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If You Like...Robert B. Parker
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Best known for Spenser, his Boston-based Private Investigator, Robert B. Parker has created three Mystery series and several stand-alone titles all which have a similar theme: how to live correctly, by a personal code of honor, in a violent world. With his Spenser series, Parker refined the hard-boiled P.I. to create a detective with 90s sensibilities and the ability to use muscle to ensure that justice is done.
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The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
When 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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Suspect
by Robert Crais
Struggling to reclaim his career after the devastating murder of his partner eight months earlier, LAPD cop Max Kent is teamed with a traumatized military canine named Maggie who assists Max in an effort to track down his late partner's killer. By the best-selling author of Taken.
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Vigilante
by Stephen J. Cannell
A final novel by the Emmy Award-winning television writer best known for such programs as The Rockford Files and The A-Team finds LAPD detective Shane Scully and his partner, Sumner Hitchens, investigating a possible killer in their precinct when a trouble-making activist is found dead in her home.
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Caught
by Harlan Coben
Finding and exposing sexual predators on television, reporter Wendy prompts the arrest of a man who worked as an advocate for abused children and tackles the case of a missing girl before a group of vigilante fathers makes Wendy fear that she accused an innocent man. By the author of Long Lost.
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Live By Night
by Dennis Lehane
In 1926, during the Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream.
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Borderline
by Lawrence Block
Available for the first time in half a century, a signature pulp novel by the award-winning author of A Walk Among the Tombstones is set on the Texas-Mexico border and follows the intersecting lives of a professional gambler, a bored divorcee, a beautiful hitchhiker-turned-sex performer, an agenda-seeking redhead and a killer on the run.
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Standup Guy
by Stuart Woods
Giving legal advice to an unusually well-deported gentleman only to discover that several people are interested in the man's link to a long-ago crime, Stone Barrington pursues a winner-take-all investigation that leads him from Florida's tropical beaches to the posh vacation homes of the Northeast.
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Strangers
by Bill Pronzini
Cheryl seeks assistance from Nameless when her son, Cody Hatcher, is accused of three rapes in Mineral Springs, in the latest novel of the mystery series following Nemesis.
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Damned in Paradise: A Nathan Heller Novel
by Max Allan Collins
Nathan Heller teams up with legendary attorney Clarence Darrow to help solve the infamous "Massie" case, in which a beautiful Hawaiian socialite, Thalia Massie, blames a group of island natives for her rape, leaving Heller to delve into a world rife with racial tension and intrigue.
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A Case of Vineyard Poison: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery
by Philip R. Craig
A betrothed couple, J. W. Jackson and Zee Madieras discover that a $100,000 deposit has been made into their bank account, and a college student, who recently withdrew that amount, is murdered in their driveway.
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