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"When property developer Connor Clive Blaydon is found dead, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and his Yorkshire team dive into the investigation. As luck would have it, someone had installed a cache of spy-cams all around his luxurious home. The team hope that they'll find answers--and the culprit--among the video recordings. Instead of discovering Connor's murderer, however, the grainy and blurred footage reveals another crime: a brutal rape....
82) Blindside
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"The mayor of New York has a daughter who's missing and in danger. Detective Michael Bennett has a son who's in prison. The two strike a deal. Michael Bennett and the mayor have always had a tense relationship, but now the mayor sees in Bennett a discreet investigator with family worries of his own. Just one father helping another. The detective leaps into the case and sources lead him to a homicide in the Bronx. The victim has ties to a sophisticated...
83) An evil heart
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"Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates the brutal death of a young Amish man in An Evil Heart, the latest installment of the bestselling series by Linda Castillo. On a crisp autumn day in Painters Mill, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder responds to a call only to discover an Amish man who has been violently killed with a crossbow, his body abandoned on a dirt road. Aden Karn was just twenty years old, well liked, and from an upstanding Amish...
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Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito volume 7
A Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito novel volume 7
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 25
A Leaphorn Chee and Manuelito novel volume 7
Leaphorn and Chee novel volume 25
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Sergeant Jim Chee's vacation to beautiful Antelope Canyon and Lake Powell has a deeper purpose. He's on a quest to unravel a sacred mystery his mentor, the Legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, stumbled across decades earlier. Chee's journey takes a deadly turn when, after a prayerful visit to the sacred Rainbow Bridge, he spots a body floating in the lake. The dead man, a Navajo with a passion for the canyon's ancient rock art, lived a life filled with...
85) Beastly things
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Commissario Brunetti investigates the death of an animal lover whose decomposed body was found in a Venice canal.
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Alex Delaware novels volume 20
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"It's a story tailor-made for the nightly news: Dylan Meserve and Michaela Brand, young lovers and fellow acting students, vanish on the way home from a rehearsal. Three days later, the two of them are found in the remote mountains of Malibu - battered and terrified after a harrowing ordeal at the hands of a sadistic abductor." "The details of the nightmarish event are shocking and brutal: The couple was carjacked at gunpoint by a masked assailant...
87) Glass Houses
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"When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers are at first curious. Then wary. Through rain and sleet, the figure stands unmoving, staring ahead. From the moment its shadow falls over the village, Gamache, now Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec, suspects the creature has deep roots and a dark purpose. Yet he does nothing. What can he do? Only watch and wait....
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Inspector Armand Gamache mysteries volume 18
Three Pines mystery volume 18
Chief Inspector Gamache volume 18
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
Three Pines mystery volume 18
Chief Inspector Gamache volume 18
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
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2022.
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"Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series. It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has. As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and...
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Guido Brunetti mysteries volume 32
Commissario Brunetti
A Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume Book 32
Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 32
Commissario Brunetti
A Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume Book 32
Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery volume 32
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2023.
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"In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon's bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti's own youthful past helps solve a mysterious murder. On a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola are up late when a call from his colleague Ispettore Vianello arrives, alerting the Commissario that a hand has been seen in one of Venice's canals. The body is soon found, and Brunetti is assigned to investigate the murder of an undocumented Sri...
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Dog Man volume 9
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IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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The Supa Buddies bamboozled the baddies, but all's not right in the world. Dog Man has a new problem to pound, and he's going to need his entire pack to help him. Will he go barking up the wrong tree? Could a cat-headed cop replace Dog Man?
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Timber Creek K-9 novels volume 7
Timber Creek K-9 mysteries volume 7
Timber Creek K-9 mystery volume 7
Timber Creek K-9 mysteries volume 7
Timber Creek K-9 mystery volume 7
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Called to help investigate the murder of a young woman who had recently given birth on the mountain, Mattie and her team search for the missing baby while going up against a criminal mastermind who is behind several murders, including her father's.
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Inspector John Rebus mysteries volume 21
Inspector Rebus novel volume 21
The Inspector Rebus volume 21
Inspector Rebus novel volume 21
The Inspector Rebus volume 21
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For John Rebus, 40 years may have passed, but the death of beautiful, promiscuous Maria Turquand still preys on his mind. She was murdered in her hotel room on the night a famous rock star and his entourage were staying there, and Maria's killer has never been found. Meanwhile, the dark heart of Edinburgh remains up for grabs. A young pretender, Darryl Christie, may have staked his claim, but a vicious attack leaves him weakened and vulnerable, and...
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On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. While Lynley works on the case in London, his former colleagues Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata follow the murder trail south to the New Forest--and to an outcome that is both tragic and shocking.
94) Careless in Red
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After the senseless murder of his wife, Detective superintendent Thomas Lynley retreated to Cornwall, where he has spent six solitary weeks hiking the bleak and rugged coastline. On the forty-third day of his walk he discovers the body of a young man who appears to have fallen to his death. The closest town, better known for its tourists and its surfing than for its intrigue, seems an unlikely place for murder. However, ti soon becomes apparent...
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Family upstairs volume 2
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"Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. When Owusu sends the evidence for examination, he learns the bones are connected to a cold case that left three people dead on the kitchen floor in a Chelsea mansion thirty years ago. Rachel Rimmer has also received a shock—news that her husband, Michael, has been found dead in the cellar of his house in France. All signs point to an intruder,...
96) The betrayal
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2011
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Detective Boone Drake has just masterminded the most massive sting in Chicago history, bringing down the heads of not only the biggest street gangs in the city, but also the old crime syndicate. The story is the biggest in decades, and the Chicago PD must protect the key witness at all costs. Despite top secret plans to transfer the witness to testify before the grand jury, an attempt is made on his life. And the source of the leak may be one of...
97) Hunting hour
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Timber Creek K-9 novels volume 3
Timber Creek K-9 mystery volume 3
Timber Creek K-9 mysteries volume 03
Timber Creek K-9 mystery volume 3
Timber Creek K-9 mysteries volume 03
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Deputy Mattie Cobb is in a dark place and has withdrawn from Cole Walker and his family to work on issues from her past. When she and her K-9 partner Robo get called to track a missing junior high student, they find the girl dead on Smoker's Hill behind the high school, and Mattie must head to the Walker home to break the bad news. But that's only the start of trouble in Timber Creek, because soon another girl goes missing--and this time it's one...
98) Fear Collector
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A "New York Times"-bestselling author draws deeply on the chilling legacy of notorious serial killer Ted Bundy in this darkly atmospheric, psychologically driven thriller in which Bundy is the ultimate obsession for two womenNone a cop, the other a deranged groupie. Original.
99) Terrier
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Beka Cooper volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 19
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When sixteen-year-old Beka becomes "Puppy" to a pair of "Dogs," as the Provost's Guards are called, she uses her police training, natural abilities, and a touch of magic to help them solve the case of a murdered baby in Tortall's Lower City.
100) What's in a name?
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kelli Carpenter has changed her identity, found a new career and thinks she's safe. When someone comes after her, she runs and takes Blake Windsor with her.