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1) At any cost
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Inspector Kaldis mystery volume 13
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"Chief Inspector Kaldis is initially dismayed to be asked to investigate a series of suspicious forest fires that took place last summer. In Greece, forest fires are an inevitability, and he fears he and his team are being set up to take the political blame for this year's blazes.He quickly becomes suspicious, though, that the forests were torched for profit - and for a project on a far grander scale than the usual low-level business corruption. There...
2) The hunter
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Cal Hooper volume 2
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"It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....
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"This latest installment will likely satisfy Quinn and Costa's loyal followers and attract those curious about the interplay between public policy, law enforcement, and politics." —Booklist
When a key witness goes missing, Quinn & Costa must find her before a killer silences her for good...
Detective Kara Quinn is back in Los Angeles to testify against a notorious human trafficker,...
When a key witness goes missing, Quinn & Costa must find her before a killer silences her for good...
Detective Kara Quinn is back in Los Angeles to testify against a notorious human trafficker,...
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An elusive gang leader and his minions frighten London and frustrate Scotland Yard in this classic crime thriller.
The secret organization whose members were known only as "the Frogs" was the subject of rumors and jokes-until serious crimes began to occur, one after another. The perpetrators, once caught, were found to bear tattooed frogs on their wrists and kept their mouths firmly shut, and the populace grew terrified of them.
The police were frustrated...
5) Cold Blood
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A missing child cold case. One man determined to solve the mystery. When DCI Liam Bennet receives an unexpected message from Lorraine, his ex-partner, he hopes that she wants to reconnect with Joe, their ten-year-old son. But all she wants is his help. She's part of a small film crew investigating a cold case in her home village of Lampton and she wants Bennet to access police files. He wants no part of it. But when Joe learns his mother has been...
6) The Bait
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In this novel, a dedicated cop becomes the ultimate prey when a serial killer gets out on bail It begins when New York Police Department Detective Second-Grade Christie Opara arrests a man on the subway for indecent exposure. Within hours, Murray Rogoff, a burly giant, his crazed stare concealed behind thick glasses, is out on bail. Soon after, the body of a young dancer is found stashed behind the stairway of a Bronx apartment building. The girl...
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Gilles Sebag novels volume 2
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Inspector Sebag is a policeman in the South of France with an unparalleled sixth sense, who excels at slipping into the skin of killers and hunting them down. However, when a retired French Algerian cop is discovered in his apartment with the symbol OAS left near his body and few indications who killed him or why, Sebag's skills are put to the test. Days later, when a controversial monument is destroyed and another French Algerian is shot down, Sebag...
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Searching for a missing society matron, Hastings finds danger amid the upper crust In a glamorous part of San Francisco, a maid has been strangled to death. Frank Hastings stands over the body, knowing it will be a long day. But before finishing with the crime scene, he gets another call-an officer has been shot, and Hastings must lead the tactical squad. By lunchtime, the boy who shot the officer is dead, and Hastings is hungry for an easy assignment....
9) Dead Aim
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A pair of murders leaves Hastings torn between following his orders and listening to his gut After nearly a decade as a San Francisco cop, Frank Hastings is becoming something of a stranger to kindness. He feels perfectly at home in the Draper household-a rundown Victorian not far from the streets on which he grew up-where a social worker has been beaten to death by a man hiding in the bushes. The crime looks like a mugging, but something in the husband's...
10) Least of Evils
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A shooting on an estate puts DCI Percy Peach on the trail of a brutal ganglord…-When a young man is found with gunshot wounds outside the Thorley Grange estate, DCI Percy Peach is immediately on the case. The estate has recently been taken over by Oliver Ketley, a generous local benefactor leading a double life as a ruthless ganglord. Peach quickly sets out to find the connection between him and the injured man, but Ketley faces much bigger problems:...
11) Kill for It
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When an undercover op goes wrong, John Bolt loses his partner, and his pants. It's cold in New York when federal narcotics agents Bolt and Kramer come to meet Angel Jarín, a dealer with a big mouth and a bigger supply. Masquerading as Detroit pushers, the agents are close to arranging a buy when Angel turns the tables on them. Three hoods dressed as cops ambush Bolt and Kramer in an alley, forcing them to strip naked and hand over their cash. Bolt...
