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2561) The New Girl
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An emotional rollercoaster of a read. Had me gripped, and in tears, brilliant!' Valerie Keogh
The letterbox clatters and sitting on the mat is a piece of paper, in black and white, with everything needed to blow Anna's perfect life apart.
A baby scan photo.
Anna and Jon have been trying for a baby with no success, so after years of disappointment, this feels like a kick in the teeth.
Who sent it? And why?
Anna's thoughts fall on Grace – the...
2562) Dark All Day
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In an alternate 1933, a sleuth and his robot partner are caught in the middle of a legal battle that will decide the fate of the world's machine population.
Carlson does a good job populating his gritty, split-level world with dodgy mobsters, deadly dames, and killer machines. - Publishers Weekly, for Night Call
Two months after an investigation that nearly put Elias Roche behind bars, the former cop turned mob enforcer has endeavoured to separate...
2563) False Cargo
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Insurance investigator Brent Calloway may be too hard-boiled to crack a smile, but he'll go to any length to crack a case. As tough, terse and tireless as insurance man Edward G. Robinson in Double Indemnity, Calloway's about to go to extremes to see to it that one ship makes it safely from Hawaii to the mainland. Going undercover and posing as ruthless killer Spike O'Brien, Calloway quickly discovers that on this ship nothing is what it seems, and...
2564) The Good Twin
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Be careful what you wish for…
Mum passed recently. It was sudden and unexpected. On the cusp of adulthood, my twin sister, Skye and I are left with decisions to make that will change our lives forever.
As identical twins, we'd normally stick together like glue, but anger and grief gets the better of us and we push and pull in different directions.
Skye wants us to desert our broken family for university. Whilst I want us to postpone our university...
2565) The Crystal Stopper
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"The Crystal Stopper" is another favourite mystery novel by Leblanc where during a burglary at the home of Deputy Daubrecq, a crime is committed and two accomplices of Arsène Lupin are arrested by the police. This early work by Maurice Leblanc was originally published in 1912 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc was born on 11th November 1864 in Rouen, Normandy, France. He was a novelist...
2566) Mouthpiece
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Imagine that your father is one of New York City's top gangsters, and that you want nothing to do with him or his criminal empire. Now imagine he's been murdered . . . and the only person who gives a damn is you. Meet Mat Lawrence, a stand-up guy-think Gary Cooper-who's got one thing on his mind: revenge. The last place Mat wants to go is back to New York, but that's where the killers are, and he won't stop until they're dead . . . or he is. And there's...
2567) Pigtown
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A made man's murder unveils corruption of the vilest kind The room is littered with rotting food, the refrigerator emptied to make room for the corpse. Det. Joe Borrelli finds Beansy Rutolo's body squeezed into the icebox, the frozen expression on his face suggesting he died begging for his life. But Borrelli has seen worse. Brooklyn's 71st Precinct sits in the middle of Pigtown, a longtime mafia hangout that seems to get more dangerous every year....
2568) Exceptional Clearance
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A bloodthirsty serial killer plans a series of Christmas murders as revenge against the NYPD Thelma Johnston holds her breath as she passes the dealers on the corner of St. Marks Avenue. She's been sober five years, but the temptation to relapse never goes away. She inhales deeply once she passes and finally arrives home, arms laden with Christmas presents for her two children. She's fumbling for her keys when a shape comes out of the darkness...
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In his sixteenth Matthew Scudder novel, All the Flowers Are Dying, New York Times bestselling author Lawrence Block takes the award-winning series to a new level of suspense and a new depth of characterization. Building on the critical and commercial success of Hope to Die, Block puts Scudder -- and the reader -- at the very edge of the abyss. Scudder, a complex character who has grown and aged in real time, confronts the implacable challenge of mortality....
2570) One Police Plaza
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A hardened New York cop risks everything to solve an impossible murder The precinct house at 19 Elizabeth Street is one of the oldest in New York, and some things about it never change. Overworked cops interrogate suspects, complain about their wives, and peck out reports on battered old typewriters. Steel mesh covers the windows and the garbage cans overflow. And as Lt. Dan Malone climbs the steps, nursing a hangover, he's certain that no matter...
2571) Bats fly at dusk
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
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2022.
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A hot-headed PI's missing person case leads to murder in this mystery by the creator of Perry Mason and author of Owls Don't Blink.
Bertha Cool and Donald Lam make for an unlikely pair of private detectives. She's a fifty-something-year-old widow built like a longshoreman with a mouth to match. Donald is a wiry ex-lawyer in his thirties with a face that's a magnet for fists. Fortunately, he's whip-smart. His brains have gotten him and his partner...
