mystery writer Diane Phillips, it was supposed to be a working weekend -- a convention of writers, editors and fans, held at the wonderfully spooky resort known as the Haunted House. Work or no, Diane was hoping to ...

• Jan-1991
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What's a girl to do? Megan Summers, TV-ratings coordinator and mother of two, was just getting her life in order when a uniformed killer -- dubbed the Grim Reaper by the media -- donned a badge and caused chaos in the cozy hamlet of Melbourne...

• Jan-1991
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She wasn't a typical tourist Hard work on the Maya excavation wasn't all that distinguished Celeste Coolridge. The villagers claimed a mystical tie to the fiery-haired stockbroker. They invited her to their secret rites. And when a man was mauled ...

• Feb-1991
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Know your enemies... Maid of honor Jo O'Malley had a bad case of prenuptial jitters. A new kind of psychopath was stalking the normally intrepid private investigator, one who seemed to know the intimate details of her private life, one who used in...

• Feb-1991
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Hunter or hunted? Patrick Rourke needed to find the men who'd murdered Bridget Houlihan's parents. He'd promised he'd keep the child safe, and he'd let nothing, even his old enemy Flynn, stand in his way. Flynn needed Patrick Rourke out of his ...

• Mar-1991
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It was a case of mind over murder Detective Wyatt Lockhart had a kind name for it: shock. But after the bomb exploded in a Washington supermarket, psychologist Claire Boland seriously wondered if she were losing her mind. Though the victim's fa...

• Mar-1991
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Clea knew about secrets That's why Clea Beaumont fled to Venice, where she leased an apartment in the Palazzo Corelli. There, Clea hoped to resolve the terrible mystery at the center of her life -- or bury her secrets forever. Marcantonio C...

• Apr-1991
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“I double dare you!” It's a child's game of challenge--with adult consequences. The romantic reunion of a pair of amateur sleuths, writer Jenny Spaulding and lawyer Peter Darien, is interrupted when Peter is asked to locate a missing TV act...

• Apr-1991
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The devil wears many guises Little seemed to have changed in the sleepy New England town of Thornhill, but Chloe Hayes knew from experience how deceptive appearances could be. Her mentor, Professor Amanda Emory, internationally acclaimed expert on...

• May-1991
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KING CRAWLEY He nursed a hatred so strong, prison walls couldn't contain it. Powerful and cunning, he vowed to do to her what had been done to him... . SYDNEY RAFERTY LORD In one short day, she had become wife ... and widow. Soon, even the m...

• May-1991
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There was blood on his hands... Everyone believed Greg Marten was guilty. A kindly old priest had been brutally murdered, and Diana Clark had found Greg standing over the body. Greg was a stranger in town, with no proof of his innocence and no one...

• Jun-1991
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KING CRAWLEY A death sentence hardened the imprisoned racketeer's resolve to settle old scores. Dakota Raferty was in for a bad time--and a nasty shock. DAKOTA RAFERT He prided himself on his high ideals. But they became a stumbling block in...

• Jun-1991
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Was Luke Brandson a murderer? He denied it, and despite the mounting evidence against him, deputy sheriff Jessica Martin longed to believe him. She had known Luke all her life. She respected him, she trusted him and she was just beginning to reali...

• Jul-1991
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KING CRAWLEY The Seattle mobster had saved his most brutal plot for last. The innocent would perish-and Judge Raferty would be brought to his knees .. . . ASIA RAFERTY A brush with Crawley's henchmen brought the judge's daughter to the gates...

• Jul-1991
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Romance �" or ruse? Joanna Bellamy was tickled pink to be chaperoning a bevy of nervous, excited mail-order brides to the small European country of Andorra. The appearance on shipboard of a sinister stranger was the society matron's first inkl...

• Aug-1991
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Rest in peace Ravenwood was the name of a nightmare Laura Roswell didn't understand. Yet the forbidding mansion was eerily familiar. Laura never guessed the dark secrets it sheltered until a spectral voice awakened her from a recurring dream o...

