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"What happens when best friends with nothing in common come together, fall apart, and fall in love? The Vacationers meets When Harry Met Sally..., from the author of Beach Read When Poppy met Alex, there was no spark, no chemistry, and no reason to think they'd ever talk again. Alex is quiet, studious, and destined for a future in academia. Poppy is a wild child who only came to U of Chicago to escape small-town life. But after sharing a ride home...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year: After years of grief and rage, a man finds new purpose in investigating a woman's unsolved disappearance.
George Gates's little boy was killed seven years ago and he has yet to find the cold comfort of seeing someone pay for the crime. Once a world-traveling writer, he now toils away at a local newspaper, quietly seething and plotting imaginary vengeance against the unknown murderer.
Then, during a...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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When Jerry Delfont, a travel writer with writer's block, receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs Merrill Unger, with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son's, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story. Who is the dead boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room, how and why did he die?
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Pocket Star
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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A modern woman and a god from ancient legend? Surely an epic love mismatch…or maybe it's the "myth match" of the century? The irrepressible Katie MacAlister brings us heroes who are more than mere mortals in two sparkling new novellas of the Otherworld. STAG PARTYDane Hearne-also known as the Irish fertility god Cernunnos-must choose a bride quickly. His long-time goddess has run off with a salsa dancer, and Dane must be married by Beltane, just...
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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Travel writer Poke Rafferty was good at looking for trouble-so good that he made a little money writing a few offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored. But that was before Bangkok stole his heart. Now the expat American is happily playing family with Rose, the former go-go dancer he wants to marry, and with Miaow, the wary street child he wants to adopt. Yet just when everything is beginning to work out, trouble comes looking for Poke...
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When a woman with whom he has shared a harmless flirtation shows up at his hotel door with a gun, travel writer and food expert Will Rhodes discovers the real reason his job occasionally requires him to assume different names and deliver mysterious parcels.
Travel writer Will Rhodes is on assignment for Travelers magazine in the wine region of Argentina when a beautiful woman makes him an offer he can't refuse. Soon Will's bad choices and dark secrets...
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Lily Moore mysteries volume 2
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English
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Lily Moore has been persuaded by her closest friend, photographer Jesse Robb, to visit Peru with him. At Machu Picchu, they discover a woman clinging to life at the bottom of an ancient stone staircase. Before the woman dies, she tells Lily the name of the man who pushed her. The forensic evidence the local police find doesn't match what Lily knows. Lily hunts down the wealthy man who was the dead woman's traveling companion and discovers a pattern...
9) For the dead
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Poke Rafferty Bangkok thrillers volume 6
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English
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"Poke Rafferty is happier than he's ever been. He's financially solvent, his family is about to grow larger, and his adopted Thai daughter, Miaow, seems to have settled in at junior high school. All that is endangered when Miaow and her boyfriend, Andrew, buy a stolen iPhone from a shady vendor and discover photographs of two dead police officers on it--disgraced officers, violently murdered to avenge the long-dead. Surrounding the murder investigation...
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Seeking to retire and settle down with his girlfriend and newly adopted daughter, travel writer Poke Rafferty unexpectedly meets up with his long-lost father, who asks for his help in safeguarding a stolen cache of priceless rubies and forged identity papers.
11) One for the road
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Severn House
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Travel writer Jill Curtis loves her job, but she desperately needs a break if she's to achieve her dream of becoming an investigative reporter. Sent to Kentucky by her boss to find out why thousands of tourists flock to Bourbon Country every year, Jill's dream seems to be slipping further away. After all, nothing interesting ever happens in rural America . . . does it? Staying at an estranged relative's B&B, Jill's plan to uncover what makes the...
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Murder packs a suitcase mysteries volume 2
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Mallory Marlowe, travel writer for the Good life magazine, heads to Colorado to visit a rich and famous high-school classmate, Carly Cassidy Berman. Carly had it all then and still does--until her corpse turns up in a mud bath. Mallory suddenly discovers that Aspen's main attraction is a dazzling array of suspects, one of whom is eager to see this accidental sleuth's travels come to an end.
13) The land across
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Tor Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"An American writer of travel guides in need of a new location chooses to travel to a small and obscure Eastern European country. The moment Grafton crosses the border he is in trouble, much more than he could have imagined. His passport is taken by guards, and then he is detained for not having it. He is released into the custody of a family, but is again detained. It becomes evident that there are supernatural agencies at work, but they are not...
14) Red rain
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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In the aftermath of a hurricane from which she barely escapes while on a small island off the coast of South Carolina, travel writer Lea Sutter impulsively adopts a pair of orphaned twin boys against the wishes of her family before encountering the twins' sinister natures.
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Lily Moore mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Lily Moore joins a group of travel journalists for an all-expenses-paid press trip to Mexico's famous resort town of Acapulco. Lily's fellow journalist, Skye McDermott, drops hints about an investigation she's conducting. Skye, deeply upset at a lover who jilted her, is obsessed with getting revenge by exposing his company's fraud and illegal activities. But when Skye suddenly disappears, Lily knows something is terribly wrong. The hotel's staff refuses...
16) 100 proof murder
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Travel writer Jill Curtis is in Louisville, Kentucky, on the next stop of her bourbon tour assignment, and is keen to explore the local distilleries with her videographer, Michael Erickson - especially since her new beau, Lieutenant Nick Harris, lives in the city. But the night before Jill's first tour at Parker's Distillery, she is shocked to learn that the master distiller, William Scott, has died suddenly of a heart attack - and even more shocked...
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Blue Cedar Falls volume 2
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Mercilessly bullied in high school, May Wu took her first ticket out of town and never looked back. Her job as a travel writer keeps her on the move, and that's how she likes it. Right until her editor assigns her a story in the last place she ever wanted to go: home. Even worse? The first person she runs into is her ex. After the death of his father, Han Leung took over his family's restaurant. It's a far cry from his dream of opening his own place,...
18) Fools' river
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Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"The two most difficult days in Bangkok writer Poke Rafferty's life begin with an emergency visit from Edward Dell, the almost-boyfriend of his teenage daughter, Maiow. The boy's father, Buddy, a late-middle-aged womanizer who has moved to Bangkok for happy hunting, has disappeared, and money is being siphoned out of his bank and credit card accounts. It soon becomes apparent that Buddy is in the hands of a pair of killers who prey on Bangkok's "sexpats";...
19) The damage done
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Lily Moore mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Lily Moore fled to Spain to get away from her troubled, drug-addicted younger sister, Claudia. But when Claudia is found dead, Lily must return to New York. The situation shifts from tragic to baffling when the body at the morgue turns out to be a stranger's.
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Travel writer Thomas Nesbitt, age 50, retreats into his house in Maine to wallow in memories of living in Germany 25 years earlier after the success of his first book. In West Berlin as a worker for Radio Liberty, Thomas meets his soul mate, Petra Dussmann, a translator with an iron curtain around her heart. Petra's mysterious melancholy proves irresistible, and as Thomas is drawn into a passionate affair, he also becomes entangled in spy games played...