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Publisher
Lawrence Block
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"The basis of the recent film starring Liam Neeson, A Walk Among the Tombstones is Matthew Scudder's tenth appearance. He's hired by a drug dealer whose wife has been savagely murdered, and Scudder's pursuit of the faceless killers leads him on a chase through Manhattan and Brooklyn, with an unforgettable denouement in Green-Wood Cemetery. TJ, Scudder's streetwise young friend, is on hand, and Scudder's girlfriend Elaine plays a vital role, even as...
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Gus Murphy volume 2
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English
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"Former Suffolk County cop Gus Murphy returns to prowl the meaner streets of Long Island's darkest precincts with a Russian mercenary at his back in the stunning second installment of Reed Farrel Coleman's critically acclaimed series. Gus Murphy and his girlfriend, Magdalena, are put in harm's way when Gus is caught up in the distant aftershocks of heinous crimes committed decades ago in Vietnam and Russia. Gus's ex-priest pal, Bill Kilkenny, introduces...
3) Perfidia
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English
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Follows a post-Pearl Harbor murder of a Japanese family that entangles a brilliant Japanese-American forensic chemist, an adventurous woman, a future police chief and an arch villain.
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"Eddie Vegas made a terrible mistake. Now he has to pay the price. After a botched debt collection turned double murder, Eddie splits, desperate to avoid his employer, notorious L.A. crime boss Saul Benedict, and his men (and Eddie's ex-partners), Floyd and Sawyer, as well as the police. Soon he becomes entangled with the clever and beautiful Dakota, a Native American woman fresh in the City of Angels to find her missing friend--someone Eddie might...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Around one a.m. on an early spring morning, two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of Venice's squares. Commissario Claudia Griffoni, on duty that night, perhaps ill-advisedly walks the last of the boys home because his father, Dario Monforte, failed to pick him up at the Questura. Coincidentally, Guido Brunetti is asked by a wealthy friend of Vice-Questore Patta to vet Monforte for a job, triggering Brunetti's memory that...
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Publisher
Larry Darter
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
If You LoveHarry Bosch, Robert B. Parker's Spenser, Philip Marlowe, Jack Reacher-it's time you met Los Angeles private eye, Ben Malone. He's a street-wise, smart-mouthed tough guy, but with a heart of gold. Three complete novels, and over 900 pages of lightening-paced thrills, suspense, and action.Come What MayInspired by a shocking true story. LAPD homicide detective Ben Malone is transferred from Hollywood Division to the Cold Case Homicide Unit...
7) Fatal Enemy
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Publisher
Diane Capri
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author DIANE CAPRI Returns! For fans of Lee Child, Jack Reacher, John Grisham, and Michael Connelly "Full of thrills and tension - but smart and human too." -Lee Child, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher Thrillers "Jess Kimball is like a female Jack Reacher, only nicer!" -Martha Powers, award winning author of Conspiracy of Silence and Death Angel Jess Kimball's Impossible Mission: Protect...
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Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp.
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"My fingers can't find the bullet holes. They're there, because they brought me down. Like a guitar riff sharp enough to slit a throat or the devil's amplifiers shrieking through the lonely night, this bonanza of blood and brawn rings with the vibe of the best new noir suspense. Culled from the net's most hardcore, award-winning site, these fresh, raw, and uncut stories pack a stiff punch. . . "As long as she keeps calling me, there's hope. Hope is...
9) Cross Out
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Publisher
Mark Connolly
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Chicago Detectives Marsh and Grewecskirace the clock to stop the increasing numberof married women being murdered. Making itworse, the summer is filling up the beacheswhile someone is trying to thin out the crowdwith bullets.Terrific story !Edgy, nervous, scarey!DLF Review. --Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Schaffner Press, Inc.
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Marks the long-awaited arrival-in English-of a masterful voice in Mexican and noir fiction Death in Veracruz is a gritty and atmospheric noir centered on the so-called oil wars of the late 1970s, which pitted the extremely powerful and corrupt government-owned oil cartel against the agrarian landowners in the Tabasco region of Southern Mexico. This novel, translated for the first time in English since its publication 30 years ago, concerns a journalist...
