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Dangerous Hour, The (Sharon McCone)
by Marcia Muller
Complacency can make a person careless, and Sharon McCone, who makes crime her business, should know that better than most. One minute she's riding high with her detective agency expanding, her bank account growing, and her only 'problem' a marriage proposal from her lover, Hy Ripinsky,... Read More
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The Sentry: A Joe Pike Novel (Elvis...
by Robert Crais
In The Watchman and The First Rule, Robert Crais put Joe Pike front and center for the first time, to remarkable effect: "A beautifully crafted piece of story-telling" (The Seattle Times); "A high-octane thriller... Pike's unshakable belief in right and wrong provides a moral... Read More
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Stalking the Angel (Elvis Cole)
by Robert Crais
Hired by a hotel magnate to locate a priceless Japanese manuscript, L.A. private eye Elvis Cole encounters the notorious Yakuza, the Japanese mob, and is drawn into a game of sexual obsession, amorality, and evil.
'Stalking the Angel is a righteous California book: intelligent,... Read More
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Betrayal in Death (In Death #12)
by J. D. Robb
J.D. Robb fans are fanatical about New York City supercop Eve Dallas and her mysterious billionaire husband Roarke. Robb's futuristic (circa 2059) ...In Death series wages a two-front narrative war (the battle of good and evil and the battle of the sexes) and both author and readers come out... Read More
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Hunting Season (abridged) (Anna Pigeon)
by Nevada Barr
Working at Mt. Locust, a historic plantation on Mississippi’s Natchez Trace parkway, park ranger Anna Pigeon finds the body of a man, the brother of the local sheriff candidate, apparently killed in an S&M ritual gone awry, and must deal with dark family secrets, malevolent... Read More
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Sacred Games
by Vikram Chandra
Vikram Chandra's powerful epic draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singhand into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India.
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Mrs. Pollifax and the Lion Killer
by Dorothy Gilman
In response to a desperate SOS, Kadi Hopkirk flies to the African country of Ubangiba, where her childhood friend, Sammat, is soon to be crowned king. Mrs. Pollifax, reluctant to allow the girl to venture alone into what she fears may be grave danger, crashes the party.
On arrival,... Read More
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Mrs. Pollifax & the Second Thief
by Dorothy Gilman
The one and only Mrs. Emily Pollifax is a part-time CIA operative and full-time garden-clubbing grandmother from New Jersey. In this adventure, she is off to the Sicilian countryside on a daring mission to rescue John Sebastian Farrell, a former CIA comrade, who was shot while trying to... Read More
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While Other People Sleep (Sharon McCone)
by Marcia Muller
In the old days, Sharon McCone was a scrappy, idealistic investigator working out of a rambling old San Francisco Victorian that housed the All Souls legal collective. In the 1990s, All Souls is a conventionally successful law firm, and McCone is on her own. These days her profile is a... Read More
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Both Ends of the Night (Sharon McCone)
by Marcia Muller
San Francisco-based private detective Sharon McCone is tracking a man whose actions have already caused the deaths of two women who loved and trusted him in the 18th installment of this memorable series. Because Marcia Muller's books are as much about McCone's relationships with her... Read More
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