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Detective Connie Giannelli's life has been torn apart several times. First when her mother died and then years later when she found out her Uncle Dominic was in the mob. Her life is about to be shredded again, and this time it could destroy her. Connie's love of family and her badge are both threatened when an undercover drug bust leaves two cops dead and the drugs missing. Internal Affairs is looking for any excuse to take her badge, but she's not...
22) The Book: Part 1
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An animal appreciation of life and with various concerns thrown in.
23) Skullduggery
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PI Jazz Stiletto returns after the events of A Day Without Sunshine. He travels under the nom de plume, Allan Harper, a wandering man for hire.
A friend asks to help the owner of the Skull Inn on the coast of Massachusetts. Jazz accepts. A guy's gotta eat.
He soon discovers dark secrets, and bloody murder. Skullduggery abounds in this new mystery by the author of the Razor and Edge mysteries.
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Gino Cataldi is a man hanging on by a thread. Cancer took his wife, and drugs put his son in rehab. The only thing he has left is his badge. When a teenage girl is kidnapped it brings back nightmares from the worst case he ever worked-the one that tore his life to shreds and forced him out of Philadelphia. Gino doesn't want this case but he knows he has to take it. Not just to save the girl, but to earn redemption for what went wrong in Philly.
25) The black ice
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 2
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Working the case, LAPD detective Harry Bosch is reminded of the primal police rule he learned long ago: Don't look for the facts, but the glue that holds them together. Soon Harry's making some very dangerous connections, starting with a dead cop and leading to a bloody string of murders that wind from Hollywood Boulevard to the back alleys south of the border. Now this battle-scarred veteran will find himself in the center of a complex and deadly...
26) King maybe
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Soho Crime
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[2016]
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393 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Los Angeles burglar Junior Bender is in the middle of burgling a house and has just gotten his hands on one of the world's rarest stamps when the job goes terrifically wrong. After barely escaping, Junior realizes the danger is far from over. He's gottenhimself on the wrong side of a man whose name is synonymous with violence, and to save his own skin he's set off a chain reaction of blackmail, strong-arming, and escalating crime. To pay off his...
27) Killings
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Bino Phillips has seen his share of crime-fighting, but nothing has prepared him for the desperate search for a serial killer stalking the streets of Dallas-a serial killer that has more than the usual thirst for blood. One woman has been found, the blood sucked from her body. She and a friend, who remains missing, were to be key witnesses in Bino's defense of a young coed dealer. Now Bino finds himself in a sudden race against death, especially when...
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Inspector O novel volume 6
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Minotaur Books
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2016.
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273 pages ; 22 cm.
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"James Church's Inspector O novels have been hailed as "crackling good" (The Washington Post). Now Church--a former Western intelligence officer who pulls back the curtain on the hidden world of North Korea in a way that no one else can--comes roaring back with an unputdownable new novel. A Spanish factory near Barcelona is secretly producing--under the guise of a dumpling maker--a key machine for the production of nuclear weapons. Western intelligence...
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Simon & Schuster
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2013.
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viii, 265 pages ; 24 cm
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"TO FIND AN ANGEL, HE MADE A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL. Pericles "Perry" Christo is a PI with a past--a former cop, who lost his badge and his family when a corruption scandal left him broke and disgraced. When wealthy Upper East Side matron Julia Drusilla summons him one cold February night, he grabs what seems to be a straightforward (and lucrative) case. The socialite is looking for her beautiful, aimless daughter, Angelina, who is about to become a...
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On a bracing autumn day in Door County, a prominent philanthropist disappears. Is the elderly Gerald Sneider--known as "Mr. Packer" for his legendary support of Green Bay football--suffering from dementia, or just avoiding his greedy son? Is there a connection to threats against the National Football League? As tourists flood the peninsula for the fall colors, Sheriff Dave Cubiak's search for Sneider is stymied by the FBI. When human bones wash up...
