Sandra Burr
1) Blindside
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When six-year-old Sam Kettering is kidnapped and then manages to save himself. Savich and Sherlock join his father-former FBI agent Miles Kettering-to determine why Sam would be abducted and brought to eastern Tennessee. Though the local sheriff, Katie Benedict, catches up with Sam before the kidnappers do, the case isn't over-not by a long shot. The unanswered question is: Why do the kidnappers want this little boy so badly? The investigation leads...
2) Blacklist
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V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 11
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V.I. Warshawski novel volume 11
Thorndike Press large print basic
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 11
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Chicago detective V. I. Warshawski investigates the murder of an African-American reporter and walks into a web of sex, politics, corruption, and secrecy spanning fifty years--from the McCarthy era to the Patriot Act--that could ultimately kill her.
3) Fire sale
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V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 12
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 12
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V.I. Warshawski volume novel Brilliance Audio
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 12
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V.I. Warshawski volume novel Brilliance Audio
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V.I. Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it. When V.I. takes over coaching duties of the girls' basketball team at her former high school, she faces an ill-equipped, ragtag group of gangbangers, fundamentalists, and teenage moms who inevitably draw the detective into their family woes.
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When FBI agent Dane Carver's twin brother, Father Michael Joseph, is brutally murdered in his San Francisco church, husband-and-wife agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich take a personal interest in the investigation. Then Nicola "Nick" Jones, a homeless woman and the only witness to the shooting, is scared out of her mind because she's trying to hide from her own monsters-who are drawing closer and closer. The chase goes from San Francisco to the...
5) Double take
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After reopening the case of a San Francisco psychic who was brutally murders, Special Agent Cheney Stone enlists the help of FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock, who are also working on tracking down a woman who looks just like Sheriff Dixon Noble's wife who disappeared three years earlier.
6) Hostage
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Police chief Jeff Talley is thrown back into the tension-filled world that he wants to forget when a family is held hostage in their home, which contains secrets that even Los Angeles' lethal crime lord, Sonny Benza, fears.
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It's Prom Night . . . and the queen is dead. LAPD Homicide Detective Peter Decker and his wife and confidante Rina Lazarus have a daughter of their own. So the savage murder of a popular high school girl on prom night strikes home . . . very hard. The cruel and bizarre slaying of a beautiful teen leads Detective Decker into the dark heart of an exotic subculture: the seamy, sometimes violent world of Southern California's rootless, affluent youth....
8) Slipknot
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Welcome to the coastal village of Green Haven, where someone has gone to sleep with the fishes... Jane Bunker returned to Maine to escape the mean streets of Miami. Surely whatever crimes are committed in this tourist-filled seaside town won't involve anything as dark or seedy as what she saw in the so-called Sunshine State. It's a bit of a shock, then, when Nick Dow, AKA the town drunk, turns up dead--and it's not the simple accident that everyone...
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Murder, She Wrote mysteries volume 35
Murder she wrote mystery volume 35
Murder She Wrote mysteries volume 35
Murder she wrote
Murder she wrote mystery volume 35
Murder She Wrote mysteries volume 35
Murder she wrote
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Olympic pairs figure skating hopefuls travel to Cabot Cove to train with a former gold medalist. After a series of mysterious accidents, one of the trio ends up dead. Jessica takes to the ice to conduct her own investigation.
10) Nashville noir
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Jessica Fletcher knows that creativity must be nurtured. So when a young lady from Cabot Cove shows promise as a singer and songwriter, Jessica and a local citizens committee send Cyndi on a scholarship trip to Nashville, Tennessee, where she can benefit from professional instruction. Only weeks later, Cabot Cove is shocked to hear of the cold-blooded murder of a brash country music publisher-by the young talent Cyndi! And as Cyndi's mother begs Jessica...
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"Make room for Jessica Fletcher as she cleans house to catch a killer who hasn't got a ghost of a chance. Jessica's friend, Eve Simpson is the town's premiere real estate agent and has recently taken on the task of selling one of Cabot Cove's oldest properties--the Spencer Percy House, built in 1805 by a sea captain for his young wife. Its current occupant, Joe Cooper, a crusty former carpenter, is convinced he's about to die and wants the house sold...
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FRAMED?
Jessica’s art-viewing Italian vacation is interrupted by a pair of gunmen who steal a painting and kill a retired police officer in the process. Agreeing to help identify the crooks should they be caught, Jessica returns to Cabot Cove and puts the shocking experience behind her.
Months later, Wayne Simsbury, the stepson of an old friend, comes to her for help. Wayne’s father has been shot to death. Not only has Wayne’s...
Jessica’s art-viewing Italian vacation is interrupted by a pair of gunmen who steal a painting and kill a retired police officer in the process. Agreeing to help identify the crooks should they be caught, Jessica returns to Cabot Cove and puts the shocking experience behind her.
Months later, Wayne Simsbury, the stepson of an old friend, comes to her for help. Wayne’s father has been shot to death. Not only has Wayne’s...
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Jessica is in Manhattan to attend the debut of a new designer. Formerly Sandy Black of Cabot Cove, the young man has reinvented himself as Xandr Ebon, and is introducing his evening wear collection to the public and to the industry's powers-that-be: the stylists, the magazine editors, the buyers, and the wealthy clientele who can make or break him. The glitz and glamour are dazzling until a young model taking her first walk down the runway collapses...
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Jessica vacations in Italy, where she joins a tour that takes her to a variety of private homes, restaurants, and rural churches where lesser-known Italian masterworks are displayed. Her idyllic time is interrupted by a pair of young Italian gunmen who steal a painting off a church wall, killing a retired policeman in the process. Agreeing to help identify the crokks, at a later date should they be caught, Jessica returns to Cabot Cove and tries to...
15) The illumination
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Natalie Landau, a museum curator with an expertise in protective amulets and magical beliefs, has received a puzzling gift from her sister Dana--a necklace with a blue evil eye pendant on it. When Natalie learns Dana was murdered only hours after sending the gift, she begins to think the amulet had something to do with her sister's death.