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"When Bertram Lanz goes missing from a local diner near Greenbury, the entire community of the small upstate New York town volunteers to search the surrounding woods in hopes of finding him. Bertram had been on a field trip with the staff and fellow residents of the Loving Care Home when he vanished. When no trace of the man is found, the disappearance quickly becomes an official missing persons case and is assigned to detectives Peter Decker and...
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As a detective lieutenant with the LAPD, Peter Decker witnessed enough ugliness and chaos for a lifetime. Now, he and his devoted wife Rena Lazarus are ready to enjoy the quiet beauty of upstate New York, where they can be closer to their four adult children and their foster son. But working for the Greenbury Police department isn't as fulfilling as Decker hoped. While Rina has adapted beautifully to their new surroundings, Decker is underwhelmed...
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Inspector M. L. Heimrich of the New York State Police may not have the flash of hard-boiled city detectives, but there's no lead the intrepid investigator won't follow until his every hunch is satisfied . . . A simple man, Inspector Heimrich is not particularly fond of large parties. Still, when he and his wife, Susan, receive an invitation to a black-tie event thrown by a wealthy local resident, Heimrich finds himself agreeing to attend the fete...
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Inspector M. L. Heimrich of the New York State Police may not have the flash of hard-boiled city detectives, but there's no lead the intrepid investigator won't follow until his every hunch is satisfied . . . Tensions have been rising in the conservative community of North Wellwood, New York, ever since African American lawyer Thomas Peters moved to town with a plan to open a desegregated country club. Those in opposition are determined to see Mr....
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Simon Ziele mysteries volume 1
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In the Shadow of Gotham is the winner of the 2010 Edgar Award for Best First Novel.
Dobson, New York, 1905.
Detective Simon Ziele lost his fiancée in the General Slocum ferry disaster—a thousand perished on that summer day in 1904 when an onboard fire burned the boat down in the waters of the East River. Still reeling from the tragedy, Ziele transferred to a police department north of New York, to escape the city and
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Inspector M. L. Heimrich of the New York State Police may not have the flash of hard-boiled city detectives, but there's no lead the intrepid investigator won't follow until his every hunch is satisfied . . . On the night before Christmas Eve, in Van Brunt, New York, attorney Samuel Jackson is run over in the parking lot of the Old Stone Inn-and it's no accident. For Inspector Heimrich, Jackson's murder is personal, not only because the man was his...
9) Bone box
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On a bright and crisp September morning, while walking a bucolic woodland trail, Rina Decker stumbles upon human remains once buried deep beneath the forest grounds. Immediately, she calls her husband, Peter, a former detective lieutenant with LAPD, now working for the local Greenbury Police. Within hours, a vista of beauty and tranquility is transformed into a frenetic crime scene. The body has been interred for years and there is scant physical...
10) Suspects
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A double murder leads a cop into the darkest corners of the NYPD In Greenpoint, everyone comes to Yetta's. A candy store one block west of McGoldrick Park, it's a neighborhood landmark, the place where Brooklynites come to sip a soda, buy a paper, and argue about gentrification. But when Lt. Joe Gallagher comes by to drop off a birthday cake for Yetta, he doesn't notice the homeless man standing outside. Gallagher has just handed over the cake...
11) Rizzo's war
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"There's no wrong, there's no right, there just is." This is the refrais of Joe Rizzo, a decades-long veteran of the NYPD, as he passes on the knowledge of his years of experience to Mike McQueen, his ambitious new partner from Manhattan, as the detectives ride together in the 62nd Precenct in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. But when the pair is given the delicate task of finding the runaway daughter of a city councilman, who may or may not be more interested...
12) The tenth life
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From the coauthor of the "excellent" Mr. and Mrs. North mysteries: Everything goes to the dogs when Inspector Heimrich must solve a veterinarian's murder (The New Yorker). Inspector M. L. Heimrich of the New York State Police may not have the flash of hard-boiled city detectives, but there's no lead the intrepid investigator won't follow until his every hunch is satisfied . . . When his Great Dane, Colonel, suddenly takes ill, Inspector Heimrich takes...
13) Walking shadows
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DETECTIVE PETER DECKER AND HIS WIFE, RINA LAZARUS, RISK LIFE AND LIMB TO SOLVE A PAIR OF BRUTAL MURDERS THAT MAY BE TIED TO A CRIME FROM MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS AGO IN THIS INTENSE AND ADDICTIVE MYSTERY FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR FAYE KELLERMAN On a gorgeous early summer morning in the small upstate college town of Greenbury, New York, Peter Decker is called to investigate some vandalized mailboxes on a rural street. Searching for evidence...
14) Rizzo's fire
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Joe Rizzo novels volume 2
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Twenty-year NYPD veteran Joe Rizzo investigates the murder of Robert Lauria, a man who was practically a hermit, looking for possible connections to the recent murder of a Broadway producer.
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Suffering a breakdown after a traumatic case three years earlier, former NYPD vice cop Dan Champion starts over as a small-town detective and is shocked by a case involving the murder of a woman he recognizes from a hallucination whose identity a group of expert killers would keep a secret.
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"The murder of Judge Hugo Jackson is out of Detective Simon Ziele's jurisdiction in more ways than one. It's high profile enough to command the attention of the notorious new police commissioner, since Judge Jackson was presiding over the sensationalist trial of Al Drayson. Drayson, an anarchist, set off a bomb at a Carnegie wedding, but instead of killing millionaires, it killed passersby, including a child. Furthermore, Simon's assigned precinct...
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Conrad Voort novels volume 1
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A New York psychiatrist holding a therapy session for rejected suitors counsels them to behave like men, not cry babies. One man takes the advice to heart and murders the woman who rejected him. Paralyzed with fear of being held responsible, the doctor watches the man take over the group, counselling them to follow his brand of manhood. A first novel.
18) Fear the night
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Night series (John Lutz) volume 5
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A sniper's bullet kills a lowly theater district shop owner. It's the first of several killings in what becomes a twisted cat-and-mouse game between the "Night Sniper," so-called because he only strikes after sunset, and retired New York detective Vincent Repetto.
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Zach Adams novels volume 1
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Zach Adams is one of the best detectives in the country. Nicknamed Cowboy, he serves on a federal task force that has a single mission: to hunt down Dominic Abend, a European gangster. After a brutal murder gives them a lead, Zach feels like he's finally on Abend's trail. But things get complicated and very, very weird. Zach is beginning to suspect that Abend's evil goes beyond crime - perhaps to the edge of the supernatural. In a centuries-old forest...
20) Rizzo's daughter
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Joe Rizzo novels volume 3
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"Brooklyn cop Joe Rizzo is ready to retire and spend the rest of his days with his wife, doting on their grown-up girls. But when his youngest daughter Carol decides to follow her dad onto the force, Joe decides to stay on until she's settled, calling in favors to get her assigned to the easiest house, the best training officer-- anything to protect his baby girl. And while there, he's expected to work a few cases, though he never would've guessed...
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