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When a Mexican drug cartel sets up shop in a small mountain community, Agent Buck Taylor of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, and his team must put their lives on the line to protect this little piece of heaven.
Buck, using his peripheral vision while keeping an eye on the two shooters, looked for cover. Not seeing any, he dropped to a crouch just as the first bullet flew over his head, pretty much where his chest had been just a nanosecond...
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2023.
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On a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola are up late when a call from his colleague Ispettore Vianello arrives, alerting the Commissario that a hand has been seen in one of Venice's canals. The body is soon found, and Brunetti is assigned to investigate the murder of an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant. Because no official record of the man's presence in Venice exists, Brunetti is forced to use the city's far richer sources of information:...
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España
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2020
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1 online resource
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-- ElPERE CERVANTES, escritor «Si digo que me ha encantado esta obra editada por @sumadeletras estaría siendo injusto por quedarme corto. Candidata clara a liderar mi top ten de 2020. Brillante». Blog Chica «Leer OtoñoBlog Negra y mortalBlog CosasBlog LetrasChica-sombra
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Bino Phillips is one of the best defenders in all Dallas. He is known for defending disreputable characters and fighting for justice-even against high political interests if necessary. For the honest but politically unpopular federal judge Emmett Burns, Bino Phillips is the last hope. Burns is about to be indicted on trumped-up charges, and his gorgeous but reckless daughter, Ann, has gotten into some trouble of her own. "Lurid, laid-back, and literate...
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For a select few people, friendship lasts forever. Nicky Fusco and Frankie Donovan were friends like that, but that was years ago. Now Frankie's a detective in Brooklyn's Homicide department, and Nicky is a reformed hit man. But when Frankie gets in trouble-and the law can't help him-he turns to Nicky.
The problem is that Nicky promised his family, and God, that he'd go straight.
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A WWII vet wrongly reported dead is on the hunt for his wife's killer.
Los Angeles, 1946. Ex-cop and WWII vet Jack Chesley spent years in a German POW camp. But when he finally returns home to Los Angeles, he finds a new kind of torment waiting for him. It seems that after Jack was declared dead, his wife, Wilma, died a year later. The police said it was an accident. But Wilma's twin sister believes it was murder.
Setting out to find Wilma's killer,...
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 9
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Bobby Foster, carhop at the chic Cafe Comedie, is going to the gas chamber. He's already confessed to the murder of Tracy Kostakos, the club's rising star. But two years after the crime, Tracy's body is still missing and Bobby's confession is full of holes. All Souls Legal Cooperative's final appeal sends San Francisco's number one PI Sharon McCone behind the footlights into the super-charged arena of anxious club owners and aspiring young hopefuls,...
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A string of brutal murders has bodies piling up in Brooklyn, and Detective Frankie Donovan knows what is going on. Clues left at the crime scenes point to someone from the old neighborhood, and that isn't good. Frankie has taken two oaths in his life-the one he took to uphold the law when he became a cop, and the one he took with his two best friends when they were eight years old and inseparable. Those relationships have forced Frankie to make many...
39) Shotgun lullaby
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Minotaur Books/Thomas Dunne Books
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2013
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326 p. ; 22 cm.
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Compelled to help Gus, the obnoxious alcoholic son of an investment banker who reminds him of his own son, Conway Sax investigates a triple murder and suspicions that Gus was the intended victim, a case that involves numerous powerful suspects.
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Rushmore McKenzie mysteries volume 12
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St Martins Pr
Pub. Date
2015
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291 pages ; 22 cm.
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"During one of the first heavy snows of the winter, on the Interstate outside the Twin Cities, Rushmore McKenzie is behind a truck behaving erratically when the man in the truck bed dumps a body out onto the road, right in front of McKenzie's car. McKenzie avoids hitting the body, a bound woman who is just barely alive, but his stopped car in the middle of the road starts a chain of accidents, resulting in a thirty-seven car pile-up. By the time the...
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