Truman Margaret
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On a bright Saturday afternoon on the Washington Mall, the daughter of presidential candidate Robert Colgate's closest friend is kidnapped. The abduction rocks the nation's capital, but no one is prepared for the bombshell about to hit the city, an explosive development that erupts when Detectives Hall and Jackson uncover a shocking connection between the kidnapping and the murder of a Washington, D.C. call girl--and a killer whom no one will see...
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New York Times Bestseller: The death of a special agent raises suspicions of corruption in this mystery in the “dazzling series” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
If there’s one organization you don’t want to mess with, it’s the FBI. But agents Ross Lizenby and Christine Saksis are about to rush headlong into a showdown with their own employer . . .
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If there’s one organization you don’t want to mess with, it’s the FBI. But agents Ross Lizenby and Christine Saksis are about to rush headlong into a showdown with their own employer . . .
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2015.
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When 200 people from Washington gather at a cocktail reception for Senate Majority Leader Cale Caldwell, they are horrified to find the guest of honor with an icepick through his chest. Lawyer Lydia James is called upon by the widow to act as special counsel to the Senate subcommittee investigating Caldwell's murder. When her prime suspect turns out to be Caldwell's son, Mark, whose past involves an unsolved murder and participation in a religious...
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2015.
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Ambassador Geoffrey James might be a British citizen, but when he dies on the night of a gala party, it's up to Captain Sal Morizio of Washington's Metropolitan Police Department to investigate. Despite orders to desist, Morizio and his lady love, fellow officer Connie Lake, know too much. And what they learn on an international search for missing clues tells them a lot about corruption in high places-and the effects of caviar on otherwise rational...
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It ain't over till the fat lady sings--but the show hasn't even started yet when a diva is found dead. The soprano in question, a petite young Asian Canadian named Charise Lee, was scarcely a star at the Washington National Opera. But when the aspiring singer is stabbed in the heart backstage during rehearsals, she suddenly takes center stage. Georgetown law professor Mac Smith thought he'd just be carrying a rapier in Tosca as a favor to his beloved...
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When Brixton takes on a twenty-year-old murder case, he figures he's got nothing to lose. It's not long before the trail leads him deep into the corrupt underbelly of Savannah's power elite-- and right into the lap of a secret government organizations that been offing "troublesome" politicians for decades.
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Leaving an airport near New York, a D.C.-bound commuter plane falls to earth. At almost the same time, another crash occurs. Firmly ruling out coincidence, investigators seek means and motive. The means are soon apparent; small-scall weaponry with large-scale impact. Max Pauling, a State Department investigator, seasoned, good-looking, and hard to fool, quicly takes off on a trail still as warm as the smoking wreckage.
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"During a gala benefit for the Democratic Party's hottest presidential hopeful at the glittering Kennedy Center, a young woman dies, a victim of quick and brutal violence. The murder weapon belongs to the candidate. The chief suspect is the candidate's son. The dynamic campaign of Senator Kenneth Ewald has collided with a tragedy that can send his son to jail--and wreck his own career. George Washington University law professor Mac Smith comes out...
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Ballantine Books
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2006.
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When two women are found murdered in the nation's capital, crime reporter Joe Wilcox invents a serial killer stalking the city, but the sudden appearance of his mentally ill brother, Michael, leads Joe to suspect that Michael could be the real thing.
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Forge
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©2018.
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David Portland's life is upended when his son Trevor dies mysteriously in Nigeria, while employed by a suspicious security/mercenary company. Information he learns will send Portland down a rabbit-hole of deadly deception - one which he hopes will lead him to the truth about his son's death. Meanwhile, Robert Brixton has been hired to look into a fraudulent charity and a criminal warlord in Nigeria. Their interconnected cases will take Brixton to...
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Capital crimes series volume 19
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Ballantine Books
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2002.
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English
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2015.
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Dr. Lewis Tunney, a brilliant historian who had stumbled onto an international art scandal, was brutally murdered in front of two hundred guests at an elegant party at the Smithsonian. When his fiancée, Heather McBean, flies in from Scotland to learn more, Mac Hanrahan, the captain in charge of the case, takes a heated interest in her. And when two more murders are committed, Hanrahan has reason to worry about Heather's sleuthing. But Heather is...
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Forge
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©2014.
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"Private investigator Robert Brixton has always hated Washington. Against his better judgment, he decides to stick around and take a job as an agent in a new State Department security agency headed by his former boss at the Washington P.D. After work one day he meets his youngest daughter Janet for a drink at an outdoor cafe. Shockingly, a young Arabic woman blows herself up, killing Janet and a dozen others. Seeking revenge for his daughter, Brixton...
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Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
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[2016]
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If someone in the pharmaceutical industry came upon a cheaper, non-addictive, and more effective painkiller, would he kill for it? Washington D.C. private detective Robert "Don't call me Bobby" Brixton, along with his mentors, attorneys Mac and Annabel Smith, discover that the answer is a resounding "Yes," as they try to help Jayla King, a medical researcher at a small D.C. pharmaceutical firm, carry on the work of her father. His experiments in the...
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