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An old friend is murdered, and Hastings will do anything he can to avenge her When Frank Hastings knew Meredith Powell, she was a gawky ten-year-old without a care in the world. More than two decades later, she has grown into a stunning beauty-but the gleam in her eye is gone. Over lunch, Meredith confesses that she lives in terror of her emotionally abusive boyfriend, a possessive, rage-filled man named Charles. Hastings, a homicide lieutenant with...
22) Death on Display
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An archaeologist and physician recreate an Egyptian mummy using a modern cadaver and ancient embalming methods. Then they put the finished mummy on display at an international conference reception...what could possibly go wrong?
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Racist cops, bent lawyers and broken romances confront Ben Shipman in this gripping, hard edged mystery from the author of 'Bone and Cane'. A violent attack on an alternative bookshop leads to an incendiary situation on the streets of Nottingham, where young police officers confront prejudices of every kind. With a new afterword by the author describing the events that this story was based on.'David Belbin is one of the finest crime writers around...
24) Hiding Place
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Investigating a grisly murder in the park, Lieutenant Hastings finds that the victim had some secrets of her own San Francisco's first murder of the year takes more than two weeks to come, but when it does, it's ugly. June Towers is seventeen, a high school senior just six months from graduation, when the police find her dead in the park. She's lovely, in the patchwork jeans and rainbow palette favored by the city's youth, but her hair is matted with...
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Memphis Police Lieutenant Julia Todd returns in the fourth installment of James Paavola's Murder In Memphis series. Two bodies are discovered within a mile of one another, one a teenage prostitute, the other an investment counselor. Julia's investigations lead her in two directions: Mexican cartels and Ponzi Schemes. The two inquiries intersect at a common theme--the multi-billion dollar business of money laundering, a business that perpetuates global...
26) The Cyclist
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This is a short story with a twist is about a police chief who while trying to catch a serial killer becomes involved in a conflict between cyclists and motorists.
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Jason Franco is an aspiring writer stuck in a dead end job working for a newspaper in a small Wyoming town where nothing exciting happens. He would like to write the next great American novel but lacks any real experiences worthy of writing about. That is until someone rapes and murders a young woman only eighteen years old. All evidence points to the woman's boyfriend, Paulo McAdams, who quickly confesses to the crime. Jason is assigned to write...
28) Jane Doe
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Jane Doe woke up in the woods, naked, her hands tied, with no memory of who she was or how she got there. Special Agent James Anderson of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension knew this was not going to be an ordinary case.The case was hard enough. Then it got worse: another woman disappears from the town where Jane was found. Then it began to appear that the solution to the mystery of
29) Doctor, Lawyer
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Hastings chases a serial killer whose deranged letters hold a city for ransom The doctor comes through his front door as he always does, a bundle of mail in hand. He's about to walk up the stairs when the bullet passes through his back, puncturing his heart and leaving him dead in his front hall. By the time Lieutenant Frank Hastings arrives, rigor mortis has set in, and the doctor's body rolls easily away from the wall. Pinned beneath him is a note...
30) Action-Reaction
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Archer Meade, a seasoned detective who continues to idealize his ex-partner and mentor discovers crime fighting hasn't changed much over the years. But the technological developments have left him an old school cop solving a series of abductions that lead to discoveries of political corruption, dysfunctional families and intriguing learning experiences.
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It's 1994 and somebody is killing and robbing drug dealers in The Big Easy. When DEA agent Richard "Doc" Holliday is called out to a marsh outside of New Orleans to the scene of a shootout where two local cocaine dealers have been murdered, he has no idea of what he is about to step into. For these are no ordinary murders and no ordinary suspects. Holliday soon finds himself juggling two important investigations, supervisor problems, and a failing...
32) The Graving Dock
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A floating coffin draws Brooklyn homicide detective Jack Leightner into a murder investigation in hidden parts of New York Harbor and the old Brooklyn Navy Yard in this second novel in Edgar Award nominee Gabriel Cohen's acclaimed crime series At a bed and breakfast in upstate New York, Brooklyn homicide detective Jack Leightner is doing his best to propose to his girlfriend. When the hotel staff loses the engagement ring, romance is put on hold and...
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An idea shouted has to be heard to mean something, "Ladies and gentlemen may I have your attention..." Billings Montana is about to become the center of a certain kind of revolution. Tin Universe Monthly #16 brings you the start of a hero. The story of a symbol and an call that will shape a city with triumph and tragedy.
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There is a serial arsonist at large, going by the name of Phoenix. First Clare Coppola's old school is hit and then Hyson Green library. What will be the next target? Clare is determined to find Phoenix, but it is hard to track down someone with no apparent motive. A slow burning mystery that features the return of Ian Jagger and introduces dubious politician Roger Wellington. With a new afterword by the author about the writing of the novel.
35) Hire a Hangman
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A surgeon is gunned down in the street-but who is the woman who wanted him dead? Brice Hanchett is a brilliant surgeon, and those who work alongside the man consider him either godlike or devilish. After years of success, he has begun to believe his own legend, and soon goes too far-toying not just with life and death, but with the heart of every woman he meets. He has a wife and a mistress, as well as the attention of all the nurses in the hospital....
36) Vanished
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Sarah Hunter is a detective supervisor in a Montana Department of Criminal Investigation (DCI) office in Missoula. She is 32 years old, divorced with no children. Her senior detective is Allen Dickson, 29 years old, married and father of two young girls. They have been investigating a series of disappearances of young women that began over a year ago. They seemed to have occurred in Seattle, Spokane, Missoula, Butte, Bozeman, Billings and Rapid City....
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In the thrilling second installment of the Isaac Black Missing Persons Investigations, Black finds himself confronted with the possibility that a sex ring is forcing teen girls into the trade.Isaac Black is a detective driven as much by his own inner demons as by his personal mission to restore the missing to their loved ones. Black lives in a world of in-betweens: a drunk who doesn't drink, half African-American and half Caucasian, a former Homicide...
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A New York detective is recovering from a bomb blast and uncovering a semiprivate doom. Just ask Detective Shelly Lowenkopf, who passed on to the other side-at least for a moment or two. It all began with a mob boss who was taking tennis lessons. His new stepson wanted in on the rackets, while his real son was on the lam-until an explosion took him and Lowenkopf out of the picture. The question is: How far out of the picture? While Lowenkopf began...
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Well-known and wealthy businessman Matthew Lane drives his powerful Cadillac like he owns the road. Some would describe his compulsive driving as maniac. So when Lane's speeding car collides with a power pole, killing him instantly, it's unlikely the incident will be investigated as anything more than a fatal traffic accident.Detective Sergeant Jim McDonald, a 16-year veteran policeman, is on the same road as Lane that day and comes within a coat...
40) Gunrunner
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Graham Ison giftwraps readers an engaging holiday-themed mystery. On Christmas Day, Det. Chief Inspector Brock's celebrations are interrupted when he is called to a murder at Heathrow Airport. Kerry Hammond was due to fly out to New York with her husband-but never made it further than the car park. Brock and his sidekick, DS Dave Poole, put Kerry's husband at the top of their suspect list, but the case becomes increasingly complex, and they find themselves...