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Panic: a Novel of Suspense
by Jeff Abbott
Rushing to his family home in Austin after an urgent call from his mother, documentary filmmaker Evan Casher is horrified to find his mother murdered, an event that is complicated by the discovery that every aspect of his life has been fabricated and that he is being targeted by a ruthless organization of killers.
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The Bricklayer
by Noah Boyd
The FBI recruits Steve Vail, an agent it has just fired, to solve a brilliant and deadly extortion plot where a group called Rubaco Pentad is killing human targets one by one unless the bureau gives them cash, with the dollar amount and body count escalating each time the agency doesn't pay up.
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Bangkok 8
by John Burdett
Sonchai Jitplecheep, the son of a GI and a Thai bar girl and an honest Bangkok cop, investigates the murder of a charismatic African-American Marine sergeant, killed by a python and a swarm of cobras in a locked car, and the subsequent death of his partner, making his way through a world of illicit drugs, prostitution, and corruption to find a vicious killer.
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Echo Park: a Novel
by Michael Connelly
Eleven years after his investigation into the 1995 disappearance of Marie Gesto goes cold, Harry Bosch finally gets a chance to put the case to rest when a man accused of two brutal killings agrees to come clean about several others, including that of Marie Gesto, until Harry discovers that he and his partner had missed a clue in 1995 that could have found the killer and stopped nine other killings.
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The Last Detective
by Robert Crais
When the son of his longtime girlfriend, Lucy, mysteriously vanishes, Elvis Cole finds himself encumbered by his personal demons, the dark secrets of his childhood, and haunting long-suppressed memories of his service in Vietnam, which threaten to destroy his world.
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A Clean Kill in Tokyo
by Barry Eisler
Previously published as Rain Fall, this is the first in the John Rain series. A Japanese-American assassin who specializes in "natural cause" killings finds his carefully ordered world coming under siege in the wake of a government official's murder, with which he has been falsely connected, a situation that is complicated by his attraction to the victim's daughter.
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A Well-Known Secret
by Jim Fusilli
In the sequel to Closing Time, reluctant private detective Terry Orr becomes involved in the investigation into the murder of Sonia Salgado, recently released after serving thirty years in prison for the robbery and murder of a diamond dealer, a case that hearkens back to the corruption of the 1970s.
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Tropic of Night
by Michael Gruber
When her sister is killed during a scientific study, an anthropologist fakes her own suicide and hides in Miami to prevent herself from becoming the latest victim in a string of ritualistic murders, while police detective Jimmy Paz tries to figure out how witness memories are being erased.
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The Fifth Floor
by Michael T. Harvey
Hired by a former lover to follow her abusive husband, private detective Michael Kelly follows the subject to an old house on Chicago's North Side, where he stumbles upon a body and a possible answer to the mystery about who actually started the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, in the atmospheric sequel to The Chicago Way.
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Point of Impact
by Stephen Hunter
Twenty years after he earned a reputation for killing eighty-seven men during the Vietnam War, Bob Lee Swagger finds that his skills are in demand when an organization with ties to the CIA hires him for a particularly dangerous mission.
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Mallory's Oracle
by Carol O'Connell
Escaping from the streets of New York when a kind police sergeant takes her in, Kathleen Mallory grows up to become a proud member of the NYPD and embarks on a dangerous case to find her father's murderer.
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Right As Rain : a Novel
by George P. Pelecanos
Ex-cop Derek Strange is hired by the mother of a slain police officer to investigate the killing and quickly stumbles across the guilty feelings of another cop involved in the incident.
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The Last Kind Words: a Novel
by Tom Piccirilli
Resolving to pursue an honest life after his brother goes on a murderous rampage and is sentenced to execution, Terrier Rand learns that his brother did not commit one of the killings for which he was sentenced and resolves to learn what really happened that day. By the four-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Shadow Season.
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Betrayers : A Nameless Detective Novel
by Bill Pronzini
An investigation of a former lover leads Tamara to a charity-targeting scam, while Nameless's assistance of an elderly woman reveals ugly family agendas and Runyon's search for a bail jumper leads him to make a wrenching choice. By the Shamus Award-winning author of Snowbound.
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Rules of Prey
by John Sandford
Lieutenant Lucas Davenport is determined to track down a diabolically clever serial killer who leads a double life, carefully picks out his female victims, and taunts the police with notes signed "Maddog."
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The Heat Islands
by Randy Wayne White
Marine biologist Doc Ford finds his quiet life in his Sanibel Island stilt house interrupted by the murder of Marvin Rios, the island's most disliked resident.
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