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Brazen virtue / Nora Roberts. by
Edition: Bantam Books trade pbk. ed.
Material type:  Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks, 2011
Dissertation note: After a demanding book tour, superstar mystery novelist Grace McCabe decides to visit her sister, Kathleen, who’s embroiled in a custody battle after a bitter divorce. Arriving in D.C., Grace is shocked to find Kathleen living in a run-down neighborhood and, hoping to afford a hotshot lawyer, supplementing her meager teacher’s salary by moonlighting as a phone sex operator.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 R.N.B 2011.
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Coyote waits / Tony Hillerman. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Harper & Row, c1990
Dissertation note: The master's newest Chee-Leaphorn mystery with the usual informative Navajo anthropology. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 H.T.C 1990.
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Death in a white tie, by
Edition: 1 ST
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Not fiction
Publication details: London, G. Bles, 1938
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 M.N.D 1938.
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Gorky Park / Martin Cruz Smith. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Random House, c1981
Dissertation note: "Brilliant . . . enough enigmas within enigmas within enigmas to reel the mind." -The New Yorker A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI, and the New York City police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected American fur dealer. Meanwhile, Renko is falling in love with a beautiful, headstrong dissident for whom he may risk everything. "Once one gets going, one doesn't want to stop. . . . The action is gritty, the plot complicated, [and] the overriding quality is intelligence." -The Washington Post
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 S.M.G 1981.
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Last ditch / Ngaio Marsh. by Series: The Crime club
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: London : Collins, 1977
Dissertation note: Young Ricky Alleyn has come to the picturesque fishing village of Deep Cove to write. Through the sleepy little town offers few diversions, Ricky manages to find the most distracting one of all: murder. For in a muddy ditch, he sees a dead equestrienne whose last leap was anything but an accident.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 823 M.N.L 1977.
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Listening woman / Tony Hillerman. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Harper & Row, c1978
Dissertation note: The blind shaman called Listening Woman speaks of witches and restless spirits, of supernatural evil unleashed. But Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police is sure the monster who savagely slaughtered an old man and a teenage girl was human. The solution to a horrific crime is buried somewhere in a dead man's secrets and in the shocking events of a hundred years past. To ignore the warnings of a venerable seer, however, might be reckless foolishness when Leaphorn's investigation leads him farther away from the comprehensible . . . and closer to the most brutally violent confrontation of his career.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 H.T.L 1978.
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Payment in blood / Elizabeth George. by
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Bantam Books, c1989
Dissertation note: The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives an eighteen-inch dirk through her neck
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 G.E.P 1989.
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Red Square / Martin Cruz Smith. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Random House, c1992
Dissertation note: "Sharply, evocatively written and elaborately plotted...It should find as many friends as did GORKY PARK."
THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
Back from exile, Arkady Reko returns to find that his country, his Moscow, even his job, are nearly dead. Not so his enemies. Hounded by the Russian mafia, chased by ruthless minions of the newly rich and powerful, and tempted by his great love, Arkady can only hope for escape. Fate, however, has other ideas....
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
A LITERARY GUILD MAIN SELECTION
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (2)Call number: 813.54 S.M.R 1992, ...
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Rising sun : a novel / by Michael Crichton. by
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1992
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 C.M.R 1992.
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Slay me a sinner / Pierre Audemars. by
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Walker, 1980, c1979
Dissertation note: Slay me a sinner /
Audemars, Pierre.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 823.914 A.P.S 1979.
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Southern cross / Patricia Cornwell. by
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Putnam, c1998
Dissertation note: The new police chief of Richmond, Virginia, Judy Hammer struggles to cope with her grief over the death of her husband, political turmoil, and police corruption, as she and her deputy chief, Virginia West, and rookie Andy Brazil work to clean up a city in trouble. 600,000 first printing. Lit Guild, Mystery Guild, & Doubleday Main.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (2)Call number: 813.54 C.P.S 1998, ...
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The bone collector / Jeffery Deaver. by
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 2013
Dissertation note: In memories that rise like wisps of ghosts, LuLing Young searches for the name of her mother, the daughter of the Famous Bonesetter from the Mouth of the Mountain. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhile, her daughter Ruth, a ghostwriter for authors of self-help books, is losing the ability to speak up for herself in front of the man she lives with and his two teenage daughters. None of her professional sound bites and pat homilies works for her personal life; she knows only how to translate what others want to say.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (2)Call number: 813.54 J.D.B 2013, ...
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The clinic / Jonathan Kellerman. by
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Bantam Books, 1997
Dissertation note: The Clinic has 7914 ratings and 216 reviews. Alisha said: Notes for me:Probably if ranked in order of enjoyment this would be toward the bottom
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 K.J.C 1997.
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The daughters of Cain / Colin Dexter. by
Material type: Text; Format:
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Fiction
Publication details: London : Macmillan, c1994
Dissertation note: The eleventh Inspector Morse novel begins when a body is discovered in a set of rooms off a prestigious staircase in the most famous Oxford college of them all. Colin Dexter has won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award twice for "The Way Through the Woods" and "The Wench is Dead"
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 823.914 D.C.D 1994.
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The second deadly sin / Lawrence Sanders. by
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Putnam, c1977
Dissertation note: The Second Deadly Sin [Asa Larsson] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Asa Larsson 's Rebecka Martinsson series was included on a list of Top Mysteries Every Woman Should Read by Oprah Winfrey.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813.54 S.L.S 1977.
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Cathedral : a novel / by Nelson DeMille. by
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Delacorte Press, c1981
Dissertation note: St. Patrick's Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating, but everyone is in for the shock of his life. Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act - the seizure of Saint Patrick's Cathedral. Among his hostages: the woman Brian Flynn once loved, a former terrorist turned peace activist. Among his enemies: an Irish-American police lieutenant fighting against a traitor inside his own ranks and a shadowy British intelligence officer pursuing his own cynical, bloody plan. The cops face a booby-trapped, perfectly laid out killing zone inside the church. The hostages face death. Flynn faces his own demons, in an electrifying duel of nerves, honor, and betrayal.
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 813,54 D.N.C 1981.
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Steroid blues / Richard La Plante. by
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text; Format:
print
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Fiction
Publication details: New York : Forge, 1996
Availability: Items available for loan: Centeral Library (1)Call number: 823 L.R.S 1996.
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