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1) The big exit
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Frank Sinatra impersonator and ex-con Richie Forman finds himself with no one to trust when he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his ex-best friend who stole his fiancée while he was in prison.
2) Hanging Hill
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Detective Zoe Benedict's most recent case, a murdered young woman who was involved in amateur pornography, threatens to expose secrets from Zoe's past.
3) Mistress
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"Ben isn't like most people. Unable to control his racing thoughts, he's a man consumed by his obsessions: movies, motorcycles, presidential trivia-and Diana Hotchkiss, a beautiful woman Ben knows he can never have. When Diana is found dead outside her apartment, Ben's infatuation drives him on a hunt to find out what happened to the love of his life. Ben soon discovers that the woman he pined for was hiding a shocking double life. And now someone...
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"A new addition to the captivating Inspector Sejer series, the first since The Caller, from Norway's finest crime writer Carmen and Nicolai failed to resuscitate their son, Tommy, after finding him floating in their backyard pond. When Inspector Skarre arrives on the scene, Carmen reports that Tommy, a healthy toddler with Down syndrome, wandered into the garden while Nicolai was working in the basement and she was cleaning the house. Skarre senses...
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Hopedale, Florida, deputy sheriff Sara Cross, dealing with her son's leukemia, puts her life in danger to undergo a covert investigation into the shooting death of a motorist by her former partner, Billy Flynn, which results in her crossing paths with dangerous criminals from New Jersey who think Billy might know the whereabouts of some of their missing money.
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A stunning new cold case novel from internationally bestselling crime writer Val McDermid about a car crash that opens up an unsolved murder from decades before Internationally bestselling author Val McDermid is one of our finest crime writers, whose gripping, impeccably plotted novels have garnered millions of readers worldwide. In her latest, Out of Bounds, she delivers a riveting cold case novel featuring detective Karen Pirie. When a teenage joyrider...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
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Twenty years after her sister, Lila, is murdered, Ellie Enderlin has a chance encounter with the man accused of the crime, who gives Ellie her sister's notebook, filled with mathematical equations and clues that will lead Ellie on a journey into the past that offers startling revelations about her sister's life.
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John Puller may be the US Army's most tenacious investigator, but he is not equipped to face the truth about his mother's disappearance thirty years ago. New evidence has come to light suggesting that Puller's father -- a highly decorated army veteran -- may have murdered his wife. When Puller's friend, intelligence operative Veronica Knox, arrived on the scene, he realized that there is far more to this case than he first thought. He knows that nothing...
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In the wake of Fourth of July fireworks in Montana’s Madison Valley, Hyalite County sheriff Martha Ettinger and Deputy Sheriff Harold Little Feather investigate a horrific scene at the Palisades cliffs, where a herd of bison have fallen to their deaths. Victims of blind panic caused by the pyrotechnics, or a ritualistic hunting practice dating back thousands of years? The person who would know is beyond asking, an Indian man found dead among the...
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A riveting investigation of the brutal murders of two Dartmouth professors –– a book that, like In Cold Blood , reveals the chilling reality behind a murder that captivated the nation. On a cold night in January 2001, the idyllic community of Dartmouth College was shattered by the discovery that two of its most beloved professors had been hacked to death in their own home. Investigators searched helplessly for clues linking the victims, Half and...
12) Cyber cop
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IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Readers will learn what it takes to succeed as a cyber cop. The book also explains the necessary educational steps, useful character traits, potential hazards, and daily job tasks related to this career. Sidebars include thought-provoking trivia. Questions in the backmatter ask for text-dependent analysis. Photos, a glossary, and additional resources are included.
13) Cold case
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Controversial author and scholar David Etheridge is not the kind of company an aspiring politician wants to keep. But ambitious senator Robert McCrutchen has a history with Etheridge that he's desperately trying to keep under wraps. Twenty-two years ago, both men were investigated in the death of a young coed, but the case was never solved. When Etheridge returns to Oregon, McCrutchen is his grudging host—until the senator is found shot dead. Now,...
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"In the center of historic Edinburgh, builders are preparing to convert a disused Victorian Gothic building into luxury flats. They are understandably surprised to find skeletal remains hidden in a high pinnacle that hasn't been touched by maintenance for years. But who do the bones belong to, and how did they get there? Could the eccentric British pastime of free climbing the outside of buildings play a role? Enter cold case detective Karen Pirie,...
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Thomas Danforth, the privileged son of a wealthy importer, takes over the family business while the world suffers the beginnings of World War II, but his untroubled life changes when he agrees to allow access to his Connecticut mansion so that a mysterious woman can be trained in firearms and explosives and, when things go wrong and she disappears, Thomas sets out to find her.
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In May 1934, outside of Hugo, Oklahoma, a homeless man and his thirteen-year-old daughter are befriended by a charismatic drifter, newly released from the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. The drifter, Clint Palmer, lures father and daughter to Texas, where the father, Dillard Garrett, mysteriously disappears, and where his daughter, Lucile, begins a one-year ordeal as Palmer's captive on a crime spree-culminating in the notorious Greenville,...
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Alice struggles for months after being laid off from her job and welcomes the opportunity to work at a new art gallery in Manhattan's trendy Meatpacking district, but her luck quickly dissipates when, upon arrival, Alice discovers the gallery has been stripped bare and the body of Drew Campbell, the corporate representative for the gallery's anonymous owner, is lying on the floor.
19) Dangerous
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A merciless man with a haunted past, FBI agent Kilraven can't help being attracted to Winnie Sinclair, a shy 911 operator. When he makes the disturbing discovery that her family's unsavory past might have a bearing on his cold case, Winnie is determined to help him crack it--and the ice around this Texan's heart.
20) Breaking cover
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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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