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[2018]
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Years ago, in the town of Saxon Falls, young Kelsey Willard disappeared and was presumed dead. The tragedy left her family with a fractured life. Now another teenage girl has gone missing, ripping open old wounds for the Willards. Bureau of Criminal Investigation agent Mark Foster has stumbled on uncanny parallels in the lives of the two missing girls that could unlock clues to a serial killer's identity. That means breaking down the walls of the...
66) Deadly politics
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Pub. Date
[2012]
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Shortly after learning her niece is having an affair with a congressional chief of staff, Molly Malone finds her niece shot dead, and soon finds herself entangled in the web of a shady political group that is willing to kill its opposition.
67) Winterkill
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Dark Iceland volume 6
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Easter weekend is approaching, and snow is gently falling in Siglufjoerdur, the northernmost town in Iceland, as crowds of tourists arrive to visit the majestic ski slopes. Ari Thor Arason is now a police inspector, but he's separated from his girlfriend, who lives in Sweden with their three-year-old son. A family reunion is planned for the holiday, but a violent blizzard is threatening and there is an unsettling chill in the air. Three days before...
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"It's mid-September of 1893, and Eloisa Carstairs is the reigning beauty of Gilded Age Chicago society. To outsiders she appears to have it all. But Eloisa is living with a dark secret. Several months ago, she endured a horrible assault at the hands of Douglass Sloane, heir to one of Chicago's wealthiest families. Fearing the loss of her reputation, Eloisa has confided in only one friend. That is, until she meets Detective Sean Ryan at a high-society...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Mercy Roller knows her name is a lie: there has never been any mercy in her young life. Raised by a twisted and abusive father who called himself the Pastor, she was abandoned by the church community that should have stood together to protect her from his evil. Her mother, consumed by her own fear and hate, won't stand her ground to save Mercy either. The Pastor has robbed Mercy of innocence and love, a husband and her child. Not a single person...
71) Killer cocktail
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Series
Molly Forrester mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Molly Forrester joins her two best friends, Tricia and Cassady, on a trip to the Hamptons to attend Tricia's brother's engagement party, but the festivities are interrupted when the bride-to-be turns up dead, drowned in the pool after the party.
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Series
Claire Watkins mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
c2014.
Description
Deputy Sheriff Claire Watkins has extra incentive to get to the bottom of the case of a woman burned to death during a Wisconsin autumnal equinox tradition when she discovers that one of the suspects is dating her daughter.
73) Blood standard
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Series
Isaiah Coleridge novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"The first in a crime noir series, Isaiah Coleridge is a former mob enforcer banished from his Alaska home after an incident. Sent to a horse farm in the Hudson Valley in NY to recover, he winds up investigating the disappearance of the 18-year-old granddaughter of his hosts."--
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Susan Pulaski series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Psychologist Susan Pulaski, who has a near-empathic gift for understanding the thought processes of criminals, is a consultant for the Las Vegas police force. When the city is galvanized by a brutal murder case stemming from the death of a young woman who has been buried alive, Police Chief Robert O'Bannon calls on Susan's services. Susan, in turn, relies on the help of O'Bannon's 26-year-old son, Darcy, a high-functioning autistic savant with a prodigious...
76) The lost witness
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Lena Gamble thrillers volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Punished by her superiors following the explosive end to her previous case, Detective Lena Gamble realizes that she has been set up for another fall when she is assigned the case of an unidentified victim whose body has been dismembered and tossed into adumpster.
77) Left for dead
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DI Amy Winter volume 3
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Shopping with her sister, DI Amy Winter is admiring a Valentine's Day window display of a perfect bride encrusted in diamonds and resplendent in lace -- until she notices blood oozing from the mannequin's mouth. This is no stunt. A post-mortem reveals the victim was left to die on her macabre throne for all to see. When a second victim is found, it emerges that both women were "Sugar Babes" arranging dates with older men online, and Amy finds herself...
78) Iced chiffon
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Pub. Date
2012
Description
Reagan Summerside makes the most of the only two things she has left after a messy divorce: a run-down Victorian house and a closet full of designer clothes, and she opens a consignment shop on the first floor of her home. Her husband, meanwhile, got the Lexus and a young blonde girlfriend. When the girlfriend is found dead in the Lexus, Regan is determined to find the killer.
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Pub. Date
c2007
Description
A specialist in finding missing children, former cop Jack Carpenter was fired from the force for assaulting a prisoner. Broke after a civil lawsuit and estranged from his wife and daughter, he's living in a seedy beachside apartment north of Miami, Fla., with his dog. Then Simon Skell (aka the Midnight Rambler), whom Carpenter helped convict for murdering prostitutes, is released from prison on a technicality. Determined to prove Skell guilty, Carpenter...