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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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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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Loitering with Intent

Stuart Woods · 310 pages

Dumped by his glamorous Russian girlfriend during dinner at Elaines, and running low on cash, Stone Barrington is having a bad week. So his luck seems to be improving when hes hired to locate the missing son of a very wealthy manlucky because the job pays well, and because the son is hiding in the tropical paradise of Key West. But when Stone and his sometime running buddy Dino Bacchetti arrive in

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Pale Gray For Guilt

John D. MacDonald · 246 pages

In *Pale Gray for Guilt,* Travis McGee takes a close look at a new waterfront industrial complex that a group of land developers are planning in the name of "progress." Only one thing stands in their way: Tush Bannon's 10-acre marina. Bannon won't sell. After Bannon's freak "accident," however, his widow is more than willing to unload the property for almost nothing -- until Travis McGee, who does

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The Promise

Robert Crais · 402 pages

When Elvis Cole is hired to locate a woman who may have disappeared with a stranger she met online, it seems like an ordinary case -- until Elvis learns the missing woman worked for a defense contractor and was being blackmailed to supply explosives components for a person or persons unknown. Meanwhile, LAPD officer Scott James and his patrol dog, Maggie, enter an abandoned building to locate an a

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Shadow Men

Jonathon King · 314 pages

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The Wrong Side of Goodbye

Michael Connelly · 392 pages

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King Of Swords

Nick Stone · 576 pages

"When Detective Max Mingus and his partner Joe are called to the scene of a death at Miami's Primate Park, it looks like another routine - if slightly bizarre - investigation. Until two things turn up: the victim's family, slaughtered: and a partly digested tarot card in the dead man's stomach. The King of Swords." "An increasingly bloody trail leads Max and Joe first to a sinister fortune teller

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City of the Sun

David Levien · 315 pages

Riveting suspense in the tradition of Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly, City of the Sun introduces retired detective Frank Behr--an imposing, charismatic former cop who agrees to take the case of a boy who's been missing for over a year.Jamie Gabriel gets on his bike before dawn to deliver newspapers in his suburban Indianapolis neighborhood. He is twelve years old. Somewhere en route, as the Oc

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Home

Harlan Coben · 424 pages

A decade ago, kidnappers grabbed two boys from wealthy families and demanded ransom, then went silent. No trace of the boys ever surfaced. For ten years their families have been left with nothing but painful memories and a quiet desperation for the day that has finally, miraculously arrived: Myron Bolitar and his friend Win believe they have located one of the boys, now a teenager. Where has he be

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The Dead Tracks

Tim Weaver · 560 pages

This is a serial killer more terrifying than you could ever imagine ...Seventeen-year-old Megan Carver was an unlikely runaway. A straight student from a happy home, she studied hard and rarely got into trouble. Six months on, she's never been found. Missing persons investigator David Raker knows what it's like to grieve. He knows the shadowy world of the lost too. So, when he's hired by Megan's p

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Tourist Season

Carl Hiaasen · 378 pages

A group of most unusual terrorists sets out to purge Florida of greed and corruption by attacking what they consider the root source--tourists.

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The Second Girl

David Swinson · 368 pages

Frank Marr knows crime in Washington, DC. A decorated former police detective, he retired early and now ekes a living as a private eye for a defense attorney. Frank Marr may be the best investigator the city has ever known, but the city doesn't know his dirty secret. A long-functioning drug addict, Frank has devoted his considerable skills to hiding his usage from others. But after accidentally di

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Stiff Arm Steal

A.J. Stewart · 272 pages

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Don't Lie to Me

Willow Rose · 324 pages

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Where Roses Never Die

Gunnar Staalesen · 260 pages

Mette Misvaer, a three-year-old girl, disappears without trace from the sandpit outside her home. Her family and community is devastated, but their enquiries and the police produce nothing. Almost 25 years later, Mette's mother approaches PI Varg Veum, in a last, desperate attempt to find out what happened to her daughter. As Veum starts to dig, he uncovers an intricate web of secrets.

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Pretty Little Things

Jilliane Hoffman · 410 pages

Special Agent Bobby Dees knows what grief feels like. He understands the pain of losing a child. And he'll do whatever he can to prevent it from happening again.The phone call that comes on a Sunday morning will take him away from his insular world of grief and sleepless nights – and into a far darker place. A young girl, Elaine Emerson, has gone missing and only Dees has a chance of finding her.I

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A Cool Breeze on the Underground

Don Winslow · 323 pages

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The Fred Carver Mysteries Volume Two

John Lutz · 871 pages

The second set of crime thrillers starring a tough Florida PI from the New York Times–bestselling author of Single White Female and "one of the masters" (Ridley Pearson). New York Times– and USA Today–bestselling author John Lutz has been hailed as "a major talent" by John Lescroart, and he "just keeps getting better and better" (Tony Hillerman). "Lutz offers up a heart-pounding roller coaster" (J

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Dream Town

David Baldacci · 421 pages

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Twelve Mile Limit

Randy Wayne White · 356 pages

It starts out as a fun excursion for four divers off the Florida coast. Two days later only one is found alive-naked atop a light tower in the Gulf of Mexico. What happened during those 48 hours? Doc Ford thinks he's prepared for the truth. He isn't.

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The Naked Detective

Laurence Shames · 230 pages

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Die a Stranger

Steve Hamilton

"The newest novel in by two-time Edgar award-winner and New York Times bestselling author Steve Hamilton A plane lands in a deserted Upper Peninsula airstrip one night, and five dead bodies are found the next morning. The evidence suggests that not only are these murders the beginning of something bigger, but that Alex McKnight's friend Vinnie may be part of it. Alex knows he needs to find him bef

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Rush of Blood

Mark Billingham · 601 pages

Three British couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday and become fast friends. But on Easter Sunday, the last day of their vacation, tragedy strikes: the fourteen-year-old daughter of an American vacationer goes missing, and her body is later found floating in the mangroves. When the shocked couples return home to the U.K., they remain in contact, and over the course of three increas

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