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"A dynamic story line that grips from the first chapter and doesn't let go."--Midwest Book Review, Diane Donovan (regarding Once Gone)From #1 bestselling mystery author Blake Pierce comes a new masterpiece of psychological suspense.In A TRACE OF MURDER (Book #2 in the Keri Locke mystery series), Keri Locke, Missing Persons Detective in the Homicide division of the LAPD, remains haunted by the abduction of her own daughter. Encouraged by the new lead that has landed, the first in years, she pursues it with all that she has, determined to find her daughter and bring her back alive.Yet Keri, at the same time, receives a phone call from a frantic husband, a famed Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, who reports that his wife has been missing for two days. A wealthy socialite with no enemies and little reason to leave her life, he fears the worst has become of his wife.

This short novel that is told with almost fable-like simplicity: Matt Harper is a first-time counselor at a boy's summer camp when he witnesses a casual brutality that leads to murder. The bullying, gluttonous headman Ed Nolan (who has "reduced Camp Pleasant to a microcosm of the Third Reich") is portrayed as one stereotype that the reader is not sorry to see killed off. Instead, all of our sympathy is reserved for the possible suspects: Merv Loomis, the homosexual counselor Nolan humiliates into quitting; the troubled ten-year-old Tony Rocca; Nolan's meek wife, Ellen; and several others. The setting and tone have the distinct feel of the early 1950s, but a casual reference to actress Catherine Deneuve places the action in the mid-60s or later.

Ismail Kadare's The Siege dramatizes a relentless fictional assault on a Christian fortress in the Albanian mountains by the Ottoman Army in the fifteenth century. As the bloody and psychologically crushing struggle for control over the citadel unfolds, Kadare's newest work opens a window onto the eternal clash between religions and empires as well as the exhilaration, despair, and immediacy of the wkkk.net is a hugely respected novelist and a hero to his people, as well as an outspoken critic of all forms of totalitarianism. The Siege is a powerfully atmospheric … and vividly rendered (The Telegraph) novel of considerable cumulative power and resonance for our own times.

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数万年前，一场惊世大战，玄天剑碎，散落凡尘。少年秦昊，爷爷亡故，遭人谋害，幸得小姐姐出手，拜入雪山派，开始修仙之旅。秦昊偶得断剑，获得无名传承，报仇，杀敌，一路高歌猛进，闯出一片天地。事关身世、九州、隐秘，掀起一场恩怨情仇纠葛。玄天剑出，谁与争锋。且看秦昊凭剑杀出一个至尊未来。（求收藏，求点击，求推荐。）

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虐妻一时爽，追妻火葬场！齐昭昭最相信爱情的年龄被顾承哄着生了孩子，当她蜕变成女王不需要爱情时，他颠颠跑着一路追。自己追不上，开门放儿子！“把你妈妈追回来，我跟幼儿园老师说一声，让她安排你喜欢的女孩坐你旁边。”“可是麻麻说不能早恋呀，她就是早恋被老男人骗了！”

她是纯真无邪的小郡主，因为神秘的身世，拥有妖孽灭世的力量。大智若愚，沦为笑柄废物，阴谋算计步步将她推入深渊绝境。浴火重生，已不再是曾经的她，眼眸杀气冷寒，狠辣、冷酷，拈花一笑万山横！掌控乾坤，翻手为云，覆手为雨！凤御天下，谁敢不从？

世态炎凉、道消魔涨。一个小道士下山参加红尘试炼，从而开启了一段光怪陆离的修行之旅。

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