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Father John, the notorious serial killer, is back for revenge, as well an all new killing spree. He hires prostitutes and then strangles them with rosary beads, leaving behind a hundred dollar bill with Ben Franklin's eyes burned out. Also in his cross-hairs is Bentz's daughter, Kristi, a true crime writer, who survives an attack when the novel opens but it ends with her husband Jay's death. Was the attack the work of Father John? Or is there another...
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This is the second book of a series. It documents the early days of Archer Meade's rise to the rank of Homicide Detective and his partnership with Rusty McGowan. Together they seek the perpetrator of a vicious and hideous crime. Throughout the quest Archer experiences the spiritual guidance of his partner.through a surrogate want-to-be-detective while facing hatred, mental illness, misunderstandings, and familial dysfunctionality..
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Memphis Police Lieutenant Julia Todd returns in the fourth installment of James Paavola's Murder In Memphis series. Two bodies are discovered within a mile of one another, one a teenage prostitute, the other an investment counselor. Julia's investigations lead her in two directions: Mexican cartels and Ponzi Schemes. The two inquiries intersect at a common theme--the multi-billion dollar business of money laundering, a business that perpetuates global...
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Afro-American detective Shane Notfarg is assigned the case of missing man Arthur Flynn in late 2008. She hates missing man cases because the subject usually turn up alive later thus wasting time and manpower. She discovers that fellow campers stole belongings from Flynn's tent. Did they also rob him of the $10,000 he was carrying on him? But why was he carrying such a large amount of cash on him? Did he take off to avoid paying alimony to his ex-wife?...
5) Jane Doe
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Jane Doe woke up in the woods, naked, her hands tied, with no memory of who she was or how she got there. Special Agent James Anderson of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension knew this was not going to be an ordinary case.The case was hard enough. Then it got worse: another woman disappears from the town where Jane was found. Then it began to appear that the solution to the mystery of
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Archer Meade, a seasoned detective who continues to idealize his ex-partner and mentor discovers crime fighting hasn't changed much over the years. But the technological developments have left him an old school cop solving a series of abductions that lead to discoveries of political corruption, dysfunctional families and intriguing learning experiences.
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When a woman's emaciated body is found in a hunter's woods Sergeant Corinne Aleckson is coaxed back into the field to assist Detective Smoke Dawes on the case. It seems the only hope for identifying the woman lies in a photo which was buried with bags of money under her body. Aleckson and Dawes plunge into the investigation that takes them into the world of human smugglers and traffickers, unexpectedly close to home. All the while, they are working...
8) Road Food
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Sex, drugs and rock and roll was the credo of the 1970's musicians who thought the wave would go on forever. For Jannie Mack and the Silver Track their meteorological rise comes to an abrupt end on a warm June night in 1975 when Jannie disappears after a record release party. Twenty years later her daughter and a former band member lead a nation-wide crusade to find out what happened to her.The story begins in august, 1975, in Banff National Park,...
9) Loose Canon
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Carina Quintana's latest case takes her back to New York City, where someone is leaving bodies, gruesomely stabbed in the heart, on church altars. Now wealthy and celebrated through her true crime books and settled in with the alluring Alice, the former chief of Miami Beach PD is in need of new challenges. She accepts a position with the uber-private investigations firm to which her ex-NYPD partner, Pete Simpson, escaped, and is immediately thrust...
10) Vanished
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Sarah Hunter is a detective supervisor in a Montana Department of Criminal Investigation (DCI) office in Missoula. She is 32 years old, divorced with no children. Her senior detective is Allen Dickson, 29 years old, married and father of two young girls. They have been investigating a series of disappearances of young women that began over a year ago. They seemed to have occurred in Seattle, Spokane, Missoula, Butte, Bozeman, Billings and Rapid City....
11) Late Boomer
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KIRKUS REVIEW--Benson's tightly plotted crime thriller is sure to please fans of police procedurals--a Kirkus Star novel.Wealthy middle-aged Manhattanites-the baby boomers of the title-have been gruesomely murdered, and Det.Carina Quintana senses a connection. But how can she prove it? The killer, if he exists, varies his methods and targetsand leaves no tangible evidence. Age and wealth are all that the victims have in common. Recently transferred...
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Well-known and wealthy businessman Matthew Lane drives his powerful Cadillac like he owns the road. Some would describe his compulsive driving as maniac. So when Lane's speeding car collides with a power pole, killing him instantly, it's unlikely the incident will be investigated as anything more than a fatal traffic accident.Detective Sergeant Jim McDonald, a 16-year veteran policeman, is on the same road as Lane that day and comes within a coat...
13) Opening Day
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Young girls are coming through a small Upstate New York village, but...they aren't all coming out--alive! Following a close brush with death as an NYPD homicide detective, Matt Davis takes early retirement, and accepts what appears to be a cushy position as Chief of Police of a three-man department in a small, rural Upstate New York village. While out fly-fishing on his favorite stream on the opening day of trout season, Matt stumbles across the murdered...
14) Broken Promises
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When the body of Maggie McFarland, an 86-year old widow, is found among the rubble of the once-famous, landmark Artemis Hotel, leveled by fire nearly seventy years ago, residents of Roscoe are shocked. However, it is not the location where Maggie is found, but rather the manner of her demise that has everyone puzzled. For it isn't a heart attack that has felled her; nor has she suffered a stroke, or taken a fatal fall from a porch. Her life has not...
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The beginning of The Beat, Belbin's groundbreaking police procedural series, finds Clare Coppola about to go on patrol for the first time when her own home is broken into. A fast paced mystery from the author of the best selling Bone and Cane series, this story introduces a cast of young police officers investigating the disappearance of a fifteen year old girl in inner city Nottingham. Is she with a boyfriend or is something more sinister going on?...
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Sweet Vines & Bitter Fruit is a 32,000-word cozy mystery, the second novella in a trilogy featuring Ben and Francesca Hamilton, who now with two-year old Sarah, become involved in the investigation of a series of murders while visiting their best friends, Kate and Derek, in Pleasant Valley, South Australia. On the flight from London, Ben, a professor of anthropology, reads a novel about two valley families who have been feuding for the past one-hundred...
17) Calling Card
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The unlikely combination of a paper carrier and freshly fallen snow combine to bring a murderer to justice. Political intrigue about how politicians get themselves elected and who really make the decisions involved in running a city add an element of intrigue to the story. Set in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a city where snow is a given, the conclusion to this story will catch you by surprise.
18) Murder in Texas
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The last woman he wants
…is the only one he needs.
On leave from the military, Dillen Bullard confronts his estranged father's death-and is sure it was no accident, as the cops claim. It was murder. Unfortunately for the troubled army ranger, a woman from his past, the very rich Liz Hayes, compounds the mystery. Though he once thoroughly disliked the "princess," now he'll investigate with her despite her crucial memory loss. Before long, he's...
19) Always Watching
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Is she being paranoid?
Or facing a deadly threat?
Suspecting she's being followed, Scarlet Wills hires local PI Austin Beaumont. But when a brutal attack lands Scarlet in the hospital, it's clear they're up against a rapidly escalating threat. Posing as lovers ignites passion that threatens their determination to keep things strictly professional. And they're running out of time to catch someone who'll stop at nothing to make Scarlet his…
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She's usually the protector
Will she accept his protection?
A whiteout blizzard leaves Deputy Artie Jackson no choice but to take Boyd Connor into her home. Maybe getting this stoic combat veteran to talk about his demons will distract her from her own. Their halting trust in each other takes on a new urgency when Artie starts getting threats against her life. As they search for her stalkers, will they find their way to each other?
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