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From the National Book Award–winning, bestselling author of Tree of Smoke comes a provocative thriller set in the American West. Nobody Move, which first appeared in the pages of Playboy, is the story of an assortment of lowlifes in Bakersfield, California, and their cat-and-mouse game over $2. 3 million. Touched by echoes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, Nobody Move is at once an homage to and a variation on literary form. It salutes one...
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Steve Vail, working as a bricklayer in Chicago since being fired from the FBI for insubordination, is lured back by attractive Deputy Assistant Director Kate Bannon who needs his help apprehending a criminal who is trying to extort money from the bureau by killing off its enemies.
3) Copper beach
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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A rare book that may hold the secrets of the paranormal and many people are desperate to find it and Abby Radwell, a psychic, is in danger because someone thinks she can find it so she hires Sam Coppersmith to keep her safe.
4) A fatal move
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Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"I didn't guess whodunnit at all, so I was gripped from start to finish!" -Amazon Reviewer, five stars
Money may make the world go round, but it turns a village upside down, in this tense British crime thriller by the author of The Last Man.
The normally tranquil village of Darmont is in an uproar over a proposed building project-but the angry demonstrations by the locals are not the only thing disturbing the peace. The assistant to the millionaire...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru.
"The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to intersect: neat, endearing Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in Piura, Peru, who finds himself the victim of blackmail; and Ismael Carrera, a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, who cooks up a plan to avenge...
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When her husband confesses to killing someone, and then shoots himself, Alicia moves into the run-down apartment he rented as an art studio to find the truth, while the superintendent, Cass, after blackmailing the wrong guy, must keep her secrets under wraps, especially with Alicia asking questions.
12) A gambling man
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Aloysius Archer travels to 1950s California to apprentice with a legendary private eye and former FBI agent but immediately finds himself involved in a scandal"--
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Skyhorse Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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Hutch Van Buren is fifteen years old in a small industrial town in Ohi. An altercation between the Hutch's friends and Petey Sanchez, a troubled seventeen- year-old, leads to Petey's accidental death. Together, Hutch and his friends become ensnared in a web of secrets and moral dilemmas. A local ne'er-do-well goes to jail for the crime while the boys keep their pact of silence. Each boy shoulders the burden of truth in his own way as each attempts...
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Beach reading suspense from the New York Times bestselling author of There's Something About St. Tropez
Sunny Alvarez and Mac Reilly always seem to find trouble in the south of France. This time, all the trouble began in Monte Carlo.
Sunny's relationship with Mac is in jeopardy and Monte Carlo beckons. Soon Sunny is pulled into a web of intrigue involving a series of robberies of high-end jewelry stores. Then there's her wanna-be-new-friend, who...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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A Lone Star paternity bombshell, only from USA TODAY bestselling author Maureen Child! Texas toy mogul Wes Jackson is on the brink of a billion-dollar breakthrough -- until a sinister anonymous tipster reveals Wes is a dad! Suddenly his family-friendly company is in crisis and Wes's sole focus is finding the daughter he never knew. But confronting the child's mother, Isabelle Graystone, means resisting a chemistry that is as fierce as ever. Wes's...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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A young woman becomes the mistress of the wealthy man she left broken hearted in this classic contemporary romance by a USA Today bestseller.
Glory's fantasies became reality when the irresistible Rafaello Grazzini chose to embark on a passionate liaison with her. Rafaello's charms and social graces made Glory feel like a princess. But his father cast a disapproving eye over the relationship and used blackmail to bring the fairy tale to an abrupt...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"A family torn apart by tragedy becomes the victim of a merciless killer in this gripping thriller from the twentieth-century author of The Baxter Letters. Bad things have happened in the Stoddard household, but nothing as grim as what's to come. One day, young Davie gets a phone call, an anonymous voice threatening to do lewd and horrible things to his teenage sister unless he follows instructions. A little over a week later, another call, this one...
20) Passing Off
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The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Michael Keever, former Celtic teammate of Larry Bird's, changes his name and passes himself off as Greek-American to play in the Greek Basketball Association. When Michael appears on Greek TV in a public service spot against pollution, a viewer suspects that his ethnic background would not qualify him to play in Greece.
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