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81) The last lie
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Alan Gregory novels volume 18
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Shortly after Alan and Lauren welcome their affluent new neighbors - a legal legend in women's rights law and his beautiful wife - the couple hosts a dinner party that ends in quiet disaster. One of their guests, a young widow, elects to spend the night after indulging in too much wine - only to wake the next morning with no memory beyond getting ready for bed. Was she drugged? Raped? Alan Gregory and his deputy district attorney wife, Lauren, join...
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Pub. Date
2011
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"On a sweltering summer afternoon, newspaper tycoon Richard Jewell - known to his many enemies as Diamond Dick - is discovered with his head blown off by a shotgun blast. But is it suicide or murder? Detective Inspector Hackett calls in his old friend Quirke, who has unusual access to Dublin's elite, for help. As a record heat wave envelops the city, and the secret deals underpinning Diamond Dick's empire begin to be revealed, Quirke and Hackett find...
83) Swift edge
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
vii, 291 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Hired by a world-class figure skater to find her missing pairs partner in time for the upcoming Olympics, Charlie Swift and Gigi Goldman tackle complications in the form of a smitten teen, an attack on the pair's coach, and the murder of the missing athlete's colleague.
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Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2015]
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271 pages, 12 pages ; 19 cm
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When a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle for a closer look. She identifies the dead woman as private detective Zoë Boehm, but putting a name to the corpse only raises further questions. Did Zoë kill herself, or did one of her old cases come back to haunt her? Why was she wearing the jacket a murderer had stolen years before? And whats brought Sarah's former sparring partner Gerard Inchon to the same broken-down...
85) The professional
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Spenser novels volume 37
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Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw & Cartwright, and over the years she's developed a friendship with the wives of very wealthy men. However, these rich wives have a mutual secret: they've all had an affair with a man named Gary Eisenhower--and now he's blackmailing them for money. Shaw hires Spenser to make Eisenhower "cease and desist," so to speak, but when women start turning up dead, Spenser's assignment...
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Who would want to kill Tomaso Rainaldi, an elderly, unassuming violin-maker in the quiet Italian city of Cremona? For his friend and fellow violin-maker Gianni Castiglione, the murder is as mysterious as it is shocking. Rainaldi had few possessions, no enemies and little money. No one – least of all the police – can fathom a motive for murdering him. All he really had was an obsessive love of violins and an encyclopedic knowledge of them.
But...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
When a beautiful and brilliant Army lieutenant is found murdered at a post on the Mexican border, military and civilian investigators struggle with a long list of possible suspects and a long-standing breakdown in regional discipline.
88) Karen Memory
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Steampunk novel set in Seattle in the late 19th century--an era when the town was called Rapid City, when the parts we now call Seattle Underground were the whole town (and still on the surface), when airships plied the trade routes bringing would-be miners heading up to the gold fields of Alaska, and steam-powered mechanicals stalked the waterfront. Karen is a "soiled dove," a young woman on her own who is making the best of her orphaned state by...
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Vanessa Michael Munroe novels volume 3
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Kidnapped by a human trafficking ring that demands that she help transport a high-profile starlet or risk the murder of her best friend, maverick information specialist Vanessa Michael Munroe is plunged into a harrowing underground world under the brutal control of a shadowy overlord.
90) Dressed to kill
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet..
Description
"At once tongue in cheek and scary as hell, Dressed to Kill revolves around the grisly murder of a woman in Manhattan and how her psychiatrist, her brainiac teenage son, and the prostitute who witnessed the crime try to piece together what happened while the killer remains at large"--Container.
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Series
Katya Hijazi novels volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
393 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
After the body of a brutally beaten woman is found on a beach in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Detective Osama Ibrahim, along with the help of female coroner Katya and her friend Nayir, discovers that the victim was a controversial filmmaker and must discern who wanted her dead.
93) The dead hour
Author
Series
Paddy Meehan novels volume 2
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
6 CDs (7 hrs.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
94) Garden of lies
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Anne Clifton was one of the finest women in Ursula Kern's employ. But Miss Clifton has met an untimely end. And Ursula is convinced it was not due to natural causes. Archaeologist and adventurer Slater Roxton thinks Mrs. Kern is off her head to meddle in such dangerous business. Nevertheless, he seems sensible enough to Ursula, though she does find herself unnerved by his self-possession and unreadable green-gold eyes.
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Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
301 p. ; 21 cm.
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When Anastasia Pollack's gambling-addicted husband permanently cashes in his chips in Vegas, her life craps out. Anastasia's job as crafts editor at American woman magazine makes life even stickier when she discovers the dead body of über-ambitious fashion editor Marlys Vandenburg hot-glued to Anastasia's office chair. When evidence surfaces of an illicit affair between Marlys and Anastasia's husband, Anastasia becomes the prime suspect. Can she...
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Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
216 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
After being robbed of her wallet and passport while on a mysterious trip to Morocco, a woman feels a strange freedom of being stripped of her identity and soon begins pretending to be a well-known film star.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2010
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Description
NYPD detective Jacob Kanon and Swedish reporter Dessie Larsson traverse Europe in hot pursuit of a serial killer, one who sends a postcard before each murder and was responsible for the slayings of Jacob's daughter and her boyfriend.
100) The hiding place
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Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
380 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Twenty-five-years ago, the disappearance of four-year-old Justin Manning rocked the small town of Dove Point, Ohio. After his body was found in a shallow grave in the woods two months later, the repercussions were felt for years. Janet Manning has been haunted by the murder since the day she lost sight of her brother in the park. Now, with the twenty-fifth anniversary of Justins death looming, a detective and a newspaper reporter have started to ask...
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