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A New York detective is recovering from a bomb blast and uncovering a semiprivate doom. Just ask Detective Shelly Lowenkopf, who passed on to the other side-at least for a moment or two. It all began with a mob boss who was taking tennis lessons. His new stepson wanted in on the rackets, while his real son was on the lam-until an explosion took him and Lowenkopf out of the picture. The question is: How far out of the picture? While Lowenkopf began...
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Searching for a missing society matron, Hastings finds danger amid the upper crust In a glamorous part of San Francisco, a maid has been strangled to death. Frank Hastings stands over the body, knowing it will be a long day. But before finishing with the crime scene, he gets another call-an officer has been shot, and Hastings must lead the tactical squad. By lunchtime, the boy who shot the officer is dead, and Hastings is hungry for an easy assignment....
83) Tic-tac
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La hija del empresario Federico Valdeserte, uno de los personajes más ricos y poderosos del país, es brutalmente atropellada por un delincuente en el intento de fuga de un robo. Son muchos los responsables de la tragedia que se desata a continuación.
Un plan de venganza. Una trama electrizante. Un final inesperado.
El reloj comenzó a funcionar.
¿Podrá detenerlo la inspectora Eugenia Dramonde?
TIC-TAC.
84) Time Release
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Pittsburgh, 1986: The city is gripped in a panic as a maniac slips poison onto pharmacy shelves. All of the evidence has pointed to Ron Corbett, but shoddy policework let Corbett off the hook, left the crime unsolved.
Ten years later, it's happening again. This time, for the most personal of reasons, Detective Downing has made it his mission to see Corbett behind bars. He enlists the help of Jim Christensen, a psychologist who specializes in memory,...
85) Doctor, Lawyer
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Hastings chases a serial killer whose deranged letters hold a city for ransom The doctor comes through his front door as he always does, a bundle of mail in hand. He's about to walk up the stairs when the bullet passes through his back, puncturing his heart and leaving him dead in his front hall. By the time Lieutenant Frank Hastings arrives, rigor mortis has set in, and the doctor's body rolls easily away from the wall. Pinned beneath him is a note...
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To escape jail, a pusher takes out a contract on everyone in Bolt's department. The Delgado cocaine operation is more than a business. It's an empire, supplied by a direct line to the coca plants of South America. Delgado's soldiers are not common hoods, but a cadre of teenage boys chosen for their loyalty, and beauty. But now one of his lovers has failed him, allowing crack narcotics agent John Bolt to build a case against the kingpin. Delgado will...
87) Hiding Place
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Investigating a grisly murder in the park, Lieutenant Hastings finds that the victim had some secrets of her own San Francisco's first murder of the year takes more than two weeks to come, but when it does, it's ugly. June Towers is seventeen, a high school senior just six months from graduation, when the police find her dead in the park. She's lovely, in the patchwork jeans and rainbow palette favored by the city's youth, but her hair is matted with...
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Gloucestershire is suffering through a brutal heatwave, but things are getting even stickier for Superintendent John Lambert and Det. Sergeant Bert Hook. The body of lovely young university student, Clare Mills, has been found strangled, and floating quietly along the Severn River. Unfortunately, not a soul who knew her is particularly grief stricken-or forthcoming. Not her mentor, or the postgrad student with the unrequited crush, or her dearest...
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What would you do if you woke up in a strange room, strapped to a bed? This is exactly the predicament Daniel Rose finds himself in. He is soon introduced to A Beautiful, intimidating woman who calls herself the Queen Bee, and refers to Danny as one of her workers. But what exactly does that mean and what does she want with him? Meanwhile, Detective Constable Nasreen Maqsood gets assigned to Danny's missing persons case, and not only does she want...
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Swan Song for an Agent A band hits the big time. They become hugely successful and tour. It is taking too much out of them, so they decide to break up.Then their agent is found with her throat cut. Nick Storie investigates.Sing a Song of MurderA band becomes successful on the strength of the front man. Things are looking up!Then the man's girlfriends start getting murdered.Final TourA singer is very popular and making millions. Then there are attempts...
