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A Matthew Scudder novel volume Book 11
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Matt Scudder finds himself caught up in a web of deceit and treachery when he comes to the aid of a homeless man charged with the brutal death of a yuppie lawyer. As Matt investigates, he discovers the victim was a federal informant who may have been eliminated as an act of revenge.
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Valentine trilogy volume Book 2
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A once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity takes shoe designer and businesswomen Valentine Roncalli from the winding streets of Greenwich Village to the sun-kissed cobblestones of Buenos Aires, where she finds a long-buried secret hidden deep within a family scandal. Once unearthed, the truth rocks the Roncallis and Valentine is determined to hold her family together as she longs to create one of her own.
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Detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, risk life and limb to solve a pair of brutal murders that may be tied to a crime from more than twenty years ago in this intense and addictive mystery from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman. On a quiet suburban street in upstate Greenbury, New York, the brutally beaten body of a young man is discovered in the woods adjacent to an empty vacation home. Twenty-six-year-old Brady Neil a...
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Episcopal priest Clare Fergusson and Miller's Kill, NY police chief Russ van Alstyne hunt for a missing heiress-as someone tries to foil the search and destroy key evidence. Treat yourself to her latest gem-a tricky whodunit that takes place during 24 taut, pulse-pounding hours ...
85) The hunt
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When the biological mother of Peter and his wife Rina's foster son is brutally beaten and her children taken, Peter, Rina, and Gabe's biological father, a former hitman-turned-millionaire, race against time to rescue them, ending in an explosive confrontation from which no one will emerge unscathed.
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If Bailey Weggins wanted job security, she should have stayed out of the magazine business. After getting the heave-ho from Gloss, she reaches out to her old friend Robbie Hart for help. A senior editor at Now, a sizzling celebrity gossip mag, Robbie would love nothing more than to see his own boss, Mona Hodges, sent to the guillotine. Mona runs Now with an iron fist, taking no prisoners and doing no favors. But Robbie still manages to land Bailey...
87) Ink and bone
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Hollows volume Book 5
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2016.
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In this explosive psychological thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger, a young woman's mysterious gift forces her into the middle of a dangerous investigation of a little girl's disappearance. For as long as she can remember, twenty-year-old Finley Montgomery has been able to see into the future. She dreams about events before they occur and sees beyond the physical world, unconsciously using her power to make supernatural things...
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A Matthew Scudder novel volume Book 17
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After a childhood friend is shot down while attempting to atone for past sins, Scudder is drawn into a murder investigation that threatens to upset his path toward recovery--and get him killed in the process.
89) French pressed
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Coffeehouse mystery volume Book 6
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Murder takes the plunge in the sixth book in the Coffeehouse mystery series.
Clare Cosi's daughter, Joy, is interning-and falling- for a top New York chef when his kitchen turns cutthroat, and Joy becomes a murder suspect. Clare knows she must catch the real killer-even if it lands her in the hottest water of her life.
91) Deck the halls
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Alvirah and Willy volume Book 4
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Simon & Schuster/Scribner
Pub. Date
2000
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When Regan Reilly's father is kidnapped three days before Christmas, she investigates the disappearance with the help of her parents' neighbors, Willy and Alvirah Meehan.
92) Sinner man
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Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
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2016.
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To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a sinner man...?
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Paradise volume Book 4
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
©2003
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When the rich, successful husband of a beautiful New York actress mysteriously disappears, she plunges into a desperate search to find him ... and into a menacing web of secrets, deception, and danger.
94) On what grounds
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Coffeehouse mystery volume Book 1
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Introducing a delightful new series featuring Carolyn Cosi, manager of the historic Village Blend coffeehouse...
Carolyn arrives at work to discover the assistant manager dead in the back of the store, coffee grounds strewn everywhere. Two detectives investigate. But when they find no sign of forced entry or foul play, they deem it an accident. Still, Carolyn is not convinced. And after the police leave, Carolyn can't help wondering...If this was...
95) Shattered
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Detective Michael Bennett thriller volume 14
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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When his partner and best friend, FBI abduction specialist Emily Parker, is murdered, NYPD master homicide investigator Michael Bennett takes on the most intensely personal investigation of his career.
96) Everybody dies
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A Matthew Scudder novel volume Book 14
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Matthew Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life. He's sober, he's married, and the state just gave him a private investigator's license. He's growing older, and he's even getting respectable. Then Scudder signs on to help his closest and most unlikely friend, the larger-than-life Hell's Kitchen hoodlum Mick Ballou. And all hell breaks loose. Scudder finds out he's not so respectable after all. He learns the spruced-up sidewalks of New York are...
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A Matthew Scudder novel volume Book 15
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Byrne and Susan Hollander stroll home from a concert on a fine summer's evening in New York. Some hours later, their daughter Kristin arrives home to discover her parents brutally killed and the house ransacked. She also finds she is now a very young millionaire. A few days later the police trace the two killers to an apartment in Coney Island and both are dead. One killed the other before turning the gun on himself. At least that's the way it looks....
98) One-handed catch
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Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2006
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After losing his hand in an accident in his father's butcher shop in 1946, sixth-grader Norman uses hard work and humor to learn to live with his disability and to succeed at baseball, art, and other activities.
99) Object lessons
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Random House
Pub. Date
c1991
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It is the 1960s, in suburban New York City. Maggie and her family, are in the thrall of her powerful grandfather Jack Scanlan. In the summer of her twelfth year, Maggie is despertately trying to master the object lessons her grandfather fills her head with. But there is too much going on to concentrate. Everything at home is in upheaval, her grandfather is changing, and Maggie is unsure if what she wants is worth having....
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A Peter Decker / Rina Lazarus novel volume Book 7
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W. Morrow and Company
Pub. Date
1994
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L.A. homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, become involved in a series of murders, the international diamond trade, a bizarre religious cult, and two teen-aged brothers who may or may not have killed their parents.
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