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Recently divorced kindergarten teacher Jazz Shepherd is starting a new life in the quaint lakeside town of Bluegill. After taking a summer job at the local marina to help make ends meet, she's stunned when the chief of police enlists her help in solving a crime. Money has been disappearing from the city coffers, and a trail leads from Bluegill's mayor to Damien Cerberus, a rich boat owner-and possible killer. The police chief is short-staffed and...
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Nur eins ist dunkler als die Nacht: das Herz dieses Killers Mein Name ist Francis Ackerman junior. Ich bin das, was man gemeinhin einen Serienkiller nennt. Doch ich töte nicht wahllos, und jedes meiner Opfer bekommt eine faire Chance, denn
ich fordere es zu einem Spiel heraus. Wer gewinnt, überlebt. Ich habe noch nie verloren. Die meisten Menschen werden mich verabscheuen. Einige, die mir ähnlich sind, werden mich verehren. Aber alle, alle werden...
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It is hard to believe the pilgrimage of the Shepherd of Kedar and his family is almost over. Yet, that is the point of pilgrimage. There is a destination at the end of it. It was within sight when they were atop Mount Nebo. Now, all they have to do is cross the river Jordan. Jerusalem is on the other sidethe Temple stands high against the eastern wall of the city. The respite Josiah has sought from persecution and isolation in Kedar is within reach....
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Imagine for a moment that you are living in a different time, a different place. You are a Jew during the period of the Old Testament, and you live far away from the Promised Land. Your neighbors worship idols and hold you in contempt. You long to live justly and to walk in peace, but those who surround you speak lies and make war. Is there any refuge for one who believes in Jehovah, yet lives in a foreign land? Josiah was such a man, a shepherd in...
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New York Times bestselling author Nan Rossiter transports readers to Cape Cod with a warm, compelling story of family, new beginnings, and finding the courage to love honestly and well. . .
The old Cape Cod house that Laney Coleman shares with her minister husband Noah and their five boys is usually brimming with cheerful chaos. There's nothing fancy about the ancient kitchen or the wooden floors scuffed by the constant parade of activity and the...
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Set against the beautiful backdrop of Cape Cod, The Gin & Chowder Club is an eloquent, tender story of friendship, longing, and the enduring power of love. . .
The friendship between the Coleman and Shepherd families is as old and comfortable as the neighboring houses they occupy each summer on Cape Cod. Samuel and Sarah Coleman love those warm months by the water; the evenings spent on their porch, enjoying gin and tonics, good conversation and...
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Fleeing the cops, a wily Ponzi-schemer disguised in a black hat and chin whiskers is hiding among the Plain Folk wintering in a Sarasota suburb nicknamed "the Amish Las Vegas."
Trying to smoke out the fugitive, FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd tangles again with persistent and hunky bounty hunter Tommy O'Brien.
She finds herself suiting up with the Florida Suncoast State University women's basketball coach and players to get her man. But which man?...
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When cartoonist Charlie Ellis is stabbed to death in his studio, everybody suspects a political motive. For his controversial cartoons had placed Charlie Ellis in the crosshairs two years before.
But Detective Inspector Helen Shepherd is skeptical. For why did Charlie Ellis not even try to defend himself and why did he open to door to his own killer? How did the killer manage to sneak past the police guard at the door in the first place? And what...
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FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd confronts a Warsaw crime boss, a New York City bounty hunter, and a Homeland Security agent cowboying in the middle of the North Sea, among others.
She solves crimes ranging from human trafficking to health care fraud, illegal sports betting, nuclear smuggling, and more. Foiling devious plots from Silicon Valley to Ulan Bator, Dawna shuts down not only the FBI's most wanted but also any crook fool enough to mess with...
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Tony Shepherd's life is pretty much figured out: he's got a good family, he's popular at school, and he's a basketball star. But when his girlfriend disappears, he enlists the help of Charlie Wolfe, a wise-ass from "the wrong side of the tracks" who's always willing to break the rules to get results.
