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"After twenty-four years as sheriff of Wyoming's Absaroka County, Walt Longmire's hopes of finishing out his tenure in peace are dashed when Cody Pritchard is found dead near the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Two years earlier, Cody has been one of four high school boys given suspended sentences for raping a local Cheyenne girl. Somebody, it would seem, is seeking vengeance, and Longmire might be the only thing standing between the three remaining...
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Called to investigate when a dead Vietnamese girl is found along a Wyoming highway, Longmire and deputies have little to go on. Near the crime scene, however, Longmire discovers Virgil White Buffalo, a homeless Indian and Vietnam vet who happens to have the girl's purse. Longmire retrieves a photograph from the purse-- a photo that reminds him of his first investigation as a Marine detective in Vietnam. Longmire is sure that the two crimes-- separated...
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"Private investigator Michael Kelly, the Windy City's answer to Philip Marlowe, is back in an-other page-turner that revives a tantalizing mystery buried in Chicago's past. When Kelly is hired by an old girlfriend to tail her abusive husband, he expects trouble of a domestic rather than a historical nature. Life, however, is not so simple. The trail leads Kelly to an old house on Chicago's North Side. Inside it, he finds a body, and perhaps the answer...
6) Good people
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A family, and the security to enjoy it: that's all Tom and Anna Reed ever wanted. But years of infertility treatments, including four failed attempts at in-vitro fertilization, have left them with neither. The emotional and financial costs are straining their marriage and endangering their dreams. So when their downstairs tenant--a recluse whose promptly delivered cashier's checks were barely keeping them afloat--dies in his sleep, the $400,000 they...
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An international group of young archaeology students is working on a dig on the island of Gotland, uncovering a Viking fortification dating back over a millennium. They are a fun-loving lot, but the good vibe turns to horror when one of them, twenty-one-year-old Martina Flochten, disappears. Her body is found a short while later, naked, bled out, and hanging from a tree. And her injuries indicate that she is the victim of a ritual killing. Inspector...
8) The likeness
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Six months after the events of In the Woods, Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to recover. She's transferred out of the murder squad and started a relationship with Detective Sam O'Neill, but she's too badly shaken to make a commitment to him or to her career. Then Sam calls her to the scene of his new case: a young woman found stabbed to death in a small town outside Dublin. The dead girl's ID says her name is Lexie Madison-- the identity Cassie...
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Quirke, an irascible, hard-drinking Dublin pathologist, investigates the apparent suicide of Deidre Hunt, the beautiful young wife of an old acquaintance, and discovers many things that might better have remained hidden, as well as grave danger to those he loves.--From publisher description.
10) Sweetheart
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Gretchen Lowell, the world's most beautiful serial killer, has escaped from prison in Chelsea Cain's next unpredictable, edge-of-your-seat thriller, Sweetheart.
With Heartsick, Chelsea Cain took the crime world by storm, introducing two of the most compelling characters in decades: serial killer Gretchen Lowell and her obsessed pursuer Portland Detective Archie Sheridan. The book spent four weeks on the New York Times
11) Unknown means
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In Elizabeth Becka’s latest highly suspenseful novel, forensic scientist Evelyn James returns to investigate a harrowing series of crimes–only to find that no one is safe.
Evelyn James is a forensic specialist in the Cleveland Medical Examiner’s office who’s juggling a demanding workload, a teenage daughter from a failed marriage, and a homicide detective boyfriend. And somehow she always happens to be involved in...
Evelyn James is a forensic specialist in the Cleveland Medical Examiner’s office who’s juggling a demanding workload, a teenage daughter from a failed marriage, and a homicide detective boyfriend. And somehow she always happens to be involved in...
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Shortly after moving into Dublin from his childhood home on the outskirts, PI Ed Loy is approached by Anne Fogarty, a woman whose father was killed fifteen years ago. She thinks the police nabbed the wrong person, and now she wants Loy to find the truth. Topping the list of suspects are three men Anne's father, a revenue inspector, was preparing claims against for criminal activity. One of them is George Halligan, Loy's underworld nemesis.
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577 pages ; 23 cm.
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Portland, Maine, homicide detective Joe Burgess needs a vacation. He's burned out. It's summer. The city is steaming, and the bad guys are explosive. But there's a dead child in a city park and, although Burgess hates cases involving children, he's got no choice. Little Timmy Watts, who was viciously stabbed, lived in a crowded, filthy house where no one can say when he was last seen. But there are too many people who saw and heard nothing, and Joe's...
16) Bloodroot
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Kevin Curran wants to unite his family, but he's ready to give up on his younger brother, Danny, three years lost to heroin addiction and hard living on the streets of New York. When Danny shows up on Kevin's doorstep, looking clean, fit, and prosperous, Kevin can't help being overjoyed that his brother has escaped his past life. But at what price? Not even Kevin's worst nightmares could prepare him for the horrors he'll discover about his brother's...
17) The dark horse
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Wade Barsad, a man with a dubious past, locked his wife Mary's horses in their barn and then burned it down. In return she shot him in the head six times - or so the story goes. Sheriff Walt Longmire doesn't believe that Mary's confession is the truth, and he's determined to dig deeper. Posing as an insurance claim investigator, Walt goes undercover and soon discovers that the population of an entire town might have wanted Wade dead.
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Early's Fall is the story of Kansas Sheriff James Early, a 1940s lawman working to solve the heinous murder of a schoolteacher while pursuing a bank robber who delights in tormenting Early and eluding him in unconventional ways. It is also the story of a man whose life outside the job is coming apart as his wife, pregnant with their first child, sinks into a mental illness only vaguely understood by the doctors of the era.
19) Evil at heart
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Portland detective Archie Sheridan hunted Gretchen Lowell for a decade, and after his last ploy to catch her went spectacularly wrong, remains hospitalized months later. When they last spoke, they entered a detente of sorts---Archie agreed not to kill himself if she agreed not to kill anyone else. But when a new body is found accompanied by Gretchen's trademark heart, all bets are off and Archie is forced back into action. Has the Beauty Killer returned...
20) Gallows Lane
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Named for the road down which condemned criminals were once led, Gallows Lane follows Inspector Devlin as he investigates a series of murders in the Irish borderlands. As summer temperatures rise, the murders grow stranger and more brutal, and Devlin realizes that this case is more complex, and more sinister, than he ever imagined. Torn between his young family and his job, Devlin is determined to stop the murderers before they strike again.
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