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When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home. When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders--a black lawyer from...
3) L.A. rex
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2006.
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Several dead bodies are found that belong to the Mexican Mafia. Ben and his partner Marquez from the LAPD are looking for the killers.
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Nightmares of the man he killed two years ago chase Rick Cahill through his sleep. Memories of his murdered wife haunt him during waking hours. His private investigative work, secretly photographing adulterers, paid for his new house but stains his soul. When an old nemesis asks for his help to free a man from prison, a man he thinks is wrongly convicted of murder, Rick grabs at the chance to turn his life around. His investigation takes him from...
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Cormac Reilly novels volume 3
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2021.
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"It all started with a little favour ... Police corruption, an investigation that ends in tragedy and the mystery of a little girl's silence - three unconnected things that will prove to be linked by one small town. While Detective Cormac Reilly faces enemies at work and trouble in his personal life, Garda Peter Fisher is relocated out of Galway with the threat of prosecution hanging over his head. But even that is not as terrible as having to work...
6) One for hell
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2010.
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"A boxcar bum named Willa Ree enters a small town with the intention of picking it clean, and in the process all kinds of secrets and corruption come to light. It's a fine noir story with a powerful ending that Jim Thompson would have been proud to have written"--Bill Crider's Pop culture magazine.
8) Floodgate
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2016
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An honest cop in a corrupt city is kicked off the force after discovering wrongdoings at the highest levels of the police force and must continue his investigation on his own, submerging himself into the blackly comic demimonde of Auction City.
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"Short stories and a novella from one of crime fiction's most revered writers. Whether they're cops or conmen, savage killers or creative types, gangsters or God-fearing citizens, George Pelecanos' characters are always engaged in a fight for their lives. They fight to advance or simply to survive; they fight against odds, against enemies, even against themselves. In this, his first collection of stories, the acclaimed novelist introduces readers...
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