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"A distraught businessman who is looking for help walks into the office of a mouthy detective named Jules Bettinger, has a conversation, walks out, and kills himself. Because of this incident, the impolite but decorated policeman is forced to relocate himself and his family from their warm lives in Arizona to the frigid north and work for an understaffed precinct in Victory, Missouri. This collapsed rustbelt city is a dying beast that devours itself...
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A CHARMING WIDOW WITH A TROUBLING HISTORY
As if by magic, Annette Berowne seems capable of dazzling men from the moment she meets them. But when Annette becomes the primary suspect in her husband's poisoning death, she arouses entirely different feelings. Now some men feel sorry for her while others are convinced she's guilty.
PROVIDES TWO DETECTIVES WITH A MYSTERY OF SEDUCTION AND MURDER.
Jack Gibbons is a by-the-book, rising star at Scotland...
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9 square miles. 10,000 criminals. 130 cops. A riveting memoir by Baker, California's most-decorated police officer
Compton: the most violent and crime-ridden city in America. What had been a semi-rural suburb of Los Angeles in the 1950s became a battleground for the Black Panthers and Malcolm X Foundation, the home of the Crips and Bloods and the first Hispanic gangs, and the cradle of gangster rap. At the center of it, trying to maintain order...
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Welcome to St. Barts, beautiful and sensual, vacation spot of models, moguls and movie stars and home to Gendarme Charles Trenet. Life is one sunny day after another and the life of the young gendarme is one of blissful tranquility-even his love life is looking up-that is, until the annual marbles tournament rolls around. The locals always look forward to the good-natured competition and this one looks to be the most exciting event yet. But what has...
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Rookie, Jake Cornell didn't know what to expect when he arrived for work as a new recruit in his home town police station, but he was excited. Afer all, how hard could it be, he lived in a quiet town, didn't he...?When the local Magistrates' Court kept releasing violent, recidivist offenders back into the community, instead of jailing them, someone in the the south-east Australian town took it upon themselves to serve up a more suitable punishment...
8) Murder Cove
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A boy and girl die back-to-back. Literally.A fisherman discovered the boy's body submerged in the lake with his hands tied behind his back. When Sheriff Steele and her troops hoisted the body into their boat, they discovered something unsettling. The boy still held onto a girl's hand, but only a hand.With a promise to find the girl and identify the victims, the Sheriff's Office began their investigation, but when more bodies turn up in the same cove,...
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Digger drives by the car accident scene of a friend. He knows in his heart that this was no accident. So, when he couldn't let the scene go, he asked FBI Agent Watson for help.Once they joined forces, Watson found a series of murdered scientists who died in a similar manner to Digger's friend. This spurred Digger to find the truth. While searching for the reason for the killings, Digger finds a file, and everything makes sense until a photo falls...
10) The Warehouse
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Episode Four: Deputy Commissioner Libby Klump makes a gruesome discovery while looking for a lost pet. Meanwhile, Don Klump and the rest of the police department hunt for a killer nurse after the Medical Examiner finds that poison played a role in a disgraced officer's death. They continue investigating the mole. Don and Libby can't help thinking that these and their prior cases are related. A police procedural/family drama/cozy mystery in eight easy...
11) My Grumpy Cop
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The last thing I expected while eating a bowl of cereal was to come face to face with a corpse in the middle of the kitchen, and become the only witness to a murder.The killer? Bruno Santoni, the most famous gangster in the South of France.Just my luck.Now I have to accept protection from Livio-a stubborn detective with a stick up his butt. He's been after Santoni for years. Has an obsession that rivals my obsession for sweets. We couldn't be more...
12) Despair
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Do villains deserve their happy ever after? Daisy Lazarus is the genetically modified warrior of the forgotten deadly sin of despair. After a life of villainy, she has been brought back into the fold and wants nothing more than to fit in, to find herself, and to prove she is worth saving. But the more she tries to be like her heroic siblings, the more her fears pull her back into the darkness.Firefighter Axel Alvares has done bad things, including...
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He swore he'd never cross the line with someone he was protecting... especially not for a woman who happens to be a rockstar hiding in plain sight.Rory Maverick lives by a code-Honor, Loyalty, and Truth.So, when his best friend calls asking him for a favor, he doesn't hesitate. Plus, the timing couldn't be better. Going to podunk Alabama to watch over his best friend's little sister sounds like a cakewalk job compared to the high-maintenance celebrities...
14) Snake
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He's trying to get back into his life after being gone for two years. She's trying to get ahead in life. Neither counted on falling for their wedding party partner.Snake has spent years doing what his president needed. Including two years undercover on a mission he's only recently returned from. When one of his brother's asked him to be a groomsman at his wedding, he reluctantly agreed. only to be partnered with his brother's sister.Jenny would do...
15) Healer
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What if the Target of an FBI Manhunt is More Than What He Seems?Sheriff Stuart Benson of Forgetful, Nevada leads a quiet life and has come to expect nothing will change that. But when an idling rental car is left, doors locked, in the parking lot of a local diner with what appears to be an urn of human remains on the front passenger seat, his life will be turned upside down. Soon he is swept up in an FBI manhunt across several states for a dangerous...
16) Justice Rendered
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One murdered, one missing, and an entire town full of suspects. Scrappers find the body of a much-despised junk man, covered in grass clippings and a rogue kiddie pool, at the local dump. In the process of the murder investigation, Sheriff Peter Elliott discovers the residents of Stone County, Montana are hiding a shameful secret. An antique serving fork points the way to a world of greed and betrayal. Nothing is off the table, including the murder...
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Malachy Corcoran takes a demotion in order to accept a front-line job far away from his old position. If he can just keep his head down, perhaps he'll avoid the worst of the personal and professional disasters headed his way. But once in Mission City, BC, he finds the woman he once walked away from. The woman he's never forgotten.Abigail Reardon manages the office at Healing Horses Ranch in Mission City. She...
18) Father and Son
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Someone wants you dead. You don't know who. Or why.John Ray is called to the scene of a violent murder. The victim is an old associate of his father, local crime boss Tony Ray. There's no obvious motive for the crime, but everybody agrees on one thing: don't tell the police.John, the charismatic, Cambridge-educated white sheep of the Ray family, has always refused to be part of his father's business. But he's also a bit of a maverick, with a foot...
19) Marble Grove
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Eighty-six-year-old Marjory Mosen was murdered. She wasn't first and won't be the last.In the safety of a long-term care facility, patients with late-stage cancers are given a chilling execution - a single shot to the heart in a silent execution. There's no trace of gun residue or DNA left behind.Carin Trimble, Marble Grove's new detective, quickly realizes that solving the Nursing Home Murders is her ticket out of the limbo of being a small-town...
20) The Handler
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I have to handle the threat to my wife if I'm ever going to consummate our marriage. Amy Davis-that's the name I gave her when I broke every FBI rule and put her in witness protection-isn't taking this new threat seriously. But she will. As soon as I get to Colorado to handle the risk and my brat. Just because she no longer has to testify against a notorious gangster, doesn't mean she's safe. There are people who want to find her. Very bad people....
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