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When prosecutor Vicki Allegretti arrives at a rowhouse to meet a confidential informant, she finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time -- and is almost shot to death. She barely escapes with her life, but cannot save the two others gunned down before her disbelieving eyes. Stunned and heartbroken, Vicki tries to figure out how a routine meeting on a minor case became a double homicide.
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Culper Ring novels (Brad Meltzer) volume 1
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A young archivist working in the National Archives and his childhood crush accidentally happen upon a priceless artifact--a 200-year-old dictionary that once belonged to George Washington--hidden inside a desk chair. Eager to discover why the President is hiding this important national treasure, the two soon find themselves entangled in a web of deception, conspiracy, and murder that will reveal the most well-kept secret of the U.S. Presidency.
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Thea Kozak believes it's her job to be the strong one in a crisis. She's survived her husband's death and her sister's brutal murder. She's gone head to head with bad guys and lived to fight another day. She's a survivor who has used her courage and strength to help others. But now Thea is looking forward to an oasis of happily ever after with Andre Lemieux, the Maine state trooper she met when her sister was killed.
The way to their wedding
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Fintan Dunne trilogy volume 1
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In a simple New York City homicide, indistinguishable from hundreds of others in 1938, a spinster nurse is killed in her apartment, and a suspect is caught and convicted. Fintan Dunne, the P.I. lured into the case and coerced by conscience into unraveling the complex setup that has put an innocent man on death row, will soon find this to be a murder with tentacles that stretch far beyond the crime scene--to Nazi Germany, in fact. Following it to the...
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Nic Costa mysteries volume 3
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When Detective Nic Costa investigates the killing of a woman whose body is found on the floor of the Pantheon, he is caught in the middle of an ambush that costs him his only witness and follows a deadly trail that leads to more gruesome murders
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DCI Paul Stark discovers that the bitter legacy of WWI casts a long shadow in the second of this intriguing historical mystery series.
London, 1921. Lord Johnny Fairfax has been found dead in his study, along with a second victim, a mysterious American who arrived unannounced the previous evening. For DCI Paul Stark, the case is personal: he's in a relationship with Lord Fairfax's former wife, Lady Amelia.
The dead...
London, 1921. Lord Johnny Fairfax has been found dead in his study, along with a second victim, a mysterious American who arrived unannounced the previous evening. For DCI Paul Stark, the case is personal: he's in a relationship with Lord Fairfax's former wife, Lady Amelia.
The dead...
7) The innocent
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Will Robie novels volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
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"It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to kill. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and must escape from his own people. Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a fourteen-year-old runaway from a foster home. But she isn't an ordinary runaway-her...
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Chase Bennett is a troubleshooter for a chamber of commerce on the Florida coast. Visiting an old friend, a woman detective, he unwittingly becomes the critical link in a chain of criminal evidence stretching from a narcotics raid in Washington to telecommunications fraud in Miami. Back home, a series of mysterious events unfolds. His boss threatens his job, a shady entrepreneur coerces him on a land deal, the detective disappears. As the Omega Corporation...
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"For fans of The Alice Network, THE PHYSICISTS' DAUGHTER brings readers to the WWII homefront, as 20-year-old factory assembly line worker Justine Byrne discovers the carbon parts she assembles 8 hours a day have nothing to do with boats, but are intendedfor a secret government initiative-The Manhattan Project-and that her factory may be a target for sabotage"--
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Jammer Davis thrillers volume 2
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A top-secret drone crashes in the Horn of Africa and prized aircraft ends up in the hanger of a company named Fly by Night Aviation. Jammer Davis is called to investigate a plane a plane crash in the Sudan and discovers a conspiracy that will threaten America like nothing before.
14) Blackout
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Berlin wartime thrillers volume 1
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"Berlin 1939. The city is blanketed by snow and ice. In the distance, the rumble of war grows louder. In the shadows, a serial killer rises . . . As the Nazis tighten their chokehold on the capital, panic and paranoia fester as blackout is rigidly enforced. Every night the city is plunged into an oppressive, suffocating darkness - pitch perfect conditions for unspeakable acts. When a young woman is found brutally murdered, it's up to Criminal Inspector...
15) Spy games
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Philip Mangan novels volume 2
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A sequel to Night Heron finds journalist Philip Mangan embroiled in a life-threatening conspiracy involving local unrest in East Africa and his failures in Beijing.
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Zig and Nola novels volume 1
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"Who is Nola Brown? Nola is a mystery. Nola is trouble. And Nola is supposed to be dead. Her body was found on a plane that mysteriously fell from the sky as it left a secret military base in the Alaskan wilderness. Her commanding officer verifies she's dead. The US government confirms it. But Jim "Zig" Zigarowski has just found out the truth: Nola is still alive. And on the run. Zig works at Dover Air Force Base, helping put to rest the bodies...
17) Queen's progress
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Kit Marlowe mysteries volume 9
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2018.
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"1591. The Queen is embarking on a Royal Progress, visiting some of the grandest homes in England, and Kit Marlowe has been sent on ahead to ensure all goes smoothly. When his reconnaissance mission is derailed by a series of alarming and tragic incidents, Marlowe suspects there's a conspiracy to sabotage the Progress. Who is pulling the strings-- and why?"--Provided by publisher.
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Jammer Davis thrillers volume 1
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Tough, uncompromising National Transportation Safety Board investigator Jammer Davis attempts to uncover the cause of a mysterious crash of the brand new CargoAir C-500, a flying-wing cargo plane operating under fly-by-wire technology. Meanwhile, a series of terrorist suicide attacks threatens oil facilities around the world. Jammer, aided by CIA agent Anna Sorensen, will stop at nothing as he bulls his way through bureaucratic obstruction, inept...
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Bill Maytubby & Hannah Bond novels volume 4
Bill Maytubby and Hannah Bond mystery volume 04
Bill Maytubby and Hannah Bond novels volume 4
Bill Maytubby and Hannah Bond mystery volume 04
Bill Maytubby and Hannah Bond novels volume 4
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In the shadow of a massive boulder on Oklahoma's Big Rock Prairie, a squirrel hunter discovers a charred skeleton in a homemade charcoal kiln. Johnston County deputy Hannah Bond and Chickasaw Lighthorse police sergeant Bill Maytubby are called to the scene and soon identify the victim as a young Chickasaw man from a nearby town. What begins as the search for a killer soon throws Maytubby and Bond into the deep end of a conspiracy that puts both the...
20) The final kill
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Abby Northrup finally has the quiet life she s dreamed of, living in Carmel at the former monastery she purchased and renovated. But The Prayer House is more than a peaceful home for Abby-unofficially it is an underground safe haven for abused women and children. And when an old friend and her daughter appear on Abby's front step looking for safe haven, Abby's tranquil life begins to dissolve. Alicia Gerard is the wife of a wealthy business tycoon...
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