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21) Hot blooded
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First One Dead Body. . .
A prostitute lies strangled in a seedy French Quarter hotel room. Miles away, in a rambling plantation house on the sultry shores of Lake Ponchartrain, popular late-night radio host Dr. Samantha Leeds receives a threatening crank call. All in a day's work for a celebrity. Who would think to link the two?
Then Another . . .
A second hooker's corpse turns up. Samantha's ominous caller persists, along with a mysterious claiming...
22) The last sinner
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"There are killers so savage, so twisted, that they leave a mark not just on their victims, but on everyone who crosses their path. For Detectives Bentz and Montoya, Father John, a fake priest who used the sharpened beads of a rosary to strangle prostitutes, is one such monster. Bentz thought he'd ended that horror years ago when he killed Father John deep in the swamp. But now there are chilling signs he may have been wrong. A new victim has surfaced,...
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From the author of Cloud Atlas, now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant, and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer Number9Dream is the international literary sensation from a writer with astonishing range and imaginative energy-- an intoxicating ride through Tokyo' s dark underworlds and the even more mysterious landscapes of our collective dreams. David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious,...
24) Discretion
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Anna Curtis novels volume 2
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Investigating the falling death of a high-paid escort at the U.S. Capitol building, Assistant U.S. Attorney Anna Curtis teams up with brash FBI Special Agent Samantha Randazzo to examine clues implicating a powerful elected official.
25) Eleven minutes
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Maria, a girl from a Brazilian village whose heart was broken at a tender age, is led into a career as a prostitute and develops a fascination with sex for its own sake--a view that is challenged when she meets a handsome painter who restores her belief in love.
26) Walk the wire
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Amos Decker novels volume 6
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"Amos Decker, the FBI consultant with a perfect memory, and Alex Jamison, FBI return to solve a gruesome murder of a young woman named Irene Cramer, in a booming North Dakota oil fracking town. The promise of a second gold rush has attracted an onslaught of newcomers all hoping for a windfall, bringing with them problems, including drugs, property crimes, prostitution and now a gruesome murder."--Publisher description
27) The maze
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John Corey novels volume 8
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"A visit from the local Chief of Police results in the legendary Detective Corey becoming involved in the investigation of the murders of a married couple who were scientists at the top-secret biological research facility on Plum Island. Fast forward through six more John Corey novels and The Maze opens with Corey on the same porch, but now in forced retirement from his last job as a Federal Agent with the Diplomatic Surveillance Group. Corey is restless...
29) The wild life
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Joe the bouncer volume 4
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"Expulsed Harvard student and ex-Special Forces operative suffering post-traumatic stress syndrome so severe that it turned him to drug and alcohol abuse, Joe Brody is getting his life back together, living with his grandmother in Queens and taking what should be a simple job as a bouncer at a strip club where he can spend most of his night reading the classics. The only catch is that his childhood friend Gio Caprisi, now head of New York's Italian...
30) By way of sorrow
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Erin McCabe novels volume 1
An Erin McCabe mystery volume 1
Erin McCabe thriller volume 1
Erin McCabe Mysteries
An Erin McCabe mystery volume 1
Erin McCabe thriller volume 1
Erin McCabe Mysteries
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In a fresh and riveting thriller debut, Robyn Gigl introduces Erin McCabe, a New Jersey criminal defense attorney doing her best to live a quiet life in the wake of profound personal change--until a newsworthy case puts both her career and safety in jeopardy . . . Erin McCabe has been referred the biggest case of her career. Four months ago, William E. Townsend, Jr., son of a New Jersey State Senator, was found fatally stabbed in a rundown motel near...
31) Pretty woman
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[2000]
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Special 10th anniversary edition.
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Corporate mogul hires a prostitute to be his companion for a week.
32) Dying light
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Logan McRae mysteries volume 2
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Detective Sergeant Logan MacRae has been bumped to the "Screw-up Squad," a team made up of the most worthless or inexperienced members of the homicide department, and Logan will do anything to prove he doesn't belong there. Including working overtime on two baffling cases: the murder by arson of six people, and the beating to death of a prostitute down by the docks, not a high priority compared to the fire. At least not until another prostitute ends...
33) The angel makers
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"In Victorian England, clairvoyant flower seller Constance Piper goes searching for the truth behind a new rash of murders in London's East End. With the aid of Detective Constable Hawkins, Constance links the mysterious death of a young prostitute to Mother Delaney's vile trade as a baby farmer"--
34) I, Alex Cross
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Alex Cross novels volume 16
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Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington's wildest scenes. And she was not this killer's only victim. Determined to catch the culprit, Cross joins forces with his lover, Detective Brianna Stone, and pursues the case all the way to the seediest section's of...
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Good luck girls volume 2
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In an alternate Old West, the Good Luck Girls reunite to undertake a wildly ambitious plan to free all dustbloods who live as prisoners to Arketta's landmasters and debt slavery.
Having escaped their lives as prostitutes, the Good Luck Girls have new lives across the border in Ferron. Aster remains in Arketta, helping more girls escape from "welcome houses." She develops a wildly ambitious plan to free all the dustbloods from their debt slavery....
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Visitation series volume 2
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Bounty hunter Bryan Kelly has a few rules he lives by. First: Women are for fun, not commitment. Second: He'll do anything for his twin brother. The second rule is why he's investigating the sabotage of his minister brother's charity organization, posing as his brother. Then he meets society icon Shay Sommers, whom he mistakes for a prostitute. And, that brings us to his third rule--If you can't avoid temptation, give in to it!
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This stunning U.S. debut from Chika Unigwe won immense acclaim and immediately established its author as a writer to be reckoned with. Lured to Belgium from Lagos by an unscrupulous businessman, Sisi falls into prostitution, her life disintegrating as "Black Sisters Street" saps her every hope. "The author's raw voice, unflinching eye for detail, facility for creating a complex narrative, and affection for her characters make this a must read."-Publishers...
38) Belle Cora
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2014.
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"In the grand tradition of Moll Flanders and Vanity Fair, this is the story of a good girl who became a bad woman. At the old homestead her name is never spoken and her picture is turned to the wall, but in the vast world beyond everyone remembers her as the celebrated madam of the finest parlor house in San Francisco. Now, at the end of her life, after half a century of successfully hiding the details of her scarlet past, Belle has decided to reveal...
39) Player piano
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The chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machines.
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