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| Blood Grove by Walter Mosley Unlicensed private investigator-turned-hardboiled detective Easy Rawlins navigates sex clubs, the mafia and dangerous friends when he reluctantly accepts the racially charged case of a traumatized Vietnam War veteran in late-1960s Los Angeles.
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Deep Into the Darkby P. J. TracyFramed for the murder of a friend’s abusive ex, war veteran Sam Easton turns for help to up-and-coming LAPD detective Margaret Nolan, a fallen soldier’s sister who would prove Sam’s innocence.
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Before The Ruins : a Novel by Victoria GoslingA multilayered debut by the founder of The Reader Berlin finds a woman forced to confront a haunting summer from the past shaped by a stolen diamond necklace, a man on the run and a devastating betrayal.
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The Captive : a Novel by Fiona King FosterA woman with elite skills from her violent past travels with her family and an escaped criminal through a harsh winter landscape to claim a bounty and safeguard her loved ones from murderous rivals. A first novel.
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| Anthropologist Sophia Shepard is researching the impact of tourism on cultural sites in a remote national monument on the Utah-Arizona border when she unexpectedly crosses paths with two small-time criminals. The Ashdown brothers were hired to steal maps from a collector of Native American artifacts, but instead of delivering as promised, the brothers are out to strike it rich. |
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The Sanatorium by Sarah PearseAccompanying family members to an isolated Swiss Alps hotel to recuperate from a traumatizing case, a woman detective uncovers the fates of long-ago tuberculosis patients who went missing from the property years earlier when it operated as a sanatorium.
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Series Alert: While this book is not officially part of a series, it is the sequel to a previous work by this author: The Tenant. Six days ago a paperboy on his route in central Copenhagen stumbled upon the naked body of a dead woman, lying in a fountain with arms marked with small incisions. Cause of death: exsanguination-- the draining of all the blood in her body. Lead Investigator Jeppe Korner, recovering from a painful divorce and in the throes of a new relationship, pounds the streets looking for answers. His partner, Anette Werner is on maternity leave and restless at home, she decides to do a little freelance sleuthing. Their investigations uncover the ambition and greed that festers beneath the surface of caregiving institutions.
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Series Alert: This is number 49 in the Spenser Series.
When his apprentice Mattie's childhood friend from the South Boston housing projects is murdered, Spenser traces the victim's demise to an international sex-trafficking ring that has been operating with impunity under the protection of a well-connected billionaire
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Series Alert: This is the 14th in the Kevin Kerney mysteries.
A series conclusion finds Clayton Istee, son of Kevin Kerney, investigating a double homicide at a Las Cruces hotel that he connects to a casino theft and a DEA cover-up. By the best-selling author of the American West Trilogy.
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Series Alert: This is number 8 in the Kendra Michaels series.
Investigator Kendra Michaels teams up with military-trained bodyguard Jessie Mercado and agent-for-hire Adam Lynch in a desperate effort to rescue a famous pop singer who has been kidnapped during a live performance.
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Series Alert: This is number 26 in the Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus mysteries series.
Detectives Peter Decker and Tyler McAdams link two suspicious disappearances from an assisted living facility to the case of three missing campers, before the reappearance of a foster son’s biological mother upends Decker’s home life.
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From The Start - Read the first in a famous series..
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If you are a fan of Mike Hammer, V.I. Warshawski, Spenser, and Kinsey Milhone you should take a trip back in time and read The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. Chandler's 1939 classic introduces Philip Marlowe, a hard drinking, wise cracking, hard boiled detective. Gritty and dark with a tough but honest protagonist, Chandler's The Big Sleep set the standard for the genre. The Big Sleep, was Chandler's first novel after having written pulp fiction for years. He followed it with six more Marlowe novels. Many of Chandler's novels were made into movies including, The Big Sleep. It stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Chandler also co-wrote the screenplay for the movie Double Indemnity a Film noir classic. Both movies are available in the HRL catalog.
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The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerWhen a case of blackmail involving the daughter of a California millionaire leads to murder, the inimitable Philip Marlowe is stirred into action as he becomes embroiled in a troublesome case of extortion complicated by kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder.
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