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1) CLETE
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Clete Purcel, private investigator, ex-member of the New Orleans Police Department, and war veteran with a hard shell and just a few soft spots, is Dave Robicheaux's longtime friend and partner in detective work. But he has a troubled past. When Clete leaves his car at the local car wash, only to return to find it ransacked by a group of thugs tied to the drug trade from Mexican cartels to Louisiana, it feels personal, his grandniece died of a fentanyl...
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Penn Cage is alone, until a music festival triggers a mass shooting. That propels Southern war hero Bobby White into a run for the 2024 presidential election, stoking Black vs. white, states vs. federal government, democracy vs. fascism. Penn, with his daughter, and joined by an ex-con, must expose White's secrets before the America of our Constitution slides into the abyss.
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2024.
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In Invisible Woman, a dangerous secret held for too long between estranged best friends rises to the surface, and a long marriage comes apart with devastating consequences. Joni Ackerman's decision to raise children, 25 years ago, came at a steep cost. She was then a pioneering filmmaker, one of the few women to break into the all-male Hollywood club of feature film directors. But she and her husband Paul had always wanted a family, and his ascending...
5) If you dare
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2015.
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Equal parts Dexter The rules are the same. I can't open the door. I can't leave. I can't kill anyone. The only difference is, I don't set the rules anymore. Guards in grey uniforms do. It is everything I never wanted and everything I always deserved. I write to you now, from a prison cell. My home for the next twenty to thirty years. That's the going term for murder.
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"In the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay, a teacher's act of heroism inadvertently makes him the target of a dangerous blackmailer who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. How would you react in a life-or-death situation? It's a question everyone asks themselves, but few have to face in real life. English teacher Richard Boyle certainly never thought he would find himself talking down a former student intent...
7) The teacher
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Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal with one student, Addie, at its center. And this year, math teacher Eve is dismayed to find the girl in her class. Addie can't be trusted. She lies, hurts people, and destroys lives. At least, that's what everyone says. But nobody knows the real Addie. Nobody knows the secrets that could destroy her if people at the school found out. And when Eve discovers the truth, Addie will do anything to keep her...
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This pulse-pounding, brilliantly twisting new historical thriller is a gripping tale that will leave you questioning everything.
September 1943: Berlin is the heart of darkness—and the last place Dr. Elin Lund wishes to be. An expert in psychological profiling, she's been summoned from Copenhagen to investigate the gruesome murders of eight young women. Even in the midst of unspeakable evil, these killings stand apart....
September 1943: Berlin is the heart of darkness—and the last place Dr. Elin Lund wishes to be. An expert in psychological profiling, she's been summoned from Copenhagen to investigate the gruesome murders of eight young women. Even in the midst of unspeakable evil, these killings stand apart....
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"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm-except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...
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Melville House
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2024.
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Nate Evers, a young black political activist, struggles with rage as his people are still being killed in the streets. When his little cousin is murdered, Nate shuns the graffiti murals, candlelight vigils, and Twitter hashtags that are commonplace after these senseless deaths. Instead, he leads 3 grief-stricken friends on a mission of retribution, kidnapping the descendants of long-ago perpetrators of hate crimes, confronting the targets with their...
11) Camino ghosts
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Camino Island novels volume 3
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"In this new thriller on Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of a deserted island between Florida and Georgia. Only the last living inhabitant of the island, Lovely Jackson, stands in its way. What the developer doesn't know is that the island has a remarkable history, and locals...
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A Teresa Battaglia novel volume 3
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2023.
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Superintendent Teresa Battaglia, a trailblazing criminal detective on the Italian police force, is on sick leave, recovering from her recent brush with death in pursuit of a killer. But none of her colleagues-not even her partner, Inspector Marini-know that her Alzheimer's is getting worse, and that Teresa is unsure she will ever return to work. Teresa's plans for retirement are shelved, however, when she is urgently summoned to meet with serial killer...
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A boy and his father watch a German submarine sink an oil tanker as evil forces try to ruin their family. A girl is beaten up outside a bar as her father navigates new love and threats from a group of neo-Nazis. A pair of undercover union organizers are hired to break colts for a Hollywood actor, whose 'Western hero' facade hides darkness. An oil rig workers witnesses an attack on a local village while on a job in South America and seeks justice through...
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Detective Kara Quinn is back in Los Angeles to testify against a notorious human trafficker, finally moving past the case that upended her life. But when the accused is shot in broad daylight, the chaotic scene of the crime turns up few reliable bystanders. And one witness, a whistleblower who might be the key to everything, has disappeared. After another person close to the case is killed, it's clear that anyone who knows too much is in danger, and...
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A mysterious fog annihilates the world, leaving only one idyllic island untouched. When a scientist is murdered, the islanders must solve the crime to prevent the encroaching fog from engulfing them. With memories wiped clean, they race against time to unmask the killer before the island succumbs to darkness. Tension mounts as suspicion and fear grip the community, setting the stage for a thrilling battle against an unseen adversary.
16) She's not sorry
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Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working full time as an ICU nurse, when a patient named Caitlin arrives in her ward with a traumatic brain injury. They say she jumped from a bridge and plunged over twenty feet to the train tracks below. When a witness comes forward with new details about Caitlin's fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was a crime committed? Did someone actually push Caitlin, and...
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Tikiri Herath
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2023
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Tick Tock. The clock is ticking. In the shadows, a killer is lurking.
A naked female corpse smashes against the rough ocean waves, fifty yards from the rocky shore.
FBI Special Agent Tanya Stone jumps in to retrieve it before the tide pulls it away. But an eerie dread ripples through her as she approaches the floating body.
The victim's head is missing....
A sinister cloud looms over this upscale seaside
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Eric Crowther collected secrets and used them as weapons. Delighting in nothing more than torturing those around him with what he knew, there is no shortage of suspects when he is found dead in the White Cottage. Chief Inspector Challenor and his son Jerry will have to look deep into everyone's past-- including the victim's-- before they can be sure who has pulled the trigger. The fact that Jerry is in love with one of the suspects, however, might...
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Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond his wildest dreams rich. The former dock worker, Irish mob soldier and fugitive from the law is now a respected businessman ; a Las Vegas casino mogul and billionaire silent partner in a group that owns two lavish hotels. Finally, Danny has it all: a beautiful house, a child he adores, a woman he might even fall in love with. Life is good. But then Danny reaches too far. When he tries to buy an old hotel on a prime...
20) Crosshairs
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2024.
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NYC detective Michael Bennett teams up with a former Army Ranger and sniper whose long, unexplained absences from duty causes suspicions during the investigation of a serial killer.