Former reporter and Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan is hired by the "Baltimore Beacon-Light" to find the unknown hacker who sneaked a muck-raking story about local business tycoon "Wink" Wynkowski onto the front page, triggering his apparent suicide. But she soon realizes the full story deals with murd ...
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A hardcover edition of a classic early work follows the efforts of private investigator Matthew Scudder to solve the murder of a Manhattan prostitute while struggling to overcome a personal battle with alcoholism. By the author of <IT>All the Flowers Are Dying<RO>.
Private detective partners Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find Jenna Angeline, a missing black cleaning woman who allegedly stole confidential state documents, but as their investigation becomes complicated by rival gang leaders, extortion, child prostitution, and assassination reach ...
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Good and bad things seem to be coming in threes for Kinsey Millhone: on her 33rd birthday she moves back into her renovated apartment, gets hired to find an elderly lady supposedly living in the Mojave Desert by herself, and makes the top of ex-con Tyrone Patty's hit list. It's the last that convinc ...
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A house destroyed by arson. A brutally murdered woman. A missing lynx coat. An apartment burgled of valueless papers, another ransacked in a melee of mindless destruction. An more murder. As Millhone digs deeper into the case, she find herself in a nightmarish hall of mirrors in which reality is dis ...
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Back on his home turf of Los Angeles, private investigator Elvis Cole is slap-bang in the middle of a high-profile and controversial murder case. A wealthy restaurateur is accused of murdering his wife, and his hot-shot defence lawyer hires Elvis to find proof that the detective, Angela Rossi, has f ...
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In this absorbing sequel to China Trade, Bill Smith is hired by an old friend to investigate the brutal killing of a young security guard on the Bronx Home for the Aged grounds. Going undercover, Smith wades out into a sea of violence and lies washing up against the old brick building. With the help ...
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Ten years ago, Jackson "Tres" Navarre left San Antonio and the memory of his father's murder behind. Now he's back, looking for answers, but all he finds is mob-style corruption and local politicians out to ruin his homecoming. When his girlfriend turns up missing, Tres must act fast to rescue her, ...
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Former pro-basketball-player turned sports agent, Myron Bolitar, has a chance to get back in the game--sort of. The owner of the New Jersey Dragons wants him to use the skills he developed working for the FBI to find a missing star player. Winner of the 1997 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback ...
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A successful young lawyer is randomly blown away by a deranged derelict at a corner phone booth. Unlicensed P.I. Matt Scudder's curiosity and dedication on the case lead him to dark, unexplored places in his own heart--and to passions and revelations that could destroy everything he loves.
On October 16, 1991, the badly decomposed body of 11-year-old Melissa Moody was found in the woods near Boswell, Oaklahoma. She had been raped and murdered by her uncle, Jesse James Cummings. Only when one of his wives--herself a victim of his abuse--found the strength to turn against him do police ...
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