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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) Locked in
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After private eye Sharon McCone is shot in the head by an unknown attacker, she finds herself afflicted with locked-in syndrome, and as she lies immobile in her hospital bed trying to figure out her assailant's identity with help from her staff's investigations.
5) Agent X
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"Vail is in the mold of Lee Child's Jack Reacher and Robert Crais's Joe Pike….This guy has movie written all over him." -Chicago Sun-Times
In the pulse-pounding follow-up to the explosive debut thriller The Bricklayer - now a major motion picture starring Nina Dobrev and Aaron Eckhart - former FBI agent Steve Vail hunts down an elusive Russian Spy.
Ex-FBI Steve Vail is looking forward to a well-earned and romantic New Years Eve in Washington,...
7) The devil
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Private investigator Jack Taylor, denied entry into the United States, puts aside his concerns about a disturbing encounter with a stranger in the airport bar and returns to Galway where a rash of murders and too many coincidences make him think he has met his nemesis.
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Legendary author Thomas Pynchon, winner of the National Book Award for his classic Gravity's Rainbow, applies his inimitable style to the mystery novel. As the marijuana haze of the free-love 1960s begins to fade, Doc Sportello drifts in and out of awareness. He hasn't seen his girlfriend in a long time. Then one day she shows up and rattles off a fantastic story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer, and Doc can't help but get drawn...
10) Coming back
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Private investigator Sharon McCone tries to recover from locked-in syndrome and regain control over her body, but when friend from physical therapy goes missing, Sharon is forced to seek help from those she trusts most and begins an investigation that has ties to national security.
11) City of whispers
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Private eye Sharon McCone receives an e-mail asking for help from her emotionally disturbed half brother Darcy Blackhawk. She replies . . . but gets no response. As Sharon digs deeper, she discovers that Darcy sent his message from an Internet café in San Francisco, a city he's never been to before. Sensing that her brother is in terrible danger, Sharon begins a search for him throughout the city. The investigation leads her to the body of a woman...
12) Iced
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Private eye Regan Reilly is spending the Christmas holidays with her parents in Aspen, when million-dollar paintings start disappearing, and her friend Eben, an ex-con, becomes a prime suspect.
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Rose Janko is missing. It has been seven years since she disappeared, and nobody said a word. Now, following the death of his wife, her father Leon feels compelled to find her so he hires a private investigator: Ray Lovell. Ray starts to delve deeper, but his investigation is hampered by the very people who ought to be helping him - the Jankos. He cannot understand their reluctance to help. Why don't they want to find Rose Janko?
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Dog show enthusiast Melanie Travis, four months pregnant, heads to a canine judging symposium in the Poconos with her Aunt Peg, a respected judge of poodles, and her sister-in-law Bertie, a professional dog handler, but her plans for a relaxing autumn getaway go awry when the keynote speaker, Charles Evans, whose opening remarks offended many in the crowd, is found dead in the hot tub.
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Private Investigator Bay Tanner is hired by a young mother desperate to locate her estranged family. Joline Eastman's daughter is dying of leukemia, and all other sources for a bone-marrow transplant have been exhausted. A yellowing photograph and a handful of wartime letters are the only clues she has to offer. But, it's what she's not willing to share that may hold the ultimate solution to saving her daughter's life.
Meanwhile, Bay has her own...
16) Deviant ways
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Private detective Jack Casey is drawn back into his former life as an FBI profiler when a mass murderer, known as the Sandman, begins killing whole families and neighborhoods with devastating explosions, and makes it known he wants Casey to suffer.
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In an unnamed city slick with rain, Charles Unwin toils as a clerk at an imperious detective agency. His job: writing reports on cases solved by the palindromic Detective Travis Sivart. When Sivart goes missing and his supervisor is murdered, Unwin is promoted to detective, a rank for which he is woefully unprepared. His only guidance comes from his sleepy new assistant and the pithy yet profound Manual of Detection. Unwin mounts his search for Sivart...
18) Affair
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Matchmaker Charlotte Arkendale finds herself in need of a new man-of-affairs who can also serve as a bodyguard after one of her clients is murdered, possibly by a man Charlotte recommended. But when she hires Baxter St. Ives to fill the position, she discovers she must also guard her heart.
19) Lover's lane
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For six years, Carly Nolan has built a secretive life for herself and her son Christopher. Nobody in the quiet little beach community of Twilight Cove, California, suspects she is running from the tragic memory of her fiancé Rick and his unexpected death--and from his rich, powerful parents, who want to take away her child. She has carefully concealed her troubled past from the folks in the isolated cove. Until now.
Private investigator, Jake Montgomery,...
20) Jericho Cay
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Private investigator Bay Tanner is hired by true-crime writer Winston Wolfe to look into the cold-case disappearance of millionaire Morgan Tyler Bell, and, after doing some digging, she uncovers a link between the case and Bell's missing assistant as well as the apparent suicide of his housekeeper, which leads her to believe something more sinister than she first thought is going on.
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