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In his world, everyone wears a mask.
When the actors who play iconic superheroes in big screen blockbusters start dying on set, Ken Allen, failed actor and neophyte detective, answers the call after the blame falls on effects expert Ray Ford, Ken's oldest friend.
But the deaths are not accidental. Someone is killing heroes. Maybe for love, maybe for money. Maybe for both. Ken Allen finds himself outmatched and outgunned when
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As the Moonlight Magnolia Agency revisits old memories on Christmas Eve, Granny Reid takes the reins back thirty years to the 1980s, when everyone's hair was bigger, and sweaters were colorful disasters. She recalls the story of the scandalous Prissy Carr, who was found dead in an alley behind a tavern in McGill, Georgia just before Christmas. Stella "Granny" Reid decided to investigate and what she found put the lives of those she loved in danger....
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Chet and his human companion Bernie are called in to investigate a series of threats made against a pampered show dog named Princess, and when Princess and her owner are abducted and Bernie's girlfriend, reporter Susie Sanchez, disappears, the detective team realizes the show dog world is more dangerous than they ever imagined.
4) Cold hearted
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Private investigator Rick Carson has been hired to find out who murdered Georgia Sen. Dan Price and finds himself falling for Price's trophy widow, Jordan, even though she's his prime suspect. Jordan stands to inherit a substantial estate and has a history of losing husbands and boyfriends to questionable fatalities, and Price was killed with Jordan's gun.
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"The letter was short. A name, a time, a place. Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder plunges readers into the heart of London, to the secret tunnels that exist far beneath the city streets. There, a mysterious group of detectives recruited for Miss Brickett's Investigations & Inquiries use their cunning and gadgets to solve crimes that have stumped Scotland Yard. Late one night in April 1958, a filing assistant at Miss Brickett's receives a letter...
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Now that her ne'er-do-well husband has been arrested for murder, Monk's former assistant, Sharona, is ready to reclaim her place in Monk's extremely well-ordered life. But his current assistant, Natalie, is not pleased with this turn of events. While Monk tries to maintain a delicate balance between the two women, he discovers a few snags in the case against Sharona's husband. And with other murders to investigate, Monk realizes he may be up against...
9) The lovers
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Charlie 'Bird' Parker novels volume 8
Charlie Parker thriller
Charlie Parker thriller volume 08
Charle Parker thriller volume 08
Charlie Parker thriller
Charlie Parker thriller volume 08
Charle Parker thriller volume 08
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Stripped of his license in the wake of a police investigation into his own past, private investigator Charlie Parker unofficially looks into the suspicious death of his father, who reportedly committed suicide after shooting two teens.
10) After the crash
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Just after midnight on Dec. 23, 1980, a night flight bound for Paris, France plummets toward the Swiss Alps, crashing into a snowy mountainside. The Sole survivor is a 3 month old girl - thrown from the airliner before fire consumes the cabin. But 2 infants were on board. Is "the Miracle Child of Mont Terri" Lyse-Rose or Emilie? 18 years later, a private detective tasked with solving the mystery of the girl known as "Lylie" discovers a secret hidden...
11) Gypped
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Vacationing in California while her new husband, Jack, attends a business conference, private investigator Regan Reilly checks out a vegan family friend's concerns about an unscrupulous investment manager and uncovers a vast scam extending throughout the California coast.
12) The murder game
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Investigator Powell and FBI agent Baxter know a lot about serial killers, but this new killer is as sadistic as they've ever seen. He likes his little games and he especially likes forcing Nic and Griff to play along. There's a new game now, and it's much more deadly than the first.
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Augmenting her brilliant deductive skills with dream analysis, marijuana, and the written work of a mysterious French detective, private investigator Claire DeWitt reluctantly returns to post-Katrina New Orleans to solve the disappearance of an unpopular prosecutor.
14) The bricklayer
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Steve Vail novels volume 1
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A mysterious organization calling itself the Rubaco Pentad is blackmailing the FBI. If the Pentad’s demands for money are not met, high-profile victims will die. Each demand is bigger than the last, and the drop-off instructions are lethally complicated—it’s almost as if the Pentad wants the FBI to fail. But when an agent disappears with the cash he’s carrying, he needs to be found, and fast. The FBI pins its hopes on former agent Steve Vail,...
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Cathy Cramer is a former lawyer and investigative blogger who writes commentary on local homicides. When she finds a note threatening that she's about to experience the same kind of speculation and judgment that she dishes out, Cathy writes it off - until her brother is caught up in the investigation of the murder of his ex-wife. As he is tried and convicted in the media, Cathy and her two sisters moonlight as investigators to clear their brother's...
16) Deadly silence
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Blood brothers volume 1
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Under siege. That's how Ryker Jones feels. The Lost Bastards Investigative Agency he opened up with his blood brothers has lost a client in a brutal way. The past he can't outrun is resurfacing, threatening to drag him down in the undertow. And the beautiful woman he's been trying to keep at arm's length is in danger...and he'll destroy anything and anyone to keep her safe.
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IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 13
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It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind. But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers to questions of his own - about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind's...
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When Poppy goes from complacent retiree to penniless Palm Springs widow in a matter of weeks, she decides to use her obesession with true crime shows to start a career as a private eye. But after opening the Desert Flowers Detective Agency with help from her two best friends, Poppy realizes that age brings wisdom, not business--until she convinces her daughter's handsome boyfriend, Matt, to pose as the face of the agency... It's not long before Matt...
19) Tough customer
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Colleagues, friends, and lovers know Dodge Hanley as a private investigator who doesn't let rules get in his way-in his private life as well as his professional one. If he breaks a heart, or bends the law in order to catch a criminal, he does so without hesitation or apology. That's why he's the first person Caroline King-who after a thirty-year separation continues to haunt his dreams-asks for help when a deranged stalker attempts to murder their...
20) Poltergeist
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Greywalker volume 2
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A private detective, Greywalker, capable of negotiating the shadowy realm between the living world and the paranormal, is hired by a university research group attempting to create an artificial poltergeist, a project that succeeds all too well when one of the group is killed in a brutal and inexplicable manner.
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