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Sir Peregrine Lloyd, the Queen's private secretary, is discovered with a dagger in his stomach in the Wolsey Rooms of Hampton Court Palace.
Before he dies he mutters, "More is the pity. The Mirror of Naples: Preserve it," to Sir Cedric Mallory, the curator of Hampton Court, who is on his early morning rounds before opening time.
Detective Chief Inspector, Mick Chandra, and his partner, Detective Elizabeth Chang, are assigned to the case. It's a matter...
2) City of Woe
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What if Paul Farrington, a veteran fixer for a shady corporation, found himself targeted for elimination just as he was trying to finance his daughter's Ivy League education? How far would he go to provide for his family and keep them safe? What if detectives Frank Mallory and Alberto "Gunner" Gennaro were forced to play catch up with a killer who may or may not be a demon and who leaves trails of Dantesque murders, each one occurring further south...
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Special Agent Chancellor is under enormous pressure from his new FBI boss because he looks fat. Skinny Hope Olson has the opposite problem. Her parents think she's starving herself and they go to extremes to save her. Chance and Hope meet after she escapes a weird commando team of abductors. She overheard them mention another snatch in Baltimore, but didn't hear enough for Chance to intervene. The Baltimore victim resists the criminals and is killed....
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DCI Jonny Priest, fresh from his recent promotion bids a fond farewell to The Metropolitan Police and heads north west for a new challenge with the Greater Manchester Police Force. He is immediately thrown into a murder investigation; a teenager brutally murdered in a nightclub. Priest soon comes to realize that this is not the first murder of its kind in the area, and with a truly sinister pattern emerging, DCI Priest and his team have a race against...
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The streets of Greater Manchester are awash with drugs and weapons, and the gangs that control this multi-million pound business will stop at nothing to protect and grow their business. The Dolsen family are one such gang.
When the head of a rival Yardie gang is found brutally murdered, revenge attacks were always likely to follow, and gang members were unlikely to be the only ones hurt.
DCI Priest teams up with the Serious Organised Crime Agency...
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Determined to rebuild her life following a suicide attempt, beautiful young American concert pianist Jessica Beaumont retreats to a 17th century cottage near the village of Kenwick, in rural England. She is embroiled in the murder investigation of a secretive neighbor who was hacked to death in his manor house with his own kitchen cleaver. She soon becomes romantically entangled with one of the murder suspects, a handsome wealthy landowner. Hungry...
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Corona, Queens in the mid- to late-1900s was a place where law-abiding families co-existed with Families of a different nature. The Made men of the neighborhood received as much admiration and respect as the average working class because they were loyal to their employees, and their employees were certainly loyal to them. In many cases they donated time and money to benefit the neighborhood. But the average person didn't ask a Made man what he did...
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The body of a young woman is found roughly buried in a remote spot in the Queensland Gulf Country. Forensic evidence from maggots in the body suggests that she must have been killed in Papua New Guinea, but the body could not possibly have moved from PNG to the Gulf within the timeline available.
Further investigation shows that she might have been caught up with drug smugglers and cattle thieves, but clues are still not forthcoming.
A maggot...
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There's nothing quite like flies swarming around a dead body to put a damper on a romantic picnic. When a young man's body is discovered in a shallow grave in the Forest of Dean, Chief Inspector Cam Fergus and his team with the aid of local resident and retired criminal profiler, Sue Parsons, believe they have narrowed down their search for the murderer. As the search for the assailant is underway another gruesome discovery in the Forest has them...
10) fumbled
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A former Pittsburgh Steeler, Damien Skrczyinski, a 280 pound linebacker who played in the 1940`s finds himself in jail accused of being a serial killer.
Because of his memory loss from chronic brain trauma he cannot provide an alibi.
It takes his friend,88 pound Millie Estel, and three of her octogenarian friends from Holy Angels Retirement community who risk their lives to catch the real killer.
