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"The newest winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize, a debut mystery set in the Southwest starring a former rodeo cowboy turned private investigator, told in a transfixingly original style. Rodeo Grace Garnet lives alone, save for his old dog, in a remote corner of Arizona known to locals as the Hole. He doesn't get many visitors, but a body found near his home has drawn police attention to his front door. The victim is not one of the many illegal immigrants...
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Beautiful and mysterious student Marion Summers goes into a seizure at the Reading Room of the London Library slips into a coma and dies shortly thereafter. The autopsy reveals the cause as acute arsenic poisoning - and there's no reason for Summers to have been exposed to this once-common now-rare poison. With the help of her superior DCI David Brock newly promoted DI Kathy Kolla of the Serious Crime Unit of Scotland Yard investigates.
83) Providence Rag
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"Edgar Award-winner Bruce DeSilva returns with Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter for a dying newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island. Mulligan knows every street and alley, every priest and prostitute, every cop and street thug. He knows the mobsters and politicians--who are pretty much one and the same. Inspired by a true story, Providence Rag finds Mulligan, his pal Mason, and the newspaper they both work for at an ethical crossroad....
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Eliot Ness is famous for leading the Untouchables against the notorious mobster Al Capone. But that's only part of the picture. His true legacy reaches far beyond Big Al and Chicago. Both fearless and shockingly shy, Ness inspired courage and loyalty in men twice his age, forged law-enforcement innovations that are still with us today, and earned acclaim and scandal in his professional and personal lives. And through it all, he maintained an unwavering...
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Nothing is ever quite at peace on Scotland's Black Isle. The Traveling people are at odds with the locals, the fishermen have nothing in common with the farmers, nor the villagers with the town. Then two murders occur the same day involving the same families from the same estate. Joanne Ross, typist at the Highland Gazette, is torn over reporting on the crimes - the woman at the center of them is her close friend. But the story could be her big break...
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Twenty years after shocking the world in Los Angeles, could Dr. George Hill Hodel have returned to terrorize California as the killer known as Zodiac? When veteran LAPD homicide detective Steve Hodel discovered that his late father had known the victim of the infamous Black Dahlia murder case in 1947 Los Angeles, the ensuing three-year investigation became the New York Times bestseller Black Dahlia Avenger. Publication led directly to the discovery...
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2009
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In this dark, jagged true crime thriller, wily mob head Gregory Scarpa Sr. (alias the "Grim Reaper") secretly steals and kills under FBI protection for decades. When faced with arrest for his own crimes, he betrays his adoring son, Gregory Jr., whom he'd groomed to take his place. Taking the fall for his father out of familial respect and love, the young Scarpa endures decades of maximum security imprisonment by furnishing the feds with detailed intelligence...
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Barbara Weaver had everything she wanted: five beautiful children, a home, her Amish faith, and her husband Eli. But Eli was tempted by cell phones, the Internet, and sexting. Soon the "Amish Stud" was asking people to kill his wife for him. It fell to Edna Boyle, a young assistant prosecutor, to seek justice for Barbara Weaver.
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c2007
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Television journalist Velez-Mitchell asks a disturbing question: Are killers like Scott Peterson and Andrea Yates all that different from the rest of us? When journalists break the story of a kidnapping, a brutal rape, or a family slaughtered, we ask: What kind of monster would do this? This book exposes the hidden motivations behind 21 recent crimes. People lie to protect secrets, big and small--but leading a double life can land you in prison, and...
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You've probably heard of Anna Gristina, the notorious "Soccer Mom Madam," who allegedly operated a multimillion-dollar escort service with clients from the Forbes billionaires list to Capitol Hill. But you haven't heard of the woman who helped bring the Soccer Mom Madam down -- until now. This is Rebecca Kade's intimate account of her career as an escort and her work as an undercover agent for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.
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