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Willamette Valley novels volume 2
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In Heather Heyford's newest book, a single mom and attorney with deep roots in the rolling hills of Oregon's Ribbon Ridge wine country thinks her family is perfect as is-until she crosses paths again with a gruff police officer who has two boys of his own . . .
There is nothing sweeter than the family you pick yourself . . .
After detective Alex Walker's last case in Portland is skewered by a tough-as-nails attorney, he decides to finish out...
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When a killer plays mind games with a cop,
THERE ARE NO RULES.
The first victim is attacked in her home. Tied to her bed. Forced to watch every unspeakable act of cruelty-but unable to scream. The second murder is even more twisted. Signed, sealed, and delivered with a message for the police, stuffed in the victim's throat. A fractured nursery rhyme that ends with a warning: "There will be more." For detective Jack Murphy, it's more than a threat....
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Take One Deranged Killer. Add One Determined Cop. You Get One Deadly Obsession. . .
From the moment he sees the young woman's body in her hotel bathtub, homicide detective Jack Murphy knows he's looking at a truly demented but brilliantly designed puzzle. She's been drained of blood. Missing her left hand-and the killer left a special message just for him. Hours later, he sees her severed hand arranged on a second victim's body. The newspaper has...
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DETECTIVE JACK MURPHY IS BACK-on the trail of a criminal mastermind who kills for profit and tortures for pleasure.
In Jack Murphy's experience, the killers who blend in are the hardest to catch. But none are as elusive-or efficient-as Mr. Smith. A man of average height, weight and build, Mr. Smith is as ordinary as his name. Which makes it easy for him to get close to his targets. To kill without conscience. To use every weapon at his disposal...
5) Night Mask
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Radio station KSIN in La Barca plays music to make love to. Or die by.
The sultry sounds go out over the balmy California night, laced with subliminal messages that lured young women to deaths more grisly than anything the police have ever seen. And the smiles frozen on the victim's faces became nightmares haunting their dreams...
Homicide detectives Leo Franks and Lani Prejean have broken nearly every rule in the book hunting down the prolific...
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It's a shocking blast from the past when homicide detective Jake Carrington finds himself investigating the last woman he'd suspect of murder . . .
Recovering from a stab wound to the gut, and dealing with the news that his sister's killer might beat the system, Lieutenant Jake Carrington needs some downtime. But that's cut short by a very sensitive case: the murder of the police commisioner's wife. The crime scene-a dive hotel, complete with provocative,...
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JACK MURPHY DELIVERS JUSTICE
Detective Jack Murphy can read a crime scene like a book. When the naked, brutalized corpse of a narcotics cop is found, it's not the body that tells him a sick killer is on the loose, but the monkey figurine-of the "see no evil" kind-shoved down his throat. It's a message, not a clue. Then a high-profile judge is set on fire. Another figurine left behind. Murphy has a guess what's next. But it's not what he expects....
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Killing Has Become A Team Sport. To Win The Game, Detective Jack Murphy Will Have To Identify All The Players--Whatever The Cost.
The body parts of a young woman have shown up in the town landfill and homicide detective Jack Murphy is on the case. But when the victim's identity is revealed, the horrific crime takes an even darker and far more personal turn. Nina Parsons was not only a deputy prosecutor, but the rumored lover of the man Jack's ex-wife...
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NO COVER CHARGE
From From Cairo to Vicksburg, along Route 61, they lit up the night with the sounds of wailing voices and twanging guitars. All the greats played at roadside clubs filled with smoke, sex, and a driving beat... Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash. These jive joints are now a thing of the past. Or are they? A sheriff's deputy has just stumbled on a mystery that will take him into the cheating heart of rockabilly hell.
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Cop vs. Killer
Detective Jack Murphy never met a cold case he couldn't crack. This one's been on ice for 37 years. The prime suspect in a decades-old unsolved murder is about to be named Evansville's next Chief of Police. The Mayor wants the top cop's name cleared-and that's why Murphy and his partner, Liddell Blanchard, are ordered to
re-open the investigation. But when the victim's sister and mother are targeted for violence, troubling new questions...