• Aug-1991
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Speak no evil... Alone on the desert's moonlit sands, Alexis Sinclair's partner became a murder victim in forty-five very silent minutes. Internal Affairs investigator Gage Morgan had uncovered no clues, no leads and no answers to the most disturb...

• Sep-1991
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What had she inherited? Gretchen Wulfert was the heir apparent, a classic beauty whose hauteur was fabled in the posh watering holes of Europe. Only extraordinary circumstances could have forged her alliance with handyman Boyd Emory. Her uncle'...

• Sep-1991
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Her past came back to haunt her ... Once, Bree Gregory and Michael Tallent had been friends -- and all too briefly, lovers. They'd shared a past, but weren't able to share a future. Now, eight years later, Michael turned up in the small Co...

• Oct-1991
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Ring around the rosy ... ... we all fall down. It's a childhood game made all too real. While Peter Darien and Jenny Spaulding are stranded by torrential rains at an isolated retreat, a chilling discovery turns their romantic interlude into an ...

• Oct-1991
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Double or nothing When Grand Illusions hired a Brennan Richards look-alike, owner Catherine Grand met the reclusive Irish rocker in person. Wearing biker regalia and an earring, Brennan was charismatic -- even for a living legend. But he was also ...

• Nov-1991
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He possesses many faces... He is dubbed the Phantom. A fiend who kills actresses, who disguises his appearance...and who vanishes without a trace. Only one man has the evidence to unmask the Phantom. When he mysteriously vanishes, he leaves t...

• Nov-1991
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Secrets of the grave As the nights drew closer to Halloween, historic Charleston, South Carolina, staged its eerie Ghostwalk. But the annual reenactment of ghostly legends echoed a ghastly reality as a prominent businessman was killed within yards...

• Dec-1991
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Death walked the night Hazards cloaked every path through the blasted landscape of New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range. But Belara Fuller and Travis Hill were driven by need and by duty to violate the law and face the consequences. Belar...

• Dec-1991
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The time had come Duncan Van Epp was old--and death was calling him. It was time to reveal the tragedy of what had happened in the town of Contention sixty years ago. It was time to tell the truth... . When Carrie Chase opened the door to Dunca...

• Jan-1992
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Mind over murder Whoever strangled Dr. Paula Barker's absentminded mentor was now psyching the psychiatrist out, taunting her with twisted riddles . . . and a deadly childhood game. Paula was moves behind until she met Reed Jamison. Unfortunate...

• Jan-1992
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She was marked for murder... At the military training post on the Monterey, California, coast, the untimely death of a teacher was sad but not suspicious, until someone mentioned "murder." Then a late-night cry for help sent Air Force Captain Joy...

• Feb-1992
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Fatal beauty... Dr. Katie Martin saw death twice in one day: just after her vain, unstable sister plummeted from her Washington, D.C., apartment; and then again, when she looked into the smoky gray eyes of the man who'd haunted her dreams for eigh...

• Feb-1992
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Danger waited in the wings It all began in fun, with plans to perform Rockabye Baby, a mystery play based on Thornhill's most famous scandal--a nearly fifty-year-old kidnapping case that had never been solved. Devoted parent Maggie Mead thrille...

• Mar-1992
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Friend...or foe? Twenty years after her father's plane crashed in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Willy Jane Maitland was taking a trip through hell. Saigon was teeming, hot and dangerous. But her search for the truth about that fateful flig...

• Mar-1992
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Dangerous relations . . . Abducted, accosted and then accused of murder--what a welcome for Londoner Anne Clarence on her first trip to the United States. In Denver to meet her grandfather for the first time, Anne discovered that the wealthy patri...

• Apr-1992
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Who was the murderer? When she arrived at Farrington Hall to meet her relatives, Kate Wainwright was greeted by an empty table set for tea, a knocked-down umbrella stand and Andrew Bradford -- a man who wouldn't reveal his identity. And when a...

