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Irene Kelly mysteries volume 8
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Ten years ago, a homicide detective named Philip Lefebvre disappeared. When his corpse is found, detective Frank Harriman sets out to find the killer. Everyone suspects drug dealer Whitey Dane, but Frank knows that Lefebvre wasn't murdered by a vengeful dealer. His killer was a pathological murderer who is still on the loose.
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Jack McEvoy novels volume 2
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Newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to use his final days at the LA Times to write the definitive murder story of his career. Focusing on the case of Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer in jail after confessing to a brutal murder, Jack realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus and that the real killer is operating completely below police radar--and with perfect knowledge of any move against him.
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Christmas Jars volume 1
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In a plot reminiscent of Penelope Stokes's The Blue Bottle Club and Angela Hunt's The Note, a journalist happens upon a human interest story that winds up teaching her lessons about love and forgiveness and renewing her own faith in human kindness. On Christmas Eve, twenty-something Hope Jensen is quietly grieving the recent loss of her adoptive mother when her apartment is robbed. The one bright spot in the midst of Hope's despair is a small jar...
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The good: New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons, the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. The bad: Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad boy. In the chaos, he accidentally...
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Recently, Ridley Jones stepped off a street corner and into an abyss of violence, deception, and fear. She is being a lot more careful about where she steps and trying to get on with her life when another seemingly mundane act, picking up a few envelopes of prints at a photo lab, puts Ridley at the nexus of a global network of crime. A shadowy figure of a man appears in almost every picture she's taken in the last year, lurking just far enough away...
6) Notorious
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Max Revere novels volume 1
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2014
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Maxine Revere has dedicated her life to investigating murders that the police have long since given up any hope of solving. A nationally renowned investigative reporter with her own TV show and a tough-as-nails reputation, Max tackles cold cases from across the country and every walk of life. But the one unsolved murder that still haunts her is a case from her own past. When Max was a high school senior, one of her best friends was strangled and another,...
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Jake Carlson, a top tabloid journalist and correspondent for the TV news show "American Outrage", is used to dragging himself into the dirt to get to the truth. Then his adopted son, Sam, asks him to use his investigative talents to find Sam's birth mother. Jake is stunned by the ugly secrets he uncovers, including a corrupt politician, the Albanian mafia, and a child-trafficking ring. Jake is galvanized by the career-making story--until he and...
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Ballad novels volume 8
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In the wake of a sensationalized 1934 trial involving an Appalachian Virginia teacher's alleged murder of her tyrant father, novice journalist Carl Jennings is denounced by a greedy media determined to portray the defendant as a backwards mountain girl.
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