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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Pagan Babies	Elmore Leonard	Father Terry Dunn thought he'd seen everything on the mean streets of Detroit, but that was before he went on a little retreat to Rwanda to evade a tax-fraud indictment. Now the whiskey-drinking, Nin…	OL111667W
Danger at the Fair	Peg Kehret	Ellen receives a spirit message during a séance at the county fair, warning that her brother Corey is in danger and that she must rescue him.	OL116163W
Gunmetal black	Daniel Serrano	As a child, Eddie Santiago grows up on the mean streets of his Puerto Rican neighborhood in Chicago, where he witnesses his father's murder. Now in his thirties, after serving ten years in a state pe…	OL11910136W
The Vision	Heather Graham	The gift of sight comes at a dangerous price.When Deep Down Salvage begins the hunt for the Josephine Marie, it seems like any other dive...until Genevieve Wallace sees the vision of a dead woman in …	OL121772W
Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Vol. 10	Naoki Urasawa	"Cedok Bridge, the three frogs...the mother of the twins is in Pargue." A cryptic message from wealthy financier Schuwald sends Tenma to the city of a hundred spires. There, he meets Grimmer, an inve…	OL12234119W
The manual of detection	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…	OL13646923W
The sad tale of the brothers Grossbart	Jesse Bullington	Hegel and Manfried Grossbart may not consider themselves bad men - but death still stalks them through the dark woods of medieval Europe. The year is 1364, and the brothers Grossbart have embarked o…	OL13771875W
The November criminals	Sam Munson	A darkly funny, pot-infused novel of teenage maladjustment in the tradition of Beautiful Children from a compelling new voice in American fiction. For a high school senior, Addison Schacht has a lot …	OL13778658W
Fool	Frederick G. Dillen	After swindling his partners, a New York investment dealer is put out of business and retires to Oklahoma to lick his wounds. On a visit back to New York he predicts a crash, the prediction saves his…	OL14867553W
Don't blink	Howard Roughan,James Patterson	The Lombardo Steak House in New York has three reasons why it's famous, the menu, the clientele and now the murder of an infamous mob lawyer. The assassin is able to slip through the police's fingers…	OL14920138W
Slide	Jason Starr,Ken Bruen	A low-grade drug dealer goes even lower with a little help from his friends.	OL14934431W
Acceleration	Graham McNamee	It's a hot, hot summer, and in the depths of the Toronto Transit Authority's Lost and Found, 17-year-old Duncan is cataloging lost things and sifting through accumulated junk. And between Jacob, the …	OL14958026W
The Hunter (aka Point Blank and Payback)	Donald E. Westlake	You probably haven't ever noticed them. But they've noticed you. They notice everything. That's their job. Sitting quietly in a nondescript car outside a bank making note of the tellers' work habits,…	OL15024601W
Longarm and the tin cup trouble	Tabor Evans	A thiefs pretty widow is suspected of hiding his stolen stashand she wants Longarm to protect her. With a posse on his trail, Longarm will have to think fast and draw faster if hes going to bury a cu…	OL15089880W
Demon Hunts (Walker Papers #5)	C.E. Murphy	Seattle police detective Joanne Walker started the year mostly dead, and she's ending it trying not to be consumed by evil. Literally.She's proven she can handle the gods and the walking dead. But a …	OL15166176W
The Watcher	Grace Monroe	When you see him, it's already too late... Four days before Christmas, a young woman's body is found in a ditch in the grounds of Edinburgh Castle, the discovery rendered even more terrifying by the…	OL15170150W
Nobody's Girl	Kitty Neale	Abandoned and alone, you'll do anything to survive...A gritty new saga from the bestselling author of Outcast Child.Abandoned on the cold stone steps of an orphanage, only a few hours old and clutchi…	OL15184757W
The prison-ship adventure of James Forten, Revolutionary War captive	Amanda Doering Tourville	In 1781, fifteen-year-old James Forten, a free African American from Philadelphia, is proud to be fighting for the American colonies, but when the British capture the ship on which he serves he fears…	OL15520776W
A necessary evil	Alex Kava	When a monsignor is found knifed to death in a Nebraska airport restroom, FBI special agent Maggie O'Dell is called in to profile the ritualistic murder of a priest, the latest in a series of killing…	OL15832269W
Grave Mercy	Robin LaFevers	Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the g…	OL16318158W