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Introducing New Orleans homicide detective Quentin Archer in the first of a brand-new mystery series. When a prominent New Orleans judge is brutally murdered, former Detroit cop Quentin Archer is handed the case. His enquiries will lead him into a world of darkness and mysticism which underpins the carefree atmosphere of the Big Easy. Interrogating crooked police officers, a pickpocket, a bartender with underground contacts and a swamp dweller, Archer...
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“Clever plotting, unexpected twists, high-octane action” make the second Harry Corbin novel “a must-read” from the ex-cop and author of Bodies in Winter (Booklist).
NYPD detective Harry Corbin hasn’t been allowed to work on a homicide case for almost a year after uncovering corruption among his colleagues and superiors. So when a young woman’s body is found dumped and mutilated...
NYPD detective Harry Corbin hasn’t been allowed to work on a homicide case for almost a year after uncovering corruption among his colleagues and superiors. So when a young woman’s body is found dumped and mutilated...
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On the mean streets of south London, Jamaican DI Georgia Johnson and her partner DS Stephanie Green are on the case of an ex-con suspected of murder.
After serving twelve years in prison for armed robbery, former gang leader Jason Young is determined to put his criminal past behind him. He returns to the rundown south London estate he used to terrorize in an attempt to persuade his ex-girlfriend Chantelle to join him. But then...
After serving twelve years in prison for armed robbery, former gang leader Jason Young is determined to put his criminal past behind him. He returns to the rundown south London estate he used to terrorize in an attempt to persuade his ex-girlfriend Chantelle to join him. But then...
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A double murder reveals the dirty dealings and family secrets of a former Irish rugby star in “a formidable puzzle” for the “indomitable” British detective (Kirkus Reviews).
Irish ex-rugby player and now successful businessman, Jim O’Connor, was shot dead at point blank range in the parking lot of Claughton Towers where he was hosting a celebratory dinner. DCI Percy Peach is brought back...
Irish ex-rugby player and now successful businessman, Jim O’Connor, was shot dead at point blank range in the parking lot of Claughton Towers where he was hosting a celebratory dinner. DCI Percy Peach is brought back...
5) Vacuum
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Harpur and Iles juggle a new drug kingpin and a new chief in this hilarious police procedural from “the Elmore Leonard of Britain’s underworld” (Kirkus Reviews).
After his wife and son are gunned down in what appears to be a hit gone wrong, Local drug boss Mansel Shale turns to religion, leaving his drug business up for grabs. His second-in-command, a weirdo who believes he is Generalissimo...
After his wife and son are gunned down in what appears to be a hit gone wrong, Local drug boss Mansel Shale turns to religion, leaving his drug business up for grabs. His second-in-command, a weirdo who believes he is Generalissimo...
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Chief Inspector Woodend mysteries volume 2
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Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend and his loyal sergeant tackle a murder with as many suspects as there are clues in this tight puzzler.
Swann’s Lake, 1960. When Robbie Peterson, a criminal-turned-club-owner, is found dead in his office, a six-inch nail driven deep into his skull, Chief Inspector Woodend and Sergeant Bob Rutter are brought up from London to investigate. Why was Robbie’s office broken into...
Swann’s Lake, 1960. When Robbie Peterson, a criminal-turned-club-owner, is found dead in his office, a six-inch nail driven deep into his skull, Chief Inspector Woodend and Sergeant Bob Rutter are brought up from London to investigate. Why was Robbie’s office broken into...
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Chief Inspector Woodend mysteries volume 3
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Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend enters the smoky dens of Liverpool to stop a killer stuck in a deadly groove.
Liverpool, 1960s. When Eddie Barnes, lead guitarist of the rising group The Seagulls is electrocuted on stage at the Cellar Club in front of three hundred adoring fans, the Liverpool Police call in Scotland Yard’s Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend. But Woodend doesn’t understand why Eddie’s...
Liverpool, 1960s. When Eddie Barnes, lead guitarist of the rising group The Seagulls is electrocuted on stage at the Cellar Club in front of three hundred adoring fans, the Liverpool Police call in Scotland Yard’s Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend. But Woodend doesn’t understand why Eddie’s...
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Lucinda Pierce mysteries volume 7
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An act of terrorism or a case of murder at the high school? Local cop Lucinda Pierce battles the FBI and Homeland Security for her right to figure it out. One quiet Sunday morning, homicide investigator Lucinda Pierce is called to the scene after a bomb blast rocks a high school, killing a janitor and an unidentified student. But, much to her annoyance, Lucinda is pulled off the case and the FBI and Homeland Security take over. While they seem determined...
