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The Brethren
by John Grisham
A trio of federal judges--so-called the Brethren--are serving time in a minimum security federal prison. While writing briefs, handling cases for other inmates, practicing law without a license, and maintaining jailhouse justice has them comfortably occupied behind bars, a mail scam scheme ... Read More
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Isle of Dogs
by Patricia Cornwell
There's no Kay Scarpetta in Cornwell's latest, but there are plenty of laughs and lots of suspense in this dark comedy about a small island off the coast of Virginia whose zany residents (one of whom appears to be a serial killer) attempt to secede from the state. ... Read More
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Whisper of Evil (Evil Trilogy) (Hooper,...
by Kay Hooper
Someone is stalking the little town of Silence. Three victims have fallen to a killer's savage vengeance. Each of the dead men was a successful and respected member of the community--yet each also harbored a dark secret discovered only after his murder. Were their deaths the ultimate ... Read More
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Book of the Dead
by Patricia Cornwell
The 'book of the dead' is the morgue log, a ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to take on a new meaning. Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides it's time for a change of pace, not only personally and ... Read More
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P Is for Peril
by Sue Grafton
Kinsey Millhone investigates the disappearance of a well-to-do doctor named Dowan Purcell. She finds evidence of Medicare fraud at Purcell's hospital, and suspicious behavior on the part of the doctor's wife, a former stripper named Crystal. ... Read More
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Chosen Prey
by John Sandford
The latest entry in Sandford's series finds detective Lucas Davenport back in Gothic surroundings: this time, it's an abandoned lot in Minneapolis which someone has turned into an impromptu graveyard for murdered young women. Davenport soon becomes convinced that the killer is local art ... Read More
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Hidden Prey
by John Sandford
This 15th entry in the PREY series mixes police procedural with Russian--and Soviet--espionage. Lucas Davenport faces his second case as a crime troubleshooter for the state of Minnesota, teaming up with a Russian cop (or is she a Russian spy?) to solve the murder of an ex-KGB agent, found ... Read More
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Echo Park
by Michael Connelly
In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn't crack it, and the twenty-two-year-old was never found. Now, more than a decade later, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a call from the District Attorney. A man ... Read More
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Lean Mean Thirteen (Stephanie Plum, No....
by Janet Evanovich
MISTAKE #1
Dickie Orr. Stephanie was married to him for about fifteen minutes before she caught him cheating on her with her arch-nemesis Joyce Barnhardt. Another fifteen minutes after that Stephanie filed for divorce, hoping to never see either one of them again.
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Q Is For Quarry
by Sue Grafton
Kinsey Milhone, appearing in her 17th novel, finds herself drawn to a small town in California to try and help two old, ailing detectives solve an 18-year-old crime--the murder of a young woman, whose body was found in a quarry off of California Highway 1. A New York Times Notable Book for ... Read More
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