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1) The stranger
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Everyman's library volume 139
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Caught in the grip of forces he does not understand, a quiet, ordinary clerk in Algiers commits a murder.
2) Daddy's girl
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Natalie Greco loves being a law professor, even though she can't keep her students from cruising sex.com during class. When a colleague talks Nat into teaching a class at a local prison, her comfortable world turns upside. A violent prison riot breaks out, and in the chaos, Nat rushes to help an injured guard. Before he dies, he asks her to deliver a cryptic message. The dying declaration plunges Nat into a nightmare. Suddenly, the girl who has always...
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In 1939, in rural Augusta Falls, Ga., someone brutally rapes and murders a classmate of 12-year-old Joseph Vaughn, the first in what will become more than 30 similar crimes over decades. At age 15, living alone with his mother after the death of his father and yearning to be a writer, Vaughan gathers together a group of local boys and forms the Guardians in the hope of preventing more attacks.
5) Bone by bone
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Two teenage brothers head into the woods in northern California, and only one returns; twenty years later, older brother Oren, an investigator for the Army CID, returns to Coventry and attempts to solve the mystery of his brother's murder after finding a human jawbone on the front porch.
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The family of a murder victim, a journalist opposed to capital punishment and the man convicted of the killing find their lives bound together as the hour of execution approaches, while the person who knows the truth about the murder waits to plunge them into an abyss of terror.
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Paul Madriani novels volume 1
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Paul Madriani defends his expartner's wife in the murder of her husband.
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Beatrice's little sister Tess had been found dead and most family members accepted the fact that it was a suicide. But Beatrice knew something they didn't--Tess was expecting her first child and could not have killed herself. Convinced that something more sinister was behind Tess's death, Beatrice moves into Tess' apartment and begins her own investigation.
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The Hartes and the Golds, long-time neighbors and friends, are not surprised when their children Chris and Emily fall in love, but the bond between the families is placed under an enormous strain when Emily is killed, leaving behind the question of whether her death was a suicide, or murder.
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Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose thoughtful companionship is epitomized by Almondine, Edgar's lifelong friend and ally. But with the unexpected return of Claude, Edgar's paternal uncle, turmoil consumes the Sawtelles' once peaceful home. When Edgar's father dies suddenly,...
12) Heartstone
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The vicious murders of two sweethearts lead to a horrific trial filled with sordid secrets and dark revelations.
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Victor Carl novels volume 1
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When a young lawyer whose practice is on the verge of collapse grasps the opportunity to work with a major legal firm, he finds himself asked to send a potentially innocent man to his death.
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When DS Henry Christie sets off on a short winter break with his old friend FBI agent Karl Donaldson, he expects a pleasant hike through the countryside followed by an overnight stop in a picturesque village. But the hike turns into a fight for survival in the worst snowstorm for thirty years. And things only get worse when they stumble, exhausted and injured, into the village pub, only to find themselves in the middle of a blood-soaked stand-off...
15) The doomsday key
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Commander Gray Pierce and his Sigma Force operatives investigate the murders of three individuals in different countries whose bodies were marked with a Druidic pagan cross and connect the crimes to an ancient artifact which can threaten the existence of mankind if it falls into the wrong hands.
16) Horns
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Ig has lived under a cloud of suspicion since his girlfriend Merrin was brutally murdered, and Ig feels everyone, including God, has abandoned him, so when Ig discovers a macabre new talent, he vows to use it to find the man responsible for Merrin's death, even if it means letting the devil within escape.
17) Just cause
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Mathew Cowart's newspaper articles sets a death row inmate free, wins him a Pulitzer Prize, and sets off a series of murders.
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"The goats of Vigata once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes: drug dealers and prostitutes of every flavor. But their discreet trade is upset when two employees of the Splendor Refuse Collection Company discover the body of engineer Silvio Luparello, one of the local movers and shakers. The coroner's verdict is death from natural causes - refreshingly unusual for Sicily....
19) 50% off murder
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After a fellow member of the Good Buy Girls is accused of murder, Maggie Gerber must repurpose her bargain-hunting skills to put the real killer behind bars.
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