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Taming A Sea-Horse

Robert B. Parker Β· 250 pages

Spenser looks for beautiful, blond April Kyle, a hooker hooked on the wrong guy.

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The Monkey's Raincoat

Robert Crais Β· 245 pages

When Los Angeles private detective Elvis Cole investigates the disappearance of Ellen Lang's husband and young son, he stumbles into a bizarre nightmare of high-level intrigue, missing drugs, and murder in Hollywood's seamy underworld.

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The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler Β· 220 pages

Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, which involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder

Private InvestigatorMissing PersonDetective FictionDialogue-Heavy
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The Silkworm

J.K. Rowling Β· 464 pages

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done before--and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a

Missing PersonPrivate InvestigatorDialogue-HeavyDetective Fiction
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Prisoner's Base

Rex Stout Β· 209 pages

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Moonlight Mile

Dennis Lehane Β· 368 pages

Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case. The pair risked everything to find the young girl, only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home. Now Amanda is sixteen and gone again. A stellar student, brilliant but al

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Fade Away

Harlan Coben Β· 368 pages

For sports agent Myron Bolitar, the disappearance of a man he'd once competed against was bringing back memories--of the sport he and Greg Downing had both played and the woman they both loved. Now, among the stars, the wanna-bes, the gamblers and groupies, Myron is unraveling the strange, violent life of a sports hero gone wrong, and coming face-to-face with a past he can't relive, and a present

Missing PersonPrivate InvestigatorDetective FictionWitty Banter
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The Wrong Side of Goodbye

Michael Connelly Β· 392 pages

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Robert B. Parker's Wonderland

Ace Atkins Β· 306 pages

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Dream Town

David Baldacci Β· 421 pages

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Robert B. Parker's Slow Burn

Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker Β· 365 pages

The fire at a boarded-up Catholic church raged hot and fast, lighting up Boston's South End and killing three firefighters who were trapped in the inferno. A year later, as the city prepares to honor their sacrifice, there are still no answers about how the deadly fire started. Boston firefighter Jack McGee, who lost his best friend in the blaze, suspects arson, and is convinced department investi

Private InvestigatorDialogue-HeavyDetective FictionCrime
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Tonight I Said Goodbye

Michael Koryta Β· 305 pages

In this haunting, cleverly constructed, brilliantly plotted debut novel, private investigators Lincoln Perry and his partner Joe Pritchard are hired to find the wife and child of a man found dead in an upscale Cleveland suburb-was it suicide, or was it murder?Crusty old John Weston hires partners Lincoln Perry and Joe Pritchard to investigate both the death of his son, Wayne, and the disappearance

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The Far Side of the Dollar

Ross Macdonald Β· 220 pages

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Innocent Monster

Reed Farrel Coleman Β· 291 pages

Seven years have passed since the brutal murder that tore Moe Prager's family apart, when his estranged daughter Sarah comes to him with a request he cannot refuse. Sashi Bluntstone, an eleven-year-old art prodigy and daughter of Sarah's dearest childhood friend, has been abducted. As Moe stumbles around the fringes of the New York art scene, he discovers that suspects abound beyond the usual pred

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Seven Up

Janet Evanovich Β· 354 pages

Stephanie Plum has problems. Grandma Mazur's gambling partner, Eddie Dachooch, was found toes-up on his kitchen floor, dead from a shotgun blast. But when Grandma goes to the viewing, she doesn't recognize the man in the casket. She drags Stephanie along to find the missing dead body. But Stephanie's mind is on other matters because she has two proposals to consider: vice cop Joe Morelli is propos

Missing PersonPrivate InvestigatorCrimeDialogue-Heavy
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A Catskill Eagle

Robert B. Parker, Robin A.H. Waterfield Β· 320 pages

In the detective business, Spenser sometimes has to bend the law, sometimes break it. His best friend, Hawk, faces a life sentence, and Susan is in even bigger trouble. Now Spencer has to free them both.

Private InvestigatorDialogue-HeavyDetective FictionWitty Banter
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The Last Place You Look

Kristen Lepionka Β· 336 pages

"Nobody knows what happened to Sarah Cook. The beautiful blonde teenager disappeared fifteen years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend Brad Stockton--black and from the wrong side of the tracks--was convicted of the murders and is now on death row. Though he's maintained his innocence all along, the clock is running out. His execution i

Missing PersonPrivate InvestigatorDetective FictionCrime
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Out on the Cutting Edge

Lawrence Block Β· 288 pages

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The A.B.C. Murders

Agatha Christie Β· 252 pages

There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way though the alphabet. There seems little chance of the murderer being caught - until her makes the crucial and vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot to frustrate his plans . . .

Private InvestigatorDetective FictionDialogue-HeavyCrime
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P is for Peril

Sue Grafton Β· 361 pages

She's every lover's feisty girlfriend. She's every father's courageous daughter. She's every woman's tough, vulnerable, and spirited alter ego. She's Kinsey Millhone, familiar to millions of readers around the globe, and she's back in full stride in P is for Peril, her latest venture into the darker side of the human soul. Mordant, mocking, and deceptively low-key, hers is a voice we know we can t

Missing PersonPrivate InvestigatorDetective FictionFirst Person Narrator
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Arctic-Nation

Juan Diaz Canales, Juanjo Guarnido Β· 72 pages

Missing PersonPrivate InvestigatorDetective FictionCrime
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One Virgin Too Many

Lindsey Davis Β· 356 pages

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The Long-Legged Fly

James Sallis, Carol Lea Benjamin Β· 184 pages

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In Big Trouble

Laura Lippman Β· 342 pages

Tess receives a clipping featuring her musician ex-boyfriend, prompting her to investigate his disappearance and that of the woman who was with him, as well as the victims of a killer who dances to his own deadly tune.

Missing PersonPrivate InvestigatorDetective FictionCrime

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