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As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins' affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman--a girl Will had once loved--was found brutally murdered in her family's basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished. And when his shattered family never heard from Ken again, they were sure he was gone for good.
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Leonid McGill mysteries volume 2
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English
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"The newest of the great fictional detectives" (Boston Globe) from the New York Times bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins novels.
When New York private eye Leonid McGill is hired to check up on a vulnerable young woman, all he discovers is a bloody crime scene-and the woman gone missing. His client doesn't want her found. The reason will put everything McGill cherishes in harm's way: his family, his friends, and his very...
When New York private eye Leonid McGill is hired to check up on a vulnerable young woman, all he discovers is a bloody crime scene-and the woman gone missing. His client doesn't want her found. The reason will put everything McGill cherishes in harm's way: his family, his friends, and his very...
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"Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property, they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac, including a collection of antique books. While rustling through a copy of The Black Arrow, Tuppence comes upon a series of apparently random underlinings. However, when she writes down the letters, they spell out a very disturbing message: "Mary Jordan did not die naturally."...
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It's just after world War One and Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley are desperately short of money. With jobs on thin ice, Tommy and Tuppence decide to form a partnership and hire themselves out as "young adventurers, willing to do anything, go anywhere." When their first assignment, for the sinister Mr. Whittington, puts both of them in mortal danger, they have to use all of their ingenuity and cunning to save not only their own lives, but that...
5) Gone
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2006.
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When his partner and lover, Rainie Connor, vanishes during her investigation into the case of a missing foster child, private detective Pierce Quincy enlists the aid of his daughter Kimberly, a rookie FBI agent, to uncover the truth.
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2019.
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From Ann Cleeves--bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows--comes the first in a gripping new series. "Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers."--Louise Penny In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. Once loved and cherished, the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community...
7) Split image
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What initially appears to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach. Jesse Stone and private investigator Sunny Randall team up to solve two cases involving the gunshot murder of Petrov Ognowski and a religious cult holding an 18-year-old girl against her will.
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Spellman files volume 2
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Izzy struggles to retain her private investigator's license after her fourth arrest, David's marriage to Petra, and Rae's teenage angst.
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Sano Ichiro mysteries volume 15
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2011.
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"A brilliant new twist on the fabled tale of the 47 Ronin, from an author with "a painter's eye for the minutiae of court life [and] a politican's ear for intrigue." --The New York Times Book Review Japan, 1703. On a snowy night, 47 warriors murder the man at the center of the scandal that turned them from samurai into masterless ronin two years before. Clearly this was an act of revenge--but why did they wait so long? And is there any reason they...
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Elizabeth Parker mysteries volume 3
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Minotaur Books
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2011.
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English
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""Kiely's characters are instantly appealing....Kiely [is] in the first rank of cozy-mystery writers."--Richmond Times-Dispatch After the death of Elizabeth Parker's great-uncle Martin Reynolds, the family's house in the picturesque Maryland town of St. Michaels is sold. When the new owners dig up the pool, they find the body of the man thought to have run off eight years earlier after embezzling over a million dollars from the family business. ...
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Andy Carpenter isn't sure what to think when he gets a mysterious phone call from a good friend, policeman Pete Stanton, asking him to drop everything, drive to an unfamiliar address, and bring his girlfriend, Laurie Collins. He certainly isn't expecting to show up at a crime scene. But that's exactly where he arrives -- at the house where Pete has just discovered the body of ex-convict Danny Diza. Upstairs are Danny's now orphaned eight-year-old...
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Quinn Colson novels volume 3
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
16) The ranger
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Quinn Colson novels volume 1
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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2016.
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After years of war, Army Ranger Quinn Colson returns home to the rugged, rough hill country of northeast Mississippi to find his native Tibbehah County overrun with corruption, decay, meth runners, and violence. His uncle, the longtime county sheriff, is dead. A suicide, he's told, but others-like tomboy deputy Lillie Virgil-whisper murder. In the days that follow, it's up to Colson to discover the truth, not only about his uncle, but about his family,...
17) Bonnie
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St. Martin's Press
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[2011]
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English
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When Eve Duncan gave birth to Bonnie, she experienced a love she never knew existed. And then, on an ordinary class trip to a local park, seven-year-old Bonnie vanished. Eve found herself in the throes of a nightmare. But a new Eve emerged: a woman who would use her remarkable talent as a forensic sculptor to find closure when the unthinkable happens to someone else's child. A woman who would stop at nothing to find her own daughter's killer and bring...
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Midnight Ink
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2007.
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Everybody in Magnet Springs is in on the not-so-secret curse of the Miss Blossom pageant. Everybody, that is, except Whiskey Mattimoe--full-time real estate agent, parttime sleuth, and long-suffering owner of Abra, her willful and sometimes felonious Afghan hound. Any hope that Abra has reformed her purse-snatching ways is dashed when the dog disappears with the bejeweled Miss Blossom tiara, a priceless heirloom insured for more than Whiskey's net...
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John O'Malley and Vicky Holden mysteries volume 14
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
20) Crossbones yard
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Alice Quentin novels volume 1
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Introducing Alice Quentin, a London psychologist with family baggage, who finds herself at the center of a grisly series of murders. With gripping suspense and a terrific new heroine, Rhodes is a powerful new voice in crime fiction.
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