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Winner of the 1993 PWA/St. Martin's Press Best First Private Eye Novel contest, The Heaven Stone introduces a fresh voice in author David Daniel and a likable new protagonist in Alex Rasmussen, ex-cop turned private investigator, who is drawn into the world Lowell, Massachusetts's, Cambodian refugee community.
The only member of his family to escape the killing fields of Cambodia, Bhuntan Tran wound up in the decaying factory town of Lowell. Working...
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Langdon is hired to find a man who answered a classified ad and then disappeared into thin air. And then a second person vanishes. What starts as a couple of simple missing-person cases quickly spirals into a diabolical world of witches, wiccans, and wendigos. "You ever hear of the Church of Satan?" Jewell asked.There was silence around the fire. The flames danced and flickered, casting shadows in the dark May night. Langdon took the bottle from Richam...
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Una nueva novela de Roberto Sánchez donde nada es lo que parece. En junio de 2018 se localiza un yate varado en aguas internacionales. Está siendo consumido por el fuego. No hay rastro de sus tripulantes, los Vila Monsonís -una conocida pareja de abogados de Fotheringale-, ni del patrón del barco.Desde ese momento, se abren todas las hipótesis sobre qué ha podido ocurrir en alta mar. No hay testigos.El caso genera muchísima expectación mediática...
4) Denial
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Lew Fonesca is a man who does things for people. He makes small problems go away and tries to keep the larger ones from landing his clients in jail. He finds deadbeats, errant spouses, and generally keeps the populace of Sarasota on the up and up.
Now Lew is faced with one case that will try his patience...and another that may break his heart.
The first involves an elderly woman who swears she's witnessed a murder in her old age home despite the...
5) Retribution
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Stuart M. Kaminsky, the veteran author of more than forty novels and the creator of such wonderful characters as Abe Lieberman, Toby Peters, and Inpsector Rostnikov, has created a new PI: Lew Fonesca, a world-weary guy who got in a car and just started driving after his wife died and wound up in front of a Dairy Queen in Sarasota, Florida.
He now makes his way amid bail jumpers and lost wives, people who want to be found and those who will do anything...
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Alexandre Grimbert, détective privé spécialiste des crimes impossibles, est de retour dans cette enquête hivernale !Le plus célèbre des détectives Creusois enquête sur l'assassinat de Pierre Dufresne. Mais comment le suspect le plus crédible, un bonhomme de neige trnant au beau milieu du jardin, a-t-il pu tuer l'agriculteur, en cette matinée enneigée, à quelques jours de Noël ?Un nouveau mystère en apparence insoluble, pour tous les...
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A Private Investigator. A Missing Assistant. A Case To Find Sarah. Evil people kidnap others.Private Investigator Leo Ashley likes their assistant. They like laughing, solving crime and making the world a better place. Leo arrives to find Sarah missing.Leo realises Sarah's life hangs in the balance.A surprising, suspenseful, enthralling mystery short story about friendship, hope and kidnapping.BUY NOW!Also available in Mystery Short Story Collection...
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When Sylvia Wilcox takes a leave of absence from the police force to investigate the untimely death of her husband, another mystery-the murder of several students from the local colleges-grabs her attention. The murder of the young men indicates that a serial killer may be roaming the backwoods of southeastern Michigan. Amid Sylvia's grief and search for answers surrounding the loss of her husband, she finds herself simultaneously involved in a dangerous...
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BETRAYAL REAPS A BITTER HARVEST Private Investigator Dorothy Dennehy is approached by a potential client who tells of a crime not yet committed. She dismisses the rants of a disgraced winery estate partner, preferring to focus on the running of Maxwell's Bar and Grill. Her right-hand investigator, HB, has taken over much of the caseload for Quail Investigations, but before long Dorothy is pulled into a strange kidnapping case and a dysfunctional family...
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¿Quién es el hombre que ha estado acosando y extorsionando a Marta Suárez?Marta ha sufrido un sospechoso accidente de coche. Su amiga de toda la vida, y cómplice, Alicia Valtierra, se embarca de manera obsesiva en intentar descubrir qué ha ocurrido realmente. Para conseguirlo cuenta con muy pocos elementos: una conversación telefónica mantenida con su amiga minutos antes del accidente; el historial de sus últimas citas; y la memoria de lo...
