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On his first night with Detroit PD, Officer Walter O'Brien is called to a murder scene. A terrified twenty-year-old has bludgeoned her kidnapper with skill that shocks even O'Brien's veteran partner. The young woman is also a brilliant escape artist. Her bold flight from police custody makes the case impossible to solve, and, for Walter, even more impossible to forget. By the time Walter's promoted to detective, his fascination with the missing, gray-eyed...
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"Loo is twelve when she moves back to the New England fishing village of her early youth. Her father, Hawley, finds work on the boats, while she undergoes the usual heartaches of a new kid in school. But lurking over Loo are mysteries, both of the mother who passed away, of the grandmother she's forbidden to speak to. And hurtling towards both father and daughter are the ghosts of Hawley's past. Before Loo's birth, he was a professional criminal engaged...
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Empress of a thousand skies volume 2
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
©2018.
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English
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"A family divided. A galaxy at war. A sacrifice in blood to unite them all."--Page [4] of cover.
64) Court of lies
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Gerry Spence is one of the greatest trial lawyers of our time. He has not lost a jury trial in fifty years and has never lost a criminal or a capital case. He has also represented many celebrated defendants and appeared on countless national TV talk shows. Spence now presents us with beautiful Lillian Adams, who is going on trial for the murder of her wealthy husband before Judge John Murray. The prosecutor, Haskins Sewell, however, is consumed by...
65) My name is Yip
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Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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A revisionist take on the Western novel set in the early nineteenth-century Georgia gold rush features a fifteen-year-old mute boy and his friend on the run after commiting a major crime.
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Ballad novels volume 3
Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
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In the Appalachians, a historian writing on Katie Wyler, a young woman kidnapped from the area by Indians in 1789, sets out to retrace her tragic journey. He is unaware her spirit haunts the hills, nor is he aware that an escaped convict is on the loose. By the author of Bimbos of the Death Sun.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
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Michael Corbett, confined in a state mental hospital and heavily drugged since the death of his wife, cannot remember what happened the night he was arrested for her murder. Now someone is trying to kill him and he is forced to run for his life. Police lieutenant Cassandra Jackson knows she's putting her career on the line when she decides to help Corbett, but something in his eyes has her convinced he's worth saving ...
68) If I live
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If I run novels volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan
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English
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"Casey Cox is still on the run after being indicted for murder. The hunt that began with her bloody footprints escalates, and she's running out of places to hide. Her face is all over the news, and her disguises are no longer enough. It's only a matter of time before someone recognizes her. Dylan Roberts, the investigator who once hunted her, is now her only hope. Terrifying attempts on Dylan's life could force Casey out of hiding. The clock is ticking...
69) Containment
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Sanctuary novels volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Kenzie and her friends learn that more aliens are headed to Earth, and it is up to them to stop the invastion at all costs.
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Map of unknown things volume 3
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Fugitive conjuror, Elizabeth Barnabus, escapes to the wilds seeking her lost family. There she discovers an army preparing for war. In a land where politics and prophecy are intertwined, the fate of an empire may come to rest on the perfect execution of a conjuring trick."--Publisher.
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Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Caitlin of House Sans Merci is the young half-human pilot of a sentient mechanical dragon. Returning from her first soul-stealing raid, she discovers an unwanted hitchhiker. When Caitlin is framed for the murder of her brother, to save herself she must disappear into Industrialized Faerie, looking for the one person who can clear her. Unfortunately, the stakes are higher than she knows. Her deeds will change her world forever."--Publisher description....
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Jack Keller novels volume 5
Publisher
Polis Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Jack Keller is back in the desert, trying to make a new life for himself and trying to heal from deep wounds, both physical and emotional. But trouble has a way of finding Jack. When he rescues a stranger from being beaten and robbed in a parking lot, the man claims to be carrying a message from the father who abandoned him years ago--a man who claims to have the secret behind the trauma Keller suffered in the first Gulf War.
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Jack Reacher novels volume 24
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English
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"In the next highly anticipated installment of Lee Child's acclaimed suspense series, Jack Reacher comes to the aid of an elderly couple...and confronts his most dangerous opponents yet. This isn't one of those times. Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. But you...
74) Maggie's man
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Series
Family secrets novel volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
When shy and reserved Maggie Ferringer was called for jury duty, she never expected to be kidnapped by an escaped convict. But Cain Cannon, disguised as a prison guard, pulls a gun, and she is taken hostage. Cain claims that he's innocent of killing his girlfriend six years ago and now he wants revenge on the people who put him behind bars. Soon, Maggie becomes more than a hostage to Cain. As they slowly begin to share the secrets of their pasts,...
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Covert-One series volume 9
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Oman Dattar, a Pakistani warlord being tried for crimes against humanity, escapes prison and puts in motion a murderous, ambitious plot to exact his revenge and bring down the West once and for all--unless Covert-One and operative Colonel Jon Smith can stop him.
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"In McFalls County, local crime boss Gareth Burroughs runs everything on the mountain. And Nelson "Nails" McKenna has been his enforcer since he was a teenager, though his heart's not really in the dirty work. Then one night in a local roadhouse, Nails goes too far, defending a woman, and even Burroughs's reach can't get him out of this one. With a dead body and countless witnesses, Nails and the woman become fugitives on the run, and unlikely partners....
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John Madden novels volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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The Blood-Dimmed Tide, set in 1932, marks the return of the beloved Inspector John Madden, whose discovery of a young girl's mutilated corpse near his home in rural England brings him out of retirement despite his wife's misgivings. Soon he finds himself chasing a killer whose horrific crime could have implications far afield in a Europe threatened by the rise of Hitler. --from Amazon.
78) Dirty white boys
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Publisher
Dell Pub
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
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"They busted out of McAlester State Penitentiary- three escaped convicts going to ground in a world unprepared for anything like them... Lamar Pye is prince of the Dirty White Boys. With a lion in his soul, he roars- for he is the meanest, deadliest animal on the loose... Odell is Lamar's cousin, a hulking manchild with unfeeling eyes. He lives for daddy Lamar. Surely he will die for him... Richard's survival hangs on a sketch: a crude drawing of...
79) Borderline
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Publisher
Hardcase Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
Description
On the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, five lives are about to collide - with fatal results. You'll meet MARTY - the professional gambler who rolls the dice on a night with... MEG - the bored divorcee who seeks excitement and finds... LILY - the beautiful hitchhiker lured into a live sex show by... CASSIE - the redhead with her own private agenda... and WEAVER - the madman, the killer with a straight razor in his pocket,...
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Athena Protocol volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Jessie Archer is a member of the Athena Protocol, an elite organization of female spies who enact vigilante justice around the world. Athena operatives are never supposed to shoot to kill--so when Jessie can't stop herself from pulling the trigger, she gets kicked out of the organization, right before a huge mission to take down a human trafficker in Belgrade. Jessie needs to right her wrong and prove herself, so she starts her own investigation into...
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