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Carlos McCrary PI volume 3
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ePublishing Works!
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[2021]
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"The Fix is In as a Woman's Life Hangs in Jeopardy in Quarterback Trap, a Murder Mystery Thriller from Dallas Gorham Graciela Perez, gorgeous fianc e of quarterback Bob Martinez, disappears one week before the Super Bowl. Martinez hires Carlos McCrary to find her but won't let McCrary involve the police. McCrary soon discovers Graciela was kidnapped by a mob boss and suspects a connection to a recent 100 million-dollar wager made on the game. As McCrary...
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Carlos McCrary PI volume 2
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ePublishing Works!
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[2021]
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Crime Boss Gunned Down, Chuck McCrary Accused of Murder in Double Fake, Double Murder, a Murder Mystery Thriller from Dallas Gorham
When an organized crime boss is gunned down in the street, the police finger one of their own homicide detectives, Jorge Castellano, whose wife was threatened. Desperate, Castellano hires his best friend, Mexican-American private investigator Carlos "Chuck" McCrary, to find out who framed him.
A disgraced former police...
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Carlos McCrary PI volume 6
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ePublishing Works!
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[2022]
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Inside the Gangs and Outside the Law in McCrary's Justice, a Murder Mystery Thriller from Dallas Gorham
When a Nebraska farmer's daughter is trafficked by a South Florida sex slave ring, her cryptic texts point to a foreign diplomat. The police-their hands tied by diplomatic immunity-direct the distraught father to Carlos McCrary, PI, for the kind of justice only McCrary can deliver.
McCrary soon uncovers a network of sexual slavery and drug trafficking...
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Carlos McCrary PI volume 4
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ePublishing Works!
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[2022]
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Radical Environmentalist Turns Murderer in Dangerous Friends, a Murder Mystery Thriller from Dallas Gorham
Michelle Babcock expected free tutoring in college chemistry when she slept with James Ponder, a graduate student obsessed with global warming protests. Ponder duped her into helping with an environmental terrorist attack and murdered two people in the name of saving the planet. Now Michelle faces a lifetime in prison unless Private Investigator...
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Carlos McCrary PI volume 1
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ePublishing Works!
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[2021]
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"When A Billionaire's Fortune is Up for Grabs, a Murderous Schemer is Willing to Kill in Six Murders Too Many, a Murder Mystery Thriller from Dallas Gorham Ex-special forces operative, ex-cop, and newly forged private investigator, Carlos McCrary, lands a client whose uber-wealthy father has died. It seems Daddy had a sweet young wife who recently gave birth to a child she claims is heir to half the family fortune. It looks like a simple paternity...
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ePublishing Works!
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[2022]
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"Old Friends and Old Secrets Collide in Day of the Tiger, a Murder Mystery Thriller from Dallas Gorham Retired NFL player Tank Tyler is an influential, wealthy financial advisor -- a Tiger by anyone's definition. Tank's old college teammate, Al Rice, is drowning in drugs and debt -- a miserable failure. Old loyalties and old secrets run deep, and Tank keeps bailing out his no-account friend. Al Rice is targeted by Monster Moffett, a loan shark who...
2578) Crows Can't Count
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Hauraki Publishing
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[2016]
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EMERALDS ARE FOR EVIL Shirley was sultry, sexy, smashing-a sweet young thing to make a sugar daddy's mouth water. This luscious lass loved pretty baubles, so no wonder men showered her with jewels. But when a deluge of emeralds turned into a reign of terror, Shirley needed someone to bail her out. That brought Bertha Cool and Donald Lam into the act, as the indomitable detective duo discovered that emeralds could be a girl's worst enemy when they...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
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2015.
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"A disappearing corpse draws Mike Shayne into political guerilla warfare A year after marrying the toughest PI in Miami, Phyllis Shayne longs for a few weeks alone with her husband. She and Mike are about to board a train to New York when a client shows up at the door. Her face gray and her voice slurred, the mysterious woman passes out before she's able to get through her story. Mike carries the stranger to his spare bedroom and, trying to save his...
2580) Destruction of Justice
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An out of practice wizard-turned-investigator must protect another life in this urban fantasy mystery for fans of Jim Butcher and Benedict Jacka. Janzen Robinson is no longer a man torn between two worlds, having decided to come off the bench and dive head first into Cleveland's magical underworld. With his new partner and perpetually exhausted friend Grove, he's just starting to get a handle on all the supernatural happenings when disaster shows...
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