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After orchestrating the capture of a man trafficking in children, Acey Tapp and Megan Bork travel to the backwoods of Pennsylvania to visit the haunts of a long-dead serial kidnapper. They search for clues that would allow one of his now aging victims to finally reunite with his family after an absence of seven decades. Only in stirring up the past they appear to have awakened a dormant menace.
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Un muchacho de Calpe cae en un Madrid asolado por los combates entre diversas facciones republicanas en marzo de 1939 y su muerte, como tantas otras, jamás se notifica a la familia, que aguarda durante meses su regreso. Basada en un suceso real, Aquellos días de marzo recoge la búsqueda de ese recluta de 19 años, trasladado desde la retaguardia a la capital para defender el golpe de Casado. A partir de las cartas que envía a sus padres a lo largo...
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Phil Bressler, a semi-retired investigative reporter and his wife, Susan Taylor, are celebrating their wedding anniversary with their friends, Judge Ralph, and Tina Loften. The couples were married in a double ceremony the previous December. Phil and Susan met at the Washington Post and were married and divorced when they were much younger. Tina is Ralph's second wife who is decades younger than Ralph. Phil narrates the mystery.
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Drum confronts a senator to save the life of a drunken old friend When Chester Drum knew him, Jack Morley was a Washington player, just a few promotions away from becoming Secretary of State. A bad divorce and a nervous breakdown later, Morley has hit rock bottom, and works in Paris for the Army ghoul squad, confirming the deaths of World War II soldiers long ago reported missing in action. Morley is content to spend the rest of his life wallowing...
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Clients lying through their teeth, lives on the line, and family misadventures. Just an ordinary day in the life of a professional sleuth. There's nothing private investigator Emmett Naoki wouldn't do for family. So when a distressed woman shows up at his office, desperate to find her twin sister, he can't help feeling for her. Which makes it even worse when he starts suspecting her touching story is nothing but a ruse. If he only knew what she's...
66) Rare Bird
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Arthur McCullough, a part-time detective, is hired by his octogenarian client to investigate the murder of his roommate. It is his adamant contention that the roommate, also an octogenarian named Walter Rupert, was killed during a robbery and that the target of the robbery was a book that had been in Rupert's family for several generations. However, very few people have ever seen the book, it can't be found, and no one seems to know why it is valuable....
67) The Privileged
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Michelle Thorne Johnston, a wealthy and well-known socialite, is found murdered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. There is enough evidence and motive to arrest her husband, Clay. He proclaims his innocence and hires a well-publicized private investigator, Art Decco, to find the real killer. Art dives into the case and quickly uncovers several suspects. As he tries to learn who is telling the truth something else is bothering him. It appears that Clay doesn't...
68) 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...
69) Goofy Foot
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In David Daniel's Goofy Foot, private investigator Alex Rasmussen, embarking on a rather routine search for a missing teenager, finds himself in cold water that couldn't be hotter, as the simple task balloons into a case of murderous surfers and a heart-stopping search for a killer. Kirkus Reviews raves, "The characters are painfully human, the dialogue sharp without being over the top, and the small-town ambience dead-on."
70) 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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"Journey with Hercule Poirot as he confronts a conspiracy unlike any other. Four adversaries. One detective. A puzzle begging to be unraveled."
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Step into the world of Agatha Christie's "The Big Four," where renowned detective Hercule Poirot faces one of his most complex cases. This isn't just a murder to solve; it's a global conspiracy involving powerful players that even Poirot finds formidable.
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72) Diego Killer
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A steamy hot August in San Diego, California. The rotting body of an immigration attorney, Diego Ortiz found with a Mexican stiletto protruding from his chest. Disgraced Jake Smith is back from Arkansas and set up a private investigation service. He has been keeping a low profile, not wanting to confront his old nemesis, SDPD Detective Stephen Lyle. Now fruitless with the death of his only client. Smith has no choice but to insert himself in the...
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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,...
74) Dead All Over
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"Dead All Over" is a riveting crime novel that propels readers into the dark underbelly of 1950s Los Angeles. Cole Dunbar, a private investigator enjoying a rare moment of peace, is abruptly thrown into a complex murder case. After a distressed teenage
75) Innocent?
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Firefighter and devoted husband Matt Kingston is arrested for a gruesome murder. He denies having any guilt even though investigators find his DNA at the murder scene. His public defender, the neophyte lawyer Paula Peters, is assigned to defend him and tries her best to believe in his innocence. But the evidence seems overwhelming against her ever being successful. This story follows the investigation into the murder, who ultimately stands by Kingston's...
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Jacob Lomax mysteries volume 3
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In frigid Denver, Lomax braves the mob to find a bookie's missing daughter Joe Bellano never hurt nobody. A gentle barber who takes bets on the side, he's muddling through life when his world comes crashing down around him. First he's arrested by an overzealous police force hoping for dirt on the local mob. Released after convincing the police that he's strictly small time, Bellano is trying to get back to normal when his teenage daughter vanishes....
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What do a physical therapist and a high-end jewel thief have in common? The same bullet. Two break-ins, a botched jewel heist, and a murder set the stage for a complex set of events that put both the thief and the physical therapist at the wrong end of a rifle.
Third Time's the Charm is a fast-moving murder mystery full of twists and turns. A home invasion results in the murder of a childhood friend of Melinda Stark's son. The perky physical therapist...
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Privatdetektiv Hardy Hacke soll dem schwerreichen US-Unternehmer Owen helfen, seine Tochter Eve zu finden, die in Berlin promoviert. Eve soll bald eine wirtschaftlich wichtige Ehe mit dem Spross einer US-Industriellen-Dynastie eingehen. Doch Eve scheint das libertäre Berlin zu genießen und bleibt verschwunden. Hardy muss bei seiner Suche sowohl in die ihm fremde Welt der Universität eintauchen als auch die Party-Szene der Hauptstadt durchforsten....
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A sadistic KGB colonel hires Drum to locate a dead man Axel Spade would not have liked the way he died. An international fugitive, Spade would have preferred being gored by a bull or gunned down by Interpol to dying quietly in his bed. But a weak heart claimed him in his sleep, and so Chester Drum, Washington PI and the closest thing Spade had to a friend, scatters his ashes in the Atlantic. Drum's old flame, Marianne Baker, is by his side, but...
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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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