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1) Briarpatch
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"America's best storyteller." -The New York Times Book Review
From Edgar Award-winning author Ross Thomas comes Briarpatch, a thrilling mystery of one man's personal mission to find justice for his family. Now the basis for the USA Network television series executive produced by Sam Esmail, creator of Mr. Robot.
A long-distance call from his small Texas hometown on his birthday gives Benjamin Dill the news that his sister Felicity-born on the same...
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There are families like the Beans all over America. They live on the wrong side of town in mobile homes strung with Christmas lights all year round. The women are often pregnant, the men drunk and just out of jail, and the children too numerous to count. There is cousin Rubie, a boozer and a brawler; tall Aunt Roberta, the earth mother surrounded by countless clinging babies; and Beal, sensitive, often gentle, but doomed by the violence within him...
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Peter and Paul Winter, sons of a German businessman, are bonded by childhood trauma. When they grow apart, only to meet again under the shadow of the Third Reich-and then again at the Nuremburg trials-they find themselves divided by war and differing ideals. In this expansive, rich, and deeply tragic portrait of a German family from 1899 to 1945, Len Deighton brilliantly weaves a portrait of the fortunes of two sons, and a nation, over half a century....
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A private detective is dead, and Brady suspects it's murder Les Katz may well be scum. A private detective, he does not hesitate to take the case when a Farrah Fawcett look-alike hires him to tail her husband. The photos he secures suggest the man is cheating on his wife, but they aren't definitive. Rather than disappoint his client, he contacts her man and offers to sell him the pictures. Katz considers this a charitable act, but to his attorney,...
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Laura Valiant, an art dealer, and Claire Benson are childhood friends. Though divorced from her French husband, Philippe Lavillard, Claire delights in her daughter. Tension rises when Laura discovers a connection between the Lavillard family and artwork stolen by the Nazis.
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The delightful crime-solving and aristocratic social adventures of an American antiques expert and a British feline with finesse It's love at first sight when a businessman visiting London meets a silver-gray cat named James in the lobby of his apartment house. The two begin meeting regularly for cocktails-single-malt whiskey, neat, for James-and attending posh parties, where James first makes a name for himself by cracking the case of a priceless...
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