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The late show
by Michael Connelly
Relegated to the night shift after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor, a once up-and-coming LAPD detective disobeys orders by refusing to walk away from two cases, including an assault on a prostitute and the death of a young woman in a nightclub shooting. By the best-selling author of The Crossing.
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Take out
by Margaret Maron
Sigrid is still reeling from the untimely death of her lover, acclaimed painter Oscar Nauman, when she is called to investigate the deaths of two homeless men in the West Village. The police at first assume an overdose, until they realize that one of the men shows no signs of drug use. Then when containers of poisoned takeout food are found nearby, Sigrid's case is suddenly much more complicated. Soon the case is fraught with myriad suspects and motives. Who killed the two homeless men, and why? And which one was the intended victim? Or was the poisoned food meant for someone else entirely?
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Death on Nantucket
by Francine Mathews
Spencer Murphy is a national treasure. A famous war correspondent, he made a fortune off of his books and television appearances. But Spence is growing forgetful with age. When a body is discovered at the sprawling Murphy, Nantucket police detective Meredith Folger is called in to investigate. Merry is inclined to call the death a tragic accident - until another member of the Murphy clan comes to a brutal end. As Merry grapples with a family of unreliable storytellers she suspects that the truth may be out of reach, trapped in the failing brain of a man whose whole life may be a lie.
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A game of ghosts : a Charlie Parker thriller
by John Connolly
It is deep winter and the darkness is unending. A private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished and Charlie Parker is assigned to track him down. Parker's employer, Edgar Ross, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has his own reasons for wanting Eklund found. Eklund is no ordinary investigator--he is obsessively tracking a series of homicides and disappearances, each linked to reports of hauntings. Now Parker is drawn into Eklund's world: a realm in which the monstrous Mother rules a crumbling criminal empire, in which men strike bargains with angels, and in which the innocent and guilty alike are pawns in a game of ghosts.
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Breakdown
by Sara Paretsky
When the teenage daughters of some of Chicago's most influential families discover the body of a ritually murdered victim, investigator Warshawski explores theories that the killing is linked to a hostile media campaign against a senatorial candidate or a wealthy patriarch's childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania.
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Southampton Row : a Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel
by Anne Perry
When a clairvoyant is found murdered following a late night séance, Thomas and Charlotte Pitt become entangled in a battle over a crucial seat in Parliament when they discover that the wife of one candidate participated in the fatal séance
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The Other Woman
by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Formerly a popular Boston TV news reporter, Jane Ryland wouldn't reveal her source when the station was sued and now she's working for a local newspaper. Things get worse before they get better when Jane's secret source is killed and she investigates a candidate's secret mistress days before a pivotal Senate election. Meanwhile, there might be links between all of this and a possible serial killer investigation by handsome police detective Jake Brogan.
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A Voice in the Night
by Andrea Camilleri
Investigating a seemingly open-and-shut case at the supermarket that is astonishingly complicated by the manager's suspicious death, Inspector Montalbano investigates mysterious ties to the case and the brutal murder of a girl in the apartment of a man with powerful relatives in politics and the mafia.
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