R. L. Stine

Minimal indents and peeling of edges of covers. Pages are crisp and clean without defect. See pictures of covers. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

Mayra Bates fears that her noctural jaunts through the streets of her town will kill her.

The Sleepwalker

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Patricia Windsor

Cover has indent and crease and edges are peeling and creased. Cover page has a small tear, but are otherwise free from defect except for normal yellowing for age of book. See pictures. 

At Christmastime, as young girls are disappearing, Rose is having disturbing dreams that reveal where their dead bodies can be found.

The Christmas Killer

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Sinclair Smith

Cover has a tear and edges are peeling and creased. There is water damage to the inside pages but the pages are still perfectly legible. Pages are yellowed consistent with age of book. See pictures for water damage. 

Katie, a shy and pretty young girl who yearns to meet the perfect guy, encounters the handsome, charming Heath Granger in her dreams, but her life becomes a nightmare when this perfect man begins to make macabre, threatening appearances in her real life. Original.

Dream Date

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Elaine Viets

Pages are crisp and clean without defect 

New in the national bestselling Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper series, from the Agatha and Anthony Award-winning author of the Dead End Job Mystery series. Mystery shopper Josie Marcus is getting the dirt on doggy day-care centers, and discovers that one dog-loving local celebrity is really bad to the bone. Josie has been asked to investigate Uncle Bob's Doggy Day Camp, known for its commercials featuring Uncle Bob liking dogs so much that he acts like one. But Josie soon learns how Uncle Bob acts when the cameras are off. Her mother's new tenant, Franklin, who works for Uncle Bob, plans to quit after seeing the man's true nature. But before he gets the chance, Bob is murdered, and Franklin goes from the doghouse to the big house. Now it's up to Josie to clear Franklin's name. Her investigation reveals that Bob was more of a dog than anyone knew--and had been kicked out of his house for bad behavior. As she digs up new clues, Josie will have to catch the killer quickly, before any more trouble is unleashed. Includes Shopping Tips!

A Dog Gone Murder

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Pages are yellowed consistent with age of book. Pages are free from any other defect. Back cover has original price sticker. 

Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper

Hired to inspect the stores of designer Denessa Celedine anonymously, mystery shopper Josie Marcus's less than stellar report is the least of the designer's problems, after she is found strangled with one of her own expensive snakeskin belts. Original.

Dying in Style

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Pages are yellowed consistent with age of book. Pages are free from any defect. Back cover has original price sticker. 

When Josie Marcus, a mystery shopper and single mother, is assigned to rate Christmas shops, she discovers who has been naughty and nice when a deadly secret ingredient in a special holiday cake brings about yuletide murder and mayhem. Original.

Murder with All the Trimmings

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Back cover has original price sticker. Pages are yellowed consistent with age of the book. Pages are free from any defect. 

A dead end job mystery

Helen has a new job "off the books" at Page Turners bookstore in Fort Lauderdale...until the owner is murdered. But since the arrogant Page Turner III had so many enemies, Helen will have to read between the lines to uncover the truth about a clever killer.

Murder Between the Covers

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Cover has an indent in corner. See picture. Pages are crisp and clean without defect 

Bride-to-be Josie Marcus can't wait to marry Ted. But her wedding plans are put on hold when Molly, a maniacal bridezilla who wants Ted for her own, is shotNand Ted's mother becomes the prime suspect. Original.

Murder Is a Piece of Cake

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Pages are crisp and clean without defect. 

While enjoying the City Eats Food tour in St. Louis, Josie loses her appetite when a fellow patron at Tillie's Off the Hill Italian restaurant is poisoned and the owner, an old friend of Josie's mother, asks her to investigate.

Death on a Platter

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While mystery-shopping at a chain of lingerie stores, Josie Marcus stumbles upon the dead body of an old high school acquaintance whose hands are bound with the bra she just purchased, prompting Josie to bust out her abundant sleuthing skills. Original.

An Uplifting Murder

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Cover has 2 small indents/tears. Pages are crisp, clean and free from any defect. Please see pictures of cover. 

When Josie and her husband find a dead body in the backyard, it's up to them to solve the mystery before the killer strikes even closer to home.

