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"Everyone in the quiet Jersey Shore town of Silver Bay knows the story: on a Sunday evening in September 1991, Ramsey Miller threw a blowout block party, then murdered his beautiful wife and three-year-old daughter. But everyone is wrong. The daughter got away. Now she is nearly eighteen and tired of living in secrecy. Under the name Melanie Denison, she has spent the last fifteen years in small-town West Virginia as part of the Witness Protection...
2) Driven
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Drive novels volume 2
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"As we exit the initial novel, Driver has killed Bernie Rose, 'the only one he ever mourned,' ending his campaign against those who double-crossed him. Driven tells how that young man, done with killing, later will become the one who goes down 'at 3 a.m. on a clear, cool morning in a Tijuana bar.' Seven years have passed. Driver has left the old life, become Paul West, and founded a successful business back in Phoenix. Walking down the street one...
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"Serving a ten-year sentence in a Nevada prison for armed robbery, Ethan Lockhart hopes that he can one day become a productive, law-abiding member of society. When he's given a forty-eight-hour furlough to attend his sister Abby's funeral, he learns that her body was never found and he begins to suspect that there's more to her death than was reported. But to get to the bottom of the mystery, he'll have to return to his unsavory past."--
5) Heat 2
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"Michael Mann, four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, Collateral, Thief, Manhunter, and Miami Vice, teams up with Edgar Award-winning author Meg Gardiner to deliver Mann's first crime novel - an explosive return to the world and characters of his classic film Heat - an all-new story that illuminates what happened before and after the iconic film."--
6) Drive
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Drive novels volume 1
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A stunt driver for films, Driver also works as a wheelman for small robberies, but when a heist goes sour, a contract is put on his head and he must discover who has betrayed him.
7) The hot rock
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Dortmunder novels volume 1
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Edgar Award Finalist: A comical crime caper “filled with action and imagination” (The New York Times Book Review).
John Dortmunder leaves jail with ten dollars, a train ticket, and nothing to make money on but his good name. Thankfully, his reputation goes far. No one plans a caper better than Dortmunder. His friend Kelp picks him up in a stolen Cadillac and drives him away from Sing-Sing, telling a story of a...
John Dortmunder leaves jail with ten dollars, a train ticket, and nothing to make money on but his good name. Thankfully, his reputation goes far. No one plans a caper better than Dortmunder. His friend Kelp picks him up in a stolen Cadillac and drives him away from Sing-Sing, telling a story of a...
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"When kidnappers attempt to abduct her nephew, Tanya Rivera will do anything to protect him--even team up with bounty hunter Danny Ryan. But after Tanya unknowingly crosses the path of a criminal mastermind, she becomes the new target. With Danny by her side and her nephew finally safe elsewhere, it's a race to untangle the culprit's web before deadly danger catches up with them ..." -- Page [4] cover.
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When Liana Dector, a woman who is possibly a cold-blooded killer wanted by the police, storms into his favorite Boston tavern demanding his help, George Foss, unable to say "no" to his first love, is drawn into a world of murder, betrayal, and secrets from which there is no escape.
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He lost everything once...Now he's in the fight for his loved ones' lives. A home invasion destroyed Theo Sheldon's life decades ago. The sheriff of Silver Creek's only comfort is knowing he saved his sister's best friend. Now, that past has put Kim Ryland in danger once again. Because the person who murdered Theo's family is intent on tying up loose ends, jeopardizing the single dad's most precious connections. But Theo is done letting anyone...
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She's the only witness to see the face of a killer, but a deadly attack leaves Belinda Lewis unable to remember even her own name. She'll have to rely on her rescuer, FBI special agent Jonah Phillips, to survive repeated attempts on her life but she doesn't know he's in hiding because his description matches the killers. Can they unmask the true criminal to clear Jonah's name and save both of their lives?
13) Gold mine
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"Holly Frank is in trouble. The deadly kind. She and her sister must evade the authorities and the criminals who want them dead. Including Elijah North. The man who took her heart in Paris, her body in a prison cell, and her trust without remorse. He's determined to keep her safe. Even if that means losing her forever. Adam Bisset has his own dark agenda. She's caught between the two men, torn apart with every sensual push and pull. Each touch is...
14) The last Noel
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Last Noel: When two escaped killers take refuge in their home during a storm on Christmas Eve, Skyler O'Boyle plays a daring psychological game to throw the criminals off guard, while her daughter, Kat, escapes and meets a third felon, who is hiding a secret that could save them all.
Secret surrogate: The last thing this Texas sheriff wanted was to heed a frantic late-night call from Kylie Monroe-the woman who'd destroyed his life. Old wounds were...
15) The Blinds
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Guilt, memory, and redemption swirl through this inventive science-fiction-based thriller from Edgar-finalist Sternbergh (Shovel Ready). In Caesura, an isolated Texas town that's part penal colony, part rehabilitation experiment, Sheriff Calvin Cooper keeps the peace in a community that mixes the most savage of criminals with the victims of horrible crimes. What allows the two groups to coexist is that all their memories have been selectively edited...
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"Taken by men who think she's her identical twin, Charlotte Halstead finds herself staring down the barrel of a gun. Thanks to bounty hunter Wade Fast Horse, she escapes their clutches, but she's not safe for long. Her twin sister suddenly goes missing, and someone wants Charlotte dead. Wade is her only hope for survival, but can they find Charlotte's sister before the killer finds them?" -- Amazon.
17) Father and son
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Glen Davis returns to his small Mississippi hometown on the day of his discharge from jail where he spent three years for killing a boy in a drunk driving incident, and immediately begins trying to exact revenge on the people he believes have done him wrong.
18) Past crimes
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"Welcome to Earth+. The year is 2037, and nearly all human interactions have migrated to the virtual world. Now, true crime fans don't just listen to podcasts or watch documentaries -- they participate in hyper-realistic simulations and hunt for clues to solve the most famous and gruesome crimes in history. Criminal entertainment is a multibillion-dollar industry, and at the forefront is Past Crimes: known by its millions of fans as the Disneyland...
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After narrowly escaping an attempt on his life, Deputy Leo Logan is stunned to learn that his ex Olivia Nash may have been set up to take the blame. She's fighting his for custody of their son, but would someone go that far and put his little boy in the crosshairs? To catch a killer, he'll have to keep them close -- and risk falling for Olivia all over again.
20) Prizzi's family
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Prizzi series volume 2
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We join the Prizzis who are under seige by the Electronic Church and George F. Mallon, a mayoral candidate running on a platform of a corruption-free New York.
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