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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 mother says that Eddie had a girlfriend, while his...
92) False Front
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A woman is hanging from a balcony in a perfectly composed suicide scene. But her husband doesn't buy it . . . and wants Lucinda Pierce to find the killer. Candace Eagleton is dead and although it appears to be a suicide Homicide Lieutenant Lucinda Pierce is convinced it's murder and is determined to find the killer. Meanwhile, Charles Rowland gives FBI agent-and Lucinda's boyfriend-Jack Lovett vague details linking another murder to someone at the...
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A short novel about falling in love while your show is falling apart. For Tanith Salazar, 'procedural' meant all the ten thousand details she was managing during the last week of rehearsals for her new musical. For Detective Ysidro Palacio, it meant trying to catch a killer. Sid walks into the Million Dollar Theater to tell Tanith one of her cast members is dead, then to interview everyone there. By the end of the night, he understands 'the show must...
94) Flesh Wounds
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Praised for their riveting, ingenious plot twists, John Lawton's series of espionage thrillers featuring Chief Inspector Frederick Troy of Scotland Yard have an uncanny ability to place readers in the thick of history. Now in Flesh Wounds, an old flame has returned to Troy's life: Kitty Stilton, wife of an American presidential hopeful. Private eye Joey Rork has been hired to make sure Kitty's amorous liaisons with a rat pack crooner don't ruin her...
95) Hire a Hangman
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A surgeon is gunned down in the street-but who is the woman who wanted him dead? Brice Hanchett is a brilliant surgeon, and those who work alongside the man consider him either godlike or devilish. After years of success, he has begun to believe his own legend, and soon goes too far-toying not just with life and death, but with the heart of every woman he meets. He has a wife and a mistress, as well as the attention of all the nurses in the hospital....
96) Follow the Leads
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After a dream honeymoon, Carly and Thorne return home to Lillington, North Carolina, a small town where everyday lives play out amidst a backdrop of hope, beliefs, prejudices, and love.When a neighbor's disturbing report leads to the discovery of a dead body, Police Chief Lolo turns to Thorne to help investigate. As Thorne follows the twisted trails of truth and mistaken identities, he uncovers shocking secrets.Meanwhile, young divorcée Jennifer...
97) The Third Figure
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A mob boss is dead, and his widow wants Drake to help him rest in peace Dominic Vennezio is found on the floor of his beachside love nest, murdered on a Sunday night. It looks like an ordinary mob hit, part of a routine power struggle with the East Coast Outfit, but Vennezio's widow has other suspicions. Her marriage to the kingpin had been strained ever since he began taking his secretary for weekends at the beach house, but even now, she feels a...
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Cured to death. The posh, idyllic Care Clinic promises to cure such twentieth-century afflictions as eating disorders, substance abuse, and low self-esteem. But when Shelly Lowenkopf and Homer Greeley - two former detectives from the Bronx - begin to investigate the whereabouts of one of the clinic's most loyal patients, they're in for some shocking treatment. A maniacal director browbeats patients and staff alike. A beautiful blonde picnics with...
99) Stolen Sunshine
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This story begins at the end of a young woman's life. Her murderer lifts her unconscious body from the bottom of an aluminum boat and carries her to the edge of Lake Pontchartrain. He lays her in the reeds, wipes tears from his eyes, sings her a lullaby, and slits both of her wrists. Across town, Officer Reese Hawking is on patrol, working crowd control in the New Orleans French Quarter where a woman has been found stabbed to death in an alley. Reese...
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En las sombras de los oscuros finales de los años 90, Julio César Chorent, un investigador privado de mirada aguda y alma marcada, es llamado a la acción en su oficina de Bahía Blanca. La misteriosa visita proviene de una joven mujer, desesperada por encontrar a un ser querido perdido en el tiempo.
A medida que Chorent se adentra en la investigación, se ve obligado a enfrentarse a una galería de personajes turbios y de dudosa reputación. En...
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