Mystery & Crime Books

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A commodities trader by day, at night Harper Cole serves as a systems operator for an on-line service that caters to the rich and famous, but when a stranger penetrates the security system, brutally murdering six clients, Harper is falsely accused of the crimes. Reprint. PW. K. LJ.

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Eve is stunned by the vicious nature of a series of murders--and haunted by the cryptic riddles left for her by the killer. The crimes are clearly related, but the investigation stalls until Eve discovers a common link between the victims: her husband, Roarke.

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Dr. Alex Delaware doesn&#8217;t see many private patients anymore, but the young woman called Lucy is an exception. So is her dream. Lucy Lowell is referred to Alex by Los Angeles police detective Milo Sturgis. A juror at the agonizing trial of a serial killer, Lucy survived the trauma only to be tormented by a recurring nightmare: a young child in the forest at night, watching a strange and furtive act.<br><br>Now Lucy&#8217;s dream is starting to disrupt her waking life, and Alex is concerned. The power of the dream, its grip on Lucy&#8217;s emotions, suggests to him that it may be more than a nightmare. It may be the repressed childhood memory of something very real. Something like murder.

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When a maid at the Roarke Palace Hotel is murdered by a hitman for the elite, Lieutenant Eve Dallas suspects that someone who wants her husband dead may be connected to the crime. Reissue.

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The New York Times best-selling author presents the latest installment in the suspensful series that finds Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigating a brutal crime that plunges her into the art world, where nothing is what it seems. Original.

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When a celebrity is murdered practically under her nose, New York detective Eve Dallas steps in to investigate, as both cop and murder witness. By the author of Holiday in Death. Reissue.

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The first three entertaining mysteries featuring Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum--One for the Money, Two for the Dough, and Three to Get Deadly--appear together in a single, omnibus edition.

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In a secluded cabin high in the Rockies, Ramsey Hunt rescues a small girl unconscious in the forest and is mistaken for a kidnapper by the girl's mother. By the time she finally discovers Ramsey has saved the girl, Ramsey and the mother must flee pursuing strangers with the intent to kill. Facing constant danger, the pair ultimately discovers why they're at the center of the target.

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Detective Lucas Davenport joins forces with NYPD detective Lucy Rothenburg to solve a series of grisly killings that have terrorized the country, from Minneapolis to New York, following an enigmatic killer whose trail leads to a Native American embodiment of a primal evil known as Shadow Love. Reissue.

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While hitchhiking through West Texas, former MP Jack Reacher encounters a young woman seeking protection for herself and her little girl from her monstrous husband, due to be released from jail, and his horrible family, but Reacher soon finds himself over his head among the simmering secrets of Echo, Texas. Reprint.

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When Kinsey Millhone answers her office door late one night, she lets in more darkness than she realizes. Janice Kepler is a grieving mother who can't let the death of her beautiful daughter Lorna alone. The police agree that Lorna was murdered, but a suspect was never apprehended and the trail is now ten months cold. Kinsey pieces together Lorna's young life: a dull day job a the local water treatment plant spiced by sidelines in prostitution and pornography. She tangles with Lorna's friends: a local late-night DJ; a sweet, funny teenaged hooker; Lorna's sloppy landlord and his exotic wife. But to find out which one, if any, turned killer, Kinsey will have to inhabit a netherworld from which she may never return.

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An ingenious killer disposes of a strangled corpse on a battlefield. Brother Cadfael discovers the body, and must then piece together disparate clues--including a girl in boy's clothing, a missing treasure and a single flower--to expose a murderer's black heart.

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When a Los Angeles reporter is killed while investigating a series of murders, and a beautiful North Carolina medical intern suddenly disappears, Alex Cross learns that two clever serial killers are competing with each other. Reprint.

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A serial killer begins to stalk the town of Newport, Louisiana, and when it seems like Mark Branning's wife is next on the hit list, he is determined to protect her, but first the two must move to save their dying marriage.

