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It started with the murder of Kinsey Millhone's sometime drinking buddy, an insurance claims adjuster. But before long Kinsey stumbles onto a massive insurance scam. Going undercover as a wisecracking vamp, Millhone descends into the Los Angeles nether world of machismo and gang hideouts. Her companion, terrified at having crossed the violent crook Raymond Maldonado, is Bibianna Diaz - no Girl Scout herself.
3) Chat
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"When a wintertime car accident leaves his mother and brother seriously injured, Joe Gunther takes a leave of absence to attend to them and investigate the cause of the crash"--Provided by publisher.
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xiv, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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The second honeymoon of Harry and Fair Haristeen in Shelbyville, Kentucky, goes awry when they attend a saddlebred show and their friend Joan's treasured pin goes missing, a horse groomer is found murdered, a movie star's mare is abducted, and the INS arrives looking for illegal aliens.
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Warner Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
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359 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Hapless crook John Dortmunder cares nothing about righting ancient wrongs or for the game of chess. He is however, interested in finding a highly valuable, 700-pound chess set which was said to have been a planned gift for the last Russian czar. As he reunites his merry band of crooks, the treasure hunt is troubled from the beginning. There are few leads, so Dortmunder turns to ex-cop Johnny Eppick for help.
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Joe Gunther, a Vermont cop for most of his adult life and now the head of the VBI (Vermont Bureau of Investigation) gets the call that every law enforcement person hates and every friend and family member of a policeman fears--a cop has been shot and killed. A deputy sheriff was shot to death during a routine traffic stop on a dark country road. From what can been seen on the cruiser's tape recorder of the killers, it is believed that they were a...
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2009.
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432 pages : map ; 24 cm.
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English
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For Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, returning to the Sussex coast after seven months abroad was especially sweet. There was even a mystery to solve: the disappearance of an entire colony of bees from Holmes' hives. But the sweetness of their homecoming is quickly tempered by the return of a galling memory from the past.
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2009
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305 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Leonid McGill, a New York City private detective, tries to put his past behind him. But it's not that easy when someone like Tony "The Suit" Towers expects you to do a job; when an Albany PI hires you to track down four men known only by their youthful street names; and when your 16-year-old son, Twill, is getting in over his head with a suicidal girl.
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
287 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Inspector Wexford is reminded of his first murder case and his suspicions against Eric Targo when Targo reappears in Kingsmarkham after a long absence; and meanwhile, Wexford's partner's wife suspects Tamima Rahman's parents are forcing her to accept an arranged marriage.
10) Skeleton Hill
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Soho
Pub. Date
2009
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326 p. ; 20 cm.
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English
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On Lansdown Hill near Bath, where a battle between Roundheads and Cavaliers that took place over 350 years ago is reenacted annually, two of the reenactors discover a skeleton that is female, headless, and only about twenty years old. One of them is later found murdered. In the course of his investigation, Peter Diamond butts heads with a group of vigilantes who call themselves the Lansdown Society, discovering in the process that his boss is a member....
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages : map ; 25 cm.
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English
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Maintaining tenuous contact only by means of coded messages and cryptic notes with her husband, Sherlock Holmes, and with Holmes' young granddaughter in her safekeeping, Russell will have to call on instincts she didn't know she had as the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice.
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Viking
Pub. Date
2011
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229 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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"In Atherton's sixteenth mystery, Lori Shepherd returns from Down Under to her normal life in the village of Finch. But Lori's normal quickly becomes anything but. Her debonair father-in-law has moved to town and is renovating Fairworth House, a grand estate nearby. William Sr. expects a quiet, small-town life, but among the spinsters vying for his attention, shifty servants, and the discovery of a mysterious painting of a family tree in Fairworth's...
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
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x, 217 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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English
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As a wave of spring tilling and planting sweeps over Crozet, Virginia, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen is especially excited: this is her first year harvesting grapes to sell. But then a health crisis sends her reeling into the forbidding world of hospitals and doctors, treatments and procedures. Although surviving this journey will be tough, Harry will have lots of support. Others will have worse luck.
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages : illustrated, map ; 25 cm.
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English
Description
At the request of Scotland Yard, Mary Russell travels undercover to the set of English silent-film megalomaniac Randolph Fflytte's latest cinematic extravaganza, Pirate King, based on Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance. The company starts rehearsals in Lisbon, but when the crew embarks for Morocco and the actual filming, Russell senses ominous currents of trouble. As movie make-believe becomes true terror, Russell and Holmes themselves...
15) Broken Harbor
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Mick "Scorcherˮ Kennedy is the star of the Dublin Murder Squad. He plays by the books and plays hard, and thatʼs how the biggest case of the year ends up in his hands. On one of the half-abandoned "luxuryˮ developments that litter Ireland, Patrick Spain and his two young children have been murdered. His wife, Jenny, is in intensive care. At first, Scorcher thinks itʼs going to be an easy solve, but too many small things canʼt be explained: the...
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
266 pages: map ; 24 cm.
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English
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The shadows of war are drawing over the ancient city of
Fez, and Holmes badly wants the wisdom and courage of his wife, whom he's learned, to his horror, has gone missing.
As Holmes searches for her, and Russell, suffering a
temporary memory loss, searches for her"self," each tries
to crack deadly parallel puzzles before it's too late for
them, for Africa, and for the peace of Europe.
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
465 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Enforcing discipline among the ranks is more critical than ever now that ground commanders are questioning Hitler's assertion that Germany will win this war. Bernie Gunther investigates Polish mass graves in an attempt to clear the Wehrmacht's name from the atrocity and keep it from being tried for the war crime. All Bernie has to do is prove Russian involvement, and Germany may once again have a fighting chance.
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Viking
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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When a finely wrought silver sleigh figurine turns up in her thrift shop, Lori Shepherd recognizes it instantly. It was the object that mesmerized the sweet but very poor nine-year-old Daisy Pickering at Sproggton Manor, the bizarre Jacobean house-turned-museum Lori recently visited with her twin sons. Hoping to avoid any real commotion, Lori decides to speak with the museum curator, who turns out to be oddly uninterested in the theft. But there's...
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"Paris, France: September 1929. For Harris Stuyvesant, the assignment is a private investigator’s dream—he’s getting paid to troll the cafés and bars of Montparnasse, looking for a pretty young woman. Here name is Philippa Crosby, and she's a twenty-two year old from Boston who has been living in Paris, modeling and acting. As Stuyvesant follows Philippa’s trail through the expatriate community of artists and writers, he crosses paths with...
20) Ordinary grace
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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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