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When William Lorrimer is found dead from a gunshot wound to the head, the inquest has no difficulty in returning a verdict of suicide. Lorrimer had lost the love of his life to another man, and he had written a letter to his former lover explaining why and how she had ruined his life. There could be no doubt that he killed himself.
But when a mysterious stranger arrives in the village of Little Marsham, suspicions of murder soon begin to circulate....
12) Badges
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Having endured a childhood trauma, Sylvia felt compelled to attend the police academy. Nevertheless, upon graduating and becoming a cop, she begins to question her decision. Plagued with feelings of inadequacy and doubt about her career choice, Sylvia takes on cases outside of her assigned duties as a police officer. As she attempted to resolve issues from her past, she found herself embroiled in suspicious activity involving her first love.This tale...
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In a small Maine town, secrets are buried deep along the shore…Summer. 1978. Private investigator Jake Horn is looking forward to a weekend with his daughter, away from the busy streets of Boston. But when they head out for an early morning jog, the last thing they expect is a murder scene on Goose Rocks Beach. Within less than twenty-four hours, the cops arrest the brother of a local restaurateur who owns a popular eatery on the Kennebunk River....
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Lenny Goldstein & his company, Future Stars, evaluate high school and collegiate basketball talent and sell their rankings to colleges and NBA teams respectively. From its humble beginnings in 1975, Future Stars had grown into a behemoth, with fifteen NBA teams and seventy-eight colleges paying subscriptions for his rankings. Lenny is semi-retired these days, with his son and son-in-law running the business until he gets a call from an old buddy in...
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If your daughter went missing, how many years would it take for you to admit she's never coming home?Betsy Blake was only four years old when she vanished outside her family home in Dublin.Her father – wracked with guilt for the past seventeen years – still can't bring himself to admit the search is over, despite the fact his wife has moved on and police have closed off the investigation.When he is informed he must undergo major heart surgery...
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"Lepionka is setting a high standard for crime fiction." -Booklist (starred review) on What You Want to See
The Stories You Tell is Shamus Award-winning and Anthony and Macavity Award-nominated author Kristen Lepionka's heart-pounding third novel that will keep readers on the edge of their seats with her signature twists and mile-high stakes.
A late-night phone call is never good news, especially when you're Roxane Weary. This one is from her...
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Jim Malhaven is a lonely hack reporter stringing along on assignments no one else wants at the local paper until he gets the scoop of his life. There's a mysterious wraith haunting the local cemetery, and it's up to him to get to the bottom of the ghostly goings-on. Along the way, he'll cross paths with a trio of weird sisters, uncover a sinister conspiracy, have more than one brush with death, and meet a gal with honey-blonde hair and a killer smile....
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A series of shots cut through the night, and moments later, Gordon Crane's friend is lying on the ground. Lucas Jones clings to life, and the only thing that matters to Gordon is finding whoever tried to take his life. The mystery of Jones' shooting is tied to a case he was looking into, the murder of a man named Zack Riggs nearly twenty years prior. The more Gordon investigates, the more he becomes convinced that solving the crime from the past will...
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Neal Carey mysteries volume 5
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30th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by the author
Shamus Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Don Winslow combines breathless suspense, zany wit, and whiplash action in his latest novel featuring grad student/private eye Neal Carey. Now Neal is assigned to escort monkeyish octogenarian Natty Silver home from Las Vegas to Palm Springs. Natty, once a burlesque top banana, has a nonstop barrage of corny jokes, an eye for an aging cocktail...
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A fortune in Texas land… and a ruthless killer who wants it. A wealthy rancher's death in a house fire is ruled accidental, but his suspicious son doesn't believe it. After PI Fen Maguire is called in to investigate, he's on the verge of agreeing with the official ruling… until the rancher's body is discovered in a shallow grave along the San Gabriel River. With a prime inheritance at stake, any member of this fractured family could have motives...
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