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Persuader
Jack Reacher number 7
The ultimate loner.
An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he's moved from place to place...without family...without possessions...without commitments. And without fear. Ten years ago, a key investigation went sour and someone got away with murder. Now a chance encounter brings it all back. Now Reacher sees his one last shot. Some would call it vengeance. Some would call it redemption. Reacher would call it...Justice. "From the Hardcover edition."
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Die Trying
Jack Reacher number 2
In a Chicago suburb, a dentist is met in his office parking lot by three men and ordered into the trunk of his Lexus. On a downtown sidewalk, Jack Reacher and an unknown woman are abducted in broad daylight by two men - practiced and confident - who stop them at gunpoint and hustle them into the same sedan. Then Reacher and the woman are switched into a second vehicle and hauled away, leaving the dentist bound and gagged inside his car with the woman's abandoned possessions, two gallons of gasoline. . . and a burning match. Reacher and the woman join forces, against seemingly hopeless odds, to outwit their captors and escape.
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Running Blind
Jack Reacher number 4
Women are being murdered nationwide by a killer who leaves no trace of evidence, no fatal wounds, no signs of struggle, and no clues to an apparent motive. All the victims have one thing in common: they each knew Jack Reacher.
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Third Degree
Greg Iles
In the span of twenty-four hours, every-thing Laurel Shields believes about her life and her marriage to a prominent doctor will be shattered -- if she survives a terrifying ordeal. The day begins with the jarring discovery that, soon after ending an affair, Laurel is pregnant. But when she returns home to find her husband ashen, unkempt, and on the brink of violence, a nightmare quickly unfolds. In the heart of an idyllic Mississippi town, behind the walls of her perfect house, Laurel finds herself locked in a volatile standoff with a husband she barely recognizes.
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The Bellwether Revivals
Benjamin Wood
The Bellwether Revivals opens and closes with bodies. The story of whose bodies and how they come to be spread about an elegant house on the river near Cambridge is told by Oscar, a young, bright working class man who has fallen in love with an upper-class Cambridge student, Iris, and thereby become entangled with a group of close friends, led by Iris's charismatic, brilliant, possibly dangerous brother. For Eden Bellwether believes he can heal -- and perhaps more -- through the power of music.
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The Ecliptic
Benjamin Wood
Elspeth Conroy (a.k.a. "Knell") is a Scottish painter who has been at Portmantle for a decade, a refugee from the hectic London art scene. The hermetic world at Portmantle shatters when the 17-year-old Fullerton arrives at the gates, his provenance and talents unknown. As Knell searches for answers, she reveals the path that led her to this place--her intimate bond with her gruff drunk of a mentor; her early successes and crushing failures; a journey across the Atlantic and into the psychiatrist's office; and a grand commission of astronomical significance. What is "The Ecliptic," and how does it relate to the life Knell left behind?
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The Golden Scales (Makana number 1)
Parker Bilal
The ancient city of Cairo is a feverish tangle of the old and the new, of the superrich and the desperately poor, with inequality and corruption everywhere. It's a place where grudges and long-buried secrets can fester, and where people can disappear in the blink of an eye. Soon, Makana is caught up in a mystery that takes him into the treacherous underbelly of his adopted city, encountering Muslim extremists, Russian gangsters, vengeful women, and a desperate mother hunting for her missing daughter-a trail that leads him back into his own story, stirring up painful personal memories and bringing him face-to-face with an old enemy from his past …
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The Burning Gates (Makana number 4)
Parker Bilal
In Cairo, private investigator Makana is called into the office of his new client, a powerful art dealer known as Kasabian. Kasabian wants him to track down a famous painting that went missing from Baghdad during the US invasion. The entire dealer can tell Makana is that the piece was smuggled into Egypt by an Iraqi war criminal who doesn’t want to be found.
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City of Jackals (Makana number 5)
Parker Bilal
Mourad Hafiz appears to have dropped out of university and disappeared. Engaged by his family to try and find him, Makana comes to believe that the Hafiz boy became involved in some kind of political activity just prior to his disappearance. But before he can discover more, the investigation is sidetracked: a severed head turns up on the riverbank next to his home, and Makana finds himself drawn into ethnic rivalry and gang war among young men from South Sudan.