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When private investigator Spenser is hired by a woman to rescue her fifteen-year-old son from her ex-husband, Spenser ends up protecting the boy and investigating both parents.

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Thanks to a heart transplant, retired FBI agent Terry McCaleb has a new lease on life. But his plan for early retirement is thwarted when he learns that his heart donor's death was no accident. Racked with the guilt of having lived because of someone else's murder, he springs into action. Now, his own investigation leads him to a crime far more complex and dangerous than he ever imagined.

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Superintendent Richard Jury and his old friend Melrose Plant investigate the death of Roger Healy at the Old Silent Inn, an investigation hampered by the silence of the dead man's wife. Reprint.

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Terror stalks the streets of Bayou Breaux, Louisiana. A suspected murderer is free on a technicality, and the cop accused of planting evidence against him is ordered off the case. But Detective Nick Fourcade refuses to walk away. Hes stepped over the line before. This case threatens to push him over the edge.Hes not the only one. Deputy Annie Broussard found the womans mutilated body. She still hears the phantom echoes of dying screams. She wants justice. But pursuing the investigation will mean forming an alliance with a man she doesn't trust and making enemies of the men she works with. It will mean being drawn into the confidence of a killer. For Annie Broussard, finding justice will mean risking everything--including her life. The search for the truth has begun--one that will lead down a twisted trail through the steamy bayous of Louisiana, and deep into the darkest reaches of the human heart....

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When a holiday tour of the Holy Land ends in murder, Hercule Poirot must find out who was desperate enough to kill Mrs. Boynton.

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Sharon Robinson and her daughters find their love, courage, and values challenged as they are swept into a plot of art theft and murder when against Sharon's better judgement, she allows her ex-husband, Ben, to move in with them--along with his wife and children. When Ben tries to clear himself of murder charges, two of the children are kidnapped and held hostage by the real murderer. Detective Tony Danks, from the first two Sun Coast books, battles against time to save the lives of the two girls. He finds himself falling in love with Sharon as her own human impulses battle with her Christian principles.

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Jim Qwilleran struggles to dispel rumors circulating in Moose County that extraterrestrial beings are responsible for the disappearance of a stray backpacker, while his sleuthing Siamese companion, Koko, develops an interest in the night sky. Reprint.

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Against all odds, Bubbles Yablonsky has returned to school, but while on her way to journalism school, she happens upon a crime scene and finds herself drawn into a murder investigation. Reprint.

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When a kissing cousins's quarrel ends in murder, Hercule Poirot is hired to uncover the truth in a perplexing case of love, money, and greed.

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In the tradition of Thomas Harris and Jonathan Kellerman, Patterson has crafted a chilling psychological thriller that exploded onto hardcover bestseller lists nationwide. Finally available in paperback, Along Came a Spider tells of a beloved teacher who is also a cunning serial killer. TV and print

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Three unreliable witnesses and four clocks set at 4:13 are the only things detective Hercule Poirot has to help him solve a case before someone else is murdered. Reissue.

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Computer hack Kidd always plays both sides against the middle. His partner LuEllen is his lover, a liar and a thief. When two major politicians secretly embezzle over a million dollars, Kidd and LuEllen decide to steal the stash--and cover their tracks by blowing the whistle on the dirty officials. "A fast-moving delight, with dialogue that crackles!"--Publishers Weekly.

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Spenser, America's favorite iron-pumping, gourmet-cooking private eye, smells corruption in college town. Taft University's hottest basketball star is shaving points for quick cash, and if Spenser doesn't watch his own footwork, the guilty parties will shave a few years off his life.

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A former hostage negotiator with the LAPD SWAT team, Jeff Talley, burned out after a job goes horribly wrong and the end of his marriage, takes a job as chief of police in a small, affluent community far from the city, but his peaceful life is overturned when three young men, fleeing a robbery, invade a local home and take a family hostage. Reprint.