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Everything starts somewhere. For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997. Reacher is ordered undercover to investigate the murder of a young woman. Evidence points to a U.S. soldier with powerful friends. Once in Carter Crossing, Reacher meets local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux, who has a thirst for justice and an appetite for secrets. Uncertain they can trust each other, they reluctantly join...
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McGill is hired to investigate a strange case in which Zella Grisham admits to shooting her scheming husband after catching him in bed with another woman. Yet she's fuzzy about the $80,000 found in her closet that was part of a $6 million heist. Out on the mean streets of Manhattan, McGill reacquaints himself with his estranged, alcoholic wife; his misguided, eldest son, who left college to live with a prostitute; and his youngest son, who chooses...
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Award-winning author Deborah Crombie has elevated the modern mystery novel to new heights of human drama and multilayered suspense with her critically acclaimed tales of intrigue featuring Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James. In their latest outing, Kincaid and his former partner—and soon-to-be roommate—follow a twisting trail of rage and retribution whose buried roots are about to exact a deadly toll...
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Spenser novels volume 31.
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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.
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When Maisie Dobbs is hired to find the missing daughter of a wealthy grocery magnate, she discovers that three of the heiress's friends have died violently, leading her to investigate the connection between the disappearance and the murders.
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In Birth Marks, private investigator Hannah Wolfe gets a case worthy of the great detective novels she so admires. At first glance, this one doesn't fit the bill; she's asked to find a missing ballet dancer, Carolyn Hamilton. When Carolyn;'s body is fished out the Thames, stones in her pockets and an 8-month-old fetus in her belly, the police think it's a no-brainer; single pregnant woman can't face her impending responsibilities, takes a leap off...
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"In THE BLOOD SUGAR SOLUTION, Dr. Mark Hyman reveals that the secret solution to losing weight and preventing not just diabetes but also heart disease, stroke, dementia, and cancer is balanced insulin levels. Dr. Hyman describes the seven keys to achieving wellness-nutrition, hormones, inflammation, digestion, detoxification, energy metabolism, and a calm mind-and explains his revolutionary six-week healthy-living program. With advice on diet, green...
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The weapon is invisible and omnipresent. Without it, modern society grinds to a halt. It is electricity. The killer harnesses and steers huge arc flashes with voltage so high and heat so searing that steel melts and his victims are set afire. When the first explosion occurs in broad daylight, reducing a city bus to a pile of molten metal, officials fear terrorism. Rhyme, a world-class forensic criminologist known for his successful apprehension of...
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The hero of Rosenfelt's previous novels, Edgar-nominated Open and Shut, and First Degree, Andy Carpenter returns to prove the innocence of a reporter accused of being a serial killer.
Defense attorney Andy Carpenter has been successfully avoiding taking on new cases until his sometime friend and newspaper owner Vince Sanders, calls and asks him for a favor. Daniel Cumming, Vince's star reporter, is being used as the mouthpiece for...
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A tipsy young woman seeking aid on a desolate highway disappears into the inky black night. A retired schoolteacher is stabbed to death in broad daylight. Two women are butchered after closing time in a small-town beauty parlor. These and other bizarre acts of cruelty and psychopathology are linked only by the killer's use of luxury vehicles and a baffling lack of motive. The ultimate whodunits, these crimes demand the attention of LAPD detective...
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Los Angeles Police Detective Peter Decker tracks a runaway teenager from his Orthodox Jewish home to murder in Los Angeles.
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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.
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After an old university friend and fellow archeologist's murdered, forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway travels to Lancashire to examine the bones he found, which reveal a shocking fact about King Arthur, and discovers a campus living in fear of a sinister right-wing group called the White Hand.
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The wayward son of Israeli intelligence, Gabriel Allon is plunged into a high stakes game of murder, espionage, and corruption after a beautiful young British woman vanishes on the island of Corsica, which threatens to destroy a prime minister's career.
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Traces the investigation of reporter Carter Ross into the house fire deaths of two boys whose mother claims she was working two jobs to support them, a story that is thrown into dispute by a corrupt government program and the disappearance of the mother's boyfriend.
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Having submitted for counseling a troubled wealthy teen who desecrated a synagogue, Rina Lazarus discovers there is more to the case when the boy and his therapists are murdered.
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At the request of his wife, Commissario Brunetti looks into the death of the deaf, mentally disabled man who worked at their dry-cleaners and uncovers a mystery when he finds that the man has no official records at all.

20. Gone

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When his partner and lover, Rainie Conner, vanishes during her investigation into the case of a missing foster child, private detective Pierce Quincy enlists the aid of his daughter Kimberly, a rookie FBI agent, to uncover the truth.