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The Secret of the Old Mill is an enthralling mystery novel from the beloved Hardy Boys series, penned by Franklin W. Dixon. In this captivating tale, brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, amateur sleuths with a knack for solving crimes, find themselves embroiled in a perplexing case that leads them deep into the heart of an old mill shrouded in secrecy. The adventure begins when the Hardy boys stumble upon a cryptic message hidden in a hollow tree, hinting...
3) Bloodhound
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Beka Cooper volume 2
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Having been promoted from "Puppy" to "Dog, " Beka, now a full-fledged member of the Provost's Guard, and her former partner head to a neighboring port city to investigate a case of counterfeit coins.
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Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home, she's built the perfect life. But beneath this façade, Ava's world is crumbling: her marriage is falling apart, her expensive law degree hasn't been used in years, and her toddler's tantrums are pushing her to the breaking point. Enter Winnie Fang, Ava's enigmatic college roommate...
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""A delicious tangle of romance, fealty, and dangerous politics."-Tasha Suri The Goblin Emperor meets "Magnificent Century" in Alexandra Rowland's A Taste of Gold and Iron, where a queer central romance unfolds in a fantasy world reminiscent of the Ottoman Empire. Kadou, the shy prince of Arasht, finds himself at odds with one of the most powerful ambassadors at court-the body-father of the queen's new child-in an altercation which results in his...
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Sinful suitors volume 4
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"When Niall Lindsey, the Earl of Margrave, is forced to flee after killing a man in a duel, he expects his secret love, Brilliana Trevor, to go with him, or at the very least wait for him. To his shock, she does neither and sends him off with no promise for the future. Seven years and one pardon later, Niall returns to England disillusioned and cynical. And being blackmailed by the government into working with his former love to help catch a counterfeiter...
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This book describes how a counterfeiting ring plotted to use the body of Lincoln as ransom to secure the release of their imprisoned ringleader, and how the Secret Service and an undercover agent conducted an election-night sting operation to foil the plan.
8) Contraband
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[2012]
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Chris Farraday long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy, botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs, Chris is forced back into doing what he does best, running contraband, to settle Andy's debt. Chris is a legendary smuggler and quickly assembles a crew with the help of his best friend, Sebastian, to head to Panama and return with millions in counterfeit bills. Things quickly fall apart with only hours to...
10) Ravage the dark
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Scavenge the stars duology volume 2
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"After escaping the city of Moray, Amaya and Cayo head to the port city of Baleine to find the mysterious Benefactor and put a stop to the counterfeit currency that is spreading Ash Fever throughout the kingdoms"--
Imprisoned on a debtor's ship for seven years, Amaya Chandra had one plan: to survive. Now she has people counting on her: for protection, for leadership, for vengeance. Cayo Mercado has lost everything: his money, his father, his reputation....
11) Counterfeit love
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"After all that Grandfather has sacrificed to raise her, Theresa Plane owes it to him to save the family name-and that means clearing their debt with creditors before she marries Edward Greystone. But when one of the creditors' threats leads her to stumble across a midnight meeting, she discovers that the money he owes isn't all Grandfather was hiding. And the secrets he kept have now trapped Theresa in a life-threatening fight for her home-and the...
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A "thoroughly surprising" chapter in the life of Isaac Newton, with a "vivid re-creation of 17th-century London and its fascinating criminal haunts" (Providence Journal). When renowned scientist Isaac Newton takes up the post of Warden of His Majesty's Mint in London, another kind of genius--a preternaturally gifted counterfeiter named William Chaloner --has already taken up residence in the city, rising quickly in an unruly, competitive underworld....
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Winner of the Edgar Award: The riveting account of an audacious fraud scheme that stretched from a Mafia hangout on the Lower East Side to the Vatican. With a round, open face and a penchant for tall tales, Matteo de Lorenzo resembled everyone's kindly uncle. But Uncle Marty, as he was known throughout the Genovese crime family, was one of the New York mob's top earners throughout the 1960s and '70s, the mastermind of a billion-dollar trade in stolen...
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THE HAUNTED HOTEL
H Is for Haunted . . . A ghost has checked into the Shangri-la Hotel! It’s almost Halloween, and
reports of strange sounds and even stranger sights are coming from Green Lawn’s only hotel.
Every day, more and more guests are being scared away. Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose must
figure out what’s going on and catch the ghost—before Green Lawn turns into a ghost town!
THE INVISIBLE ISLAND
I Is...
H Is for Haunted . . . A ghost has checked into the Shangri-la Hotel! It’s almost Halloween, and
reports of strange sounds and even stranger sights are coming from Green Lawn’s only hotel.
Every day, more and more guests are being scared away. Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose must
figure out what’s going on and catch the ghost—before Green Lawn turns into a ghost town!
THE INVISIBLE ISLAND
I Is...
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Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 50
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2002.
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The Hardy boys and two friends take a camping trip to the Rocky Mountains in an attempt to locate a gang of credit-card counterfeiters.
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Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 6
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When they uncover a conspiracy against America and its fundamental freedoms, the Kidd children, accompanied by their great uncle, crisscross the country in a race to prove that a newly-discovered copy of the Bill of Rights is a forgery.
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Art Williams spent his boyhood in a comfortable middle-class existence in 1970s Chicago, but his idyll was shattered when, in short order, his father abandoned the family, his bipolar mother lost her wits, and Williams found himself living in one of Chicago's worst housing projects. He took to crime almost immediately, starting out with petty theft before graduating to robbing drug dealers. Eventually a man nicknamed DaVinci taught him the centuries-old...
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