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  Samantha Kincaid Mystery: Book 1

  Judgment Calls

  by Alafair Burke

  After three years on the job in Portland's Drug and Vice Division, Deputy DA Samantha Kincaid gets what she wants: her first case with the Major Crimes Team. Kendra Martin, a 13-year-old runaway, has been found drugged, viciously assaulted, and left for dead in the Columbia River Gorge. Despite pressures to kick the case to assault, Samantha goes for attempted murder. Unfortunately the girl's story isn't gelling.... (more)
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  Alexandra Cooper: Book 1

  Final Jeopardy

  by Linda Fairstein

  This critically acclaimed, explosive thriller is a book only prosecutor Linda Fairstein could write. Patricia Cornwall knows the morgue; John Grisham knows the courtroom; but no one knows the inner workings of the D.A.'s office like Linda Fairstein, renowned for two decades as head of Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit. Now that world comes vividly to life in a brilliant debut novel of shocking realism, powerful insight,... (more)
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  Winston Garano: Book 2

  The Front

  by Patricia Cornwell

  The audacious new adventure of the At Risk team from America’s #1 bestselling crime writer. When Patricia Cornwell introduced the quicksilver, cut-to-the-bone style and extraordinary cast of characters of At Risk , the result was electrifying: “ At Risk is Cornwell’s finest novel. It works in every way possible— fascinating characters, solid plot, great pacing and expertly crafted prose” ( St. Louis... (more)
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  Alexandra Cooper: Book 11

  Lethal Legacy

  by Linda Fairstein

  Featuring a cast of elite and erudite characters, and a complex trail of clues that will have you guessing until the final pages, Lethal Legacy is Linda Fairstein's most beguiling thriller yet. When Assistant District Attorney Alex Cooper is summoned to Tina Barr's apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side, she finds a neighbor convinced that the young woman has been assaulted. But the terrified victim, a... (more)
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  Alan Gregory: Book 9

  The Program

  by Stephen White

  They promised you’d be safe. They were wrong. It started with a convicted killer’s first threat of revenge... “For every precious thing I lose, you lose two.” DA Kirsten Lord saw her husband gunned down before her eyes. Now Kirsten is living in fear, telling her secrets to psychologist Alan Gregory ... and hiding deep in the Witness Protection Program,where every stranger is a threat, every phone call is a... (more)
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  Karen Rose Romantic Suspense: Book 3

  I'm Watching You

  by Karen Rose

  Star prosecutor Kristen Mayhew has a dangerous secret admirer. He seems to knows her every thought, her every move. He sends her letters. And he kills the criminals she herself is powerless to stop. This avenger even knows Kristen's deepest secret-the one that has kept her from surrendering her heart to Abe Reagan, the police detective sworn to protect her. Like Kristen, Reagan is haunted by the loss of something... (more)
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  Thomas Highway: Book 1

  Highway to Vengeance

  by Brian Springer

  For fans of Dennis Lehane, Lee Child, and George Pelecanos: When ex-Navy SEAL Thomas Highway's wife is murdered right in front of his eyes, he sets out to find the men responsible. His investigation leads to Ferdinand Montoya, the former kingpin of a powerful Mexican drug cartel, but before he can exact justice, the Department of Homeland Security steps in and orders him to back off. Despite the threats... (more)
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  Lena Gamble: Book 3

  Murder Season

  by Robert Ellis

  In the spotlight and on her own LAPD. detective Lena Gamble returns to investigate Hollywood’s most shocking double murder in decades Detective Lena Gamble knows how to handle the hottest cases--do it fast and keep her head down because if it all goes south, the department won’t hesitate to make a scapegoat out of her. So when she gets called to the scene of a double murder at Club 3 AM, the A-list hangout for... (more)
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  The Daughter She Used To Be

  by Rosalind Noonan

  In this emotionally charged and riveting novel from the author of One September Morning and In a Heartbeat, one woman is torn between loyalty to her family's ways and to her most profound convictions… The daughter of a career cop, Bernadette Sullivan grew up with blue uniforms hanging in the laundry room and cops laughing around the dinner table. Her brothers joined New York's finest, her sister married a cop,... (more)
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  Miscarriage Of Justice

