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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 2
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English
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Teenage detective Nancy Drew uses her courage and powers of deduction to solve the mysterious happenings in an old stone mansion.
2) Six years
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English
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Six years have passed since Jake Sanders watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd. But six years haven't come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd's obituary, he can't keep himself...
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New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were at the ready at Drug Store soda counter, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a summer in which death assumed many forms. When tragedy unexpectedly comes to call on his family, which includes...
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Kinsey Millhone's newest client, Michael Sutton, claims he has recently remembered a long-repressed event in his childhood that could unlock a twenty-year-old mystery; but as Kinsey tries to help Michael find the scene of a crime he witnessed, she begins to wonder if her client is telling her the whole truth.
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Amanda Jaffe novels volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
p2006
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (ca. 9 hrs 30 min.) digital 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Defense attorney Dug Weaver finds it hard to believe that his client could have killed and dismembered a woman, but Bernard Cashman, a forensic expert, has indisputably connected the man with the crime. Confused, Doug consults with Amanda Jaffe, but when she starts looking too closely at the "airtight" case, people start to die.
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 19
Language
English
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After a slow summer of chasing low-level skips for her cousin Vinnie's bail bonds agency, Stephanie Plum finally lands an assignment that could put her checkbook back in the black. Geoffrey Cubbin, facing trial for embezzling millions from Trenton's premier assisted-living facility, has mysteriously vanished from the hospital after an emergency appendectomy. Now it's on Stephanie to track down the con man. The problem is, Cubbin has disappeared without...
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Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
p2013
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (ca. 8 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Berlin office of the world's most renowned investigation firm looks into the disappearance of an agent, Chris Schneider, whose last case involved an unfaithful billionaire, a cheating soccer player and a seedy nightclub owner.
10) Private
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Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Former CIA agent Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. He is 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.
11) The second mouse
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Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
292 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Joe Gunther is called to the home of a young woman who apparently committed suicide, but is troubled by his findings and wants to investigate further. His normally trustworthy medical examiner however, stalls the investigation, for personal reasons. To get what he wants, Joe must help her with her situation first, but will it be in time to catch the violent trio lurking behind the woman's death?
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Pub. Date
2010
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English
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New York police detective Jacob Kanon searches for the killer of his daughter and her boyfriend, who were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in other European cities have been found dead with little to connect the murders except a postcard to the local newspaper. Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter Dessie Larsson, who has just received a postcard in Stockholm, and they think they know where to find the next victims....
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Library of America volume 110
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
©1999
Physical Desc
967 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In a few years of extraordinary creative energy, Dashiell Hammett invented the modern American crime novel." "The five novels that Hammett published between 1929 and 1934, collected here in one volume, have become part of modern American culture, creating archetypal characters and establishing the ground rules for a whole tradition of hardboiled writing." "Each novel is distinct in mood and structure. Red Harvest (1929), a raucous and nightmarish...
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Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
539 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The latest from Kathy Reichs finds Tempe Brennan investigating the connections between a long-dead business man, the smuggling of mummified dogs from Peru, and the death of a teenage girl killed in a hit and run. When she discovers a human trafficking enterprise at the center of it all, the scope of the case extends from South America to Afghanistan. And Tempe's soon-to-be ex might have connections that run to the very heart of the trafficking ring"--Provided...
15) Open season
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Joe Pickett novels volume 1
Language
English
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"Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden who, with the short of a rifle, is thrust into a race to save not only an endangered species, but also the life and the family he loves."--Jacket.
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Pub. Date
2013
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English
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A collection of stories that reveal Kinsey's origins-- and Grafton's past. The nine stories that open the book show how fully formed Kinsey was from the beginning. The thirteen stories in the second part, written in the decade following her mother's death, feature Kit Blue, a younger version of Grafton herself, and reflect her troubled family life and the author's journey from anger to understanding and forgiveness.
17) Thieves' dozen
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Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xv, 183 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Highway 59 volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home. When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders--a black lawyer from...
Series
The library of America volume 95
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA
Pub. Date
©1997
Physical Desc
892 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of five crime novels written during the 1950s. The killer inside me / Jim Thompson, The talented Mr. Ripley / Patricia Highsmith, Pick-up / Charles Willeford, Down there / David Goodis, The real cool killers / Chester Himes.
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