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1) The innocent
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Will Robie novels volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
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"It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to kill. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and must escape from his own people. Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a fourteen-year-old runaway from a foster home. But she isn't an ordinary runaway-her...
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Corinna Chapman mysteries volume 5
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With the help of a troupe of free-spirited freegans, three very clever internet hackers and a bunch of singing vegans, Melbourne baker Corinna and her luscious Daniel go head-to-head with a sinister religious cult on a mission and a band of Romanies out for revenge in a wild and wonderful chase to find two missing runaways.
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Solitary tales volume 2
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At first, Chris Buckley was simply warned and watched. But as Chris unravels the haunting riddles of the town of Solitary, he finds that much more than the life of a town is at stake. Whether facing a pastor with a house full of skeletons or a cousin he never knew existed, Chris is forced to choose between light and darkness, life and nightmarish death. Every choice he makes reminds him that the unthinkable has already happened, and if he trusts the...
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She isn't your typical teenage kidnapped victim. She's a 16-year-old pregnant teenager, and from the moment she is kidnapped, she feels a calm desire to not only save her unborn son but to also exact merciless revenge. Leaving nothing to chance, and secure in her timing and practice, she considers what her assets are and waits for the perfect moment to strike. Method 15/33 is what happens when the victim is just as cold as her abductors.
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Gwen "GiGi" Gelman, a ten-year veteran of the Providence, Rhode Island vice squad, finds herself unemployed after being blamed for a routine bust that turned into a bloodbath. GiGi is used to being on her own, though, and with the help of a DA who owes her, she's scraped together enough capital to start her own PI business, specializing in "family problems" -in particular runaways who have disappeared into Providence's seamy underside.
With a few...
7) Runner
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While searching for fifteen-year-old Ramona Titus, who has run away from her foster home, Black homicide cop-turned-PI Cass Raines soon discovers that Ramona is holding secrets dark enough to kill for and if Cass can't find her first, she will have nowhere left to run.
8) Dark places
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"At the tail end of 1967, the Parker family once again finds it impossible to hide from a world spinning out of control. Fourteen-year-old Top still can't fit in with their Center Springs, Texas, community or forget recent, vicious crimes. His near-twin cousin Pepper, desperate to escape her own demons, rashly joins the Flower Children flocking to California--just as two businessmen are kidnapped and murdered in the Red River bottoms on the same night...
9) In the heat
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Just as a boxer is ready to retire, he is propositioned by his promoter to help a woman find her runaway daughter and in return, she will have him put on a fight card with a big payday, but he didn't realize what he was getting himself into by taking the job.
11) Red leaves
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Eric Moore's perfect life begins to crumble around him when his teenage son Keith is implicated in the disappearance of a neighbor's eight-year-old daughter, and as Eric struggles to clear Keith's name, he begins to wonder if his son is really as innocent as he claims.
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Ben Packard mysteries volume 1
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English
Description
"When misguided teenagers Jesse Crawford and Jenny Wheeler are forced to rob Emmett Brown to escape impossible circumstances, what starts as a home invasion quickly turns into a nightmare for the teens. What Jesse and Jenny don't know is that although Emmett is now old, severely obese, and in chronic pain, Emmett was responsible for the kidnapping and deaths of two young women almost twenty years ago, crimes that have never been solved. So Emmett...
13) Rizzo's war
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"There's no wrong, there's no right, there just is." This is the refrais of Joe Rizzo, a decades-long veteran of the NYPD, as he passes on the knowledge of his years of experience to Mike McQueen, his ambitious new partner from Manhattan, as the detectives ride together in the 62nd Precenct in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. But when the pair is given the delicate task of finding the runaway daughter of a city councilman, who may or may not be more interested...
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