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1) Blacklist
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V. I. Warshawski mysteries volume 11
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V.I. Warshawski novel volume 11
Thorndike Press large print basic
V.I. Warshawski novel volume 11
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Chicago detective V. I. Warshawski investigates the murder of an African-American reporter and walks into a web of sex, politics, corruption, and secrecy spanning fifty years--from the McCarthy era to the Patriot Act--that could ultimately kill her.
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Part social satire, part police procedural, Bill James returns with the stunning prequel to Tip Top - In the drug-ridden Whitsun and Temperate housing estates a connection, once made, is only ever one thing: trouble. Trouble for the journalist whose investigation into the estates leads to his murder; trouble for policewoman Esther Davidson, whose job it is to arrest the killer; and trouble for TV producer Larry Edgehill, who becomes more involved...
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2006.
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As a former soldier, Gordon Reeve knows something about killing. So despite the fact that the death of his brother Jim has been ruled a suicide, Gordon can't shake the feeling that someone is responsible. Traveling alone across an ocean, he arrives in California determined to get answers: Why was the car Jim's body was found in locked from the outside? Who would want Jim dead? And now why do the local cops seem bent on thwarting Gordon's efforts to...
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Charles Lenox chronicles volume 3
(Charles B.)Charles Lenox volume 03
(Charles B.)Charles Lenox volume 3
Charles Lenox Mystery
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(Charles B.)Charles Lenox volume 03
(Charles B.)Charles Lenox volume 3
Charles Lenox Mystery
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Celebrating the 1866 holiday season at the side of his fiancée, amateur sleuth Charles Lenox is drawn into the double-homicide case of two reporters, an investigation that is complicated by a police ruling that the killings are unrelated.
7) Tatiana
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Arkady Renko novels volume 8
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Arkady Renko -- cynical, analytical, and quietly subversive -- has survived the cultural journey from the Soviet Union to the New Russia, only to find the nation as obsessed with secrecy and brutality as was the old Communist dictatorship. In Tatiana, the melancholy hero finds himself on the trail of a mystery as complex and dangerous as modern Russia herself.
8) Game over
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 11
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When investigating the murder of a journalist, Detective Inspector Bill Slider's life becomes more complicated when he tries to find the time to marry his girlfriend before their baby is born, while receiving death threats from an old enemy.
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Joseph Michael Ballista - "Joey Ballistic" to his mob buddies - knows most of the ways to make an illegal buck. But his crafty lawyer, Lucille Lettermore - "Lefty Lucy" to every prosecuter she's ever humiliated - is determined to free him by getting all his previous convictions set aside, beginning with one for attempted murder. She hires Detroit private detective Amos Walker to investigate the old crime. Walker's first problem? The inteded victim...
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Paddy Meehan novels volume 3
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When an ex-boyfriend and fellow journalist is found murdered, reporter Paddy Meehan is shocked to learn that the victim has left her his home, where she discovers suitcases filled with incriminating notes.
11) First kill
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Hank Berlin and Jack Drucker had been friends since grade school--and both in love with Elizabeth Kermanski. Early on, however, Hank saw that he was out of the running, and made the best of it. They still remained friends. The friendship was only torn when Jack enlisted in the army to serve in Vietnam, and Hank, who was against the war, traveled to Canada to escape the draft. After that, the two men never spoke again, and Elizabeth followed her husband's...
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Detective Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin are tasked with protecting, Cameron Clay, the Gazette's most hated columnist in New York City, after he begins to receive anonymous death threats. Death threats are a regular hazard for Clay, who has hurled insults and accusations at every boldfaced name in the five boroughs, but the latest ones carried a more sinister tone.
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Bursting at the seams with excitement to be in France, Crimes of Fashion columnist Lacy Smithsonian is dishing the dirt on haute couture, only to find herself up to her stillettos in mystery when the supposed Rousseau family lost treasure, a jewel-lined corset, brings about the death of a corset designer.
15) Reviver
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Reviver trilogy volume 01
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"Jonah Miller is a Reviver, able to temporarily revive the dead so they can say goodbye to their loved ones--or tell the police who killed them. Jonah works in a department of forensics created specifically for Revivers, and he's the best in the business. While reviving the victim of a brutal murder, he encounters a terrifying presence. Something is on the other side watching. Waiting. His superiors tell him it's only in his mind, a product of stress....
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The voice of a frightened child draws fashion reporter and sometime sleuth Lacey Smithsonian down and dark alley in Washington, D.C., and deep into a mystery that endangers more than just her Christmas spirit. On the eve of The Eye Street Observer's holiday party, the newspaper's crankiest Grinch falls victim to a mysterious assailant in a Santa Claus cap-A rival journalist, a political terrorist, an enraged reader or something far more sinister?...
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 15
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When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting on the war in Europe, is found murdered in her London digs, news of her death is concealed by British authorities. Serving as a linchpin between Scotland Yard and the Secret Service, Robert MacFarlane pays a visit to Maisie Dobbs, seeking her help. He is accompanied by an agent from the US Department of Justice--Mark Scott, the American who helped Maisie get out of Hitler's Munich in 1938....
20) Bury the lead
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Andy Carpenter novels volume 3
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His streak of murder case acquttals made him a regular on cable talk shows. His recent $22 million inheritance bought him a dog rescue operation named after his beloved golden retriever. Now after turning down cases left and right, attorney Andy Carpenter feels like he's facing a midlife crisis. and just when he decides he needs some real work, a newspaper owner friend asks Andy to protect his star reporter. Daniel Cummings is being used as a mouthpiece...
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