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Carl Zwick, an aging Chicago Cubs player, Anita Mills, a single mother struggling to get by, and Richard Allen Smith, a self-proclaimed minister of God,find all their fates merged as Detective Abe Lieberman investigates a series of crimes and fights to make Chicago a better place.
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Lew Fonesca uses his expertise in criminal investigation to help a young man accused of murdering an older man and a performer of children's songs who is being accused of being a sexual predator, and rediscovers some of the happiness he lost when his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident.
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Still grieving over the death of his wife back in Chicago, process-server Lew Fonesca takes on one impossible task after another as he crawls out of exile just long enough to rescue every lost soul in Sarasota. He is tracking down terminally ill county commissioner William Trasker; finding Janet Severtson, who left for Orlando with her husband Kenneth's partner Andrew Stark ; he rub elbows painlessly with misfits like homeless Digger and alcoholic...
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Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, an honest policeman in a very dishonest post-Soviet Union, and his team search for a serial killer who has claimed at least 40 victims while protecting a visiting British journalist who is working on a story about a Moscow prostitution ring that produces leads to a high-level source seemingly beyond Rostnikov's reach.
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Four years ago Lew Fonesca's wife was struck and killed in a hit-and-run within sight of their apartment. He fled Chicago, driving mindlessly until his car gave up the ghost in Sarasota, FL. Working from a cheap office behind the Dairy Queen on Highway 301, he makes a threadbare living as a process server and savors his clinical depression like a fine wine. Then his therapist, who alternately acts as his conscience and his sparring partner, tells...
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The Dead Don't Lie is the latest in Edgar Award winner and MWA's Grand Master Stuart Kaminsky's Abe Lieberman mystery series. Lieberman and his partner, Bill Hanrahan, are hell or heaven bent on making the mean streets of Chicago just a little safer.
As usual they have their hands full. Three prominent members of the Turkish community are all brutally murdered and Lieberman works to find out what, if anything, ties these murders together. It doesn't...
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From the invesigation of a murder in Cuba to a serial killer on the loose in Moscow, Police Inspector Rostnikov is learning to thread his way in the political turmoil of post-Cold War Russia.
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Florida process server and problem solver Lew Fonesca is called upon to help an elderly woman who claims she saw a murder in her nursing home, and to investigate a hit-and-run accident in which the teenage son of a local actress was killed--a case that spurs him to snap out of his own grief and try to find the person who killed his wife in a similar incident three years earlier.
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A century-old mystery takes Rostnikov halfway around the world In the waning days of the Russian Empire, the Czar inked a secret treaty with Japan that was stolen en route by one of the workmen on the Trans-Siberian Railway. More than a one hundred years later, the Soviet Union has gone the way of the Czardom, and police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov is trying to find his way in the Russia of Vladimir Putin. A large amount of money is being sent from...
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