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  Michael Bennett: Book 2

  Run for Your Life

  by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge

  A calculating killer who calls himself "The Teacher" is taking on New York City, killing the powerful and the arrogant. His message is clear: remember your manners or suffer the consequences! For some, it seems that the rich are finally getting what they deserve. For New York's elite, it is a call to terror. Only one man can tackle such a high-profile case: Detective Mike Bennett. The pressure is enough for... (more)
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  Michael Bennett: Book 1

  Step on a Crack

  by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge

  Detective Michael Bennett is about to take on the most sinister challenge of his career. The nation has fallen into mourning after the unexpected death of a beloved former first lady, and the most powerful people in the world gather in New York for her funeral. Then the inconceivable occurs. Billionaires, politicians, and superstars of every kind are suddenly trapped within one man's brilliant and... (more)
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  John Corey: Book 4

  Wild Fire

  by Nelson DeMille

  Welcome to the Custer Hill Club--a men's club set in a luxurious Adirondack hunting lodge whose members include some of America's most powerful business leaders, military men, and government officials. Ostensibly, the club is a place to relax with old friends. But one fall weekend, the club's executive board gathers to talk about the tragedy of 9/11--and finalize a retaliation plan, known only by its... (more)
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  Kathleen Mallory: Book 7

  Dead Famous

  aka The Jury Must Die (UK)

  by Carol O'Connell

  Night had fallen, and the woman looked down at the crumpled letter, as if, in absolute darkness, she could read the postscript: Only a monster can play this game. In Chicago, an FBI agent is killed in a psychiatrist's waiting room. In New York, the jurors from a controversial trial are murdered one by one. The only connections between the two: a flamboyant shock-jock, whose on-air comments seem... (more)
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  Bad Cop: New York's Least Likely Police Officer Tells All

  by Paul Bacon

  A funny and revealing memoir of one man’s journey into and out of the New York City police department. In 2001, Paul Bacon was a typical young New Yorker: hip, liberal, overeducated, a little aimless. But then 9/11 happened. Hearing a call to duty — and lacking any better employment options — he joined the NYPD, with the earnest hope of making his hometown a safer place. Silly him.   In "Bad Cop," Paul... (more)
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  Kathleen Mallory: Book 9

  Find Me

  aka Shark Music (UK)

  by Carol O'Connell

  From one of the most acclaimed crime writers in America comes her most astonishing novel: a story of love, loss, death-and discovery. Over the course of eight novels, Carol O'Connell and her protagonist, New York detective Kathy Mallory, have carved out a unique place for themselves. But all that has been prelude to the remarkable story told in Find Me . A mutilated body is found lying on the ground in... (more)
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  In Death: Book 41

  New York to Dallas

  by J. D. Robb

  The number-one New York Times–bestselling author J. D. Robb presents an intense and terrifying new case for New York homicide cop Eve Dallas, one that will take her all the way to the city that gave her her name — and plunge her into the nightmares of her childhood. When a monster named Isaac McQueen — taken down by Eve back in her uniform days — escapes from Rikers, he has two things in mind. One is to pick up... (more)
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  Face of Courage: Rise from the Rubble

  by Joseph M. Cammarata

  Both brothers dreamed of being N.Y.C Firefighters, but when one brother wrote his own destiny, their worlds would collide at the same place, at different times on the morning of September 11th, 2001. Both brothers feverishly raced to the World Trade Center, one brother age 22, was with the New York City fire department, and one brother age 24, with the New York City police department, the catastrophe would leave... (more)
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  Kathleen Mallory: Book 6

  Crime School

  by Carol O'Connell

  Detective Kathleen Mallory recognized the dead call girl. It was someone from her past, a woman who protected her on the streets of New York--and who betrayed her. Mallory also recognized the crime scene: victim hanging, hair in mouth, fire burning. It happened twenty-one years ago, when Mallory was a child. Now--whether it's the work of a copycat killer or a serial murderer--it has happened again.
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  Kathleen Mallory: Book 2

