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The Bone Yard

Jefferson Bass

When human remains are discovered at a Florida reform school, Dr. Bill Brockton leaves his laboratory to investigate a murder case. An electrifying New York Times bestseller with over 1,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads! Publisher Description The sixth electrifying forensic mystery by author Jefferson Bass (“a fresh voice in the crime novel arena” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer), The Bone Yard

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Bright Orange for the Shroud

John D. MacDonald · 204 pages

An old friend, conned out of his life savings by his ex-wife, has tracked Travis down and is desperate for help. To get the money back and earn his usual fee, McGee will have to penetrate the Everglades--and the mind of a violently twisted grifter.

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Double Whammy

Carl Hiaasen · 360 pages

R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a sportsman's scam that's anything but sportsmanlike, there's a body floating in Coon Bog, Florida—and a lot that's rotten in the murky waters of big-stakes, large-mouth bass tournaments. Here Decker will team up with a half-blind, half-mad hermit with an appetite for road kill; dare to k

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Trace

Patricia Cornwell · 422 pages

Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from south Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago.In Trace, Scarpetta travels to Richmond, Virginia, at the odd behest of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner, who claims that he needs her help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however, Scarpetta finds that nothing is as she expected: her former lab is in the

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Duma Key

Stephen King · 704 pages

After a construction accident in which he loses his right arm and his divorce, Edgar Freemantle moves from Minnesota to Florida to begin what his psychiatrist described as a "geographic cure." He rediscovers his love of painting and finds that he is good at it but his paintings seem to have something "more" to them. On Duma Key he also finds a new friendship with Wireman, a kindred spirit seekin

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Hell's Bay

James W. Hall · 320 pages

Descended from pioneer stock, the Bateses are an aristocratic Floridian family with vast holdings in real estate and mining. When matriarch Abigail Bates is discovered drowned in the Peace River, a chain of events is set into motion, embroiling Thorn with a family he never knew he had and a fortune he doesn’t necessarily want. Thorn is leading a fishing expedition into the isolated lakes and mang

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Lifeguard

James Patterson, Andrew Gross · 417 pages

The danger isn't in the water.Working as a lifeguard at a Florida resort, Ned Kelly meets a woman he is wild about, the woman of his dreams. It feels perfect in every way - except that she is used to caviar and Manolo Blahniks, and he is used to burgers and flip-flops. She is a guest at the luxurious hotel - he lives above a garage.So when Ned's cousin offers to cut him in on a rich deal he's been

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Collateral Damage

H. Terrell Griffin · 350 pages

The quiet beauty of Longboat Key is shattered when a young groom is shot to death on the beach the day after his wedding. His father is an old army buddy of Matt Royal, and Matt tries to soften the anguish of his friend by finding his son's murderer. Matt's search takes on added complexity when there appears to be a link between this murder and three seemingly unrelated murders that occurred on bo

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The Blue Edge of Midnight

Jonathon King · 278 pages

Ex-Philadelphia cop Max Freeman now lives in a self-imposed exile on the edge of the Florida Everglades. Against his will, Max is pulled into a baffling string of child murders and his old police habits kick in.

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Double Exposure

Michael Lister

When Remington James returns to the small North Florida town he grew up in, he decides to resume his love for photography. Remington ventures into the deep swamp where he has already set up some cameras to discover that his camera has captured, frame-by-frame a shocking crime.

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The Night Stalker

James Swain · 348 pages

Hard-edged, evocative, brilliantly paced, James Swain's novels of crime and punishment in South Florida delve into a shadowy realm where criminals, victims, and cops share the same truths, the same lies, and sometimes even the same nightmares.Abb Grimes is famous. Just ask the ghoulish tourists who flock to his former home to take photographs. Years ago, Grimes killed eighteen women, some never fo

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Bum Rap

Paul Levine · 341 pages

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Cold Paradise

Stuart Woods · 424 pages

Palm Beach is the most glamorous scene of the crime yet for cop turned investigator Stone Barrington, who becomes reacquainted with a case he thought was buried years ago - and must settle romantic entanglements that haunt him still.... **Fair-Weather Friend** Luxuriating in Palm Beach's winter warmth, Stone is stunned to recognize someone he thought was dead. Former client Allison Manning i

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A False Dawn

Tom Lowe · 340 pages

After thirteen years as a homicide detective, his wife dead, and his best friend shot in a robbery, Sean O'Brien feels like he's been through a war. He leaves the streets of Miami for a simpler life on the banks of the St. Johns River near the Ocala National Forest. What he discovers there, however, opens a dark door to something more frightening than anything he ever investigated in Miami.

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Black Jack

Willow Rose · 434 pages

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Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Jeff Lindsay · 304 pages

Kriminalroman. Miamipolitiet og politiofficer Deborah Morgan prøver at finde en seriemorder. Deborah håber sagen vil fremme hendes karrieremuligheder, og hun får hjælp af sin bror Dexter, der arbejder for politiet. Han er også seriemorder - men det er ikke ham, sagen drejer sig om

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Season of Fear

Brian Freeman

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Fallen Palm

Wayne Stinnett · 388 pages

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Palm Beach Nasty

Tom Turner · 304 pages

Burned out New York homicide cop Charlie Crawford goes south to take it slow. But after six months in steamy Palm Beach, Florida, he's bored out of his mind and desperate for a face-down stiff with a little rigor setting in. One Halloween night, Crawford is first on the scene and finds a twenty-year-old male swinging from a stately banyan tree. This sets in motion colliding plots involving a billi

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Surface Tension

Christine Kling · 340 pages

"Years ago Seychelle Sullivan had the chance to save a person's life. But on that summer night in Fort Lauderdale, lost in a world of teenage resentment and loneliness, Seychelle was not able to comprehend any pain but her own." -- Jacket.

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Artifacts

Mary Anna Evans · 288 pages

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Sacred

Dennis Lehane · 416 pages

The master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane brilliantly interweaves beauty and violence, integrity and evil in this thrilling, powerfully resonant novel.A beautiful, grief-stricken woman has vanished without a trace. So has the detective hired to find her. And a lot of money. Enter saavy, tough-nosed private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Rooted in the no-nonsense streets of Boston

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Island of Bones

P.J. Parrish · 382 pages

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The Alibi Man

Tami Hoag · 352 pages

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