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61) A steep price
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Tracy Crosswhite novels volume 6
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Called in to consult after a young woman disappears, Tracy Crosswhite has the uneasy feeling that this is no ordinary missing-persons case. When the body turns up in an abandoned well, Tracyś suspicions are confirmed. Estranged from her family, the victim had balked at an arranged marriage and had planned to attend graduate school, but someone cut her dreams short. Solving the mystery behind the murder isnt́ Tracyś only challenge. The detective...
64) The liar's girl
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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"Will Hurley was an attractive, charming, and impressive student at Dublin's elite St. John's College--and Ireland's most prolific serial killer. He stalked and drowned his five young victims in the muddy waters of the Grand Canal, and is currently serving a life sentence in the city's Central Psychiatric Hospital. Alison Smith's world imploded when Liz, her best friend, became the victim of the Canal Killer--and then her boyfriend Will confessed....
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[2018]
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Years ago, in the town of Saxon Falls, young Kelsey Willard disappeared and was presumed dead. The tragedy left her family with a fractured life. Now another teenage girl has gone missing, ripping open old wounds for the Willards. Bureau of Criminal Investigation agent Mark Foster has stumbled on uncanny parallels in the lives of the two missing girls that could unlock clues to a serial killer's identity. That means breaking down the walls of the...
67) Deadly politics
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[2012]
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Shortly after learning her niece is having an affair with a congressional chief of staff, Molly Malone finds her niece shot dead, and soon finds herself entangled in the web of a shady political group that is willing to kill its opposition.
69) The rivals
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Series
Bitter Creek series volume 5
Pub. Date
2004.
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Deputy sheriff and single mother Sarah Barndollar is working to solve two cold cases of missing young women, but when a third vanishes, she finds herself caught in the middle of two powerful feuding families and the sexy Drew De Witt.
70) Killer cocktail
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Series
Molly Forrester mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Molly Forrester joins her two best friends, Tricia and Cassady, on a trip to the Hamptons to attend Tricia's brother's engagement party, but the festivities are interrupted when the bride-to-be turns up dead, drowned in the pool after the party.
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Claire Watkins mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
c2014.
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Deputy Sheriff Claire Watkins has extra incentive to get to the bottom of the case of a woman burned to death during a Wisconsin autumnal equinox tradition when she discovers that one of the suspects is dating her daughter.
72) Blood standard
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Series
Isaiah Coleridge novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"The first in a crime noir series, Isaiah Coleridge is a former mob enforcer banished from his Alaska home after an incident. Sent to a horse farm in the Hudson Valley in NY to recover, he winds up investigating the disappearance of the 18-year-old granddaughter of his hosts."--
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Susan Pulaski series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Psychologist Susan Pulaski, who has a near-empathic gift for understanding the thought processes of criminals, is a consultant for the Las Vegas police force. When the city is galvanized by a brutal murder case stemming from the death of a young woman who has been buried alive, Police Chief Robert O'Bannon calls on Susan's services. Susan, in turn, relies on the help of O'Bannon's 26-year-old son, Darcy, a high-functioning autistic savant with a prodigious...
74) The lost witness
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Lena Gamble thrillers volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Punished by her superiors following the explosive end to her previous case, Detective Lena Gamble realizes that she has been set up for another fall when she is assigned the case of an unidentified victim whose body has been dismembered and tossed into adumpster.
75) Iced chiffon
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Pub. Date
2012
Description
Reagan Summerside makes the most of the only two things she has left after a messy divorce: a run-down Victorian house and a closet full of designer clothes, and she opens a consignment shop on the first floor of her home. Her husband, meanwhile, got the Lexus and a young blonde girlfriend. When the girlfriend is found dead in the Lexus, Regan is determined to find the killer.
76) Left for dead
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Series
DI Amy Winter volume 3
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Shopping with her sister, DI Amy Winter is admiring a Valentine's Day window display of a perfect bride encrusted in diamonds and resplendent in lace -- until she notices blood oozing from the mannequin's mouth. This is no stunt. A post-mortem reveals the victim was left to die on her macabre throne for all to see. When a second victim is found, it emerges that both women were "Sugar Babes" arranging dates with older men online, and Amy finds herself...
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"It's mid-September of 1893, and Eloisa Carstairs is the reigning beauty of Gilded Age Chicago society. To outsiders she appears to have it all. But Eloisa is living with a dark secret. Several months ago, she endured a horrible assault at the hands of Douglass Sloane, heir to one of Chicago's wealthiest families. Fearing the loss of her reputation, Eloisa has confided in only one friend. That is, until she meets Detective Sean Ryan at a high-society...
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Pub. Date
c2007
Description
A specialist in finding missing children, former cop Jack Carpenter was fired from the force for assaulting a prisoner. Broke after a civil lawsuit and estranged from his wife and daughter, he's living in a seedy beachside apartment north of Miami, Fla., with his dog. Then Simon Skell (aka the Midnight Rambler), whom Carpenter helped convict for murdering prostitutes, is released from prison on a technicality. Determined to prove Skell guilty, Carpenter...
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Molly Murphy mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
"It's wintertime in New York, and for the first time since Irish immigrant Molly Murphy started her early-twentieth-century detective agency, she is completely snowed in with work. While she's proving to be quite the entrepreneur and is very much in demand by some of Broadway's brightest stars and Fifth Avenue's richest families, she has to grudgingly admit that if she's going to work more than one case at a time, then shes going to need some help....
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Pub. Date
2008
Description
Georgia magistrate MacLaren Yarbrough has never believed her husband's threat to shackle her to her desk to keep her from "meddling in murder." But when Starr Knight, the taxidermist's daughter, is found dead, that's just what Joe Riddley does, despite Mac's protest that she has no intention of getting involved. She just has one question: why did the flamboyant young mother dress so sedately on the day she died? Then a second young woman is murdered,...