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"No one liked CC de Poitiers -- not her family, not her lover, not her neighbors in Three Pines. When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is called to investigate CC's sudden death on the day after Christmas, it seems like an impossible murder. How could she have been electrocuted in the middle of a frozen lake in the midst of Three Pines annual curling match without anyone seeing a thing? In the beautiful but deadly Quebec winter, Gamache digs for secrets...
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 7
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LAPD Detective Harry Bosch crosses paths with FBI profiler Terry McCaleb in the most dangerous investigation of their lives. Meanwhile, Terry McCaleb is enjoying an idyllic retirement on Catalina Island when a visit from an old colleague brings his former world rushing back. It's a murder, the unreadable kind of murder he specialized in solving back in his FBI days. The investigation has stalled, and the sheriff's office is asking McCaleb to take...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 11
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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When Kinsey Millhone answers her office door late one night, she lets in more darkness than she realizes. Janice Kepler is a grieving mother who can’t let the death of her beautiful daughter Lorna alone. The police agree that Lorna was murdered, but a suspect was never apprehended and the trail is now ten months cold. Kinsey pieces together Lorna’s young life: a dull day job a the local water treatment plant spiced by sidelines in prostitution...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 17
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19
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A Kinsey Millhone mystery. . . She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on. The woman was young, her hands were bound with a length of wire, there were mulitple stab wounds, and her throat had been slashed. After months of investigation, the case remained unsolved....
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Irene Finney and her four adult children have come together to commemorate their late father's life at a beautiful lakeside getaway. However, past secrets and unfinished jealousies ignite when a corpse is found the day after the ceremony with a slew of possible suspects to blame.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 10
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
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"Ms. Grafton writes a smart story and wraps it up with a wry twist." - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 8
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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.As the Los Angeles Times notes, this audiobook...
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 9
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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10) The last coyote
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 4
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Taking a hard look at his life after a streak of bad luck, LAPD detective Harry Bosch decides to tackle the unsolved decades-old murder of his mother and uncovers a devastating truth
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 12
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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When Kinsey Millhone agrees to do a favor for Henry Pitts, her lovable octogenarian landlord, she literally gets taken for the ride of her life. The family of a recently deceased WWII veteran wants her to find out why the military has no record of his service. All Kinsey has to do, she thinks, is cut through some government red tape. But when the dead man’s house is ransacked and his old army buddy is beaten up, she quickly realizes he was not all...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 9
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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Kinsey Milhone agrees to take over a case left unsolved by her private eye friend when he died and finds that she has to start from square one and defend her life while she is at it
13) One false move
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Myron Bolitar mysteries volume 5
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She's smart, beautiful, and she doesn't need a man to look after her. But sports agent Myron Bolitar has come into her life-big time. Now Myron's next move may be his last- Brenda Slaughter is no damsel in distress. Myron Bolitar is no bodyguard. But Myron has agreed to protect the bright, strong, beautiful basketball star. And he's about to find out if he's man enough to unravel the tragic riddle of her life. Twenty years before, Brenda's mother...
14) The late show
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Renee Ballard novels volume 1
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2017.
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Assigned to the night shift after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor, detective Renee Ballard disobeys orders by continuing to investigate an assault on a prostitute and the death of a woman in a nightclub shooting.
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"In this exciting thriller from Mary Higgins Clark, the #1 New York Times bestselling "Queen of Suspense," a news reporter tries to find her birth mother just as she is assigned to cover the high-profile trial of a woman accused of murdering her wealthy husband. Television journalist Delaney Wright is on the brink of stardom after she begins covering a sensational murder trial for the six p.m. news. She should be thrilled, yet her growing desire...
17) The black echo
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 1
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English
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A Vietnam veteran-turned-detective, Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch discovers the body of a former comrade-in-arms during an investigation and, with the help of an FBI agent, hunts for the murderers on a trail leading back to Saigon.
18) Golden in death
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In Death series volume 50
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2020.
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"Pediatrician Kent Abner received the package at his Greenwich Village townhouse on a beautiful April morning. Inside was a cheap trinket, a golden egg that could be opened into two halves. When he pried it apart, it tool only a moment for the highly toxic ariborne fumes to enter his body--and just a few minutes more to kill him. the return address on the pacage: a fictitious Midtown store called All That Glitters. After Eve Dallas calls the hazmat...
19) Hard eight
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 8
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Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has a problem: 7-year-old Annie Soder and her mother, Evelyn, have disappeared. Evelyn's estranged husband, Steven, is not happy. He and Evelyn signed a child custody bond, and Steven wants the bond money to search for Annie. The money was secured by a mortgage on Evelyn's grandmother's house, and the True Blue Bonds Agency wants to take possession of it.Finding a kidnapped child is not Stephanie's thing. But Evelyn's...
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In Death series volume 52
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The scene in the West Village studio appears to be classic crime-of-passion: two wine glasses by the bed, music playing, and a young sculptor named Ariel Byrd with the back of her head bashed in. But when Dallas tracks down the wealthy Upper East Side woman who called 911, the details don't add up. Gwen Huffman is wealthy, elegant, comforted by her handsome fiancé as she sheds tears over the trauma of finding the body--but why did it take an hour...