12) Definitely Dead
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Can you always trust the evidence? Maya Barton has just embarked on her dream job as a scene of crime officer. When she attends her first death the post-mortem deems it to be non-suspicious and the case is closed. But despite the lack of evidence, she suspects a crime has been committed. Meanwhile, the police force focus on a mission to bring a criminal gang to justice. When Maya is called to another apparent sudden death her reservations resurface....
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The oil derrick decorations. The old Crim Theatre. The red-white-and-blue precision of the Kilgore Rangerettes. Nothing much changes in little old Kilgore, Texas. And that's just the way Kilgore police officer Bubba Gantry likes it. But small town peace and quiet is a thing of the past when local AC repairman Eddie Valentine and his dog, Root Beer, swear that their neighbor is a real-life broomstick-riding, pointy-hat-wearing, weird-stuff-boiling...
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Kriminalhauptkommissar Kullmann steht kurz vor seiner Pensionierung. Ausgerechnet jetzt liegen gleich zwei Fälle auf seinem Tisch, von deren Aufklärung er meilenweit entfernt ist. Einmal handelt es sich um den Fenstersturz mit Todesfolge von Luise Spengler, wofür Kullmann mehr Einsatz zeigt, als sonst üblich. Zum anderen treibt ein Polizistenmörder sein Unwesen. Er hat bereits den Kollegen Walter Nimmsgern auf dem Gewissen und schlägt wieder...
15) Kill the Dragon
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Only Bolt can save New York from an alliance between the Chinese and Italian mobs. In a dank Chinatown gymnasium, a dragon prepares for the parade. As the teenagers inside the monster practice its ungainly walk, four Sun Eagles surround them and open fire. Trapped inside the dragon, the small-timers never have a chance. For the crime of stealing Sun Eagle heroin, they die on the gymnasium floor. The hit puts the Sun Eagles at the top of the Chinatown...
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Commissario Ricciardi novels volume 7
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In the middle of a summer heat wave, as Naples prepares for one of its most important holy days, a renowned surgeon falls to his death from the window of his office. For Commissario Ricciardi and Brigadier Maione it is the beginning of an investigation that will bring them into contact with the most torrid, conflicting and enduring of human passions. In the world Ricciardi and Maione are about to enter, infidelity appears inextricable from the most...
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A tough Irish cop. A prostitute. A massive cover-up that stretches to the highest levels of law enforcement... and its fatal impact on three generations of a New York police family. Harlem, just before midnight. A New York Police Department cop and his partner pull up in front of a tenement. A short while later, Sergeant Brian O'Malley is dead from a stab wound to the jugular, and a prostitute has fallen down an airshaft to oblivion. A few years...
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"Secrets Among The Stones", the reviting 4th book in "The Pineworth Chronicles" series, is a story set in the small town of Pineworth. Detective Alex Bennett gets caught up in a complicated situation involving secrets, lies, and a murder. After a well-known resident named Henry Winters is discovered dead, the once-peaceful town is thrown into chaos. The story takes unexpected turns as Alex follows leads and uncovers hidden connections while navigating...
19) Casting Bones
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Introducing New Orleans homicide detective Quentin Archer in the first of a brand-new mystery series. When a prominent New Orleans judge is brutally murdered, former Detroit cop Quentin Archer is handed the case. His enquiries will lead him into a world of darkness and mysticism which underpins the carefree atmosphere of the Big Easy. Interrogating crooked police officers, a pickpocket, a bartender with underground contacts and a swamp dweller, Archer...
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Chief Inspector Woodend mysteries volume 2
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Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend and his loyal sergeant tackle a murder with as many suspects as there are clues in this tight puzzler. Swann's Lake, 1960. When Robbie Peterson, a criminal-turned-club-owner, is found dead in his office, a six-inch nail driven deep into his skull, Chief Inspector Woodend and Sergeant Bob Rutter are brought up from London to investigate. Why was Robbie's office broken into twice on the day of his funeral? What caused...
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