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Eleven years ago Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband's betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, she's made a name for herself as a top prosecutor while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter. But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest case: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Facing a high-stakes trial, her private...
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"Superb—a pitch-perfect blend of Golden Age charm and sinister modern suspense, with a main character to die for. This is the book Edwards was born to write."—Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author
The first Golden Age-style mystery in the Rachel Savernake series... How close can one person get to a cruel justice system before falling victim to it?
London, 1930
Sooty, sulphurous,
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2021.
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English
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"London, 1942. A killer going by the name of "Crimson Jack" is stalking the wartime streets of London, murdering women on the exact dates of the infamous Jack the Ripper killings of 1888. Has the Ripper somehow returned from the grave? Is the self-styled Crimson Jack a descendant of the original Jack- or merely a madman obsessed with those notorious killings? In desperation, Scotland Yard turns to Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest detective. Surely,...
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Gene Hammons novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Phoenix, 1933: A young city with big dreams and dark corners. Great War veteran and rising star Gene Hammons lost his job as a homicide detective when he tried to prove that a woman was wrongly convicted of murder to protect a well-connected man. Now a private investigator, Hammons makes his living looking for missing persons--a plentiful caseload during the Great Depression, when people seem to disappear all the time. But his routine is disrupted...
5) King Zeno
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MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
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First edition.
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386 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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New Orleans, 1918. An ax murderer is terrorizing the city; the widow of a crime boss is hoping to legitimize the family business with her role in the construction of the Industrial Canal; a young African American jazz cornetist of prodigious talent is struggling to make a living from the music while working on the canal project; and a New Orleans patrolman, haunted by memories of WWI, vows to find the ax murderer and save his marriage--all while a...
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DI Ted Stratton novels volume 2
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
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First U.S. edition.
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424 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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War-weary Detective Inspector Ted Stratton investigates the suspicious death of a doctor only to realize that someone in the victim's hospital is committing murders while assuming someone else's identity.
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It's been 20 years since the night Jake Marcott was brutally murdered at St. Elizabeth High School in Portland, Oregon. It is a night that shattered the lives of three women. A class reunion has been scheduled, and a killer will finish what was started long ago.
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A Delia Martin novel volume 1
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Tor
Pub. Date
2013.
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1st ed.
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336 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
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English
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"It is the dawn of a new century in San Francisco and Delia Martin is a wealthy young woman whose life appears ideal. But a dark secret colors her life, for Delia's most loyal companions are ghosts, as she has been gifted (or some would say cursed) with an ability to peer across to the other side.Since the great quake rocked her city in 1906, Delia has been haunted by an avalanche of the dead clamoring for her help. Delia flees to the other side of...
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When FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned a case involving a monstrous serial killer, she seeks counsel from an imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, whose fascination with the young woman is as great as his hunger for murder. As their relationship develops, Starling must confront her own demons, and an evil so powerful that she may not have the courage or strength to stop it.
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