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Pub. Date
p2011
Description
Lieutenant Sam Holland has no sooner accepted Senator Nick Cappuano's proposal than she's back on the job. A woman has been found brutally murdered and evidence points to Henry Lightfeather, a senator and close friend of Nick's. While Sam investigates, Nick stands by his friend--complicating his own bid for reelection, and causing tension between the couple. As Sam's investigation reveals a scandal that rocks the capital, Nick and Sam discover that...
2322) Going Rogue
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Series
Stephanie Plum volume 29
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Monday mornings aren't supposed to be fun, but they should be predictable. However, on this particular Monday, Stephanie Plum knows that something is amiss when she turns up for work at Vinnie's Bail Bonds to find that longtime office manager Connie Rosolli, who is as reliable as the tides in Atlantic City, hasn't shown up. Stephanie's worst fears are confirmed when she gets a call from Connie's abductor. He says he will only release her in exchange...
2324) Aumenta el calor
Author
Series
Punto de lectura volume 485/3
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"Por fin la tercera novela de Richard Castle, con una Nikki Heat sexy, intrépida y en graves problemas. . . Solo James Rook podrá ayudarla y hacer que el calor aumente. El insólito asesinato de un sacerdote en un club sadomasoquista neoyorquino abre el caso más apasionante y peligroso de Nikki Heat hasta el momento, en el que tendrá que hacer frente al narcotraficante más corrupto de Nueva York, a un arrogante asesor externo de la C.I.A. y a...
2325) Treachery in death (#32)
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Series
Pub. Date
[2011], p2010
Description
Eve Dallas and her partner, Peabody, are following up on a brutal, senseless crime--an elderly grocery owner killed by three stoned punks for nothing more than kicks and snacks. And for the first time, Peabody is primary detective on the case, which means she has to get used to a new level of authority and responsibility. Good thing she learned the ropes from a master like Eve. But after rounding up the perps, Peabody stumbles upon a much trickier...
2326) Matador: Volume 1
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Dismissed as a quota minority hire by her work peers, Cuban-born and Florida-bred Detective Isabel Cardona makes no friends on the Miami force by insisting that a series of seemingly unrelated murder cases lead to an urban-legend killer known only as "The Matador." Proving his existence soon becomes her only way to prove her sanity — but how close to the dangerous Matador will Cardona have to get to make that happen?
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Series
Women's Murder Club volume 21
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
As SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer prepares to celebrate her daughter's birthday, she learns of a theory that connects the dots on a constellation of killings. Soon, there won't be a woman in California who's safe.
Detective Lindsay Boxer vows to protect a young woman from a serial killer long enough to see her twenty-first birthday.When a distraught mother pleads with San Francisco Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas to investigate the disappearance of...
2328) Chaos in death
Author
Series
In death novel volume 33.5
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
New York, 2060. A psychotic killer roams the city with a satchel of scalpels, fresh off a triple kill. A mysterious drug pumps through his veins, making him dance in the streetlight and twirl his cape like Jack the Ripper. Eve Dallas is the tough Lieutenant hot on his trail, but this is unlike any case take she's ever been assigned - or any killer she's ever pursued. A police sketch based on eye-witness testimony reveals the killer has green skin,...
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
"G" is for gumshoe : Kinsey Millhone's thrity-third birthday brings about final renovations to her apartment, a new ase, and the top slot on Tyrone Patty's hit list. Obviously, it would turn out to be a birthday to remember. "H" is for homicide : To the cops, the death of claims adjuster Parnell Perkins looked like a robbery gone sour ; to Kinsey Millhone, it looks strangely suspicious. As the evidence leads Kinsey to insurance scammer Bibianna...
2330) Heat wave
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Tough and sexy New York police detective Nikki Heat leads the investigation into the death of a New York real estate tycoon who plunged to his death on a Manhattan sidewalk. She's hit with an unexpected challenge when the commissioner assigns superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook to ride along with her to research an article on New York's Finest.
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Pub. Date
1986.
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Description
In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in the family estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward is casting his own...
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Series
Faith Fairchild mystery volume 24
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Full of delectable recipes, brooding atmosphere, and biting wit, this chilling New England whodunit finds Faith catering a party to prevent its host from being murdered.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"In the first story, join Nancy, along with Bess and George, as they search for missing student filmmakers and discover the deadly secret behind the local urban legend known as 'The Demon of River Heights.' Then, It's double trouble for Nancy and her friends, when an ancient artifact and a little boy are both suddenly missing. The artifact is a piece of an old stone marker that may prove that the Chinese were in America eighty years before Columbus....
2334) Goldie Vance: Volume two
Author
Series
Goldie Vance volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Move over Nancy, Harriet, & Veronica. There's a new sleuth on the block! Sixteen-year-old Marigold "Goldie" Vance lives at a Florida resort with her dad, who manages the place. Goldie has an insatiable curiosity, which explains her dream to one day become the hotel's in-house detective. For now, she has to settle for helping out the current hotel detective, Walter. When a mysterious astronaut washes up on the beach, Goldie and her best friend Cheryl...
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Series
Dublin Murder Squad volume 6
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Description
"Being on the Murder Squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be. Her partner, Stephen Moran, is the only person who seems glad she's there. The rest of her working life is a stream of thankless cases, vicious pranks, and harassment. Antoinette is savagely tough, but she's getting close to the breaking point. Their new case looks like yet another by-the-numbers lovers' quarrel gone bad. Aislinn Murray is blond, pretty, groomed...
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
The color of rain: When Gina loses her husband on Christmas Day, she soon finds a kindred spirit in another parent at her kids' school, Michael, who loses his wife at the same time. As they help each other and their children though grief, they grow closer and fall in love. However, family and friends cause them to question whether being together is a good idea. Based on a true story.
The dancing detective: Detective Constance Bailey, a no-nonsense...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"When Special Agent Angela Hernandez follows the trail of a savage murder to a small town in Rhode Island, she discovers the town has many secrets. Including that most of the residents, as well as her partner, Officer Shawn Cutler, are werewolves. Convinced that one of the townspeople couldn't commit violence against a human, Cutler assists Hernandez, torn between duty to his shield and to his hometown. But as the investigation goes deeper, corruption...
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Series
Alice Nestleton mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Traveling to Atlantic City for a gig, actress Alice Nestleton is surprised by the appearance of a cat at her sixteenth-floor hotel window, and her subsequent search for its owner brings her to the scene of a murder.