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Tess Monaghan mysteries volume 9
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For Tess Monaghan, the unsolved murder of a young federal prosecutor is nothing more than a theoretical problem, one of several cases to be deconstructed in her new gig as a consultant to the local newspaper. But then her boyfriend brings home a street kid who doesn't even realize he holds an important key to the man's death. Tess agrees to protect the boy's identity no matter what, especially when one of his friends is killed in an apparent case...
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In this novel a mother and a daughter try to do right by a town and each other before it is too late. What is happening in Acker's Gap, West Virginia? Three elderly men are gunned down over their coffee at a local diner, and seemingly half the town is there to witness the act. Still, it happened so fast, and no one seems to have gotten a good look at the shooter. Was it random? Was it connected to the spate of drug violence plaguing poor areas of...
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Serge Storms novels volume 26
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"Serge A. Storms is back on the road in the latest zany Florida caper from the "wickedly funny" (Entertainment Weekly) Tim Dorsey"--
After a long and arduous COVID-19 quarantine, Serge A. Storms is fully vaccinated and ready to hit the road. Along with his condo neighbors, he cooks up a wild plan to celebrate in true Serge fashion: each week, they rent a shuttle van and head out for funky Florida road trips and some serious revelry. Meanwhile, a...
6) On the chase
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The sole witness to a horrific crime, Kaylee Ramay flees to the Colorado Rockies to start a new life. There she becomes Grace, a dog kennel employee desperately trying to avoid attention-especially from dangerously attractive K9 Officer Hugh Murdoch. Because Hugh is tall, dark...and nothing but trouble. Hugh is anxious to get back in the field after an act of heroism left him warming the bench. Until then, he and his K9 partner Lexi spend their...
7) What she saw
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"An American woman having a holiday in Paris unwittingly engages in a game of cat-and-mouse after she accidentally witnesses a young woman being threatened and possibly attacked by an older man in an elite penthouse suite"--
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Terror rocks Grove Landing when a woman is murdered in her home. The victim's young daughter, Erin, witnessed the crime but is too traumatized to give a description. Desperate detectives ask neighbor Annie Kingston, with a background in art, to interview Erin for a composite.
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The last person security expert Luke Patterson ever expected to see again is in desperate trouble. Claire Wallace witnessed her boss's murder...and the killer is tearing her quiet life apart to find her. Luke will do anything to protect the childhood friend he never forgot. But as their secrets become an inescapable trap, will they survive the have any future?
10) Suspect witness
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Harlequin intrigue volume 1622
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An undercover operation is the only way to bring an innocent witness home.
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"In this new heart-pounding stand-alone from the internationally bestselling author who People calls 'razor sharp,' a single mother suspects her young daughter has witnessed a horrible crime when the girl draws a disturbing picture--but the deadly path to unravel the truth could cost her everything. Maybe Tess is overprotective, but passing her daughter off to her ex and his new young wife fills her with a sense of dread. It's not that Jason is a...
12) Hidden witness
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When a seemingly respectable Blackpool businessman is hit by a car and then shot while fleeing an attempted mugging, Henry Christie soon links the man's death to the mafia; but then the investigation stalls. Eventually, Christie learns that teenagers Mark Carter and his buddy, Rory, witnessed the killing--but the boys have disappeared. Believing that they've gone to ground, Christie is shocked when Rory's bullet-riddled body is found. The only remaining...
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In The Wolves of Fairmount Park, Dennis Tafoya's lyrical, intense, sometimes tragic and sometimes hopeful second novel, the details of a drive-by shooting of two teenagers in a rough Philadelphia neighborhood are filled in from four perspectives: Brendan Donovan, a cop and the father of the boy shot and left comatose; George Parkman Sr., another father, this one of the boy who was killed; Danny Martinez, a cop whose job it is to investigate the killing;...
14) Hidden witness
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Detective Chase Hollister poses as witness Raney Taylor's husband to protect her from an assassin and finds himself wishing that their marriage was not a fake one.
15) Alone at night
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Tired of the politics, publicity and endless nights that go with major homicides, Detective Mars Bahr and his partner Nettie Frisch have moved to the Cold Case Unit, which covers the Minneapolis Police Department's oldest unsolved cases. One of their first assignments is tackling the murders of rural convenience store employees, which leads them to a sixteen-year-old missing person’s case.
In 1986, seventeen-year-old Andrea Bergstad was working...
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Marlow Murder Club volume 1
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"Judith Potts is seventy-seven years old and blissfully happy. She lives on her own in a faded mansion just outside Marlow, there's no man in her life to tell her what to do or how much whisky to drink, and to keep herself busy she sets crosswords for The Times newspaper. One evening, while out swimming in the Thames, Judith witnesses a brutal murder. The local police don't believe her story, so she decides to investigate for herself, and is soon...
17) In safe hands
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As a member of the Field County Sherrif's Department, Chris Jennings is used to having it rough. The Colorado Rockies aren't for the weak of spirit, but he's devoted his life to upholding the law - and to protecting the one woman who knows he can never have her. He'll do whatever it takes to keep her safe. Even if that means turning against one of his own. Daisy Little has lived in agoraphobic terror for over eight years. Trapped within a prison of...
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Lew Fonesca mysteries volume 4
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Lew Fonesca is a man who does things for people. He makes small problems go away and tries to keep the larger ones from landing his clients in jail. He finds deadbeats, errant spouses, and generally keeps the populace of Sarasota on the up and up.
Now Lew is faced with one case that will try his patience...and another that may break his heart.
The first involves an elderly woman who swears she's witnessed a murder in her old age home despite the...
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When a young woman with a sordid past witnesses a murder, she decides to track down the killer herself. In the character driven and evocative The Lonely Witness, William Boyle brings Brooklyn to life in a way only a native can, and opens readers' eyes to the harsh realities of crime and punishment on the city streets.
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