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Coconut Layer Cake Murder (A Hannah Swensen Mystery #25)
by Joanne FlukeNew York Times BestsellerUSA Today BestsellerPublishers Weekly BestsellerBakery owner Hannah Swensen is leaving Lake Eden to help a friend in sunny California. But an unexpected phone call swiftly brings her back to a cold Minnesota winter . . . and murder . . . When Hannah learns that her sister Michelle&’s boyfriend, Detective Lonnie Murphy, is the prime suspect in a murder case, she flies straight home from a Los Angeles movie sound stage to frigid Minnesota. But proving Lonnie&’s innocence will be harder than figuring out what went wrong with a recipe, especially with Lonnie&’s hazy memory of the night in question. Hannah doesn&’t know what to believe. Before everything comes crashing down on Lonnie like a heaping slice of coconut layer cake, it&’ll be up to Hannah to rack up enough clues to toast a flaky killer . . . Features Over a Dozen Cookie and Dessert Recipes from The Cookie Jar!
Coconut Layer Cake Murder (A Hannah Swensen Mystery Series #25)
by Joanne FlukeWhen Hannah learns that her sister Michelle's boyfriend, Detective Lonnie Murphy, is the prime suspect in a murder case, she goes straight from a movie studio sound stage to the Los Angeles airport. Back in frigid Minnesota, she discovers that proving Lonnie's innocence will be harder than figuring out what went wrong with a recipe. Lonnie remembers only parts of the night he went out to a local bar and ended up driving a very impaired woman home. He knows he helped her to her bedroom, but he doesn't recall anything else until he woke up on her couch the following morning. When he went to the bedroom to check on her, he was shocked to discover she was dead. Hannah doesn't know what to believe--only that exonerating a suspect who can't remember is almost impossible, especially since Lonnie's brother, Detective Rick Murphy, and Lonnie's partner, Chief Detective Mike Kingston, have been taken off the case. Before everything comes crashing down on Lonnie like a heaping slice of coconut layer cake, it'll be up to Hannah to rack up enough clues to toast a flaky killer . . .
Cod Only Knows (The Shores Mysteries #Book 6)
by Hilary MacLeodA Canadian fishing village is obsessed with the one that got away . . . but is someone getting away with murder? For the first time in thirty years, all the signs have returned to the waters off The Shores—signs of a presumed-gone and possibly legendary giant cod. Ninety-year-old Abel Mack once almost landed it, but a photograph is the only evidence the big one ever existed. Now, at all costs, two powerful men with competing interests are after the biggest cod. They are closing in on The Shores—but the fisherman is missing. At the best of times, Abel is there one minute, gone the next. His best friends and family are not sure they would recognize him if they found him. Is he dead, by foul play or misadventure, or dead of exposure, as Mountie Jane Jamieson suspects? Or is he alive and sure to return, as his wife Gus Mack insists? Does the never-at-home Abel even exist outside Gus&’s memory or imagination, Hy McAllister wonders…or has he been kidnapped for what he knows about the codfish? &“A natural storyteller, superbly equipped both by her character and experience to fashion stories of the lives of everyday people who make their living from the sea.&” —Ottawa Review of Books
Coda
by Tom ToporFitzgerald is hired to find a lost person, concert pianist Max Weill, last seen at his camp in Auschwitz in 1944. According to officials, Weill died that night. His 63 year-old widow claims to have seen him in NYC, aged but alive, forty years later.
Coda (The Seven Sequels #5)
by Ted StauntonWhen his brother Bunny vanishes from the Toronto City Hall skating rink, Spencer, a budding filmmaker, finds himself plunged into the stuff of movie thrillers: kidnapping, terrorists, intrigue, a missing document, a world-famous pop star, disguises, romance and a rogue alligator. As he races the clock to save his brother, he must sort the real from the make-believe and unravel a murder mystery involving his grandfather. The last time Spencer got tangled up in an adventure from his grandfather’s past, he didn’t believe it was for real. Now he can’t get anyone to believe him when he says that Bunny has been kidnapped and that someone is going to die. Coda is the sequel to both Speed, part of The Seven Prequels and Jump Cut, part of Seven (The Series).
