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Pop Goes the Weasel
James Patterson
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Current:
9.6 |
Likened to a "young Muhammad Ali," Alex Cross, the Porsche-driving profiler, doctor, detective, and father of two has seen his fair share of vicious killers. From a bloodthirsty butcher who came after his family (more]
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Big Trouble
Dave Barry
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Current:
9.6 |
Dave Barry, the only newsman to win a Pulitzer for exemplary use of words like booger, will please humor and crime-fiction fans alike with this racy debut novel. The scene is Miami. In ritzy Coconut Grove, the teen son of Eliot, a ne
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Devil's Teardrop : A Novel of the Last Night of the Century
Jeffery Deaver
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Current:
9.6 |
Thriller readers can always count on getting extra value from Jeffery Deaver--strong plots, fascinating research, believable characters, and plenty of surprise endings. Like in Th
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Family Honor
Robert B. Parker
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Current:
9.6 |
Let's get this settled right away: Sunny Randall is nothing like Spenser. True, she's a private eye in Boston with good connections to the cops, and she also knows a lot of bad guys. And yes, she happens to have a trusty sidekick named Spik
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The Simple Truth
David Baldacci
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Current:
9.5 |
Rufus Harms is rotting in a Virginia military prison. As readers learn in the terse opening of The Simple Truth, he was convicted 25 years ago of the brutal killing of a young girl. Readers also learn that Rufus did not commit the cr
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The Mitford Years (4 Volume Set (Mitford Years Series , So3))
Jan Karon, Donna Kae Nelson (Illustrator)
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Current:
9.3 |
Welcome to Mitford, North Carolina, the small mountain town at the center of Jan Karon's bestselling novels about rector Father Tim and the heartwarming cast of characters surrounding him. This boxed set includes paperback editions of the f
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Prayers for Rain
Dennis Lehane
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Current:
9.3 |
Penzler Pick, December 1999: Dennis Lehane is one of the hottest practitioners of the hip contemporary PI novel. Like his fellow residents of Boston who happen to write mysteries (Robert Parker, Jeremiah Healy, Linda Barnes, etc.), Lehan
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Ashes to Ashes
Tami Hoag
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Current:
9.2 |
Some doctoral candidate is doubtless hard at work as you read this, trying to explain why and how the serial killer suddenly became every thriller writer's favorite subject. Meanwhile, the irrepressible Tami Hoag shows us in her latest sure
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The Perfect Husband
Lisa Gardner
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Current:
9.2 |
What would you do if the man of your dreams hides the soul of a killer?Jim Beckett was everything she'd ever dreamed of...But two years after Tess married the decorated cop and bore his child, she helped put him behind bars for savagely
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The Deadliest Game (Tom Clancy's Net Force)
Tom Clancy, Steve R. Pieczenik
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Current:
9.1 |
Computer savvy teens, a war game gone awry, and good old-fashioned intrigue are the elements of The Deadliest Game, a high-octane episode in Tom Clancy's wildly popular teen series Net Force. Clancy and co-author Steve Pieczenik envi
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When the Wind Blows
James Patterson
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Current:
9.0 |
Taking a break from his phenomenally successful Alex Cross series, James Patterson's When the Wind Blows is as much child's fantasy as it is an adult nightmare. The novel moves away from the gritty Washington, D.C., setting of the Cr
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Along Came a Spider
James Patterson
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Current:
9.0 |
Read about the author. Read more
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Hunting Badger
Tony Hillerman
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Current:
9.0 |
The marvelous Hunting Badger is Tony Hillerman's 13th novel featuring Navajo tribal police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. Here the two cops (who appeared in separate books early on but whose paths now cross routinely) are workin
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Second Wind
Dick Francis
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Current:
9.0 |
Dick Francis's legion of admirers can relax: his year off from writing since the 1998 publication of Field of Thirteen is over, an
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Amsterdam
Ian McEwan
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Current:
9.0 |
When good-time, fortysomething Molly Lane dies of an unspecified degenerative illness, her many friends and numerous lovers are led to think about their own mortality. Vernon Halliday, editor of the upmarket newspaper the Judge, pers
