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81) Kiss and Kill
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It's a game of cat-and-mouse between PI Steve Conacher and an irresistible man killer making her mark on Madison Avenue. When popular cartoonist Lawrence Lariar decided to moonlight as a mystery writer, creating comic book artist turned amateur sleuth Homer Bull was a natural. From the 1940s through the 1960s, Lariar continued to switch from sketching caricatures to sketchy characters, writing hardboiled crime fiction under his own name as well as...
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Chicago's boating community is a tight-knit group. When a foreign boat suddenly appears in DuSable Harbor, rumors linking it to the Russian Mafia abound.A wealthy woman turns up dead in the Russian's slip. Her brother's body is discovered on the Windy City's seedy south side shortly after he arrives to look into the suspicious tragedy of his sibling's death.A well-seasoned special detective is assigned to connect the dots. His dogged efforts uncovers...
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An Assassin. A High Rise. A Problem.Assassins hide in plain sight.Assassin Grace Zouch believes assassins need a moral code. She never kills innocent people. Grace faces a deadly problem.Grace faces her hardest kill yet.A suspenseful, compelling, stellar crime short story about death, love and enjoying life.BUY NOW!Also available in Mystery Short Story Collection Volume 3.
84) Double Indignity
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In the follow-up to the award-winning Honk Honk, My Darling, NYT best-selling author James Finn Garner (Politically Correct Bedtime Stories) returns to the restless streets of Top Town, a ghetto full of circus has-beens and never-wases, and the stomping grounds of that Sam Spade in Whiteface, Rex Koko.In this thrilling clown noir caper, Rex Koko is asked to bring in a rogue lion and has his expensive shoes chewed up in the process. While trying to...
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Thirteen beautifully wrought tales of crime, passion, and people on the brink of disaster Marybeth met Jamie at the Horn & Whistle, a neighborhood pub warm enough to keep out the chill on a bleak January day. Over a pint of stout, he won her heart with bad jokes and cynical Irish charm. Two years later, she loves him more than ever, but she can see that he's bracing for a fall. When everything collapses, when Jamie's job disappears and the house is...
86) Harbinger
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The Prequel to the Ania Series!Set on the sunny Gulf Coast of Florida, Harbinger centers around two lifelong friends and fishing charter boat partners, Boyd Tomlin and Hicks Ledoux. Boyd is the serious one who always makes sure things get done, and Hicks is the carefree one who always makes sure everyone has a good time.But times aren't so good. They are struggling to get charters, and bills are coming due. In desperate need of money, they consider...
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Still dealing with the events following the death of his love, Malcolm Connally reluctantly takes on a new case at the behest of a former classmate.Holt McCoy is a Nebraska native who made it big as an actor in Hollywood and is looking to launch his own production company with a controversial new film about a fringe religion in the heart of his home state. But when one of his researchers turns up dead while on location, he smells a cover up and asks...
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An ex-musician searches far and wide for a missing maestro, in this mystery by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author. Chris Klick left his life in Los Angeles behind to enjoy the simple life in beautiful Idaho, and all he wants is to spend some time with his new love, Nicole. But money comes knocking and the amateur sleuth heeds the call. Tracking down philandering maestro Stephan Shultz, who's gone MIA, proves to be a steep challenge from the...
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En mi negocio, te encuentras con todo tipo de personas; algunos, llamémoslos civiles, son ordinarios, lo que los políticos llaman "gente común"; luego están los personajes, los tipos peculiares, personas con extraños caprichos: lo que un viejo amigo mío podría llamar "personas que asustan a los caballos". Algunos, llamémoslos "los desesperados", vienen a mí porque se encuentran en una situación, a veces creada por ellos mismos y otras veces......
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Krimi von Pete Hackett
Der Umfang dieses Buchs entspricht 118 Taschenbuchseiten.
Ein einflussreicher Bauunternehmer wird ermordet. Da er in einem Bauskandal verwickelt war, der viele Menschen das Leben kostete, ist die Auswahl an Motiven und Tätern umfangreich. Die FBI-Agenten Tucker und Trevellian müssen mühsam die Verdächtigen befragen, doch dann entwickelt sich eine gefährliche Situation, als der Hauptverdächtige auf seiner Flucht keine...