However, these boy detectives find themselves in darker and much more dangerous worlds than the heroes of mysteries you may have read when you were...
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Part of The Shepherd's Voice Series-The Shepherd's Voice Series brings you the current teaching of Bishops and Cardinals on vital topics facing the Catholic Church today. As Catholics in the modern world, we have certain responsibilities to our nation, our families and ourselves. What duties we owe can be a matter of considerable debate. Popular culture tells us that we shouldn't speak about religion and politics in the public arena. But what is our...
13) Ich bin der Zorn
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In einer Strafanstalt in Arizona ereignet sich ein blutiger Amoklauf. Scheinbar wahllos erschießt ein Gefängniswärter mehrere Menschen. Zu seinem Motiv schweigt er. Das ruft Bundesermittler Marcus Williams auf den Plan. Rasch findet er heraus, dass der Wärter von einem psychopathischen Killer erpresst wurde, der sich selbst Judas nennt. Um die Identität des Judaskillers aufzudecken, tut Marcus sich erneut mit seinem Bruder Francis Ackerman jr....
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Hoping to heal her broken heart, FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd takes a break from busting bad guys to vacation at SpyGirl Fantasy Camp.
But the two Russian mobsters waiting for her aren't actors pretending they're bad. These goons plan to bust her ticker for good. A story that answers the simple question: Does a hardboiled FBI agent ever get to have fun?
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On the first day of school in a New Orleans suburb, terrorists hijack a school bus full of children. Corporal Alex Shepherd, decorated Sheriff's Deputy and SWAT sniper, is critically injured trying to stop the attack and save his wife and daughter.
Waking from a month-long coma, Shepherd finds his girls are gone and the world has moved on. With no arrests made, his frustration at the system's failures forces him to take matters into his own hands.
His...
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Dawna Shepherd loves her family, working as an FBI Special Agent, and playing basketball.
She's celebrating Christmas in her home town when a bounty hunter pursues her college student brother home from Lubbock. Certain that Fugitive Team Leader Tommy O'Brien is chasing the wrong quarry, Dawna stops him cold at the Shepherd front door. But she knows O'Brien won't give up. And all her crime-fighter instincts are screaming that the bounty hunter is...
17) Kitchen Witch
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When Eudora Pembroke, a self-styled witch, is found dead in her house after ingesting a poisonous plant, everybody suspects a tragic accident. After all, Eudora was elderly and might have mistaken the poisonous plant for a benign herb.
But Detective Inspector Helen Shepherd is skeptical. Would a skilled herbalist like Eudora Pembroke really make such a beginner's mistake? And who might have had a motive to poison her?
This is a mystery novelette...
18) Parlour Game
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When Edgar Asheford-Browne is found dead in his palatial home, with a hole in his head and a bloody fire poker next to his body, the cause of death seems obvious. Edgar Asheford-Browne was beaten to death.
But as Detective Inspector Helen Shepherd and her team begin to unravel the case, it suddenly seems much less clear. For Helen has to deal not only with contradictory evidence, but also with an entire library full of suspects who are all accusing...
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Three days before Christmas, 2000, and FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd's in Warsaw, bodyguarding a key female witness in the trial of ruthless but runty crime boss Mike the Midget.
The Polish gangster wants his ex-girlfriend Basia dead before she can testify and ruin his holiday. Dawna has to stay one step ahead of the local mafioski.
Dawna puts the six-foot-five inch two-hundred-and-thirty-pound woman in Kevlar and size seventeen hightops and fakes...
20) Shepherd's watch
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Shepherd and Wolfe mysteries volume 2
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Tony is enjoying a relaxing summer at the lake with his family until Charlie Wolfe arrives at the cabin. A local man is missing, and soon the boys are caught in a web of violence and danger. If they're not careful, their search could bring more harm than good.
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