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Jackie Collins Author Read Alikes September 23 , 2015 |
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If you enjoy reading books by Jackie Collins try these authors.
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44 Charles Street : A Novel by Danielle SteelTaking in three boarders at her turn-of-the-century West Village townhouse, a woman forges ties with strangers who become friends--and then, like family--as each shares respective stories about lives shaped by contemporary issues.
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Pretty Woman by Fern MichaelsThree years after she marries womanizing gold-digger Kent Bliss, against the advice of her best friend Vickie, Rosie Gardener Bliss kicks her husband out of the house, only to discover that she has in her possession the winning ticket for a $302 million-dollar lottery, and sets out to lose weight, regain her self-esteem, reconcile with Vickie, and fall in love again.
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Letter From a Stranger : [A Novel] by Barbara Taylor BradfordAfter Justine Nolan discovers that her mother has been pretending that Justine's favorite grandmother has been dead for 10 years, she embarks on a search that takes her to Istanbul, where she discovers family secrets that go all the way back to World War II--and a chance to follow the true desires in her heart.
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2nd Chance : A Novel by James PattersonReconvening the Women's Murder Club after a little girl is shot in front of a San Francisco church, detective Lindsay Boxer and her companions are disturbed to discover that the killer may be a former police officer.
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A Kiss Remembered by Sandra BrownRecovering from a failed marriage, Shelley Browning goes back to college to finish her degree and encounters Grant Chapman, her former teacher and first love with whom she had shared a passionate kiss years ago
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A Stranger in the Mirror by Sidney SheldonTelevision and movie superstar and super heel, Toby Temple, adulated and feared everywhere, meets and briefly loves passionate, lovely Jill Castle, who has carried her terrible secret and dreams into a chimerical Hollywood
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Collateral Damage : A Stone Barrington Novel by Stuart WoodsReturning to New York where he is approached by CIA assistant director and sometime lover Holly Barker, Stone Barrington is drawn into a dangerous game of murder and vengeance against an enemy who is engaged in a nefarious plot beyond Stone's imagining.
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Daddy's Gone A Hunting by Mary Higgins ClarkWhen her sister is wrongly implicated in an explosion that has destroyed her family's priceless antiques business and killed an employee, Hannah struggles to find clues in the ashes and discovers a life-threatening secret from the past.
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Chasing the Night by Iris JohansenEight years after her toddler is abducted in a cruel act of vengeance, CIA agent Catherine is unable to accept that she will never find her son and taps forensic sculptor and fellow victim of a lost child Eve Duncan for assistance in establishing her son’s age-progressed appearance.
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Seeds of Yesterday by V. C. AndrewsDespite the painful memories of the original Foxworth Hall, Cathy and Chris move into the reconstructed Foxworth Hall, which has been left to their second son, Bart
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Harold Robbins' The Curse by Junius PodrugMadison Dupre accepts an offer from a mysterious Dr. Kaseem to investigate the Heart of Egypt scarab stolen from King Tut's tomb, but her travels are hindered by an Egyptian antiquities expert, a seized passport, and the doctor himself
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Misfortune's Daughters by Joan CollinsThe daughters of a talented actress and a wealthy shipping magnate, two very different sisters--one a beautiful and beloved young woman bent on self-destruction, the other a wallflower who buries herself in books to escape her privileged world--struggle to cope with their family's troubled legacy and the wealth, fame, ambition, and betrayal that mark their world.
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The First Wives Club by Olivia GoldsmithA re-release of a best-selling tale features three New York society ex-wives--Elise, Brenda, and Annie--who band together to seek revenge on the husbands who discarded them for younger women.
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Rumor Has It by Tami Hoag"Fire meets ice when a Yankee heartthrob falls for a resistant proper Southern belle determined to guard her heart in this contemporary romance"
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Bombshell by Catherine CoulterRecruited by Dillon Savich for his uncanny criminal-tracking instincts, FBI Special Agent Griffin Hammersmith investigates a perplexing attack involving his music-student sister while Savich and Sherlock examine the bizarre murder of a Federal Reserve Bank chairman's grandson.