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When the heir to a comic strip empire is rubbed out, Manhattan private eye Steve Conacher is drawn into a colorful spread of nasty secrets. When popular cartoonist Lawrence Lariar decided to moonlight as a mystery writer, creating comic book artist turned amateur sleuth Homer Bull was a natural. From the 1940s through the 1960s, Lariar continued to switch from sketching caricatures to sketchy characters, writing hardboiled crime fiction under his...
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It's dead heat at the horse track for a thriller writer determined to solve a real-life murder case. Lawrence Lariar was one the most popular cartoonists of the twentieth century. But from the 1940s through the 1960s, he also crafted a line of lean and mean detective and mystery novels under his own name as well as the pseudonyms Michael Stark, Adam Knight, Michael Lawrence, and Marston La France. Lariar now gets his due as a leading artist in hardboiled...
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2018 IPPY Award Winner. 2019 IPPY Award winner for Best Fiction Series.Steve Cannon must enter the world of the professional musician and the seamy drug underworld of 1960's Las Vegas to solve the murder of a famous recluse trumpet player. With most of the celebrity entertainers on the Strip looking over his shoulder, Steve must also contend with a sadistic killer who has resurfaced as a drug kingpin. 'A Song For Desmond' is a fast paced thriller...
94) Count Me Out
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South-east London gangland meets the alternative lifestyle of a travelling fair. Jet Heywood is a fairground boxer past his prime who, after a street brawl, finds himself nursing a head wound. His brother Scott has long wanted out of his dead-end life as a security van driver. When his van disappears with a two million pound payload Jet doesn't know whether Scott was victim or thief. But Scott's old gang knows – and they reckon Jet knows where he...
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With Harris Bishop's daughter needing more treatment for cancer, it falls on Detective Nathan Price to lead the case of the Retirement Killer. Nathan while facing his own demons attempts to track down the killer of elderly members in various retirement homes. The cause of death is all the same, an insulin overdose. Who the murderer is, shocks everyone. On The HuntBook One: On The HuntBook Two: Always WatchingBook Three: Retirement Killer
96) The Day I Died
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A young man with nothing left to lose makes a bargain with death-only to welsh on the bet. Lawrence Lariar was one the most popular cartoonists of the twentieth century. But from the 1940s through the 1960s, he also crafted a line of lean and mean detective and mystery novels under his own name as well as the pseudonyms Michael Stark, Adam Knight, Michael Lawrence, and Marston La France. Lariar now gets his due as a leading artist in hardboiled crime...
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Cuando Florián Falomir descubre el cadáver de una muchacha en una playa de Cádiz, no puede imaginar hasta dónde le conducirá este caso.
La muerte de la chica estará relacionada con una baraja de plata dorada que perteneció a los Borbones. Concretamente, a Carlota de Borbón, primogénita de Carlos IV y hermana de Fernando VII. Dándose la circunstancia de que ese valiosísimo juego de naipes se acaba de subastar en una sala de Nueva York,...
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John J. Malone, defender of the guilty, is notorious for getting his culpable clients off. It's the innocent ones who are problems. Like Holly Inglehart, accused of piercing the black heart of her well-heeled and tyrannical aunt Alexandria with a lovely Florentine paper cutter. No one who knew the old battle-ax liked her, but Holly's prints were found on the murder weapon. Plus, she had a motive: She was about to be disinherited for marrying a common...
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Eddie Griffin, a 23-year-old ex-con, is working to put his life back together. Late one evening he witnesses a local businessman committing a murder. His life is spared, but he will be killed if he talks to the police. Everything he has worked for falls apart as he becomes caught between rival criminal and legal organizations.
100) Mexico Is Forever
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Leo Haggerty put his life on the line to investigate a mysterious woman Her name is Sarabeth Timmons, and she grew up tough. A twelve-year-old runaway, Sarabeth spent her teen years squatting and turning tricks, and her twenties on the road with one of California's roughest motorcycle gangs. Nothing good has ever happened to her-until now. Sarabeth has come forward to claim a $630,000 inheritance. Finally, she tells the court, her life can begin anew....