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221. The treatment
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Now a major motion picture: A boy’s abduction reawakens a haunted past for British detective Jack Caffery in this “deliciously chilling thriller” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
In a quiet residential area in London, a couple is discovered bound and imprisoned in their own home. Savagely battered and severely dehydrated, the worst revelation is yet to come: Their eight-year-old son has been abducted....
In a quiet residential area in London, a couple is discovered bound and imprisoned in their own home. Savagely battered and severely dehydrated, the worst revelation is yet to come: Their eight-year-old son has been abducted....
222. Trouble in Paradise
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Jesse Stone mysteries volume 2.
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4 stars
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A gang of robbers lands on an island in Massachusetts and they proceed to rob its wealthy inhabitants. First, they destroy the bridge to the mainland. Jesse Stone, the alcoholic chief of police in Paradise, a town on the mainland, organizes a relief operation.
223. Tuesday's gone
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Frieda Klein novels volume 2.
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Psychotherapist Frieda Klein takes on a case involving the murder of conman Robert Poole who was found in the flat of a mentally disturbed woman.
224. Twelve mile limit
225. Twisted: a novel
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Petra Connor novels volume 2.
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With her energies focused on a baffling, vicious gang slaying and her personal life in shambles, Hollywood homicide detective Petra Connor has a full plate. The last thing she needs is a whiz-kid grad student claiming to have stumbled upon a bizarre connection between several unsolved murders. The victims had nothing in common, yet each died by the same method, on the same date--a date that's rapidly approaching again. And that leaves Petra with little...
226. Uncommon clay
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 8.
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5 stars
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North Carolina's Randolph County is heavy with bright red clay and home to generations of skilled potters. Two of the best are James Lucas Nordan and Sandra Kay Hitchcock, locked in a bitter divorce after twenty-five years of marriage. Enter Judge Deborah Knott, who must settle the most exasperating part of any divorce case--the equitable distribution of marital property. As creative as it was stormy, the Nordans' marriage produced great artistic...
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Hannah Wolfe mysteries volume 3.
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Hannah Wolfe investigates sabotage at a health spa.
228. Unleashed
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Andy Carpenter novels volume 11.
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5 stars
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When Barry Price, an old high school friend, contacts Sam Willis with a desperate plea for help but later dies in the crash of a private plane, Sam and Andy Carpenter reach the terrifying realization that Sam was also intended to be a victim of the crash.
229. Up jumps the Devil
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 4.
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4.3 stars
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When truck driver and childhood neighbor Dallas Stancil is shot and killed in his own backyard, Deborah figures she owes his memory at least the respectful ritual of taking his widow one of her Aunt Zell's best chicken casseroles. Mistake Number One. Dallas wasn't rich, but with development eating up the farms and forests of North Carolina, his land is suddenly worth a fortune. His trashy, chain-smoking third wife and grown stepchildren are all too...
230. Victims
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Alex Delaware novels volume 27.
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4.2 stars
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"Unraveling the madness behind L.A.'s most baffling and brutal homicides is what sleuthing psychologist Alex Delaware does best. And putting the good doctor through his thrilling paces is what mystery fiction's #1 bestselling master of psychological suspense Jonathan Kellerman does with incomparable brilliance. Kellerman's universally acclaimed novels blend the addictive rhythms of the classic police procedural with chilling glimpses into the darkest...
231. Walkin' the dog
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Socrates Fortlow novels volume 2.
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In this sequel to Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, Socrates Fortlow is back in Watts, trying to leave prison in his past, and confronting the most dangerous emotion of all: hope.
232. Water like a stone
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Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James mysteries volume 11.
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4.3 stars
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Duncan Kincaid and Gemma Jamess idyllic holiday is interrupted by murder. As the detectives are drawn deeper, they find that the past never truly dies--and not even Kincaids family is safe from harm.
233. What the dead know
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Alex Delaware novels volume 1.
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4 stars
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Dr. Morton Hander practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Hander paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have no leads, but they do have one possible witness: seven-year-old Melody Quinn. It's psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware's job to try to unlock the terrible secret buried in Meldoy's memory. But as the sinister shadows...
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Actress-turned-private investigator Jasmine Sharp finds her simple missing persons case turning into a dangerous murder investigation when the disappearance of her client's younger sister is linked to the shooting death of a prominent figure in the Scottish arts community.
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Leonid McGill mysteries volume 3.
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5 stars
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A beautiful young woman walks into PI Leonid McGill's office with a stack of cash. She's an artist, she tells Leonid, who's escaped poverty via marriage to a rich collector. A rich collector with two ex-wives whose deaths are shrouded in mystery. She says she fears for her life, and needs Leonid's help.
238. Where memories lie
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Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James mysteries volume 12.
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3.8 stars
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Detective Inspector Gemma James and her partner, Duncan Kincaid, must navigate the shadowy and secretive world of London's moneyed society to discover a jewelry piece's connection to a murderer and a pair of refugees from Nazi Germany.
239. The white lioness
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Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 3.
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5 stars
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A small-town murder leads to international intrigue in this “first-class thriller” from the New York Times–bestselling master of Scandinavian crime (The New York Times Book Review).
Inspector Kurt Wallander returns in the second of Henning Mankell’s award-winning, internationally-bestselling detective novels, this time to investigate the execution-style killing of a Swedish housewife....
Inspector Kurt Wallander returns in the second of Henning Mankell’s award-winning, internationally-bestselling detective novels, this time to investigate the execution-style killing of a Swedish housewife....
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Joe Pickett novels volume 3.
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4.2 stars
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It's an hour away from darkness, a bitter winter storm is raging, and Joe Pickett is deep in the forest edging Battle mountain, shotgun in his left hand, his truck's detached steering wheel handcuffed to his right and Lamar Garniner's arrow-riddled corpse splayed against the tree in front of him. Lamar's murder and the sudden onslaught of the snowstorm warn: Get off the mountain. But Joe knows this episode is far from over. Somewhere in the dense...