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Hard row
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Margaret Maron |
As Judge Deborah Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it becomes clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are simmering just below the surface in the cou… |
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Driving force
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Dick Francis |
Jockey Freddie Croft discovers a high-stakes conspiracy that exposes the seedy underside of horse-racing-and faces deadlier odds of survival than in any steeplechase run. |
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A blind eye
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G. M. Ford |
Beneath the rotting floorboards of an abandoned shed are human bones -- lots of them -- the last things a runaway rogue true-crime writer and his photojournalist ex-lover expected to find when they t… |
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Glitz
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Elmore Leonard |
Psycho mama"s boy Teddy Magyk has a serious jones for the Miami cop who put him away--but he wants to hit Vincent Mora where it really hurts before killing him. So when a beautiful Puerto Rican hooke… |
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Killshot
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Elmore Leonard |
It’s not Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne’s fault that they were in the real estate office when a pair of thugs walked in with extortion on their minds. But as far as aging Ojibway Indi… |
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Adam and evil
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Gillian Roberts |
In Gillian Roberts's captivating novels of Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, with its narrow streets and venerable architecture, can suddenly shiver in the icy winds of menace. Then it become… |
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Till the end of Tom
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Gillian Roberts |
Traditionally, Old Philadelphians keep a low profile. They associate with one another and leave life as discreetly as they have lived it. So Philly Prep English teacher Amanda Pepper, who thinks her … |
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Death in the family
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Jill McGown |
With a plot that defies the most inspired second-guessing and with menace ticking quietly away on every page, Jill McGown's Death in the Family firmly establishes her as a master of mystery and psych… |
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Death of a nag
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M. C. Beaton |
More than ever, Constable Hamish Macbeth needs a change. His engagement to the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe has ended. Priscilla, the daughter of a local hotelier, not only has left his life, sh… |
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Motor city blue
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Loren D. Estleman |
Marla Bernstein is a pretty, dark-haired teenager who happens to be the ward of Ben Morningstara semi-retired mobster. When Marla suddenly disappears, the gang boss is forced to call in private eye … |
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Defending Angels
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Mary Stanton |
With a long list of ethereal clients who need her help, Savannah lawyer Brianna Winston Beaufort’s career choice is beginning to haunt her…An already dead businessman needs Bree’s help to find his mu… |
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Dark eye
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William Bernhardt |
Sometimes her eyes seduce. Sometimes they stare straight at the kind of sights most people turn away from. But in the blazing neon and searing sun of Las Vegas, she can't see the man who is watching … |
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Fear Itself
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Walter Mosley |
Paris Minton is a man who would just as soon walk away from trouble as stand up to it. But in 1950s Los Angeles, sometimes trouble just comes and gets you. "Fearless Jones shows up at Paris Minton's … |
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Bad Boy Brawly Brown (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
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Walter Mosley |
Easy Rawlins is out of the investigation business and as far away from crime as a black man can be in 1960s Los Angeles. But living around desperate men means life gets complicated sometimes. When an… |
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White corridor
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Christopher Fowler |
From using crackpot psychics to cutting-edge forensics, Arthur Bryant and John May are famous for their maddeningly unorthodox approach to solving crimes that the ordinary police cannot. Now Christop… |
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Nattfåk
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Johan Theorin |
A number one bestseller in Sweden, and winner of the the prestigious Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel, 2008 - the chilling story of a couple of who live in a house with a secret, murderous… |
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Death by denim
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Linda C. Gerber |
Aphra Connolly is being chased by some very dangerous people. She knows her survival depends upon staying far away from love interest Seth, and listening to her moms lectures on the finer points of a… |
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Simisola
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Ruth Rendell |
Only eighteen black people live in Kingsmarkham. One of them is Wexford's new Doctor, Raymond Akande. When the doctor's daughter, Melanie, goes missing, the Chief Inspector takes more than just a pro… |
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One across, two down
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Ruth Rendell |
Two things interest Stanley Manning: crossword puzzles, and the substantial sum his wife Vera stands to inherit when his mother-in-law dies. Otherwise, life at 61 Lanchester Road is a living hell. Fo… |
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Grasshopper
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Ruth Rendell |
Clodagh Brown loved climbing. First it was trees. Later, as a teenager, she would scale the electrical pylons that tower over the English countryside like giant grasshoppers -- and share the experien… |
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