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2) Two for one
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"Set in Los Angeles, an hallucination of Sherlock Holmes helps hardboiled PI Jack Watson solve a perplexing case in this unique take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective"--
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Frank Quinn novels volume 8
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Frank Quinn is a decorated ex-cop. A former homicide detective specialising in tracking serial killers. Now his niece, Carlie Hobbs, needs help. Someone is stalking her, and the NYPD can't stop him. A blonde, blue-eyed beauty, Carlie fits the victim type of the killer who's been terrorizing women, leaving them bound, gagged, and tortured with surgical precision. To win against the most personal adversary of his career, Quinn will have to set the perfect...
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Lady Trent's sleuthing skills are put to the test in a Victorian mystery about mischief, murder, and a lost heir.
With the aid of her partner Dylan Tremayne, Lady Serafina Trent aims to help her neighbors-the Haydens-determine who the true heir is to their sizable estate. After some investigating, she shocks the Haydens when she reveals that the child they believed had died at birth is actually alive and living as a criminal in London's worst slum.
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A Nick Ryan novel volume 1
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"Every cop in the city knows his name, but no one says it out loud. In fact, they don't talk about him at all. He doesn't wear a uniform, but he is the most powerful cop in New York. Nick Ryan can find a criminal who's vanished. Or he can make a key witness disappear. He has cars, safe houses, money, and weapons hidden all over the city. He's the mayor's private cop, the fixer, the first call when the men and women who protect and serve are in trouble...
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Retired cop Edward X. Delaney takes on a female serial killer in this spine-tingling masterwork of suspense by New York Times bestselling author Lawrence Sanders. By day, she's a middle-aged secretary no one would look at twice. But by night, dressed in a midnight-black wig, a skin-tight dress, and spike heels, she's hard to miss. Inside her leather shoulder bag are keys, cash, mace, and a Swiss Army knife. She prowls smoky hotel bars for prey. The...
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Nick Harding is an idealistic Private Investigator, trying to eke out a living after a spectacularly boring career in Financial Crimes with the Australian Federal Police.
The very recent widow of the billionaire founder of Dvorak Kars - Australia's first and only EV manufacturer - hires him to root out the fraud costing what is now her company upwards of $5 million a month over the past year.
Nick reluctantly takes the case - we all have bills to...
9) Hunting Fitz
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A vengeful defendant in a domestic violence case has put Fitz's PI license on the line. When the one witness who can back up Fitz's side of the story doesn't show at his hearing, his license is temporarily suspended.Financially strapped, Fitz turns to bounty hunting and discovers a mysterious network dedicated to helping domestic violence victims disappear.Is his witness within that network now or is she, as Fitz fears, already dead?This is the eighth...
10) Grave Doubt
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Lomax chases an accountant who has come back from the dead to blackmail his widow The plane went down outside Tucson, and all aboard were burned beyond recognition. The sole passenger was Martin Blyleven, an accountant employed by a Colorado televangelist with shady business partners, but the death was ruled an accident, and $400,000 in insurance money went to the widow. Four years later, she begins getting phone calls from a man claiming to be Martin....
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For the sake of a distant cousin, Mitch Tobin takes on an impossible case On the outskirts of Greenwich Village, among a wasteland of warehouses and tenements, a group of young people are opening a coffee shop. They are idealistic, giddy, and beautiful-the picture of 1960s youth-but their optimism cannot last. When a corrupt detective comes around demanding regular bribes, one of the young hippies, Robin Kennely, asks for help from a distant relative,...
12) Dead Game
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Framed for murder, NYPD detective Ben Tolliver confronts a brilliant serial killer. Razek gets into Jan's apartment by pretending to deliver flowers. Once she opens the door, the game is already over. He pushes his way in, pistol in hand, and tells her that he has not come to rape her; he just wants to make love. At gunpoint, she makes drinks, puts on music, and finally disrobes as Razek fights to ignore the voice in his head that tells him to kill...
13) Playing God
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What happens when the itch to disappear and start over as someone else becomes impossible to resist?
Hired by the missing man's panic-stricken family, seasoned Private Investigator Tony Brady discovers that taking the case is personal for him. His 8-year-old son disappeared long ago from the streets of San Francisco in a case the police could never solve, and his lifelong obsession is to spare others the crushing uncertainty that shattered the...
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First in a new series by bestselling author J.R. Ripley! Jane Bright is a college-educated news reporter with loads of talent and determination. But she's stuck writing a gardening and southern living column for a local South Florida paper. Jane wants more. Lots more. James Stewart, on the other hand, hasn't been able to figure out what to do with his life. He's a law school dropout. And this whole struggling musician thing has proven to be too much...
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An old-timer visits New York City for a team reunion, but someone takes him out at the ballgame in this sharp-witted PI mystery.
Widowed ex-cop and PI Paul Finley still sticks close to his father-in-law-a bond rooted more in shared grief than shared affection-and one of Joe's biggest passions is the annual Brooklyn Dodgers Banquet, where he gets to hang out with the aging heroes of Ebbets Field. But this year, a onetime scrub for the Dodgers is...
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The North County flower fields are a full rainbow of colors, set majestically on the hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The only factor spoiling the perfect postcard setting was the murder of Charles Westway. Why was he beat to death with a hardwood Louisville Slugger, when the second body found, a sheriff's deputy, was shot? The beloved local news anchor's darkest secrets unfolded. The mystery expanded from San Diego to the streets of Hollywood...
17) Shepherd's Pie
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Detective Mike Shepherd chases sadistic Ferlin Husky Lewis, a self-proclaimed survivalist, who escaped from police. Shepherd ruins his only suit, misses an important dinner date, and loses Lewis.Ferlin, so incensed by Mike chasing him, decides to murder Mike and anyone who gets in the way.
18) Silent Witness
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To unlock the secrets of a homicide, Bernhardt must connect with a terrified child Dennis tells the police he was sleeping when his wife was killed. Connie stumbled upon a prowler, he says, and paid for the mistake with her life. The police believe his story, but this cold man's crocodile tears cannot convince Connie's sister, Janice. She suspects her brother-in-law of a heinous crime, and it will take an unusual investigator to prove her right. Alan...
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By the English seaside, two literary legends team up to find a young lady who has disappeared Once a playground for the British nobility, by the mid-1880s Brighton has become a haven for middle-class vacationers. Shabbier than it was, and darker around the edges, it is nonetheless a fitting place for a young doctor's honeymoon. But no sooner has Arthur Conan Doyle stepped off the train than he encounters a mystery. A teenage girl has vanished from...
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After a divorce and the trauma of 9/11, Bobby Bocchini works as a private investigator, mostly dealing with infidelity and fraud cases. He used to be an NYPD detective, but he suffered serious injuries while saving lives on that fateful day, which affected his mobility and his career. His old boss, Sal Mancuso, asks him to investigate an unsolved case from seven years ago, involving a young ballet student who vanished after her class.
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