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A brutal homicide three thousand miles away has justshattered the tranquility of Lt. Peter Decker's household. The frantic phonecall sends him and his wife, Rina, on a plane east to the home of Decker's halfbrother, a rabbi whose brother-in-law's naked body was found in a sleazyManhattan hotel room/ Even more disturbing: the dead man's fifteen-year-oldniece-and possibly the last person to see him alive-has disappeared, leavingher family crazed with...
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After six years the congregation has grown so large that they are threatening a split in the membership and Rabbi Small is slightly disconcerted by the idea of a swinging Passover Service. To add to his problems he has to deal with a rash urban problem including the body of Moose Carter being found in an empty house after a beach party.
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Catherine Lockhart and Liam Taggart investigate a German violin prodigy's handwritten records from Berlin's interwar period to resolve a land dispute between a powerful corporation and a woman facing the loss of her Tuscan hills home.
An old friend calls Catherine Lockhart and Liam Taggart to his famous Italian restaurant to enlist their help. His aunt is being evicted from her home in the Tuscan hills by a powerful corporation claiming they own...
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Sergeant Decker is called to investigate a rape charge in an isolated Orthodox Jewish Community. Rina Lazarus, a young widow who found the victim, guides Decker through her suspicious community as all the signs point to the rapist's first crime not being their last.
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Lustmord: the joy of murder. The terrifying concept seems apt for the slaying of a young society wife dumped in the vast English Garden in 1929 Munich. Homicide inspector Axel Berg is horrified by the crime and disturbed by the artful arrangement of the victim's clothes and hair - a madman's portrait of death. Berg's superiors demand a quick arrest. When a second body is discovered, the city erupts into panic, the unrest fomented by a wild-eyed, hate-mongering...
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Dr. Rebecca Temple has just returned to practice in an old converted house in the Kensington Market area of Toronto, six months after the death of her artist husband, when she's confronted with the violent murder of a patient she had earlier diagnosed as paranoid. Even as Rebecca struggles with guilt over the misdiagnosis which may have led to her patient's death, she becomes the killer's next target.
7) Button man
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"Morris, Sol, and Harry Rabishevsky grew up poor and rough on New York's Lower East Side, until the death of their father forced them to support the family. Morris, the youngest, but the most driven and pugnacious, apprentices himself at twelve to a garment manufacturer; bookish Sol drops out of accounting school; but Harry, scarred by a family tragedy, is lured under the wing of a charismatic crime figure. Morris rises through the factory until,...
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Abe Lieberman mysteries volume 6
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When a witness's son is kidnapped, Chicago's gangland erupts into chaos Once a college football star, Bill Hanrahan has had a hard time of it ever since his bad knees kept him out of the pros. He became a homicide detective with the unfortunate reputation of losing witnesses and loving the bottle. Now Hanrahan is off the sauce, and working a job that should be straightforward: He's guarding a mob informant's ex-wife and teenage son while they tour...
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Carl Zwick, an aging Chicago Cubs player, Anita Mills, a single mother struggling to get by, and Richard Allen Smith, a self-proclaimed minister of God,find all their fates merged as Detective Abe Lieberman investigates a series of crimes and fights to make Chicago a better place.
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Ruby, the rabbi's wife mysteries volume 2
Ruby the Rabbi's wife volume 02
Ruby the rabbi's wife mysteries volume 2
Ruby the Rabbi's wife volume 02
Ruby the rabbi's wife mysteries volume 2
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2002.
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Two brothers are admitted to Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital with horrific injuries. Their mother, a young American, devoutly recites Psalms at the bedside, refusing to answer any questions. Brought in to investigate, Detective Bina Tzedek follows a winding path that takes her through Jerusalem's Old City, kabbalists, mystical ancient texts, and terrifying cult rituals, until she finally uncovers the shocking truth.
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Ruby, the rabbi's wife mysteries volume 5
Ruby The Rabbi's Wife volume 05
Ruby the rabbi's wife mysteries volume 5
Ruby The Rabbi's Wife volume 05
Ruby the rabbi's wife mysteries volume 5
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Rabbi Small mysteries volume 01, 02, 03
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[1969]
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Three complete "Rabbi Small" novels in one book.
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Benny Cooperman mysteries volume 10
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2002.
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Mild-mannered private detective Benny Cooperman accepts employment protecting old classmate Vanessa Moss, now Head of Entertainment at a television network, who has reason to suspect her life is in danger, but he soon learns taking care of the former high school beauty is a risky business.
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