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Tightrope

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Quick, Amanda. Burning Cove series ; 3.Publisher: New York : Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019]Copyright date: �2019Edition: First editionDescription: 309 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780399585364
  • 0399585362
Other title:
  • Tight rope
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3561.R44 T544 2019
Other classification:
  • FIC027110
Summary: "An unconventional woman and a man shrouded in mystery walk a tightrope of desire as they race against a killer to find a machine that could change the world"--Summary: Former trapeze artist Amalie Vaughn moved to Burning Cove to reinvent herself, but after spending her inheritance on a mansion with the intention of turning it into a bed-and-breakfast, she learns that the villa is said to be cursed. When the first guest, Dr. Norman Pickwell, is murdered by his robot invention during a sold-out demonstration, rumors circulate that the curse is real. In the chaotic aftermath, Amalie watches Matthias Jones disappear behind the curtain, and reappear slipping a gun into a concealed holster. Matthias suspects Pickwell stole a groundbreaking prototype cipher machine and planned to sell it. But now Pickwell is dead, the machine has vanished, and time is running out. -- adapted from jacket
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Barcode
F F Chamberlin Free Public Library Fiction F QUI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000566632

Sequel to: The other lady vanishes.

Series information from Goodreads.com.

"An unconventional woman and a man shrouded in mystery walk a tightrope of desire as they race against a killer to find a machine that could change the world"--

Former trapeze artist Amalie Vaughn moved to Burning Cove to reinvent herself, but after spending her inheritance on a mansion with the intention of turning it into a bed-and-breakfast, she learns that the villa is said to be cursed. When the first guest, Dr. Norman Pickwell, is murdered by his robot invention during a sold-out demonstration, rumors circulate that the curse is real. In the chaotic aftermath, Amalie watches Matthias Jones disappear behind the curtain, and reappear slipping a gun into a concealed holster. Matthias suspects Pickwell stole a groundbreaking prototype cipher machine and planned to sell it. But now Pickwell is dead, the machine has vanished, and time is running out. -- adapted from jacket

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