Hell's gate

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Sharon Potts

"Twenty-something Robbie Ivy wants to keep her life as simple and commitment-free as possible. Who needs a high-pressure career, a relationship, or a family anyway? But Robbie's life gets inextricably complicated when her estranged father shows up with a shocking revelation about two teenage girls who disappeared in South Beach. One of the missing girls is Robbie's sister, Kate--a sister Robbie never knew existed. Unwilling to reestablish family ties, Robbie is hesitant to get involved--until the body of her sister's friend washes up in Indian Creek. Desperate to find her missing sister, Robbie immerses herself in the unfamiliar world to which Kate may have fallen prey: the sexy, sizzling South Beach club scene. Swept up in a corrupt, destructive society, Robbie searches for a cold-blooded killer in the hottest South Beach hotspots..."--P. [2] of dust jacket.

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Christobel Kent

When the driven, charismatic leader of a Florentine political movement collapses at a rally, his young party immediately comes under threat. And when it emerges that his wife, Flavia, has disappeared, leaving behind not only a devastated husband but their newborn son, the political becomes dangerously personal - and Detective Inspector Sandro Cellini is summoned to investigate.

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Raymond Haigh

A frightened child hides amongst the trees surrounding her home. Her mother, brother and sister have been taken away, her stepfather is bedridden, and she is too scared to go into the house to comfort him. Armed guards appear at the gates. Nurses and doctors come and go. Men creep through the trees and take photographs of the house and its visitors. A woman with a big black gun arrives and life becomes dangerous and exciting instead of lonely and boring. Samantha Quest has been sent to protect the girl's stepfather and discover his secrets, sent to protect the things in the rooms with the bricked-up windows. Quest tries to find the girl's mother and siblings while men attempt to murder her stepfather. In a final terrifying confrontation, the child's life hangs in the balance. Can Quest snatch them all from the jaws of death?

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Kjell Eriksson

As Autumn creeps across the Swedish city of Uppsala, elderly Professor Ulrik Hindersten disappears without a trace. When the bludgeoned corpses of two local farmers are unearthed within days of each other, Inspector Ann Lindell and her team are called in to investigate what might connect the crimes. Caught in the middle of a dangerous web as distant events take on a devastating and urgent clarity, Lindell must unravel the threads if she is to stop the dranged killer, who may be closer than she thinks...