Fixing to Die

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Pages are yellowed consistent with age of book.  There are no tears, writing or highlighting. 

While making the best of her new telemarketing job, Helen Hawthorne thinks she hears a murder on the other end of the line-and must avoid a close call with a killer.

Dying to Call You

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Joe Kenda

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The most common triggers for homicide are fear, rage, revenge, money, lust, and, more rarely, sheer madness. This isn't an exact science, of course. Any given murder can have multiple triggers. Sex and revenge seem to be common partners in crime. Rage, money, and revenge make for a dangerous trifecta of triggers, as well.

This book offers my memories of homicide cases that I investigated or oversaw. In each case, I examine the trigger that led to death. I chose this theme for the book because even though the why of a murder case may not be critical in an investigation, it can sometimes lead us to the killer.

And even if we solve a case without knowing the trigger, the why still intrigues us, disrupting our dreams and lingering in our minds, perhaps because each of us fears the demons that lie within our own psyche--the triggers waiting to be pulled.

Killer Triggers

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Nicole Hackett

A Thriller

A picture-perfect trip goes horribly wrong in this fast-paced exploration of friendship and the dark side of social media, perfect for fans of Lucy Foley and Andrea Bartz.

Everyone wants to be them, but internet fame comes at a price...

Two days after arriving in Iceland for a promotional trip, Instagram influencer Alabama Wood goes missing. With no leads, the Icelandic police start their investigation by focusing on the two influencers seemingly closest to Alabama on the trip- Celeste Reed, Alabama's best friend of ten years, and Hollie Goodwin, fitness guru and Alabama's unwilling idol.

Celeste and Alabama have grown apart recently because Celeste has been too distracted by her five-year-old's behavioral issues and her husband's refusal to admit that there's a problem. What Celeste doesn't tell them is how she has been coping with these worries and how it involves Alabama in ways no one would guess.

On the outside, Hollie appears to have everything-the husband, the body, and over one million Instagram followers. In reality, however, Hollie came to Iceland to escape the implosion of her life behind the screen. The only person who suspected something amiss behind Hollie's precisely filtered pictures is Alabama.

As secrets are revealed and loyalties are tested, debut author Nicole Hackett asks- do we control our online image, or does it control us?

The Perfect Ones

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Hannah Reed

During National Honey Month, beekeeper Story Fischer sets the town of Moraine, Wisconsin, abuzz when she must defend her bees, her business and her ex-husband from a murder accusation. Original.

Buzz Off

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1991 paperback edition. Gently read. Pages are crisp and clean with no writing, tearing or highlighting. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Jamie and Tom have been going steady since junior high, and are planning to graduate from high school and attend college together. But Jamie's dreams turn into nightmares when Tom inexplicably starts to stalk and threaten her.

Broken Date

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James Boice

Read once. In great condition. See picture of printing marks on front cover

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The legendary 1950s-era TV show Happy Days gets reinvented as a gritty 1980s noir. Late October, 1984. Prince and Bruce are dominating FM radio. Ron and Nancy are headed back to the White House. Crockett and Tubbs are leading men everywhere to embrace pastels. And Richard Cunningham? Well, Richard Cunningham is having a really bad Sunday. First, there’s the meeting with his agent. A decade ago, the forty-something Cunningham was one of Hollywood’s hottest screenwriters. But Tinseltown is no longer interested in his artsy, introspective scripts. They want Terminator cyborgs and exploding Stay Puft Marshmallow men. If he isn’t interested in that sort of thing, his agent tells him, he’s gonna have to find new representation. Then later that same day he gets a phone call with even worse news. His best friend from childhood back in Milwaukee, back when everyone called him Richie, is dead. Arthur Fonzarelli. The Fonz. Lost control of his motorcycle while crossing a bridge and plummeted into the water below. Two days of searching and still no body, no trace of his trademark leather jacket. Richard flies back for the memorial service, only to discover that Fonzie’s death was no accident—it was murder. With the help of his old pals Ralph Malph and Potsie Weber, he sets out to catch the killer. Who it turns out to be is shocking. So is the story’s final twist. Who Killed The Fonz? imagines what happened to the characters of the legendary TV series Happy Days twenty years after the show left off. And while much has changed in the interim—goodbye drive-in movie theaters, hello VCRs—the story centers around the same timeless themes as the show: the meaning of family. The significance of friendship. The importance of community. Fast-paced and full of nostalgia, Who Killed the Fonz? is an ingenious twist on a beloved classic that proves sometimes you can go home again. TM & © 2018 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved

Who Killed the Fonz?

