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Les Misérables
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In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective… |
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Terror at the zoo
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Peg Kehret |
Twelve-year-old Ellen and her younger brother Corey are excited about their overnight camp-out at the zoo, until they discover that they are locked inside with a desperate escaped convict. |
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Cleanskin
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Val McDermid |
A taut psychological thriller from the bestselling author behind the popular Wire in the Blood TV seriesWhen career criminal Jack Farlowe's body is found washed-up on a Suffolk shore, it looks to the… |
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The manual of detection
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Jedediah Berry |
In this tightly plotted yet mind- expanding debut novel, an unlikely detective, armed only with an umbrella and a singular handbook, must untangle a string of crimes committed in and through people's… |
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Al Capone
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Mary Letts |
A biography of the gangster who organized and ran the Chicago underground throughout the Prohibition Era. |
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R is for Ricochet (Kinsey Millhone, #18)
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Sue Grafton |
Kinsey Millhone, employed by Nord Lafferty to drive his daughter home from her incarceration at the Californian Institute for Women, marvels at the simplicity of the task. But Reba Lafferty emerges f… |
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The devil of Nanking
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Mo Hayder |
Now reissued as a B-format paperback, an extraordinary, electrifying thriller by one of Britain's bestselling crime-writers.Tokyo, 1990Grey Hutchins is in pursuit of an obsession. She is searching fo… |
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Surrogate Evil
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David Thurlo |
It's frustrating for local law enforcement to come up against a piece of scum like Newton Glover. He's dirty as hell, everyone knows that--breaks into and vandalizes his neighbors' homes; cheats and… |
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In the name of love
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Ann Rule |
This is not only the story of an avaricious sociopath, it is also the story of a woman who, for almost eight years, experienced and survived adversity most of us cannot even begin to imagine. This wo… |
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Dirty Game
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Jessie Keane |
Adultery, murder and dangerous love collide in Jessie Keane’s gritty debut novel.For longer than she cares to remember Annie Bailey has lived in the shadow of her older sister Ruthie. Now Ruthie has … |
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The Black Mask: Further Adventure of the Amateur Cracksman
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E. W. Hornung |
First published in 1901, The Black Mask is the second collection of stories detailing the exploits and intrigues of gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in late Victorian London. Raffles was E. W. Hornung's… |
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The Mothershed case
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Stephen J. Rivele |
An account of the shooting death of a San Fernando, California, police officer describes how two men--a drifter and a model student at New Mexico Institute of Technology, neither of whom knew each ot… |
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Small sacrifices
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Ann Rule |
the mesmerizing story of Diane Downs, a beautiful, brillient, sociopath, who commits the ultimate evil when she shoots her three children to gain the love of a married man. Anne Rule's insight into t… |
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Public enemies
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John Walsh,Philip Lerman,John Walsh |
The host of America's Most Wanted, John Walsh has formed a vital partnership with the public, the media, and law enforcement that has led to the capture of hundreds of the worst serial killers, kidna… |
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The midnight choir
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Gene Kerrigan |
With moral dilemmas as Dublin emerges as a city of ambiguity: a newly scrubbed face hiding a criminal culture of terrible variety. Small-time criminals have become millionaire businessmen, the poor a… |
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H.I.V.E. - Zero Hour
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Mark Walden |
Overlord is reborn, and has developed the chilling ability to move from body to body, erasing the host's personality and ultimately killing them, forcing him to hop from victim to victim. He must fin… |
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Zero hour
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Mark Walden |
"Overlord has been reborn and forced to hop from victim to victim when he erases the personality. Otto is the only person who can contain him, and in order to get close to him, he needs the secret l… |
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The Drop
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Dennis Lehane |
Originall published in slightly different form as "Animal Rescue" in <em>Boston Noir</em>, published in 2009 by Akashic Books. |
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Black Ship (Daisy Dalrymple #17)
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Carola Dunn |
In September 1925, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and family of new twins move into a house inherited by husband DCI Alec Fletcher on the outskirts of London, near Hamstead Heath. When a dead body appears … |
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When Evil Rules
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Michele R. McPhee |
The Cape Cod beach town of Falmouth seemed like a lovely place to visit. But those who lived there year-round knew its other, darker side… Local businessman and infamous bully Melvin Reine had starte… |
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