• Apr-1992
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Taking The Cure FDA investigator Kit McKenna was under pressure, undercover -- and trying hard to underestimate her feelings for neurologist Dave Matthews, who'd ensnared Kit in the most sensational case of her career. A desperate woman had...

• May-1992
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She was running for her life He was trying to forget the past. Dana Carmody and Gil Webb met on a rain-drenched night, high on a cliff overlooking San Francisco Bay, two strangers who embraced in a kiss--that saved both their lives. It was t...

• May-1992
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The Call of the Wild There was a secret hidden in the Tabuga River -- one that Miranda Conner was never meant to find. But now that she had, she was having a hard time staying alive. The preservation of the pristine Appalachian waterway depende...

• Jun-1992
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Journey into darkness After spending her first night in Sandor Szelazeny's spooky house in New Bern, North Carolina, physical therapist Bruce MacLaren sensed that something was very wrong. But she didn't heed the warning in her famous patient's br...

• Jun-1992
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The bayou bred danger Those who lived on the bayou were wily as gators. Those who died on the bayou took their secrets with them. It was Tess Beaumont's bad luck to be in deep with both the living and the dead. The drowning in Savannah Bayou w...

• Jul-1992
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Madness reigned...in Sante Marie des Monts, France-a land where legends and fairy tales lived...a place where no one was safe. Summoned to the foreboding castle of master illusionist Cesare LaFortune to witness his greatest magical feat, Karoline...

• Jul-1992
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The eyes have it Who was a two-bit private eye to tell Kerry Byfield that her eyewitness testimony had convicted an innocent man? After the grueling trial, Kerry just wanted to resume her copy-shop duties in Plano, Texas, and forget about the prom...

• Aug-1992
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Deadly secrets Across the great cities of Europe, genealogist Jordan MacKenzie was being wined and dined by an urbane art dealer steeped in Old World charm and mystery. She was also being pursued -- by a skilled assassin. Charming, mysterious N...

• Aug-1992
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Many eyes were watching .. . Did the rustling whispers in the shadowy leaves portend the coming storm? Or were they voices from the secret society in Peaceful? Either way, Sebastian Kincaid meant to remain and protect Dr. Leanne Hunt. Well-know...

• Sep-1992
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Death was only the beginning... Though the Graveyard Murders took place in modern Baltimore, they were linked to an old evil -- black magic. Herbalist Sabrina Barkley knew little about witchcraft, yet she was the prime suspect in the macabre m...

• Sep-1992
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Some memories were deadly When Alyssa Humphrey was awakened in the hospital, she was bandaged from head to toe. But that wasn't the worst injury she'd incurred during the near-fatal plane crash. Alyssa had total amnesia. She was engage...

• Sep-1992
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He emerged from the mist . . . . . right in front of Cathy Weaver's car--running from would-be killers who were rapidly closing in. One look at his fog-shrouded form told Cathy this sexy stranger needed her help. Victor Holland's story sounde...

• Sep-1992
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The dead would come back and get you... The residents of Black Bear Lake thought that evil could never touch such an idyllic spot. But they were wrong. Thornton Fuller, a young man with the mind of a child, was paralyzed with fear when he told ...

• Oct-1992
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When she was bad... she was horrid It was an innocent childhood rhyme that haunted Jenny Spaulding during what should have been the best time of her life. She and Peter Darien were finally ready to walk down the aisle. But unless Jenny could thwar...

• Oct-1992
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The house stood alone in the storm Outside, the wind howled and snow fell, drifting into piles that almost reached the eaves. Inside, lights flickered in the drawing room of the brooding old mansion. Seven people were stranded there, and before th...

• Oct-1992
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Passion . . . deceit . . . murder These were the essential ingredients needed to boost the ratings of the soap opera "Rivals." But this time when the director called, "Lights, camera, action," Teague Slaughter's leading lady wound up dead. It was ...

• Oct-1992
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Forgive and Forget? The mysterious desecration of a Hopi god's sacred garments brought disaster to Joseph Payestewa. His brother was murdered, his family disgraced. Now it was left to Joseph to save the family honor and, as the trail of destru...