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#hurricanegirl #fiction #hardcover #literaryfiction #newrelease 

A Novel

A propulsive and daring new novel by the author of Very Nice about a woman on the run from catastrophe, searching for love, home, a swimming pool, and for someone who can perhaps stop the bleeding from her head.

Allison Brody is thirty-two and newly arrived on the East Coast after just managing to flee her movie producer boyfriend. She has some money, saved up from years of writing and waitressing, and so she spends it, buying a small house on the beach. But then a Category 3 hurricane makes landfall and scatters her home up and down the shore, leaving Allison adrift.
 
Should she go home from the bar with the strange cameraman and stay in his guest room? Is that a glass vase he smashed on her skull? Can she wipe the blood from her eyes, get in her car, and drive to her mother's? Does she really love the brain surgeon who saved her, or is she just using him for his swimming pool? And is it possible to ever truly heal without seeking some measure of revenge?
 
A gripping, provocative novel that walks a knife's edge between comedy and horror, Hurricane Girl is the work of a singular talent, a novelist unafraid to explore the intersection of love, sex, violence, and freedom--while celebrating the true joy that can be found in a great swim and a good turkey sandwich.

Hurricane Girl

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#hardcover #biography #nonfiction #survive 

A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland

Two victims of an infamous Cleveland kidnapper share the story of their abductions, their decade in captivity and their dramatic escape.

Hope

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#paperback #nonfiction #maryland #truecrime

"My Life As A Maryland Lawman" details the dream of becoming a Maryland State Trooper from a boy growing up in rural Western Maryland. It covers the journey to adulthood. Moving away from home and into the big city upon graduating high school to pursue that dream. It follows the author into the police academy, to his first assignments handling a variety of calls, and onto becoming a very competent Criminal Investigator that worked complex criminal cases, including thefts, child abuses, and homicides. Upon retiring as a Trooper, he goes on to form a police department from the ground up and becomes the first Chief of Police for the town where he graduated high school. The book displays the humorous side of law enforcement, as well as the tragic side, adding some historical data along the way.

My Life As a Maryland Lawman

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#paperback #youngadult #fiction #mystery #wewereliars 

We Were Liars

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“A knockout of a book.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer and The Committed “Fiona and Jane is the book I did not know I was waiting to be written. . . . Read this remarkable work of fiction and feel the world open up around you.” —Angela Flournoy, author of National Book Award finalist The Turner House “Unsentimental, subtly subversive, and always surprising. . . . I love this book.” —Cathy Park Hong, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Minor Feelings A witty, warm, and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship, sexuality, identity, and heartbreak over two decades. Best friends since second grade, Fiona Lin and Jane Shen explore the lonely freeways and seedy bars of Los Angeles together through their teenage years, surviving unfulfilling romantic encounters, and carrying with them the scars of their families' tumultuous pasts. Fiona was always destined to leave, her effortless beauty burnished by fierce ambition—qualities that Jane admired and feared in equal measure. When Fiona moves to New York and cares for a sick friend through a breakup with an opportunistic boyfriend, Jane remains in California and grieves her estranged father's sudden death, in the process alienating an overzealous girlfriend. Strained by distance and unintended betrayals, the women float in and out of each other's lives, their friendship both a beacon of home and a reminder of all they've lost. In stories told in alternating voices, Jean Chen Ho's debut collection peels back the layers of female friendship—the intensity, resentment, and boundless love—to probe the beating hearts of young women coming to terms with themselves, and each other, in light of the insecurities and shame that holds them back. Spanning countries and selves, Fiona and Jane is an intimate portrait of a friendship, a deep dive into the universal perplexities of being young and alive, and a bracingly honest account of two Asian women who dare to stake a claim on joy in a changing, contemporary America.

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