Jonathan Davis
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English
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When private detective Dana Cutler is hired by an attorney with powerful political connections, the assignment seems simple enough: follow a pretty college student named Charlotte Walsh and report on where she goes and whom she sees. But then the unexpected happens. One night, Cutler follows Walsh to a secret meeting with Christopher Farrington, the president of the United States. The following morning, Walsh's dead body shows up and Cutler has to...
2) Goodbye girl
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 18
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English
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"Piracy costs the movie and music industry billions. No one has been able to stop it. But that won't stop Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck. His latest client, Imani Nichols, is a Grammy-winning popstar whose career has skyrocketed. Despite her success, she's the most underpaid superstar on the planet because of an onerous record contract she signed as a teenager with her now ex-husband Shaky Nichols, who has made himself rich off her royalties....
3) Cane and Abe
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English
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Wrongfully implicated in the disappearance of his second wife, Miami prosecutor Abe Beckham is forced to consider his missing wife's accusations about his enduring love for his dead first wife.
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Amanda Jaffe novels volume 4
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English
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Portland attorney Amanda Jaffe must find a way to keep her client alive long enough to defend him after she accepts a large retainer to represent Charlie Marsh, a petty crook who fled the U.S. twelve years earlier after being accused of murdering a congressman, and has returned as a famous spiritual guru to face charges, pursued by the agents of Jean-Claude Baptiste, leader of the African nation where Marsh was living and having an affair with Baptiste's...
5) Last call
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 7
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English
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Having proved the innocence of a friend who had been falsely accused of murder, criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck is once again called upon to help his friend when the latter is offered the identity of his mother's killer in exchange for helping an escaped convict.
6) Got the look
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FBI agent Andie Henning is tracking a ruthless kidnapper plaguing South Florida. He has slipped through her net at every turn. This time he's taken the wife of one of the state's richest horse breeders and is asking for a $1 million ransom. The stakes go up when Andie finds the woman - dead. Enter Jack Swyteck.
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Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro novels volume 6
[Kenzie and Gennaro volume 6
Kenzie and Gennaro volume 06
[Kenzie and Gennaro volume 6
Kenzie and Gennaro volume 06
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English
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Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case. The pair risked everything to find the young girl, only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home. Now Amanda is sixteen and gone again. A stellar student, brilliant but aloof, she seemed destined to escape her upbringing....
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 13
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English
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According to the FBI, the most dangerous place for a woman between the ages of twenty and thirty is in a relationship with a man. Those statistics become all too personal when Jack Swyteck takes on a new client tied to his past. It begins at the airport, where Jack is waiting to meet his old high school buddy, Keith Ingraham, a high-powered banker based in Hong Kong, coming to Miami for his young daughter's surgery. But their long-awaited reunion...
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 8
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English
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Jack Swyteck doesn't talk about his family; especially about the fact his dad was once governor of Florida. Whenever dad, Harry, needs help, Jack is there. Harry's best friend and vice president of the United States died during an alligator hunt in the Everglades, and now the president wants Harry as his new VP. Jack finds being his father's lawyer quickly turns lethal.
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English
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Ryan James, a former minor-league baseball player turned sports radio host, receives an anonymous tip about the unsolved hit-and-run accident that killed his wife three years prior live on the air, but the information points to a powerful New England family, and puts Ryan, his wife's brother "Babes," and the case's prosecutor in danger.
11) Mean streak
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Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina. By the time her husband Jeff, miffed over a recent argument, reports her missing, the trail has grown cold. Literally. Fog and ice encapsulate the mountainous wilderness and paralyze the search for her. While police suspect Jeff of "instant divorce," Emory, suffering from an unexplained head injury, regains consciousness and finds herself the...
12) Chasing the dime
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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From the bestselling author of A Darkness More than Night comes a searing thriller about a simple wrong number that opens a line into terror. Henry Price has a whole new life-new apartment, new telephone, new telephone number. He soon discovers that the messages on his line are for a woman named Lilly, and she is in serious trouble that could cost him all he holds dear. Pierce is inexorably drawn into Lilly's world, and it's unlike any world he's...
13) Patriot acts
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Atticus Kodiak novels volume 6
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English
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Love your country.
Fear your government.
Know your enemy.
Greg Rucka is back with a vengeance in this electrifying thriller starring suspense fiction’s most dangerous hero: Atticus Kodiak. This time the bodyguard turned fugitive must go underground to protect the woman he loves and a country he may have to betray to defend.
“You cannot learn what you have learned and remain unchanged.”
As a bodyguard, Atticus Kodiak...
Fear your government.
Know your enemy.
Greg Rucka is back with a vengeance in this electrifying thriller starring suspense fiction’s most dangerous hero: Atticus Kodiak. This time the bodyguard turned fugitive must go underground to protect the woman he loves and a country he may have to betray to defend.
“You cannot learn what you have learned and remain unchanged.”
As a bodyguard, Atticus Kodiak...
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990L
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Barcelona, 1945--just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona's guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the...
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[2011]
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English
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A serial novel featuring contributions by twenty-five masters of suspense follows detective Jon Nunn as he re-opens a ten-year-old case to discover if the wrong person was convicted and put to death for the murder of art curator Christopher Thomas.
When the decaying body of Christopher Thomas, a ruthless curator at a San Francisco art museum, is found in a Berlin museum, his wife is tried, convicted, and executed. Ten years later, Jon Nunn, the detective...
16) Gone, baby, gone
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Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro reluctantly agree to join the search for a four-year-old girl who was abducted from her home in the middle of the night, but they face a dilemma when they learn that some children are better off missing than found.
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Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro novels volume 1
Kenzie and Gennaro volume 01
Kenzie and Gennaro volume 1
Kenzie and Gennaro volume 01
Kenzie and Gennaro volume 1
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English
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A cadre of powerful Massachusetts politicians offers Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro big money for a small job: find the missing cleaning woman who allegedly stole confidential Statehouse documents. But there's much more to this crime than anyone realizes. What the woman was really after was justice--and out on the Boston streets, the truth can turn stark and ugly. . .
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A man is murdered in Boston by crucifixion, recalling a similar murder 20 years earlier for which a killer is serving time in prison. So it can't be him, or can it? As bodies pile up PIs Angela Dimassi Gennaro and Patrick Kenzie go to work. By the author of A Drink Before the War.
19) Sacred
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When dying billionaire Trevor Stone hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, to find his missing daughter, the trail takes the two experienced detectives down a road of half-truths and corruption that leads them from Boston to Florida's Gulf Coast and back again.
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On a summer's day in Oxford, an old lady who once helped decipher the Enigma code is killed. A strange note indicates that the murder is the first in a series, and each new death is accompanied by a different mathematical shape. A logician and a student team up to find the next clue because the killer can be stopped only if someone can crack the code.