Code 61 (Carl Houseman #4)
by Donald HarstadCODE 61: maintain radio silence. someone may be listening.Investigating the apparent suicide of a colleague's niece, Iowa Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman is startled to uncover a group that transforms the dark fantasies of vampire legend into grisly reality: they ritualistically drink small amounts of one another's blood. As Carl is drawn deeper into this unnerving world, it becomes clear that the dead woman may have been the victim of a twenty-first-century Dracula.The prime suspect, Dan Peale, is a sinister presence within the group--a man some say drinks blood and never, ever dies. It's an outlandish, heinous theory, but then suspicions are bolstered by rumors of a card-carrying vampire hunter who is also pursuing Peale. All too soon, Houseman finds himself scrambling to track a vampire--before he kills again.From the Paperback edition.
Code 6: A Novel
by James Grippando“A Pandora’s box of demons. . . . High-stakes espionage, family drama, double crosses, noble gestures . . . it’s all here.” — Kirkus Reviews“An ambitious thriller that. . . delivers a deeply satisfying conclusion. . . . Code 6 features some of Grippando's most compelling characters and one of his most intriguing stories.” — BooklistHarper Lee Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author James Grippando returns with a bold new thriller that asks at what price do we open our lives to Big Data.Aspiring playwright, Kate Gamble, is struggling to launch a script she’s been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counter-terrorism organization in the Western World. Kate’s father adores her, and a play about the dark side of Big Data would be the ultimate betrayal in his eyes. But Kate is compelled to tell this story—not only as an artist exploring the personal information catastrophe that affects us all, but as a daughter trying to understand her mother’s apparent loss of purpose, made even more disturbing by the suicide note she left behind: I did it for Kate.Then Patrick Battle comes back into her life, changing everything she has ever thought about her play, her father, and her mother’s tragic death. Patrick is a childhood friend, but he is now Buck’s golden boy with security clearance to the company’s most sensitive projects. When Buck comes under investigation by the Justice Department and Patrick suddenly goes missing, Kate doesn’t know who to trust. A phone call confirms her worst nightmare: Patrick has been kidnapped, and the ransom demand is “Code 6”—the most secret and potentially dangerous technology her father’s company has ever developed.Kate’s fight to bring Patrick home safely reveals a conspiracy and cover up that may implicate one of the most powerful executives in the tech industry, while the development of Kate’s play unleashes family secrets and the demons behind her mother’s cryptic final note. The two paths converge in explosive fashion, leading to a shocking and terrifying discovery that puts Kate and Patrick in the crosshairs of forces who will stop at nothing to control Code 6.
Code Alpha
by Joseph MassucciSince it's unauthorized "birth, " the virus known as Saint Vitus has been the U.S. Army's best-kept secret--until its theft. In the hands of the Mid East's most dangerous terrorist, Saint Vitus becomes a weapon with unlimited potential for destruction. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, a desperate President orders all military resources directed at the virus's destruction--even if that means meltdown.
