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Stone Barrington receives a rather unexpected phone call from Arrington Calder, the ex-girlfriend with whom he has a son. Arrington's much older husband, the actor Vance Calder, has just died, leaving her a fortune in Centurion Studio stock. Arrington has plans for the money and asks Stone to represent her in the sale of the company. But when he arrives at her home in Bel-Air to finalize the deal, things take a nasty turn. It seems many of Hollywood's...
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Raised by loving adoptive parents, San Francisco private investigator Wyatt Hunt never had an interest in finding his birth family--until he gets a chilling text message from an unknown number: "How did ur mother die?" The answer is murder, and urged on by curiosity and the mysterious texter, Hunt takes on a case he never knew existed, one that has lain unsolved for decades. Hunt's birth father, twice tried but never convicted of the murder, is in...
43) Father's Day
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Lou Kline novels volume 1
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Keith Gilman's provocative debut is a dark and atmospheric tale of an ex-cop from Philadelphia who must face old ghosts.
Louis Kline, PI, is asked to track down the missing teenage daughter of an old friend. In doing so, he uncovers truths about the alleged suicide of his friend, a fellow officer with the Philadelphia Police Department. They shared accusations that ended both their careers, and a love for the same woman. As Louis further investigates,...
44) Nemesis
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 38
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Agreeing to investigate threats by a mysterious extortionist against a newly rich young woman, Jake Runyon makes a series of surprise discoveries that cause him to be wrongfully accused of a crime and his employers to be subjected to a vicious legal vendetta.
45) The ancient rain
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Private investigator Dante Mancuso is drawn into the still shadowy underground of San Francisco's radical past when he is hired by fellow investigator Bill Owens to find the man responsible for a thirty-year-old killing Owens is charged with having committed while a member of a militant political group.
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Forensic Instincts volume 2
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New York Times–Bestselling Author: The man she loved is gone forever. The son she lives for could be next . . . "The twisty plot . . . builds to a stunning conclusion" (Publishers Weekly)
Each day is a struggle for Amanda Gleason's newborn son as he battles a rare immune deficiency. Justin's best chance for a cure lies with his father-who was brutally murdered before Amanda even realized she carried his child. But, after seeing a recent photo...
47) Easy prey
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c2000
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Detective Lucas Davenport is called in to solve a double murder involving one of the world's best-known high-fashion models, while also trying to contend with the reappearance of an old lover in his life.
48) IQ
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IQ novels volume 1
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"A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores. East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood has taken it upon himself to help solve the cases the police can't or won't touch. They call him IQ. He's a loner and a high school dropout, his unassuming nature...
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"The diabolical "Mercedes Killer" drives his enemies to suicide, and if Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney don't figure out a way to stop him, they'll be victims themselves. In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something has awakened. Something evil. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator of the Mercedes Massacre, where eight people were killed and many more were badly injured, has been in the clinic for five years, in a vegetative state....
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Charles Unwin, a clerk at a large detective agency, is suddenly promoted to detective when Travis Sivart goes missing and his supervisor is found murdered, but along the way Unwin is framed for murder and discovers that some of Sivart's greatest cases were solved incorrectly.
51) Random violence
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Jade de Jong investigations volume 1
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In Johannesburg, prosperous whites live in gated communities; when they exit their cars to open the gates, car-jackings are common. But seldom is the victim killed, much less shot twice, like Annette Botha. The husband of the wealthy woman is the primary suspect in his wife's murder. PI Jade de Jong fled South Africa ten years ago after her father was killed. Now back in town, she offers to help her father's former assistant, Supt. David Patel, with...
52) Forgive me
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"Readers of Harlan Coben will feel right at home here." -Booklist.
At DeRose & Associates Private Investigators in Virginia, Angie DeRose strives to find and rescue endangered runaways--work that stands in stark contrast to her own idyllic childhood. But in the wake of her mother's sudden death, Angie makes a life-altering discovery. Hidden in her parents' attic is a photograph of a little girl, with a code and a hand-written message on the back:...
53) Free fall
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Wren Valere, separated from her lover Sergei, takes a Retrieval job that puts her to the challenge as the Truce holding violence at bay is shattered and Magical Manhattan goes to war.
54) The lovers
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Charlie Parker, forced to give up his private investigator's license, takes a job in a Portland bar and begins to examine his own past and the events surrounding his father's suicide.
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Eddie LaCrosse mysteries volume 1
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Private investigator Eddie LaCrosse is drawn into a mysterious case involving a murdered royal heir and comes to terms with his own private history in the process.
56) Celine: a novel
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"From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Painter, a luminous, spine-tingling novel of suspense--the story of Celine, an elegant, aristocratic private eye who specializes in reuniting families, trying to make amends for a loss in her own past"--
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Nora Watts novels volume 1
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It begins with a phone call that Nora Watts has dreaded for fifteen years--since the day she gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. Bonnie has vanished. The police consider her a chronic runaway and aren't looking, leaving her desperate adoptive parents to reach out to her birth mother as a last hope.
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John Henry Cole, working as a deputy US marshal out of Judge Isaac Parker's court in Fort Smith, Arkansas, was on assignment in the Indian Nations when he was shot and seriously injured. Now, fifteen years later, employed as a deputy for Judge Roy Bean in Texas, Cole receives a personal summons from Judge Parker to appear in his court within thirty days. Cole isn't inclined to go, but he knows whatever's on Judge Parker's mind is serious and decides...
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Troubleshooters volume 11
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Private investigator Ric Alvarado and his girl Friday, Annie Dugan go undercover working for notorious crime boss Gordon Burns to prove his link to terrorist activities.
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Raines of Wind Canyon volume 5
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From New York Times bestselling author Kat Martin's comes a fan favorite story about a dangerous passion!
She's got the face of an angel and the body of…well, isn't that what he'd expect from an exotic dancer? But there's something about Amy Brewster that Johnnie Riggs can't shake. The former army ranger is hot on the trail of an elusive drug lord-and suddenly very hot under the collar, as well. Disguised as a stripper, Amy's got her own agenda...
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