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1581) Bleeding edge
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New York City, 2001. Fraud investigator Maxine Tarnow starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO and discovers there's no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what's left of the tech bubble.
1582) Wrong place, wrong time
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Sally Montgomery anticipated a romantic weekend getaway. What she got instead was a nightmare of unrelenting terror. The murder of her companion and the torching of their cabin sends Sally into hiding-from the police, who believe she's a suspect . . . and from the killer, who wants her dead.
Desperate and alone in the woods, Sally has nowhere to run and nowhere to turn-except to her ex-husband, former NYPD detective-turned-private investigator Pete...
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"Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes untangle the slippery threads of insanity and deadly secrets as they investigate a disappearance in the New York Times bestselling series that Lee Child called "the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today." A June summer's evening, on the Sussex Downs, in 1925. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are strolling across their orchard when the telephone rings: an old friend's beloved aunt has failed to...
1584) Full wolf moon: a novel
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Jeremy Logan novels volume 5
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Legends, no matter how outlandish, are often grounded in reality. This has been the guiding principle behind the exhilarating career of Jeremy Logan, the "enigmalogist" -- an investigator who specializes in analyzing phenomena that have no obvious explanation. Logan travels to an isolated writers' retreat deep in the Adirondacks to finally work on his book when the remote community is rocked by the grisly discovery of a dead hiker on Desolation Mountain....
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During a visit to Long Bamber Stables, Jude and Carole Seddon stumble upon the body of the co-owner of the stables, Walter Fleet, whose death is attributed to the "Horse Ripper," an enigmatic perpetrator wanted for mutilating mares throughout West Sussex.
1586) Sunset and Jericho
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The fourth thrilling instalment of the Wakeland detective series, exploring the depths of Vancouver's criminal underworld.
The mayor's brother is missing. A transit cop lies beaten and blinded, her service weapon stolen. A new series of graffiti tags are appearing, linked to an underground group calling themselves The Death of Kings. Class warfare has broken out on the streets of Vancouver, and PI Dave Wakeland finds himself on the front lines—but...
1587) From the Ashes
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The road to redemption has never been so fierce.Atticus Riot wants to leave his tortured past behind, but his partner's murder haunts his every step. Before he can find peace, the gunfighter turned detective needs to find the killer. But then a missing heiress draws him into a conspiracy of lies.A young woman's life is at stake, so why won't her rich, older husband tell the whole truth about her disappearance?The clock is ticking and Riot must unravel...
1588) Circle of Bones
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The first in a nerve-shredding new British crime thriller series from Malcolm Richards. A killer on the loose in Cornwall. A PI on a desperate hunt to unmask him. For eighteen years, private investigator Blake Hollow has been haunted by the disappearance of her childhood friend. Now, Blake has returned home to Cornwall to care for her injured mother – just as another local teenager goes missing. Troubled by painful memories, Blake is determined...
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In "The Problem of Thor Bridge," Neil Gibson, who has earned the nickname the Gold King for his status as the world's greatest gold-mining magnate, seeks Sherlock Holmes' help in finding his wife's real killer. His governess, Miss Dunbar, has been convicted of the crime due to an abundance of evidence against her-including a gun in her wardrobe-but Gibson believes her innocent. A few enlightening revelations, including the unhappy state of the Gibsons'...
1590) A Murderous Marriage
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Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva Huntford, are preparing for a wedding, but it may not be the happy occasion everyone hopes for . . .
Since the Great War, some family fortunes have suffered, including those of the Renshaws. Despite being the granddaughter of an earl, Julia Renshaw is under pressure to marry for money-and has settled for Gilbert Townsend, a viscount and a wealthy industrialist. He is decades older than Julia, and it's...
1591) Death Brings a Shadow
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Investigators Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter discover all that glitters is not gold in the Gilded Age, whether on the island of Manhattan or an island off the coast of Georgia...
Death Brings A Shadow
In spring 1889, Prudence and Geoffrey set sail from New York Harbor on a private yacht bound for Bradford Island, where her friend Eleanor Dickson is to be wed. The Sea Islands along the Georgia coast serve as a winter playground...
