A. W Hartoin
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Pub. Date
2015
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~Part of the USA Today Bestselling Series~
Mercy Watts doesn't believe in ghosts. She might be the only one. When Mercy's best friend, Ellen, shows up in the middle of the night, shaken and afraid. Mercy starts digging for a truth that might not even exist. Is it a mental illness or has the Missouri drought revealed something that could've remained hidden forever?
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Stella Bled volume 2
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2019.
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"November, 1938. It began in Vienna, after a night of fire and fear. Stella Bled Lawrence made a promise and she kept it. But the job isn't done. Abel Hershmann's cousins, unaware of the danger, are heading to Venice in search of him and the family secret he carried. Stella and her husband, Nicky, follow, intent on warning them. But things don't go to plan. Venice is flooded, Stella aggravates her injuries, and the cousins are no where to be found....
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Pub. Date
2022
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London, 1940.
The Battle of Britain rages while Stella Bled sits frustrated on the sidelines. Her husband, Nicky, is unreachable as he risks his life flying in a Spitfire and she has to recover from her mission in France without her beloved Bijou or a single familiar face.
Stella isn’t exactly content to rest, but she has no choice until a mysterious set of orders arrives at Castle Caladh. Something isn’t right, but Stella’s eager to return...
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Pub. Date
2021
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Paris 1940
The Reich is moving in and Stella Bled Lawrence can’t get out.
Stella has proved adept at the double agent game, too adept as it turns out. The British want her to stay where she is, even though she’s about to be trapped, and worse, the Nazis want to expand her work into a distressing direction.
When two Nazi agents go rogue, Stella is at the right place at the wrong time. She ends up on the worst mission possible and her Nazi handler...
5) Dark victory
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Pub. Date
2021
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"Amsterdam 1940. It's only a matter of time and time is running out. The Third Reich is sweeping across Europe and Stella Bled Lawrence wants nothing more than to get out of the way. After three months undercover, the young spy is ready to return to England for a well-deserved rest, but fate and a friend at the Admiralty have other ideas. Stella receives a second assignment and she wasn't the first choice or even the third. Hardly, a vote of confidence,...
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even though he’s been dead for nearly a hundred years. Puppy MacClarity doesn’t take the rumors about Ernest too seriously. But when he’s had enough of his teacher’s harassment, Puppy asks Ernest to take care of Miss Pritchett for him. Ernest grants his wish, and family secrets start to surface like magic. During a summer filled with both fear and fun, Puppy begins to realize that Ernest isn’t the only special thing about his family, and...
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For Stella Bled Lawrence being wealthy and stylish in 1938 is exactly what it’s cracked up to be. She’s blissfully unaware of the rising tensions in Europe even as she travels to Vienna on the eve of the Kristallnacht, The Night of Broken Glass. Stella and her husband, Nicky, witness the night’s atrocities first hand. Even as they watch the horror, they never imagine it will touch them personally, a pair of wealthy Americans on their honeymoon...
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Stella Bled volume Book 3
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"November 1939. It's been a year since Stella Bled Lawrence and her husband, Nicky, escaped Italy by the skin of their teeth and a lot has changed. Nicky joined the Royal Air Force and Stella spent the year training as a spy for His Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service. She has the languages and the tradecraft down pat, but she still has a way to go when the Earl of Bickford pulls her from her training early. The earl uses his influence to make her...
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Pub. Date
2013
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~Part of the USA Today Bestselling Series~A crabby nun and a runaway girl. Mercy should've stayed in bed. Instead, she bows to her aunt's guilt trip and is hot on the trail of Charley Horton, a girl the police can't find. With the help of her nerd posse, she'll find Charley, but somebody isn't going to be too happy about it.
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Pub. Date
2013
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~Part of the USA Today Bestselling Series~A bad dog and a missing man. Mercy Watts is up to her double D's in trouble. She agrees to take on a case for an old rival to avoid doing paperwork for her PI father, but her plan doesn't include a poodle with problems. If she dumps the case, she'll pay a terrible price. She'll have to type.
