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“Stunning . . . the tragic sweep of Todd’s historical mysteries grows more expansive with each novel.”—The New York Times Book Review
Called out into the teeth of a violent blizzard, Inspector Ian Rutledge faces one of the most savage murders he’s ever encountered. He might have expected such unspeakable carnage on the World War I battlefields where he’d lost much of his soul—and...
Called out into the teeth of a violent blizzard, Inspector Ian Rutledge faces one of the most savage murders he’s ever encountered. He might have expected such unspeakable carnage on the World War I battlefields where he’d lost much of his soul—and...
2) Rain gods
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When Hackberry Holland became sheriff of a tiny Texas town near the Mexican border, he'd hoped to leave certain things behind: his checkered reputation, his haunted dreams, and his obsessive memories of the good life with his late wife, Rie. But the discovery of the bodies of nine illegal aliens, machine-gunned to death and buried in a shallow grave behind a church, soon makes it clear that he won't escape so easily.
4) Aftermath
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"Three years after losing her brother Luka in a school shooting, Skye Gilchrist is moving home. But there's no sympathy for Skye and her family because Luka wasn't a victim; he was a shooter. Jesse Mandal knows all too well that the scars of the past don't heal easily. The shooting cost Jesse his brother and his best friend--Skye. Ripped apart by tragedy, Jesse and Skye can't resist reopening the mysteries of their past. But old wounds hide darker...
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Promise Falls (Linwood Barclay) volume 3
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English
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While private investigator Cal Weaver investigates the mass poisoning in Promise Falls, New York, detective Barry Duckworth uncovers a connection between three recent murders and other crimes in the area.
8) Ocean prey
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"An off-duty Coast Guardsman is fishing with his family when he calls in some suspicious behavior from a nearby boat. It's a snazzy craft, slick and outfitted with extra horsepower, and is zipping along until it slows to pick up a surfaced diver . . . a diver who was apparently alone, without his own boat, in the middle of the ocean. None of it makes sense unless there's something hinky going on, and his hunch is proved right when all three Guardsmen...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012.
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First edition.
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291 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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Marine Gunnery Sergeant Kyle Swanson is sent into Pakistan, where an international team of medical workers has been executed in order to cover up a deadly terrorist secret.
10) Smokescreen
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2019.
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Eve Duncan journeys to Africa to help families torn apart by a violent attack deep in the jungle -- but she may be putting herself in more danger than she knows. A journalist shows up on Eve Duncan's doorstep with a plea for help. Jill Cassidy has just come from a small African village with a heart wrenching story: half the villagers -- many of them children -- have been killed in a horrific attack by guerilla soldiers, the bodies burned beyond recognition....
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The home of a family of five is now a crime scene: four of them savagely murdered, one -- a sixteen-year-old girl -- missing. Was she lucky to have escaped the carnage? Or does her absence speak of something more sinister? Sergeant Detective D. D. Warren is on the case, but so is survivor-turned-avenger Flora Dane. Seeking different types of justice, they must make sense of the clues left behind by a young woman who, whether as victim or suspect,...
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Emily Bestler Books/Washington Squre Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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First Emily Bestler Books/Washington Square Press trade paperback edition.
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530 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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A violent robbery has killed an entire family on the Costa Del Sol. Annika Bengtzon is assigned to cover the story for the Evening Post. But when she arrives in Spain she discovers there is a third child who is unaccounted for. Annika makes it her mission to find the missing girl. But as she delves into the mystery she becomes embroiled in a far darker side of Spanish life than she'd envisioned, as she begins to piece together a terrifying story of...
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Parson's Porch Books
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[2022].
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242 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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Richard Harris, hospital administrator, smiled when the sound of sirens woke him before dawn. Like an Armani-suited grinch, at this time of year, Harris would prowl the halls of Merry Hopes Hospital and grit a smile to the nurses, while his CPA trained mind tallied salaries and benefits going to waste. Revyval Hospital Management purchased Merry Hopes from Craven County two years ago. Harris's corporate instructions were simple: make a profit in three...
14) Scrublands
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Martin Scarsden novels volume 1
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
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651 pages (large print) : map ; 23 cm.
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English
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In Riversend, an isolated rural community afflicted by an endless drought, a young priest does the unthinkable, killing five parishioners before being taken down himself. A year later, accompanied by his own demons from war-time reporting, journalist Martin Scarsden arrives in Riversend. His assignment is simple: describe how the townspeople are coping as the anniversary of their tragedy approaches. But as Martin meets the locals and hears their version...
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