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1) Taylor Made
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Saint Paul private investigator Charlie Rowe takes on the case of a city councilman who allegedly raped a woman in her home. The case is sensitive enough as it is, but when it becomes entwined with that of an exotic dancer and her stalker, it turns deadly. Before the case is solved, Charlie will have to use all his skill to survive.
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Ein Gangsterboss wird vor Gericht freigesprochen, weil Beweismittel auf ungesetzliche Weise beschafft wurden und sich außerdem Zeugen plötzlich nicht mehr erinnern können. Noch auf den Stufen des Gerichtsgebäudes trifft ihn die Kugel eines Killers und für die Ermittler beginnt die Jagd nach dem Mörder. Denn dieses Attentat ist nur der Beginn einer Welle der Gewalt...
Ein Action Thriller von Henry Rohmer (Alfred Bekker)
Henry Rohmer ist das...
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Tres niños desconocidos entre sí se ven unidos por unos actos de violencia extrema que parecen carecer de motivo. Huérfanos y solos, son acogidos como estudiantes en Evensong, un internado para niños emocionalmente traumatizados en un remoto bosque salvaje de Maine.
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La patóloga forense Maura Isles ya tiene una conexión con la escuela: Julian 'Rata' Perkins, el chico de dieciséis años que conoció durante un caso anterior,...
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In Hollywood, a screenwriter gets involved in an impossible murder. In a steamy tropical jungle, a sinister American woman pushes the natives too far and gets exactly what she deserves: a rusty knife buried deep in her back. At least, that is the way the movie is supposed to end. But when the loathsome starlet Caresse Garnet learns her character is about to be killed off, she refuses to die, forcing the studio to rewrite the ending the night before...
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A late-night TV executive falls to his death, and Blissberg must crack the case before the killer has the last laugh. When Harvey Blissberg is hired by Roy Ganz, the pretentious, pint-size producer of a legendary but fading late-night network comedy show, he has no idea that he's about to walk right into a television tragedy. The private eye thinks he's doing a short, easy job by dragging a missing guest host out of a Times Square bar. The show goes...
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The Six-Chambered Heart, book 1 in An American Crime Trilogy, follows Maddock, a Denver private investigator returning from Chicago where he has meted out revenge for the killing of his buddy Charlie by a powerful crime family.
'the Semper Fi', book 2 in 'An American Crime Trilogy', finds the protagonist Maddock hurriedly leaving Denver, on his way south, eventually to Florida, after putting in motion the elements of a scheme designed to ensnare...
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For the sake of a peculiar corpse, Harvey ventures into suburbia During a long-overdue phone call with his beloved older brother, Norm, Harvey Blissberg learns of a mysterious homicide in a Chicago suburb. A friend of Norm's was found shot in the face, but with no sign of struggle and no clues left behind. The local police are dumbfounded, so as a favor to his brother, Blissberg tries to untangle a bitter tale of real estate, bad taste, and sexual...
8) Drawing Dead
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An ex-cop gambles with his life in Las Vegas in this mystery. Jake Morgan, who left the Boston police force and wound up in Vegas thanks to his taste for games of chance, finds himself hitting it off with a beautiful high roller in her sumptuous suite. Then an assassin enters and breaks the lady's bliss by popping two lead pills into her forehead. Before Morgan knows it, he's not only being grilled over the murder, he's also targeted by a femme fatale...
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Ed and Brandy come face to face with the sinister minds of the greedy and super wealthy. Various attempts to pervert American democracy and destroy the happiness and liberty of the people, create an overwhelming situation that may not be stoppable. Walker has to come to some life changing decisions. "The best Walker Mystery to date, loved it." DLF reviews"Scary time and scary people snatched from today's never ending headlines of violence." Reviews...
10) Bang Switch
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Something stinks in Peculiar, Texas, and it's not just the dead cop Sergeant Zane Gwilly found shortly before midnight.
Kate Darby misses patrolling the streets of Peculiar, Texas, but she has unfinished business. And she can't have the cops knowing what she's doing.
What do the death of a drug dealer and (two months later) a cop have in common? That's what Kate and Zane need to find out.
