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"22-year-old Olivia has been missing for one day...and counting. She was last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley. And not coming back out again. Julia, the detective heading up the search for Olivia, has no idea just how close to home this case is going to get. Because the criminal at the heart of the disappearance has something she never expected. His weapon isn't a gun, or a knife: it's a secret. Her worst one. And her family's safety depends...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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With the help of his half-brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, defense attorney Mickey Haller sets out to prove the innocence of a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff’s deputy, putting Mickey in the crosshairs of a killer who doesn’t want the case reopened—or the truth coming to light.
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Investigating a brutal murder, Deputy Chief Inspector Lu Fei—as someone attacks illegal cyber-sex operations, disposing of the operators and quietly freeing sex trafficked teens from North Korea—must connect these different events, with pressure from all sides that threatens to ruin his career and endanger his very life.
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Imposters volume 1
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English
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Dire straits force Lady Marigold Fairfax and her brother to become private investigators in London. When Sir Merrick Livingstone hires them to look into the father of Marigold's best friend for suspected international espionage, she is determined to discover the truth, and even more determined to keep her heart from getting involved.
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Sergeant Hamish Macbeth has some major problems to deal with--crimes and criminals, even law enforcement agents, that he doesn't want anywhere near his beloved Highland village in Lochdubh. Hamish is worried about how the locals...will react to his new assistant officer..Having recently become involved in identifying a Russian spy ring to solve a murder, he is aware that Bland's mission is to track down the members of the spy network still at large"--...
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Jimmy Dreghorn series volume 1
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Glasgow, 1932. When the son-in-law of one of the city's wealthiest shipbuilders is found floating in the River Clyde with his throat cut, it falls to Inspector Jimmy Dreghorn to lead the murder case-despite sharing a troubled history with the victim's widow. From the flying fists and flashing blades of Glasgow's criminal underworld, to the backstabbing upper echelons of government and big business, Dreghorn and his partner 'Bonnie' Archie McDaid must...
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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In San Francisco's seamy Tenderloin district, a teenage street hustler has been murdered in a shelter for boys. And the dedicated priest who runs the struggling home stands accused. But despite evidence that he's a killer, and worse, Father Thomas Martin stands by his innocence. And attorney Peter Donley stands with him. But a ruthless DA seeking headlines and a brutal homicide cop bent on vengeance have their own agendas.
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When her husband Tom is found dead, Nicole, whose life has been forever changed after a massive lottery win, finds her dream world turning into a nightmare, realizing that big money can bring big problems and big threats, making her wonder if Tom’s death was really a tragic accident—and if she’s next.
11) City of betrayal
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Counterfeit lady volume 7
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English
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A grifter skilled at interacting with difficult men, Elizabeth Bates teams up with the suffragist movement in an attempt to pass the 19th Amendment in Tennessee. But she would never have expected the lengths to which some would go to keep the vote out of women's hands. She'll need to devise the perfect con or the suffragists' life's work could all be for nothing.
12) Cutting teeth
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Ten preschoolers develop an unsettling medical condition that leaves them craving blood and are implicated, along with their mothers, in the murder of their young teacher.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Ren is a park ranger, tasked with duties both mundane and thrilling: breaking up fights at campgrounds, saving tourists from moose attacks, and attempting to broker an uneasy peace between the wealthy vacationers who tromp around with cameras and the locals who want to carve out a meaningful living amid this western landscape. When Ren discovers his friend Hilly, a biologist and wolf expert, nearly dead in the steel jaws of a wolf trap, he hopes...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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When a dead body is placed directly in the path of an early season hunt, “Sister” Jane Arnold, with the Jefferson Hunt Club busier than ever, must decipher cryptic clues left for her and her friends before any of them wind up dead.
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Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 11
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Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
Description
When wealthy socialite Chrissie Montgomery, young, naïve and set to inherit an enormous fortune, goes missing, PI Philip Marlowe and Anne Riordan, head of her own all-female detective agency, search for this woman who doesn’t want to be found, encountering a dead body along the way.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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In Los Angeles in the summer of 1962, Freddy O, a corrupt ex-cop, dope fiend and freelance extortionist, believes Marilyn Monroe’s death and the kidnapping of a B-movie starlet are riddles only he can solve as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth.
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Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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New York City, 1950. Viviana Valentine and Tommy Fortuna have a lot of resolutions for the new year—whether it’s continuing to build up their detective agency or planning their wedding, the two are looking forward to the future. On their way to Times Square to celebrate, the two witness a brutal stabbing.
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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While vacationing at Cairnfarn Castle, the Scottish estate of the Duke of Bainbridge, Lady Emily, when the duke’s gamekeeper is murdered, investigates, discovering a link between his brutal death and that of a harrowing witchcraft trial hundreds of years ago that reveals the dark side of a seemingly idyllic Highland village.
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Agatha Christie's ever-capable housekeeper, Phyllida Bright, not only keeps the celebrated author's English country home in tip-top shape, she excels as an amateur sleuth; but when a murder-themed game goes awry, can she outfox the guilty party?
20) Fatal legacy
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Flavia Albia mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Taking over her father’s private informer business in first century Rome, Flavia Albia helps her aunt track down a pair of deadbeats who owe her money. But nothing is truly easy in Rome. Murder in the past leads to murder in the present. Now, it's serious, even deadly, and Albia has precious little time to uncover the truth.
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