Code Black: A Donovan Nash Thriller (A Donovan Nash Thriller #2)
by Philip DonlayBest-Selling and Award-Winning AuthorA terrible blizzard, a grisly accident, a midair collision . . . and that's only the beginningAs a blizzard bears down on Chicago's O'Hare Airport, a critical air traffic control facility is shut down by a grisly accident. When the radar comes back up—two planes have collided. Crippled by a high-altitude mid-air collision, Wayfarer Flight 880, half the roof ripped away, flies on. Seated amid dead and dying passengers is Donovan Nash, a pilot who fights decompression and oxygen deprivation to make it to the shattered cockpit. With the help of Audrey Parrish, a woman from his concealed past, and a handful of survivors, Donovan struggles to keep the 737 airborne.Dr. Lauren McKenna waits for Donovan, her fiancé, to arrive only to hear that there has been a midair collision. Lauren must convince Henry Parrish, an unlikely ally, to help her save the man she loves. Together, Lauren and Henry have to stay one step ahead of the Airline as well as heightened security, to execute a daring midair solution to save Donovan and the others on Flight 880.Perfect for fans of Vince Flynn and David BaldacciWhile all of the novels in the Donovan Nash Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:Category FiveCode BlackZero SeparationDeadly EchoesAftershockPegasus DownSeconds to MidnightSpeed the Dawn
Code Blue
by Janet Lane WaltersIn the medical mystery Code Blue nurse Susan finds the body of the hospital’s “gossip queen” in the orthopedic storage room. She doesn’t realize this is the first of a series of murders involving her colleagues or that her life is in danger. She is a widow and is exploring a new romantic relationship that promises love but she fears the man she is falling for is as controlling as her dead husband. The arrival of courtship gifts, at first, seen as innocuous soon takes on a sinister note.
Code Blue
by Richard L. MabryFor Dr. Cathy Sewell, Code Blue means more than just the cardiac emergencies she faces--it's the state of her life when the return to her hometown doesn't bring the peace she so desperately needs. The town doctors resent the fact that she's not only a newcomer but also a woman, and the devastating results from one of her prescriptions may mean the end of her practice. As two men compete for her affection, an enemy wants her out of town--or possibly even dead. Cathy returns to her hometown seeking healing after a broken relationship, but discovers that among her friends and acquaintances is someone who wants her out of town...or dead. Lawyer Will Kennedy, her high school sweetheart, offers help, but does it carry a price tag? Is hospital chief of staff, Dr. Marcus Bell, really on her side in her fight to get hospital privileges? Is Will's father, Pastor Matthew Kennedy, interested in advising her or just trying to get her back to the church she left years ago? When one of Cathy's prescriptions almost kills the town banker, it sets the stage for a malpractice suit that could end her time in town, if not her career. It's soon clear that this return home was a prescription for trouble.
Code Blue
by Richard L. MabryFor Dr. Cathy Sewell, Code Blue means more than just the cardiac emergencies she faces--it's the state of her life when the return to her hometown doesn't bring the peace she so desperately needs. The town doctors resent the fact that she's not only a newcomer but also a woman, and the devastating results from one of her prescriptions may mean the end of her practice. As two men compete for her affection, an enemy wants her out of town--or possibly even dead. Cathy returns to her hometown seeking healing after a broken relationship, but discovers that among her friends and acquaintances is someone who wants her out of town . . . or dead. Lawyer Will Kennedy, her high school sweetheart, offers help, but does it carry a price tag? Is hospital chief of staff, Dr. Marcus Bell, really on her side in her fight to get hospital privileges? Is Will's father, Pastor Matthew Kennedy, interested in advising her or just trying to get her back to the church she left years ago? When one of Cathy's prescriptions almost kills the town banker, it sets the stage for a malpractice suit that could end her time in town, if not her career. It's soon clear that this return home was a prescription for trouble.
Code Blue (The Connection Trilogy #2)
by Anita Waller&“OMG . . . hit me like a sledgehammer! My heart seemed to stop beating and I was left reeling! . . . I read it from beginning to end in one sitting.&” —Goodreads reviewer, five starsFive years after a couple&’s life was shattered, the Connection Agency tries to bring them peace in a twist-filled mystery by the author of Blood Red . . . Five years ago, John and Caroline Coates were happily expecting the birth of twin girls, until an intruder ended their hopes and dreams. Now, John has come to the Connection Agency, asking for their help in tracking down the man who caused them such grief. Back then, Tessa&’s involvement was cut short when the cold case department quickly took over. This is the chance for her and Luke to follow the facts and finally lay this case to rest. With the rest of the Connection team busy with other jobs, Tessa and Luke, alongside DI Eileen Haughton, an old colleague of Tessa&’s from her police days, steadily follow the clues to an ending they could never have imagined—revealing a truth that could either bring the Coateses the peace they crave or take them to further depths of despair . . .
