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Frankie Elkin volume 3
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2024
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"No man truly fears a woman. Not even one who is her father's daughter. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. She had called herself "death," but people called her the devil. Despite the media's chronicling of her tragic circumstances-the childhood spent with a violent father-no one could find sympathy for "the Beautiful Butcher" who had led eighteen men home from bars before viciously...
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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.
The case...
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Chicago PI, Mike Shepherd spots a child silently crying on an otherwise empty mall bench. Mike and his fiancé try to help four-year-old Madison. A surveillance tape reveals one hour earlier a man had kidnapped Madison's mother. Mike must rescue the woman despite dealing with a disgruntled federal officer.
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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.
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Books 4-6 in the Brandon Hall Series...Loose EndsHall is lured into a trap, then rescued by an old acquaintance. That same acquaintance also helps Hall get his next job. It's nothing but a simple blackmail case. Only in this case, there's nothing simple about it.Is anybody actually who they appear to be? And have we seen the last of James Rankin? Or is he the mastermind behind the latest case, once again?The Dead ClientHall's latest case involves...
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Myrna Yates shows up at Benny Cooperman's office asking him to check up on her husband, the contractor Chester Yates, who she believes is having an affair. It seems like an open-and-shut case, until Cooperman finds out that the straying spouse has committed suicide. Something doesn't add up; Mr. Yates bought a 10-speed bicycle just 2 hours before he killed himself. Could this "suicide" in fact be murder? The Jewish detective's got a whole new case...
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Private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham have to hunt down an escapee from a French asylum, in this new, gripping World's End Bureau Victorian mystery from critically-acclaimed author Alys Clare.
London, April 1882. When cool-headed Phyllida visits the World's End Investigation Bureau to offer a curious case concerning her fiance, proprietor Lily Raynor is intrigued - and privately excited. For accepting the case means taking an unexpected...
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He has no badge and no authority, in a county full of corruption, drugs and murder. When Fen Maguire left office as sheriff nine months ago Newman County was clean and safe. But the dead drug dealer found floating down the river says things may be changing… and not for the better. Fire engulfs the dead man's home, and all evidence points to the new sheriff's father. Fen, however, knows there's more to this case than a drug deal gone bad. When he...
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It wasn't Hooker's first recovery wreck from water. At least this was in the sunny summer instead of winter in freezing water and rain. Everything was routine until the officer pulled a skull out of the water.
Someone is killing the street walkers of downtown San Jose. As Hooker investigates, it becomes personal, and dangerous.
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"The Classic Collection of Agatha Christie brings together an enthralling array of mysteries featuring the brilliant detectives Hercule Poirot, Colonel Race, and Superintendent Battle. This extensive compilation includes timeless works such as 'The Mystery of the Blue Train,' 'The Big Four,' 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd,' 'The Secret of Chimneys,' 'The Man in the Brown Suit,' and a host of others, showcasing the unparalleled ingenuity and storytelling...
12) Dead or a Lie
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Private Investigator Henry Walsh thought trouble was done knocking. But when it arrives on his doorstep, he can't ignore the call to chaos...Eager to savor his newfound sense of home, Henry finds solace elusive in the place he once considered a haven. Struggling to keep Walsh Investigations afloat, he yearns for a game-changing client. However, fate deals a different hand when an unwelcome specter from his past, Brock Mason, resurfaces, seeking Henry's...
13) Queens Full
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Three novellas and two short stories starring the ever-ingenious Ellery Queen The amateur theater company of Wrightsville is dying a slow and painful death. Every production is worse than the last, and the backers are about to pull the plug when the director reaches for his ace in the hole: the always-reliable production TheDeath of Don Juan. For the lead, he digs up faded Broadway star Foster Benedict, whose name is enough to sell out the run. But...
14) Murder Quartet
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CD gets some cases in Florida, falls in love with the place and builds a home there.A developer is murdered. A stock broker is murdered. A young boy is murdered. Thereis a druggie execution that wasn't.CD gets to know some of the continuing characters. The lifestyle is different from that in Nicely.
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Inspector Coleman got to know the highways and byways of the Rockhampton Police District because he'd served there for the term of his life as a police inspector. On retirement, he moved to the Serendipity Retirement Village in Brisbane and after a year as an undercover detective in the village, and a romance that wins him a new wife, he is able to fulfil his retirement dream of putting his most interesting cases in a book.
Concerned about his...
16) Deadly Sins
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Lust, pride, and wrath are the deadly sins private investigator Vance Devane must face when his sister-in-law and employer Maura sends her DNA to a genealogy website. She uncovers a secret that threatens to shatter her family. As Vance races to keep the skeletons in the closet, he is forced to reckon with his own past deadly sins.
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Three detectives, CD. Grimes, Nick Storie, and Clint Faraday, retired and living in Panamá on the Comarca Ngobe Bugle, are requested by the chief of the section in Cusapin to find what is going wrong in three parts of the comarca. There are four murders that have no connections they can find – except the victims all came to Panamá on the same private yacht.
Author's note: This is a bit of prediction, in a way. Much of my SF has come true, but...
18) Prussian Blue
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"There's been a murder."… Those four words are bad enough, but when the craftiest of the three mob bosses utters them in the District Detective office, they carry a whole new kind of weight. Olivia Wainwright and Dallas Stowe are always prepared for the unexpected, but this announcement has them wondering what to do with the information given to them, and speculating why Razor would bring it to their attention...and in person. A dead pharmacist,...
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A man determined to kill himself hadn't counted on Sidney Stone stopping him...While still working Arnie Chen's ever evolving statue case, Sidney Stone becomes involved in the life of a stranger when he tries to commit suicide, more than once, right in front of her. The man later insists he would never do that, but he clearly tried to. Something doesn't add up and Sidney is determined to find out what is going on with him. Meanwhile, still on the...
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"This twisty whodunit from Starrett, best known for his writings about Sherlock Holmes, stars an eccentric amateur sleuth." -Publishers Weekly
When a New York banker is discovered dead from an apparent morphine overdose in a Chicago hotel, the circumstances surrounding his untimely end are suspicious to say the least. The dead man had switched rooms the night before with a stranger he met and drank with in the hotel bar. And before that, he'd...
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