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Nine months after bringing their adopted daughter Angelina home, Jack and Melissa McGuane receive a devastating phone call from the adoption agency: the birth father, a teenager and son of a powerful Denver judge, never signed away his parental rights, and he wants Angelina back.
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Cliff Janeway mysteries volume 4
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"Assessing a book's value is Denver cop-turned-bookseller Cliff Janeway's expertise. But even a pro like Janeway could be supremely challenged by certain signed first editions. When is an autograph authentic? How can forgeries appear to be so convincingly real? The same questions apply, it seems, to a murder investigation in tiny Paradise, Colorado. Janeway agrees to help his lover, attorney Erin D'Angelo, determine if Erin's estranged childhood friend...
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Hired by the Egyptology department of a Denver museum to create displays for an exhibit, medical illustrator Kate McKinnon encounters an intriguing enigma: the mummy of a young woman who lived thirty-three centuries ago, her ribs broken, one hand shattered, and a man's skull between her legs.
With the aid of radiologist Max Cavanaugh, employing the latest forensic and medical imaging techniques, Kate starts to unravel the millennia-old puzzle. And...
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Lone star brides volume 1
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"In the first of the LONE STAR BRIDES series, Marty Dandridge Olson is a widow looking for a way out of Texas. Widower Jake Wythe has secured a job as a bank manager in Denver, only to discover that the bank board wants him to be a married man. With Texas in his roots, he advertises for a Lone Star bride, and Marty answers the call. They both agree they are done with romance and love and will make this nothing more than a marriage of convenience.
6) Ghost seer
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Ghost seer novels volume 1
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2014
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When the ghost of a Wild West gunman needs a Denver woman's help, she finds herself getting close to a sexy private investigator.
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2011
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After a candidate for governor is murdered, and his estranged wife is arrested for first-degree homicide, journalist Catherine McLeod must risk her career--and her life--to find the witness who can identify the candidate's murderer: Detective Ryan Beckman.
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Saturday Night Supper Club novels volume 1
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Denver chef Rachel Bishop won a James Beard Award and heads up her own fine-dining restaurant-- until she is the target of a smear campaign. Alex Kanin was highlighting the pitfalls of online criticism-- and destroyed the career of a perfect stranger. Plagued by guilt, he agrees to help rebuild Rachel's tarnished image by offering his connections and his home to host an exclusive pop-up dinner party targeted to the Saturday Night Supper Club. As they...
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Ever since he was fifteen, John King has been on the run from the ghosts of his past, always drifting, never settling down in one place or with one woman, though more than one has certainly made the offer of forever-after. But, every time his memories of life back in Texas start to haunt him too deeply into the night, John realizes that it's time to move on. That is, until he rolls into Denver, Colorado, grooving to Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It on,"...
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Denver detective Win Bear, on the trail of a murderer, discovers much more than a killer. He accidentally stumbles upon the probability broach, a portal to a myriad of worlds--some wildly different from, others disconcertingly similar to our own. Win finds himself transported to an alternate Earth where Congress is in Colorado, everyone carries a gun, there are gorillas in the Senate, and public services are controlled by private businesses.
At...
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Gabe Wager mysteries volume 5
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An unidentified body points Wager to a radical religious sect A year ago, homicide detective Gabe Wager had a man killed. Though Wager feels no guilt at doing away with an evil man, his partner, Max Axton, is disgusted, and has hardly spoken to him for a year. Now Wager and Axton have to work together to solve a baffling crime that takes them to the border of Colorado-and the limits of human faith. They find the body on Denver's outskirts, stripped...
13) Twice kissed
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When glamorous TV star Marquise Walker vanishes from her lavish Denver estate without a trace, her identical twin, Maggie Macrae, leaves her home in the Northwest to search for her. With the police indifferent and a cryptic suicide note setting up a dreadful possibility, she plunges into a seething world of scandal, intrigue, and illicit desire...and uncovers secret after shocking secret about the sister she thought she knew.
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"Superb characters, sparkling dialogue, and a gripping, terrifying plot, plus flashes of humor to boot; JoAnn Chaney's What You Don't Know has it all."--Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author of The Travelers. He didn't take their lives -- but he ruined them. The final victims of an infamous serial killer may be the ones he didn't kill. Hoskins cracked the case of one of the most infamous serial killers -- and then it cracked him. He's in...
15) Mother nature
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Em Hansen mysteries volume 3
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St. Martin's Press
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1997
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When a woman working for an environment service is murdered in California, her father hires geologist and sleuth Em Hansen to find the killers. Hansen discovers the victim was involved in a dispute with land developers.
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"Love isn't always by the books in this charming romantic comedy about a bookseller discovering how to be the main character in her story. As a self-proclaimed book hater and a firm believer that the movie is always better, Drew Young didn't anticipate inheriting her grandma's bookstore, The Book Nook. She's in way over her head even before the shop's resident book club, comprising six of the naughtiest old ladies ever, begins to do what it does best-meddle....
17) Booked to die
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Former Denver policeman and knowledgeable book collector Cliff Janeway investigates the murder of a bookscout.
18) Blood memory
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Catherine McLeod is an investigative reporter for the "Journal," one of Denver's major newspapers. Her recent coverage of the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes filing a claim for twenty-seven million acres of their ancestral lands has made her the target for assassination. Her investigation uncovers a conspiracy involving her ex-husband's wealthy family and state politicians. And as Catherine unravels the truth, she discovers some startling facts about...
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A girl's moving tale of growing up among hippies without her real father or mother. She is Sarajean, 5, who lives with Jimmy, a heroin-addicted Vietnam veteran, and his alternating girlfriends. She tells her story without rancor, not knowing any other life, though she does long for a steady mother. One day she runs off to find her identity and that's when Jimmy rises to the occasion. The setting is 1970s Denver. A debut in fiction.
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Kendall Beck novels volume 1
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"The only survivor of Denver's notorious 'Reaper' serial murders, FBI Special Agent Kendall Beck grapples with the ghosts of her past by seeking justice for victims of abuse. She's neck deep in a particularly ugly case...but her investigation is derailed when her best friend and roommate, Gwen Tavich, turns up dead floating in a nearby lake...And when Gwen's dark secrets begin spilling out one by one, she begins to understand the devastating magnitude...
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