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21) Near miss
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Stone Barrington novels volume 64
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English
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"Following a string of adventures, Stone Barrington is enjoying some downtime in New York City when a chance encounter introduces him to a charming new companion. Too bad she also comes with the baggage of a persistent ex-boyfriend intent on retribution. As Stone skillfully dodges each disturbance, it soon becomes clear that there is potentially an even more treacherous game being played behind the scenes. And when long-standing grudges resurface,...
22) The lovers
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Charlie Parker is haunted by a man and a woman who appear to have only one purpose: to end to Parker's existence.
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Stone Barrington novels volume 42
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English
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"Trouble always seems to find Stone Barrington, but with his debonair charm, unflappable composure, and cunning foresight, he always gets his man (and his lady ...)"--
24) Better dead
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It's the early 1950's. Ju McCarthy is campaigning to rid America of the Red Menace. Nate Heller is doing legwork for the senator, though the Chicago detective is disheartened by McCarthy's witch-hunting tactics. He's made friends with a young staffer, Bobby Kennedy, while trading barbs with a potential enemy, the attorney Roy Cohn, who rubs Heller the wrong way. Not the least of which for successfully prosecuting the so-called Atomic Bomb spies, Julius...
25) Agent X
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Steve Vail novels volume 2
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English
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Rogue former FBI agent Steve Vail races against time to track down a Russian intelligence officer who may have been caught trying to identify treasonous Americans.
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Spencer Quinn's New York Times best-selling Chet and Bernie mysteries are a welcome treat for fans. In this fifth installment, Hollywood star Chad Perry is causing quite a stir in the Valley. But when Chad is linked to an old crime, the P.I. duo must sniff out the truth, even if it means tangling with Chad's cat Brando.
27) Paper son
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The Most Southern Place on Earth: that's what they call the Mississippi Delta. It's not a place Lydia Chin, an American-born Chinese private detective from Chinatown, NYC, ever thought she'd have a reason to go. But when her mother tells her a cousin Lydia didn't know she had is in jail in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and that Lydia has to rush down south and get him out, Lydia finds herself rolling down Highway 61 with Bill Smith, her partner, behind...
28) Sixkill
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Spenser novels volume 39
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English
Description
When infamous actor Jumbo Nelson is accused of rape and murder, the Boston PD calls on Spenser to make heads or tails of the case. Although the evidence is mounting against Jumbo, Spenser makes a break when he teams up with Jumbo's bodyguard, Zebulon Sixkill, and uncovers some secrets involving the murder victim.
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Bell Elkins mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
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English
31) Inherent vice
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English
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Reluctantly investigating a kidnapping threat against his ex-girlfriend's billionaire beau, Doc Sportello tackles a bizarre tangle of nefarious characters before stumbling on a mysterious entity that may actually be a tax shelter for a dental group.
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Swift River Valley novels volume 6
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English
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Kylie Shaw finds herself attracted to Russ Colton, a private investigator in Knights Bridge to keep his client a Hollywood costume designer out of trouble.
34) Tough customer
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Star author Sandra Brown returns with a suspenseful, sizzling thriller in which a man of dubious character must confront the sins of his past in order to save himself-and those he loves-from a madman. Dodge Hanley, Derek Mitchell's indispensable staff investigator from Smash Cut, returns as Tough Customer's flawed protagonist. Dodge has used shady means of delivering the goods in the past…but when it comes to aiding the daughter of his former lover,...
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Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 2
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English
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"You shouldn't be here. It's too late . . . " These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death in his bachelor pad with a bottle of wine - a 1982 Chateau Lafite worth £2,000, to be precise. Odd, considering he didn't drink. Why this bottle? And why those words? And why was a three-digit number painted on the wall by the killer? And, most importantly, which of...
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In an unnamed city slick with rain, Charles Unwin toils as a clerk at an imperious detective agency. His job: writing reports on cases solved by the palindromic Detective Travis Sivart. When Sivart goes missing and his supervisor is murdered, Unwin is promoted to detective, a rank for which he is woefully unprepared. His only guidance comes from his sleepy new assistant and the pithy yet profound Manual of Detection. Unwin mounts his search for Sivart...
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Heartbreaker Bay novels volume 5
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English
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"When sexy Joe Malone never calls after their explosive kiss, Kylie shoves him out of her mind. Until she needs a favor, and it's a doozy."--Back cover.
40) Loch of the dead
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Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
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English
Description
Edinburgh's most famed detective duo-"Nine-Nails" McGray and Inspector Ian Frey-face their most metaphysical mystery yet, as they investigate a series of crimes surrounding the miraculous waters in the remote Loch Maree. A mysterious woman pleads for the help of Inspectors Frey and "Nine-Nails" McGray. Her son, illegitimate scion of the Koloman family, has received an anonymous death threat-right after learning he is to inherit the best part of a...
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