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WMG Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Over sixty-five thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith.In this twenty-fourth monthly volume the full novel Bad Beat: A Cold Poker Gang Novel, plus four short stories, and an ongoing serial novel. --Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
WMG Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
If you love puzzle mystery novels, complicated cold cases, and detectives tackling the most twisted crimes, take this opportunity to introduce yourself to USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith's Cold Poker Gang.This starter bundle includes the first three books in the Cold Poker Gang series: Kill Game, Cold Call, and Calling DeadKill GameUSA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith takes you into the world of his acclaimed novel Dead Money...
13) Nightfall
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Publisher
Full Moon Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
In FULL MOON-BLOODY MOON (Book 2) Chase Dagger and his cohorts confronted the curse of the Addison family. Paul Addison had been an unassuming character, quiet and subdued, but with one lethal flaw-he had been born on a Friday the 13th during a full moon. All of the men in the Addison family born during an identical occurrence inherited the same curse, transforming them into bloodthirsty predators. But Paul Addison had a fiery end to his life.If that's...
14) Bestseller
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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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"Would you kill to write a bestseller? Well Adrian Slater says that he's prepared to do just that - and announces the fact in a creative writing class. Lecturer Dudley Grose is convinced that Slater is a psychopath and means what he says. But the Dean of the university doesn't believe him and neither do the cops. But when a student on the course vanishes and her bathroom is awash with blood, the police wonder if Slater has actually carried out...
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Publisher
John Barlow
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"John Ray, the son of crime boss Antonio 'Tony' Ray, is the straight one of the family. With a successful business and a lifestyle to match, he wants nothing to do with his father's criminal world. But what does that world want with him? A young prostitute is found dead in John's car, and Freddy Metcalfe, his best friend and employee, is framed for her death. Freddy denies everything but it's an open and shut case: he's going down for murder. John...
16) Day In, Day Out
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Publisher
Schaffner Press, Inc.
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
A drunken confession. Years dissolve in a blur of sex, drugs, and violence. With echoes of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, Hector Aguilar CamIn's Day In, Day Out explores the lives of two darkly alluring sisters and the men pulled into their orbit. While attending the funeral of an old acquaintance, dissolute writer Serrano runs into a former rival, a doctor of criminology known simply as el Pato. The encounter throws Serrano back to the erotically...
Author
Publisher
Strict Publishing International
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Every great Private Investigator has to start someplace. This is the story of that famous PI, Sled Speed, and the case that started him on his fabulous career. It involves a pair of drop-dead gorgeous lesbians and a blackmailer who gets greedy and wants more. As with all Sled's cases, there are beautiful women in peril and Sled, naturally enough, cannot sit back and do nothing when he knows there's a beautiful woman in distress. Can he come to the...
18) Fogged Mirror
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Publisher
Carolyn Chambers Clark
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
One hour before fifteen-year-old Dave McClain started tailing the two men who'd exchanged suspicious information on a Paris street, Louie Devereux appeared and asked him to believe he was a tour guide, when Dave was convinced Louie was a spy.None of this made the Paris police report. Many things didn't. Not his plan, especially not the fact an international leader was fingered for assassination, and that Louie and Dave had a plan to save him.To get...
19) Secret Justice
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Publisher
Diane Capri
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author DIANE CAPRI Returns! For fans of Lee Child, John Grisham, Jack Reacher and Michael Connelly "Full of thrills and tension - but smart and human too." -Lee Child , #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher Thrillers Tampa's free-spirited Judge Wilhelmina Carson returns in the third installment of this well-loved series. During Tampa's annual Gasparilla Pirate Festival, murder chases Judge Willa's...
Author
Publisher
Raymond Boyd Dunn
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The Mary Valley Rattler (or 'The Valley Rattler'), is a tourist train which runs through the Mary River Valley in Queensland, from Gympie to the small country town of Imbil. It is a restored C17 class, steam locomotive which originally ran in the early 1920s. The tour is conducted by the Mary Valley Heritage Railway, a not-for-profit organisation, with a few paid workers assisted by many volunteers. It is the third largest heritage railway in Australia.This...
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