  The Man Who Cast Two Shadows

  by Carol O'Connell

  Brilliant computer hacker and NYPD sergeant Kathleen Mallory is forced to test the limits of her intelligence when she confronts a deadly killer who strikes close to home in more ways than one. Reprint. K.
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  Kathleen Mallory: Book 1

  Mallory's Oracle

  by Carol O'Connell

  The body of an elderly woman is discovered in a park in Gramercy Square. Killed in broad daylight, there are no witnesses. When Inspector Louis Markowitz, who commands the Special Crime Section in New York, dies defending another victim, Sergeant Kathy Mallory takes up the case.
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  Kathleen Mallory: Book 3

  Killing Critics

  by Carol O'Connell

  As NYPD Detective Sergeant Kathleen Mallory probes the death of a hack artist at a gallery opening, she discovers links to a bizarre twelve-year-old double homicide and dismemberment originally investigated by her late adoptive father, Louis Markowitz.
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  Kathleen Mallory: Book 5

  Shell Game

  by Carol O'Connell

  On live television, a man dies during the re-creation of a legendary magic trick in Central Park. Millions of New Yorkers believe it was an accident-but two people know it was not. One is an aged magician in a private hospital in the northern corner of the state. The other is Kathleen Mallory. She thinks that the death was simply too dramatic, too gruesomely spectacular, to be accidental. And hiding behind the... (more)
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  My Life in the NYPD: Jimmy the Wags

  by James Wagner, Patrick Picciarelli

  The author takes readers behind the badge and into the daily drama of working New York City's toughest jobs in the city's toughest precinct--before civilian review boards, before gentrification, and before political correctness. James "Jimmy the Wags" Wagner walked these streets from the 1960s to the 1980s and saw it all.
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  Skells: The Inside Story of the Mafia Cops Case

  by Tommy Dades

  Detectives Louie Eppolito and Steve Caracappa were the most corrupt and dangerous cops in American history. When they retired in the early 1990s, they left behind a pile of bodies—and for more than a decade, it looked like they were going to get away with it. As highly decorated NYPD detectives with access to the department's most sensitive information, they sold their badges to the Mafia—and became murderers... (more)
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  Ellie Hatcher series: Book 2

  Angel's Tip

  by Alafair Burke

  In a city full of victims . . . it's hard to choose just one. Fresh-faced Indiana college student Chelsea Hart is so excited to spend the final hours of her spring break in the VIP room of an elite New York City club that she remains behind when her girlfriends call it a night. The next morning, as her concerned friends anxiously pace their hotel lobby, joggers find Chelsea's body in East River Park, her wavy... (more)
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  Nero Wolfe Novels by Rex Stout and others publication year order: Book 1934

  Fer-de-Lance

  by Rex Stout

  Nero Wolfe, the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth, returns--with his perambulatory man-about-town Archie Goodwin in tow--playing snake charmer in a case with more twists than an anaconda, and hoping to catch a killer who's still got poison in his heart. **MASS MARKET PAPER**
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  Kathleen Mallory: Book 8

  Winter House

  by Carol O'Connell

  It seems cut and dried at first: Apparently a burglar has been caught in the act and killed by a scissors-wielding homeowner. Except that the dead man was a hired killer, not a burglar. And the homeowner is the most famous missing child in NYPD history, believed to have been kidnapped nearly sixty years ago after the massacre of her family...by an ice pick. As NYPD Detective Kathleen Mallory investigates, an... (more)
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  Kathleen Mallory: Book 4

  Stone Angel

  aka Flight of the Stone Angel (UK)

  by Carol O'Connell

  NYPD Detective Kathleen Mallory is back--to face her most terrifying obsession--the murder of her own mother...
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  John Corey: Book 2

  The Lion's Game

  by Nelson DeMille

  John Corey and Asad Khalil have both lived hard-knock lives. As revealed in Nelson DeMille's monster bestseller Plum Island, the gruff, wisecracking NYPD homicide cop Corey stopped a hail of bullets--but he couldn't stop his wife from walking out on him. Asad, raised under Muammar Qaddafi's eye after his dad's murder, lost his surviving family in the 1986 bombing of Libya. He's heard the nasty rumors about his mom... (more)