9) Magic Line
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The new Sarah Burke mystery-Detective Sarah Burke is called to a mass shooting in a quiet residential street; it looks like a 'home invasion' gone very wrong. There are several dead bodies but the crime scene just doesn't make sense-until one of the 'dead' victims suddenly escapes and another man is seen running from the house... Once again, as well as juggling her complicated home life, Sarah Burke is faced with a ballistics mystery to find out exactly...
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A young woman's murder leads DCI Neil Paget and his team deep into the shadow's of one family's hidden past-where a killer lies in wait. It would the height of British understatement to say retired surgeon Charles Bromley and his step-daughter Toni Halliday did not have the rosiest of relationships. After all, she did accuse him of botching her father's surgery to marry his rich widow. So it is somewhat understandable that Charles isn't quite stricken...
11) The Bride Box
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Mamur Zapt mysteries volume 17
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The gift of a traditional Bride Box leads Mamur Zapt into a complex and intriuging investigation. Cairo, 1912. The Pasha receives an unexpected gift: a traditional Bride Box. When opened, however, the box contains an unwelcome jolt from the past... At the same time, a little girl is discovered riding under a train from Luxor-and the Mamur Zapt, Head of the Khedive's Secret Police, is called in to investigate. He soon finds himself confronting a political...
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Just back from her honeymoon, the last thing Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy wants deal with on her return to work is nuisance calls from an old lady ringing the police incessantly to report seemingly trivial incidents. The woman in question is Timony Weeks, a sixties' child star in the once-popular soap Butterfield Farm, who lives in an isolated farmhouse. Is she putting on an act and wasting police time, or is someone really trying to frighten...
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The London detective returns to see a criminal kingpin put behind bars-only to discover that his nefarious deeds are from over. Northumberland's usually unflappable Det. Chief Inspector Percy Peach has suddenly found himself on the anxious side. It's not that the bust didn't go as planned. The raid on the sprawling country manor of a drug baron rounded up all the usual suspects. But only hours later, a converted stable on the grounds goes up in flames....
14) Noontime Follies
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Jake Hines mysteries volume 10
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A Minnesota police detective is plunged into corporate intrigue and cutting-edge science when a biochemist is found dead at his desk . . . Rutherford, Minnesota's Property Crimes division has been busy. The town has had fourteen office break-ins in just five days-though nothing seems to have been taken. With GMO foods a growing industry in the area, controversy has been swirling, and threatening notes have been left by an environmental group. But...
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"[A] superior fifth Shaw and Valentine police procedural . . . Long after the pieces of the puzzle fall into place, the mystery of the human psyche remains." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
When a body is discovered beneath the waves off Scolt Head Island, the contents of the dead man's pockets lead Detective Inspector Peter Shaw to suspect an outbreak of "samphire wars": a turf battle for control of the prized sea asparagus which sells for...
16) Least of Evils
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A shooting on an estate puts DCI Percy Peach on the trail of a brutal ganglord…-When a young man is found with gunshot wounds outside the Thorley Grange estate, DCI Percy Peach is immediately on the case. The estate has recently been taken over by Oliver Ketley, a generous local benefactor leading a double life as a ruthless ganglord. Peach quickly sets out to find the connection between him and the injured man, but Ketley faces much bigger problems:...
17) Dead Weight
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DCI Neil Paget and his indefatigable team are stymied by an increasingly murky investigation that may not even be a criminal case. High-flying English Member of Parliament Stephen Lorrimer and his wife Julia are the parents of a bright five-year-old son, Michael, who has severe hearing and speech impediments. Michael is devoted to his caretaker Justine, and when she disappears he is inconsolable. Julia is quick to report to DCI Neil Paget the girl's...
18) Dark Waters
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When Milt Kovak wins a seven-day cruise for four to Puerto Rico, he takes his family-wife Jean and son, Johnny Mac, plus Johnny Mac's best friend, Early Rollins. It's spring break and the ship is running over with children-and they really are running-everywhere. It's complete chaos, but things are about to get even worse when Johnny Mac and Early are caught stealing. By the time the boys confess to who put them up to it, a boy named Joshua (a.k.a....
19) Wrong Turn
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Lucinda Pierce mysteries volume 6
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Homicide investigator Lucinda Pierce's confidence in her own judgment is deeply shaken when she learns that a woman she helped to put away for the murder of her stepdaughter may not be guilty. The girl's remains have been found-along with four other bodies-in the basement of a serial killer. At the same time Lucinda hears that US Representative Chris Phillips, in prison for killing his third wife, is out on bond, awaiting a new trial, and terrorizing...
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A shocking murder in a garden paradise marks the start of a difficult new case for Lambert and Hook. Dennis Cooper is one of the few full-time resident National Trust curators in England and lives with his wife in the grounds of the spectacular Westbourne Gardens, which receives thousands of visitors each year. On the face of things, Dennis lives a perfect life and has a dream job, but this idyllic setting is riven with dark secrets, and it isn't...
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