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Series
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Silas Quinn investigates one of the strangest cases of his career...
London, 1914. Called out to investigate the murder of an employee of the House of Brackley, an upmarket Kensington department store, Silas finds himself investigating one of the most bizarre cases of his career. For the chief murder suspect is a monkey.
One of the store's fashion models has been found dead on her bed, strangled with a red silk scarf. The room...
82) Raylan
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Language
English
Description
After discovering his quarry naked in the bathtub, doped up, and missing his kidneys, federal marshall Raylan Givens becomes involved in a case regarding the harvesting of organs for sale on the black market.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Pregnant Baltimore PI Tess Monaghan probes the disappearance of a chic blonde green-raincoated dog walker she'd been watching from her comfy prison. Tess also takes in the missing woman's abandoned green-slickered Italian greyhound from hell and unravels a complex scam.
84) Quarry's climax
Author
Series
Publisher
Hardcase Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Hard Case Crime edition.
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Memphis, 1975. "Raunchy" doesn't begin to describe Max Climer's magazine, Climax, or his all-hours strip club, or his planned video empire. And evangelists, feminists, and local watchdog groups all want him out of business. But someone wants more than that, and has hired a killer to end Max's career permanently. Only another hit man - the ruthless professional known as Quarry, star of the acclaimed series on Cinemax - can keep Climer from becoming...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"The seductive and relentless figure of Raymond Chandler's detective, Philip Marlowe, is vividly re-imagined in present-day Los Angeles. Here is a city of scheming Malibu actresses, ruthless gang members, virulent inequality, and washed-out police. Acclaimed and award-winning novelist Joe Ide imagines a Marlowe very much of our time: he's a quiet, lonely, and remarkably capable and confident private detective, though he lives beneath the shadow of...
86) Lucky Stiff
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this hard-boiled mystery by the USA Today–bestselling author of Dead Even, a coroner investigates a suspicious house fire.
It's Christmas Day in the sleepy town of Sorenson, Wisconsin, but instead of unwrapping presents, deputy coroner Mattie Winston is at the burnt remains of a house, where a charred body has been found. The victim is none other than Jack Allen—a paraplegic who recently won a huge casino
...87) None the Wiser
Author
Series
Publisher
Saxon Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fast paced with vivid characterisation and clever twists" – Adrian McKinty, The Chain
'Forgive me Father, for I have sinned...'
When a parish priest is brutally murdered in cold blood, a rural community is left in shock – and fear.
New to the Vale of the White Horse, Detective Sergeant Mark Turpin discovers the murder bears the hallmark of a vicious killer who shows no remorse for his victim, and
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Series
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Deputy Sheriff Bruno Johnson must balance his responsibilities as a single father with his new assignment: to help the FBI bring down a gang of teenage criminals led by the Darkman, a killer with a shocking tie to Johnson's past --
89) Charm City
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a practiced reporter until her newspaper went to that great pressroom in the sky, P.I. Tess Monaghan knows and loves every inch of her native Baltimore, even the parts being slobbered on by the sad-sack greyhound she's minding for her uncle. It's a quirky city where baseball reigns, but lately homicide seems to be the second most popular local sport. Business tycoon "Wink" Wynkowski is trying to change all that by bringing pro basketball back to...
91) The off-islander
Author
Series
Andy Roark volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Description
"Boston, 1982. Private investigator Andy Roark has spent the past decade trying to rediscover his place in the world. In Vietnam, there was order and purpose. Everything - no matter how brutal - happened for a reason. Back home, after brief stints in college and with the police force, Roark has settled for a steady, easy routine of divorce and insurance fraud cases. Roark's childhood friend, Danny Sullivan, dragged himself out of blue-collar Southie...
Author
Series
Publisher
Terrace Books, a trade imprint of the University of Wisconsin Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
vii, 245 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Six deaths mar the holiday mood as summer vacationers enjoy Wisconsin's beautiful Door County peninsula. Murders, or bizarre accidents? Newly hired park ranger Dave Cubiak, a former Chicago homicide detective, assumes the worst but refuses to get involved. Grief-stricken and guilt-ridden over the loss of his wife and daughter, he's had enough of death. Forced to confront the past, the morose Cubiak moves beyond his own heartache and starts investigating,...
93) Fear The Night
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Madman's Obsession Is A City's Nightmare
He comes out when the sun goes down. He's made New York City his shooting gallery. The Night Sniper threatens to increase the body count-unless legendary homicide detective Vin Repetto is willing to engage him in a lethal game of cat and mouse. When the next victim is murdered right before Repetto's eyes, the game is set to begin. But The Night Sniper doesn't realize they're playing by Repetto's
...94) Perfect Hatred
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
“A perfect thriller” of crime, corruption, and terror in Brazil (Edgar Award–nominated author Timothy Hallinan).
Chief Inspector Mario Silva and his team have a heavy workload with several high-profile cases. First, a suicide bombing that was apparently the work of a militant Islamist group. Then, the assassination of a gubernatorial candidate in broad daylight at a campaign rally.
Silva...
Chief Inspector Mario Silva and his team have a heavy workload with several high-profile cases. First, a suicide bombing that was apparently the work of a militant Islamist group. Then, the assassination of a gubernatorial candidate in broad daylight at a campaign rally.
Silva...
95) No good deeds
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan-first introduced in the classic Baltimore Blues-becomes involved in a complicated investigation that will force her to question her loyalties. For Tess Monaghan, the unsolved murder of a young federal prosecutor is nothing more than a theoretical problem, one of several cases to be deconstructed in her new gig as a consultant to the local newspaper. But it becomes all...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
298 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
One of the 1990s' rising stars of crime fiction delivers a bold, brilliant tale of mystery, revenge, and survival in the 1980s, when cocaine and money ruled the city streets and even the good guys wanted a piece of the action.
97) Night of reunion
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
©1990
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
At Christmas, a psychotic killer returns to torment a happy family After her release from the hospital, Christine drives straight to Colorado. The heat in her car is busted and her clothes are thin, but Christine doesn't mind the chill. She is going to find Alex, and when she does, she will have vengeance to keep her warm. Years ago, after giving up her son for adoption, this delicate young beauty flew into a fit of jealous madness, killing her child...
Author
Series
Valentino mystery volume 6
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Film detective Valentino is summoned to the estate of Ignacio Bozel to collect a prized donation to the university's movie library: Bleak Street, a film from the classic noir period, thought lost for more than sixty years. Bleak Street was never released. Its star, Van Oliver, a gifted and charismatic actor with alleged ties to the mob, disappeared while the project was in post-production, presumably murdered by gangland rivals: another one of Hollywood's...
99) Fury: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
323 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Frank Corso is a pariah-a journalist once vilified for making up "facts" on a major crime story. Yet slow, sheltered Leanne Samples trusts no one but Corso to tell the world that her courtroom testimony that put Walter Leroy "Trashman" Himes on Death Row was a lie. Convicted of the savage slaying of eight Seattle women, Himes is only six days from execution, unless Frank Corso and outcast photographer Meg Dougherty into a struggle that goes far beyond...
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