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With her wedding day approaching, Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy doesn't need the stress of a disciplinary hearing-or the disapproval of her soon-to-be in-laws. She'd welcome nearly any distraction from her complicated life. But she takes no joy in the grim realities of her current case.
On a snowy December morning, fourteen-year-old Kayleigh Harrison is found outside Patches nightclub in Leek. Nearly naked and half-dead from the cold, she says...
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"Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the 1990s are going to be better for him and the people of Northern Ireland. As a Catholic cop in the mainly Protestant RUC he still has a target on his back, and with a steady girlfriend and a child the stakes couldn't be higher. After handling a mercurial triple agent and surviving the riots and bombings and assassination attempts, all Duffy wants to...
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An old case makes Detective Inspector Louisa Smith some new enemies in this spellbinding second installment of New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Haynes's Briarstone crime series that combines literary suspense and page-turning thrills. Ten years ago, 15-year-old Scarlett Rainsford vanished while on a family holiday in Greece. Was she abducted, or did she run away from her severely dysfunctional family? Lou Smith worked the case as a police...
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A burglary gone wrong turns complicated in this mystery marked by “solid plotting, realistic descriptions of police work, and dry wit” (Booklist).
At near midnight on a sweltering hot July Saturday, Det. Chief Inspector Harry Brock is called to a murder in a house at West Drayton, close to Heathrow Airport. The murder victim is Clifford Gregory, the accountant husband of attractive air stewardess Sharon...
At near midnight on a sweltering hot July Saturday, Det. Chief Inspector Harry Brock is called to a murder in a house at West Drayton, close to Heathrow Airport. The murder victim is Clifford Gregory, the accountant husband of attractive air stewardess Sharon...
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"Three college freshmen go missing from their rural hometown of Kelly's Falls while on Christmas break. Their cell phones, coats, and purses are left behind, but the girls have disappeared without a trace. As the days turn into weeks and the investigation grows cold, twenty-three-year-old Buffalo police officer Shea O'Connor is called on to dig up leads undercover. Still bearing the emotional and physical scars of a previous case, O'Connor infiltrates...
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Ben Packard mysteries volume 1
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"When misguided teenagers Jesse Crawford and Jenny Wheeler are forced to rob Emmett Brown to escape impossible circumstances, what starts as a home invasion quickly turns into a nightmare for the teens. What Jesse and Jenny don't know is that although Emmett is now old, severely obese, and in chronic pain, Emmett was responsible for the kidnapping and deaths of two young women almost twenty years ago, crimes that have never been solved. So Emmett...
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When Adele Delaney and her daughter go missing, Kala Stonechild and Paul Gundersund investigate. Adele's body soon turns up - dead, with no sign of her daughter. Struggling to to keep the case on track and her own life under control, Stonechild learns the dead woman had ties to a Montreal biker gang and heads to Quebec to find the missing piece.
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Chief Detective Inspector Harry McCoy follows the scarce clues to search for the perpetrators of a bombing campaign in Glasgow and its surrounding towns in a strike for independence in April 1974, as well as a missing American sailor from the base at Holy Loch.
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George Gates used to be a travel writer who had specialized in places where people had disappeared--until his own young son had been murdered. When he gets drawn into the unsolved case of Katherine Carr, he begins to suspect that her tale holds the key not only to her fate, but to his own as well.
10) Kill my darling
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When Melanie Hunter uncharacteristically disappears, the men in her life come under suspicion. As Bill Slider and his team are questioning the potential suspects, they discover much about Melanie's past: unsettling deceptions, family secrets, and an enduring pain that she hid from the outside world. Slider will have to unravel lies, half-truths and disinformation to find the answer to their questions: who loved Melanie, and who loved her too much?...
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"When a woman's body is found submerged in icy water, police are shocked to find she is alive. But she won't disclose her name, or what happened to her - even when a second body is discovered. And then she disappears from her hospital bed. Detectives Adrian Miles and Imogen Grey follow their only lead to the home of the Corrigans, looking for answers. But the more they dig into the couple's lives, the less they understand about them. What's their...
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When she glimpses a Hispanic teenager bound and gagged in the back of a van, small-town Wisconsin detective Tia Suarez, determined to find the teen, goes up against Gunther Kane and his white supremacist group, who are using forced prostitution to finance the purchase of weapons.
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"Bruce Attleton dazzled London's literary scene with his first two novels - but his early promise did not bear fruit. His wife Sybilla is a glittering actress, unforgiving of Bruce's failure, and the couple lead separate lives in their house at Regent's Park. When Bruce is called away on a sudden trip to Paris, he vanishes completely - until his suitcase and passport are found in a sinister artist's studio, the Belfry, in a crumbling house in Notting...
15) Little girl lost
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Foundlings volume 1
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MAY, 1968. On a murky pre-dawn Mother's Day, sinister secrets play out miles apart in New York City. In Harlem, a church janitor finds an innocent newborn in a basket. In Brooklyn, an elusive serial killer prowls slumbering families, leaving a trail of blood and a twisted calling card. Cloaked in lies, these seemingly unrelated lives--and deaths--are destined to intersect on a distant, blood-soaked day. OCTOBER, 1987. Reeling from shocking personal...
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"July 1973. The Glasgow drugs trade is booming and Bobby March, the city's own rock-star hero, has just ODed in a central hotel. Alice Kelly is twelve years old, lonely. And missing. Meanwhile the niece of McCoy's boss has fallen in with a bad crowd. When she goes AWOL, McCoy is asked--off the books--to find her. McCoy has a hunch. But does he have enough time?"--
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A year after her famous mother disappeared during Mardi Gras, Josette Guillory is back on Bourbon Street. She's looking for answers, even if that means putting herself at risk. Law enforcement failed her, which is shy she pushes FBI Agent Keenan Carter asway--until their mutual attraction makes her pull him close. She trusts him with her life, but that doesn't mean she trust him with her heart...
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"It's a perfectly ordinary morning for Lowell Mitchell at her perfectly normal university in Massachusetts. She goes to her Friday morning history class, heads back to her dormitory, and spends time talking to her roommate. But nothing is ordinary about her disappearance twelve hours later. Considered one of the first-ever police procedurals, Last Seen Wearing is riveting in its accurate portrayal of an official police investigation. Based on the...
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Audra Trask's entire existence has been clouded by her missing father. When a vicious smear campaign and a mysterious stranger seem to also be connected to her dad, both her business and her life are suddenly on the line. Turning to Colorado Ranger Brigade specialist Mark "Hud" Hudson for help seems like her best chance at getting answers. But Hud's plan to use Audra to locate a potential criminal soon leads to an attraction he can't deny...and...
20) Fatal divisions
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"Hank Worth has always been committed to his job as Branson sheriff, so getting him to take a break is difficult. But to everyone's surprise he agrees to take time off after a grueling case and visit a friend in Columbia, Missouri, leaving Chief Deputy Sheila Turley in charge. She quickly launches reforms that create an uproar, and things deteriorate even further when an elderly man is found brutally murdered in his home. As Sheila struggles for control...
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