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Patricia Highsmith
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Current:
8.8 |
One of the great crime novels of the 20th century, Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley is a blend of the narrative subtlety of Henry James and the self-reflexive irony of Vladimir Nabokov. Like the best modernist fiction, more]
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False Memory
Dean R. Koontz
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Current:
8.7 |
Not a continuation of the Moonlight Bay series (Seize the Night and Fear Nothing) as many fans were expecting, False Memory
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One for the Money
Janet Evanovich
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Current:
8.6 |
Stephanie Plum is so smart, so honest, and so funny that her narrative charm could drive a documentary on termites. But this tough gal from New Jersey, an unemployed discount lingerie buyer, has a much more interesting story to tell: She ha
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Billy Straight
Jonathan Kellerman
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Current:
8.6 |
Kellerman isn't just an Edgar Award-winning thriller writer, he's a prominent child psychologist, and it shows in Billy Straight. The hero is a 12-year-old runaway whose sharp mind and straitlaced moral sense make him fit to survive
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L.A. Requiem
Robert Crais
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Current:
8.5 |
More than 10 years ago, I was shocked to learn that some puerile piece of fluff had won the Edgar for Best Paperback Original, when it was so obvious to me and virtually everyone else in the Western Hemisphere that the award should have gon
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The Cat Who Saw Stars
Lilian Jackson Braun
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Current:
8.5 |
Those who've read the previous 20 installments in Lilian Jackson Braun's tales of amateur sleuth Jim Qwilleran are familiar by now with the ingredients that have made this series one of the most famous (and pleasurable) cozy series. The
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Heartwood
James Lee Burke
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Current:
8.5 |
Whether he's writing about the Louisiana Bayou Country (in his Dave Robicheaux books) or the Texas hill towns around Austin (in his series about former Texas ranger Billy Bob Holla
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O Is for Outlaw
Sue Grafton, Kinsey Millhone (Epilogue)
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Current:
8.5 |
Wise-cracking, staunchly independent, and chronically curious, Grafton's gritty gumshoe Kinsey Millhone is back. This time, the alphabet series star will take on the toughest case to date: her past. What begins as a random phone call from a
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Hard Time : A V.I. Warshawski Novel
Sara Paretsky
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Current:
8.5 |
V.I. Warshawski, Sara Paretsky's tough-talking, dog-loving, justice-seeking private investigator has been missing in action since 1994, when she ratted out a big city political scandal on the streets of Chicago in more]
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Hush Money
Robert B. Parker
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Current:
8.3 |
Twenty-five years and 26 books into the Spenser series, Hush Money dishes up another solid installment that is sure to fulfill the cravings of Parker fans new and old. This time Spenser and his buddy Hawk are helping a couple of trou
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N Is for Noose
Sue Grafton
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Current:
8.3 |
"Suppose we could peer through a tiny peephole in time and chance upon a flash of what was coming up in the years ahead?" The questioner is Kinsey Millhone, middle-aged, two-time divorcee detective and junk food junkie star of Sue
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The Lamorna Wink : A Richard Jury Mystery
Martha Grimes
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Current:
8.2 |
Fans of Martha Grimes will know that the Lamorna Wink must be a British pub, and one to which Superintendent Richard Jury or his aristocratic sidekick Melrose Plant can be counted on to repair in the process of solving a mystery or two. Thi
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Darkness, Take My Hand
Dennis Lehane
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Current:
8.0 |
When an original voice comes along in the mystery field, it's a small miracle. When that voice not only holds up but actually improves in a second book, that's headline news in the Religion section. Lehane has followed up his Shamus Award-w
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Sacred
Dennis Lehane
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Current:
7.9 |
Dennis Lehane won a Shamus Award for A Drink Before the War, his first book about working-class Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. His second in the series, more]
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The Monkey's Raincoat
Robert Crais
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Current:
7.9 |
Taking the mystery community by storm, this Elvis Cole novel was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards and won both the Anthony and Macavity for Best Novel of the Year. Crais, a VP at Paramount, was previously head s
