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21) I, robot
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[2004]
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In the year 2035, robots are a common, trusted part of life. But that trust is broken when a scientist is found dead, and a skeptical Chicago police detective investigating the murder believes that a robot is responsible. It seems impossible for a robot to break the Three Laws of Robotics, for if that were to happen there would be nothing to stop them from taking over the world. Aiding the detective in his investigation is a psychologist who specializes...
22) The Dry
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Aaron Falk novels volume 1
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After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for the first time in decades to attend the funeral of his best friend, Luke. Twenty years ago when Falk was accused of murder, Luke was his alibi. Falk and his father fled under a cloud of suspicion, saved from prosecution only because of Luke's steadfast claim that the boys had been together at the time of the crime. But now more than one person knows they...
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[2021]
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"An immersive tale of the killing of a Native American man and its far-reaching consequences for Colonial America. In the summer of 1722, on the eve of a conference between the Five Nations of the Iroquois and British-American colonists, two colonial fur traders brutally attacked an Indigenous hunter in colonial Pennsylvania. The crime set the entire mid-Atlantic on edge, with many believing that war was imminent. Frantic efforts to resolve the case...
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Evil thrillers volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
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Homicide detective Maddox Bishop is an emotionally scarred man after entering a crime scene in his own home some 18 years earlier and finding his mother's dead body. Set on never opening his heart to a woman, Maddox can't seem to fight the growing bond developing between himself and a potential wrongdoer, Layla Taylor, a contractor and recent victim of heartbreak. Strong wills clash as the two discover they have to work together to unravel the escalating...
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2019.
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Everyone has a secret. For some, it's worth dying to protect. For others, it's worth killing. The glass beach house was supposed to be the getaway that Susan needed. Eager to help her transplanted family set down roots in their new town and desperate for some kid-free conversation, she invites her new neighbors to join in on a week-long sublet with her and her workaholic husband. Over the course of the first evening, liquor loosens inhibitions and...
26) The Third Victim
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Officer Rainie Conner, leading her first homicide investigation, finds herself the center of controversy when the son of the sheriff confesses to a horrible crime but the evidence suggests he may not be guilty, and when FBI profiler Pierce Quincy arrives on the scene, Rainie's worst fears are confirmed.
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2019.
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"What happens when you're really, truly done making your marriage work? You can't be married to someone without sometimes wanting to bash them over the head... As Long As We Both Shall Live is JoAnn Chaney's wicked, masterful examination of a marriage gone very wrong, a marriage with lots of secrets... "My wife! I think she's dead!" Matt frantically tells park rangers that he and his wife, Marie, were hiking when she fell off a cliff into the raging...
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When Philadelphia detectives Jessica Balzano and Kevin Byrne are assigned to investigate the two-year-old killing of Caitlin O'Riordan, their only clue leads them into a diabolical game with a depraved killer known only as Mr. Ludo, who may be responsible for a series of disappearances from the city streets.
30) Heat 2: a novel
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[2022]
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"One day after the end of Heat, Chris Shiherlis is holed up in Koreatown, wounded, half delirious, and desperately trying to escape LA. Hunting him is LAPD detective Vincent Hanna. Hours earlier, Hanna killed Shiherlis’s brother in arms Neil McCauley in a gunfight under the strobe lights at the foot of an LAX runway. Now Hanna’s determined to capture or kill Shiherlis, the last survivor of McCauley’s crew, before he ghosts out of the city. In...
31) Aura of night
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Krewe of Hunters volume 37
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"All book editor Megan Law wants is to bury the memory of her brutal kidnapping and move on with her life. So when her publisher asks her to spin her hellish experience into the next bestseller, Megan agrees only because it might help keep other women safe. Then a mysterious, gruesome package arrives in the mail--a reminder that the nightmare isn't over just yet. FBI investigator Ragnar Johnson is running out of time. He knows in his gut there's more...
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"On a beautiful October morning in rural Maine, a homicide investigator from the state police pulls into the hard-luck town of Copper Falls. The local junkyard is burning, and the town pariah Lizzie Oullette is dead—with her husband, Dwayne, nowhere to be found. As scandal ripples through the community, Detective Ian Bird’s inquiries unexpectedly lead him away from small-town Maine to a swank city townhouse several hours south. Adrienne Richards,...
33) Lucifer's tears
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[2011]
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The Sufia Elmi case left inspector Kari Vaara with a scarred face, chronic insomnia, a constant migraine, and a full body count's worth of ghosts. Now it's a year later, in Helsinki. Kari and his beautiful American wife, Kate, have relocated here at her urging but it's a city where Kari has only bad memories. He is working the graveyard shift in the homicide unit, with a team that resents him as an overpaid Lapland hick, and a brilliant but egomaniacal...
34) Skinwalkers
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The Navajo Tribal Police investigate the murder of a medicine man. At the crime scene is a partially completed pictograph. One clue sends a chill through a young officer: the arrow used in the killing has a tip of human bone, a sign that a Navajo spirit - a "skinwalker" - is at work.
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"All Is Not Forgiven is the debut crime novel by Investigation Discovery star Joe Kenda, a former homicide detective, whose hit series Homicide Hunter and American Detective have been watched by as many as 3.8 million viewers in 186 countries. In this first novel, the rookie Det. Kenda investigates a 1975 case that begins with the murder of a beloved Colorado philanthropist and society figure whose husband, a gambler and womanizer, appears to have...
36) Born to die
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In Grizzly Falls, Montana, Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli are called out on one of the most bizarre cases of their illustrious careers. Dr. Kacey Lambert is struck by the uncanny resemblance between herself and two dead women - one a B-movie actress and the other a schoolteacher. One of the corpses contains traces of poison, but Detectives Alvarez and Pescoli can't establish a motive. The case turns when Kacey realizes that the man she...
37) Damage
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The Curtlees are the most powerful family in San Francisco, unscrupulous billionaires who ve lined every important pocket in the Bay Area in pursuit of their own ascent. So when the family's heir, Ro Curtlee, was convicted of rape and murder a decade ago, the fallout for those who helped to bring him to justice was swift and uncompromising. The jury foreman was fired from his job and blacklisted in his industry. The lead prosecutor was pushed off...
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Barbara Holloway novels volume 7
Pub. Date
c2003
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The Kelso-McIvey rehabilitation center is a place of hope and healing for both its patients and dedicated staff. For its directors, it's a lifelong dream that's about to be destroyed, if David McIvey has his way. A brilliant surgeon whose ego rivals his skill with a scalpel, McIvey now has controlling shares in what has always been a non-profit clinic. His plan is to close the clinic and replace it with a massive new surgery center, with himself at...
40) Picture me dead
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[2003]
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When the mutilated body of a woman is found on the side of the road, officer-in-training Ashley Montague and Detective Jake Dilessio join forces to find the truth--an investigation that leads them into a world of corrupt cops, greed, and murder.