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It's Dr. Kay Scarpetta's birthday, and she's about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids' game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could be newly minted? Her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete Marino tells her there's been a homicide five minutes away. A high school music teacher has been shot with...
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Vanessa Pierson novels volume 1
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English
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Covert CIA ops officer Vanessa Pierson is finally close to capturing the world's most dangerous international nuclear arms dealer: Bhoot, alias the ghost. One of her assets has information about Bhoot's upcoming visit to a secret underground nuclear weapons facility in Iran -- in only a few days. But just as Pierson's informant is about to give her the location, they're ambushed by an expert sniper. Pierson narrowly escapes. Her asset: dead.
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Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"When a musician's new song hits a political nerve, he finds himself in the crosshairs of Spanish nationalists' ire, and it's up to Bruno to track down the extremists who seem ready to take deadly measures, in another delightful installment of the internationally acclaimed series featuring Bruno, Chief of Police. Les Troubadours, a folk music group that Bruno has long supported, go viral with their new number, "Song for Catalonia," when the Spanish...
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U.S. Marshals series volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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Archaeologist Sarah Dunnemore rushes to New York when she hears her twin brother, Rob, has been seriously wounded in a sniper attack in Central Park.
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"Ambitious influencer Georgina Havoc's dream of a happily-ever-after falls apart when her designer boyfriend blindsides her with a pause. She is determined to pick up the pieces of her previously perfect life, and she convinces the network to make her the solo star with the task of renovating a forgotten cottage in the tiny town of Tarragon, Tennessee. The reappearance of her troubled twin sister, plus the presence of a ruggedly handsome ex-sniper,...
7) Outcast
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Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Society bachelor and former army sniper Ben Benedict moves between two worlds, from high-society Washington to the mean city streets, from tuxedos to Glocks. Dr. Anna Schuster is fighting demons of her own when she crosses paths with Agent Benedict. The two become adversaries and lovers as they search for an Al Qaeda operative bent on revenge.
9) Indelible
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Sean Mcpherson volume 1
Publisher
SparkPress
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
10) Movieland
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Eve Ronin novels volume 4
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"For decades Malibu Creek State Park was the spectacular natural setting where Hollywood fantasies were made. But when a female camper is gunned down, it becomes a real-life killing ground. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department homicide detectives Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone are assigned the case ... which Duncan fears is the latest in a series of sniper attacks that began long before Eve came to Lost Hills"--
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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After Nadia is separated from her family while fleeing the civil war, she spends the next four days with a mysterious old man who helps her navigate the checkpoints and snipers of the rebel, ISIS, and Syrian armies that are littering Aleppo on her way to meeting her father at the Turkish border.
12) Crossfire
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Extreme measures volume 2
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English
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"FBI special agent Julianna Jameson is a top-notch negotiator who has never lost a hostage. Surely she can manage to take care of her much younger sister, Dottie, who showed up unannounced to live with Julianna while she finished her senior year of high school. A former sniper with the 75th Ranger Regiment, Clay Fox left the army after a tragic incident that he can't get past. Now he's working as a high school resource officer until he can figure...
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"When a sports mascot is murdered by an unseen sniper at a college football game, the event erupts into mass chaos. Worse, the dead man in the costume is not the person who was supposed to be wearing it. At first, psychologist Daniel Rinaldi is called in to treat the traumatized almost-victim who is still reeling from a near miss with the serial killer. But as As Pittsburgh is besieged by more deadly sniper attacks, and more random citizens are targeted...
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Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Ex-Army Ranger sniper Rafe Hendrix leads the Secret Service detail of President Wyetta Johnson. Rafe and Wyetta became close when they served together in Afghanistan and he saved her life during a recon misadventure that cost her a leg. The President's wife visits a D.C. private-school classroom, and Hendrix is on sniper duty when a suicide bomber heads toward the First Lady. Hendrix disobeys a direct order, and an unthinkable disaster unfolds. Though...
15) Under Tower Peak
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Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Military sniper Tommy Smith returns to his former life as a cowboy and wilderness guide in California's Sierra Nevada, but his peaceful life is compromised when he discovers a wrecked plane that draws him into a world of violence.
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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When a former teammate is killed by an infamous Iraq War sniper, Tier One is mobilized to prosecute the threat; but the enemy seems prepared to counter all the team's moves, and they fear they may have been duped into chasing the wrong target.
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Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
©2016.
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English
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"Tommy Smith, Iraq War vet and former Eastern Sierra wilderness guide, is home from war after re-upping for a tour in Afghanistan. When his old friend Dave Cathcart disappears from his ranch, Tommy answers the call to help find him. What he learns is that his love for Dave's daughter, his old flame Sarah Cathcart, never died, but the country where he grew up is undergoing change. When Sarah confides that her husband, a smooth-talking entrepreneur,...
18) The night trade
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Series
Livia Lone novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
For sex-crimes detective Livia Lone, a position with a government anti-trafficking task force is a chance to return to Thailand to ferret out Rithisak Sorm, the kingpin behind her own childhood ordeal. But after a planned takedown in a nightclub goes violently awry, Livia discovers that she's not the only one hunting Sorm. Former marine sniper Dox has a score to settle, too, and working together is the only way to take Sorm out. Livia and Dox couldn't...
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Angry Robot, an imprint of Watkins Media Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"FBI agent Michael Childs is tasked with tracking down a serial killer ... The only link between a series of grisly murders in New York City is that the victims were all born with twelve fingers and twelve toes. These people are known in occult circles as the Nephilim, a forsaken people, descendants of fallen angels. After a break in the case leads to supposedly killed-in-action Marine sniper Anaba Raines, Michael finds the soldier alive and well,...
20) The breakout
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Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
James Murphy is a Marine Corps sniper. He's done two tours in Afghanistan. He's considered an American Hero. And James is out for revenge. Alejandro Rocha, a massively powerful drug kingpin who operates out of La Paz, Mexico, is responsible for James's sister, Layla's death, and he intends to make Rocha pay for it. James goes AWOL from his unit and travels to Mexico, ready to enact bloody vengeance, but before he can go through with his plan, he...
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