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In a world of secrets, human genius is power.
And sometimes it is simply deadly...
A three-hour drive from Washington, D.C., two clandestine institutions face each other across a heavily guarded river. One is the world's most unusual laboratory, whose goals and funding are a mystery. The other is an elite CIA training camp shrouded in secrecy. Now a man and a woman are about to run a gauntlet between these two puzzle factories, straight into a furious...
2) In the frame
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From a New York Times bestseller, "action, character, and color ride in perfect balance" in a thriller about a horse portraitist turned amateur sleuth (Kirkus Reviews).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Charles Todd, a renowned painter of horses, is shocked when he turns up at his cousin Donald's house for a weekend visit to find his cousin's young wife...
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Archy McNally mysteries volume 7
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A risky gamble might not pay off when Lawrence Sanders's dilettante detective plunges into a quagmire of greed, passion, and murder At first, Archy McNally was unofficially enlisted to verify the bona fides of a deal for a rare Fabergé Imperial egg, created exclusively for the doomed Czar Nicholas in 1917. But when Edythe Westmore's son and daughter become convinced the trinket is a fake and their mother is being conned, McNally is asked to deep-six...
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Kelly Flynn's plans to renovate her recently purchased alpaca ranch are threatened by acts of sabotage targeting her new home and her local yarn shop, a situation that is complicated by the discovery of the body of a young woman in the basement of her shop.
6) Deja dead
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 1
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Scribner
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c1997
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English
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As forensic scientist Temperance Brennan works on the dismembered remains of a murder victim, she begins to suspect--despite the skepticism of local police-that there is a link between this homicide and the torture-killing of a teenager several years
7) Dakota
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Young Andi Oliver is an amnesiac and drifter who awoke in a Santa Fe bed and breakfast with a man's belongings tossed about the room. Adopting a name from the initials on her backpack, Andi moves from one waitress job to the next, from Idaho to North
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Published in 1924, "Poirot Investigates" is a collection of short stories featuring Agatha Christie's Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. This compilation is significant in Christie's oeuvre as it demonstrates her ability to craft compelling mysteries in a shorter format, while still maintaining the complex plots and misdirection for which she was becoming known.
The collection includes eleven stories in the UK edition (and fourteen in the US...
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 6
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Little, Brown and Co
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[2003], c1995-1999
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English
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Provides three novels featuring homicide detective Harry Bosch as he investigates the murder of his prostitute mother, clashes with the crime unit and mafia over a movie producer's death, and investigates the murder of a notorious attorney. .
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Penguin Books
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2008
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Two men are found murdered on the outskirts of Paris, and despite the appearance that the crime is drug-related, Commissaire Adamsberg believes that the deaths are the work of a serial killer, and he enlists pathologist Ariane Lagarde to help solve the case.
14) The book of lies
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Former federal agent Cal Harper tries to uncover the ties between the biblical murder of Abel by his brother Cain, Superman creator Mitchell Siegel's father's murder in 1932, and an attack on him and his father by a man who is tattooed with the markings of Cain.
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Jane Marple murder mysteries volume 8
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Dodd, Mead
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1986
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English
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Miss Jane Marple and Inspector Curry of Scotland Yard are both investigating a vicious, coldblooded murder at Stoneygates, a home for juvenile delinquents.
16) The Reapers
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Former New York detective Charlie "Bird" Parker learns that his confidantes, Angel and Louis, are targets of a group of assassins and have disappeared and sets out to find them.
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 14
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Henry Holt
Pub. Date
1997
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English
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While Melrose Plant impersonates an antiques expert, Richard Jury investigates the scene of a baffling double murder in the Lincolnshire fens, after the bodies of two local women turn up and Jenny Kennington, Jury's long-time flame, becomes the prime
18) The neighbor
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Detective D. D. Warren novels volume 3
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Detective Sergeant D.D. Warren struggles to understand what is going on beneath the surface of wholesome normality projected by the Joneses, a young South Boston couple who have become the objects of a media frenzy since Sandra, a beautiful young teacher, disappeared, leaving her four-year-old daughter asleep in the house, and making her husband Jason, a reporter, look like suspect number one.
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Shopaholic series volume 8
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2015
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life returns with another laugh-out-loud Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) adventure: a hilarious road trip through the American West to Las Vegas.
“Sophie Kinsella keeps her finger on the cultural pulse, while leaving me giddy with laughter.”—Jojo Moyes, author of The Giver of Stars and The Last Letter...
“Sophie Kinsella keeps her finger on the cultural pulse, while leaving me giddy with laughter.”—Jojo Moyes, author of The Giver of Stars and The Last Letter...
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