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2024.
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"Jenna's parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club with her best friends, watching the legendary band Avenue A, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade. Then, from the stage, Jake catches her eye, and smiles. It's the best night of her life. It's the last night of her life. Minutes later, Jake's in the alley getting some fresh air, and the girl from the dance floor comes stumbling out, sick...
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Under suspicion (Mary Higgins Clark) volume 8
Pub. Date
2024.
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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Years after their parents' murder, identical twin brothers, determined to clear one name at the expense of the other, ask Laura Moran and her Under Suspicion crew to solve this brutal crime and as they get close to the truth, they find the danger from the past finding its way into the present.
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Meg Langslow mysteries volume 7
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Croquet is a genteel game, usually played on a summer afternoon on a tranquil green lawn. Extreme Croquet is a whole other story. That's what Meg Langslow and her new friends are playing on the several-acre farm of her new neighbor, a countryside studded with rocks, steep hills, and placid, seemingly immovable cows. While this society game can get quite warm, it hasn't reached the stage of actual homicide--at least not until Meg knocks her ball down...
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Chief Inspector Mario Silva of Brazil's federal police is a good cop in a bad system-Brazil's justice system is rife with corruption, and constantly a beat behind criminal elements. But Silva and his team of colorful sidekicks-baby-faced Gonçalves, who is irresistible to lady witnesses, chubby, crass Nuñes, and Mara Carta, the chief of intelligence with a soft spot for Silva-still manage to crack their difficult and sometimes ugly cases.
In the...
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Maeve Conlon novels volume 1
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Maeve Conlon's father insists he's still independent, but he's slowly and obviously succumbing to Alzheimer's. And now, her cousin Sean Donovan has been found dead, sitting in his car in a public park, shot through the head. There was never much love lost between Maeve and Sean and she's not devastated by his death, but suddenly the police are poking around asking the family questions--her father is a suspect in the murder. Maeve is determined to...
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Who would want to kill Tomaso Rainaldi, an elderly, unassuming violin-maker in the quiet Italian city of Cremona? For his friend and fellow violin-maker Gianni Castiglione, the murder is as mysterious as it is shocking. Rainaldi had few possessions, no enemies and little money. No one – least of all the police – can fathom a motive for murdering him. All he really had was an obsessive love of violins and an encyclopedic knowledge of them.
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7) Conviction
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Rebekah Roberts novels volume 3
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"In the summer of 1992, a year after riots exploded between black and Jewish neighbors in Crown Heights, a black family is brutally murdered in their Brooklyn home. A teenager is quickly convicted, and the justice system moves on. Twenty-two years later, journalist Rebekah Roberts gets a letter: I didn't do it. Frustrated with her work at the city's sleaziest tabloid, Rebekah starts to dig. But witnesses are missing, memories faded, and almost no...
8) The chosen
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Fredrika Bergman mysteries volume 5
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On a cold winter's day, a pre-school teacher is shot to death at the Jewish Congregation in Stockholm. Just hours later, two Jewish boys go missing on their way to tennis practice. Fredrika Bergman and Alex Recht hunt for a killer that seems as merciless as he is effective.
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"Spices are flying off the shelves of Spice It Up!, and Piper Prescott couldn't be happier. It's that time of year again--time for the annual Brandywine Creek Barbecue Festival. Soon contestants and BBQ aficionados from all over the Southeast will converge on the town. Many of Brandywine Creek's citizens plan to participate in the week-long festivities and are busily concocting savory rubs and sassy sauces. Among the locals vying for the grand...
10) Death of a cheat
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Welcome to St. Barts, beautiful and sensual, vacation spot of models, moguls and movie stars and home to Gendarme Charles Trenet. Life is one sunny day after another and the life of the young gendarme is one of blissful tranquility-even his love life is looking up-that is, until the annual marbles tournament rolls around. The locals always look forward to the good-natured competition and this one looks to be the most exciting event yet. But what has...
11) Cloudland
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Discovering the body of a serial killer's latest victim near her home in Vermont's Upper Valley, Catherine Winslow, a former reporter for a national newspaper, teams up with a forensic psychologist to investigate the killings.
12) The trap
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"One year ago, Lucy's sister, Nicki, left to meet friends at a pub in Dublin and never came home. The third Irish woman to vanish inexplicably in as many years, the agony of not knowing what happened that night has turned Lucy's life into a waking nightmare. So, she's going to take matters into her own hands. Angela works as a civilian paper-pusher in the Missing Persons Unit, but wants nothing more than to be a fully-fledged member of An Garda Síochána,...
13) Bad company
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Jubilee Days: Laramie, Wyoming's annual rodeo bash and sin fest. It's a whole week of broncos bucking, guitars twanging, and cash registers ringing. Nobody much wants to spoil the party, not even when a local loser turns up dead in the mountains east of town.
Almost nobody. Sally Adler and Hawk Green, a couple of college professors out for an afternoon hike, find the body, and for Sally and Hawk, murder is anything but academic. Like the victim,...
14) Trigger city
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Ray Dudgeon novels volume 2
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"A riveting and terrifying novel-a true thriller in every sense of the word. . . . Masterful." - Sara Paretsky, author of Burning Kansas and Fire Sale
"Packed with action and heart-breaking moments of truth." - Robert Crais, author of The Watchman
"Taut, hair-raising and ultimately enriching. You will not be disappointed." - Andrew Gross, author of The Blue Zone and The Dark Tide
"The writing is superb-dark poetry and violence in a seamless narrative...
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Corinna Chapman mysteries volume 1
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Corinna is quite content with her cat Horatio and her shop until a junkie falls half dead on her grate, a gorgeous sabra stalks along her alley and tells her that she is beautiful, and she starts receiving threatening letters accusing her of being a scarlet woman. . .
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In this first novel, rookie Detective Joe Kenda, mentored by his veteran partner Detective Lee Wilson, investigates a 1975 case that begins with the murder of a beloved Colorado philanthropist and society figure whose husband, a gambler and womanizer, appears to have an air-tight alibi.
17) Ash & bone
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Retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder's solitary life is disrupted when his estranged wife calls to tell him their seventeen-year-old daughter, Katherine, is running wild after being unbalanced by the abduction and rape Frank feels he should have prevented.
18) The deepest kill
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Locard Institute thriller volume 3
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When the pregnant daughter of software pioneer Martin Post, the third richest man in America, is murdered, expert forensic analysts Ellie Carr and Rachael Davies, called in to investigate, are drawn into the Posts' increasingly dangerous family dynamic to determine who--and what--is at the heart of the crime.
19) Fall
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Detective Harriet Foster volume 2
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[2023]
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Chicago detective Harriet Foster investigates when two city aldermen are found dead, each with 30 dimes left on their bodies, indicating a betrayer's payment.
20) Blood vines
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Alexandra Clarkson is plagued with terrifying visions that she writes off as her mind playing games, but after her mother Patsy suddenly commits suicide, Detective Daniel Reed--the last person to speak to Patsy--reveals information about Patsy's past and the possibility that a skeleton discovered in a Sonoma vineyard could be Alexandra's baby brother.
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