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2) Pagan babies
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Is Terry Dunn really a priest? He doesn't always appear to act like one. He comes home to Detroit, after witnessing a tragedy in Rwanda and runs into Debbie who's doing standup at a comedy club. Terry and Debie hit it off; they have the same sense of humor and similar goals in that both are out to raise money
4) Out of sight
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World-class gentleman felon Jack Foley is busting out of Florida's Glades Prison when he runs head on into a shotgun-wielding Karen Sisco. Suddenly he's sharing a cramped car trunk with the classy, disarmed federal marshal and the chemistry is working overtime and as soon as she escapes, he's already missing herhe's already missing her.
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"In his debut bestseller, Marley & Me, John Grogan showed how a dog can become an extraordinary presence in the life of one family. Now, in his highly anticipated follow-up, Grogan again works his magic, bringing us the story of what came first." "Before there was Marley, there was a gleefully mischievous boy growing up in a devout Catholic home outside Detroit in the 1960s and '70s. Despite his loving parents' best efforts, John's attempts to meet...
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"Clement Mansell knows how easy it is to get away with murder. The seriously crazed killer is already back on the Detroit streets -- thanks to some nifty courtroom moves by his crafty looker of a lawyer -- and he's feeling invincible enough to execute a crooked Motown judge on a whim. Homicide Detective Raymond Cruz thinks the "Oklahoma Wildman" crossed the line long before this latest outrage, and he's determined to see that the hayseed psycho does...
7) 52 pickup
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52 Pickup is a rip-roaring thriller from master of crime fiction Elmore Leonard, the New York Times bestselling author of Raylan, Get Shorty, Killshot, and other novels of suspense.
Detroit businessman Harry Mitchell has had only one affair in his twenty-two years of happy matrimony. Unfortunately, someone caught his indiscretion on film and now wants Harry to fork over one hundred grand to keep his infidelity a secret. And if Harry doesn't pay up,...
8) Mr. Paradise
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"Roommates Kelly and Chloe are enjoying their lives and their downtown Detroit loft just fine. Kelly is a Victoria's Secret catalog model. Chloe is an escort, until she decides to ditch her varied clientele in favor of a steady gig as girlfriend to eighty-four-year-old retired lawyer Tony Paradiso, a.k.a. Mr. Paradise." "Evenings at Mr. Paradise's house, there's always an old Michigan football game on TV. And when Chloe's around, there's a cheerleader,...
9) Scrapper
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Detroit had descended into ruin. Kelly scavenges for scrap metal from the hundred thousand abandoned buildings in part of the city known as 'the zone', an increasingly wild landscape where one day he finds something far more valuable than the copper he came to steal: a kidnapped boy, crying out for rescue. Briefly celebrated as a hero, Kelly secretly avenges the boy's unsolved kidnapping, a task that will take him deeper into the zone and into a...
10) Proof of intent
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Okay, so your client is a liar. Does that make him a murderer?
In the dark hours of morning, Charley Sloan arrives at the palatial home of Miles Dane, celebrated novelist from the Detroit suburb of Pickeral Point, to find Dane's wife murdered in their bed.
Dane tells Charley he was downstairs working. Heard nothing, saw nothing.
The police arrive. Dane tells his story again. Only, this time there's a mysterious intruder fleeing down the hallway,...
11) Quiver
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One of the most riveting and powerful new voices in crime fiction, Peter Leonard delivers a razor-sharp debut thriller.
Kate McCall's husband has been killed by her son, Luke, in a tragic bow-hunting accident. While Kate struggles with her son's surly guilt, her first love, Jack, an ex-con, reappears, along with a crew of his former "colleagues." While Jack must convince his partners in crime that he really did lose the heist money, his appearance...
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CER volume 74/75-5
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[1974]
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A simulated atmospheric boundary layer flow over the Renaissance Center model was established whose characteristics compared favorably with the expected flow over the Detroit area. Flow visualization showed fluctuating separation features at certain locations on the center hotel structure and on the elevator towers of office buildings suggesting high values of pressure coefficient in those regions.
14) Broken monsters
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Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one is unique even by Detroit standards: half boy, half deer, somehow fused together. As stranger and even more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can the city hold on to a reality that is already tearing at its seams?
15) Color of justice
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Raised in the bosom of the inner city, white Detroit Homicide cop Danny Cavanaugh speaks and acts with the unmistakable attitude of a black man. But the savage murders of affluent African-Americans are plunging him into the urban heart of terror, where he will learn first-hand how powerful, inviolate -- and deadly -- the color line truly is.
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Nora Watts novels volume 2
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The brilliant, fearless, deeply flawed Nora Watts--introduced in the "utterly compelling" (Jeffery Deaver) atmospheric thriller The Lost Ones--finds deadly trouble as she searches for the truth about her late father in this immersive thriller that moves from the hazy Canadian Pacific Northwest to the gritty, hollowed streets of Detroit.Growing up, Nora Watts only knew one parent--her father. When he killed himself, she denied her grief and carried...
18) The witchfinder
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Amos Walker novels volume 12
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"...A world-renowned architect, a man thought to be dying in a Los Angeles hospital, has called Amos Walker to a hotel room at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, to find the person who engineered a heartbreaking lie -- and cost the architect the one woman he truly loved.."--Jacket.
19) Never street
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Amos Walker novels volume 11
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In Detroit, PI Amos Walker is hired by a woman to search for her missing husband, a video producer wanted for questioning by police in connection with a series of murders. Does the lady want him found to help him, or to give him away? By the author of Sweet Women Lie.
20) August Snow
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August Snow novels volume 1
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"Tough, smart, and struggling to stay afloat, August Snow is the embodiment of Detroit. The son of an African American father and a Mexican mother, August grew up in Detroit's Mexicantown and joined the Detroit police only to be drummed out of the force by a conspiracy of corrupt cops and politicians. But August fought back; he took on the city and got himself a $12 million wrongful dismissal settlement that left him low on friends. He has just returned...