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81) Dragonfire
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In master storyteller Andrew Kaplan's action-packed thriller, the CIA sends its top agent to Southeast Asia to stop a war that threatens to be even bloodier than the conflict in Vietnam The photograph in the CIA vault shows four men relaxing in the jungle, green berets draped over their rifles, enjoying a break from combat. On the day after the picture was taken, their friendship was torn apart forever. Now, ten years after the United States pulled...
82) Oblivion
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Nick Petrov is a brilliant private investigator with a reputation for bringing missing children safely home. Launched to tabloid stardom when he apprehended a brutal serial killer named Gerald Reasoner, Petrov has become something of a celebrity. When a woman approaches him, begging him to use his unique gifts to find her missing daughter, Petrov's instincts sound an alarm. He senses that she's concealing something. But is she lying to get Petrov's...
83) Body copy
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Donald Tremaine mysteries volume 1
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Introducing Donald Tremaine, P.I.
Once the world's number one surfer, Donald Tremaine quit at the top of his game, moved into a trailer in Malibu, and became a detective. Beautiful women don't ask for his autograph anymore. Now they ask for his help-like the stunning Nina Aldeen, who wants Tremaine to solve the murder of her uncle, advertising mogul Roger Gale, brutally slayed in his L.A. office a year earlier. The police investigation went nowhere....
84) Gone to Glory
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Ace shortstop Pepper Dalton has finally learned to hit-or so it seems to the good people of Salt Lake City. Moroni Traveler, a private eye named for an angel and cut from the same cloth as his hell-bent father, is hired to prove that Pepper did not kill his sister with a baseball bat. A boyhood hero of Moroni's, Pepper is living, potbellied proof that the past, like everything else, just ain't what it used to be.
While the Mormons use computers and...
85) Called Home
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The isolated town of Wasatch sits in Mormon country-a hard place where right and wrong are as clear as night and day. But smoke from nearby mountain wildfires swirls menacingly through the streets, as unsettling as the dark secrets so zealously guarded by Brigham Young's faithful.
Moroni Traveler, a PI named for an angel, is an outsider-an unwanted unbeliever determined to discover the truth about a dead woman. Branded a devil and greeted with violence,...
86) Dressed in Smoke
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A face from the past
Once upon a time, Jonathan West lost his best friend, Ansel, under horrific circumstances.
Or, at least, he thought he had.
On a warm summer night, he finds himself reunited with the dead man - and hunted by a hideous entity that occupies Ansel's body.
In his hour of need, Jonathan could have gone to the authorities, or hired an esteemed security service.
Instead, he winds up soliciting help from none other than Tanglewood's...
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"The Adventure of the Illustrious Client" (1924) is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and one of the 12 stories collected as The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.
Sir James Damery comes to see Holmes and Watson about his illustrious client's problem (the client's identity is never revealed to the reader, although Watson finds out at the end of the story; it is heavily implied to be King Edward...
88) O'Farrell's law
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On the eve of a vital CIA assignment, an agent's hesitation leads him to the brink of disaster His grandfather was a lawman too. That's how Charles O'Farrell rationalizes his work. He keeps a picture of his ancestor by his bed, a faded sepia portrait of a short, plain-looking man made remarkable only by the long-barreled Colt strapped to his hip. His grandfather killed to make the frontier safe-O'Farrell has the faded newspaper clippings to prove...
89) Come to dust
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A rich childless widower gets his affairs in order; makes the Sloan his executor; and tries to kill himself but fails. 4 days later he dies in the Southport hospital due to malpractice it would appear. This soon evolves into murder and more. John Putnam Thatcher solves the mystery on behalf of the Sloan after much incisive and witty talk, typical of Emma Lathen's deft writing.
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All bets are off when Chicago detective Chance Purdue protects a gambler with a target on his head in this PI parody from the author of The Dada Caper. "Bet-a-Bunch" Dugan is being hunted by International DADA (Destroy America, Destroy America) conspirators, a terrorist organization out for control of the world's oil market. Dugan needs more than a little luck to walk away unscathed. He needs a Chance, and though he knows that half of Purdue's reputation...
92) In for a Ruble
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A pulse-pounding mystery featuring Russian-American detective Turbo Vlost, the deadliest ex-KGB operative to ever hit New York
Turbo Vlost is back. He's depressed, drinking too much, and terrified that the love of his life is truly gone.
Hired to test the security of billionaire hedge fund manager Sebastian Leitz's computer system, Turbo finds himself peeling back the fetid layers of an immigrant family living the American dream while unable to...