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B Is for Burglar
Sue Grafton, Kinsey Millhone (Epilogue)
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Current:
7.9 |
Hired to find a missing woman, Millhone discovers that her quarry was last seen heading for Boca Raton wearing a $12,000 lynx coat. 2 cassettes. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. more]
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A Is for Alibi
Sue Grafton
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Current:
7.8 |
Out on parole from a conviction of murdering her husband, Niki Fife hires PI Kinsey Millhone to follow a trail leading to the real killer. 2 cassettes. --This text refers to the audio cassette edi
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Blood Work
Michael Connelly
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Current:
7.8 |
Michael Connelly has been attracting fans by the droves with his hard-boiled, edgy thrillers. A former crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Connelly combines a poet's ear for language with a deep understanding of the criminal mi
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D Is for Deadbeat
Sue Grafton
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Current:
7.8 |
Following the successes of her previous "Alphabet" mysteries, Grafton puts Kinsey Millhone back on the case. This time, the feisty female P.I. gets pulled into a former client's suspicious life--and death--and soon discovers an impressive l
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C Is for Corpse (Kinsey Millhone Mystery)
Sue Grafton(Epilogue)
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Current:
7.8 |
After a near-fatal car accident, a young man asks Kinsey to protect him. When he is promptly murdered, Kinsey vows to find the killer. 2 cassettes. --This text refers to the audio cassette edition
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Free Fall
Robert Crais
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Current:
7.7 |
Elvis lives . . . Elvis Cole, that is, the hottest, hippest L.A. gumshoe detective from award-winning author Robert Crais. In a roller-coaster of excitement and mystery, a dirty cop's girlfriend hires Cole to get the goods on the cop. Howev
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Sudden Mischief
Robert B. Parker
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Current:
7.7 |
Sudden Mischief, the 25th Spenser novel, finds Robert B. Parker's seemingly ageless sleuth once again engaging Boston's bad guys and sorting out life's moral dilemmas, all (or mostly) in the name of love. When Spenser's girlfriend, p
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E Is for Evidence : A Kinsey Millhone Mystery
Sue Grafton
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Current:
7.5 |
'E' is for evidence: evidence planted, evidence lost. 'E' is for ex-lovers and evasions, enemies and endings. For Kinsey, 'E' is for everything she stands to lose if she can't exonerate herself: her license, her livelihood, her good
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The Black Dahlia
James Ellroy
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Current:
7.5 |
This fictionalized version of Hollywood's most notorious murder case takes readers on a hellish journey through the movie capital and into a region of total madness. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this t
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F Is for Fugitive
Sue Grafton
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Current:
7.5 |
One of today's hottest mystery writers is back with the latest installment in her alphabet sleuth series. This multi- layered novel explores the explosive passions that reignite questions concerning the 17-year-old murder of a promiscuous t
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Stalking the Angel
Robert Crais
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Current:
7.4 |
Hired by a hotel magnate to locate a priceless Japanese manuscript, L.A. private eye Elvis Cole encounters the notorious Yakuza, the Japanese Mob, and is drawn into a game of sexual obsession, amorality, and evil. Reprint. more]
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The Maltese Falcon (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
Dashiell Hammett
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Current:
7.4 |
Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett's archetypally tough San Francisco detective, is more noir than L.A. Confidential and more vulnerable than Raymond Chandler's Marlowe. In The Maltese F
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A Drink Before the War
Dennis Lehane
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Current:
7.2 |
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Worst Fears Realized
Stuart Woods
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Current:
7.1 |
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The Black Echo
Michael Connelly
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Current:
7.0 |
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The Concrete Blonde
Michael Connelly
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Current:
6.8 |
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The Last Coyote
Michael Connelly
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Current:
6.7 |
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