Tom Stechschulte
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"In the most suspenseful installment of the New York Times bestselling Body Farm series to date, forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton investigates a bizarre murder--and confronts a deadly enemy he thought he'd put behind bars for good. Forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton has spent twenty-five years solving brutal murders--but none so bizarre and merciless as his latest case: A ravaged set of skeletal remains is found chained to a tree on a...
2) Rain gods
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Hackberry Holland novels volume 2
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Hackberry Holland takes the sheriff job in a tiny Texas town near the Mexican border hoping he can leave his past behind and lead a quiet life, but the discovery of nine illegal aliens who were brutally murdered ruins any chance of peace and sends Hackberry in search of Iraq veteran Pete Flores and his girlfriend, who witnessed the crime and are wanted by the ruthless criminals who will stop at nothing to keep them quiet.
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Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 17
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Facing his demons in his first year of sobriety, Matthew Scudder finds himself on the trail of a killer. When Scudder's childhood friend Jack Ellery is murdered, presumably while attempting to atone for past sins, Scudder reluctantly begins his own investigation, with just one lead: Ellery's Alcoholics Anonymous list of people he wronged. One of them may be a killer, but that's not necessarily Scudder's greatest danger. Immersing himself in Ellery's...
4) Holly blues
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China Bayles is fit to spit when her husband's troubled ex-wife, Sally, shows up at her herb shop, claiming to be broke with nowhere else to turn. China isn't sure if it's the goodness of her heart or the scent of Christmas wreaths, but she invites Sally to stay. Then China starts receiving menacing calls from an "ex" of Sally's, who seems to have a connection to the murder of her parents nearly a decade ago. With her P.I. husband out of town, it's...
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Welcome to Familyland, an offshoot of Lamaar Studios. Once a small, Southern California animation house, it has grown into an entertainment conglomerate encompassing movies, television, music, video games, and a sprawling theme park.
When an actor portraying Familyland's beloved mascot, Rambunctious Rabbit,
is brutally murdered on park grounds, Lamaar executives are worried that the idyllic image of '50s America represented in Familyland will
...6) Bloodthirsty
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Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs mysteries volume 2
Lomax and Biggs mysteries volume 02
Lomax and Biggs mysteries volume 2
Lomax and Biggs mysteries volume 02
Lomax and Biggs mysteries volume 2
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Barry Gerber, one of the most hated - and powerful - men in Hollywood, is a no-show for a red carpet event. The next morning he turns up dead in a trash can, killed in such a bizarre way that neither Detectives Mike Lomax nor Terry Biggs nor anyone in Forensics has ever seen anything like it before. Two days later, the prime suspect - another despised show-business bad boy - is found murdered in the same sadistic manner." "The list of suspects then...
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Nora Bannister is a bestselling mystery novelist who buys rundown houses in L.A. While her partners turn the house into a showpiece, Nora makes it the scene of a grisly murder in her mystery series. As soon as the book goes on sale, so does the house - and the bidding frenzy begins. But just before Nora's latest book hits the market, one of her house-flipping partners is murdered - and she happens to be the wife of a cop.
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China Bayles fears for her husband's life as an escaped convict targets him ... Max Mantel, the killer McQuaid put away years ago, has busted out of Huntsville Prison and appears to be headed for Pecan Springs. McQuaid knows there's only one way to stop the vengeful convict--set a trap with himself as bait. China wants to stay by her husband's side and keep him from harm. But McQuaid insists that she get out of town and go to the Last Chance Olive...
10) Nightshade
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China's herb shop and catering business may be thriving, but she's still reeling from her father's death, and not even remotely interested in her half-brother Miles's investigation into that event. China's husband, on the other hand, has no such qualms. And when fate forces her to get involved as well, China realizes it's time to bring the past to light-or else it will haunt her the rest of her life. But China and McQuaid discover that Miles may have...
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Tres Navarre mysteries volume 4
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Private investigator Tres Navarre accepts a teaching position in Austin and moves in with his computer programmer-entrepreneur brother Garrett, only to flex his detective muscles once again when Garrett's business partner is murdered.
12) Big red tequila
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Tres Navarre mysteries volume 1
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A man comes home to San Antonio, Texas, to rescue his old girlfriend and solve the 12-year-old murder of his sheriff father.
13) Shotgun wedding
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Normally bucolic Longbranch, Oklahoma, hits a bit of a rough spot as a bank robbery takes place while the chief deputy gets married. Matters are complicated when pirates take the newlyweds hostage on their Caribbean honeymoon, Longbranch's mayor is shot by his sharpshooter wife, and Kovak's ex is abducted.
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The tenth Milt Kovak mystery from this best-selling author . . . - Strange things are happening in Prophesy County. First, Deputy Dalton Pettigrew disappears on a mysterious date in Tulsa. His sister goes to rescue him, only to disappear herself. She'd left her middle child, Eli, in the care of Jean, the sheriff's wife, but now he's missing too. Who is the mysterious Dr. Emil Hawthorne, and why is he out to get Jean? Can Milt Kovak find Eli before...
15) Cut, paste, kill
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When Eleanor Bellingham-Crump-a socialite responsible for the death of a 6-year-old boy-turns up murdered on the floor of a Hollywood hotel bathroom, Lomax and Biggs are confronted with a crime of artistic brutality. Along with the scissors sticking from Eleanor's lifeless body, the two detectives find a meticulous scrapbook documenting a motive of vengeance in lurid detail.