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"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm--except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...
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Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life, allowing the residents to enjoy beautiful gardens, pleasant birdsong, and tranquility from behind the security of a locked gate. It is the perfect idyll, until the Kentworthy family arrives, with their four giant, gas-guzzling cars, gaggle of shrieking children, and plans for a garish swimming pool in the...
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"When a community center opens in town, many embrace it as a space where locals of all ages can gather and create. Others view it as a waste of taxpayer dollars. The director, Darleen Busby-Platt, is no less controversial. Intense and showy, Darleen has huge plans for her new role. But Lucy believes the woman isn't exactly as warm hearted--or qualified--as she seems. That hunch deepens when Darleen and a young employee vanish... and dismembered remains...
5) Bang Stick
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It is New Year's Eve in nineteen sixty-nine and Southern California's normally placid climate is experiencing a bitter winter cold snap. It is certainly not the weather for murder. The strange unknown weapon constitutes the perfect crime. Bodies are stacking up faster than chips in a winning hand of high stakes poker. The only thing piling up faster is the ever growing list of suspects. Incompetent San Diego Police Detective Jake Smith is in charge...
6) Blood Stone
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After a colleague dies, Lomax get roped into a deadly search for missing gems Four gunmen storm a jewelry store in downtown Denver, wounding a guard and killing a child. They leave with $2.1 million in gems and one hostage: the store manager, who turns out to be in on the job. Most of the gang winds up dead, but the manager lands in jail. Two decades later, he's up for release, the gems are still missing, and a whole lot of dangerous men will be watching...
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Detective Mike Shepherd chases sadistic Ferlin Husky Lewis, a self-proclaimed survivalist, who escaped from police. Shepherd ruins his only suit, misses an important dinner date, and loses Lewis.Ferlin, so incensed by Mike chasing him, decides to murder Mike and anyone who gets in the way.
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An inspector and four uniformed constables arrive one morning, unannounced, at Greystones, the imposing and remote country house of the Elderly family. Inspector Biggs brushes past the immaculate and outraged butler and demands to see John Elderly, head of the family. Behind the dark oak library door is the scene of a struggle; overturned and disarranged furniture, the telephone receiver is off the hook… Where has the master gone? Who has cut the...
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Chicago PI, Mike Shepherd spots a child silently crying on an otherwise empty mall bench. Mike and his fiancé try to help four-year-old Madison. A surveillance tape reveals one hour earlier a man had kidnapped Madison's mother. Mike must rescue the woman despite dealing with a disgruntled federal officer.
10) Mental Case
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NYPD detective Ben Tolliver investigates a series of seemingly motiveless murders. A beautiful woman strides into a jewelry store and asks to try on the finest diamond they have. After admiring it in the mirror, she draws a revolver and kills everyone in the shop, screaming, "Horrible! Vile! Hideous! Filthy!" As the smoke clears, she looks at the security camera, puts the pistol in her mouth, and pulls the trigger. Who was this woman? Why did she...
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After a divorce and the trauma of 9/11, Bobby Bocchini works as a private investigator, mostly dealing with infidelity and fraud cases. He used to be an NYPD detective, but he suffered serious injuries while saving lives on that fateful day, which affected his mobility and his career. His old boss, Sal Mancuso, asks him to investigate an unsolved case from seven years ago, involving a young ballet student who vanished after her class.
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12) Diego Killer
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A steamy hot August in San Diego, California. The rotting body of an immigration attorney, Diego Ortiz found with a Mexican stiletto protruding from his chest. Disgraced Jake Smith is back from Arkansas and set up a private investigation service. He has been keeping a low profile, not wanting to confront his old nemesis, SDPD Detective Stephen Lyle. Now fruitless with the death of his only client. Smith has no choice but to insert himself in the...
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Ifenna, a young journalist, takes the job of reporting on a popular megachurch in Lagos but veers off-script to investigate the death of a priest during the construction of the church. The article offends the young and powerful Pastor Nicholas who runs the church and Ifenna gets fired from his job. Down and out of luck, Ifenna becomes a blogger to expose the corruption and hypocrisy of the men of God and his path crosses with Pastor Nicholas wife,...
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Un muchacho de Calpe cae en un Madrid asolado por los combates entre diversas facciones republicanas en marzo de 1939 y su muerte, como tantas otras, jamás se notifica a la familia, que aguarda durante meses su regreso. Basada en un suceso real, Aquellos días de marzo recoge la búsqueda de ese recluta de 19 años, trasladado desde la retaguardia a la capital para defender el golpe de Casado. A partir de las cartas que envía a sus padres a lo largo...
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Inspector Richard Queen finally gets a murder case he can call his own When unmarried women get into trouble, A. Burt Finner is waiting at the hospital to save them. This greasy-lipped fat man knows all about babies: how to change them, how to feed them-and how to sell them to the highest bidder. He buys low, getting them from their distressed mothers just a few hours after birth, and sells high to millionaires who are unable to have children of their...
16) Queens Full
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Three novellas and two short stories starring the ever-ingenious Ellery Queen The amateur theater company of Wrightsville is dying a slow and painful death. Every production is worse than the last, and the backers are about to pull the plug when the director reaches for his ace in the hole: the always-reliable production TheDeath of Don Juan. For the lead, he digs up faded Broadway star Foster Benedict, whose name is enough to sell out the run. But...
17) Pool Party
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A pool party. A man is murdered. There is an old gun in a chest. Investigation leads to murders ten years ago. A brothel that is now a private home. an attic full of valuable antiques.
How is all thia connected?
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When Nathan, a seasoned detective, receives a call in the middle of the night, he is thrown into a race against time to find the murderer before they strike again. As Nathan delves deeper into the case, he discovers that the murders may be connected to an old case and a person from his past. With the help of his partner Jason, Nathan must navigate the twists and turns of the case and confront his demons before it's too late. "Bloodline Justice" is...
19) Prussian Blue
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"There's been a murder."… Those four words are bad enough, but when the craftiest of the three mob bosses utters them in the District Detective office, they carry a whole new kind of weight. Olivia Wainwright and Dallas Stowe are always prepared for the unexpected, but this announcement has them wondering what to do with the information given to them, and speculating why Razor would bring it to their attention...and in person. A dead pharmacist,...
20) Hunted to Death
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A sniper? In Bel Air?The peace of wealthy Bel Air is shattered on a Friday night by a rifle shot. Anyone who's outdoors in the neighborhood hears the shot, including Kevin Brodie and Kristen Beach, but no one knows where the shot came from or the identity of the intended target…until the next day, when Jamie Brodie brings his dog, Ammo, to Kevin's house. Ammo, a trained cadaver dog, drags Jamie and Kevin up the street about a half-mile then alerts...
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