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"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...
2) Soft target
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Dan Shepherd thrillers volume 2
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Hodder & Stoughton
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English
3) The betrayal
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Precinct 11 volume 2
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English
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Detective Boone Drake has successfully conducted an operation to bring down street gangs and crime bosses. A leak somewhere in the Chicago PD, however, threatens the life of his key witness, and Drake must figure out who the betrayer is before it's too late.
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Kanopy Streaming
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Français
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In the underbelly of the Parisian criminal world, the Police are frustrated by a gang committing a series of violent robberies. Leo Vrinks and Denis Klein are two cops seeking promotion, and the imminent departure of the Chief sets the scene for them to compete for the vacant throne. The competition between them becomes increasingly ruthless and blurs the usual lines of morality, until there seems no difference between the police and the criminals...
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Riverhead Books
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English
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"Not since childhood has Faraz returned to the Mohalla, Lahore's infamous walled inner city, where women still pass down the profession of courtesan to their daughters. But he still remembers the day he was abducted from the home he shared with his mother and sister there, at the direction of his powerful father, who wanted to give him a chance at a respectable life. Now Wajid, once more dictating his fate from afar, has sent Faraz back to Lahore,...
6) Canary
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Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
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English
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After being arrested, Sarie Holland becomes a confidential informant at the mercy of a desperate detective looking for a career making bust and targeted by crooked cops and killers.
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Malcolm Fox mysteries volume 1
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Orion
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English
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The first major post-Rebus novel. Malcolm Fox works for The Complaints, they're the cops who investigate other cops. He's middle-aged, bitter, unwell and on the case of a dirty cop who seems untouchable. From Britain's best-loved crime writer. Print run 75,000.
8) The force
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"The explosive and sensational next novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel"-- Publisher.
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Now a #1 Netflix documentary series. Get the full shocking story about billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in this #1 New York Times bestselling and definitive book, updated with the latest headline-making news and new photos.
Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins into the New York City and Palm Beach elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers — and for people — Epstein amassed his wealth through a combination...
Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins into the New York City and Palm Beach elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers — and for people — Epstein amassed his wealth through a combination...
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Knopf Canada
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Sophie Brinkmann had no idea her former patient was an international crime lord. Hector Guzman had a Latin charm and easy smile she couldn't deny, so she agreed to a date ... Jens Vall is in Paraguay facilitating a delivery of very dangerous weapons when he's attacked by angry Russians. They think he stole their drugs ... Lars Vinge is a beat cop with a nasty drug habit he thought he kicked. He's given an important assignment that soon turns into...
12) Exposed
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VVS Films
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English
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While investigating the death of his partner, a police detective discovers police corruption.
13) Payback in death
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"Lt. Eve Dallas is just home from a long overdue vacation when she responds to a call of an unattended death. The victim is Martin Greenleaf, retired captain, Internal Affairs Bureau. At first glance, the scene appears to be suicide, but the closer Eve examines the body, the more suspicious she becomes. An unlocked open window, a loving wife and family, a too-perfect suicide note--Eve's gut says it's a homicide. After all, Greenleaf put a lot of dirty...
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Detective Annalisa Vega novels volume 2
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English
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"Long Gone is the next thrilling installment in Joanna Schaffhausen's critically acclaimed Detective Annalisa Vega series. Chicago detective Annalisa Vega shattered her life, personally and professionally, when she turned in her ex-cop father for his role in a murder. Her family can't forgive her. Her fellow officers no longer trust her. So when detective Leo Hammond turns up dead in a bizarre murder, Annalisa thinks she has nothing to lose by investigating...
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Wolfhound century volume 1
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English
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Sent to the capital, Mirgorod, to capture a terrorist, Inspector Vissarion Lom finds the city a corrupt world of secret police, revolutionaries, cabarets, and lost artists and slowly comes to the realization of exactly why he was chosen for this job.
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The crack of a handgun shatters the silence of a warm summer night.... A notorious local felon and former child magician vanishes, seemingly without a trace.... A corrupt police force applies a stranglehold to a failing town.... An ailing old man hatches a last-ditch plan to save the police department he once headed, and the community he still loves.... An outsider arrives, bearing a simple recipe for death that could destroy them all.... The town...
17) Turn a blind eye
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William Warwick novels volume 3
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English
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Going undercover to expose corruption in the Metropolitan Police Force, Detective Inspector William Warwick is compromised by a high-profile trial and a teammate's romantic relationship with his suspect.
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Underwater Investigation Unit volume 1
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Thomas & Mercer
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English
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"Coming from scandalous Florida treasure hunters and drug smugglers, Sloan McPherson is forging her own path, for herself and for her daughter, out from under her family's shadow. An auxiliary officer for Lauderdale Shores PD, she's the go-to diver for evidence recovery. Then Sloan finds a fresh kill floating in a canal--a woman whose murky history collides with Sloan's. Their troubling ties are making Sloan less a potential witness than a suspect....
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Two reporters for the Philadelphia Daily News relate how they broke the story of the biggest police corruption scandal in Philadelphia history, an investigation initiated by their contact with a confidential informer for the police department's narcoticssquad.
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