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Pub. Date
2022
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English
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"A man is found dead at home, covered in what the coroner says were bites of the Black Widow Spider. Was he attacked by the spiders or were they put on him with murder in mind? A killer is now stalking Texas Hold-em poker players in the big World Series of Poker Tournament in Las Vegas. Jim Richards is asked to track down the killer by the police & the late man's wife in this 11th book by Bob Moats."--
22) Lipstick Murders
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Who's murdering the runway models of Las Vegas? That's what Jim Richards and Deacon D'Angelo are tasked with finding out. One afternoon the Richard's Investigating and Security office is flooded with beautiful runway models all seeking protection after one of their group was murdered. Jim has Buck take over the body guarding of the babes and then ends up involved with solving the murder. Buck also takes over protecting a famous pop singer from a...
23) Blood Sport
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Book 2 in the Little Town series. At first glance, the small mountain settlement of Mount Big Town, or 'Little Town' as the locals call it, seems to be a pleasant and peaceful rural haven. Senior Constable Tess Fuller and Sergeant Finn Maguire know better though, kept fully occupied trying to maintain some law and order in a town dominated by the huge feral Bycraft family. Can they recapture fugitive Red Bycraft before he makes good on his threat...
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Publisher
Piccadilly Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Gusher City, Texas...Two terrorists had seized hostages, demanding an aircraft to take them to Cuba...Then 'Crazy Doc' Christopher had escaped from the penitentiary, hell-bent on vengeance...But when Walter Haddon-one of the FBI's ten most wanted men-strolled into Gusher City, all four men found out what other criminals bad discovered to their cost. Breaking the law in Rockabye County was fraught with peril. For they were up against men like Sheriff...
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Publisher
Felony & Mayhem Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Badger's Drift is the ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly spinster. But when the spinster dies suddenly, her best friend kicks up a fuss loud enough to attract the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby. And when Barnaby and his eager-beaver deputy start poking around, they uncover a swamp of ugly scandals and long-suppressed resentments seething below the picture-postcard prettiness. In the grand...
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Publisher
Falcon Ridge Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas eve day and Constable Marco Trepalli of the Mendenhall Police Department can't wait to be off shift. He's planning a big surprise for his girlfriend, Amanda. Something special. Something romantic.Then a kid doesn't return home after sledding and Trepalli forgets all about his plans in the mad scramble to mobilize search parties and interview the kid's friends. And as hour after hour slips by with no sign of the boy, Trepalli braces...
27) Life for a Life
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Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Set in the middle of winter in St. Andrews, this Scottish noir mystery is written by one of the UK's best crime writers, T. Frank MuirWhen a young woman's half-naked body is found on Fife's coastal path, frozen and with the remnants of a rope manacle around her wrist, DCI Gilchrist is given the case. But Gilchrist's investigation uncovers a bloody trail of shootings and executions that lead him to the heart of a human trafficking war. Links to Scotland's...
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Publisher
Melange Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When your high school classmate shows up on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List, can your police career get any more interesting? As a favor to a beautiful treasury agent, Prospect, Tennessee's police chief Sam Jenkins handles a cold case robbery-homicide and clears the forty-three year old mystery of THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN BANK JOB.In MURDER IN A WISH-BOOK HOUSE, Sam investigates the most grisly murder of his career. Then, in V IS FOR. . .VITAMIN?,...
30) Can of Worms
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Publisher
Melange Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Against his better judgment, Police Chief Sam Jenkins hires Dallas Finchum, nephew of local corrupt politicians.Now, Finchum is accused of a rape that occurred when he attended college three years earlier.The young man claims his innocence, but while investigating, Jenkins uncovers corruption in the local sheriff's department, evidence that detectives mishandled the investigation and the loss of the entire case file. Sam meets one of the most distasteful...
