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The policeman's daughter
by Trudy Nan Boyce
A prequel to the Detective Salt series recounts the story behind the case that earned Salt her promotion to homicide, describing her early career work as a beat cop in Atlanta's most at-risk housing project, where a cast of misfits and criminals have a profound impact on her later cases.
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Crimson Lake by Candice FoxWrongly accused of the brutal abduction of a 13-year-old girl, Sydney detective Ted is forced to hide in the crocodile-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake, where he agrees to help convicted killer Amanda Pharrell in a case involving dangerous secrets.
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| Force of Nature by Jane HarperWhistleblower Alice Russell disappears while on a corporate retreat with four other women in the Australian Bush. Federal agents Aaron Falk and Carmen Cooper, who were working with her on a money laundering case, uncover plenty of possible suspects, including a serial killer's son.
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Nine months after her cop father died on duty, PI Roxane Weary is still a mess. Even so, she agrees to help the desperate sister of a man on death row. The woman thinks she's seen her brother's girlfriend, who could clear his name. If it's really her, where has she been for the last 15 years, gone since the day her parents were murdered?
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| Two Girls Down by Louisa LunaA single mom's two daughters disappear from a parking lot, and a rich relative hires Alice Vega who's also had stunning success finding abductees. The local Pennsylvania cops won't work with outsider Vega, but disgraced former cop Max Caplan, a loving father to a down-to-earth teenage girl. agrees to help.
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Let me lie by Clare MackintoshStruggling to come to terms with her parents' double suicide, new mother Anna commits herself to uncovering what really happened only to be confronted by a mysterious adversary who would keep the past hidden.
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| Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter MosleyPI Joe King Oliver, a former NYPD cop was framed by someone on the force and spent months in the notorious Rikers Island jail. While he's helping a man wrongly accused of murdering two corrupt cops, Oliver receives a confession from the woman who helped set him up. |
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Caribbean rim by Randy Wayne WhiteWhen a discriminating director of the Florida Division of Historical Resources and his young assistant go missing, Doc Ford navigates a high-stakes mission to fight a murder charge against his amateur archaeologist friend.
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| After accidentally killing a landowner's son who wouldn't take no for an answer, Molly Murphy flees turn-of-the-century Ireland. On a boat to New York, she's harassed by a fellow passenger, who's later murdered on Ellis Island. To clear her name, outspoken, intrepid Molly tries to find the real killer, with a bit of help from a handsome Irish-American cop.
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| This 1st in the Jimmy Vega series finds the Latino homicide detective investigating the racially charged murder of a Hispanic woman found dead in the small town of Lake Holly, New York. Jimmy has only two clues left in the dead woman's purse: a photo of a woman and baby, and a note that says, "Go back to your country. You don’t belong here."
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| This is a complex historical mystery that examines the murder of an immigrant, and its connections to the cops and the mafia.Woodrow Cain, a cop from rural North Carolina who's new to the NYPD and polyglot Maximilian Danziger, who reads and writes letters for illiterate immigrants work together to solve this mystery.
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| When an elderly Swedish couple is brutally killed at their rural farm in Skåne, troubled, opera-loving Inspector Kurt Wallander tries to find the killer amid a wave of anti-immigrant attitudes following the news that the woman's last word was "foreign."
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