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Date with Death: A Dales Detective Mystery
(A Dales Detectives Mystery number 1)
Julia Chapman
Delilah Metcalfe, the owner of The Dales Dating Agency, is besieged by financial concerns, struggling to keep two businesses afloat and a roof over her head. She has no choice, but to accept Samson O’Brien as a new tenant for her office space. Dismissed from the police force and facing criminal prosecution, Samson has returned to his home town to set up a detective agency while he fights to clear his name.
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Dangerous Lies
Becca Fitzpatrick
Stella Gordon is not her real name. Thunder Basin, Nebraska, is not her real home. This is not her real life. After witnessing a lethal crime, Stella Gordon is sent to the middle of nowhere for her own safety before she testifies against the man she saw kill her mother’s drug dealer. But Stella was about to start her senior year with the boyfriend she loves. How can she be pulled away from the only life she knows and expected to start a new one in Nebraska? Stella chafes at her protection and is rude to everyone she meets. She’s not planning on staying long, so why be friendly? Then she meets Chet Falconer and it becomes harder to keep her guard up, even as her guilt about having to lie to him grows.
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The Waters of Eternal Youth
By Donna Leon
Brunetti is investigating a cold case by request of the grand Contessa Lando-Continui, a friend of Brunetti's mother-in-law. Fifteen years ago the Contessa's teenage granddaughter, Manuela, was found drowning in a canal. She was rescued from the canal at the last moment, but in many ways it was too late...
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The Lady from Zagreb
By Philip Kerr
The latest novel featuring Bernie Gunther, set in 1942. Gunther is asked by Goebbels to locate the father of Dalia Dresner, a rising star of German cinema, and ends up in Yugoslavia.
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FALSE NINE
By Philip KERR
Scott Manson's job managing London City football team is over. When he starts a new job in Barcelona, it turns out his new employers only want him for his detective skills: their star player is missing, and they need to find him fast. As Scott tracks the player from Paris to Antigua, he uncovers corruption, kidnapping and murder.
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Jack Reacher : Make Me
By Lee Child
Jack Reacher has no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, so a remote railroad stop on the prairie with the curious name of Mother's Rest seems perfect for an aimless one-day stopover. He expects to find a lonely pioneer tombstone in a sea of nearly-ripe wheat...
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Thirteen Hours
By Deon Meyer
They killed her best friend. Now they are chasing Rachel Anderson through the streets of Cape Town. The young tourist doesn't dare trust anyone - except her father, back home in America.
When he puts pressure on the politicians, they know that to protect their country's image, they must find Rachel's hiding place before the killers. So Benny Griessel - detective, maverick and father of teenagers himself - has just 13 hours to crack open a conspiracy which threatens the whole country.
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By its cover
By Donna Leon
When several valuable antiquarian books go missing from a prestigious library in the heart of Venice, Commissario Brunetti is immediately called to the scene. The staff suspect an American researcher has stolen them, but for Brunetti something doesn't quite add up.
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Polar Star
By Martin Cruz Smith
Arkady Renko, former Chief Investigator of the Moscow Town Prosecutor's Office, made too many enemies and lost the favour of his party. After a self-imposed exile in Siberia, Renko toils on the 'slime line' of a factory ship in the Bering Sea. But when an adventurous Georgian woman comes up with the day's catch, the signs of murder are undeniable.
Up against the Soviet bureaucracy in a complex international web, Renko must again become the obsessed, dedicated cop he once was. And in doing so, he discovers much more than he bargained for…
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North of Boston
By Elisabeth Elo
Pirio Kasparov finds herself abandoned in the North Atlantic when the fishing boat she's on is rammed by a freighter. It’s a miracle she survives after nearly four hours in the freezing water before being rescued, but Pirio's friend, Ned, is not so lucky.He disappears without a trace.
Pirio can't shake the suspicion that the boat's sinking was no accident, and begins to unravel a lethal plot that takes her to the whaling grounds of Northern Canada. To survive, she must overcome a deadly betrayal from someone in her past, and, most importantly, learn to trust her own instincts above all else.
