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Enjoy her wedding shower, or receive a cold dunking? In addition to running her flower shop, planning her wedding, and juggling two mothers who both want to host an elaborate bridal shower, Abby Knight is facing another complication. Her ditzy cousin Jillian asks her and her longtime beau, Marco, a private detective, to find a woman who's gone missing from the exclusive beach house belonging to Jillian's in-laws, the Osbornes. The missing woman is...
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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"A master of the spy genre crafts an exemplary detective novel, starring a former CIA agent turned private investigator, that already has the feel of a classic Robert Littell has been widely praised as one of the best writers in the espionage genre. Now, he's turned his formidable skills towards crime fiction in A Nasty Piece of Work, a novel that has echoes of the great Raymond Chandler. Former CIA agent Lemuel Gunn left the battlefield of Afghanistan...
923) Obsessed
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Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
℗2014.
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English
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Desperate for better ratings, radio psychologist Madeline Blair tells her listeners she's being stalked, unaware that her long-time listener and biggest fan, Seth Brown, will do anything to protect her. When her publicity stunt is revealed, Seth becomes enraged by her deceit and dangerously unhinged. When her friends mysteriously begin to vanish and damning evidence points to Madeline, she turns to private investigator Lizzy Gardner for help. Lizzy...
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2023.
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English
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"Has Philip Marlowe finally met his match? It's early fall when a heatwave descends on Los Angeles. Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the Montgomery estate, an almost mythic place sitting high on top of Beverly Hills. Wealthy socialite Chrissie Montgomery is missing. Young, naïve, and set to inherit an enormous fortune, she's a walking target, ripe for someone to get their claws into. Her dying father and his sultry bottle-blonde girlfriend...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Meddling Kids comes a brilliantly subversive and comic thriller celebrating noir detectives, Die Hard, Fast & Furious, and the worst case of sibling rivalry. You'll find their names on the frosted glass of a dingy office in Fisherman's Wharf. Adrian and Zooey Kimrean. Private Eyes. A.Z., as they are collectively known, are twin brother and sister. He's pure misanthropic logic, she's sloppy hedonistic...
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Ace
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"An all-new Dresden Files story headlines this urban fantasy short story collection starring the Windy City's favorite wizard. The world of Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is rife with intrigue--and creatures of all supernatural stripes. And you'll make their intimate acquaintance as Harry delves into the dark side of truth, justice, and the American way in this must-have short story collection. From the Wild West to the bleachers...
928) The martini shot
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Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
p2015.
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English
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A seasoned claims investigator tracks a supposedly dead man from Miami to Brazil, only to be thrown off his game by a kid from the local slum. An aging loser takes a last stab at respectability by becoming a police informant. A Greek-American couple adopts an interracial trio of sons and then struggles to keep their family together, giving us a stirring bit of background on one of Pelecanos' most beloved protagonists, Spero Lucas. In the title novella--which...
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Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this. Hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape who ran away from home to become an actress, Bell gets a shock when her murdered body turns up instead. Vowing to bring the killer to justice, he begins a manhunt which leads him into increasingly more alarming territory...Anna Pape was not alone in her fate--petite...
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"In the latest captivating installment of M.L. Longworth's acclaimed Verlaque & Bonnet Provencıal Mystery series, the newlywed investigators contend with their most sinister challenge yet: a centuries-old curse ... Chef Bear Valets has just opened his own restaurant, La Fontaine, in Aix-en-Provence. It's an immediate success--great reviews and a loyal clientele, including Verlaque and Bonnet. But when he decides to extend his restaurant's seating...
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Forge Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"Chicago, September 1964. Beatlemania sweeps the nation, the Vietnam War looms, and the Warren Commission prepares to blame a "lone-nut" assassin for the killing of President John F. Kennedy. But as the post-Camelot era begins, a suspicious outbreak of suicides, accidental deaths, and outright murders decimates assassination witnesses. When Nathan Heller and his son are nearly run down on a city street, the private detective wonders if he himself...
