Abe Lieberman mysteries
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Abe Lieberman mysteries volume 1
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A pair of cops hunt the killer of the most beautiful hooker on Chicago's North Side On a blistering Chicago afternoon, the Cubs are winning and Abe Lieberman is waiting to meet a prostitute. This mild-mannered old police detective still has a few tricks up his sleeves-and one of them is named Estralda Valdez. One of the city's loveliest women of the night, she is Lieberman's most prized confidential informant, and she needs help with a psychotic john....
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Abe Lieberman mysteries volume 2
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When a cop snaps, he threatens to take a building full of people with him Bernie Shepard comes home with a shotgun. He opens the door to his bedroom, and sees what he expected-his wife in bed with another cop. Two pumps of the shotgun take care of them, and Shepard carries out the rest of his plan. Accompanied by his nameless dog, this half-mad young detective goes to the roof of his apartment building, where he has built a small fortress stocked...
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Abe Lieberman mysteries volume 3
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When his nephew is killed by a mugger, Lieberman will do anything to bring his family justice In a posh part of Chicago's North Side, two Trinidadian men look for someone to jump. Waiting outside an apartment building, they see a couple shivering in the cold as they make their way to their car. The Trinidadians draw guns, demand money-and quickly go too far. Shots ring out, and the muggers run. Behind them, the man is dead, and his pregnant wife lays...
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Abe Lieberman mysteries volume 4
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A thief puts his life in danger when he becomes an unwitting witness to a murder scene Harvey Rozier has planned the murder carefully. Unseen, he slips out of the concert hall and sneaks home, knowing that if all goes perfectly he will have an hour to stab his wife to death. But things don't go smoothly, and he is pursuing the bleeding woman through the kitchen when he trips over a toolbox, and finds himself face-to-face with a shocked cat burglar....
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[1996]
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Somewhere in Israel Near the Jordan Border, 1973: On a desert road outside a small Israeli town, two Muslim families ride home in a battered van. The children joke and play. The adults argue about money, and Ali Mohammed drives nervously. The night is dark. Suddenly, the windshield of the van shatters. Conversation ceases abruptly as an automatic weapon peppers the careening vehicle, which turns on its side and skids noisily along the road. A lone...
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Abe Lieberman mysteries volume 6
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[2000]
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Abe Lieberman and his Irish partner, Bill Hanrahan, investigate the kidnapping of a government witness supposedly shielded under the federal witness protection program.
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Abe Lieberman mysteries volume 8
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[2004]
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When the target of an extradition case in Arizona is gunned down, detective Abe Lieberman pursues the killer's identity, while priest Bill Hanrahan struggles with a racist and sexist colleague who thwarts a rape investigation.
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Abe Lieberman mysteries volume 9
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[2006]
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Detective Abe Lieberman works to discover a common link between a baseball player whose career has been cut short by tragedy, a religious fanatic who employs unorthodox conversion methods, and a murdered single mother.
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Abe Lieberman mysteries volume 10
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The Dead Don't Lie is the latest in Edgar Award winner and MWA's Grand Master Stuart Kaminsky's Abe Lieberman mystery series. Lieberman and his partner, Bill Hanrahan, are hell or heaven bent on making the mean streets of Chicago just a little safer.
As usual they have their hands full. Three prominent members of the Turkish community are all brutally murdered and Lieberman works to find out what, if anything, ties these murders together. It doesn't...