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81) Cut You Down
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Wakeland novels volume 2
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Tabitha Sorenson is missing. The bright but unstable student disappeared in the aftermath of a scandal involving millions of dollars in college funds. Professor Dana Essex doesn't think the missing money and the missing student are connected, but she hires Vancouver PI David Wakeland to find Tabitha, with whom she is obsessed.
When Wakeland discovers Tabitha has in fact stolen the money and is hiding out with her lover and reports back to his client,...
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"X Y Z: A Detective Story" is an 1883 detective novella by American novelist and poet Anna Katharine Green (1846—1935). Among the first writers of detective fiction in America, she is considered to be the "mother" of the genre for her legally-accurate and well-thought-out plots. A Government agent is assigned a case involving counterfeiting, but ends up head first in an active criminal investigation, with many twists along the way and accidently...
83) The detective
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Joseph Leland, a World War II "hero and former police officer, is now a private detective. He takes on as a client the young widow of an apparent suicide. She believes her husband may have been murdered, however. What he uncovers in his investigation has far-reaching consequences for the woman, for him and his family and the lives of people at every level in his community."
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Professional Sports, NHL Hockey. Emma Lathen's witty insightful tale about how money underpins professional sports with charming characters such as the TV Symphony announcer who becomes an instant hit as a play by play hockey analyst, the scion of a legendary rich family who has an interest in a team, and more. Lathen has her regular cast of characters in full flight, fun, insight, and more.
85) Trigger city
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Ray Dudgeon novels volume 2
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Private investigator Ray Dudgeon takes on what he thinks will be a routine investigation only to find himself thrown into a battle between private contractors and the darkest sectors of the government and threatens to destroy everything Ray has fought to build.
86) Silver Blaze
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This early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1894 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Sherlock Holmes series. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. It was between 1876 and 1881, while studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, that he began writing short stories, and his first piece was published in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal before he was 20. In...
87) The Naval Treaty
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"The Naval Treaty", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty" 19th in a list of his 19 favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.
Dr. Watson receives a letter, which he then refers to Holmes, from an old schoolmate, now a Foreign Office employee from Woking who has had an important naval treaty...
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"The Problem of Thor Bridge" is a Sherlock Holmes murder mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, first published in 1922 in The Strand Magazine.
Neil Gibson, the Gold King and former Senator from "some Western state", approaches Holmes to investigate the murder of his wife Maria in order to clear his children's governess, Grace Dunbar, of the crime. It soon emerges that Mr. Gibson's marriage had been unhappy and he treated...
89) Odyssey's end
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"San Diego private investigator Rick Cahill's past comes back to haunt him when he's at his most vulnerable. His wife, Leah, has fled with their daughter, Krista, to her parents' home in Santa Barbara. She fears Rick's violent outbursts brought on by his potentially fatal brain disorder, CTE--and she doesn't trust that he'll ever be able to tame his manic desire to bring his own brand of justice to an unjust world. Rick desperately wants to reunite...
90) The Dead Client
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Hall's latest case involves a woman who's receiving threatening notes. As soon as he's hired, though, the woman turns up dead. But that's not the end of the case for Hall. Even though his client is dead, that won't stop him. He's going to get to the bottom of this case and find out the murderer.Through several twists and turns, Hall and Charlotte will find out who killed their dead client.
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"Harry Starke loves a cold case, but this one is really cold, more than a hundred years cold. Family Matters is a whimsical tale, a flight of fancy. It takes place on the lonely coast of Maine, where Amanda, a true believer in the paranormal, has inherited a haunted house. Or at least that's what the rumors say. It all begins when Amanda inherits the house, substantial assets, and a large sum of money from her grandmother. The windfall comes...
93) Reckonings
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Dr. Jamie Myers has tried outrunning her past, but now someone is stalking her, leaving her deadly messages. Once, she'd trusted the wrong man. So how can she rely on Davis McGuire, the fiercely handsome ex-SEAL she's hired as a bodyguard? And how can she ignore the way his hands-on attention excites her? One of McGuire Securities' best, Davis wants to protect the sexy doc 24/7 and play by the rules. But as Jamie's stalker grows bolder, Davis's desire...
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First published in 1890, "A Matter of Millions" is a detective novel written by American novelist Anna Katharine Green. The story revolves around a dying man who, having no living relatives, leaves his fortune to someone who resembles the woman whom he loved. The sixth book in Green's detective series featuring Mr. Gryce, "A Matter of Millions" is a riveting tale of mystery and intrigue not to be missed by fans of classic detective fiction. Anna Katharine...
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Before the tragic event that made him seek refuge in a remote corner of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Alex McKnight was a Detroit police officer. It's a warm summer night, and Alex is out riding the night shift with his partner Franklin. There's no shortage of trouble to be found on the dark streets of Motown. But on this particular night, Franklin has his own agenda.
From Edgar Award-Winning Author Steve Hamilton, Beneath the Book Tower
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A private investigator must unravel a blackmail plot targeting a criminal information brokerage before the FBI and a hired killer stop him.
A vigilante justice P.I. series.
Finn Harding specializes in finding people who don't want to be found. Bishop runs a black-market information brokerage on the dark web, selling stolen personal data to the highest bidder.
When someone blackmails Bishop,
...97) Time to kill
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After fifteen years in prison, a disgraced spy hunts down the man who put him away Jack Mason is ready to kill. For fifteen years he has plotted revenge from his prison cell. He has exercised daily, keeping his body and mind fit, and learned all he could about computers, so that he can finally manipulate them at will. He will need to use all his mental powers to find Sobell, then merciless strength to kill him. An ex-CIA agent, Mason was jailed...
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John Putnam Thatcher mysteries volume 6
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$985,000 has been stolen from the Sloan in a letter of credit situation with forged documents; John Putnam Thatcher gets involved to save the Sloan the money and finds the murders in the process. Great fun with the Soviets, Americans, and others acting up.
99) Dragonfire
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In master storyteller Andrew Kaplan's action-packed thriller, the CIA sends its top agent to Southeast Asia to stop a war that threatens to be even bloodier than the conflict in Vietnam The photograph in the CIA vault shows four men relaxing in the jungle, green berets draped over their rifles, enjoying a break from combat. On the day after the picture was taken, their friendship was torn apart forever. Now, ten years after the United States pulled...
100) Oblivion
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Nick Petrov is a brilliant private investigator with a reputation for bringing missing children safely home. Launched to tabloid stardom when he apprehended a brutal serial killer named Gerald Reasoner, Petrov has become something of a celebrity. When a woman approaches him, begging him to use his unique gifts to find her missing daughter, Petrov's instincts sound an alarm. He senses that she's concealing something. But is she lying to get Petrov's...
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