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87th Precinct mysteries volume 29
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English
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The dog days of August are making the 87th Precinct feel like the inside of an oven. But things can always get hotter. With nearly half the squadroom on vacation, Detectives Carella and Hawes look into what appears to be an ordinary warehouse fire, but Carella and Hawes rarely see anything ordinary, and this is no different. The trail from the warehouse leads uptown to the murders of a junkie and a suspected prostitute. They soon discover a shady...
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2015.
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"He'd been a promising piano prodigy, once. Now he was just an addict, scraping to get by, letting his hunger for drugs consume him. But a man's life can always get worse - as Ray Stone discovers when he wakes up beside a beautiful nightclub singer only to find her dead, and 16 ounces of pure heroin missing."--Page 4 of cover.
7) The mugger
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87th Precinct mysteries volume 2
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English
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The 87th Precinct patrolmen aggressively pursue a mugger who preys on women after he puts one victim in the hospital and another in the morgue, but patrolman Bert Kling has a personal reason for stalking the criminal.
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87th Precinct mysteries volume 5
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English
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Annie Boone is dead. She was shot four times in the chest, pieces of the liquor store's windows spread over her body like raindrops from a lethal storm. For 87th Precinct Detectives Carella, Kling, and newcomer Hawes, even more troubling is the loss of one of their own. Detective Roger Havilland is murdered shortly thereafter, a shard of glass through his jugular. Faced with a host of suspects-from Annie's former mother-in-law to her ex-husband, employer,...
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In the middle of a stifling heat wave, why would an artist intent on committing suicide turn his air conditioning off before taking his life? That's the question troubling Detectives Steve Carella and Bert Kling until more personal-and deadly-questions threaten to tear Kling's life apart. Certain his wife, Augusta, is cheating on him, Kling sets out on a course from which there is no turning back. Meanwhile a dangerous killer from his past begins...
11) Cop hater
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English
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When a sniper begins gunning down cops from the 87th Precinct in cold blood, it's up to Detective Steve Carella to sort out who and why, before he finds himself on the wrong end of the killer's 45.
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Matthew Hope mysteries volume 13
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English
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Private eyes search for an errant middle-aged man so that his wife can sue for divorce and alimony, but then a corpse turns up on Calusa Beach with his ID in the pocket.
15) Driving lessons
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English
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A student driver and her teacher hit and kill a woman crossing the street. When this apparent accident turns into a crime, Detective Karen Logan's discoveries hit a little too close to home.
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Matthew Hope mysteries volume 11
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English
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Attorney Matthew Hope lies in a coma after catching two bullets to the chest outside a Calusa, Florida, bar. That he was anywhere near the seedy establishment is a bit of irony; he had recently taken a break from the criminal side of his practice after his last case made him question his instincts as a defender. Now it?s up to Hope?s friends and associates?PI pals Warren Chambers and Toots Kiley, law partner Frank Summerville, police detective Morris...
17) The con man
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When a murdered woman is pulled from the river, Detective Steve Carella must follow a single clue--a strange tatoo on the dead woman's hand--in order to capture the elusive con man who may be responsible for the murder.
18) Vespers
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[1990]
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English
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When the symbol of a Satanic cult is left at the murder scene of a young Catholic priest, the cops of the 87th Precinct must keep it from becoming the spark which ignites the racial and ethnic tensions smoldering in the city.
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