T. Jefferson Parker
23) Red light
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Merci Rayborn, the Orange County, California, homicide investigator, and her son are living with her father, a retired cop, and she is dating Mike McNally, a fellow officer. When a young prostitute is found murdered and McNally emerges as the primary suspect, Merci must sift through the facts and balance where the truth leads her against where her heart is telling her to go.
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Terry Naughton, head of Orange County's Crimes Against Youth Unit, is pitted against a brilliantly insane sex offender called Horridus, who kidnaps children from their beds, dresses them as angels, and releases them the next day with a piece of snakeskin tucked into the folds of their gowns. Knowing it is only a matter of time before the madman's crimes escalate, Naughton races to find him while struggling to confront his own dark and violent past....
27) Little Saigon
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[1988]
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354 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Chuck Frye, a sometime journalist and semi-pro surfer, discovers betrayal and a trans-Pacific espionage network in Little Saigon, a teeming refugee community in Orange County, California.
29) Manhattan mayhem
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English
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From Wall Street and Greenwich Village to Chinatown, Harlem and beyond, the streets and skyscrapers of Manhattan are brimming with crimes and misdemeanors.
30) Faceoff
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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An unprecedented collective features pairings by 23 best-selling and critically acclaimed suspense writers, who in short high-action stories pit their most popular characters against one another.
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2014
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English
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Selected by Jeffrey Deaver and Raymond Benson, this is a collection of mystery/thriller short stories from some of today's top writers.
Nuclear brinksmanship, psychological warfare, spies, double agents, femmes fatales, and dead drops...
The Cold War—a terrifying time when nuclear war between the world's two superpowers was an ever-present threat, an all-too-real possibility that could be set off at the touch of a button—provides
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