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  by Sandra Brown

  Barrie Travis is not famous: she's just a damn good reporter stuck at a low-budget television station. Then the First Lady calls her...and offers her the story of a lifetime. The president's wife, stunned by grief after the loss of her infant son, hints that her child may have been murdered. Blind to everything but finding the truth, Barrie's fight for an exclusive story will test her ethics, her patriotism, and... (more)
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  Robicheaux: Book 13

  Last Car to Elysian Fields

  by James Lee Burke

  For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy passage home. New Orleans, and the memories of his life in the Big Easy, will always haunt him. So to return there -- as he does in Last Car to Elysian Fields -- means visiting old ghosts, exposing old wounds, opening himself up to new, yet familiar, dangers. When Robicheaux, now a police officer based in the somewhat quieter Louisiana town of New Iberia, learns that an... (more)
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  Billy Bob Holland: Book 3

  Bitterroot

  by James Lee Burke

  Big Sky country. Billy Bob Holland has come to Montana's Bitterroot Valley to help an old friend in need. But against the rugged, wide-open vistas, it is Billy Bob who is targeted for big trouble. Wyatt Dixon, a prison parolee, believes the former Texas Ranger caused his imprisonment and his sister's death--and he is intent on exacting a deadly revenge. But Billy Bob, tormented by the mistakes of his past, will be... (more)
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  Charlie Parker: Book 5

  The Black Angel

  by John Connolly

  When a young woman disappears from the streets of New York City, ties of friendship and blood inevitably draw ingenious, tortured detective Charlie Parker into the search. Soon he discovers links to a church of bones in Eastern Europe, a 1944 slaughter at a French monastery, and to the myth of an object known as the Black Angel -- considered by evil men to be beyond priceless. But the Black Angel is not a legend.... (more)
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  Stephanie Plum by the Numbers: Book 16

  Sizzling Sixteen

  by Janet Evanovich

  Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has inherited a “lucky” bottle from her Uncle Pip. Problem is, Uncle Pip didn’t specify if the bottle brought good luck or bad luck. . . .BAD LUCK:Vinnie, of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds, has run up a gambling debt of $786,000 with mobster Bobby Sunflower and is being held until the cash can be produced. Nobody else will pay to get Vinnie back,... (more)
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  Billy Bob Holland: Book 1

  Cimarron Rose

  by James Lee Burke

  Texas attorney and former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland has many secrets in his dark past. Among them is Vernon Smothers' son Lucas, a teenaged boy about whom only Vernon and Billy Bob know the truth. Lucas is really Billy Bob's illegitimate son, and when Lucas is arrested for murder, Billy Bob knows that he has no choice but to confront the past and serve as the boy's criminal attorney. During Lucas's trial,... (more)
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  Jake Grafton: Book 8

  Hong Kong

  by Stephen Coonts

  The U.S. Government sends Jake Grafton to Hong Kong to find out how deeply the U.S. consul-general, Tiger Cole, is embedded in a dangerous plan to overthrow the Chinese regime. He takes his wife Callie with him. They haven't returned to the island since their first meeting there, andTiger Cole is an old friend from those days. Their trip soon turns into their worst nightmare... Hong Kong is a powder keg ready to... (more)
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  Alex Cross: Book 7

  Violets Are Blue

  by James Patterson

  D.C. Detective Alex Cross has seen a lot of crime scenes. But even he is appalled by the gruesome murders of two joggers in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park - killings that look more like the work of savage beasts than humans. Local police are horrified and even the FBI is baffled. Then, as Cross is called in to take on the case, the carnage takes off, leaving a trail of bodies across America and sweeping him... (more)
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  Alex Cross: Book 9

  The Big Bad Wolf

  by James Patterson

  Alex Cross' family is in terrible danger--at the same time that his new job with the FBI brings him the scariest case of his career. A team of kidnappers has been snatching successful, upstanding men and women right before their families' eyes--possibly to sell them into slavery. Alex's knowledge of the D.C. streets, together with his unique insights into criminal psychology, make this mindbending case one that... (more)
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  Alex Barnaby: Book 1

  Metro Girl

  by Janet Evanovich

  Alexandra (Barney) Barnaby roars onto the Miami Beach scene in hot pursuit of her missing baby brother, "Wild" Bill. Leave it to the maverick of the family to get Barney involved with high-speed car chases, a search for sunken treasure, and Sam Hooker, a NASCAR driver who’s good at revving a woman's engine. Engaged in a deadly race, Bill has "borrowed" Hooker's sixty-five-foot Hatteras and sailed off into the... (more)
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  Janet Evanovich Three and Four Two-Book Set: Three To Get Deadly, Four To Score

  by Janet Evanovich

  Three to Get Deadly A "saintly" old candy-store owner is on the lam-and bounty hunter extraordinaire Stephanie Plum is on the case. As the body count rises, Stephanie finds herself dealing with dead drug dealers and slippery fugitives on the chase of her life. And with the help of eccentric friends and family, Steph must see to it that this case doesn't end up being her last... Four to Score Stephanie... (more)
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  Kinsey Millhone: Book 2

