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Author
Series
John Keller novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
With a new wife and a baby on the way, Keller, a.k.a. Nicholas Edwards, is done killing people for money until a phone call from Dot draws him back into the old game, taking him from Dallas to settle a domestic dispute to New York, where people might remember him.
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this sixteenth book-length adventure, Matthew Scudder, Block's acclaimed unlicensed private investigator, pursues his most personal case to date. Scudder has just agreed to investigate the ostensibly suspicious online lover of an acquaintance. It seems simple enough. At first. But when people start dying and the victims are increasingly close to home, it becomes clear that a vicious killer is at work. And the final targets may be Matt and Elaine
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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Block's short stories are intelligent and respectful of the reader yet often take an unexpected turn. He plays fair. If you reread the story, you'll find that he left you little clues about the final destination but didn't connect the dots. Block is a master of the long-form mystery, and this collection proves he's got the short form locked down as well.
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
You've got a dream job, running your own cozy secondhand bookstore, complete with Raffles, your caudally challenged cat. And you've got another way to make a buck: every once in a while you put your conscience on the shelf and let yourself into someone else's residence, and you leave with more than you came with. You're a burglar, and you know it's wrong, but you love it-until the 21st Century pulls the rug out from under you. All of a sudden the...
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bernie Rhodenbarr is surprised to discover that the brownstone he is burglarizing has already been robbed that night, and is even more surprised when a dead body is found there the next day. When the police become interested in the stolen goods that Bernie tries to pawn, and another murder occurs close to home, Bernie is forced to investigate the crimes in order to clear himself of the murder charge.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
SHE WAS EVERY MAN’S DREAM – AND ONE MAN’S NIGHTMARE
Johnny Hayden and Doug Rance had a scheme to take real estate entrepreneur Wallace Gunderman for all he was worth. But they needed a girl on the inside to make it work.
Enter Evelyn Stone: Gunderman’s secretary, his lover – and his worst enemy. Gunderman had promised to marry her, but never came through. Now she’s ready to make him pay…
9) Sinner man
Author
Series
Hard case crime book volume HCC-126
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Bernard Cornwell’s epic story of the making of England continues in this tenth installment in the bestselling Saxon Tales series—"like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer)—the basis of the hit BBC America television series The Last Kingdom.
His blood is Saxon. His heart is Viking. His battleground is England.
Bernard Cornwell has been called, "perhaps the greatest writer of historical adventure novels today" (Washington Post), and his...
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 10
Language
English
Description
Kenan Khoury's wife went out grocery shopping and never came home alive. But because Kenan Khoury buys and sells drugs for a living he can't go to the police for help. He goes to Matthew Scudder instead, an alcoholic ex-cop and unlicensed private eye who will stop at nothing to bring the brutal killers to justice before another innocent woman falls beneath their knives.
11) Hit and run
Author
Series
John Keller novels volume 4
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A hit man accused of assassinating the governor of Ohio must clear his name and outwit the real killer who's out to gun him down.
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After a childhood friend is shot down while attempting to atone for past sins, Scudder is drawn into a murder investigation that threatens to upset his path toward recovery--and get him killed in the process.
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Hired by his dentist to steal back some valuable diamonds from his ex-wife, Bernie Rhodenbarr is nearly discoved in the closet, only to become the witness to the woman's murder.
16) Hope to die
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
When Byrne and Susan Hollander are killed in a brutal home invasion, the whole city catches its collective breath. A few days later the killers turn up dead behind a locked door in Brooklyn. One has killed his partner, then himself. The city sighs with relief. The cops close the case.Matt and Elaine Scudder were in the same room with the Hollanders hours before their deaths. In spite of himself, Scudder is drawn to the Hollander case. The closer he...
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