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In death novel volume 49
Language
English
Description
"She calls herself Lady Justice. And once she has chosen a man as her target, she turns herself into a tall blonde or a curvaceous redhead, makes herself as alluring and seductive as possible to them. Once they are in her grasp, they are powerless. The first victim is wealthy businessman Nigel McEnroy. His company's human resources department has already paid out settlements to a couple of his young victims--but they don't know that his crimes go...
82) Killer takes all
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Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
When a friend is found murdered in her New Orleans apartment, Stacy Killian, a former Dallas homicide detective, suspects that the killing could be related to a violent fantasy role-playing game called White Rabbit.
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Series
Buck Schatz volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vi, 281 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty something Daniel Friedman's debut hit novel, Don't Ever Get Old, was a huge critical and word-of-mouth success. Friedman's unforgettable protagonist Buck Schatz is back, and, once again, this 88-year-old retired Memphis cop refuses to go gently into that good night. Having sustained injuries in Don't Ever Get Old, Buck is living at a retirement home with his wife, and he's downright miserable being treated like the elderly person he is. But...
84) A rising man
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Series
Captain Sam Wyndham volume Book 1
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the days of the British Raj in 1919, Captain Sam Wyndham, a former Scotland Yard detective newly arrived in Calcutta, is confronted with the murder of a British official who was found with a note in his mouth warning the British to leave India.
85) Missing persons
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Series
A Buddy Steel mystery volume Book 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introducing Buddy Steel, LAPD homicide detective whose father, Burton Steel, sheriff in the town of Freedom, a nearby privileged community falls ill with Lou Gehrig's disease. Returning home, Buddy learns that a world-renowed broadcast minister's wife has gone missing. Following leads, Buddy finds a link to complex web of twisted families, con artists, corrupt public officials, violent enforcers, and a femme fatale.
86) The Rock Hole
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Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Named one of the Top 12 Mysteries of 2011 by Kirkus Reviews
Finalist in the Benjamin Franklin Awards (Mystery)
It's 1964: farmer and part-time Constable Ned Parker combines forces with John Washington, the almost mythical black deputy sheriff from nearby Paris, to track down a disturbed individual who is rapidly becoming a threat to the small Texas community of Center Springs.
Summoned to a hot cornfield one morning to
...87) Bone box
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English
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On a bright and crisp September morning, while walking a bucolic woodland trail, Rina Decker stumbles upon human remains once buried deep beneath the forest grounds. Immediately, she calls her husband, Peter, a former detective lieutenant with LAPD, now working for the local Greenbury Police. Within hours, a vista of beauty and tranquility is transformed into a frenetic crime scene. The body has been interred for years and there is scant physical...
88) Improbable Cause
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English
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Perhaps it was fitting justice: a dentist who enjoyed inflicting pain was murdered in his own chair. The question is not who wanted Dr. Frederick Nielsen dead, but rather who of the many finally reached the breaking point. The sordid details of this case, with its shocking revelations of violence, cruelty, and horrific sexual abuse, would be tough for any investigator to stomach. But for Seattle Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont, the most damning piece...
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Series
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
A prisoner languishes in a Phoenix jail cell, accused of brutally slaying his estranged wife. No one believes the man is innocent, except the new female sheriff of Cochise County, in town for a crash course in police training. Joanna Brady is out of her jurisdiction-and possibly in over her head. For a human monster is on the prowl, hiding the grisly evidence of his horrific crimes in the vast emptiness of the Arizona desert. And an impromptu investigation,...
90) Edge of Black
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Dr. Samantha Owens is starting over: new city, new job, new man, new life. She's trying to put some distance between herself and the devastating loss of her husband and children--but old hurts leave scars.
Before she's even unpacked her office at Georgetown University's forensic pathology department, she's called to consult on a case that's rocked the capital and the country. An unknown pathogen released into the Washington Metro has...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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In London, the Metropolitan Police have set up a new Unsolved Murders Unit - a cold case squad - to catch the criminals nobody else can. Four victims. Four cases. All killers poised to strike again. In Geneva, millionaire art collector Miles Faulkner, convicted of forgery and theft, was pronounced dead two months ago. So why is his unscrupulous lawyer still representing a dead client? And who is the mysterious man his widow is planning to marry? On...
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English
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Marking the first appearance of Agatha Christie's character Inspector Battle, The Secret of Chimneys was first published in 1925 and went on to be a hit among readers. This mystery novel follows Anthony Cade, a man who unknowingly finds himself in the middle of an international conspiracy and a murder investigation after accepting a simple delivery job from an old friend. As Cade slowly begins to realize his predicament has potentially put him in...
Author
Series
Captain Sam Wyndham volume 3
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Captain Sam Wyndham and his sidekick Surrender-Not Banerjee return in this prize-winning historical crime series set in 1920s Calcutta. India, 1921. Haunted by his memories of World War I, Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his superiors in the Calcutta police force. When Sam is summoned to investigate a grisly murder, he is stunned at the sight of the body: he's seen this before. Last night,...
94) Dark blood
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Series
Detective Sergeant Logan McRae volume 6
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
487 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Sergeant Logan McRae isn't exactly thrilled to be part of the team helping settle parolled convict Martin Knox into his new Aberdeen home, or being stuck with DSI Danby from Northumbria Police who put Knox behind bars. And things are about to go very, very wrong. Three heavies from Newcastle want a 'quiet word' with DSI Danby about a missing mob accountant. And Martin Knox's dark past isn't done with him yet!
96) Give unto others
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Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"What role can or should loyalty play in the life of a police inspector? It's a question Commissario Guido Brunetti must face and ultimately answer in Give unto Others, Donna Leon's splendid thirty-first installment of her acclaimed Venetian crime series. Brunetti is approached for a favor by Elisabetta Foscarini, a woman he knows casually, but her mother was good to Brunetti's mother, so he feels obliged to at least look into the matter privately,...
97) Darkest journey
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Series
Krewe of hunters volume 20
Language
English
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They say it's about the journey, not the destination ...Charlene "Charlie" Moreau is back in St. Francisville, Louisiana, to work on a movie. One night, she stumbles across the body of a Civil War reenactor, the second murdered in two days. Charlie is shocked to learn that her father--a guide on the Journey, a historic paddle wheeler that's sponsoring the reenactment--is a suspect. Meanwhile, Ethan Delaney, new to the FBI's Krewe of Hunters, is brought...
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English
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"Calcutta, 1923. When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city is on the brink of all-out religious war. Can the officers of the Imperial Police Force--Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant "Surrender-Not" Banerjee--track down those responsible in time to stop a bloodbath? Set at a time of heightened political tension, beginning in atmospheric Calcutta and taking the detectives all the way to bustling Bombay, the latest instalment in...
99) The last exit
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English
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In a near future where controversial longevity treatments are available only to the very rich, Jen Lu, a detective in the Elder Abuse department, and her partner, Chandler--a SIM implant in her brain--investigate bizarre cases of people aging overnight that may be caused by an illegal version of a longevity drug.
100) Let justice descend
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Series
A Gardiner and Renner thriller volume 5
Publisher
Kensington Books
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a taut, brilliantly twisted new thriller from bestselling author Lisa Black, forensics expert Maggie Gardiner and Cleveland detective Jack Renner investigate the bizarre murder of a senator with secrets to hideā¦
Three days before a key election, U.S. Senator Diane Cragin is electrocuted on her own doorstep-a shocking twist in an already brutal political race. Cragin's chief of staff is quick to blame rival Joey Green, a city development director...