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4441) Murder and Gold
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New York City, 1954.
Two women are found murdered. One is Lorraine Quinn, Cantor Gold's most recent one-night-stand. The other is political power broker and aspiring New York socialite Eve Garraway, a regular client of Cantor's stolen art trade.
Police nemesis, Lieutenant Norm Huber, wants to pin the murders on Cantor, send her to prison, and put her in the electric chair. He'll get evidence on her any way he can. Into this cauldron of danger and...
4442) Lies Between Us
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Will they ever learn the truth? Three people, leading very different lives, are about to be brought together - with devastating consequences ... John has a perfect life, until the day his daughter goes missing. Maisie cares for her patients, but hides her own traumatic past. Miller should be an innocent child, but is obsessed with something he can't have. They all have something in common, though none of them know it - and the truth won't stay hidden...
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The moment Raymond Electromatic set eyes on her, he knew she was the dame marked in his optics, the woman that his boss had warned him about.
Honey.
As the band shook the hair out of their British faces, stomping and strumming, the go-go dancer's cage swung, and the events of that otherwise average night were set in motion. A shot, under the cover of darkness, a body bleeding out in a corner, and most of Los Angeles' population of hired guns hulking,...
4444) Charlie Parker
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The New York Times–bestselling author tells the story behind private detective Charlie Parker, the haunted hero of John Connolly's eerie supernatural crime thrillers.
Recounting his days as a journalist for the Irish Times and the Dublin murder that led him to question the ways we think about perpetrators and victims; discussing his crime-fiction idols; and reflecting on empathy and evil, John Connolly offers a short work that lets us learn more...
4445) A Desperate Frame-up
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Don't mess with the hothead-or he might just mess with you. Slater Ibáñez is only interested in two kinds of guys: the ones he wants to punch, and the ones he sleeps with. Things get interesting when they start to overlap. A freelance investigator, Slater trolls the dark side of Los Angeles, rooting out insurance fraud, not afraid to use whatever means necessary to get things done, and not about to hold back with his fists. A queer antihero for...
4446) Le cercle des éventails
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Paris, mars 1810, alors que se prépare le mariage de Napoléon et de Marie-Louise d'Autriche, le quartier du Palais-Royal est le théâtre de crimes odieux : trois jeunes grisettes travaillant au magasin de mode « La Rose de Damas » sont assassinées, un brin d'éventail posé sur leur sein mutilé. Rose Chatanay, leur patronne, nie avoir employé ces filles qui, issues de familles pauvres, ne préoccupent guère la police. Sophie, amie d'une des...
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A Theft. A Blast From The Past. A Mystery Both Personal And Professional.Bettie loves investigating. She wonders about a call phone. Bettie knows a case is coming.Can Bettie solve an impossible case? Or will her emotions consume her? If you love gripping, enthralling private eye mysteries, you'll love this short story! BUY NOW!
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Denver-based detective C. J. Floyd discovers a government conspiracy when a Vietnam vet who went missing in action reappears after thirty-four years. For decades, Carmen Nguyen, an Amerasian emergency-room doctor in a Denver hospital, thought her father, Langston Blue, was dead after vanishing in Vietnam. Now she knows he's alive, and she's hired bail bondsman C. J. Floyd to find him. But what C. J. and his assistant, former Marine intelligence sergeant...
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Donald Langham and Maria Dupré must navigate a rocky road to find a killer when a body is found next to a standing stone.
Newlyweds Donald Langham and Maria Dupré have moved to the country. They're excited about starting a new life in the picturesque village of Ingoldby-over-Water – and about meeting their new neighbours.
But they've barely moved into Yew Tree Cottage when their new neighbour at Standing Stone Manor, Professor Edwin Robertshaw,...
4450) Dead Air
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There's no such thing as bad press ... Ex-cop turned private detective Mike Cobb is hired as the personal bodyguard of right-wing radio celebrity Buckley-Rand Larmer, who has been receiving a string of vicious, graphic threats. Once again, Cobb recruits crime journalist Adam Cullen, this time to dig into Larmer's past and find out who might have a grudge against him. Soon it becomes evident that Cullen and Cobb have more to contend with than the not-so-veiled...