93) Last to Fold
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One of the most exciting debut anti-heroes since Lee Child's Jack Reacher
Turbo Vlost learned early that life is like a game of cards.... It's not always about winning. Sometimes it's just a matter of making your enemies fold first.
Turbo is a man with a past-his childhood was spent in the Soviet Gulag, while half of his adult life was spent in service to the KGB. His painful memories led to the demolition of his marriage, the separation from his...
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Kommissar Markus Forrer von der Police Bern offenbart sich ein grausames Bild: Eine Leiche mit einer Kopfverletzung, die an Ritualmorde aus der Steinzeit erinnert. Der Tote, Bernhard Altenburg, führte zusammen mit Tim Schaad ein Labor und forschte an einem neuen Impfstoff. Als Schaad zum Tod seines Geschäftspartners befragt wird, verhält er sich seltsam. Er gibt an, den Finanzminister getötet zu haben. Ist Schaad nicht zurechnungsfähig und verantwortlich...
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»Da Sigl Mandi is halt drüben blieben!« Fast 30 Jahre nach dem Verschwinden eines jungen Fluchthelfers aus Reichenthal im Mühlviertel werden in Vyšší Brod, auf der anderen Seite des ehemaligen Eisernen Vorhangs, dessen Überreste gefunden. Eine mörderische Kettenreaktion wird in Gang gesetzt, und der idyllische Ort im Mühlviertler Granitland verwandelt sich in den Schauplatz blutiger Tragödien. Viel Arbeit für Chefinspektor Schmaranzer...
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Magnus Meister, Kölner Musiker und Privatdetektiv, steckt mitten in den stressigen Vorbereitungen für seine Hochzeit mit Eliza, als eine alte Schulfreundin Alarm schlägt: Ihr Bruder, Solarforscher in einem Start-up, meldet sich nicht bei ihr. Jede Spur, die der kontaktscheue Wissenschaftler hinterlässt, führt ins Leere. Doch warum mauern seine Kollegen? Gibt es keine Liebesbeziehung in seinem Leben? Und woran hat der Vermisste gearbeitet? Als...
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Brennende Luxuswagen in Wiesbaden. Unter Verdacht stehen Aktivisten, die für eine Verkehrswende kämpfen. Teil der Gruppe ist die 20-jährige Ona. Erst kürzlich folgte sie ihrer Großmutter aus der spanischen Heimat in deren Geburtsstadt Wiesbaden. Jorinde Ruiz Alvarez sorgt sich um ihren Bruder, der den Kontakt zu ihr abgebrochen hat. Freiwillig? Oder schottet seine Lebensgefährtin den Immobilieninvestor ab? Jorinde bittet die Privatdetektivin...
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Krise? Welche Krise? Als Fahrradkurier hat Ex-Privatdetektiv Max Koller genug zu tun. Und wird dann doch rückfällig: Als ein Bekannter, der Schriftsteller Robert Usedom, erschossen aufgefunden wird, nutzt Koller die Vermisstenanzeige einer Lokalpolitikerin für eigene Ermittlungen. Er kommt einem Umweltskandal auf die Spur, jagt einen selbsternannten Rächer und lernt zutiefst verunsicherte Mitmenschen kennen. Die Krise ist überwunden, aber der...
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Der Großgastronom Pit Baldauf möchte einen Biergarten eröffnen - ausgerechnet am Karlsgraben bei Treuchtlingen, der unter Denkmalschutz steht. Das erhitzt die Gemüter der Anwohner sowie der Historikerin Ricarda Held, die über die Geschichte des Landstrichs forscht. Das Projekt soll zu Fall gebracht werden. Da kommt die Leiche des Hobby-Archäologen Meindl, die im Karlsgraben entdeckt wird, gerade recht. KOK Hans Wörle ermittelt: Hat die Tat...
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Erhitzte Gemüter in Steyr! Im Zuge des Stadtfestes soll der Bezirkswettbewerb im Schuhplatteln ausgetragen werden, und zum ersten Mal hat sich eine Damenmannschaft angemeldet. »Geht gar ned!« meint der Obmann des Schuhplattlervereins »Lederhosenklatscher«. Die Diskussion erübrigt sich, als die Obfrau der Damengruppe »Dirndlschupfer« von Mitzi Eisenhuber tot am Fuße der Dambergwarte gefunden wird. Unfall oder Mord? Eine schwere Ermittlung...
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