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After a routine delivery, midwife Sarah Brandt visits her patient in a rooming house and discovers that another boarder, a young girl, has been killed. At the request of Sergeant Frank Malloy, she searches the girl's room, and discovers that the victim is from one of the most prominent families in New York and the sister of an old friend. The powerful family, fearful of scandal, refuses to permit an investigation. But with Malloy's help, Sarah begins...
43) Reunion in death
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Walter Pettibone gets the surprise of his life at his surprise birthday, when after a sip of champagne, he drops dead. Julie Dockport, a woman unknown to the party goers, is responsible for the deadly drink. Detective Eve Dallas know Ms. Dockport only too well having been responsible for sending her to prison 10 years earlier. It appears that Ms. Dockport was hoping for a reunion with Detective Dallas -- one which she'll never forget.
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"The latest action-packed installment in the Nero Award-winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series follows Lillian and Will tracking the suspicious disappearance of a woman who might have known too much"--
Vera Bodine, an elderly shut-in with an exceptional memory, has gone missing and famed detective Lillian Pentecost and her crackerjack assistant Willowjean "Will" Parker have been hired to track her down. But the New York City of 1947 can be a dangerous...
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At a party in New York, caterer Faith Sibley Fairchild meets a school friend, now married to an ambitious politician. The lady is being blackmailed by someone threatening to reveal her past which would ruin her husband. Faith goes to work and uncovers a killer. By the author of The Body in the Bookcase.
48) Chaos in death
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New York, 2060. A psychotic killer roams the city with a satchel of scalpels, fresh off a triple kill. A mysterious drug pumps through his veins, making him dance in the streetlight and twirl his cape like Jack the Ripper. Eve Dallas is the tough Lieutenant hot on his trail, but this is unlike any case take she's ever been assigned - or any killer she's ever pursued. A police sketch based on eye-witness testimony reveals the killer has green skin,...
49) Dead connection
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Ellie Hatcher novels volume 1
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When two young women are murdered on the streets of New York, exactly one year apart, Detective Ellie Hatcher is called up for a special assignment on the homicide task force. The killer has left behind a clue connecting the two cases to FirstDate.com, a popular online dating service, and Flann McIlroy, an eccentric, publicity-seeking homicide detective, is convinced that only Ellie can help him pursue his terrifying theory: someone is using the lure...
50) Confession
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Jenny Cain is shocked by the appearance of David Mayer, who claims to be her policeman husband's son and wants him to help investigate his parent's alleged murder-suicide, until carefully placed clues lead them to another violent murder.
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Dashiell Hammett was a crime writer who elevated the genre to true literature, and The Thin Man was Hammett's last--and most successful--novel. Following the enormous success of "The Thin Man" movie in 1934, Hammett was commissioned to write stories for additional films. He wrote two full-length novellas, for the films that became "After the Thin Man" and "Another Thin Man". Bringing back his classic characters, retired private investigator Nick Charles...
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In Harlem, former policewoman Mali Anderson foils the kidnaping of a singer from a children's choir, but the choir director is killed. Mali, who was fired from the force for hitting a man who insulted her, goes after the killer, but he fights back, going after her father. By the author of In the Shadow of the Peacock.
53) Proving ground
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Lourdes Robles novels volume 1
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Nathaniel Dresden never really got along with his father, an infamous civil rights lawyer who defended criminals and spearheaded protest movements. As an act of rebellion, Natty joined the U.S. Army and served in Iraq, coming back with a chest full of commendations and a head full of disturbing memories. But when his father is found murdered near the peaceful confines of Brooklyn's Prospect Park, Natty is forced to deal with the troubled legacy of...
54) Loyalty in death
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New York police officer Eve Dallas hunts down an unknown bomber who is terrorizing the residents of New York City.
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A talented young sculptor hasn't had such a perfect day in May. Killed by her own hammer, at first it looks like an argument with a jealous partner but it soon becomes clear that there is much more to this case than a lovers' quarrel turned fatal. Eve finds herself drawn into the dark and dangerous world of a secret order. A world in which white supremacy, misogyny and religious fanaticism are everyday activities. Eve has dealt with some tough cases...
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