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Harm Done

Ruth Rendell · 368 pages

In Britain, a pedophile's house is burned by an angry mob when a girl disappears, the man having been recently released from jail. But Inspector Wexford is not swayed by the obvious and traces the disappearance to the girl's home and her abusive father.

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In a Dark House

Deborah Crombie · 383 pages

An abandoned Southwark warehouse burns next door to a women's shelter for victims of spousal abuse. Within it lies the charred corpse of a female body burned beyond all recognition. At the same time, workers at Guy's Hospital anxiously discuss the disappearance of a hospital administrator -- a beautiful, emotionally fragile young woman who's vanished without a trace.And in an old, dark, rambling L

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The Laughing Policeman

Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo · 240 pages

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Nine Dragons

Michael Connelly · 377 pages

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Stranger In Paradise

Robert B. Parker · 293 pages

Police Chief Jesse Stone faces his most fearsome adversary in the latest addition to the celebrated series.The last time Jesse Stone, chief of police of Paradise, Massachusetts, saw Wilson "Crow" Cromartie, the Apache Indian hit man was racing away in a speedboat after executing one of the most lucrative and deadly heists in the town's history. Crow was part of a team of ex-cons who plotted to cap

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Kill Alex Cross

James Patterson · 384 pages

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Swansong

Damien Boyd

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The Snack Thief

Andrea Camilleri · 336 pages

Suspecting a link between the murder of an elderly man and the shooting of an Italian fisherman, Inspector Montalbano encounters impoverished housekeeper and sometime prostitute Karima, whose thieving young son's life is endangered after she disappears.

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An Accidental Death

Peter Grainger

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Vespers

Ed McBain · 350 pages

When the symbol of a Satanic cult is left at the murder scene of a young Catholic priest, the cops of the 87th Precinct must keep it from becoming the spark which ignites the racial and ethnic tensions smoldering in the city.

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Dregs

Jorn Lier Horst · 310 pages

Chief Inspector William Wisting is an experienced policeman familiar with the dark side of human nature.He lives in challenging times for the Norwegian police force, meeting them with integrity and humanity, and a fragile belief that he can play a part in creating a better world.Dregs begins with a police report giving the place and time of the discovery of a training shoe washed up on the sand, c

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In the Heat of the Night

John Dudley Ball · 186 pages

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A Conspiracy of Faith

Jussi Adler-Olsen · 504 pages

Receiving a sealed bottle with a years-old plea for help by two young victims imprisoned in a boathouse by the sea, Detective Carl Morck follows leads to a desperate woman trapped in a brutal marriage to a man who keeps her in isolation and hides deadly secrets.

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A Cold and Broken Hallelujah

Tyler Dilts · 306 pages

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The Fatherland Files

Volker Kutscher · 578 pages

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Broken Silence

Danielle Ramsay · 416 pages

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Hard Frost

R.D. Wingfield · 464 pages

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An Advancement of Learning

Reginald Hill

A body is discovered buried beneath a statue in the grounds of Holm Coultram College. Superintendent Andy Dalziel and Sergeant Peter Pascoe get started on the case. Only, just as they think they have solved one problem, a second body turns up.

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Firewall

Henning Mankell · 472 pages

Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenaged girls. Quickly apprehended they appal local policemen with their total lack of remorse.Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenaged girls. Qu

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Dead Like You

Peter James

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Blood at the Root

Peter Robinson · 296 pages

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The Redbreast

Jo Nesbo · 519 pages

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St. Albans Fire

Archer Mayor · 310 pages

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Powers: Definitive Collection, Vol. 1

Brian Michael Bendis · 456 pages

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