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An alternate history novel in which Alaska was established as the Jewish homeland after World War II and fifty years later the inhabitants are being forced to leave their neighborhoods, but before moving, detective Meyer Landsman is determined to find his neighbor's murderer and uncover the truth behind his sister's accidental death.
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When an Albanian husband and wife are found dead in their home, Inspector Costas Haritos, a veteran junta-trained homicide detective on the Athens police force, is called to what seems at first to be an open-and-shut case. For the Greek police, two dead Albanians are hardly a matter of concern. But when Albania's celebrity television news reporter Janna Karayoryi insists that the case was closed too early, Haritos becomes unnerved. He doesn't exactly...
4) Raylan
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When Federal Marshall Raylan Givens squares off against a known offender, he is surprised to find the offender naked in a bathtub, doped up, and missing his kidneys, and is determined to find out who is making the cuts before he ends up lying naked in a bathtub himself.
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When one of Patrick Kenzie's former clients commits suicide, he takes it upon himself to investigate her suspicious death, and in the process he finds himself facing a mentally unstable killer who convinces his victims they would rather die than continue living.
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New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan must solve one of the most baffling murders in her PI career. When Tess Monaghan agrees to talk to Ruthie Dembrow, she senses she'll regret it. If there's anything Tess has learned in her work both as a newspaper reporter and then as a PI, it's to trust your instincts. Still, she can't deny she's intrigued when Ruthie asks her to investigate the fatal stabbing of her brother, Henry, while...
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Tony Wolf, an undercover agent for the FBI who dropped off the grid years earlier, becomes the target of a massive federal manhunt, as well as a disgruntled biker gang, after being forced out into the open during the rescue of two kidnapped children, but in typical fashion, Wolf refuses to run and instead turns his talents against his pursuers.
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In Ask the Parrot, Parker's back on the run, dodging dogs, cops, and even a helicopter. His escape brings him to rural Massachusetts, where he meets a small-town recluse who Forced to work with a small-town recluse nursing a grudge against the racetrack that fired him. Even on the run, Parker manages to get up to no good. It'll be a deadly day at the races.
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Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro reluctantly agree to join the search for a four-year-old girl who was abducted from her home in the middle of the night, but they face a dilemma when they learn that some children are better off missing than found.
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The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer-a minister's son-hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's father has come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.
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Ten stories featuring the Chicago attorney-turned-sleuth from " the grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy" (Ed Gorman). From suburban cocktail parties to music halls to the precarious ledge of a high-rise, Chicago attorney John J. Malone is willing to take on any case -- as long as it'll pay his bar tab. In this ten-story collection of murder most offbeat, a wedding anniversary party turns deadly for an unlucky housewife; a client's supposed...
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Being framed for murder is the least of a Chicago attorney's problems in this dizzying thriller by "the grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy" (Ed Gorman). Attorney John J. Malone, steadfast barfly and proud defender of the guilty, has a lot enemies, but few more formidable than Chicago financier and anti-vice crusader Leonard Estapole. So it doesn't look good when Estapole's corpse turns up in Malone's office, liberated from this life...
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When New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan investigates five cold case murders, she doesn't expect the investigation to become personal...
Tess Monaghan agrees to look into a series of unsolved homicides that date back over the past six years despite the fact that the assignment originates from a troubling source: wealthy Baltimore benefactor Luisa O'Neal, who was both instrumental in launching Tess's present career and intimately...
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A gripping tale of hatred, lies, and deadly tradition featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont. The blood at the scene belies any suggestion of an "honorable death." Yet, to the eyes of the Seattle police, a successful Japanese software magnate died exactly as he wished -- and by his own hand, according to the ancient rite of seppuku . Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont can't dismiss what he sees as an elaborate suicide, however, not when something...
17) Long time gone
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Fifty years ago, when she was five, Sister Mary Katherine witnessed something terrible . A former Seattle policeman now working for the Washington State Attorney's Special Homicide Investigation Team, J.P. Beaumont has been hand-picked to lead the investigation into a half-century-old murder. An eyewitness to the crime, a middle-aged nun, has now recalled grisly, forgotten details while undergoing hypnotherapy. It's a case as cold as the grave, and...
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A Chicago cad blackmails a torch singer in this thriller: "Why can't all murders be as funny as those concocted by Craig Rice?" (The New York Times) Radio star Nelle Brown is known coast-to-coast for her sweet and sultry voice. But her press agent and manager, Jake Justus, is familiar with another side of the darling of the airwaves: her crackpot marriage to a penniless tycoon, disastrous string of lovers, and propensity for flying into spectacular...
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A midway murder sends a terrified eyewitness running for her life--from a cop, a con, and her own secrets--in this mystery by the author of the John J. Malone series. The best carnival barker in the business couldn't have drawn a crowd like the one now gathered around the Ferris wheel on the pier. In one of the cabs, still rocking with the ocean breeze, is a dead man -- a bloody knife protruding from his back. Why the notorious gambling boss Jerry...
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A spellbinding story of lies, betrayal, and multiple murder featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont. What kind of monster would break into a man's home at night, then slaughter him and his family? The fact that the dead man was a model cop who was loved and respected by all only intensifies the horror. But the killer missed someone: a five-year-old boy who was hiding in the closet. Now word is being leaked out that the victim was "dirty." But Seattle...
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