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Big Red Tequila

Rick Riordan · 386 pages

Everything in Texas is bigger...even murder. Meet Jackson 'Tres' Navarre--tequila drinker, tai chi master, and unlicensed P.I., with a penchant for Texas-size trouble. Ten years ago Navarre left San Antonio and the memory of his father's murder behind him. Now he's back, looking for answers.

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The Monkey's Raincoat

Robert Crais · 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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Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca?

G.M. Ford · 314 pages

When an old gangster friend of Leo's father makes a request he "can't refuse," Leo and his band of drunks, delve into the world of environmental politics in search of Caroline Nobel, a spoiled brat, without the sense God gave a gopher. With the help of "the Boys" -- a group of aging winos who are his modern day "Baker Street Irregulars" -- Leo fights Native American tribal politics, industrial pol

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Colt

Jude Hardin · 196 pages

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McNally's Secret

Lawrence Sanders · 341 pages

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Bullet for a Star

Stuart M. Kaminsky · 192 pages

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Blast from the Past

Kinky Friedman · 244 pages

A blow on the head sends PI Kinky Friedman back in time to his early days as a private eye. One of his first cases involved his girlfriend, Judy, claiming to have seen her old lover, Tom, alive. Officially, he was killed during the Vietnam War and was buried with full military honors.

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Dead Wood

Dani Amore, Dan Ames · 258 pages

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Back Spin

Harlan Coben · 368 pages

Kidnappers have snatched the teenage son of super-star golfer Linda Coldren and her husband, Jack, an aging pro, at the height of the U.S. Open. To help get the boy back, sports agent Myron Bolitar goes charging after clues and suspects from the Main Line mansions to a downtown cheaters' motel--and back in time to a U.S. Open twenty-three years ago, when Jack Coldren should have won, but didn't. S

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The Hexologists

Josiah Bancroft · 318 pages

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Death Warmed Over

Kevin J. Anderson · 302 pages

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Angel Dance

M.D. Grayson

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While Drowning in the Desert

Don Winslow · 211 pages

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IQ

Joe Ide · 352 pages

"A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores. East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood has taken it upon himself to help solve the cases the police can't or won't touch. They call him IQ. He's a lone

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The Long Fall

Walter Mosley · 305 pages

A brand-new mystery series from one of the country's best-known, best-loved writers: a new character, a new city, a new era. A new Walter Mosley.His name is etched on the door of his Manhattan office: LEONID McGILL, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR. It's a name that takes a little explaining, but he's used to it. "Daddy was a communist and great-great-Granddaddy was a slave master from Scotland. You know, the

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Tonight I Said Goodbye

Michael Koryta · 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 Woman Who Married a Bear

John Straley · 225 pages

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Storm Front

Jim Butcher · 362 pages

The novels of the Dresden Files have become synonymous with action-packed urban fantasy and non-stop fun. Storm Front is Jim Butcher's first novel and introduces his most famous and popular character-Harry Dresden, wizard for hire.For his first case, Harry is called in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with the blackest of magic. At first, the less-than-solvent Harry's eyes light up w

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Case Histories

Kate Atkinson · 336 pages

"Case One: Olivia Land, youngest and most beloved of the Land girls, goes missing in the night and is never seen again. More than thirty years later, two of her surviving sisters, each achingly lonely in her own way, reunite when their cruel and distant father dies. There, among the clutter of their childhood home, they unearth a shocking clue to Olivia's disappearance." "Case Two: All of Theo's h

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The Drowning River

Christobel Kent · 309 pages

Investigating the alleged suicide of an eminent architect and Holocaust survivor, private investigator Sandro Cellini discovers links between the victim's final hours and a missing art student, a connection that triggers an urgent race to protect other possible victims.

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A Cold Day in Paradise

Steve Hamilton · 320 pages

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Who Censored Roger Rabbit?

Gary K. Wolf · 218 pages

The gritty, original version of the classic WB-Disney crossover film. Explore the origins of the Roger Rabbit story through the eyes of Roger's hired Private Investigator, the alcoholic Mr. Eddie Valiant. Live in a world of real people and real street walking cartoon classics. This is a detective novel which stands the test of time. Written in classic detective style of fast pace and hard boiled s

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The Mystery of the Blue Train

Agatha Christie · 306 pages

Bound for the Riviera, detective Hercule Poirot has boarded Le Train Bleu, an elegant, leisurely means of travel, free of intrigue. Then he meets Ruth Kettering. The American heiress bailing out of a doomed marriage is en route to reconcile with her former lover. But by morning, her private affairs are made public when she is found murdered in her luxury compartment. The rumour of a strange man lo

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