4451) The Last Case
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The problem with a family business...It gets personal real quick.After a break in at the White Family Investigations office, her grandfather dies mysteriously on a case, and Lily knows without a doubt there's more than meets the eye.Can she keep the business going?And more importantly, can she find out who the killer is and bring them to justice?
4453) Into the Mystic
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Carly McBride had just landed her dream job with Child Protective Services in San Francisco when she discovered a terrible secret. Young girls were going missing and whoever was responsible was somehow doctoring the books. After Carly herself disappears, Harry Sweet and Shane McCurdy are hired to find her. But as the search gets more and more complicated and time is running out for Carly, Harry and Shane find themselves the targets of one of the largest...
4454) Serpents Rising
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A private investigator and a journalist take on a ruthless gang in Calgary to rescue a runaway and find justice for themselves. In 2005, journalist Adam Cullen's wife, Donna, is killed by an arsonist. In desperation after police, fire department, and insurance investigators all give up trying to find the culprit, Cullen hires private detective Mike Cobb, but he, too, is stymied. Seven years later, Cobb re-enters Cullen's life. A search for a crack-addicted...
4455) Police at the Funeral
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Albert Campion mysteries volume 4
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From the Golden Age mystery author comes "a richly detailed and entertaining romp, with a fascinating resolution and an unconventional and winning sleuth" (Chicago Tribune).
Albert Campion heads to Cambridge as a favor to a friend, whose fiancée is employed by the elderly Faraday family, to investigate the disappearance of her uncle Andrew. What the self-proclaimed "Deputy-Adventurer" finds is foul play of the most heinous kind: murder.
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4456) Tell Me
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The most hated woman in Savannah, Georgia, is about to be set free. Twenty years ago, beautiful Blondell O'Henry was convicted of murdering her eldest daughter, Amity, and wounding her two other children. The prosecution argued that Blondell wanted to be rid of them to be with her lover. But Blondell's son has now recanted his crucial testimony. . .
Reporter Nikki Gillette is determined to get the truth, and this time it's personal. Amity was her...
4457) Wrecking Team
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It takes one spoiled heiress to undo Beth and Meghan Petersen's reputation
When billionaire Hiram Konstantin wants his daughter protected from mysterious assassins, he goes to the best.
To twins, Beth and Meghan Petersen.
The twins don't do protection gigs and when they find they'll have to babysit Angie Konstantin, who's got a well-deserved reputation for being spoiled, they dig their heels.
But they owe the NYPD Commissioner a favor and reluctantly...
4458) Trail of the Blue Agave
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Don't mess with the hothead-or he might just mess with you. Slater Ibáñez is only interested in two kinds of guys: the ones he wants to punch, and the ones he sleeps with. Things get interesting when they start to overlap. A freelance investigator, Slater trolls the dark side of Los Angeles, rooting out insurance fraud, not afraid to use whatever means necessary to get things done, and not about to hold back with his fists. A queer antihero for...
4459) Early Adopter
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"But what if she doesn't want to be found?"Aided by their cybernetic eyes, private investigator Ryn Casler makes a living busting cheating spouses. While they'll occasionally dabble in fraud and other typical cases, they don't deal with the missing.Until the persistent Shae Winters, a police detective, approaches them about the disappearance of a young Black woman.Friction flies between detective and PI, as Shae insists on tagging along during the...
4460) The Spoil of Beasts
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A jailhouse slaughter. A relentless killer. And way too much jackassing around.When word comes that two key witnesses in an investigation are dead, North and Shaw are surprised-and pleased-to learn that their friend, John-Henry Somerset, is interested in hiring them as freelance contractors for the Wahredua police department. The department is stretched thin, and the investigation into the Cottonmouth Club (and the criminal organization operating...
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