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  Face of Betrayal: A Faith and Consequences Novel

  by April Henry, Lis W. Wiehl

  Fox News legal correspondent and former Federal Prosecutor Lis Wiehl has created a suspense novel that's as timely as tomorrow's headlines. While home on Christmas break, a seventeen-year-old Senate page takes her dog out for a walk and never returns. Reporter Cassidy Shaw is the first to break the story. The resulting media firestorm quickly ensnares Federal Prosecutor Allison Pierce and FBI Special Agent... (more)
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  The Night Watchman (Ray Quinn Series, Book 1)

  by Mark Mynheir

  Eleven months ago, Ray Quinn was a tough, quick-witted Orlando homicide detective at the top of his game–until a barrage of bullets ended his career…and his partner’s life. Now medically retired with a painful handicap, Ray battles the haunting guilt for his partner’s death. Numbing the pain with alcohol and attitude, Ray takes a job as a night watchman at a swanky Orlando condo. But when a pastor and an exotic... (more)
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  The Last Word (Sophie Trace Trilogy)

  by Kathy Herman

  Police Chief Brill Jessup must run from a death threat even as she struggles to help her pregnant daughter make decisions about her future in this page-turner about God's power to heal the broken. When Vanessa Jessup returns home from her sophomore year of college, her mother, Police Chief Brill Jessup, is stunned to see that she's pregnant. Brill is glad Vanessa rejected the father's abortion ultimatum, but... (more)
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  My Son, John

  by Kathi Macias

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  Lady Killer (The Armchair Detective Library)

  by Ed McBain

  The detectives at the 87th Precinct have twelve hours to find out to whom the mysterious crank letter writer was referring when he wrote ""I will kill the lady tonight at 8. What can you do about it."" Reissue. NYT.
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  Loss of Carrier

  by Russ White

  Jess Wirth lives a dreary life. He spends most of his time crammed inside a cubicle, toiling as a network engineer and stewing over the details of his ugly divorce. But when he finds his co-worker dead in the basement of their office, Jess’s life takes a surprising—and unpleasant—turn. The police quickly declare the death a suicide, but Jess isn’t so sure. Not long after he begins digging into the victim’s work,... (more)
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  The Choirboys

  by Joseph Wambaugh

  Partners in the Los Angeles Police Department, they’re haunted by terrifying dark secrets of the nightwatch–shared predawn drink and sex sessions they call choir practice. Each wears his cynicism like a bulletproof jockstrap–each has his horror story, his bad dream, his night shriek. He is afraid of his friends–he is afraid of himself. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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  The New Centurions

  by Joseph Wambaugh

  Ex-cop turned #1 New York Times bestselling writer Joseph Wambaugh forged a new kind of literature with his great early police procedurals. Here in his classic debut novel, Wambaugh presents a stunning, raw, and unforgettable depiction of life behind the thin blue line. In a class of new police recruits, Augustus Plebesly is fast and scared. Roy Fehler is full of ideals. And Serge Duran is an ex-marine... (more)
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  Three Blind Mice: A Novel

  by Ed McBain

  The brutal rape of the wife of a wealthy landowner leads to the arrest of three recent Vietnamese immigrants. When they are found murdered and viciously mutilated, the situation reveals itself to be far more complex and explosive than first imagined.
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  A Shred of Evidence (A Seaport Suspense Novel)

  by Kathy Herman

  Ellen Jones, first introduced in the Baxter series, enjoys a leisurely lunch at a Seaport restaurant where she overhears a private conversation at the table next to her—and disturbing accusations involving the husband of a woman she has recently befriended. When Ellen goes to the husband’s employer and cannot get answers, she digs through old newspaper articles and stumbles onto information too frightening to keep... (more)
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  Body of a Girl

  by Leah Stewart

  In Memphis, where the heat clings heavy like a second skin, it has been a summer of murders. Olivia Dale's job as a novice crime reporter is at once surreal-stepping in and out of strangers' lives with her notebook-and all too real. As she looks down on the twisted body of a young woman who has been kidnapped and gruesomely killed, she wonders if she could have been that girl. After all, as she chases the story,... (more)
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  The Ice Maiden: A Britt Montero Mystery (Britt Montero Mysteries)

  by Edna Buchanan

  Fourteen years ago, two teenagers on a Christmas Eve first date were abducted, and only one lived through the ordeal. The lone surviving victim, Sunny Hartley, became a wealthy sculptor, but the reclusive “ice maiden” will not talk about what happened that terrible night. Now a chance encounter in the Miami morgue between reporter Britt Montero and a petty thief, bizarrely electrocuted during the commission of a... (more)
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  Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook

  by Jack Huddleston, Katherine Dunn

  Based on a scrapbook collected by a homicide detective with the LAPD from the 1930s to the 1950s, this work recalls film noir-era crimes such as the "Black Dahlia Mystery" and the "Lipstick Murder," as well as on-site forensic photos, mug shots, and previously unreleased photos from such sensational cases as the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and the Valentine's Day massacre.
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  The Blue Knight

  by Joseph Wambaugh

  He's big and brash. His beat is the underbelly of Los--Angeles vice--a world of pimps, pushers, winos,--whores and killers. He lives each day his way--on the--razor's edge of life. He was a damn good cop and--LAPD detective. For fifteen years he prowled the--streets, solved murders, took his lumps. Now he's--the hard hitting, tough talking best selling writer--who tells the brutal, true stories of the men... (more)
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  Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: The First Death HC

  by Laurell K. Hamilton

  Anita Blake's adventures began with the novel Guilty Pleasures, where the vampires of the St. Louis area tried to recruit the veteran vampire hunter to help them solve a peculiar mystery. But there were many mysteries about Anita Blake's past that were left unanswered...until now. Laurell K. Hamilton and Jonathon Green have finally released the official prequel to the long-running novel series, written... (more)
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  Dark Pursuit

  by Brandilyn Collins

  A new stand-alone “Seatbelt Suspense™” from bestselling author Brandilyn Collins. Kaitlan Sering’s estranged grandfather, novelist Darell Brooke, was the legendary King of Suspense—until an auto accident left him unable to concentrate. Now she’s begging him to protect her from a real serial killer. Can his muddled mind devise a plan to catch the murderer?
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  Double Minds

  by Terri Blackstock

  Struggling to succeed in the Nashville music scene, talented singer/songwriter Parker James finds the competition fierce – even deadly. A young woman’s murder, industry corruption, and a menacing stalker draw Parker into danger and intrigue. Nothing is as it appears, and unraveling the truth challenges everything Parker believes about her talent, her future, and her faith.
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  The Real Enemy (Sophie Trace Trilogy)

  by Kathy Herman

  Brill Jessup would rather work than deal with the bitterness she feels about her husband Kurt's infidelity. They've made a fresh start with Brill taking a job as the new police chief in a small East Tennessee town. Kurt is genuinely contrite and making every effort to show his commitment to Brill. Meanwhile Emily, their nine-year-old, is being the perfect little girl, as if she can make everything okay again. So... (more)