Code Busters Club
by Penny WarnerCody, Quinn, Luke, and M. E. like to create codes and solve them. They are the Code Busters Club. When they notice something odd going on with their neighbor (the so-called Skeleton Man), they have to decipher his codes and solve a mystery involving a possible hidden treasure.
Code Conspiracy (Red, White and Built: Delta Force Deliverance #3)
by Carol EricsonTop find his missing commander, a Delta Force agent must rely on the one woman he swore to never trust again in this military romantic thriller.Hacker Jerrica West has never been one to follow the rules. So she’s shocked to learn that her by-the-book ex-boyfriend wants her help to locate his missing Delta Force leader. Gray Prescott is a hard man to refuse, but this assignment is more dangerous than either of them could have guessed. When the cybertrail exposes a terrorist plot, Jerrica must put her faith in the man she might be forced to walk away from all over again . . .
Code Grey: A Feline-filled Academic Mystery (The Dulcie Schwartz Feline Mysteries #9)
by Clea SimonHarvard grad student Dulcie Schwartz sets out to prove a troubled academic innocent in this “unusual and intelligent” paranormal feline mystery series (Booklist). It’s spring break, and Harvard doctoral candidate Dulcie Schwartz has stayed behind in almost-deserted Cambridge, Massachusetts, to concentrate on her thesis. But when Jeremy “Mumbles” Mumbleigh, a once-promising student turned harmless vagrant, is found injured—with a valuable missing book clutched in his arms—Dulcie puts her thesis on hold. What was he doing with the book? And why has it turned up after all these years? With Jeremy now the prime suspect for a series of break-ins in the area, Dulcie is determined to clear the unfortunate former scholar’s name. But when she finds a connection between the book he was carrying and her own research into an anonymous Gothic author, the search for clues takes on a new intensity—and a new menace. This is book 9 in the Dulcie Schwartz feline mystery series. “[This] series continues to surprise, with additional backstory on some of the characters adding layers of interest. Readers will not want Dulcie to finish her dissertation anytime soon.” —Booklist
Code Kakori: कोड काकोरी
by Manoj Rajan Tripathiइस कहानी का बीज मेरे सामने बोया गया था और आज कहानी फसल बन कर लहलहा रही है, CODE काकोरी को दिल से मुबारकबाद - साजिद नाडियाडवाला। काकोरी अस्पताल के वॉर्ड में एक डेड बॉडी पड़ी है, जो पूरी तरह काली पड़ चुकी है। लाश पर सोने-चांदी के ब्रिटिश कॉइंस पड़े हैं। हर सिक्के पर क्वीन विक्टोरिया की तस्वीर छपी है। क़ातिल ने लाश के सीने पर पीतल की थंब पिन से एक ए फोर साइज़ का कागज़ टैग किया है, जिस पर लिखा है—हिंदुस्तान रिपब्लिकन एसोसिएशन। आख़िर क़ातिल का इशारा क्या है? क्यों छोड़े हैं उसने ये सुराग़? पुलिस को क्यों चैलेंज कर रहा है ये क़ातिल? असल में ये वही विक्टोरियन कॉइंस हैं, जो 1925 के ‘काकोरी कांड’ में लूटे गए थे। ये वही हिंदुस्तान रिपब्लिकन एसोसिएशन है जो 1924 में चंद्रशेखर आज़ाद ने बनाई थी। तब मक़सद था ब्रिटिश हुकूमत के ख़िलाफ़ बारूदी जंग छेड़ना, और बारूद उगलने वाले हथियार ख़रीदने के लिये 9 अगस्त 1925 को ट्रेन रोककर काकोरी में ही लूटा गया, अंग्रेज़ों का खज़ाना। लेकिन चौरानवे साल बाद अब क्या मक़सद है? अब क्या इरादा है? किसके ख़िलाफ़ है ये जंग? अब कौन है जिसने बनाया है ‘कोड काकोरी’? मनोज राजन त्रिपाठी के इस उपन्यास में थ्रिल है, सस्पेंस है, एक्शन है, कॉमेडी है, ड्रामा है; कहने का मतलब, एक पूरी फ़िल्म का मज़ा है।
Code Monkey
by Mechele ArmstrongHe's a bored computer programmer, his sensuous dreams of the company receptionist is the only thing keeping him on the job. She dreams of making it big and jumps at the chance for promotion. Searching for a corporate spy, they find something else. Something neither of them was looking for!Baxter Savage is bored at his job as a code monkey (aka computer programmer). He dreams of leaving his job for better but his sensual dreams of the company's receptionist, Anna Marie, keep him at his job for now.Anna Marie is the low woman on the totem pole who wants to be more and dreams of hitting the big time. When she's asked to spy on a suspected secrets thief for a promotion, she can't believe her luck. Only it means spending time with a code monkey, namely Baxter.Baxter is thrilled to have Anna Marie's attention and Anna Marie soon finds that the code monkey is a lot more interesting than she ever thought possible.When she finds herself falling for him, will she answer the call of her heart or of her dreams? Can they catch the real thief together or will the code monkey lose it all?
