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When news of the discovery of gold at Alder Creek sweeps through camp, Killer Kells and his infamous Border Legion are ready to descend on the helpless prospectors. No one will be left alive to tell how or by whom he is robbed. But they hadn't reckoned on two people: Jim Cleve, a maverick who had taken the Border Legion's bloody oath but secretly rode on the side of the law; and Joan Randle, the outlaw chief's beautiful captive.
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Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 21
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Surprised that a newcomer to the Scottish Highlands has remained steadfast to her new home in spite of an inhospitable winter, constable Hamish Macbeth learns that the woman has deluded herself into believing that she is engaged to a local artist.
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When a perfectly preserved "mummy" is discovered in the dusty basement of Boston's Crispin Museum and an archaeologist turns up missing, medical examiner Maura Isles and Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli have precious little time to derail the Archaeology Killer before he adds another chilling piece to his monstrous collection.
6) The 9th girl
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On a frigid New Year's Eve in Minneapolis a young woman's brutalized body falls from the trunk of a car into the path of oncoming traffic. Questions as to whether she was alive or dead when she hit the icy pavement result in her macabre nickname, Zombie Doe. Unidentified and unidentifiable, she is the ninth nameless female victim of the year, and homicide detectives Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska are charged with the task of not only finding out who Zombie...
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In rural Oregon, two women are found dead after being tortured, battered, and burned. A third woman escapes with evidence that points overwhelmingly to a local man named Alex Mason. Legendary criminal defense attorney, Regina Barrister, takes on the task of defending the man. When Robin Lockwood, a young lawyer, joins the team defending him, she uncovers corruption, lies, and secrets that threaten to shake up not only her firm, but the entire town....
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Daphne Matthews is brought in to investigate the death of a young woman who was pushed off a bridge. Lou Boldt follows the trail of a murderer through Seattle's dangerous underworld. When the investigations suddenly point to the same person, the deception takes an artful turn. --Publisher's comments.
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Detective Harry Bosch, now in the open-unsolved unit, receives a call from the DA telling him a serial killer has confessed to several murders. Harry must interview the man about a case he couldn't crack involving the murder of a 22-year-old woman whose body was never found.
11) The precipice
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When two young female hikers disappear in the Hundred Mile Wilderness--the most remote stretch along the entire two-thousand mile Appalachian Trail--Maine game warden Mike Bowditch joins the search to find them. The police interview everyone they can find who came in contact with the college students and learn that the women were lovers who had been keeping their relationship secret from their Evangelical parents in Georgia. When two corpses are discovered--the...
12) 206 bones
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There are 206 bones in the human body. Forensic anthropologists know them intimately, can read in them stories of brief or long lives and use them to reconstruct every kind of violent end. 206 Bones opens with Tempe regaining consciousness and discovering that she is in some kind of very small, very dark, very cold enclosed space. She is bound, hands to feet. Who wants Tempe dead, or at least out of the way, and why?
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"In one terrifying moment, Dynah Carey's perfect life is shattered by rape, her future irrevocably altered by an unwanted pregnancy, and her doting family torn apart. Her seemingly rock-solid faith is pushed to the limits as she faces the most momentous choice of her life to embrace or to end the untimely life within her."--Publisher's promotional description.
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Bailey Carpenter is a smart and fearless special investigator. When she’s assigned to spy on a deadbeat dad, she thinks nothing of the danger, only that she needs to gather evidence. Then she is blindsided--attacked and nearly killed. Now the firm grip Bailey once had on her life is shaken. A veritable prisoner in her own home, Bailey is uncertain whom she can trust. But old habits die hard, and soon she finds a new use for her idle binoculars:...
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When Lolo Long's niece Jaya begins receiving death threats, Tribal Police Chief Long calls on Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire along with Henry Standing Bear as lethal backup. Jaya "Longshot" Long is the phenom of the Lame Deer Lady Stars High School basketball team and is following in the steps of her older sister, who disappeared a year previously, a victim of the scourge of missing Native Woman in Indian Country. Lolo hopes that having Longmire...
16) Into the water
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When a single mom and a teen girl are found murdered at the bottom of a river in a small town weeks apart, an ensuing investigation dredges up a complicated local history. After the murders a lonely fifteen-year-old girl, parentless and friendless, finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from, a place to which she vowed she'd never return.
17) The Round House
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"One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface because Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude....
18) Justice
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Criminal attorney Jessica Ford is in the Secret Service's unofficial witness protection program. But winning a high-profile case is not exactly "keeping a low profile." Jess joins her firm's elite defense team, and in her new case, the prosecution's star witness makes revelations involving the son of a U.S. senator. Was the young mother intimidated? Why won't she return Jess's calls?
20) Deadly harvest
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Jeremy Flynn heads to Salem to help his ex-police dive partner when it's assumed he's done away with his wife while on a make-up vacation--she simply disappeared while they were in a local cemetery. Soon, it's discovered that "scarecrows" in a cornfield are created from the corpses of murdered women, and the killer seems to have a fixation on an ancient area legend about the Harvest Man.