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Lace
by Shirley Conran
Having triumphed, in a way, over abandonment, seduction, and exploitation, Lili--a world-famous movie star--demands to know which of four equally successful older women is her mother
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Catch Me by Lisa GardnerApproached by a young woman who claims her murder is imminent, detective D. D. Warren hears her chilling story about how all of her close childhood friends have been murdered on the anniversary of the same day and that she is the only one still alive, a case that is complicated by a vigilante shooter.
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That Old Black Magic by Mary Jane Behrends ClarkWhile in New Orleans to perfect her pastry skills at a renowned French Quarter bakery, aspiring actress and wedding-cake decorator Piper Donovan tries her hand at solving a mystery after two macabre murders rock the magical city.
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Not My Daughter by Barbara DelinskyDevastated by her teenage daughter's pregnancy, single mother and high school principal Susan Tate is targeted by unfair criticism when the pregnancies of additional teens are rumored to be part of a pact.
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The Assassination Option : A Clandestine Operations Novel by W. E. B. GriffinPromoted and placed in charge of a top-secret spy operation for a fledgling Central Intelligence Agency, James Cronley discovers links between the former German intelligence chief and the Mossad before receiving shocking intelligence from an undercover agent.
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You Don't Want to Know
by Lisa Jackson
After spending the past two years in and out of Seattle mental institutions, unable to remember the details of her 2-year-old son Noah's disappearance, Ava returns to the family estate and, secretly visiting a hypnotist to restore her memories, discovers that her son may still be alive.
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Mobbed
by Carol Higgins Clark
Private investigator Regan Reilly and her husband Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, hop from one Jersey shore resort town to the next in hopes of solving a tough case, one which is complicated when Regan bumps into an old friend she hardly recognizes
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A Summer Affair : A Novel by Elin HilderbrandReluctantly agreeing to organize a children's benefit at which a rock-star ex-lover is performing, Claire Danner Crispin finds her efforts complicated by her clashes with a fellow organizer, her best friend's catering mishaps, and a new relationship
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Don't Go by Lisa ScottolineFleeing home from his military service in Afghanistan when his wife dies in an apparent freak household accident, Dr. Mike Scanlon struggles with the tragedy, his inability to bond with his new baby daughter and a downsizing in his medical practice only to discover a shocking secret that changes his understanding of everything.
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Ever After : A Nantucket Brides Novel by Jude DeverauxHiring a friend's cousin to be her physical therapist after inheriting a house on Nantucket, Hallie Hartley discovers that her housemate is suffering from PTSD during a summer marked by regional mysteries, matchmaking ghosts and island romance.
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The Keeper by John T. LescroartWhen one of his counselor wife's clients suspiciously disappears and the woman's husband, a San Francisco jail guard, is accused of her murder, lawyer Dismas Hardy examines possible suspects before discovering evidence of the corruption-related death of an inmate.
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Hunted
by Karen Robards
When the chief of police and the mayor of New Orleans are taken hostage by disgraced former co-worker Reed Ware, top hostage negotiator Caroline Wallace allows herself to be taken captive by the handsome Reed only to learn that he is being targeted for his discovery of high-level government corruption
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Night Watch by Linda A. FairsteinAlexandra Cooper has a strange case to unravel when two bodies are discovered, one in France and one in New York, and the only evidence is a matchbox from her boyfriend Luc's restaurant found on both bodies
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Bubbles Ablaze by Sarah StrohmeyerRacing to an abandoned coal mine where she has been told she will find a big news story, Ms. Bubbles Yablonsky instead finds her boyfriend out cold and the body of a murdered man nearby, a situation that is further complicated by an explosion that traps her in the mine
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Faces
by Martina Cole
Abandoned by his alcoholic gambler father just before his fourteenth birthday, Danny Cadogan is forced into sudden adulthood in order to support his mother and siblings, a venture for which he and a childhood friend begin a lucrative criminal organization in London's underworld.
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The Sixes : A Novel by Kate WhiteAfter being accused of plagiarizing her latest bestselling celebrity biography, Phoebe Hall jumps at the chance to teach at a small private college in rural Pennsylvania where she, hoping to get a fresh start, becomes immersed in a deadly mystery involving a mythic secret society known as The Sixes.
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