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Spero Lucas mysteries volume 2
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English
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"Every man has his dark side...Spero Lucas confronts his own in the most explosive thriller yet from one of America's best-loved crime writers. The job seems simple enough: retrieve the valuable painting--'The Double'--Grace Kinkaid's ex-boyfriend stole from her. It's the sort of thing Spero Lucas specializes in: finding what's missing, and doing it quietly. But Grace wants more. She wants Lucas to find the man who humiliated her--a violent career...
2) Hell to pay
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Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are hired to find a fourteen-year-old girl who has run away from her home in the suburbs, and when they find the girl working as a prostitute, they have a hard time convincing her to come home where she is safe.
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[2018]
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English
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Michael Hudson spends the long days in prison devouring books given to him by the prison's librarian, a young woman named Anna who develops a soft spot for her best student. Anna keeps passing Michael books until one day he disappears, suddenly released after a private detective manipulated a witness in Michael's trial. Outside, Michael encounters a Washington, D.C. that has changed a lot during his time locked up. But what hasn't changed is the hard...
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Spero Lucas mysteries volume 1
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English
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Spero Lucas returned from Iraq and carved out a niche for himself working as a special investigator for a defense attorney recovering stolen property: no questions asked. His talents have also brought him to the attention of a crime boss who hires Lucas to find out who has been stealing from his operation. Is the pay worth his family, his lover, and his life?
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Derek Strange is a rookie cop, the job he's dreamed of since he was a boy. His brother, Dennis, has not been as fortunate; home from the service with a disability pension and zero prospects, he is a man with good intentions but bad habits. Derek has always looked out for Dennis, but no amount of brotherly love can save him from the dangerous world of Alvin Jones, a local bottom-feeder, hustler, and stone killer who draws him into his web of violence.While...
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On a hot summer afternoon in 1972, three teenagers drove into an unfamiliar neighborhood and six lives were altered forever.
Thirty five years later, one survivor of that day reaches out to another, opening a door that could lead to salvation. But another survivor is now out of prison, looking for reparation in any form he can find it.
THE TURNAROUND takes us on a journey from the rock-and-soul streets of the '70s to the changing neighborhoods of...
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Lorenzo Brown loves his work. In his job as an officer for the Humane Society, he cruises the city streets, looking for dogs that are being mistreated - underfed, unclean, trained to kill. He takes pride in making their lives better. And that pride helps Lorenzo resist the pull of easier money doing the kind of work that got him a recent prison bid. Rachel Lopez loves her work, too. By day she is a parole officer, helping people - Lorenzo Brown among...
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The discovery of a murdered teen in a community garden reminds homicide detective Gus Ramone of an unsolved case he worked as a rookie twenty years earlier, and he enlists his now-retired mentor T.C. Cook, and his former partner Dan Holiday, who has since been disgraced as a cop, in an effort to find a killer they dubbed the Night Gardener and finally bring him to justice.
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Derek Strange and Terry Quinn mysteries volume 02
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English
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"Washington, D.C., 1972. Derek Strange has left the police department and set up shop as a private investigator. His former partner, Frank "Hound Dog" Vaughn, is still on the force. When a young woman comes to Strange asking for his help recovering a cheap ring she claims has sentimental value, the case leads him onto Vaughn's turf, where a local drug addict's been murdered, shot point-blank in his apartment. Soon both men are on the trail of a ruthless...
14) A firing offense
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Nick Stefanos mysteries volume 1
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English
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As the advertising director of Nutty Nathan's, Nick Stefanos knows all the tricks of the electronics business. Blow-out sales and shady deals were his life. When one of the stockboys disappears, it's not news: just another metalhead who went off chasing some dream of big money and easy living. But the kid reminded Nick of himself twelve years ago: an angry punk hooked on speed metal and the fast life. So when the boy's grandfather begs Nick to find...
19) Nick's trip
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Nick Stefanos mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
1993
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English
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Nick Stefanos' search for his friend's missing wife leads him through a sewer of theft, intrique, and love.
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