Code Name Bloody Winter (OSS Chronicles #3)
by Roger ElwoodA year before the end of World War II, the desperate Nazis will try anything to cripple the United States, not only on the battlefield but also at home, on its very soil. Using the latest scientific wizardry, they launch an ominous undercover barrage, infiltrating every segment of the American population, from painters and plumbers to the highest ranks of the U.S. Senate. Stealthily, Nazi agents lay the foundation for the devastating mayhem that Code Name: Bloody Winter soon will unleash on an unsuspecting nation.
Code Name Cassandra
by Jenny Carroll"Help me find my little girl." Jess Mastriani -- dubbed "Lightning Girl" by the press when, after a huge storm, she develops a psychic ability to find missing children -- has lost her miraculous powers. Or has she? She would like the media and the government to think so. All Jess wants is to be left alone, by everyone except sexy Rob Wilkins -- who still hasn't called, by the way.... But it doesn't look like Jess is going to get her wish -- especially not while she's stuck working at a summer camp for musically gifted kids. Then the father of a missing girl shows up to beg Jess to find his daughter. Jess can't say no, but now the feds are on her trail again, as is one ornery stepdad, who'd like to see Lightning Girl...well, dead.
Code Name Jack Rabbit (The Vampire Guard #1)
by Elizabeth NobleThe Vampire Guard: Book OneMeet the newest members of the Vampire Guard, where legend and myth meet science and technology. Jonas Forge, vampire. Once a spy and soldier, now a cop, Forge enjoys the life he's built with his friends in Flint, Ohio. Blair Turner, PhD. Blair, a vampire and computer hacker with exceptional skills, shares a powerful empathic bond with Forge, his soul mate. Declan, vampire, ex-pirate, ex-fur trapper, thief, and con man. Declan is Forge's former lover and soul mate to Lucas Coate. Lucas Coate, MD, Flint's medical examiner. A werewolf living among vampires, Lucas is also one of Forge's best friends. Their lives become complicated when an impending presidential visit throws them headlong into a world of high-tech vampire spies and espionage. Recruited into the Vampire Guard by the secret society of the Akhkharu Nasaru, they uncover a werewolf terrorist organization known as the Qiguan. Together they must thwart a murder attempt on the open waters of Lake Superior while tracking a previously unknown biological weapon controlled by the Qiguan--a weapon that may very well mean death for one of them.
Code Name November (November Man #1)
by Bill GrangerThe classic bestselling thriller that introduced the November Man. . . Devereaux. Both target and triggerman, pawn and master player, the spy who can never come in from the cold. . . . Devereaux. Code name November. Brilliant, lethally cool operative. Years ago regarded as one of America's most valuable security assets. Now courted by the KGB, attacked by the CIA. Your mission: foil the planned assassination of England's richest man and its prime minister in a treacherous war of shadows on the Irish Sea, where the first loyalty is to yourself. And the wrong move can be your last. . . .
