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1) The calling
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Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef is called in to investigate the murder of a terminally ill woman, the latest victim of a brutal serial killer, and the case soon causes Hazel's entire life to spin out of control.
2) Blindsighted
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A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it's only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the killer's twisted work becomes clear. Sara's ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, leads the investigation-a trail of terror that grows increasingly macabre when another local woman is found crucified a few days later. But he's...
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New York Times–Bestselling Author: "A real page-turner . . . romantic suspense that will appeal to fans of Catherine Coulter, Iris Johansen, and Linda Howard." -Booklist
Police rookie Ashley Montague is shocked by the discovery of a body on the highway-and her glimpse of a mysterious hooded figure watching from the side of the road.
At another crime scene in the heart of the Everglades, Detective Jake Dilessio stares at the mutilated body...
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The body of a woman washes up near Point Deception, California--a day after she was spotted near her broken-down car on the highway. Deputy Sheriff Rhoda Swift worries the woman's brutal rape and murder will resurrect fears from the unsolved massacre of two families 13 years before. When Rhoda investigates with journalist Guy Newberry, a shocking truth will test how far she is willing to go for justice.
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Following Barry Maitland's first mystery, The Marx Sisters, Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla and Detective Chief Inspector David Brock of Scotland Yard return in The Malcontenta, which won Australia's Edgar Award, the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction, when it was first published.
Kathy is on temporary assignment away from London with the Family and Juvenile Crime division. Desperate to escape the second-rate duties assigned to her, she jumps at the...
6) Dark harbor
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A stunning debut thriller reminiscent of the novels of David Baldacci. When the body of his co-worker and ex-lover is found in Boston Harbor, attorney Sean Finn becomes a suspect in her murder. With an ambitious female police detective also after answers, Finn is unaware of what's at stake if the truth about the killing is finally uncovered.
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How are the shocking murders of elderly Holocaust survivors connected to the deaths of high school students in Israel and the West Bank?
Palestinian-American detective Ben Kamal and Israeli detective Danielle Barnea soon discover that the answer to this blood-drenched puzzle lies as much in the past as in the present, with the clues leading from a Nazi labor camp to the forefront of modern biotech research, while leaving a trail of deception and...
8) Bone factory
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A collection of lonely souls look for one last shot at happiness. Instead they're trapped in the never-ending cycle of false hope and true despair-and deadly violence-that is Booth City.
Homicide cops Ike Horner and Eliza Ochoa are on the scene of a body dump in a riverfront park, crouching over the freezing corpse of yet another working girl-cut up in all the most delicate places. Soon Ike and Eliza find themselves on a fatal mission as they unravel...
9) Red mesa
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
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Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah is on the run. Justine, Ella's cousin and fellow officer, disappeared after the two women argued publicly over Justine's new boyfriend. Human bones are discovered at the spot where the younger woman had told her family she and Ella were to meet late one night. Suddenly Ella Clah, cop, is Ella Clah, murder suspect.
Stunned by Justine's death, Ella has no time to mourn. Her former allies in the Navajo...
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Jimmy Stone died of a broken heart. Literally.
"Four people sitting in a ring. Two men and two women. All of them dead." Thus begins a case that will take detective Stella Mooney from the fabulous flats of Notting Hill to the decidedly tougher side of town. It's no wonder Stella feels like she's going round in circles.
Her personal life is also going awry. Her live-in-lover has yet to be told her has serious competition in the form of sexy newsman...
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From a former Fleet Street journalist and an accomplished British suspense writer comes a complex puzzle wrapped in a plot that could almost be ripped from contemporary U.S. headlines. Imagine what would happen if a vanished woman's body lay underwater for almost three decades, the police unable to charge her guilty-as-sin husband until her remains are finally discovered by pure chance...
27 years ago, Clara Marshall and her two young children vanished...
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Scotland Yard partners David Brock and Kathy Kolla set out to investigate a series of kidnappings of young girls in a London neighborhood known for its artists and bohemian nature, but their job is complicated when the father of one of the victims--a controversial artist who was implicated years earlier in his wife's death--announces plans to use the child's disappearance as the basis of his next work.
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When the Daily Mirror called The Chalon Heads "one of the best-crafted, best-plotted, and most convincing British thrillers for decades," you knew it had to be good. David Brock and Kathy Kolla are summoned to Cabot's, a venerable dealer in rare stamps on the Strand, and at first they expect a simple case of theft and a pleasant digression from the usual sort of murderous wrongdoing they encounter in the Serious Crime Branch of Scotland Yard. But...
14) Ash & bone
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In the depths of his Cornish hideaway, retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder's solitary life is disturbed by a call from his ex-wife, telling him his seventeen-year-old daughter, Katherine, is running wild, unbalanced by the abduction and rape he feels he should have prevented. Meanwhile, in the heart of London, the takedown of a violent criminal goes badly, and Detective Sergeant Maddy Birch is uneasy about the reasons why, an uneasiness that is...
15) Cop out
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Policewoman Jill Smith investigates several murders linked to a local private investigator who has mysteriously vanished.
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Novice detective Kathy Kolla and Inspector David Brock team up to investigate the suspicious death of elderly Meredith Winterbottom, great-grandaughter of Karl Marx; and when a second Marx sister is found slain, Kolla and Brock realize they need to take a good look at the rather odd inhabitants of London's Jerusalem Lane.
17) Now may you weep
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Newly appointed Detective Inspector Gemma James has never thought to question her friend Hazel Cavendish about her past. So it is quite a shock when Gemma learns that their holiday retreat to a hotel in the Scottish Highlands is, in fact, Hazel's homecoming -- and that fellow guest Donald Brodie was once Hazel's lover, despite a vicious, long-standing feud between their rival, fine whiskey distilling families. And the fires of a fierce and passionate...
18) Damage control
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At first glance, it appears to be an accident . . A car carrying an elderly couple goes off the side of a mountain and tumbles into oblivion on a beautiful sunny day in the Coronado National Monument. A note pulled from the twisted wreckage suggests the tragedy may have been a double suicide -- but an autopsy later suggests something different. A deadly fire and a fatal home invasion may or may not have some connection to the terrible crash. And miles...
19) Kisscut
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Grant County volume Book 2
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Saturday night dates at the skating rink have been a tradition in the small southern town of Heartsdale for as long as anyone can remember, but when a teenage quarrel explodes into a deadly shoot-out, Sara Linton-the town's pediatrician and medical examiner-finds herself entangled in a terrible tragedy. What seemed at first to be a horrific but individual catastrophe proves to have wider implications. The autopsy reveals evidence of long-term abuse,...
20) Overkill
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Marty Hogan was a good cop, until a shocking case sent her to the razor's edge ... A sadistic killer pushed Chicago cop Marty Hogan past her limits -- and it was all caught on video. She lost her job, her sense of self, her entire world ... until an open detective position in small-town Texas gave her a chance at redemption. But she's about to learn that the past always catches up ... Police Chief Clay Settlemeyer knows all about mistakes and second...
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