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Returning to her hometown to start a law practice, Jill Strather can't deny the attraction she still feels for Mac Kendrick, a burned-out LAPD cop; when Mafia dons, social workers, and bitter exes enter the picture, Jill and Mac find the simplest romance is complicated.
2) Dragon tears
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Police Detective Harry Lyon is caught in a whirlwind of terror that threatens to sweep away not only him but his partner and everyone he loves.
3) On the grind
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Detective Shane Scully, accused of felony misconduct in a solicitation of murder case, chooses to resign from the Los Angeles Police Department rather than face criminal prosecution, putting his professional and personal life in turmoil, but his situation becomes dire when he takes a job with the Haven Park police department--a known hotbed of corruption--and he is forced to turn to his estranged wife, Alexa, the LAPD chief of detectives, to save...
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Women's Murder Club volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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After losing one of its own, Lindsay Boxer and the Women' Murder Club make a courageous return for their fourth and most chilling case ever--one that could easily be their last. A young girl is killed in crossfire after a routine arrest goes terribly wrong, and Lt. Lindsay Boxer has to defend herself against a charge of police brutality. In a landmark trial that transfixes the nation, Lindsay fights to save her career and her sanity. While awaiting...
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A police detective struggles to outwit a twisted killer in a crime novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of Undercurrents. Carmel, California is a scenic, peaceful tourist haven where James Dewitt is the police force's only detective. His usual caseload is stolen bicycles and an occasional burglary-but things are about to change with frightening speed. A series of apparent suicides-which soon prove to be murders-shocks the community. Dewitt,...
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Investigating a triple murder at a Hollywood Hills mansion where another killing took place twenty-five years earlier, Detective Shane Scully and his new partner, Hitch, find the open-and-shut case complicated by the discovery of a spent bullet casing that does not match other evidence.
7) Quicksand
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As head of California's task force on narcotics and organized crime, Brock Andrews has earned his reputation as a tough, no-nonsense law enforcement agent. With his hardball tactics and skillful handling of informants, his team has successfully brought down some of the country's most violent and powerful criminals. But it's Brock's superior who's about to become his greatest adversary. Her name: Alison Andrews, First Assistant United States Attorney......
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Homicide detective Frank Harriman reopens an old case when the discovery of the sabotaged plane and corpse of Philip Lefebvre, a detective widely believed to have been involved in a triple murder ten years earlier, is found in the San Bernadino Mountains, bringing home the realization that the real murderer is still at large.
9) Hostage
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Police chief Jeff Talley is thrown back into the tension-filled world that he wants to forget when a family is held hostage in their home, which contains secrets that even Los Angeles' lethal crime lord, Sonny Benza, fears.
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The Baby Bet
Baby-To-Be
The matchmaking MacAllisters were at it again! And they'd targeted confirmed bachelor Ted Sharpe...
Heck, the macho cop had merely befriended his needy new neighbor, pretty-pregnant-Hannah Johnson. He'd simply brought her a crib and a kitten, a dollhouse and daffodils. But did that mean he'd lost his heart to Hannah and her baby? That he'd be trading his little black book for a lifetime of loving one woman and child?...
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Inspector Omar Collins tracks a mad killer through California's Sierra Nevada mountains in this classic novel from the legendary mystery author.
A party of backpackers hikes along the silver strand of the river, in awe of the overwhelming beauty of King's Canyon. They are amateur hikers, coworkers at a chemical lab who came from Fresno to heed the call of the wild. They have endured blisters, bug bites, and sunburn, but no discomfort can prepare...
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Violent Crime Investigations Team volume 1
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"Who will speak for those who no longer can? When a young woman is found strangled to death and left on a park bench in Santa Rosa, California, Detective Eddie Mahler and his Violent Crime Investigations (VCI) Team are called to the scene. The crime immediately thrusts Mahler back to two unsolved homicides-young women who were also strangled-at this same location a couple of years earlier. His inability to find evidence against the man he knows was...
13) Slow fire
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Once a highly decorated LAPD narcotics detective, Will was terminated after a devastating personal tragedy drove him to become addicted to heroin. Out of options, Will accepts a mysterious job offer to become the police chief of Haydenville, a tiny town in rural Northern California. But Haydenville is not the post-card-perfect own it appears. A criminal influence is threatening to destroy the town, and with only a rookie officer at his disposal, Will...
14) The last coyote
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 4
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Harry attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely, pending a psychiatric evaluation. At first he resists the LAPD shrink, but finally recognizes that something is troubling him and has for a long time. In 1961, when Harry was twelve, his mother, a prostitute, was brutally murdered, and no one has ever been accused of the crime. With the spare time a suspension brings, Harry opens up the thirty-year-old file on the case and is irresistibly...
15) By your side
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ER nurse Macy Wynn learned essential, gritty lessons in the California foster care system: Land on your feet and trust no one. She's finally located the fellow foster child she loves like a sister, but the girl's in deep trouble. Macy's determined to help, no matter what it takes. Her motto is to "make it happen" in any situation life throws at her--even when she butts heads with an idealistic cop. Deputy Fletcher Holt believes in a higher plan, the...
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 20
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Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando police and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Bosch and the town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous big-business world of prescription drug abuse. Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's LAPD days comes back to haunt him when a long-imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him and seems...
18) The exile
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The newest and youngest member of LAPD's famed 5-2 squad finds himself pitted against a brilliant and ruthless killer with global ambitions.
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Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs mysteries volume 2
Lomax and Biggs
Lomax and Biggs mysteries volume 02
Lomax and Biggs mysteries volume 2
Lomax and Biggs
Lomax and Biggs mysteries volume 02
Lomax and Biggs mysteries volume 2
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Barry Gerber, one of the most hated - and powerful - men in Hollywood, is a no-show for a red carpet event. The next morning he turns up dead in a trash can, killed in such a bizarre way that neither Detectives Mike Lomax nor Terry Biggs nor anyone in Forensics has ever seen anything like it before. Two days later, the prime suspect - another despised show-business bad boy - is found murdered in the same sadistic manner." "The list of suspects then...
20) Sanctuary
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"A diamond dealer and his entire family have mysteriously disappeared from their sprawling Los Angeles manor, leaving the estate undisturbed and their valuables untouched. investigating detective Peter Decker is stumped - faced with a perplexing case riddled with dead ends. Then a second dealer is found murdered in Manhattan, catapulting Decker and his wife, Rina, into a twisted maze of murder and intrigue that spans the globe ... only to touch down...
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