With the assistance of Pittsburgh detectives Phil...
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Contrary to what the Police Chief sometimes thinks, Detective Bev Henderson is willing to accept a case may be simple and straightforward. She is, however, a thorough investigator and leaves no questions unasked. She has no difficulty in the official ruling of death by natural causes and tragic accident in three deaths that soon follow. When someone credible comes to her though with the suggestion one of the deaths could have been murder by poison,...
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Chief Inspector Cam Fergus hated the return of autumn. Walking up Church Street from his home overlooking the River Wye towards the police station, Cam pondered why it seemed that autumn always put him in such a foul mood. He thought about the gardens growing barren, the leaves falling from the trees leaving their bare limbs stretching like skeletons into the grey sky, To him, autumn signified in a word...death. When a 999 call, reporting remains...
13) A Deadly Echo
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"A Deadly Echo" is an enthralling murder mystery that takes readers on a chilling journey where the boundaries of justice and friendship blur. Sergeant Michael Callahan, haunted by the murder of his wife Katie and their unborn child, embarks on a relentless quest to catch a serial killer, known as "The Artist." Although not responsible for Katie's death, The Artist forms a precarious alliance with Callahan, intertwining their fates. As they delve...
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After college and a stint in the military, Conner Phoenix finds himself on a law enforcement career path. Conner is driven to police work. Like most young and aspiring police officers, Conner has tremendous respect for our current law enforcement representatives who operate under such harrowing scrutiny. He also has a very traditional ideal of what a police officer looks like and how they represent their community.
This first book in the Conner...
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The setting of the book is based in the future sixty years from the publishing of this book. Most of the characters work in the detective bureau in Boston PD, with other characters outside of the division sprinkled in to provide the variety of life necessary to keep things interesting as needed. Given the storyline is in the future, naturally there are going to be elements of possible future tech involved in the equation. A good mystery, whodunit,...
16) Innocent Victim
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"Innocent Victim" is a fast-paced police procedural/murder mystery set in a small Midwestern city. When a prominent businessman's daughter is murdered, Detective Lieutenant Alex Macarios and his fellow offers are thrust into a crime where few people are what they seem to be. This is a gripping story filled with secrets and complexities that reminds us that murder is never simple when the victim is innocent.
With the help of his partner and the victim's...
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All The Pretty Dresses is a gritty, fast/paced mystery/thriller that would do the likes of James Patterson and Agatha Christie proud. Cass Rosier is a thirty-one-year-old single-mom and the first ever female deputy hired by her county. When she catches the current county sheriff with an underage high school student, in desperation, the county fathers unexpectedly appoint her as acting sheriff until the next election. Can she pull off the job? Some...
18) Gwen
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Gwen Jarvi, a newly hired detective in the Billings Montana Police Department, has a murder case to solve. A headless corpse is discovered in a dumpster, and the corpse is connected to Gwen's former lover's ranch. When she goes to visit the ranch to investigate, she's forced to revisit her ex-boyfriend Paul and a set of mysterious, identical twins. While she works to find the murderer, a possibly connected robbery is reported on the news. A love triangle...
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This fast-paced thriller is the first entry in the Jasmine Kincaid mystery series. On Halloween, the decomposed corpse of a young woman is found at her home in the idyllic bedroom community of Upland. A serial killer known as the Shadow Man is stalking the city. The Upland murders are the proving ground for police officer Jasmine Kincaid. Tough, beautiful, and passionate about her work, Jasmine is determined to become Upland's first female police...
20) The Erlking
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Detective Inspector, Mick Chandra of New Scotland Yard, struggles to link the murder of the young wife of a popular British Member of Parliament to the seemingly random death by drowning in a north London canal of 8-year-old Josie Stephens. The forensic pathologist discovers that Josie was abused before she was murdered. Mick is informed by a Quaker Friend who knew Phoebe that she, too, may have been physically abused. Mick realizes he is getting...
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