Nina is actually a tough Queens cop, an avenger on a mission. Her latest investigation involves Artemis, one of the city's battered women's shelters. A number of men connected to the women living there are ending up dead. Why? To find...
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Author:Elias, MichaelSummary: - Author:Kane, AndreaSummary:
When Sally Montgomery accompanies her handsome boss Frederick Pierson on a quiet country weekend, she enjoys the first evening. But when she discovers his battered body the next morning, she runs for her life. Now it's up to Pete, her...
- Author:Cooper, BeckySummary:
Forty years after the fact, Becky Cooper, a curious Harvard undergrad, first heard whispers of a murdered student, one bludgeoned to death by a professor to cover up an affair. Though that motive proved false, the story that unfolded,...
- Author:Mofina, RickSummary:
Police officer Karl Styebeck has been called a hero, but his badge takes on an ugly tarnish when he's linked to the deaths of two women. Driven by personal demons, reporter Jack Gannon lays it all on the line to get to the truth; even...
- Author:Green, Simon R.Summary:
Ishmael Jones is plunged into a baffling investigation involving the wedding of an old friend's daughter, murder, an ancient curse, and Ishamel's memories of before he was human.
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Author:Minot, SusanSummary:Tells the story of two extraordinary young women: Esther, a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to commit unspeakable acts, and Jane, an American journalist traveling in Africa, hoping to give a voice to...
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Author:Beaton, M. C.Summary:Bossy, impulsive, yet hopelessly romantic, Agatha is dreading the upcoming marriage of her ex-husband, James Lacey. Her best intentions to move on with her life are put on hold when James's young bride is shot to death just minutes...
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Author:Gage, LeightonSummary:As Chief Inspector Mario Silva has learned, justice is hard to come by in Brazil, so when his niece tells him about a possible genocide deep in the jungle, he agrees to round up his team and charter a plane to Pará to check it out.
- Author:Mackintosh, SophieSummary:
Once upon a time, damaged women came here to be cured. We took them in, fed them glasses of our clean, good water, let them scream at the waves till their lips split like ripe fruit. Now no one is left but my sisters and me. King died a...
- Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
The serenity of Hill Top Farm is shattered when a local shephard is murdered. Beatrix Potter--when she's not busy making friends with her fellow villagers--lends her insights to the investigation.
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher by training, and an amateur sleuth by choice. When a young man falls from a balcony to his death, Isabel does not believe it was an accident. Plunging deep into the shady business community of Edinburgh...
- Author:Coel, MargaretSummary:
Arapaho lawyer Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley find themselves disagreeing over a murder case. But when the killer strikes again, both will have to put their differences aside before they, too, get caught in the murderer's web....
- Author:Nesbø, JoSummary:
In Oslo, after the first snow of the season has fallen, a woman disappears, and a sinister snowman is left in her wake. As irascible detective Harry Hole realizes that this is only one of multiple disappearances, he begins to think a...
- Author:Slaughter, KarinSummary:
GBI investigator Will Trent needs medical examiner Sara Linton to help him hunt down a ruthless murderer. But when the past and present collide, everything Will values is at stake.
- Author:Rickstad, EricSummary:
Frank Rath thought he was done with murder when he turned in his detective's badge to become a private investigator and raise a daughter alone. Then the police in his remote rural community of Canaan find an '89 Monte Carlo...
- Author:Dunning, JohnSummary:
Criminal defense attorney Erin D'Angelo, Cliff's bookstore partner, needs a favor. Her first true love, Robert Marshall, has been murdered, and his wife Laura has confessed. But Erin smells something fishy. She asks Cliff to investigate...
- Author:Beukes, LaurenSummary:
A time-traveling serial killer is impossible to trace--until one of his victims survives. In Depression-era Chicago, Harper Curtis finds a key to a house that opens on to other times. But it comes at a cost. He has to kill the shining...
- Author:Goodman, CarolSummary:
Tess has worked hard to keep her past buried, where it belongs. Then one more morning, Tess gets a call from the headmistress of her son, Rudy's, school: Lila Zeller, her son's girlfriend, has been found dead on the beach, not...
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Author:Hall, M. R.Summary:The body of a dead man is discovered in an overgrown cemetery in Bristol, the sign of the cross gouged into his flesh. At first it seems to coroner Jenny Cooper that all the evidence points to a horrific, if routine, suicide.
- Author:Jensen, LizSummary:
After recuperating from a horrendous car accident, Gabrielle Fox longs to rebuild her life and begins a new job at a psychiatric hospital for violent children. But when she meets a patient named Bethany, Gabrielle is intrigued by her...
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