Author
Publisher
Tim Ellis
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Novella (23,000-words). All Detective Inspector Cyrus Kane wants is a bit of peace and quiet after the suicide of his wife, so he hires an isolated cottage in Cornwall for the Christmas holidays, but fate has something else in store for him. --Provided by publisher.
32) Follow Me Down
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Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"A man, hanging from a tree at the edge of the forest that surrounds Dockerty, Newry County, has been shot with arrows, two of which pin his belly to the tree trunk. Orwell Brennan, Dockerty's chief of police, wonders whether it's a hunting accident when a sergeant tells him it's been ruled a murder. He also tells the chief that it's now in the hands of Metro Homicide and outside his concern. But Orwell has never listened much to those telling him...
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Publisher
O'Neil De Noux
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
THE BIG SHOW - LaStanza Novel #5This is New Orleans - 1985. A burning man stumbles in front of Det. Dino LaStanza's police car. Doused with gasoline, the victim had been set afire with a flare gun. How did this homeless man manage to get murdered along the manicured lawns of the Garden District? Who was he? And who would commit such a vicious crime?In every profession there's a big showIn the army it's the Special ForcesIn the navy it's the SealsIn...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Inspector Zhang of the SIngapore Police Force is called in to investigate when a consignment of narcotics vanishes from under the eyes of a team of Drugs Squad detectives. It's a locked room mystery that puts Inspector Zhang's detective skills to the test."--
Author
Publisher
Sara M. Barton
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The first book in the popular Scarlet Wilson Mystery Series....A financial Ponzi-style fraud costs the Wilsons everything but the old family manse....Opening the Four Acorns Inn sounds like a good idea, except for one thing -- someone is out to ruin them anyway possible, and that includes murder.Scarlet Wilson's love life keeps tanking, no matter what she does. It's pretty sad when the elderly ladies at the inn have a better romantic life than the...
Author
Publisher
Tim Ellis
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A Josiah Dark Novella (22,000-words). A fourteen year-old girl's body is found in a frozen grave by three children metal detecting in a field. Detective Inspector Josiah Dark of the Serious Crime Division at Greater Manchester Police thought he'd be investigating this case on his own, because his unwanted partner has been called away to a family crisis, but a reporter called Dixie Reyes knows more than she should - a lot more. --Provided by publisher....
37) Santa Murders
Author
Publisher
Bob Moats
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
That Jolly old head elf from the North Pole is getting ready to be a naughty boy. He has murder on his mind. Luckily it's not the real Santa Claus, but a person with a motive to murder. Las Vegas Homicide Detective Deacon DeAngelo goes after a street preacher who loves to play Santa for the homeless shelters. Evidence ties this Santa to the murder of a mob figure and now Will Trapper is called on to prove his Santa friend didn't do it. Trapper manages...
Author
Publisher
Tim Ellis
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Parish & Richards have two cases to solve. One turns out to be unfinished business, the other is very close to home. Angie struggles to come to terms with her new baby. Kowalski is promoted, but someone is out to ruin him. Two detectives join the team, and are allocated the case of five bodies discovered in the grounds of a house. --Provided by publisher.
39) Deadly Fun
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Publisher
Terry Odell
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
This 9th book in Terry Odell's Mapleton Mystery series pits Gordon against a cat-and-mouse killer.Someone is playing a game with Mapleton's Chief of Police . . . and it's deadly.For Mapleton Police Chief Gordon Hepler, life has become predictably boring-despite being a newlywed. Being a husband is great. Dealing with nothing but parking violations, speeders, and the occasional disorderly complaint is monotonous. Gordon wonders if he's been so busy...
Author
Publisher
Tim Ellis
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Novella (21,000-words): A male corpse is found at the recycling plant in Little Haven, Pembrokeshire missing his heart, live and kidneys. Tigger is back at work, but she has PTSD, so Inigo swaps her for a Constable - Nell Roberts - from Operations who wants to be a detective. They begin the investigation with organ trafficking at the top of the list, but things are a lot more complicated than that. --Provided by publisher.
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