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Los Angeles detective Peter Decker tackles a homicide case involving a billionaire real estate developer, his wife, and four employees. While Decker leads his homicide team throughout California and into Mexico, he thinks his own wife is on jury back at the courthouse. But a chance encounter with a court translator who needs her help leads Rina into the heart of the murder investigation, and straight into the path of a gang of ruthless killers.
2) Hard ground
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Hard Ground is a treasure chest of stories for lovers of the outdoors, fans of smart crime fiction, and, of course, the legions of Joseph Heywood fans. Featuring the game-warden colleagues of Woods Cop star Grady Service, the tales in this collection follow the men and women patrolling Michigan's wilds as they encounter everything from poachers determined to defend their kills with deadly resistance to drug pushers selling their wares at an...
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Detective Mark Turpin novel volume 02
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When a championship jockey discovers the body of a young woman during a cold morning's training ride, the local racing community is shocked to its core. Everyone says she was the perfect friend, the perfect daughter and the perfect fiancée. However as Detective Mark Turpin delves into the girl's fateful last hours, he discovers a past full of lies and mystery. Investigating the truth behind her savage death, Mark uncovers jealousy and ambition within...
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"Fred Daniels, a black man, is picked up randomly by the police after a brutal murder in a Chicago neighborhood and taken to the local precinct where he is tortured until he confesses to a crime he didn't commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from the precinct and takes up residence in the sewers below the streets of Chicago."--
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Sherlock Holmes mysteries volume 6
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It has been three years since Sherlock Holmes fell to his death after a showdown with his brilliant enemy Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. Believing his friend to be dead, Doctor John Watson has moved on with his life. That is, until he discovers Sherlock Holmes alive and in disguise one afternoon in a London shop. A whole new series of adventures awaits Holmes and Watson, and the consulting detective must use the science of deduction to solve new mysteries,...
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Hamish Macbeth, Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman returns in a new short story from New York Times bestselling author M.C. Beaton
Knock Knock, You're Dead! A Hamish Macbeth Short Story
Mrs. Morag McPhie hits upon the idea of selling some of her old furniture to raise money to visit her daughter in Australia. But when a dead body turns up, Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth wonders if the antique business...
Knock Knock, You're Dead! A Hamish Macbeth Short Story
Mrs. Morag McPhie hits upon the idea of selling some of her old furniture to raise money to visit her daughter in Australia. But when a dead body turns up, Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth wonders if the antique business...
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A collection of novels, the volume is written with the focus on the now ever apparent debate surrounding ethics of human cloning, a search for one's home base and a balance between one's happiness and the ultimate truth.
The two novels included in this book are works of Russian magic realism. In the first novel, Shadowplay on a Sunless Day, Anatoly Kudryavitsky writes about life in modern-day Moscow and about an emigrant's life in Germany. The novel...
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Calladine fell for her... hard. They'd met that night dancing at the Semiramis Hotel and he had fallen under her spell almost immediately. All too soon the evening ended and Calladine thought he'd seen the last of her. But a few hours later she's on his doorstep. Her name is Joan Carew and she needs his help.
Joan quickly admits to him that she had just come form trying to steal an expensive pearl necklace. She'd made her way into the suit of her...
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The third installment in the irresistible adventures of A. J. Raffles, the thief who gives crime a good name For weeks, Bunny Manders has scoured the sporting papers, looking for word of his vanished friend-the cricketer, playboy, and gentleman thief A. J. Raffles. A mysterious message lures Bunny to a darkened side street, where he finds Raffles in filthy clothes, with an unkempt beard. The amateur cracksman has been lying low in the empty townhouse...
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A Good Cop. A Corrupt Cop. A Cop To Die In Service.A good cop protects people.Detective Sergeant Mathew Horne loves police work. He sees a friend. Mathew investigates deadly police corruption.Can Mathew stop the corruption?If you enjoy enthralling unputdownable detective mysteries, you'll love this one!BUY NOW!Also available in Mystery Short Story Collection Volume 2.
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Rookie Washington State Trooper Andrea Clark, a supporting player in the Nora Dockson legal thriller series, takes charge in this short mystery story.Underage college students and other kids in car-dependent Spokane County are using fake IDs to buy legal pot and booze.To halt the rise in traffic deaths caused by inexperienced drivers under the influence of cannabis and alcohol, Andrea puts together a sting operation at Spokane's Mineshaft Saloon...
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THE BOOK "CONSPIRACY STORIES" IS ALL ABOUT CONSPIRACY.Within you'd find three chilling and addictive stories to awaken your mind.THE DARK SECRET is a riddle of rumours, mysterious incidents, truth, and crime. Cindy Norton returns from France to surprise her parents in Cypriot, when the borders were reopened after the lockdown. In a series of mysterious incidents, she and her boyfriend Tim, are hailed by the Police as heroes, for their part in solving...
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Trish can't believe her luck when she wins a lottery. It gets even better when she meets Trevor, a handsome reporter who wants to interview her. As they get to know each other, romance blooms and she feels like the luckiest woman alive.
There is only one problem. She is being followed by a stranger. She can't fathom why and is relieved when Trevor asks her to marry him and move to Chicago for his new job. After the wedding, they are on the road to...
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The Auto Shop Case, a crime mystery by Bruce Allsman A gruesome discovery in the trunk of a white sedan in an auto repair shop, draws homicide detectives John Allen and Chris Davidson into a murder mystery. The victim, Susan Baldwin, is the young wife of a middle-aged real estate developer, Steven Baldwin, a respectable member of the city's business community and a close friend of the police commissioner. Starting the investigation by interviewing...
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Ten years after a terrifying kidnapping ended in murder, can rookie FBI Agent Thomas Kamea unearth new clues and finally nail the killer? Every cop has a case they can't let go of. The Nash case is rookie FBI agent Thomas Kamea's. Now that he's a federal agent, maybe the use of their resources plus the advances in technology will help him finally bring the murderer to justice. Maybe then Cedric Nash's lifeless eyes will stop haunting his nightmares....
19) A Fair Penitent
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This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1857. Born in Marylebone, London in 1824, Collins' family enrolled him at the Maida Hill Academy in 1835, but then took him to France and Italy with them between 1836 and 1838. Returning to England, Collins attended Cole's boarding school, and completed his education in 1841, after which he was apprenticed to the tea merchants Antrobus & Co. in the Strand. In 1846, Collins became a law...
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A man whose wife has been missing for a year gets some strange phone calls-as well as a visit from Detective Inspector Pascoe-in a novella that pays homage to Edgar Allan Poe.
A female journalist faces skepticism from the police when she reports an assault, and finds she may have to confront the attacker herself.
A family man wonders what sort of trouble the previous occupants of his new house were mixed up in-and finds some clues that were left...
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