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The Camel Club Baldacci's instant "New York Times" bestselling thriller is the story of a ragtag group of conspiracy theorists who gather to find the hidden truth behind the actions of the power elite in Washington, D.C. …More
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The Black Echo The very first Harry Bosch novel, winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, is available once more. A body discovered in a drainpipe on Mulholland Drive turns out to be a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought by the side of the maverick LAPD homicide detective. Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of 'Nam while on the hunt for a killer whose true face will shock him. Martin's Press. …More |
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Post-Mortem Now available in a tall Premium Edition, the novel that introduces one of suspense fiction's most compelling heroines--Dr. Kay Scarpetta--from a #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author. Reissue. …More
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The Bone Collector Deaver, Jeffery 1998-03 - Signet Book 9780451188458 Check our catalog
In his most gripping thriller yet, Jeffery Deaver takes readers on a terrifying ride into two ingenious minds--that of a physically-challenged detective and the scheming killer he must stop. The detective was the former head of forensics at the NYPD, but is now a quadriplegic who can only exercise his mind. The killer is a man whose obsession with old New York helps him choose his next victim. Now, with the help of a beautiful young cop, this diabolical killer must be stopped before he can kill again! …More |
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Plum Island DeMille, Nelson 2011-08 - Grand Central Publishing 9781455502622 Check our catalog
Wounded in the line of duty, NYPD homicide detective John Corey convalesces in the Long Island township of Southold, home to farmers, fishermen - and at least one killer. Tom and Judy Gordon, a young, attractive couple Corey knows, have been found on their patio, each with a bullet in the head. The local police chief, Sylvester Maxwell, wants Corey's big-city expertise, but Maxwell gets more than he bargained for. The early signs point to a burglary gone wrong. But because the Gordons were biologists at Plum Island, the offshore animal disease research site rumored to be involved in germ warfare, it isn't long before the media is suggesting that the Gordons stole something very deadly. Suddenly a local double murder becomes a crime with national and worldwide implications …More |
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Final Jeopardy Fairstein, Linda A. 1997-06 - Pocket Books 9780671010126 Check our catalog
Alexandra Cooper, Manhattan's top sex crime prosecutor, awakens one morning to shocking news--a tabloid headline announcing her own brutal murder. But the actual victim was Isabella Lascar, the Hollywood film star who sought refuge at Alex's Martha's Vineyard retreat. Was Isabella targeted by a stalker or was she in the wrong place at the wrong time--mistaken for Alex? …More |
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Alone Gardner, Lisa 2005-12 - Bantam Books 9780553584530 Check our catalog
Alone . . . Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. Just across the street, in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. The man's finger tightens on the trigger and Dodge has only a split second to react . . . and forever pay the consequences. . …More |
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The Surgeon Gerritsen, Tess 2002-07 - Ballantine Books 9780345447845 Check our catalog
In her most masterful novel of medical suspense, "New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen creates a villain of unforgettable evil--and the one woman who can catch him before he kills again. He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping, unaware of the horrors they soon will endure. The precision of the killer's methods suggests he is a deranged man of medicine, propelling the Boston newspapers and the frightened public to name him "The Surgeon." . …More |
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A is for Alibi Grafton, Sue 2005-11 - St. Martin's Press 9780312938994 Check our catalog
A tough-talking former cop, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has set up a modest detective agency in a quiet corner of Santa Teresa, California. A twice-divorced loner with few personal possessions and fewer personal attachments, she's got a soft spot for underdogs and lost causes.That's why she draws desperate clients like Nikki Fife. Eight years ago, she was convicted of killing her philandering husband. Now she's out on parole and needs Kinsey's help to find the real killer. But after all this time, clearing Nikki's bad name won't be easy …More |
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The Face of Deception Johansen, Iris 1999-05 - Bantam Books 9780553578027 Check our catalog
As a forensic sculptor, Eve Duncan helps identify the dead from their skulls. With her own daughter murdered and her body never found, the job is Eve's way of coming to terms with her personal nightmare. But more terror lies ahead when she accepts work from billionaire John Logan. Beneath her gifted hands a face emerges from the skull he has given her to reconstruct -- a face no one was ever meant to see. Now Eve is trapped in a frightening web of murder and deceit. …More |
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The Rabbit Factory: A Lomax & Biggs Mystery Karp, Marshall 2007-03 - MacAdam/Cage Publishing 9781596922174 Check our catalog
Rambunctious Rabbit--Rambo to his fans--is an American icon and a theme park's biggest draw. When the actor inside the Rambo costume and two other theme park employees are murdered, LAPD detectives must catch the madman before he brings the family entertainment giant to its knees. …More |
