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"Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She's looking for her friend's missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist to help. A laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer, Heist intrigues the sarcastic and garrulous Phoebe. Reluctantly, he agrees to help. The unlikely pair navigate the enclaves of desert-dwelling vagabonds and find that Arabella is in serious trouble- caught in...
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Posing as a human in Los Angeles, Meredith Gentry, Princess of the high court of Faerie, works as a P.I. specializing in supernatural crime. The Faerie Queen sends her assassin to fetch Meredith back--whether she likes it nor not. Meredith's job will be to enjoy the constant company of the most beautiful immortal men in the world. Her reward: the crown and the opportunity to live. If she fails, her penalty is death.
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Kinsey Millhone's grit is tested to its utmost as the private detective unearth's the gruesome truth about a long buried betrayal and in the process comes face-to-face with the grisly fact of her own mortality.
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Grand Central Publishing
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2020
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English
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HIdden: "After being rejected by the Navy SEALS, Mitchum becomes his small town's unofficial private eye. But his investigation skills are put to the test when he searches for his missing teenage cousin - and uncovers a government conspiracy in the process"--Provided by publisher.
Malicious: "Mitchum's brother has been charged with murder. Nathaniel swears he didn't kill anyone, but word on the street is that he was involved with the victim's wife....
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"Keith McCafferty is a top-notch, first-rate, can't-miss novelist. --C.J. Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author. When scarecrows appear in the cliffs above Montana's famous Smith River and a little girl reports being chased by one in the night, state investigator Harold Little Feather is brought in to find the culprit. Are the menacing effigies related to a copper-mining project that threatens the purity of the Smith? That's Harold's initial suspicion,...
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Minotaur Books
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2014
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English
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"The newest winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize, a debut mystery set in the Southwest starring a former rodeo cowboy turned private investigator, told in a transfixingly original style. Rodeo Grace Garnet lives alone, save for his old dog, in a remote corner of Arizona known to locals as the Hole. He doesn't get many visitors, but a body found near his home has drawn police attention to his front door. The victim is not one of the many illegal immigrants...
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Savannah Reid mysteries volume 22
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Kensington Books
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2017.
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English
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Eagerly accepting a security detail job on a luxurious Alaskan cruise to protect a famed mystery writer, Savannah Reid tackles a particularly dramatic case when her charge inexplicably flees the ship and is killed in a suspicious accident.
8) Fidelity
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When secretive private detective Phil Kramer is murdered, his widow, Emily, and his killer, Jerry Hobart, who has been ordered to kill Emily, compete to uncover the dark truth behind the killing while questioning where their true loyalties lie.
9) The lovers
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[2009]
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Charlie Parker is haunted by a man and a woman who appear to have only one purpose: to end to Parker's existence.
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Little, Brown and Co
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[2010]
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Former CIA agent Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. He already deep into the investigation of a multi-million dollar NFL gambling scandal and the unsolved slayings of 18 schoolgirls when he learns of a horrific murder close to home: his best friend's wife, Jack's former lover, has been killed.
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Stone Barrington novels volume 15
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One night at Elaine's, Stone Barrington meets Barton Cabot, older brother of his sometime ally, CIA boss Lance Cabot. Barton's career in army intelligence is even more top secret than his brother's, but he's suffering from amnesia following a random act of violence. Amnesia is a dangerous thing in a man whose memory is chockful of state secrets, so Lance hires Stone to watch Barton's back. Barton also is a man with a past, and one event in particular...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 12
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A cold winter in the Alaskan bush becomes even colder when a forest ranger loses his job in a politically motivated firing. Then a conservationist is murdered, and the tensions that have been swirling around the question of whether to drill for oil on the preserve erupt into local warfare. Aleutian PI Kate Shugak campaigns to save the fired ranger and, with the help of Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin, attempts to solve the murder before more violence...
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Earl Swagger novels volume 2
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Simon & Schuster
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[2001]
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English
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In 1951, the disappearance of Sam Vincent, who was investigating a prison for violent African American convicts in Thebes, Mississippi, draws Earl Swagger into a confrontation with a town guarded by a private army of brutal, Klan-type thugs and rednecks.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 8
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Kinsey Millhone doesn't think the robbery of Parnell Perkins was the reason he was killed. She ends up getting more than she bargained for when she tries to solve the case.
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It was the silly season and a Monday at that, and Kinsey Millhone was bogged down in a preliminary report on a fire claim. Something was nagging at her, but she couldn't pin it. The last thing she needed in the morning mail was a letter from her bank recording an erroneous $5,000 deposit in her account. Kinsey had never believed in Santa Claus and she wasn't about to change her mind now. Resigning herself to a morning of frustration, she phoned the...
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Minotaur Books
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2017.
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English
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"Semi-retired private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is suffering from depression after a miscarriage following her adventure in San Francisco during the earthquake of 1906. She and her husband, Daniel, are invited for Christmas at a mansion on the Hudson, and they gratefully accept, expecting a peaceful and relaxing holiday season. Not long after they arrive, however, they start to feel the tension in the house's atmosphere. Then they learn that...
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Jack Reacher novels volume 7
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Delacorte Press
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c2003
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English
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Ten years ago, a key investigation went sour. Someone got away with murder. But a chance encounter brings it all back. Now reacher sees his one last shot. Some would call it bvegeance. Some would call it redemption. Reacher would call it justice.
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Serge Storms novels volume 24
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[2021]
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"Devoted Floridaphile Serge Storms is a lover of history, so heś decided to investigate his own using one of those DNA services from late-night TV. Excited to construct a family tree, he and Coleman hit the road to meet his kin. Along the way, he plans to introduce Coleman to the Sunshine Stateś beautiful parks where he can brush up on his flora, fauna, and wildlife, and more importantly, collect the missing stamps for his park passport book. But...
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Wolfe security volume 2
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A young private investigator finds out the price of keeping deadly secrets when a vicious killer sets his sights on her in this pulse-pounding thriller from the USA TODAY and New York Times bestselling author of the Tracers series.
20) A grave denied
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 13
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"Alaska is a place where anybody can bury their history and start fresh, for any reason, and this particular mystery comes to light when Len Dreyer turns up murdered. His body is discovered, frozen solid in the path of a receding glacier, with a hole from a shotgun blast in his chest. No one even knew he was missing, but it turns out he had been missing for months" -- JACKET.