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Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorpe, and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from her locked bedroom? Suspects abound in the quaint village of Styles St. Mary, just outside Essex. Among those basking in the shadow of doubt are the heiress's fawning new husband, her two aimless stepsons, her volatile housekeeper, and a pretty nurse who works in a hospital dispensary. And though the identity of the culprit will prove as shocking as the...
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David Nash is a defense attorney for clients who are usually guilty but acquitted because of his defense. Nash begins to feel guilt about the cost to society for each rapist or murderer he has helped free. Now he has a client whom he believes is innocent and a chance to redeem himself.
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he vice-president of a Chicago bank hires V.I. Warshawski to find his son. She's pleased. The head of the International Brotherhood of Knifegrinders hires her to find his daughter. She's not so pleased. Who's the boss in this dangerous game of insurance fraud, murder contracts and gunmen?
4) Dead Irish
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In his new life as a bartender at the Little Shamrock, Dismas Hardy is just hoping for a little peace. He's left both the police force and his law career behind. Unfortunately it's not as easy to leave behind the memory of a shattering personal loss ? but for the time being, he can always take the edge off with a stiff drink and a round of darts. But when the news of Eddie Cochran's death reaches him, Hardy is propelled back into all the things he...
5) The vig
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x-cop, part-time investigator, and sometime bartender Dismas Hardy returns to face a death threat as he investigates the bloody disappearance of his friend Rusty Ingraham, an investigation that exposes foot-dragging police, corruption and an enforcer named Johnny LaGuardia.
6) Miracle Cure
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When Dr. Bruce Grey and Dr. Harvey Riker find a cure for AIDS, two young lovers, popular TV journalist Sara Lowell, and Knicks star Michael Silverman, find themselves inextricably caught up in the political double dealings involved in the discovery.
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For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal ... because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war. Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city, his survival instincts will once...
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A legal thriller featuring a battered San Francisco wife accused of shooting both her husband and her seven-year-old son. When the trial opens she refuses to allow a defense of spousal abuse because of its implication of guilt. Which presents her lawyer, the narrator, with a major problem as the prosecution claims she killed the husband for the insurance. By the author of Hard Evidence.
9) Mucho mojo
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Digging up the skeletal remains of a child wrapped in pornographic magazines under his late uncle's house, Leonard vows to clear his uncle's name by investigating on his own and uncovers an evil past of dark obsession.
11) Naked in death
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In a world of danger and deception, she walks the line--between seductive passion and scandalous murder... Eve Dallas is a New York police lieutenant hunting for a ruthless killer. In over ten years on the force, she's seen it all--and knows her survival depends on her instincts. And she's going against every warning telling her not to get involved with Roarke, an Irish billionaire--and a suspect in Eve's murder investigation. But passion and seduction...
12) Play with fire
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After discovering a burned body in the woods, Private Investigator Kate Shugak sets out to solve the man's murder in a nearby religious community.
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Hap Collins and Leonard Pine take a break from their day jobs to search for Florida Grange, Leonard's drop-dead gorgeous lawyer and Hap's former lover, who has vanished in the Klan-infested East Texas town of Grovetown. Before she disappeared, Florida was digging up some dirt behind the mysterious jailhouse death of a legendary bluesman's son, who was in possession of some priceless merchandise. To Hap and Leonard, something don't smell right. With...
14) Voodoo River
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L.A. private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption thiry-six years before. When Cole realizes that his employer knew more than she was telling, Voodoo River becomes a twisting tale of identity, secrets, and murder.
15) Blood will tell
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It's a crisp, snowless October in The Park. The root cellar is full, the cordwood is stacked, the oil drums are filled and there's a freshly-butchered moose in her cache, but Kate Shugak must leave her cabin and head into the chaos of Anchorage, where the Alaska Federation of Natives' annual convention is being held. Why? Because board members of the Niniltna Native Association have been dying and they are the board members who happened to oppose...
16) Harm's way
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When psychologist Alan Gregory's best friend is found murdered, he is asked by both the police and his friend's widow to become involved in finding the killer which leads Alan on a deep and harrowing journey of discovery.
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In Death series volume 3
In death novel) volume 03
In death novel volume 01
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
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In death novel volume 01
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Eve Dallas, police woman of the future, is forced to arrest her best friend Mavis for murder when all clues point to Mavis as the killer of her lover's old girlfriend.
"She is one of the most sought-after women in the world. A top model who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted--even another woman's man. And now she's dead, the victim of a brutal murder. Police lieutenant Eve Dallas puts her life on the line to take the case when suspicion...
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After Nina Cormier was jilted at the altar, the empty church exploded. Then someone tried to run Nina off the road, and she realized someone wanted her dead; but who? That's what Detective Sam Navarro needs to find out--fast. With a nightmare unfolding around them, Sam and Nina decipher the stunning truth. Now they're at the mercy of a brilliant madman who plays for keeps.
19) The poet
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"Death is reporter Jack McEvoy's beat : his calling, his obsession. But this time, death brings McEvoy the story he never wanted to write -- and the mystery he desperately needs to solve. A serial killer of unprecendented savagery and cunning is at large. His targets : homicide cops, each haunted by a murder case he couldn't crack. The killer's calling card : a quotation from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. His latest victim is McEvoy's own brother....
20) Rapture in death
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In the wake of three suicides, police lieutenant Eve Dallas discovers evidence that links the three victims; she is drawn into the world of virtual reality-- where the mind becomes the victim of its own destruction.
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