Jean Heller
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Deuce Mora's one tough cookie: a female sleuth with a conscience and an attitude; fiery, tough, athletic, a dirty fighter when she has to be. In Jean Heller's first mystery featuring the scrappy newspaper columnist, Deuce finds out in short order that if you mess with organized crime, you have to be tough-and you'd better be as much detective as reporter. When she walks into a seedy neighborhood bar in a suburb of Chicago-all six feet of her, topped...
2) Burning Rage
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It's already been a rough year for first-rate journalistic sleuth, Deuce Mora. After two agonizing investigations-one of which won her a Pulitzer, the other of which forced her to kill a man-she claims she's sworn off action-packed chases that cause nightmares. Still … from the moment she hears the earliest details of the first fire, her detective-instincts say the pieces don't fit, and every other instinct tells her she can't walk away from the...
3) Ill Wind
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Hard-hitting veteran reporter Deuce Mora is awakened in the pre-dawn hours and called to the scene of a gruesome hanging to identify the body of a dear friend, an FBI agent on the verge of taking down one of Chicago's biggest Mob operations. Deuce knows it's murder, but the authorities have no choice but to call it a suicide-the scene was triple-locked from the inside.
The ill wind sweeping the Windy City has also whipped up two more unexplainable...
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Three hundred thirty-three fatalities and no survivors.
So begins Pulitzer Prize finalist Jean Heller's chilling hard-boiled saga, as a flight crashes on takeoff when one of its engines explodes in midair. After that, it's a toss-up-you may or may not be able to catch your breath as the thriller loops and careens to a twisty climax.
The deadliest accident in US aviation history means it's the biggest week of journalist Steve Pace's career. Much as...
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The grisly discovery of a human bone while Deuce is out for a hike leads to the unearthing of a vast burial field, a human trafficking ring, and international intrigue.
Deuce Mora-a pulls-no-punches columnist and meticulous detective-keeps turning up information, bit by bit, only to find some Fed in her face, at her door, emerging from the shadows, always guarding the edges of the story, insisting it will not be told. Yes, the Feds are aware of the...
6) Black Marsh
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YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE UP TO YOUR NECK IN ALLIGATORS-ONE'S ENOUGH.
Scrappy investigative reporter Deuce Mora is certainly no stranger to dangerous situations-or to getting her clock cleaned, for that matter-but waking up in a swamp next to a plane crash with no memory of how she got there is a whole other order of magnitude.
It's a measure of her desperation that she considers placing her trust in the mysterious swamp hermit with a marginally familiar...