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Whiskey Sour Cleverly combining humor with suspense, this entertaining debut novel--and the first in a new series--introduces Chicago police Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels, whose train-wreck life is upset even more by the hunt for a serial killer. …More
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The Bourne Identity Ludlum, Robert 2010-01 - Turtleback Books 9781417618101 Check our catalog
Jason Bourne. He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues. A frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face. Strange things that he says in his delirium -- maybe code words. Initial: "J.B." And a number on the film negative that leads to a Swiss bank account, a fortune of four million dollars, and, at last, a name: Jason Bourne. …More |
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The Mermaids Singing McDermid, Val 2002-06 - Minotaur Books 9780312983604 Check our catalog
When the mutilated bodies of four men are found in a small English town, criminal psychologist Tony Hill is enlisted to investigate. Even for a seasoned professional, the series of sex murders is unlike anything he's encountered before. Hill can profile the psychopath, for his own past makes him the perfect man to comprehend the killer's motives--but it also makes him the perfect victim. (June) …More |
| Indemnity Only Paretsky, Sara 1991-06 - Dell Publishing Company 9780440210696 Check our catalog
Meeting an anonymous client late on a sizzling summer night is asking for trouble. But trouble is Chicago private eye V.I. Warshwski's specialty. Her client says he's the prominent banker, John Thayer. Turns out he's not. He says his son's girlfriend, Anita Hill, is missing. Turns out that's not her real name. V.I.'s search turns up someone soon enough -- the real John Thayer's son, and he's dead. Who's V.I.'s client? Why has she been set up and sent out on a wild-goose chase? By the time she's got it figured, things are hotter -- and deadlier -- than Chicago in July. V.I.'s in a desperate race against time. At stake: a young woman's life. …More |
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The Godwulf Manuscript Parker, Robert B. 1992-12 - Dell Publishing Company 9780440129615 Check our catalog
The university is missing an illuminated medieval mansucript. And the private eye is in the dark, finding dead bodies, an underground cult, and one very terrified girl. In this classic first-ever Spenser novel, the Boston P.I. roams from the combat zone to the hallowed halls of academia to unravel a mystery of murder. |
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Along Came a Spider Patterson, James 1995-11 - Warner Books 9780446364195 Check our catalog
Along Came A Spider begins with the double kidnapping of the daughter of a famous Hollywood actress and the young son of the secretary of the treasury. And that's only the beginning! Gary Soneji is a murderous serial kidnapper who wants to commit the crime of the century. Alex Cross is the brilliant homicide detective pitted against him. Jezzie Flanagan is the female supervisor of the Secret Service who completes one of the most unusual suspense triangles in any thriller you have ever read. …More |
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Killer Weekend Pearson, Ridley 2008-07 - Jove Books 9780515144796 Check our catalog
The first in a new series for "New York Times"-bestselling author Pearson, "Killer Weekend" pits rural Sheriff Walt Fleming against threats political and corporeal, as madness erupts in Sun Valley, Idaho, when a local attorney announces her candidacy for president. Now available in a tall Premium Edition. …More |
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Sandstorm Rollins, James 2011-04 - Harper 9780062017581 Check our catalog
An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum, setting off alarms in clandestine organizations around the world. And now the search for answers is leading Lady Kara Kensington; her friend Safia al-Maaz, the gallery's brilliant and beautiful curator; and their guide, the international adventurer Omaha Dunn, into a world they never dreamed existed: a lost city buried beneath the Arabian desert.. …More |
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Rules of Prey Sandford, John 1990-04 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425121634 Check our catalog
Louis "Maddog" Vullion is a young attorney . . . and a murderer. He kills for the sheer contest, playing an elaborate game for which he has written terrifying rules. Police Lt. Lucas Davenport, a brilliant games inventor, is going to have to outmaneuver the killer's clever plan--to beat the mad dog at his own deadly craft. …More |
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The Kill Artist Silva, Daniel 2004-04 - Signet Book 9780451209337 Check our catalog
"[A] heart-stopping, complex yarn of international terrorism and intrigue . . . a thrilling roller-coaster ride, keeping readers guessing until the mind-bending conclusion."--"Publishers Weekly," starred review. …More
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Gorky Park Smith, Martin Cruz 1982-02 - Ballantine Books 9780345298348 Check our catalog
A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI, and New York police as he performs the impossible--and tries to stay alive doing it. …More |
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New York Dead Woods, Stuart 2009-03 - Harper 9780061711862 Check our catalog
Everyone is always telling Stone Barrington that he's too smart to be a cop, but it's pure luck that places him on the streets in the dead of night, just in time to witness the horrifying incident that turns his life inside out. Suddenly he's on the front page of every New York newspaper, and his life is hopelessly entwined in the increasingly shocking life (and perhaps death) of Sasha Nijinsky, the country's hottest and most beautiful television anchorwoman. …More |


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