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A death at the ballet draws Reuben Frost into a backstage conspiracy While striding down Fifth Avenue, reveling in the beauty of the city, Reuben Frost loses his footing-and is caught by a ballerina. Hailey Coles is a slip of a girl, but her firm grip keeps the retired lawyer from crashing down to earth. Soon, Frost will have a chance to return the favor. When the stage of the National Ballet is darkened by murder, only he can ensure that the show...
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A MIKE FARGO TRILOGY presents three complete novellas in one book. Now it's easier than ever to follow the resolute New York City detective with the take-no-prisoners approach as he navigates the Roaring Twenties, working to solve a trio of cases that try not only his patience, but also his desire to bring murderers to justice. Here's what you get.Death of a FlapperSet in 1922, Fargo has to solve the murder of young socialite Marjorie Reems, found...
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Krimi von Pete Hackett
Der Umfang dieses Buchs entspricht 124 Taschenbuchseiten.
Nachdem Mark Mossman zehn Jahre im Gefängnis verbracht hat, will er Rache. Der Wissenschaftler hatte seine Forschungen in Bezug auf Anthrax an Terroristen verkaufen wollen, war aber durch eine Zeugenaussage aufgeflogen. Nun hat er den FBI-Agent Milo Tucker in seine Gewalt gebracht und bedroht darüber hinaus ganz New York, wenn seine Forderungen nicht erfüllt werden....
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The Morals and Mysteries of Max Monroe P.I. is an episodic collection of eight stories. And while each story is able to stand alone, together they develop a unique and individual personality in Max, the narrator, and a thoughtful perspective on a range of contemporary social mores. With deliberate intent, and partly in homage, Monroe encapsulates much of the enduring image of the Private Detective - in short, philosopher and hero, individual and idiosyncratic...
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THIS TIME IT'S PERSONAL.Ed Rogan, tough as nails and twice as sharp, is a private investigator of malfeasance in the corporate world. The enigmatic case he's working on in A MURDER TOO PERSONAL takes on a very personal aspect when he searches for the murderer of his ex-wife. Someone has put a bullet in the back of her head and Rogan is driven by the twin demons of guilt and revenge to find her killer. His quest leads him through the netherworld of...
16) False Witness
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At first, the local TV reporter wasn't too worried about the pictures being anonymously mailed to her, pictures taken as she went about her daily life, even though she and her husband called in Saint Paul private investigator Charlie Rowe for a consultation.But after she disappears, Charlie must investigate, in a case that takes him from his native Twin Cities to Chicago and Virginia in search of the truth, a truth that will reveal a web of lies and...
17) Bad Luck
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A celebrity real estate tycoon wants to open the biggest casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey-the only problem being that he still owes millions to the mob, and he's not quite as rich as he seems to be . . . As FBI agents Mike Tozzi and Cuthbert Gibbons investigate, the story soon involves an oversexed trophy wife, a Mafia boss who pretends to be a mental patient, his sister (the nun), a championship prizefight, and Gibbons's reluctant wedding preparations,...
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Mike Fargo never expected to be meeting Texas Guinan on a hot August day in 1926. But when the real-life, irrepressible hostess at the 300 Club, one of New York City's swankiest speakeasies, asks for a detective to check on a missing girl, Fargo gets the call. The missing girl, Brandi Collier, is one of several young hostesses working at the club. Despite Texas's obvious concern, Fargo can't be sure if the girl has been kidnapped, killed, or perhaps...
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A phone call at midnight. A cocktail lounge on New Orleans's West Bank. A young woman who wants to photograph prostitutes and re-create Bellocq's famous Storyville portraits. And murder. These are the threads that lead private eye Neal Rafferty into a labyrinth of danger in the Crescent City... where crime is always hot, spicy, and full-flavored with suspense. The phone call is from his old girlfriend Jackie Silva. A loan shark named Bubba Brevna...
20) Dad's Legacy
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After Adam Nelson learned the sad news of his father's death, he flew home to settle dad's estate. Upon learning that dad owned very little, he began to wonder what his father's legacy was. When he is forced to confront those responsible for his father's death, he will learn what his father left him.
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