  by Bruce A. Borders

  The justice system is just a system, not a just system. Sentenced to fifteen years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, Ethan Rafferty has one thing on his mind - payback! With his time up, the ex-con is free to pursue his mission of revenge. The District Attorney, Mariana Clark, who, during the trial suppressed evidence that would've exonerated him, is the focus of his vengeance. Intent on making her life... (more)
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  CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE

  by Peter Schulman

  Former crime-lab nerd, former policeman, former detective, ADA Jonathan Smith has a passion for justice. His problem is the woman he just convicted of killing her husband wants him to help overturn her conviction and he's being told to prosecute a homeless man for a homicide he is convinced the man did not commit. With both cases based on circumstantial evidence the police have stopped looking for suspects... (more)
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  My Beloved World

  by Sonia Sotomayor

  An instant American icon--the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court--tells the story of her life before becoming a judge in an inspiring, surprisingly personal memoir. With startling candor and intimacy, Sonia Sotomayor recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a progress that is testament to her extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself.  She writes of her... (more)
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  The Alibi

  by Sandra Brown

  Fresh from her bestselling triumphs Unspeakable and Fat Tuesday , the incomparable Sandra Brown delivers her latest #1 blockbuster of high-voltage suspense. The sensational murder of one of Charleston's most powerful citizens, real-estate tycoon Lute Pettijohn, rocks the city and gives ambitious prosecutor Hammond Cross his chance to become the city's next district attorney-if he wins the case. His... (more)
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  Silver Sandals

  by Clinton H. Stagg

  Clinton Stagg created a fascinating character in detective fiction before being killed in a car crash at the age of 27. We are left with only 8 short stories and one novel (all collected in this volume) of Thornley Colton, the well-to-do blind man who solves criminal mysteries for the sheer enjoyment of it (and calls himself a 'problemist,' not a detective). In this, the sleuth's only novelization, Colton tackles... (more)
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  2 in the Hat

  by Raffi Yessayan

  A serial killer the cops thought was long gone. A good detective racing the clock to stop the murders. A chilling and twisty thriller that will leave readers gasping.   A major spike in gang homicides has Boston on edge, leaving a growing body count of bangers in its wake and the city’s police and DA’s office scrambling to catch up. Even the mayor’s Street Saviors taskforce of ex-cons, devoted to steering kids out... (more)
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  Doing It Right

  by MaryJanice Davidson

  There's never a dull night in the ER for Dr. Jared Dean, especially when he sees the woman of his fantasies beating the crud out of the city's biggest, toughest mobster. It's enough to get a guy all hot and bothered. Not that it matters when SuperHotButtKickingChick gets away without giving her name. The name's Kara, aka The Avenging Angel, sort of a Robin Hood with better shoes. But now her latest revenge stunt... (more)
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  Women's Murder Club: Book 5

  The 5th Horseman

  by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

  It is a wild race against time as Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the newest member of the Women's Murder Club, attorney Yuki Castellano, lead an investigation into a string of mysterious patient deaths--and reveal a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation at all costs. And while the hospital wages an explosive court battle that grips the entire nation, the Women's Murder Club hunts for a... (more)
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  Women's Murder Club: Book 2

  2nd Chance

  by James Patterson, Andrew Gross

  The Womens Murder Club is back! A brutal madman sprays bullets into a crowd of children leaving a San Francisco church. Miraculously-or was it intentionally - only one person dies. Then an elderly black woman is hung. Police homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer senses a connection and together with medical examiner Claire, assistant D. A. Jill, and Chronicle reporter Cindy, finds a link that sends a chill through the... (more)
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  Women's Murder Club: Book 3

  3rd Degree

  by James Patterson, Andrew Gross

  Detective Lindsay Boxer and Assistant District Attorney Jill Bernhardt are enjoying a quiet afternoon in San Francisco when a townhouse across the street explodes in flames. A sinister note signed "August Spies" is found at the scene of the disaster, and the body of an infant who was asleep in the house at the time of the explosion cannot be found. Soon a wave of violent incidents, all with links to political... (more)
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  Samantha Kincaid Mystery: Book 3

  Close Case

  by Alafair Burke

  Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid likes to be where the action is: at the scene of a crime, at the arrest of a suspect, with the cops on the Major Crimes Team. But when street smart, plugged-in reporter Percy Crenshaw is brutally murdered in the midst of pursuing a major story, she knows the stakes are high… Within days, cops have a suspect; then a confession. Yet Samantha suspects that something is... (more)