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After a 12-year-old Irish lad and his two pals fail to return from a day in the woods, searchers find only the terrified sixth grader--with blood-filled shoes and no memory of what happened. Now 32, the tragedy's sole survivor Rob Ryan is a detective on Dublin's Murder Squad. A current investigation takes Rob to the exact site of his childhood trauma. With the present case chillingly similar to his 20-year-old nightmare, Rob hopes to unlock the shrouded...
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When the bones of a 12-year-old boy are found scattered in the Hollywood Hills, Harry Bosch is drawn into a case that brings up the darkest memories from his own haunted past. The bones have been buried for years, but the cold case doesn't deter Bosch. Unearthing hidden stories, he finds the child's identity and reconstructs his fractured life, determined that he not be forgotten. At the same time, a new love affair with a female cop begins to blossom...
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The Edgar Award–winning debut of the bestselling Max Freeman mystery series: A tormented ex-cop’s mission to solve a grisly murder and earn redemption for his dark past
After a shootout during a convenience store holdup led to the accidental death of a twelve-year-old, Max Freeman left behind the Philadelphia police department for a life in exile in the Florida Everglades. Since then, he has lived in seclusion, haunted...Author
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Harper Connelly mysteries volume 2
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While demonstrating her unique talent of finding the dead and seeing their final moments of life, Harper Connelly discovers two bodies in a single grave, and joins forces with her stepbrother Tolliver to find the killer. --
7) Hotwire
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In western Nebraska, what starts as a group of teens filming their drug-fueled party ends explosively, leaving victims apparently electrocuted with odd scorch marks. As Special Agent Maggie O'Dell sorts reality from hallucination in their stories, she realizes that the survivors are being eliminated. On the East Coast, her partner R. J. Tully and Army colonel Ben Platt investigate a deadly pathogen outbreak - a case that will soon collide with hers....
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It's 1965 in a tight-knit working-class neighborhood in Queens, New York, and Ruth Malone--a single mother who works long hours as a cocktail waitress--wakes to discover her two small children, Frankie Jr. and Cindy, have gone missing. Later that day, Cindy's body is found in a derelict lot a half mile from her home, strangled. Ten days later, Frankie Jr.'s decomposing body is found. Immediately, all fingers point to Ruth. As police investigate the...
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"As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck,...
11) The Judas child
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When two schoolgirls are abducted in New York State, the second girl lured by a note from the first, bells ring in Detective Kendall's head as years earlier his sister was lured in that manner. Was the wrong man convicted in her death?
12) The stonecutter
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When a young girl's body is pulled from the harbor in the small Swedish resort town of Fjallbacka, Detective Patrik Hedstrom becomes the lead investigator as he struggles with lazy and inept colleagues and an even remoter-than-usual boss. It's his grim task to discover who could be behind the murder of the child both he and his partner Erica knew well.
13) Cemetery girl
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"Tom and Abby Stuart had everything: a perfect marriage, successful careers, and a beautiful twelve-year-old daughter, Caitlin. Then one day Caitlin vanished without a trace. For a while they grasped at every false hope and followed every empty lead, but the tragedy ended up changing their lives, overwhelming them with guilt and dread, and shattering their marriage. Four years later, Caitlin is found alive--dirty and disheveled yet preternaturally...
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In 1956, Ava Lark rents a house with her twelve-year-old son, Lewis, in a desirable Boston suburb. Ava is beautiful, divorced, Jewish, and a working mom. She finds her neighbors less than welcoming. Lewis yearns for his absent father, befriending the only other fatherless kids: Jimmy and Rose. One afternoon, Jimmy goes missing. The neighborhood--in the throes of Cold War paranoia--seizes the opportunity to further ostracize Ava and her son. Years...
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"It's been only a few months since forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway found herself entangled in a missing-child case, barely escaping with her life. But when construction workers demolishing a large old mansion to make way for a new development uncover the bones of a child beneath a doorway, minus its skull, Ruth is once again called upon to investigate. Is it a Roman-era ritual sacrifice, or is the killer closer at hand? When carbon dating proves...
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When Pope Alexander dispatches a Vatican courtesan, Damiata, to the remote fortress city of Imola to learn the truth behind the murder of his most beloved illegitimate son, she cannot fail, for the scheming Borgia pope holds her own son hostage. When Damiata becomes a pawn in the political intrigues of the pope's surviving son, she enlists obscure Florentine diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli and eccentric military engineer Leonardo da Vinci to help decipher...
17) Terrified
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Megan Keeler died years ago--or so everyone believes. In fact, she disappeared to escape from her sadistic husband, Glenn. When dismembered body parts were found near their home, Glenn was convicted of his wife's murder. And Megan, terrified for her unborn child's safety, never came forward with the truth...Since then, Megan has built a new life in Seattle for herself and her son, Josh. She's never forgotten that she's a fugitive, and Josh knows nothing...
18) The hiding place
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Set in the time surrounding the 25th anniversary of four-year-old Justin Manning's disappearance. The man convicted of Justin's murder has served his time and is no longer in jail; Detective Stynes, the police officer who initially investigated the case, is getting closer to retirement and reflecting on past mistakes; and the remaining members of the Manning family are all under one roof again. Soon, years of deceit will be swept away, and the truth...
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Fresh out of Cambridge University, the young Mycroft Holmes is already making a name; for himself in government, working for the Secretary of State for War. Yet this most British of civil servants has strong ties to the faraway island of Trinidad, the birthplace of his best friend, Cyrus Douglas, a man of African descent, and where his fiancée Georgiana Sutton was raised. Mycroft's comfortable existence is overturned when Douglas receives troubling...
20) Kiss me, kill me
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Secrets of Shadow Falls novel volume 3
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A long-ago act of kindness to a desperate woman changed Dr. Carrie Overton's life forever. Before disappearing, the grateful stranger had given Carrie her newborn son. When the woman is murdered, the secret becomes Carrie's alone. She has kept both it and her son, Sam, safe for sixteen years. But now a friend of Sam's has gone missing. The police believe he's a runaway, until he's found dead. Then another teen disappears, and talk turns to that long-ago...