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Isaac Bell novels volume 9
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, A part of Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special "Black Hand Squad," but the gangsters appear to be everywhere--so much so that Bell begins to wonder if there are imitators, criminals using the name for the terror effect. And then the murders begin, each one of a man more powerful than the last, and...
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Bellman noir trilogy volume 2
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English
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"The year is 1794. A young nobleman, Eric Three Roses, languishes in hospital. Some think he would be at home in the madhouse across the road. Ridden with guilt, he spends his nights writing down memories of his lost love who died on their wedding night. Her mother also mourns her and when no one listens to her suspicions, she begs the aid of the only person who will listen: Jean Mickel Cardell, the one-armed watchman. Cecil Winge is six months in...
934) Her last goodbye
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Morgan Dane novels volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Young mother Chelsea Clark leaves the house for a girls' night out... and vanishes. Her family knows she would never voluntarily leave her two small children. Her desperate husband--the prime suspect--hires attorney Morgan Dane to find his wife and prove his innocence. She teams up with private investigator Lance Kruger--unaware she has become the next target"--
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Elvis Cole and Joe Pike novel volume 9-10
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Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2005?]
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English
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Presenting two Elvis Cole mysteries and a stand-alone thriller from writer Robert Crais. THE LAST DETECTIVE: When the son of Elvis Cole's girlfriend is abducted, Elvis and his enigmatic partner Joe Pike are forced to consider a troubling lead--one indicating that Ben's disappearance is connected to a terrible, long-held secret from Elvis Cole's past. THE FORGOTTEN MAN: Elvis Cole turns to pal Joe Pike for help when a dying man claims to be Cole's...
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Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
℗2002-℗2004
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English
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Light in shadow: Interior designer Zoe Luce specializes in working with recently divorced clients. Suspecting that one of them harbors a dark secret, she enlists P.I. Ethan Truax to uncover the truth. Truth or dare: Newlyweds Zoe Luce and Ethan Truax both have secrets it would be better not to share, but it isn't clear that their new relationship can bear the burden. Falling awake: After being fired from the Belvedere Center for Sleep Research, dream...
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"CHRISTMAS COCOA MURDER by CARLENE O'CONNOR Siobhan O'Sullivan's hopes for a quiet Irish Christmas are dashed when the local Santa turns up dead in a carnival dunk tank of hot cocoa. Now instead of hunting down holiday gifts, she's pursuing a heartless killer. Seems the dead Santa was no angel either, stealing neighborhood dogs to guide his sleigh. But was it his holiday antics-or worse-that led to his death by chocolate? CHRISTMAS COCOA AND A CORPSE...
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Darkness and Light Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"If the marshlands could speak, whose name would they whisper? On Memorial Day,1992, three decorated Navy officers disappeared in the sleepy beach town of Hansville, Washington. Thirty years later, their medals were found in the marshlands of Foulweather Bluff. So were their bones. For private investigator Thomas Austin, this case hits close to home. The son of a JAG lawyer, Austin grew up around the Navy. To solve the case, he must piece together...
939) By gaslight: a novel
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Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"A literary tour de force of a detective's ceaseless hunt for an elusive criminal By Gaslight is a deeply atmospheric, haunting novel about the unending quest that has shaped a man's life. William Pinkerton is already famous, the son of the most notorious detective of all time, when he descends into the underworld of Victorian London in pursuit of a new lead on the fabled con Edward Shade. William's father died without ever finding Shade, but William...
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Isaac Bell novels volume 13
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"In the summer of 1914, Detective Isaac Bell is asked to investigate a cache of missing rifles but discovers something much more sinister. Whoever broke into this Winchester factory wasn't looking to take weapons; they wanted to leave a radio transmitter, set to summon a fleet of dreaded German U-boats. Someone is trying to keep American supplies from reaching British shores. Bell must hunt down a new piece of technology that is allowing the Germans...
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