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Pub. Date
2016
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~Part of the USA Today Bestselling Series~Sin never dies.Mercy Watts is trying to recover from a tumble through a rocky river, but crime just won't let her be. A retired librarian takes a life and Mercy takes her case under duress, of course. Soon she'll be drawn in by this unusual criminal and she'll have a choice to make with painful consequences.
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Pub. Date
2021
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From USA Today bestselling author A. W. Hartoin comes a series perfect for the fans of Kristen Hannah's The Nightingale, Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls, and Kit Sergeant's The Spark of Resistance: Women Spies in WWII.
November, 1938
It began in Vienna, after a night of fire and fear. Stella Bled Lawrence made a promise and she kept it. But the job isn't done. Abel Hershmann's cousins, unaware of the danger, are heading to Venice in search of him...
13) Bottle Blonde
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Pub. Date
2020
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Take one kidnapping. Add a haunted hamlet. Mix in a secret that’s lasted forty years and you’ve got a recipe for trouble.
Reluctant detective Mercy Watts’ life is changing and she’s ready for it with a new apartment, a new career, and new clues to an old family mystery. She has no desire to go back to haunted St. Sebastian anytime soon, but a man in Germany has other plans. After an audacious attack, Mercy finds herself a victim and when...
14) Down and Dirty
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Pub. Date
2018
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Love is in the air and it stinks.
Mercy Watts thinks things are about to get back to normal. She’s back to work at the Columbia Clinic and her mother is recovering from her stroke. But when a patient goes rogue and lands Mercy smack dab in the middle of a lawsuit, she’s forced to make a deal to save the Columbia Clinic from financial ruin. It doesn’t seem so bad. All Mercy has to do is find out who’s threatening the daughter of a judge with...
15) Brain Trust
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Pub. Date
2017
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Mercy Watts and her grandad, Ace, survived the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and are racing home ahead of a stalker whose plans for the Watts clan remain unknown. But they’re too slow and what Mercy finds at home spins her in a new and darker direction. Her mother has been attacked and figuring out what happened to Carolina will take Mercy back out to her least favorite place on Earth, Hunt Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Soon she’s sucking up...
16) Small Time Crime
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Pub. Date
2019
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Time heals all wounds…unless it doesn’t.
In 1965, a young woman in love and a veil was kidnapped and found murdered in the small Missouri town of St. Sebastian, a ghost-ridden hamlet of dubious reputation. A priest took the fall, literally. But the FBI has now discovered a clue among the bodies found in a mass grave in Kansas and it’s time to take another look at a crime nobody wanted to investigate in the first place. A couple of junior FBI...
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Pub. Date
2017
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Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go to Sturgis.
That’s what they say at the famous motorcycle rally. Is Mercy Watts a bad girl? Mercy doesn’t think so, but she’s going to Sturgis and things are about to go bad in a big way. Mercy’s grandad, Ace Watts, has decided to tick off one of his bucket list dreams, attending the famous Sturgis Motorcycle rally in South Dakota. It’s also a chance to have a reunion with his buddies from Vietnam and...
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Pub. Date
2020
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Vacations can be murder, especially when you're Mercy Watts. The young nurse agrees to get away from it all to help a friend cope with a devastating loss and it's not the worst idea. She could use a break from her godmothers' lawsuit and a certain situation with the mafia.
But, on a whim, Mercy's mother decides that instead of a cruise their trip is going to be to Roatan, Honduras, a place known for scuba diving and lawlessness. A sunny place for...
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Pub. Date
2022
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An isolated hotel. A blizzard. Guests that can’t stay on their feet. Hotel Hell is about to live up to its name.
Seven couples travel high into the Swiss mountains for gourmet food and world-class skiing unaware that a freak change in the weather is about to unleash old secrets and ignite smoldering anger.
As an illness spreads through the guests, Mercy Watts’ nursing skills are put to the test. The symptoms are similar but not the same. Something...
20) Mean Evergreen
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Pub. Date
2021
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ll Mercy wants for Christmas is answers and she’ll go all the way to Germany to get them. Mercy’s going to learn so much she never wanted to know and just in time for Christmas.