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1) 11th hour
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Series
Women's Murder Club volume 11
Description
Investigating the murder of a millionaire who was killed with a weapon linked to the deaths of four San Francisco criminals, pregnant detective Lindsay Boxer is horrified to realize that the killer could be among her closest friends.
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
When the Daily Mirror called The Chalon Heads "one of the best-crafted, best-plotted, and most convincing British thrillers for decades," you knew it had to be good. David Brock and Kathy Kolla are summoned to Cabot's, a venerable dealer in rare stamps on the Strand, and at first they expect a simple case of theft and a pleasant digression from the usual sort of murderous wrongdoing they encounter in the Serious Crime Branch of Scotland Yard. But...
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Series
Malcolm Fox mysteries volume 2
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A major inquiry into a neighboring police force sees Malcolm Fox and his colleagues cast adrift, unsure of territory, protocol, or who they can trust. An entire station-house looks to have been compromised, but as Fox digs deeper he finds the trail leads him back in time to the suicide of a prominent politician and activist. There are secrets buried in the past, and reputations on the line.
7) Canary
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 25 cm
Description
After being arrested, Sarie Holland becomes a confidential informant at the mercy of a desperate detective looking for a career making bust and targeted by crooked cops and killers.
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Series
Colleen Hayes novels volume 1
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Between fending off a lecherous parole officer and trying to get by in 1978 San Francisco, private investigator Colleen Hayes struggles to put her life back together so she can reconnect with her runaway teenage daughter. Then her life changes dramatically. She accepts a case from wealthy, retired industrialist Edward Copeland. The old man is desperate to solve the brutal murder of his daughter, a murder that took place in Golden Gate Park eleven...
9) The exile
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
701 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Rendered mute after a traumatic attack, a beautiful young woman and her LAPD rookie brother find themselves enmeshed in a government conspiracy that forces them to outmaneuver an international hit man and a power-hungry baroness.
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Series
Sophie Brinkman trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
c2013
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Description
[When Sophie Brinkmann meets Hector Guzman, her life is perfectly uneventful. She's a nurse and a single mother, living with her son in a sleepy Stockholm suburb. She likes Guzman's quiet charm and easy smile; she likes the way he welcomes her into his family. She quickly learns, though, that his smooth fa©ʹade masks something much more sinister, he's the head of an international crime ring that is at war with a rival organization. Before she...
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Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Framed for the murder of an FBI agent after testifying against David Chen and his illegal businesses, Kara Quinn goes on the run, determined to clear her name without putting her partner, Matt Costa, in danger"--
12) The white van
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A drug hustler who is set up for robbery while trying to escape her desperate life and an alcoholic cop seeking to claim the money she is accused of stealing confront Russian drug dealers, Chinese black market traders, and other adversaries in San Francisco's underworld.
13) Blue-eyed devil
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Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Refusing recruitment by ambitious new chief Amos Callico, itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch protect local merchants who the chief is harassing for protection money, a situation that escalates to the shooting of a politically connected landowner's son.
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Series
Shane Scully novels volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Detective Shane Scully fights to save a man railroaded for murder, while he struggles to save his marriage.
15) On the grind
Author
Series
Shane Scully novels volume 8
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Charged with felony misconduct in a high-profile solicitation of murder case, Lieutenant Scully is forced to resign from the LAPD and to seek employment with the corrupt police department in a small suburb of Los Angeles. There he becomes ensnared in political blackmail, and his only hope of clearing his name and coming out alive lies with his estranged wife, Alexa, the LAPD chief of detectives.
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Series
Harry Vicary novels volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
186 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
When a body is discovered in a rough grave deep in the woods, the police identify DC Coventry, a young undercover officer who died nearly thirty years ago. As DS Harry Vicary and DI Archibald Dew investigate, it soon becomes clear that DC Coventry was not the only officer to die under similar circumstances.
17) The identity man
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When a job spins out of control and a man gets killed, smalltime criminal Shannon goes on the run, receives an enigmatic text message, is captured and taken to a laboratory where he's given a new face, a new name, and a new life, courtesy of the mysterious "identity man," and finds work as a carpenter. Just as Shannon feels within sight of redemption, all hell breaks loose. It seems that lots of crooked people--including cops, politicians, and gangsters--want...
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Series
William Warwick novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Going undercover to expose corruption in the Metropolitan Police Force, Detective Inspector William Warwick is compromised by a high-profile trial and a teammate's romantic relationship with his suspect.
19) The good turn
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Series
Cormac Reilly novels volume 3
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Description
"Police corruption, an investigation that ends in tragedy and the mystery of a little girl's silence - three unconnected things that will prove to be linked by one small town. While Detective Cormac Reilly faces enemies at work and trouble in his personallife, Garda Peter Fisher is relocated out of Galway with the threat of prosecution hanging over his head. But even that is not as terrible as having to work for his overbearing father, the local copper...
20) Traitors gate
Author
Series
William Warwick novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2023
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Description
"Impenetrable. Well protected. Secure. Home to the most valuable jewels on earth. But once a year, when the Queen attends the State Opening of Parliament, the Metropolitan Police must execute the most secret operation in their armory as they transport the Crown Jewels across London. For decades, the elite squad at Scotland Yard have been in charge of the operation. And for decades, it's run like clockwork. But this year, everything is about to change....
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