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Police detective Alex Morrow has met plenty of unsavory characters in her line of work, but arms dealer Mark Lynch ranks among the most brutal and damaged of the criminals she's known. Morrow is serving as a witness in Lynch's trial, where the case hinges on his fingerprints found on the guns he sells. When the investigation leads to a privileged Scottish lawyer who's expecting to be assassinated after a money laundering scheme goes bad, and a woman...
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"The book revolves around Crissy, the star of a beloved Princess Diana tribute show in Las Vegas, and her estranged sister Betsy, a therapist who works with children and adolescents in Vermont. Betsy's boyfriend Frankie works in a mysterious branch of cryptocurrency and, seemingly out of nowhere, proposes that they move to Las Vegas together. Betsy and Crissy must navigate how to go about their newfound physical proximity to one another and their...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 10
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St. Martin's Griffin
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2013.
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5) Cape Rage
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[A Danny Barrett novel volume 2
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Berkley
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[2024]
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"Danny Barrett is caught between a family of criminals and the psychopath who is tracking them in the latest novel of the series the New York Times calls, "Dynamite." The FBI has a hundred undercover agents who can work in the city, but Danny Barrett is the one they call when they need someone to investigate crimes in the wilderness. This case is a particularly difficult one. For more than a century the Danby family have ruled as kings in their corner...
6) Scrublands
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"In the vein of The Dry and Before the Fall, a town's dark secrets come to light in the aftermath of a young priest's unthinkable last act in this arresting and searing debut thriller. In Riversend, an isolated rural community afflicted by an endless drought, a young priest does the unthinkable, killing five parishioners before being taken down himself. A year later, accompanied by his own demons from war-time reporting, journalist Martin Scarsden...
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"A twenty-nine-year-old man lives alone in his Glasgow flat. The telephone rings; a casual conversation, but behind this a job offer. The clues are there if you know to look for them. He is an expert. A loner. Freelance. Another job is another job, but what if this organization wants more? A meeting at a club. An offer. A target: Lewis Winter, a necessary sacrifice that will be only the first step in an all-out war between crime syndicates the likes...
8) Betrayal
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Robin Lockwood novels volume 7
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2023.
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"Robin Lockwood is now a prominent defense attorney in Portland, Oregon, but a decade ago, she was a ranked and rising MMA fighter. Her career came to a quick end when she was knocked out and concussed in the first round by Mandy Kerrigan, a much more talented fighter. Now the situation couldn't be more different, with Kerrigan on her last legs, her career nearly over, arrested for the quadruple murder of the entire Finch family . . . and Kerrigan's...
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It's February in the Hudson Valley and Oak Falls veterinarian Dr. Kate is once again up to her galoshes in corpses
Hudson Valley winters can be brutal...and deadly! Dr. Kate is once again on the case (not to mention thin ice) after discovering a young engaged couple frozen to death in the lake. To make matters worse, her temporary receptionist appears to have overdosed from a recreational sedative used at the animal hospital. Kate
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"It begins with two deaths: a money-man and a police informant. Deaths that offer a unique opportunity to a man like Calum MacLean. A hit man who has finally had enough of killing. Calum plans an unprecedented escape just as his employers need him the most. Glasgow's biggest criminal organizations are gearing up for a final, fatal confrontation. The panic over Calum's abrupt disappearance may finally give Detective Michael Fisher the chance he need...
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Petra Taler, Kommissarin aus München, erbt von ihrer Großmutter ein marodes Bauernhausanwesen im Alten Land. Mit der Versetzung nach Hamburg-Harburg gerät sie schlagartig in einen brisanten Fall: Die Ermordung der Tierarztgattin Regine Carlsen aus der Harburger Geldadel-Gemeinde Eißendorf. War sie tatsächlich "ohne Schuld", wie die Nachricht des Mörders am Tatort lautet? Doch warum musste Regine dann sterben?
Neben Erbstreitigkeiten der Familie,...
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Dubai looks good to those who keep their EYES SHUT!Its ruling Sheikh has been convicted of kidnapping his daughter, and has not yet provided proof that she is alive. The fate of her sister, abducted 21 years ago, is also not known, as she has never been seen in public since then.Dubai is actually a very dangerous place for international visitors, a huge proportion ending up in jail on trumped-up charges. The common public merely makes up the numbers...
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Dent Miller isn't afraid to die anymore.
He just wants some other people to go first.
Dent Miller has lost almost everything: his job, his home, and his best friend. The only things he has left are the promise of revenge and the woman he loves.
Now, in the high desert of Eastern Oregon, billionaire criminals, shadowy government operatives and Dent's crew of misfits collide in an explosive confrontation fueled by a desire to right wrongs, and a plane...
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Ottavio Cappellani's wildly entertaining Mafia comedy takes us into the unhinged world of a family that makes the Sopranos look like the Waltons. As blood-red as a good bottle of Sicilian wine, Who Is Lou Sciortino? is an exhilarating debut from one of Italy's brightest young talents.
Growing up on the streets of New York, young Lou Sciortino learned many lessons from his grandfather, Don Lou: that whiners are fools; that in order to get respect...
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Two curious questions: Whether? How? We don't know whether something will happen, but we can choose how we will respond. When they were young, I recall having struggled with the idea of whether it's healthier to shelter my own children, or to discuss some of the many controversial issues. Though children may not be going through a particular problem personally, perhaps they know someone who is. Are some subjects too sensitive to discuss? Our children...
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