Meg Gardiner
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English
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A "thriller inspired by the never-caught Zodiac Killer, about a young detective determined to apprehend the serial murderer who destroyed her family and terrorized a city twenty years earlier. Caitlin Hendrix has been a Narcotics detective for six months when the killer at the heart of all her childhood nightmares reemerges: the Prophet. An UNSUB--what the FBI calls an unknown subject--the Prophet terrorized the Bay Area in the 1990s and nearly destroyed...
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Jo Beckett series volume 4
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2011.
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English
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Given an expensive "ultimate urban reality" adventure for her twenty-first birthday, Autumn invites five friends to join her in a simulated drug deal and manhunt on the streets of San Francisco only to be exploited by real kidnappers.
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Jo Beckett series volume 3
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English
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When the country singer ex-wife of a U.S. president is sensationally murdered during a concert performance, forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett endeavors to learn the victim's role in her demise as well as the murder's relevance for the president.
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Unsub novels volume 2
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English
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"Inspired by real-life serial killer Ted Bundy, an exhilarating thriller in which FBI profiler Caitlin Hendrix faces off against a charming, merciless serial killer In southern Texas, on Saturday nights, women are disappearing. One vanishes from a movie theater. Another is ripped from her car at a stoplight. Another vanishes from her home while checking on her baby. Rookie FBI agent Caitlin Hendrix, newly assigned to the FBI's elite Behavioral Analysis...
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Jo Beckett series volume 1
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English
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In the wake of an ongoing string of high-profile murder-suicides in San Francisco, forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett is hired by the SFPD to perform investigative autopsies and discovers a harrowing commonality among the suicide victims.
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Unsub novels volume 3
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English
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"I am the legion of the night... He appears in the darkness like a ghost, made of shadows and fear--the Midnight Man. He comes for the parents but leaves the children alive, tiny witnesses to unspeakable horror. The bedroom communities of Los Angeles are gripped with dread, and the attacks are escalating. Still reeling from her best friend's close call in a bombing six months ago, FBI behavioral analyst Caitlin Hendrix has come to Los Angeles to assist...
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Evan Delaney mysteries volume 1
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Penguin Publishing Group
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English
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From award-winning author Meg Gardiner, co-author of Michael Mann’s Heat 2
Evan Delaney learns that not only has her ex-sister-in-law joined a religious cult, but the unstable young mother plans to regain custody of her son and disappear with him into the fold of the fanatical group. But when murder raises the stakes, Evan is dragged even deeper into the nightmare.
Evan Delaney learns that not only has her ex-sister-in-law joined a religious cult, but the unstable young mother plans to regain custody of her son and disappear with him into the fold of the fanatical group. But when murder raises the stakes, Evan is dragged even deeper into the nightmare.
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Jo Beckett series volume 2
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Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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From award-winning author Meg Gardiner, co-author of Michael Mann’s Heat 2
Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett is called to the scene of a plane inbound from London to San Francisco. A passenger is behaving erratically, offering Jo cryptic clues from a shattered past: something about a missing wife and son...a secret partnership gone horribly wrong...and, most alarming, a deadly biological agent that no one can stop.
Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett is called to the scene of a plane inbound from London to San Francisco. A passenger is behaving erratically, offering Jo cryptic clues from a shattered past: something about a missing wife and son...a secret partnership gone horribly wrong...and, most alarming, a deadly biological agent that no one can stop.
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Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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From award-winning author Meg Gardiner, co-author of Michael Mann’s Heat 2—Evan Delaney knew China Lake was a tough place to grow up. But she never knew how tough until now.
She returns to the desert military base for her high school reunion, and learns that a number of her classmates have died young. Then, on the first night of the reunion, another one dies, this one savagely butchered. And she’s just the first....
She returns to the desert military base for her high school reunion, and learns that a number of her classmates have died young. Then, on the first night of the reunion, another one dies, this one savagely butchered. And she’s just the first....
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Penguin Publishing Group
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2008
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English
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From award-winning author Meg Gardiner, co-author of Michael Mann’s Heat 2—When Evan Delaney finds her father’s car at the bottom of a ravine, the police suspect suicide—but there’s no body.
Evan’s suspicions of something sinister are confirmed when she receives a call from her father’s kidnappers. The ransom isn’t money, but more of a puzzle—one that Evan has only 72 hours to piece...
Evan’s suspicions of something sinister are confirmed when she receives a call from her father’s kidnappers. The ransom isn’t money, but more of a puzzle—one that Evan has only 72 hours to piece...
11) Ransom river
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While most of the town is focused on the tense and shocking circumstances of a high-profile murder case, Rory's return to Ransom River dredges up troubling memories from her childhood that she can no longer ignore. Selected as a jury member during the trial, she reflects on the accident that ended her affair with a longtime friend. Gradually she becomes aware of her dangerous connection to an unsolved case. But in the wake of a desperate attack on...
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Dutton
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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When her quiet life is shattered by a bus accident that reveals she is not related to the five-year-old she claims is her daughter, skip tracer Sarah Keller, unable to prove her innocence, flees authorities and uses her unique skills to protect her daughter and herself.
15) Phantom Instinct
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Struggling to rebuild after a club shooting, bartender Harper Flynn searches for the gunman with the help of L.A. Deputy Sheriff Aiden Garrison, whose injuries in the same incident left him with a rare type of perception blindness.
16) Heat 2: a novel
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English
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"Michael Mann, four-time-Oscar-nominated writer-director of The Last of the Mohicans, The Insider, Ali, Miami Vice, Collateral, and Heat teams up with Edgar Award-winning author Meg Gardiner to deliver Mann's first novel, an explosive return to the universe and characters of his classic crime film--with an all-new story unfolding in the years before and after the iconic movie. One day after the end of Heat, Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer) is holed up...