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Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 3
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Blood on the Tongue is a complex, atmospheric police procedural perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and Peter Robinson.
It's a new year for Peak District detectives Ben Cooper and Diane Fry, and that means new murders to solve in the icy depths of a bitter winter in Edendale, Derbyshire.
It isn't the easiest way to commit suicide, but the dead woman seems to have simply curled up in the freezing snow and lain there until her heart stopped. There was...
2) Crime school
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Special crimes investigator Kathy Mallory comes face to face with her past when Sparrow, a middle-aged prostitute who cared for Kathy when she was a homeless child on the streets of New York, becomes the latest victim of a serial killer who has been operating for decades.
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The body of an woman washes up near Point Deception, California -- a day after she was spotted near her broken-down car on the highway. Deputy Sheriff Rhoda Swift worries the woman's brutal rape and murder will resurrect fears from the unsolved massacre of two families 13 years before. When Rhoda investigates with journalist Guy Newberry, a shocking truth will test how far she is willing to go for justice.
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A kidnapped child. An unsolved cold case. This K-9 is on the trail. When his three-year-old daughter goes missing, Nick Rossi fears he'll relive his sister's disappearance from twenty-five years ago. Only this time officer Ruby Orton and her K-9 partner, Pepper, rescue the child. But as the kidnappers escalate to murder and target Nick, Ruby knows there's more behind the abduction. Together, can they find the connection with a decades-old cold case...before...
5) The calling
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When a terminally ill woman is found brutally murdered in her home, Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef tracks a terrifying serial killer, who targets terminally ill victims whose bodies are found drained of blood with their mouths sculpted into strange shapes.
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Ballad novels volume 11
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Suddenly thrust into the role of primary caretaker for her family following the tragic death of her husband, Ellie Robbins is appointed to serve out his term as sheriff of their rural Tennessee mountain town. The year is 1936, and her role is largely symbolic, except for the one task that only a sheriff can do: execute a convicted prisoner. Ellie has long proven she can handle herself. But becoming sheriff is altogether different, and the demands...
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Maggody's high school has a new computer lab. Folks are calling the internet the Devil's workshop, but the adult computer class is filling up. When some unusual images flsh across monitors and a pretty student is found dead in an abandoned shack, the town demands that Arly find the answers.
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"1925. London. When Alice Diamond, AKA "Diamond Annie," is elected the Queen of the Forty Elephants, she's determined to take the all-girl gang to new heights. She's ambitious, tough as nails, and a brilliant mastermind, with a plan to create a dynasty the likes of which no one has ever seen. Alice demands absolute loyalty from her "family"--it's how she's always kept the cops in line. Too bad she's now the target for one of Britain's first female...
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In the depths of his Cornish hideaway, retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder's solitary life is disturbed by a call from his ex-wife, telling him his seventeen-year-old daughter, Katherine, is running wild, unbalanced by the abduction and rape he feels he should have prevented. Meanwhile, in the heart of London, the takedown of a violent criminal goes badly, and Detective Sergeant Maddy Birch is uneasy about the reasons why, an uneasiness that is...
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Kate Martinelli mysteries volume 4
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Homicide detective Kate Martinelli is jolted from her comfortable routine when she is called upon to investigate the murder of James Larsen, found dead under a clump of bushes, handcuffed, strangled, with stun gun burns on his chest and candy in his pocket; and her troubles intensify when two more victims are killed the same way.
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When little Tracey Rudd, the young daughter of notorious artist Gabriel Rudd, is abducted from her home, the third such child to vanish under similar circumstances, Detective Chief Inspector David Brock and Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla races against time to find the girl's kidnapper, who may connected to the eccectric art community in the neighborhood.
12) Final stand
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For two terror-filled days, Las Vegas cop Sasha Mills has been on the run. Now, in a remote stretch of southwest Texas, she is compelled to take a chance in a town called Bitters.
But her timing couldn't be worse. As the only stranger in town, she becomes the prime suspect in an arson investigation-;thrusting her into a spotlight that could cost her her life.
Because deadly danger is in fast pursuit. An international crime ring has targeted her...
13) Straw men
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Memory novels volume 3
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Eight years ago, Brenna Kennedy defended Carmen DellaVecchio. He was a loner, a freak, and accused of the brutal rape and near-murder of Pittsburgh cop Teresa Harnett. She lost the case and DellaVecchio was sent to prison. But now, DNA evidence has cast doubt on DellaVecchio's guilt, and he is freed while waiting for a new trial. Kennedy continues to believe he is an innocent man. But if DellaVecchio is not guilty, then a dangerous sociopath is still...
14) Time expired
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Jill Smith mysteries volume 8
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When a rash of pranks on the city's meter maids turns deadly, Jill Smith isn't amused Two witnesses see the man drag the old woman into a canyon while brandishing a rifle. As night falls, detective Jill Smith and the Berkeley police department set up a perimeter. The canyon is a hostage negotiator's nightmare-dark, rough, and full of escape routes-and when she finally opens communication, the gunman doesn't respond. Rather than wait for dawn, Jill...
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John Ridley, the best-selling author of The Drift, is renowned for his gritty, violent tales and their razor-sharp dialogue. This foray into science fiction is an explosive thriller. In the near future, superheroes are very real. But so are supervillains. When San Francisco is toasted during a super being clash, America has had enough. All metanormals must leave the country-or face extermination at the hands of an elite new law enforcement branch....
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Justice Sidney Piggott was, everyone in Dublin's law professions agreed, designer-made for being throttled. If ever there was a judge more disliked, make that hated, in the courts of Ireland's capital city, no one knew his (or her) name. So, when it comes to finding out who is responsible for the judge's demise, the number of possible suspects makes the task more difficult.
However, Inspector Denis Lennon and his sergeant, Molly Power, are given...
17) Hunting a killer
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K-9 handler Serena Lopez and her partner, agent Axel Morrow, must track down Serena's fugitive half-brother before it is too late.
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How are the shocking murders of elderly Holocaust survivors connected to the deaths of high school students in Israel and the West Bank?
Palestinian-American detective Ben Kamal and Israeli detective Danielle Barnea soon discover that the answer to this blood-drenched puzzle lies as much in the past as in the present, with the clues leading from a Nazi labor camp to the forefront of modern biotech research, while leaving a trail of deception and...
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From a former Fleet Street journalist and an accomplished British suspense writer comes a complex puzzle wrapped in a plot that could almost be ripped from contemporary U.S. headlines. Imagine what would happen if a vanished woman's body lay underwater for almost three decades, the police unable to charge her guilty-as-sin husband until her remains are finally discovered by pure chance...
27 years ago, Clara Marshall and her two young children vanished...
20) Speed trap
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USA Today–Bestselling Author: A Kansas sheriff saves a baby's life, but she's unsure whether to view the boy's father with sympathy or suspicion . . .
The fatal crash was no accident. The killer's only mistake was leaving behind a survivor . . . a four-month-old boy. For his sake-and for his murdered mother's-Sheriff Mandy Scott will see justice served. And she already has her prime suspect: the boy's father, Garrett Bowen.
Yet despite the...
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