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Stone Barrington novels volume 17
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Stone Barrington is back in New York and looking forward to some downtime working cases for Woodman & Weld that the prestigious law firm does not wish to be seen to be associated with. But when he crosses paths with a fetching Broadway actress and sometime lip model, Stone gets a little more deeply involved with show business than he's expected. Then the fleecing of a wealthy art dealer's daughter leads him into the worlds of financial fraud, Big...
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Jackson Brodie mysteries volume 5
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Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-partner Julia. It's picturesque, but there's something darker lurking behind the scenes. Jackson's current job, gathering proof of an unfaithful husband for his suspicious wife, is fairly standard-issue, but a chance encounter with a desperate man on a crumbling cliff leads him into...
3) Suspect
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"For as long as Lucia Gomez has been the police chief in the city of Highland Isle, near Kindle County, she has known that any woman in law enforcement must walk a precarious line between authority and camaraderie to gain respect. She has maintained a spotless reputation--until now. Three male police officers have accused her of soliciting sex in exchange for promotions to higher ranks. With few people left who she can trust, Chief Gomez turns to...
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Posing as a human in Los Angeles, Meredith Gentry, Princess of the high court of Faerie, works as a P.I. specializing in supernatural crime. The Faerie Queen sends her assassin to fetch Meredith back--whether she likes it nor not. Meredith's job will be to enjoy the constant company of the most beautiful immortal men in the world. Her reward: the crown and the opportunity to live. If she fails, her penalty is death.
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Steve Vail novels volume 1
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Retired FBI agent Steve Vail is quite content in his civilian life, until he gets a call from his former employer. A mysterious group known only as the Rubaco Pentad is engaged in a terrifying plot to extort millions of dollars from the U.S. government. Vail is the only agent with the undercover skills necessary to foil their schemes, but his true enemy may be someone within the FBI itself.
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2024.
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"Working alone as a private investigator is tough. Estranged from her PI family, Margo Angelhart does what she must to get by--including taking on sordid cases that pay the bills, even if she'd rather be helping those the justice system has failed. That is, until a cheating husband case she's working intersects with her siblings' corporate espionage investigation, forcing Margo to cooperate with the Angelhart firm. Now, as the siblings compare notes,...
7) The games
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Private Detective Agency novels volume 11
Private novels
Private novels volume 12
Private novels volume 11
Private novels
Private novels volume 12
Private novels volume 11
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Two years ago Jack Morgan - the head of the renowned worldwide investigation firm Private - was in charge of security for the World Cup in Bazil. During the championship final, the action nearly spilled from the field into the stands. Fortunately, Jack and his team averted disaster on football's biggest stage. Now he has returned to Rio to secure the Olympics. But before the torch is lit, the threats come fast and furious as Jack discovers that someone...
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"From New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz comes a new gripping romantic suspense trilogy fraught with danger and enigma. Decades ago in the small town of Fogg Lake, "The Incident" occurred: an explosion in the cave system that released unknown gases. The residents slept for two days. When they woke up they discovered that things had changed-they had changed. Some started having visions. Others heard ominous voices. And then the scientists...
9) Paris Match
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Stone Barrington novels volume 31
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Stone Barrington has returned to Paris to attend to some business concerns, and finds himself embroiled in high-stakes trouble on both sides of the pond. An old enemy is still in hot pursuit, and this time he might have a powerful local resource on his side: a gentleman with his own ax to grind against Stone. And back in the United States, the swirling rumor mill threatens to derail a project of vital importance not just to Stone but to the nation....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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Aboard a Nile steamer, Hercule Poirot meets Linnet Doyle, a woman who appears to have everything: youth, beauty, wealth, and a loving husband. But the husband was stolen from her friend Jacqueline de Bellefort, who has been haunting the newlyweds path, showing up to wreak havoc in their plans. They have secretly booked passage on the steamer to escape, but still, tragedy strikes: Linnet is shot through the head. As the complications multiply, Poirot...
11) Skin Game
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Dresden files volume 15
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Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is about to have a very bad day. Because as Winter Knight to the Queen of Air and Darkness, Harry never knows what the scheming Mab might want him to do. Usually, its something awful. He doesnt know the half of it . . . Mab has just traded Harrys skills to pay off one of her debts. And now he must help a group of supernatural villains-led by one of Harrys most dreaded and despised enemies, Nicodemus...
12) Lion & Lamb
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2023.
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Veena Lion and Cooper Lamb are rival PIs working the same intense headline-making case. Philadelphia is in a state of shock over the fate of two hometown heroes: Eagles starting quarterback Archie Hughes, and his even more famous wife, Grammy-winning singer Francine Hughes. One spouse is murdered. The other is suspect #1. Even before the case hits the courtroom, it's the hottest ticket in town. For the defense: Cooper Lamb, private investigator to...
13) Private
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Returning home from Afghanistan after being wounded, Jack Morgan is called into California State Prison to visit his father, Tom, who is serving a life sentence for extortion and murder. Before being incarcerated, Tom ran a private investigation firm called 'Private'. Tom wants Jack to re-start the company, to make it great again, and gives him access to a $15 million dollar account in the Cayman Islands to do it with. Five years later, Jack has set...
14) Stealth
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Stone Barrington novels volume 51
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Stone Barrington is trying to enjoy some downtime at his English retreat when he's unceremoniously sent off to the remote reaches of the United Kingdom and into a deadly snare. As it turns out, this is only the first volley by a rival power, one that has its eyes set on disrupting the peace of the nation. With the help of two brilliant and stunning women, Stone must leverage a new position of power to capture a villain with a lethal agenda. But the...
15) Easy prey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 17
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When Davenport is called to the white-stuccoed house, after the party, he knows it's for no usual case. But even he cannot suspect the earth tremors he is about to feel, when an old lover comes back into his life, whose own secrets may turn out to be the most dangerous ones of all.
16) The race
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
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Bell has never encountered a case- and an enemy- quite like the one before him now, though. It is 1910, the age of flying machines is still in its infancy, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first daring aviator to cross America in less than fifty days. He is even sponsoring one of the prime candidates- an intrepid aviatrix named Josephine Frost- and that's where Bell, chief investigator for the Van Dorn Detective...
17) Don't know Jack
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It's been a while since we first met Lee Child's Jack Reacher in Killing Floor. Fifteen years and sixteen novels later, Reacher still lives off the grid, until trouble finds him, and then he does whatever it takes, much to the delight of readers and the dismay of villains. Now someone big is looking for him. Who? And why? Hunting Jack Reacher is a dangerous business, as FBI Special Agents Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar are about to find out. Otto and...
18) Wild card
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"Stone Barrington clashes with a determined adversary in the latest non-stop thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods. Stone Barrington and his latest paramour are enjoying a peaceful country retreat when their idyll is broken by an unwelcome stranger. He was sent by an enemy, someone who'd be happy to silence Stone and all his collaborators for good. only it's soon clear that Stone is not an easy man to target. But with boundless...
20) Fidelity
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When secretive private detective Phil Kramer is murdered, his widow, Emily, and his killer, Jerry Hobart, who has been ordered to kill Emily, compete to uncover the dark truth behind the killing while questioning where their true loyalties lie.