  "B" Is for Burglar

  by Sue Grafton

  Although business has been slow lately for P.I. Kinsey Millhone, she’s reluctant to take on the case of locating Beverly Danziger’s sister Elaine Boldt. It’s a small matter that Beverly should be able to handle herself. So why is she enlisting Kinsey’s services? Beverly claims she needs Elaine’s signature on some documents so that she can collect a small inheritance. But the whole affair doesn’t sit well with... (more)
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  Kinsey Millhone: Book 1

  "A" Is for Alibi

  by Sue Grafton

  A IS FOR AVENGER: A tough-talking former cop, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has set up a modest detective agency in a quiet corner of Santa Teresa, California. A twice-divorced loner with few personal possessions and fewer personal attachments, she’s got a soft spot for underdogs and lost causes. A IS FOR ACCUSED: That’s why she draws desperate clients like Nikki Fife. Eight years ago, she was... (more)
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  Kinsey Millhone: Book 5

  "E" Is for Evidence

  by Sue Grafton

  Being a twice-divorced, happily independent loner has worked like a charm for P.I. Kinsey Millhone—until holiday weekends like this one roll around. What she needs is a little diversion to ward off the blues. She gets her much-needed distraction with a case that places her career on the line. And if that isn’t enough to keep her busy, her ex-husband, who walked out on her eight years ago, pops back on the radar...... (more)
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  Kinsey Millhone: Book 8

  "H" Is for Homicide

  by Sue Grafton

  Kinsey Millhone, the irreverent, wise-cracking P.I. with a style reminiscent of Philip Marlowe, is back in an all-new, high-stakes adventure... His name was Parnell Perkins and until shortly after midnight, he'd been a claims adjuster for California Fidelity. Then someone had come along and ended his career ... permanently. To the cops, his death looked like a robbery gone sour; to Kinsey Millhone, it looked... (more)
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  Kinsey Millhone: Book 4

  "D" is for Deadbeat

  by Sue Grafton

  When Alvin Limardo walks into P.I. Kinsey Millhone’s office, she smells bad news. He wants Kinsey to deliver $25,000. The recipient: A fifteen-year-old boy. It’s a simple matter. So simple that Kinsey wonders why he doesn’t deliver the money himself. She’s almost certain something is off. But with rent due, Kinsey accepts Limardo’s retainer against her better judgment… When Limardo’s check bounces, Kinsey... (more)
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  Kinsey Millhone: Book 12

  "L" Is for Lawless

  by Sue Grafton

  When Kinsey Millhone agrees to do a favor for Henry Pitts, her lovable octogenarian landlord, she literally gets taken for the ride of her life. The family of a recently deceased WWII veteran wants her to find out why the military has no record of his service. All Kinsey has to do, she thinks, is cut through some government red tape. But when the dead man's house is ransacked and his old army buddy is beaten up,... (more)
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  Kinsey Millhone: Book 15

  "O" Is for Outlaw

  by Sue Grafton

  Through fourteen books, fans have been fed short rations when it comes to Kinsey Millhone's past: a morsel here, a dollop there. We know of the aunt who raised her, the second husband who left her, the long-lost family up the California coast. But husband number one remained a blip on the screen until now. The call comes on a Monday morning from a guy who scavenges defaulted storage units at auction. Last week... (more)
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  Kinsey Millhone: Book 7

  "G" Is for Gumshoe

  by Sue Grafton

  G IS FOR GAME…When Irene Gersh asks PI Kinsey Millhone to locate her elderly mother Agnes, whom she hasn’t heard from in six months, it’s not exactly the kind of case Kinsey jumps for. But a girl’s gotta pay her bills, and this should be easy money—or so she thinks. Kinsey finds Agnes in a hospital. Aside from her occasional memory lapses, the octogenarian seems fine. And frightened. G IS FOR GUN… Kinsey... (more)
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  Kinsey Millhone: Book 14

  "N" Is for Noose

  by Sue Grafton

  4 CDs 4 hours Read by Judy Kaye "There are few writers able to sustain the solid mixture of detection, narrative energy and cultural observations that one finds in Grafton." -- Washington Post Book World In N is for Noose , Kinsey Millhone is about to put herself in the gravest jeopardy of her career as she becomes the target, and an entire town seems in for the kill. When Tom Newquist, a tough, honest, and... (more)