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"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm-except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...
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Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 17
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American Anglophile Dorothy Martin tackles a tricky puzzle in the historic university town of Cambridge. Dorothy Martin isn't overly enthusiastic when her husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt, invites her to accompany him to a conference in Cambridge, picturing cramped student accommodation. But St. Stephen's turns out to be recently renovated, and, bolstered by en suite facilities, Dorothy is looking forward to exploring the historic and...
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Detective Mike Shepherd chases sadistic Ferlin Husky Lewis, a self-proclaimed survivalist, who escaped from police. Shepherd ruins his only suit, misses an important dinner date, and loses Lewis.Ferlin, so incensed by Mike chasing him, decides to murder Mike and anyone who gets in the way.
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Frankie Elkin novels volume 3
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2024.
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"No man truly fears a woman. Not even one who is her father's daughter. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. She had called herself "death," but people called her the devil. Despite the media's chronicling of her tragic circumstances--the childhood spent with a violent father--no one could find sympathy for "the Beautiful Butcher" who had led eighteen men home from bars before viciously...
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Books 4-6 in the Brandon Hall Series...Loose EndsHall is lured into a trap, then rescued by an old acquaintance. That same acquaintance also helps Hall get his next job. It's nothing but a simple blackmail case. Only in this case, there's nothing simple about it.Is anybody actually who they appear to be? And have we seen the last of James Rankin? Or is he the mastermind behind the latest case, once again?The Dead ClientHall's latest case involves...
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"There's been a murder."… Those four words are bad enough, but when the craftiest of the three mob bosses utters them in the District Detective office, they carry a whole new kind of weight. Olivia Wainwright and Dallas Stowe are always prepared for the unexpected, but this announcement has them wondering what to do with the information given to them, and speculating why Razor would bring it to their attention...and in person. A dead pharmacist,...
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Three detectives, CD. Grimes, Nick Storie, and Clint Faraday, retired and living in Panamá on the Comarca Ngobe Bugle, are requested by the chief of the section in Cusapin to find what is going wrong in three parts of the comarca. There are four murders that have no connections they can find – except the victims all came to Panamá on the same private yacht.
Author's note: This is a bit of prediction, in a way. Much of my SF has come true, but...
9) Deadly Sins
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Lust, pride, and wrath are the deadly sins private investigator Vance Devane must face when his sister-in-law and employer Maura sends her DNA to a genealogy website. She uncovers a secret that threatens to shatter her family. As Vance races to keep the skeletons in the closet, he is forced to reckon with his own past deadly sins.
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Inspector Coleman got to know the highways and byways of the Rockhampton Police District because he'd served there for the term of his life as a police inspector. On retirement, he moved to the Serendipity Retirement Village in Brisbane and after a year as an undercover detective in the village, and a romance that wins him a new wife, he is able to fulfil his retirement dream of putting his most interesting cases in a book.
Concerned about his...
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He has no badge and no authority, in a county full of corruption, drugs and murder. When Fen Maguire left office as sheriff nine months ago Newman County was clean and safe. But the dead drug dealer found floating down the river says things may be changing… and not for the better. Fire engulfs the dead man's home, and all evidence points to the new sheriff's father. Fen, however, knows there's more to this case than a drug deal gone bad. When he...
12) Murder Quartet
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CD gets some cases in Florida, falls in love with the place and builds a home there.A developer is murdered. A stock broker is murdered. A young boy is murdered. Thereis a druggie execution that wasn't.CD gets to know some of the continuing characters. The lifestyle is different from that in Nicely.
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It wasn't Hooker's first recovery wreck from water. At least this was in the sunny summer instead of winter in freezing water and rain. Everything was routine until the officer pulled a skull out of the water.
Someone is killing the street walkers of downtown San Jose. As Hooker investigates, it becomes personal, and dangerous.
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The mountains are dangerous-but not as dangerous as what's building between them... Missing and presumed dead, wanted FBI staffer Dallas Cole is running for his life...until undercover agent Nicki Jamison finds him lying crumpled in the road. To his relief, his rescuer doesn't ask questions, doesn't call the cops. Who is she? What secret is she hiding? Not trusting Nicki any more than she trusts him, Dallas joins the headstrong agent's mission to...
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Coming in from the cold had never been so heated by an old attraction On the run for two years, former FBI agent Cade Landry has only one person he can turn to: Olivia Sharp, his former partner-and lover. But after all this time, trusting the beauty is sure to put both their lives on the line. Taking that risk, Cade braves a raging storm to seek her help. The moment they're reunited, and with no time to explore their reignited passion or the case...
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A man determined to kill himself hadn't counted on Sidney Stone stopping him...While still working Arnie Chen's ever evolving statue case, Sidney Stone becomes involved in the life of a stranger when he tries to commit suicide, more than once, right in front of her. The man later insists he would never do that, but he clearly tried to. Something doesn't add up and Sidney is determined to find out what is going on with him. Meanwhile, still on the...
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Simon Pennington Paris Sleuth is hired by Mrs. Duchesney to find her favorite author, Jamie Litton, a reclusive mystery writer whose best friend Ben Foulof is a spy on the run. Her assignment was meant to be a fun, harmless adventure for the summer, but Simon now suspects he has been duped into playing a role in a far more dangerous game. This unique crossover mystery re-introduces a cast of characters that readers may recognize from this author's...
18) Crow Moon
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An investigative reporter gives up her job when her young twins are killed in a fire, but when she stumbles across the body of a missing teenager, she' s thrust into a chilling investigation that will leave no one unscathed...
`An extraordinary debut: intriguing, unsettling, heavy on atmosphere and with a formidable leading lady ... Suzy Aspley is one to watch´ Mari Hannah
`A gripping piece...
19) Gadfly
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"Upper middle aged" sleuth, Ricky Steele, shows no signs of slowing down as she closes in 60. After stumbling and bumbling through her first case, she now has her license and is back, this time investigating the suspicious bicycle accident of village gadfly, Ron Harp, husband of her childhood friend. Soon, on the wrong side of local police, Ricky embroils herself in small town politics and uncovers long held secrets that unleash a killer's rage....
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New York City private eye Nic Knuckles gets the call all private investigators live for: a mysterious client with money to burn who needs answers and needs them now. The job is simple. Fly to Kleinstadt, Indiana, and determine whether fifteen years ago, teenage murder victim Mindy Bauerman got justice, or if her classmate, Timmy Hanlon, had been wrongly convicted and wasting away in prison.
Nic's analytic skills lack the rigor of a Sherlock...
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