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The Mercedes Coffin
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Faye Kellerman |
Billionaire genius Genoa Greeves never got over the shocking death of her favorite teacher, Bennett "Dr. Ben" Alston Little, murdered execution-style and stuffed into the trunk of his Mercedes-Benz. … |
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A dead liberty
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Catherine Aird |
A girl is charged with murder but goes mute from the time she is told of the death. Sloan and Crosby have to investigate the crime as the original investigating officer has suffered serious inj… |
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Neck and neck
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Leo Bruce |
Lionel Townsend, Beef's toffee-nosed biographer, finds himself a prime suspect when his aunt in Hastings is poisoned. At the same time, an unpopular publisher is found hanged in the Cotswolds, appare… |
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Lonelyheart 4122
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Colin Watson |
From Maurice Prior's review in The Spectator, 17 March 1967:
"A fine example of an oblique murder mystery is Lonely Heart 4122 by Colin Watson. In provincial Flaxborough two marriage bureau lady … |
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Les Misérables
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Victor Hugo |
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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The art of deception
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Nora Roberts,Christina Traister |
Something very odd was going on. A stolen painting led under cover investigator Adam Haines into a most perplexing situation. The suspects, father and daughter, were unusual to say the least. Adam si… |
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Remember When
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Nora Roberts,ROBERTS N. |
Laine Tavish is an ordinary woman living an ordinary life in the small town of Angel's Gap, Maryland, as the proprietor of Remember When, an antique treasures and gift shop. At least, that's what eve… |
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Brazen Virtue
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Nora Roberts |
D.C. Detectives: book 2
Some virtues are negotiable....
The steamy summer streets of Washington are no match for the phone lines of Fantasy, Inc., where every man's dreams come true. The "hotli… |
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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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The brass verdict
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Michael Connelly |
Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his… |
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The Overlook
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Michael Connelly |
Near Mulholland Drive, Dr. Stanley Kent is found shot twice in the back of the head. It's the case LAPD detective Harry Bosch has been waiting for, his first since being recruited to the Homicide Spe… |
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The Closers
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Michael Connelly |
Harry is back, assigned to the LAPD's Open Unsolved Unit with his former cop ally and partner, Kizmin Rider. These detectives are the Closers. They are thrown into a politically sensitive and dangero… |
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City of Bones
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Michael Connelly |
On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills--and unearths a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirs up memories of … |
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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 bore
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M. C. Beaton |
Minor writer John Heppel has a problem--he's a consummate bore. When he's found dead in his cottage, there are plenty of suspects. But surely boredom shouldn't be cause for murder, or so thinks local… |
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Dante's numbers
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David Hewson |
It was a warm, golden evening in Rome--a night filled with anticipation. A legendary director was premiering his new film version of Dante's Inferno. From around the world, celebrities gathered at th… |
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The third deadly sin
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Lawrence Sanders |
Edward X. "Iron Balls" Delaney is called out of retirement by the NYPD to hunt out a random killer at large in midtown New York. |
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Little boy blue
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Ed Dee |
A robbery at New York's JFK airport leads to the death of a baggage handler who was wearing a police jacket belonging to his father, a retired policeman. Detective Joe Gregory, the policeman's old pa… |
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Uniform rules of procedure
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Aquino,National Police Commission (Philippines) |
This is the first and only book that annotated the new rules governing administrative disciplinary procedure involving members of the Philippine National Police before the National Police Commission,… |
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Shake hands forever
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John Escott,Ruth Rendell,Nigel Anthony |
Classic Crime Fiction from "The most brilliant mystery novelist of our time."Most people would have screamed. Mrs Hathall made no sound. She had seen death many times before, but she had never before… |
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