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Noel collection ; 4
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English
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"After nearly two decades, Noel Post returns to her childhood home in Salt Lake City to see her estranged, dying father. What she believed would be a brief visit turns into something more as she inherits the bookstore her father fought to keep alive. Reeling from loneliness, a recent divorce, and unanticipated upheavals in her world, Noel begins receiving letters from an anonymous source, each one containing thoughts and lessons about her life and...
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Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder
"Like an assortment of presents under a Christmas tree, there's something for everyone in this Yule-themed reprint anthology in the British Library Crime Classics series from Edwards." -Publishers Weekly
Christmas is a mysterious, as well as magical, time of year. Strange things can happen, and this helps to explain the hallowed tradition of telling ghost stories around the fireside as the...
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English
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In this moving sequel to Big Rock Candy Mountain, Bruce Mason returns to Salt Lake City, not for his aunt's funeral but to encounter after forty-five years the place he fled in bitterness. A successful statesman and diplomat, Mason had buried his awkward and lonely childhood and sealed himself off from the thrills and torments of adolescence to become a figure who commanded international respect.
But the realities of the present recede
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Sam Kincaid, investigator for the Utah Department of Corrections, and Salt Lake City homicide lieutenant Kate McConnell team up to solve the murder of Levi Vogue, the chairman of the Board of Parole, who was gunned down while getting ready to meet his latest lover. Mindful of political landmines and the power of the Mormon Church, they investigate and manage to avoid acting on romantic sparks.
7) Bone hunter
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Lady geologist Em Hansen investigates the murder of a paleontologist during a conference on dinosaur fossils in Salt Lake City. The probe leads to romance with a Mormon police officer.
8) Timepiece
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Christmas Box ; 2.x1E
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
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English
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In 1910s Salt Lake City, Mary Ann Chandler, an Englishwoman, is hired by a millionaire collector of clocks as his secretary and eventually he marries her. The novel traces their bitter-sweet romance. A prequel to The Christmas Box.
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Noel collection ; 2
Language
English
Description
"Sally Walther feels like her world is imploding. Publicly humiliated after her husband, a local councilman, is arrested for bigamy, and her subsequent divorce, she has isolated herself from the world. When her only friend insists that Sally climb out of her hole, and embrace the season to get her out of her funk, Sally decides to put up a Christmas tree and heads off to buy one - albeit reluctantly. She is immediately taken by Andrew, the kind, handsome...
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2022.
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English
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"Zac Topping's Wake of War is a timely account of the lengths those with power will go to preserve it, and the determination of those they exploit to destroy everything in the name of freedom anew. "I just hope I'm on the right side of history." The United States of America is a crumbling republic. With the value of the dollar imploding, the government floundering, and national outrage and resentment growing by the hour, a rebellion has caught fire....
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
In Salt Lake City, PI Moroni Traveler searches for a boy he may have fathered with a woman now dead. In the course of the search the reader is given a picture of Utah and of its people. By the author of The Great Reminder.
13) City of saints
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A historical mystery set in 1930s Salt Lake City finds a rookie investigator and Mormon family man partnering with a foul-mouthed, vice-ridden former strikebreaker to solve the murder of a beautiful socialite.
14) Inherited murder
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St. Martin's
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Fort Worth policewoman Deb Ralston finally manages to take her family on vacation, only to find murder intruding in their bed-and-breakfast in Salt Lake City. To placate her husband, Harry, she lets him help her find the killer.
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In this beautifully written and powerful debut novel, Ella Joy Olsen traces the stories of five fascinating women who inhabit the same historic home over the course of a century--braided stories of love, heartbreak and courage connect the women, even across generations. Ivy Baygren has two great loves in her life: her husband, Adam, and the bungalow they buy together in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Salt Lake City, Utah. From the moment she...
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