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1) Gas City
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Calling upon his considerable novelistic skills, Loren D. Estleman exposes the black heart of a seemingly stable, well-run city suddenly pitched into violence and chaos. A delicate balance of forces-greed and corruption, ambition and desire-run out of control in the wake of a serial killer's grisly rampage.
A power struggle-between a police chief who has looked the other way for too long, a Mafia boss who holds the city's vices in his powerful grasp,...
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To escape the awful life she has descended into, Luz plans carefully. She takes only the clothes on her back, a Colt .45, and all the money in her husband's safe. The corpses in the hallway weren't part of her plan. Luz needs to find the daughter she left behind years earlier, but she knows she may die trying. Her husband is El Principe, a key player in a high-powered drug cartel, a business he runs with the same violence he has used to keep Luz his...
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Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented the detective fiction genre with his mesmerizing stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin. Introducing to literature the concept of applying reason to solving crime, these tales brought Poe fame and fortune. Years later, Dorothy Sayers would describe "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" as "almost a complete manual of detective theory and practice." Indeed, Poe's short mysteries inspired...
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The illumination paradox volume Book 2
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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One imprisoned boy. One devoted girl. One wicked twist that changes everything. Losing him would make her overcast world one shade darker... Navigating her way through nightmarish lands devoid of sunlight. Eyelet Elsworth races to free her beloved Urlick Babbit, the first person to understand and accept her--differences and all. Framed for murder and sentenced to execution. Urlick is running out of time. And the Commonwealth's tyrannical new ruler....
5) Montana noir
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Grady and Graff, both Montana natives, masterfully curate this collection of hard-edged Western tales.
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