Tag: crime
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Ironwood
by Michael Connelly Sworn to protect a scenic island meant to be far from the evils of the mainland, Detective Sergeant Stilwell can feel danger closing in. Detective Sergeant Stilwell knows that his posting on Catalina Island is no paradise, but to most residents, it seems blissfully separated-by twenty-two miles of ocean-from the troubles of…
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Deadly Episode
by Anthony Horowitz How do you investigate your own murder…? The good news is that The Word is Murder, the first book in the Hawthorne series, is being turned into a major feature film. The bad news is that the director is pretentious, the two stars hate each other, and the producer has run out of money.…
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Life And Limb
by Sally Smith CHRISTMAS EVE, 1901. Gabriel Ward KC is hard at work on a thorny libel case involving London’s most famous music hall star and its most notorious tabloid newspaper, but the Inner Temple remains as quiet and calm as ever. Quiet, that is, until the mummified hand arrives in the post… While the hand’s recipient,…
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Rocket’s Red Glare
by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann He’s trained to fight America’s enemies overseas.Now the battle has come home. When a presidential candidate is assassinated during a summer retreat on Nantucket Island, the country is thrown into turmoil. Enter Rocket’s Red Glare – a covert unit so classified it doesn’t officially exist. Led by former Special…
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Sacrifice
by Lynda La Plante The thrilling final book in the Sunday Times bestselling Detective Jack Warr series – now available! Detective Jack leads Scotland Yard’s fledgling art fraud unit, its survival hinging on exposing a suspected forgery – a multimillion-dollar masterpiece. When his informant, gallerist Ester Langton, is brutally murdered, Jack’s hunt spirals into obsession. Clues point…
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Hope Rises
by David Baldacci After turning informant for the FBI against a global criminal empire, Walter Nash has lost everything he cherished to its ruthless leader, Victoria Steers. Once gentle and sensitive, Nash’s rigorous training has forged him into a figure of power and precision with a singular mission: to take down Steers. Defeating a mastermind…
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A Twist In The River
by Stig Abell A beautiful summer day When young nurse Claire Davidson goes missing on the riverbank, the only clues left behind are her phone and shoes. A mystery that sweeps the nation People disappear all the time, but this case sparks an online frenzy. Amateur investigators descend on the rural idyll. Is Claire Davidson…
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And The Corpse Wore Tartan
by Stuart MacBride The great and the not-so-good are gathered at Skirivour Castle Hotel, in the heart of the Highlands, for the wedding of the year – but they weren’t expecting Detective Sergeant Roberta Steel to crash their party. And get horribly, horribly drunk. The whole valley’s been cut off by a massive thunderstorm and the phone…
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The Dacre Dilemma
by Rebecca Tope Simmy is four months pregnant, working partly from home and partly from her Windermere florist shop when her husband Christopher asks her to take flowers to Eleanor Padgett. Eleanor has helped him in his auction house, as she is an expert in antique textiles. She lives near the church at Dacre, and…
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A Hymn To Life, Shame has to Change Sides
by Gisele Pelicot One November day, Gisèle Pelicot was called to a local police station and life as she knew it ended. Her husband of fifty years had been caught by a supermarket guard filming up women’s skirts. But on his computer was shattering evidence: for nearly a decade, he had been secretly drugging and…