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6041) Hawke's prey
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"When a merciless gang of terrorists take over a Texas courthouse, Texas Ranger Sonny Hawke tries to stop their plot to subvert the U.S. government by taking out the terrorists one at a time and freeing the hostages, among whom are the daughter of a U.S. Congressman and Sonny's wife and children"--
6042) A Fair Penitent
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This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1857. Born in Marylebone, London in 1824, Collins' family enrolled him at the Maida Hill Academy in 1835, but then took him to France and Italy with them between 1836 and 1838. Returning to England, Collins attended Cole's boarding school, and completed his education in 1841, after which he was apprenticed to the tea merchants Antrobus & Co. in the Strand. In 1846, Collins became a law...
6043) Black Blizzard
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The summer of 1933 feels like Armageddon. Crops are dead, jobs are gone, and hope is dying. Even breathing grows difficult in zero-visibility dust storms called black blizzards. Worse, Lyon County Sheriff Billy Rhett Kershaw finds his young deputy murdered. About the same time, his friends and neighbors begin killing themselves.
In the midst of all this, when Sheriff Billy, with a few deputized locals, learns that an organized group of career criminals...
6044) When shadows fall
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After suffering a terrible personal loss, Dr. Samantha Owens is settling into a new job at Georgetown University when she recieves a letter from a dead man asking to solve his murder. As she investigates the man's death, she is pulled into a twenty-year-old mystery involving a kidnapped child as well as the present-day death of Timothy Savage.
6045) Quicksand
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"Quicksand: The beginning of an engrossing new suspense series featuring Philadelphia policewoman Nora Khalil by Carolyn Baugh, acclaimed author of The View From Garden City. Officer Nora Khalil is used to navigating different terrains. As part of a joint task force set up by the Philadelphia Police Department, the FBI, and the local sheriff's offices, she works to keep Philly's mean streets safe from gang violence, while trying to honor the expectations...
6046) Chosen to die
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"Detective Regan Pescoli has worked the 'Star Crossed Killer' case for months, never imagining she'd be captured by the madman she's been hunting. Regan knows exactly what he's capable of--and avoiding the same fate will take every drop of her courage and cunning. Regan Pescoli is unlike any woman Nate Santana has met before. But now she's missing, and Nate knows something is dangerously wrong. The only person who can help him find her is Detective...
6047) All we buried
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"Interim sheriff Elizabeth "Bet" Rivers has always had one repeat nightmare: a shadowy figure throwing a suspicious object into her hometown lake in Collier, Washington. For the longest time, she chalked it up to an overactive imagination as a kid. Then the report arrives. In the woods of the Cascade mountain range, right in her jurisdiction, a body floats to the surface of Lake Collier. When the body is extricated and revealed, no one can identify...
6048) The 18th abduction
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Detective Lindsay Boxer and her husband Joe Molinari team up to protect San Francisco from an international war criminal in the newest Women's Murder Club thriller. For a trio of colleagues, an innocent night out after class ends in a deadly torture session. They vanish without a clue -- until a body turns up. With the safety of San Francisco's entire school system as stake, Lindsay Boxer has never been under more pressure. To solve the School Night...
6049) Dissolved: a novel
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Chief Superintendent Liam Stark and Superintendent Dea Torp of the Danish police investigate the disappearance of two people in Tommerup, Denmark and discover a strange note linking the second missing person to the first crime scene.
6050) Hunting ground
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"Fifteen years ago, Hector Lewis's wife and young daughter vanished without a trace. People have long thought he was responsible, but the man he knows is behind their disappearance still walks free. As a police officer, he is sworn to uphold the law. But he has seen how little justice there is in the world. And when a newcomer's arrival sparks a harrowing series of crimes, Hector finds himself in a race to catch a man he is convinced is a killer....
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A revealing book about how government, law enforcement, and bureaucratic interests are seizing our property, our children, our savings, and our fundamental American rights-and how to fight back.
Liberty and justice for all is the bedrock of American democracy, but has America betrayed our founders' vision for the nation? In When They Come For You, New York Times bestselling author David Kirby exposes federal, state, and local violations of basic...
6053) Death in disguise
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The Lodge of the Golden Windhorse has provided the citizens of Compton Dando with splendid fodder for gossip, prompting speculation of arcane rituals and bizarre sexual practices. But with the murder of the commune's leaders, the rumor-mill goes into overdrive. In trying to solve those murders, Chief Inspector Barnaby is less excited than exasperated. The residents of the Windhorse commune may have been seeking the simple life, but they're all concealing...
6054) Some choose darkness
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The truth is easy to miss, even when it's right in front of us. As a forensic reconstructionist, Rory Moore sheds light on cold-case homicides by piecing together crime scene details others fail to see. Cleaning out her late father's law office a week after his burial, she receives a call that plunges her into a decades-old case come to life once more. In the summer of 1979, five Chicago women went missing. The predator, nicknamed The Thief, left...
6055) Neighborhood girls
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When Wendy Boychuck's father, a Chicago cop, was escorted from their property in handcuffs, she knew her life would never be the same. Her father gets a years-long jail sentence, her family falls on hard times, and the whispers around their neighborhood are impossible to ignore. If that wasn't bad enough, she gets jumped walking home from a party one night. Wendy quickly realizes that in order to survive her father's reputation, she'll have to make...
6056) Come the Dark Night
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In this sophisticated novel of suspense, a killer with a taste for literature lurks in the shadows of Oxford University . . .
After a student is found decapitated in the cupola of the Sheldonian Theatre and a cryptic note in an unknown language is discovered, DS Kate Stewart and her partner turn to medievalist Dr. Jonathan Reynolds. He identifies the note as a passage from Beowulf and explains that the murder replicates a killing in the epic poem.
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6057) Dark Souls
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There's trouble brewing in the cold waters of Kildevil Cove, and this time Danny Quirke may be hard put to stop it.
Due to his suspected association with his former boss's human trafficking organization, Danny has been demoted and is no longer in charge. To make matters worse, he's broken up with his partner, Tadhg... who may be in serious hot water himself. But then a faceless killer begins targeting Kildevil Cove's most vulnerable, and Danny...
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Sept 7 nouvelles écrites par 7 auteurs différents, mêlant crimes, suspense et enquêtes.
Le vieux commissaire Gorce, l'ex-grand flic de Limoges, est en fin de vie. Mais il lui reste sur le cœur 7 affaires qu'il n'a pas résolues au cours de sa longue carrière, et qu'il va confier à 7 journalistes locaux. Derrière ces 7 nouvelles se cachent 7 auteurs du cercle noir de Geste éditions. 7 histoires racontées dans des styles différents, mais...
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Des disparitions par centaines, toutes des filles ou des jeunes femmes, ont lieu dans une ville au nord du Mexique... Quel est le responsable?
À Ciudad Juarez, ville tentaculaire à la frontière nord du Mexique, des centaines de filles et de jeunes femmes disparaissent. Mondialisation, cartels de la drogue ou tueur en série, trafic d'êtres humains, qui est responsable? Si les faubourgs les plus pauvres s'enlisent dans la peur, la vie continue...
6060) The Spoils of War
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An exhilarating tale of modern espionage and adventure featuring US Navy intelligence officer Alan Craik. In Tel Aviv, Commander Alan Craik, a US Navy veteran agrees to check out the death of a former Navy enlisted employee. He plans to be out the door and on to his real work in half an hour. But the task quickly turns dangerous, and what should have been a routine investigation becomes something very ugly. Nominal American allies in Israel withhold...
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