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Series
Triple Threat volume 3
Language
English
Description
At first glance, the crimes appear random. Arson. Theft. Fraud. Murder. But these are more than random crimes. They're moves in an increasingly deadly game. And the one element they have in common: a woman who is gorgeous, clever...and lethal. Elizabeth Avery has a winsome smile and flawless figure, but underneath is a heart of ice. She's a master at manipulating people, convincing strangers to do the unthinkable. And she orchestrates it all without...
1342) The keeper
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 15
Thorndike Press large print basic
Dismas Hardy; Abe Glitsky volume 15; 5
Thorndike Press large print basic
Dismas Hardy; Abe Glitsky volume 15; 5
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"On the evening before Thanksgiving, Hal Chase, a guard in the San Francisco County Jail, drives to the airport to pick up his step-brother for the weekend. When they return, Hal's wife, Katie, has disappeared without a clue. By the time Dismas Hardy hears about this, Katie has been missing for five days. The case strikes close to home because Katie had been seeing Hardy's wife, a marriage counselor. By this time, the original Missing Persons case...
1343) After dark
Author
Language
English
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Description
A judge in Oregon is killed by a bomb which bears the hallmark of a killer he set free. Such ingratitude puzzles police. Why him, why not her, meaning the judge's wife, a lawyer who convicted the killer. Or was this her doing, a way of saving $2 million in alimony?
1345) The kills
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
Description
Manhattan Sex Crimes Prosecutor Alexandra Cooper discovers that her current date rape case has become complicated by her client's secrets, as well as by a colleague's investigation into the murder of an elderly Harlem woman.
1346) There was a little girl
Author
Series
Matthew Hope mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
1347) Silent mercy
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Prosecutor Alexandra Cooper is called to a Baptist church in Harlem, originally built as a synagogue, where the body of a young woman has been decapitated and set on fire. Was the fire meant to destroy the body or to draw attention to it? A second corpse is found at a cathedral in Little Italy. Alex mines the depths of Manhattan's many houses of worship to find a connection that will take her into terrible danger.
1348) Cold hit
Author
Series
Alexandra Cooper novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
A woman who owned a ritzy art gallery in New York is murdered, her body found in the river. Investigating assistant district attorney Alexandra Cooper is drawn into the world of stolen art, including art looted by the Nazis.
1349) Presumed innocent
Author
Series
Kindle County novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Rusty Sabich is an up-and-comer in the county prosecutor's office. He's intelligent, hard working, dependable. And, just maybe, he's also a murderer.
1350) Revenge of innocents
Author
Series
Carolyn Sullivan novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
1352) Entombed
Author
Series
Alexandra Cooper novels volume 7
Language
English
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Description
Workers demolishing a nineteenth-century brownstone where Poe once lived discover a human skeleton standing -- entombed -- behind a brick wall. When assistant district attorney and sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper hears about the case, it strikes her as a classic scene from Poe's fiction--except that forensic evidence shows this young woman died within the last twenty-five years.
1353) The secret hour
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Description
Gripping story of a man fighting for his family, a woman searching for her sister-and the promise of a new life where both least expect it.
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 13
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Dismas Hardy defends Maya Townshend, the beautiful socialite niece of the San Francisco's mayor, who is suspected of killing a charming ex-convict. A compelling and timely legal thriller filled with blackmail, political intrigue, and multiple murder which also features returning characters Abe Glitsky and Wyatt Hunt.
1356) Catching Christmas
Language
English
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Description
"New York Times bestselling author Terri Blackstock tells the rich and heartwarming story of a cab driver, a young attorney, and the elderly woman who will stop at nothing to give her granddaughter one special gift for Christmas"--
1357) Betrayal: a novel
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 12
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
When Dismas Hardy agrees to clean up the caseload of recently disappeared attorney Charlie Bowen, he thinks it will be easy. But one of the cases is far from small-time--the sensational clash between National Guard reservist Evan Scholler and an ex-Navy SEAL and private contractor named Ron Nolan. Two rapid-fire events in Iraq conspired to bring the men into fatal conflict: Nolan's relationship with Evan's girlfriend, Tara, a beautiful school-teacher...
1359) Aftermath
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English
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Description
"Criminal attorney Jamie Powell will accept the consequences for defending her lifelong friend, Dustin, when he's accused of setting the bombs that killed dozens at a local political rally. But she hasn't seen him since he aged out of foster care, and he's always lived on the edge. Can she still trust him? As Jamie investigates his case and the people in his life, she realizes the facts coming to light could be devastating. Someone is setting him...
1360) Tragic
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A villainous union leader is willing to do whatever is necessary to protect his corrupt longshoremen's union. When a bold newcomer tries to clean up the system, the leader sees his way of life threatened and orders an open hit on the whistleblower. Soon the law picks up on the trail, and Marlene Ciampi teams up with Butch Karp to expose the union leader for the fraud and murderer that he is -- before the body count rises.