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Last Car to Elysian Fields: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

Last Car to Elysian Fields: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

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)

The Dark Wind (Jim Chee Novels)

by Tony Hillerman

A corpse whose palms and soles have been "scalped" is only the first in a series of disturbing clues: an airplane's mysterious crash in the nighttime desert, a bizarre attack on a windmill, a vanishing shipment of cocaine. Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is trapped in the deadly web of a cunningly spun plot driven by Navajo sorcery and white man's greed.

Alex Delaware: Book 9

Self-Defense

by Jonathan Kellerman

Dr. Alex Delaware doesn t see many private patients anymore, but the young woman called Lucy is an exception. So is her dream. Lucy Lowell is referred to Alex by Los Angeles police detective Milo Sturgis. A juror at the agonizing trial of a serial killer, Lucy survived the trauma only to be tormented by a recurring nightmare: a young child in the forest at night, watching a strange and furtive act. Now Lucy s... (more)

Moon Music (Paperback)

by Faye Kellerman

In the bleak wasteland of the Nevada desert, not far from the sparkling, 24-hour neon of the world famous Las Vegas Strip, the body of a once-beautiiful showgirl is discovered, horribly mauled and mutilated. It is a horrendous crime, shocking in its brutality, excessive even for a city celebrated for its excess. Seasoned police veteran and Vegas native Detective Sergeant Romulus Poe has seen his fair share of... (more)

Sunset Limited (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries (Paperback))

Sunset Limited (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries (Paperback))

by James Lee Burke

In a land soaked with sin, Dave Robicheaux is dueling with killers, ghosts, and a woman's revenge.... The townspeople of New Iberia, Louisiana, didn't crucify Megan Flynn's father. They just didn't catch whoever pinned him to a barn wall with sixteen-

Billy Straight: A Novel

by Jonathan Kellerman

In this riveting, astute, high-tension thriller, the creator of psychologist sleuth Alex Delaware weaves a Dickensian tale of innocence, urban depravity, and the resilience of the human spirit, and brings to the page one of the most endearing and finely drawn characters in contemporary fiction. Twelve-year-old Billy Straight--precocious, heartbreakingly perceptive, relentlessly moral--has fled the chaos... (more)

Trouble

by Jesse Kellerman

Jesse Kellerman's debut thriller wowed the critics. His latest sets the bar even higher. Young, idealistic, and overworked, Jonah is living the lonely life of a medical student in New York City when he accidentally stumbles across a murder in progress: a woman, being stabbed to death in the middle of the sidewalk. Without thinking, he rushes in to protect her-inadvertently killing her attacker in the process. ... (more)

Crusader's Cross: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries (Paperback))

Crusader's Cross: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries (Paperback))

by James Lee Burke

For detective Dave Robicheaux, memories -- including those of a strange and violent summer from his youth -- are best left alone. But a dying man's confession forces Robicheaux to resurrect a decades-old mystery with a missing woman at its heart. Her name may or may not have been Ida Durbin, and Robicheaux's half brother, Jimmie, paid a brutal price for entering her world. Now the truth will plunge Robicheaux into... (more)

Jupiter's Bones: A Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novel (Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Novels (Paperback))

Jupiter's Bones: A Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novel (Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Novels (Paperback))

by Faye Kellerman

Once Dr. Emil Euler Ganz was a preeminent astrophysicist with a worldrenowned reputation. But then he vanished without any warning to his family or colleagues. Fifteen years later, he reappeared as "Father Jupiter," the founder and charismatic leader of the scientific cult, The Order of the Rings. And now he's dead--a vial of sleeping pills and an empty bottle of vodka standing near his lifeless body. Was Ganz's... (more)

Judgment Calls: A Mystery

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)

Grievous Sin (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novels)

Grievous Sin (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novels)

by Faye Kellerman

The birth of their baby girl has filled Rina Lazarus and her husband, LAPD Homicide Detective Peter Decker, with joy mingled with sorrow, since complications have ensured that they can have no more children. But the situation is grim at the hospital, which has been devastated by severe budget cutbacks and staff shortages. And when a respected nurse vanishes along with a newborn from the nursery, Peter and Rina... (more)

"J" is for Judgement; "K" is for Killer; "L" is for Lawless

"J" is for Judgement; "K" is for Killer; "L" is for Lawless

by Sue Grafton

Stalker: A Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Novel

Stalker: A Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Novel

by Faye Kellerman

L.A. Homicide Detective Peter Decker never wanted the perils of his job to touch his family. But now his two worlds have collided. A first year rookie with the LAPD's Hollywood Division, Cynthia Decker became a cop against her father, Peter Decker's, wishes. But police work is in her blood, and she's determined to make it on her own -- even now, when her razor sharp instincts for danger are telling her that... (more)

Jolie Blon's Bounce

by James Lee Burke, James Burke

New Iberia, Louisiana, is reeling from a one-two punch of brutal rape-homicides, and drug-addicted blues singer Tee Bobby Hulin has been tagged as the prime suspect. No stranger to bucking popular opinion, police detective Dave Robicheaux senses it's not Hulin behind the atrocities. But while placating a town on fire for swift revenge, Robicheaux must face his own demons -- an ultimate reckoning with Legion... (more)

Close Case (Samantha Kincaid)

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)

Missing Justice : A Samantha Kincaid Mystery

Missing Justice : A Samantha Kincaid Mystery

by Alafair Burke

Newly promoted Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid's first assignment back after a much-needed vacation is a hot one: Judge Clarissa Easterbrook has gone missing from a wealthy Portland neighborhood, and Sam has to make the DA look good until the prodigal judge returns. Yet it soon becomes clear that the woman didn't vanish voluntarily-and it's no surprise when her bludgeoned body turns up at a local... (more)

Alex Delaware: Book 7

Devil's Waltz

by Jonathan Kellerman

The doctors call it Munchausen by proxy, theÂ Â terrifying disease that causes parents to induceÂ Â illness in their own children. Now, in his mostÂ Â frightening case, Dr. Alex Delaware may have to proveÂ Â that a child's own mother or father is making herÂ Â sick. Twenty-one-month-old Cassie JonesÂ Â is bright, energetic, the picture of health. YetÂ Â her parents rush her to the emergency room nightÂ Â after... (more)

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Skinny Dip

by Carl Hiassen

Red Sky at Night (Center Point Premier)

by James W. Hall

In one brutal instant, he lost everything--his freedom, his pride, the woman he loved. What does it take to break a man? It happens in an instant. A man's life is ripped from the safe harbor he's almost found, hurtled back into the violence he has been running from for years. The man's name is Thorn. While investigating the bizarre slaughter of eleven trained dolphins, Thorn is viciously attacked. Crippled by... (more)

Harper Connelly: Book 3

An Ice Cold Grave

by Charlaine Harris

Hired to find a boy gene missing in Doraville, North Carolina, Harper Connelly and her brother Tolliver head there-only to discover that the boy was only one of several who had disappeared over the previous five years. All of them teenagers. All unlikely runaways. All calling for Harper. Harper soon finds them-eight victims, buried in the half-frozen ground, all come to an unspeakable end. Afterwards, what... (more)

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