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1) Cross
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Alex Cross novels volume 12
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Alex Cross' life is finally getting back to normal following the shooting death of his wife several years earlier. He's set up a practice as a psychologist once again and even has a chance at a new love. Then Cross' former partner, John Sampson, calls in a favor. He's tracking a serial rapist in Georgetown that bears a similarity to a case the two worked on years earlier and reveals a connection to Alex's wife's death. Cross is about to go for the...
2) Cross fire
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Alex Cross novels volume 17
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As Detective Alex Cross contends with a D.C. sniper, FBI agent Siegel, and his upcoming wedding to Bree, he receives a call from his deadliest adversary, Kyle Craig. The Mastermind is in D.C. and will not relent until he has eliminated Cross and his family for good.
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Alex Cross novels volume 18
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Detective Alex Cross is thwarted at every turn while he attempts to investigate the abduction of the president's son and daughter and also discovers a deadly contagion released in the capital's water supply that foreshadows a larger, more devastating attack.
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When a string of high-profile kidnappings in Washington, D.C., escalate upon the discovery that the victims are being murdered, an eventual ransom demand triggers terror throughout the country and covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath is summoned to put an end to the crisis.
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Alex Cross novels volume 16
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Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington's wildest scenes. And she was not this killer's only victim.
6) Sweet talk
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Buchanan novels (Julie Garwood) volume 10
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Buchanan / FBI volume 10
Buchanan-Renard volume 10
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Buchanan / FBI volume 10
Buchanan-Renard volume 10
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When his carefully planned FBI sting is foiled by IRS attorney Olivia MacKenzie's efforts to untangle an elaborate Ponzi scheme, agent Grayson Kincaid becomes the woman's protector against dangerous and corrupt adversaries. When FBI agent Grayson Kincaid first encounters Olivia MacKenzie, she makes quite an impression. The beautiful, tough, young attorney has stumbled into the middle of an FBI sting operation and has reduced it to chaos. Months of...
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Clay Carter, a public defender, reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, assuming it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week. As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous...
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Heirs of Acadia volume 1
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Book 1 of Heirs of Acadia, continuing the story told in the bestselling Janette Oke and T. Davis Bunn Song of Acadia series. Erica Langston's comfortable home and loving family living near Washington, D.C., carry no outward hint of the sorrows and fears faced by her Acadian forebears, but she will soon discover that similar determination and fortitude will be required of her. When the British once again invade the nation's capital and leave death...
10) The spy
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In 1908, a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in a sensational apparent suicide. The man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point not to suicide but to murder.
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Halloween is coming and fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian's normally staid Washington, D. C., looks more like a costume party every day.
The season has lots of tricks and treats up its sleeve for Lacey in this third outing of the Crimes of Fashion Mysteries. With a messy murder case in the hothouse world of haute couture just behind her, and a romantic getaway weekend just ahead, Lacey promises her new boyfriend she'll stay out of trouble. For once....
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A corporate lawyer in Washington goes to war against his own company to defend the homeless. It happens after Michael Brock is abducted by a homeless man and held hostage. The homeless man is killed by a police sharpshooter and the lawyer is rescued, but the experience changes his life. Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm with eight hundred lawyers. The money was good and getting better;...
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Crime of fashion mysteries volume 2
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While attending the opening of a new fashion museum, fashion guru and columnist Lacey Smithsonian chats up her favorite designer, Hugh Bentley, and stumbles upon a colorful mystery, rife with greed and bad taste, that could be linked to the recent disappearance of a Washington intern.
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A princess died in this corset. Who wouldn't kill for it?
Lacey Smithsonian chases the fashion story of the century and a trip of a lifetime in Raiders of the Lost Corset, the fourth book in Ellen Byerrum's Crime of Fashion Mysteries. "Find the corset!" Corset-maker Magda Rousseau's dying words send her friend, fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian, on a high-stakes scavenger hunt, racing against death. Magda's family secrets held clues to the fabled...
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Crime of fashion mysteries volume 6
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Unchallenged and unappreciated, fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian slips on her trench coat and high-heeled gumshoes to pursue a course in private investigation and a shot at a better job. When a wealthy and erratic D.C. socialite is discovered quite dead outside the classroom, Lacey gets to test those sleuthing skills. Was the victim on her way to share a dangerous secret with Lacey? And what does it have to do with a missing Louis Vuitton vintage...
18) Divine: a novel
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"Mary Madison is educated and redeemed, a powerful voice in Washington, D.C. But she also has a past that shamed polite society. A survivor of unspeakable horror, Mary has battled paralyzing fear, faithlessness, addiction, and promiscuity. But even in her darkest valley, Mary was sustained from afar, prayed over by a grandmother who clung to the belief that God had special plans for Mary. Now a divine power has set Mary free to bring life-changing...
19) I have a dream
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An illustrated edition of Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" speech.