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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 12
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Detective Harry Bosch, now in the Open-unsolved Unit, receives a call from the DA telling him a serial killer has confessed to several murders. Harry must interview the man about a case he couldn't crack involving the murder of a 22-year-old woman whose body was never found.
3) Buried prey
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Back in 1985, two girls disappeared, and fledgling cop Lucas Davenport couldn't get over it, even when his boss declared the case closed. Now a house has been torn down, the bodies of two girls wrapped in plastic have been found, and Davenport is back on the case.
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Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. When a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: his fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student. As the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own-- between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between...
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On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. While Lynley works on the case in London, his former colleagues Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata follow the murder trail south to the New Forest--and to an outcome that is both tragic and shocking.
7) Sixkill
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When infamous actor Jumbo Nelson is accused of rape and murder, the Boston PD calls on Spenser to make heads or tails of the case. Although the evidence is mounting against Jumbo, Spenser makes a break when he teams up with Jumbo's bodyguard, Zebulon Sixkill, and uncovers some secrets involving the murder victim.
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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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Fire and ice volume 1
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On loan to the Icelandic Police Force, former Boston detective Magnus Jonson is forced to confront difficult truths about his father's murder while investigating rumors about a priceless ancient manuscript.
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Lew Fonesca mysteries volume 6
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Lew Fonesca uses his expertise in criminal investigation to help a young man accused of murdering an older man and a performer of children's songs who is being accused of being a sexual predator, and rediscovers some of the happiness he lost when his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident.
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 16
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2009
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Between two suspicious murders and a series of attacks on snow mobilers up the Kanuyaq River, part-time P.I. and newly elected chairman of the Niniltna Native Association Kate Shugak has her hands full.
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Joe Gunther puts a murder investigation on hold to help his girlfriend Lyn solve her father's mysterious death in Maine. Discovering that Lyn's father and brother weren't the good guys that Lyn always believed them to be and that they might have been involved with vicious smugglers who murdered them, Gunther sets out to protect Lyn from the same fate.
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Valentino mysteries volume 2
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Valentino is not sure if he should believe Rankin, a developer who claims he is being blackmailed over a letter proving his late wife was having an affair with actress Greta Garbo, but when Rankin kills a man, Valentino decides to take on the case and uncover the truth, no matter whose reputation it could ruin.
15) Stay close
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Three people--a suburban housewife, a talented documentary photographer, and a detective--living lives they never wanted, hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect, will find that the past doesn't recede ... and that desperation and hunger can lurk behind even the prettiest facades.
17) A cold case
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Chronicles Manhattan District Attorney chief investigator Andy Rosenzweig's efforts to find a killer who had murdered one of his childhood friends.
18) Mr. Shivers
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Marcus Connelly must decide how much he is willing to sacrifice for revenge when he leaves his home in Depression-era Memphis and joins with hobos along the railways in search of Mr. Shivers, a gruesome man who has murdered his daughter.
19) Cemetery dance
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Pendergast novels volume 9
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FBI special agent Aloysius Pendergast and lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta think they have an open and shut murder case when they receive footage of the killer leaving the victim's apartment, but things are not so clear when they learn the suspect actually died two weeks before the crime.
20) Show no fear
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Nina Reilly novels volume Prequel
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Paralegal Nina Reilly gets involved when a woman falls to her death off a bridge near Big Sur and Nina suspects foul play; but when she and homicide cop Paul van Wagoner get too close to the truth, things become increasingly more dangerous.
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