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In rural Indiana, the underground mines that once held coal and iron ore have become killing grounds. In two counties, five corpses have been discovered. Their deaths appear accidental, from drowning or suffocating in flooded and abandoned mines. But local authorities, including Chief Shaunda Lynch, have uncovered evidence suggesting they've all been murdered.
Assigned to the case as Federal Agents, Detectives Jack Murphy and Liddell Blanchard take...
12) Rockabilly Limbo
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The Killing Has Begun!
A tide of violence is tearing across America, pitting mother against daughter, father against son, brother against brother. Amid the rioting, looting, and killing, pulpit-pounding preachers take to the airwaves, screaming that it's the end of the world. Rock and roll has become the dance of death, just as they always predicted. Evil walks among us. Armageddon is NOW.
Goodness Gracious, Great Balls Of Fire!
Ex-Deputy Sheriff...
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Homicide detective Jake Carrington has an engagement that can't wait-with a killer.
Haunted by the murder of his sister, Lieutenant Jake Carrington struggles to control his personal demons as he stands over the brutalized body of a young woman found dead on the railroad tracks. The victim disappeared on July 6th, the fifth woman in as many years to go missing on that date. The fifth happy bride-to-be. The only one whose body has turned up.
Soon...
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JACK MURPHY WON'T BACK DOWN
The headlines scream the ghastly news of an abandoned truck filled with murdered immigrants. Detective Jack Murphy and his partner Liddell Blanchard are on the case. They've got a lone survivor, rumors of a witness, and the feds getting in their way. Jack's gut tells him there's a connection with a local killing-and the bloodshed is far from over. He's going up against a butcher who commits the unspeakable in the name...
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IT TAKES A COP LIKE JACK MURPHY TO FIND JUSTICE...
Jack Murphy knows a setup when he sees one. Proving it makes his day. Especially when it involves his own partner. Lured into a trap, Evansville P.D. Detective Liddell Blanchard is accused of murdering a cop who was investigating a shadowy voodoo cult. Justice is murky enough in the swamplands of Louisiana, but when a purported descendent of Marie Leveaux menaces a murder investigation, the gumbo...
16) Bad Bones
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Claire Morgan novels volume 7
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BAD OMEN
Homicide detective Claire Morgan has a bad feeling when a man's body is found in a Missouri State Park. The crime scene is buried in snow. The corpse is frozen in ice. And nearly every bone has been broken, shattered, or crushed. . .
BAD BLOOD
Claire's suspicions only get worse when the body is thawed and identified. The victim was an ultimate fighter on the cage-match circuit. His wife blames her ex-husband, a Russian mafioso. But Claire...
17) A Dark Path
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Sheriff's detective Katrina "Hurricane" Williams confronts deep-rooted hate and greed in the Missouri Ozarks in this riveting police procedural…
What at first appears to be a brush fire in some undeveloped bottom land yields the charred remains of a young African-American man. As sheriff's Katrina Williams conducts her inspection of the crime scene, she discovers broken headstones and disturbed open graves in a forgotten cemetery.
As Katrina...
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From the author of A Living Grave comes a gripping police procedural featuring sheriff's detective Katrina Williams as she exposes the dark underbelly of the Missouri Ozarks . . .
DREDGING UP THE TRUTH
Still recovering from tragedy and grieving a devastating loss, Iraq war veteran and sheriff's detective Katrina Williams copes the only way she knows how-by immersing herself in work. A body's just been pulled from the lake with a fish haul, but...
19) A Living Grave
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The first in the series featuring an Ozarks sheriff's detective investigating moonshine, murder, and the ghosts of her own past..Katrina Williams left the army ten years ago, disillusioned and damaged. Now a sheriff's detective at home in the Missouri Ozarks, Williams is living her life one case at a time-between mandated therapy sessions-until she learns that she's a suspect in a military investigation with ties to her painful past. Then the corpse...
20) A Killing Secret
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When a rising country star is found dead in the Missouri Ozarks, sheriff's detective Katrina "Hurricane" Williams must confront the possibility that the man she loves is involved…
Called to investigate the theft of valuable timber, Katrina finds the dead body of young singer Sharon Rose lying in the snow, shot execution style. When Sheriff Billy Blevins arrives at the crime scene, his strong reaction to seeing the victim is as baffling as a pretty...
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