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1. Air Time
3. Back story
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Spenser novels volume 30.
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5 stars
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Thirty years after an unsolved bank robbery leaves a woman dead, Paul Giacomin, whom Spenser regards like a son, and Daryl Gordon, the son of the robbery victim, turn to Spenser to seek out clues about the crime.
4. Bad business
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Spenser novels volume 31.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Hired by a jilted bride to track her cheating husband, Spenser's investigation takes an unexpected turn when he crosses paths with another detective assigned to follow the unfaithful wife. They aren't the most trusting couple in town, but as it turns out, they are the most dangerous. As they dig deeper into the case, they uncover shocking secrets that threaten to unravel everything.
5. Below zero
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Joe Pickett novels volume 9.
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4.3 stars
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Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett's teenage daughter, Sheridan, receives a text message with a staggering implication: that April, the foster daughter thought to have died 6 years ago in a massacre, is still alive. If it really is April who's texting, she's in danger, and for Pickett, the only thing worse than losing her the first time would be losing her again. Pickett must negotiate FBI politics, recruit his fugitive friend Nate Romanowski, and take...
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Bruno Chief of Police volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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In the wake of attacks on local Asian vendors and an increase in black-market ingredients that threaten the Dordogne's lucrative truffle trade, Chief of Police Bruno finds the case taking a personal turn when one of his hunting partners, a former high-profile intelligence agent, is murdered.
7. Black widow
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Doc Ford novels volume 15.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Entreated by his goddaughter to help pay off a blackmailer who videotaped her bachelorette party and then threatened to expose her debauchery, Doc Ford reluctantly agrees and then finds himself in danger when the extortionist releases the tape anyway.
8. Blue screen
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Sunny Randall mysteries volume 5.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Sunny Randall is hired to protect rising star Erin Flint, and Sunny learns from the start that the prickly, spoiled beauty won't make her job easy. When Erin's sister, Misty, is found dead in the lavish home they share with sugar daddy Buddy Bollen, there doesn't seem to be a single lead. But then Sunny meets Jesse Stone, chief of police in Paradise, Massachusetts, and while searching for the killer, they learn alot about each other - and themselves....
10. Butchers Hill
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3 stars
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Originally published: New York: Avon Books, c1998.
When the production of a Hollywood film in Baltimore brings mayhem and murder to the area, private investigator Tess Monaghan finds her job complicated by the acting skills of her numerous suspects.
12. Cold service
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Spenser novels volume 32.
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4.8 stars
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When his closest ally, Hawk, is beaten and left for dead while protecting a bookie, Spenser embarks on an epic journey to rehabilitate his best pal, body and soul. But that means infiltrating a ruthless mob--and redefining his friendship with Hawk in the name of vengeance...
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Bruno Chief of Police volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Gourmand law enforcer Bruno Courrèges investigates both an arson fire that targeted a GMO crop-research station and two mysterious deaths which are somehow related to the competition between three winemakers for a fertile Saint-Denis property.
14. Day of atonement
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Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus mysteries volume 4.
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Los Angeles Police Detective Peter Decker tracks a runaway teenager from his Orthodox Jewish home to murder in Los Angeles.
15. Dead and buried
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Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 12.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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As moorland fires sweep across the Peak District National Park, hundreds of firefighters and park rangers battle to prevent flames reaching a remote inn, once a famous landmark but now abandoned and boarded up. The blaze is just one of a series of random acts of arson which have destroyed miles of heather moorland -- and once the flames have died, a grim surprise awaits DS Ben Cooper and DI Diane Fry: a body -- dead for years.
16. Dead center
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Andy Carpenter novels volume 5.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"Coasting on his inheritance of $22 million, New Jersey defense attorney Andy Carpenter is not inclined to take on any cases--until his ex-girlfriend, Laurie Collins, calls from the Midwest pleading for his help. Trading the factories of Paterson for the frozen pastures of Findlay, Wisconsin, Andy finds himself in a small town handling a big-time double homicide case. But while he tries to save a young suspect, make sense of his love life, and find...
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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The Paradise Men's Softball League has wrapped up another game, and Jesse Stone is lingering in the parking lot with his teammates, drinking beer, swapping stories of double plays and beautiful women in the late-summer twilight. But then a frightened voice calls out to him from the edge of a nearby lake. There, two men squat at the water's edge. In front of them, facedown, was something that used to be a girl. The local cops haven't seen anything...
18. The demands
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Tom Thorne novels volume 10.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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Detective Tom Thorne is forced to re-consider an old case when a greiving father takes one of Thorne's colleagues hostage and demands to know the truth about how his son died in prison from the man who put him away.
19. Devil's waltz
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Alex Delaware novels volume 7.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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Called in as a consultant for a possible child-abuse case, child psychologist Alex Delaware begins to suspect that the hospital has come under the sway of Chuck Jones, the financial whiz administrator who seems overly interested in profits.
20. Double play
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4 stars
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1947: Jackie Robinson breaks major-league baseball's color barrier--and changes the world. The event also changes the life of Joseph Burke, veteran of World War II and Robinson's bodyguard--because under the media spotlight, hard truths are easier than ever to see, and harder to escape. And some can prove fatal.