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Joe Gunther is called to the home of a young woman who apparently committed suicide, but is troubled by his findings and wants to investigate further. His normally trustworthy medical examiner however, stalls the investigation, for personal reasons. To get what he wants, Joe must help her with her situation first, but will it be in time to catch the violent trio lurking behind the woman's death?
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Both defense attorney Amanda Jaffe, and her father, Frank, are defending killers in two separate cases. Both clients claim to be innocent, despite forensic evidence that shows differently. But, what if the fingerprints, ballistics tests, and other evidence analyzed by the crime lab are not what they seem? When Amanda starts checking the possibility that a CSI technician misused his position to frame two innocent men, people start to die and she discovers...
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New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were at the ready at Drug Store soda counter, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a summer in which death assumed many forms. When tragedy unexpectedly comes to call on his family, which includes...
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Kinsey Millhone's newest client, Michael Sutton, claims he has recently remembered a long-repressed event in his childhood that could unlock a twenty-year-old mystery; but as Kinsey tries to help Michael find the scene of a crime he witnessed, she begins to wonder if her client is telling her the whole truth.
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After a slow summer of chasing low-level skips for her cousin Vinnie's bail bonds agency, Stephanie Plum finally lands an assignment that could put her checkbook back in the black. Geoffrey Cubbin, facing trial for embezzling millions from Trenton's premier assisted-living facility, has mysteriously vanished from the hospital after an emergency appendectomy. Now it's on Stephanie to track down the con man. The problem is, Cubbin has disappeared without...
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New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum becomes the prime suspect in the disappearance of her ex-husband, and along with her boyfriend, police officer Joe Morelli, she tries to clear her name; discovering her ex had been involved with a shady group of criminals who believe she is in possession of a lot of their money.
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Respectable Venetians hardly notice the murder of a transvestite prostitute until the body is identified as the staid director of the Banca di Verona. While tongues wag over the scandal, only Guido Brunetti, the suave and sharp-eyed commisario of police, suspects foul play.
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2010
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New York police detective Jacob Kanon searches for the killer of his daughter and her boyfriend, who were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in other European cities have been found dead with little to connect the murders except a postcard to the local newspaper. Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter Dessie Larsson, who has just received a postcard in Stockholm, and they think they know where to find the next victims....
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A collection of stories that reveal Kinsey's origins-- and Grafton's past. The nine stories that open the book show how fully formed Kinsey was from the beginning. The thirteen stories in the second part, written in the decade following her mother's death, feature Kit Blue, a younger version of Grafton herself, and reflect her troubled family life and the author's journey from anger to understanding and forgiveness.
14) Private
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Former CIA agent Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. He is already deep into the investigation of a multi-million dollar NFL gambling scandal and the unsolved slayings of 18 schoolgirls when he learns of a horrific murder close to home: his best friend's wife, Jack's former lover, has been killed.
15) Double homicide
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In "Still Life," Santa Fe detectives Darrel Two Moons and Steve Katz investigate the murder of an art gallery owner who made enemies as quickly as art sales. Set in Boston, the reverse novel, "In the Land of Giants," follows detectives Dorothy Breton and Michael McCain as they probe the apparent shooting death of a college basketball player.
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After tragic events tear Mickey Bolitar away from his parents, he is forced to live with his estranged Uncle Myron and switch high schools, where he finds both friends and enemies, but when his new new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes, he follows her trail into a seedy underworld that reveals she is not what she seems to be.
18) Cold hit
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Cannell delivers non-stop action and intrigue in the latest installment of his New York Times bestselling Shane Scully series… Shane Scully and his partner are assigned to the case of "the Fingertip Killer"-a serial murderer preying on homeless veterans in Los Angeles. Every two weeks he strikes: he beats his victims, then shoots them in the back of the head. Once they're dead, he cuts off their fingertips, closes their eyes, and tosses them in...
19) I, Richard
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Bantam Books
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Short Stories collection--look for Short Stories spine label.
20) McNally's gamble
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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c1997
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307 p. ; 24 cm.
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Playboy sleuth Archy McNally is hired by wealthy widow Edythe Westmore's adult children to discourage their mother from purchasing a Faberge Imperial egg, but his investigation into the jewel's authenticity leads him into a web of greed, passion, and murder.
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