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The Liar Society

2011
Kate Lowry, having received an e-mail from her best friend who died a year earlier that made her believe the cause of death was not an accident, teams up with two classmates from her private school to uncover the truth and realizes some people have secrets that are so big they would kill to keep them hidden.

Timebound

When Kate Pierce Kellers grandmother gives her a strange blue medallion and speaks of time travel, sixteen year old Kate assumes the old woman is delusional. But it all becomes horrifyingly real when a murder in the past destroys the foundation of Kates present day life. Suddenly, that medallion is the only thing protecting Kate from blinking out of existence. Kate learns that the 1893 killing is part of something much more sinister, and her genetic ability to time travel makes Kate the only one who can fix the future. Risking everything, she travels back in time to the Chicago Worlds Fair to try to prevent the murder and the chain of events that follows. Changing the timeline comes with a personal cost, if Kate succeeds, the boy she loves will have no memory of her existence. And regardless of her motives, does Kate have the right to manipulate the fate of the entire world?.

Falling for Hamlet

a novel
2011
Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is set in the modern world of computers, cell phones, and paparazzi, and on a popular television talk show it is revealed that Ophelia has not died.

Dance hall of the dead

1990
No one was seriously alarmed by the disappearance of two teenage boys, until Lt. Joe Leaphorn found the splattered trail of blood which lead to a ritually slaughtered victim.

Seven Minutes in Heaven #6 The Lying Game Series

2013
"Sutton Mercer had the perfect life, great friends, and a gorgeous boyfriend...until someone murdered her. Then the killer forced Sutton's long-lost twin sister, Emma, to pretend to be her. Now Sutton can only watch from beyond the grave as Emma frantically tries to figure out who killed her sister, and why. But when Sutton's body is discovered, Emma's time is up--and she becomes the number-one suspect herself."--Publisher's statement on Amazon.com.

A time to kill

1992
In Clanton, Mississippi, the life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhumane crime until her African-American father acquires an assault rifle and takes justice into his own hands.

The name of the rose

1994
Brother William turns detective in medieval Italy when seven bizarre deaths take place in seven days and nights.

Lost city

a novel from the NUMA files
2004
Kurt Austin and the NUMA team have their work cut out for them when people are killed trying to harvest an enzyme that affects longevity that was found at the bottom of the Atlantic, while scientists in a remote Greek village are disappearing one by one, and a body turns up frozen high in the Alps.

True blue

2012
Jess, a camp counselor, struggles to find the moral courage to remain loyal to her best friend, Casey, who has been accused of murdering an eight year old girl at summer camp.

Clarity

2011
Sixteen-year-old Clare Fern, a member of a family of psychics, helps the mayor and a skeptical detective solve a murder in a Cape Cod town during the height of tourist season--with her brother a prime suspect.

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