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1) The sinner
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This ebook edition contains a special preview of Tess Gerritsen’s I Know a Secret.
Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the cloistered convent lie two nuns–one dead, one critically injured–victims of an unspeakably savage attacker. The brutal crime appears to be without motive, but medical...
Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the cloistered convent lie two nuns–one dead, one critically injured–victims of an unspeakably savage attacker. The brutal crime appears to be without motive, but medical...
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Two pregnant teenagers -- one in privileged Newport, Rhode Island, one in a poor, remote Irish village -- have nothing in common except for the stunning fact that both are virgins. Private detective & former nun Anne Fitzgerald is called by the Archdiocese of Boston to investigate & to watch over the girls as they come to term. But Anne hasn't been told the secret prophecy of the Virgin of Fatima known only to the Pope: one of these girls will give...
3) Snapshot
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 5
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A series of strange photos draws Boston PI Carlotta Carlyle into a chilling case of medical malpractice Carlotta Carlyle is sorting through her junk mail when she finds a snapshot of a newborn baby she has never seen before. One week later, another arrives showing the same child one year older. The next week, a third arrives. As the deliveries continue, Carlotta becomes obsessed with this unnamed little girl and is drawn into one of the most dangerous...
5) Hardware
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 6
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Boston taxi driver Carlotta Carlyle, a pistol-packing, six-foot-one redhead, investigates a series of robberies threatening to close the G & W cab company. With the help of an ex-Mafia friend, Sam Gianelli, who is a computer hobbyist, Carlotta invests in a computer and solves the robberies. By the author of Snapshot.
6) Mystic river
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"There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected." When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled tip to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. Twenty-five years later, Sean Devine is a homicide detective. Jimmy Marcus is an ex-con...
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 8
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Carlotta Carlyle, Boston's favorite redheaded, wisecracking P.I., is back in a taut new mystery that begins with a seemingly innocent tenant-landlord dispute--and quickly escalates to arson, intrigue, and murder.
8) Cold case
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 7
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Hired to find a missing novelist, Boston private investigator Carlotta Carlyle gets tangled up in a cutthroat political campaign Thea Janis was a literary Mozart. She published her first novel at age fourteen, shocking the upper crust of Boston with her frank depiction of blue-blooded indiscretions, and she seemed to have a magnificent career ahead of her. But before Thea could publish her follow-up novel, she mysteriously disappeared and was eventually...
9) Killers
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Whitey Bulger is gone from Boston, but Bench McCarthy is here to take his place. Bench McCarthy is a thug's thug, a hitman, an underworld jack-of-all-trades running his own mob out of Winter Hill in Somerville while simultaneously handling "wet work" for Sally Curto, a half-demented, totally obscene mob boss. After years of gangland peace, Bench and Sally suddenly find themselves clay pigeons for unknown hit crews coming at them from every direction....
10) The big dig
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 9
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Boston's largest urban renewal undertaking in modern history draws Carlotta into an undercover gig at the site. It comes at the request of a disgruntled hardhat who suspects the multibillion-dollar project has set off a groundswell of graft, kickbacks, and fraud. The case hasn't unearthed anything but dirt, so Carlotta is tempted into moonlighting on another: a Beacon Street socialite who's deeply concerned about her vanishing tenant, a dog groomer...
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As richly complex and brutal as the terrain it depicts, here is the mesmerizing, darkly original novel that heralded the arrival of Dennis Lehane, the master of the new noir-and introduced Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, his smart and tough private investigators weaned on the blue-collar streets of Dorchester.
A cabal of powerful Boston politicians is willing to pay Kenzie and Gennaro big money for a seemingly small job: to find a missing cleaning...
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While searching for a stolen Rolls Royce, Sarah and Max find a dead gardener at a Renaissance fair Sarah Kelling and her husband, Max Bittersohn, have made names for themselves tracking down stolen paintings, sculptures, and, when necessary, the occasional murderer. But this is the first time they have been asked to find a missing Rolls Royce. When Bill Billingsgate's prize 1927 New Phantom disappears, they head for his estate on the Massachusetts...
13) The Indictment
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From the author of the best-selling The Verdict and chairman of the Massachusetts Trial Lawyers' Association comes a legal thriller filled with unexpected repercussions. When a mysterious woman is murdered in Boston, District Attorney Neil Harrington calls for a grand jury indictment against the suspected killer. Harrington knows that Christopher Dillard, a brilliant Harvard surgeon, was the last person to see her alive-and the doctor has no alibi...
14) The snake eater
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 12
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The murder of a Green Beret points Brady toward a chilling Vietnam cover-up Daniel McCloud may grow marijuana, but as far as he's concerned, that does not make him a criminal. A Vietnam veteran still suffering from exposure to Agent Orange, he's found no help from the government and no relief outside of homegrown grass. When the local police in his small New England town bust him for possession, a friend reaches out to Brady Coyne, a Boston lawyer...
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 23
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To help an old friend with a gambling problem, Brady confronts the Boston mob Dalton Lancaster could have been a lawyer, but his heart wasn't in it. He quit Yale after his first year, and used his inheritance to go into the restaurant business, where he might have had some luck if he'd spent more time selling food and less time playing blackjack. As he gambled away his savings, restaurants, and family, his lawyer, Brady Coyne, stuck by him. So when...
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After a liver transplant, Andre suddenly becomes a time traveler, but is his soulmate Michael, who lives in 1969, or Blake, his donor's brother, who is training him in 2021?
Weeks ago, Andre Cobb received a much-needed liver transplant. He passes out and wakes up somewhere totally unexpected... in 1969, where (when?) he connects with Michael. Just as suddenly, he slips back to present-day Boston, where the family of his donor is waiting to explain...
18) Under fire
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A Boston firefighter is shot and killed in the line of duty while rescuing Amina Diallo and her fifteen-year-old son, Malick, from their burning store. Diallo, a Senegalese Muslim immigrant, is arrested for arson and murder, and will likely be convicted in record time.
Attorneys Sarah Lynch and Buddy Clancy face more than racial and religious prejudice in this impossible courtroom battle. Diallo is targeted by a gunman in open court, a key defense...
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 12
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Boston private investigator Carlotta Carlyle is beginning to wonder about her mob-connected boyfriend, Sam Gianelli, when he abruptly flees the country. To cope with her anxiety, Carlotta takes a job working for a jittery bride-to-be with apprehensions about her fiancé's faithfulness. When her client ends up getting killed, suddenly she's hunting down a murderer.
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Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 11
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Carlotta is frantic. It appears that Paolina, a street-smart teenage girl she's always thought of as a little sister, has run away. After dead-end investigations throughout Boston, Carlotta fears the worst. Especially when she connects the disappearance to Paolina's biological father, Roldán Gonzales, a ruthless Colombian drug lord. To find Paolina, first Carlotta has to find Gonzales-but he's vanished too. The official report is that he's dead....