Code Name Sapphire: A World War 2 Novel
by Pam JenoffINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A heart-wrenching exploration of the decisions women must make when their loyalties are put to the test.&” –Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost ApothecaryA woman must rescue her cousin's family from a train bound for Auschwitz in this riveting tale of bravery and resistance, from the bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris1942. Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany after her fiancé was killed in a pogrom. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily, who lives with her family in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind.Seeking help, Hannah joins the Sapphire Line, a secret resistance network led by a mysterious woman named Micheline and her enigmatic brother Matteo. But when a grave mistake causes Lily&’s family to be arrested and slated for deportation to Auschwitz, Hannah finds herself torn between her loyalties. How much is Hannah willing to sacrifice to save the people she loves?Inspired by incredible true stories of courage and sacrifice, Code Name Sapphire is a powerful novel about love, family and the unshakable resilience of women in even the hardest of times.Look for these other riveting novels by New York Times bestselling author, Pam Jenoff: The Kommandant&’s Girl The Ambassador&’s Daughter The Diplomat&’s Wife The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach The Orphan&’s Tale The Lost Girls of Paris The Woman with the Blue Star
Code Name: Baby (Code Name)
by Christina SkyeA “thrilling” romantic suspense from a New York Times bestseller featuring a Navy SEAL sworn to protect a beautiful dog trainer and her canine charges (Publishers Weekly).Navy SEAL Wolfe Houston is on a mission of national security: protect one stubborn—but gorgeous—civilian in charge of training valuable government assets.But tracking down four genetically enhanced service dogs and guarding their furry backs 24/7 is going to take all of Wolfe’s tactical skills. The dogs’ unsuspecting trainer, Kit O’Halloran, doesn’t know that deadly mercenaries are determined to kidnap her charges. With hostiles to evade and bullets to dodge, there’s no time to waste—so why is Kit pressed against an adobe wall by moonlight, reveling in the hot magic of Wolfe’s slow, skillful hands?Wolfe is fascinated by Kit’s devotion to her puppies, especially Baby, the incorrigible runt of the litter. But two other trainers have died under strange circumstances—and a foreign government has just posted a staggering bounty for Kit’s capture. Before Wolfe can explore their white-hot attraction, the two are on the run, forced to decide which of their secret contacts is friend—and which is deadliest foe. Only Baby can lead them through the storm to safe haven in each other’s arms. Good dog!“Readers will enjoy the fast-paced, adventurous plot, and the wonderful dogs. The secret unit of men biologically enhanced for paranormal powers within the navy will appeal to fans of Christine Feehan’s Mind series.” —Booklist
Code Name: Bikini (Code Name)
by Christina Skye“Chocolate, hot sex, danger . . . Skye’s series involving the ultra-secret Navy SEAL organization is a well-blended mix of romance (red hot) and suspense.” —Fresh FictionEx-cop Gina Ryan traded in her Smith & Wesson to follow a dream. Now she’s creating decadent desserts aboard a luxury cruise ship in the Caribbean. But a gorgeous passenger is about to send her perfect world up in smoke . . .Trace O’Halloran is a hard-edged navy SEAL, under strict orders to take some high seas R & R. There’s a shipload of women in bikinis eager to help him unwind, so why can’t he take his mind off the stubborn pastry chef with an attitude the size of Montana?When a dangerous assassin from Trace’s past appears, Gina and Trace must join forces to save the ship’s guests. The clock’s ticking, and they’ll need every weapon at hand—from body armor to chocolate ganache!“Fast-paced action, flashes of humor, and futuristic flavor typify this romantic action-adventure. Fans of the Code Name series will enjoy this delicious addition.” —Library Journal“It’s The Six Million Dollar Man meets The Love Boat in this fifth addition to Skye’s energetic Code Name series . . . a fun, antic read. Series fans will find what they came for.” —Publishers Weekly“Skye is adept at writing an imaginative yet believable romance with endearing characters and an action-packed story.” —Booklist