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The Sandman
By Lars Kepler
Jurek Waler is Sweden’s most prolific serial killer. Michael knows him as the Sandman. When Michael is discovered on a railway line, close to death, the hunt begins for his sister. To get to the truth, Detective Inspector Linna will need to get closer than even to the man who stripped him of a family; the man who wants Linna dead.
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Prague Fatale
Philip Kerr
Bernie Gunther returns to his desk on homicide from the horrors of the Eastern Front to find Berlin changed for the worse. He begins to investigate the death of a railway worker, but is obliged to drop everything when Reinhard Heydrich of the SD orders him to Prague to spend a weekend at his country house. Bernie accepts reluctantly, especially when he learns that his fellow guests are all senior figures in the SS and SD.
The weekend quickly turns sour when a body is found in a room locked from the inside. If Bernie fails to solve this impossible mystery; not only is his reputation at stake, but also that of Reinhard Heydrich, a man who cannot bear to lose face.
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BEASTLY THINGS
By Donna Leon
When a body is found floating in a canal, strangely disfigured and with multiple stab wounds, Commissario Brunetti is called to investigate and is convinced he recognises the man from somewhere. However, with no identification except for the distinctive shoes the man was wearing, and no reports of people missing from the Venice area, the case cannot progress. Brunetti soon realises why he remembers the dead man, and asks Signorina Elettra if she can help him find footage of a farmers' protest the previous autumn.
Donna Leon's latest novel is a compelling addition to the Brunetti series.
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LIVE WIRE
Harlan Coben
A beautiful woman walking into Myron Bolitar's office asking for help should have been a dream come true. Only this woman, Suzze T, is in tears and eight months pregnant ... Suzze's rock star husband has disappeared, and she fears the rumours questioning her baby's paternity have driven him away. For Myron, questions of fatherhood couldn't hit closer to home. His own father is clinging precariously to life, and the brother who abandoned the family years ago has resurfaced, with danger following close behind. Myron is soon forced to confront deep secrets in Suzze's past, his family's mortality and his own...
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STAY CLOSE
By Harlan Coben
A suburban wife and mother of two - with a dark and dangerous past. A promising photographer who now panders to celebrity-obsessed rich kids. A detective who can't let go of a cold case ... Three ordinary people, who discover that when the past refuses to stay buried, the American dream can be a nightmare...
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THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME
By Donald Ray Pollock
Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, trawl America's highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. The spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick are running from the law.
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OR THE BULL KILLS YOU
By Jason Webster
Either you kill the bull, or the bull kills you - traditional proverb. Chief Inspector Max Camara hates bullfighting but one hot afternoon in Valencia he has to replace his boss, judging a festival corrida that stars Spain's most famous young matador. That night, he is summoned back to the bullring where the young matador's dead body now lies, naked and mutilated.
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THE TROUBLED MAN
Henning Mankell
Every morning retired naval officer Hakan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. Then, one day he fails to come home. A few months earlier, at Hakan's 75th birthday party, he was eager to talk to detective Kurt Wallander about a controversial incident from his past. Could this be connected to his disappearance? |
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THE ANONYMOUS VENETIAN
Donna Leon
Commissario Brunetti's hopes of a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are once again dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in Marghera, a body so badly beaten the face is unrecognizable. Brunetti searches Venice for someone who can identify the dead man. But he is met with a wall of silence. Then he receives a telephone call from a contact who promises some tantalizing information. And before the night is out Brunetti is confronting yet another appalling and apparently senseless death...
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CEMETERY LAKE
PAUL CLEAVE
What began as a routine exhumation of a suspected murder victim quickly turns complicated for private investigator Theodore Tate...Theo Tate is barely coping with life since his world was turned upside down two years ago. As he stands in the cold and rainy cemetery, overseeing the exhumation, the lake opposite the graveyard begins to release its grip on the murky past. When doubts are raised about the true identity of the body found in the coffin, the case takes an even more sinister turn.
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COLLECTED STORIES
By Peter Carey
Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included such masterworks as Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. He is also a dazzling writer of short stories and this volume collects together all the stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes as well as three other stories not previously published in book form. The stories, persuasive and precisely crafted, reveal Carey to be a moralist with a sense of humour , a surrealist interested in naturalism and an urban poet delighting in paradox.
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