1592) Cut You Down
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Tabitha Sorenson is missing. The bright but unstable student disappeared in the aftermath of a scandal involving millions of dollars in college funds. Professor Dana Essex doesn't think the missing money and the missing student are connected, but she hires Vancouver PI David Wakeland to find Tabitha, with whom she is obsessed.
When Wakeland discovers Tabitha has in fact stolen the money and is hiding out with her lover and reports back to his client,...
1593) A Fatal Finale
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On the cusp of the twentieth century, Manhattan is a lively metropolis buzzing with talent. But after a young soprano meets an untimely end on stage, can one go-getting leading lady hit the right notes in a case of murder?
New York City, 1899. When it comes to show business, Gilded Age opera singer Ella Shane wears the pants. The unconventional diva breaks the mold by assuming "trouser roles"-male characters played by women-and captivating audiences...
1594) The Big Goodbye
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Love mystery, romance, suspense, film noir, and the classic hard-boiled detectives of the 1940s?Then you'll love Michael Lister's THE BIG GOODBYE and other Jimmy "Soldier" Riley Noir Novels.Here's the story that started it all.˃˃˃ THE BIG GOODBYE, a Jimmy "Soldier" Riley Noir Novel from multi-award-winning and bestselling author Michael Lister"Lister's hard-edged prose ranks with the best of contemporary noir fiction." Publisher's Weekly Starred...
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A private investigator follows a trail of blood and bodies to find his latest target–or die trying–in this riveting thriller perfect for fans of Jeffery Deaver and Mick Herron. Noland Twice, a star athlete turned private investigator, can find anyone, no matter how far they run or how well they hide. He works the Orlando-Tampa corridor, a bizarre land where theme parks and tourists coexist with drug deals and crooked businessmen. When a shady...
1596) Double-Booked
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In the Unnatural Quarter, the Plot Thickens . . . and then runs uncontrollably!When Howard Phillips Publishing announces the 12 + 1 anniversary edition (due to unavoidable production delays) of the famed Necronomicon-the very book that caused the Big Uneasy in the first place-it takes zombie P.I. Dan Chambeaux, a.k.a. "Shamble," to root out the diabolical schemes surrounding the book, and the fanatics who wish to destroy it.With enough plot twists...
1597) Antiques Frame
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With their reality TV series, Antiques Sleuths, Brandy Borne and her quaintly kooky mother, Vivian, have a real hit on their hands. But when the bidding turns deadly, Brandy finds herself ornately framed for murder. Aided only by Sushi, their loyal shih tzu, and police dog Rocky, the wacky mother-and-daughter sleuthing team races to determine how an empty antique frame can hold a deadly portrait, before they become the subjects of another masterpiece...
1598) Mad for a Mate
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Bewere my heart volume 3
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Beloved and bestselling author MaryJanice Davidson is back with a hilarious and heartfelt shifter romance:
• A delightful cast of shifters and supernatural creatures
• Side-splitting hijinks that'll make you snort-laugh
• Slow-burn romance
Verity Lane might be a Shifter who can't shift (known as a "squib")-but woe betide anyone who tries to tell her who she is or what she's capable of. She's a proud member of a club for squibs out to prove...
1599) The Bone Field
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Paleontologist turned private investigator, Harry Przewalski, excavates the dirty underbelly of people's lives, unearthing sexual betrayals, treachery, fraud and murder buried beneath the science of petrified shards, skin and bones. Ultimately, he must face a brutal killing in his own past, when he fled to a desert war and came back with a gun and a license to detect.
In his first case, The Bone Field, Przewalski chases a missing paleontologist across...
1600) The Dead Cry Justice
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Heiress-turned-sleuth Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter step out of the elite society of Gilded Age New York as they venture into the city's crime ridden streets and most dangerous neighborhoods to search for two missing children...
THE DEAD CRY JUSTICE
May 1890: As NYU Law School finally agrees to admit female law students, Judge MacKenzie's daughter Prudence weighs her choices carefully. Chief among her concerns is how...