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41) Renting silence
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Can 1920's script girl Jessie do Mary Pickford's bidding and uncover a real killer? When Jessie is asked by her idol, the famous actress Mary Pickford, if she can do some private investigating for her, Jessie reluctantly accepts. A girl was found stabbed in her bedroom with another woman lying unconscious on the floor next to her, a bloody knife in her hand. With no police investigation into the murder, it's up to Jessie to hone her amateur detective...
42) The hidden man
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Pub. Date
[2009]
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Jason Kolarich is a midwestern everyman with a linebacker's build and an easy smart-ass remark. He's a young, intelligent, and successful attorney; but he's also struggling with a horrific tragedy that threatens to unravel his own life, and possibly the lives of everyone he holds dear. When a long-estranged friend, charged with murder, resurfaces needing Kolarich's legal help, the lawyer has to put together a competent defense for the accused, despite...
43) Nemesis
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Series
Nameless Detective mysteries volume 38
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Agreeing to investigate threats by a mysterious extortionist against a newly rich young woman, Jake Runyon makes a series of surprise discoveries that cause him to be wrongfully accused of a crime and his employers to be subjected to a vicious legal vendetta.
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Liberty Lane novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Featuring private investigator Liberty Lane September, 1840. Novelist and patron of the arts Lady Blessington has hired Liberty Lane to escort a French gentleman to The Hague. For he has in his possession important papers that will assist in the forthcoming trial of Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, the late emperor's nephew who has failed in an attempt to seize power in France. Plans for the undercover expedition are disrupted however when a body...
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"..This latest installment finds Montalbano in search of his missing right-hand man. Before leaving for vacation with Livia, Montalbano witnesses a seagull doing an odd dance on the beach outside his home, when the bird suddenly drops dead. Stopping in at his office for a quick check before heading off, he notices that Fazio is nowhere to be found and soon learns that he was last seen on the docks, secretly working on a case. Montalbano sets out to...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Description
A human story of jealousy, blackmail, self-made men, frustrated ambitions and secrecy that takes place in Melbourne, Australia in the 19th century and involves an investigation into a homicide where the deceased was discovered on the inside of a hansom cab. The influential and secretive Frettlby family is at the center of the mystery, and the name of the killer himself is not as much significance in the story, as is the role of the Frettlby family...
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Series
Ilka novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"A woman's murder is only the beginning as a daughter races to unravel the maze of secrets her father left behind--before she becomes the next victim." --
49) Deep pockets
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Series
Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Harvard professor Wilson Chaney's position in life is hanging by a thread; his marriage, his reputation, not to mention his tenure at Harvard are in the hands of a blackmailer, someone threatening to sell Chaney's secrets at very high prices. His enviable life could disappear into thin air should the blackmailer's evidence-proof of his affair with a young student-become public knowledge. So he hires Boston private investigator Carlotta Carlyle to...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Corporate lawyer Elizabeth Carlyle is under pressure. Her prestigious New York law firm is working on a high-stakes case, defending a prominent bank that's been accused of fraud. When Elizabeth gets the news that one of her junior associates has lost his phone - and the secret documents that were on it - she needs help. Badly. Enter ex-CIA officer Valencia Walker, a high-priced fixer who gets called in when wealthy corporations, people and governments...
51) The Big Sleep
Description
In this hard boiled detective story, private eye Philip Marlowe gets caught up in a twisted tale of blackmail and murder.
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Series
In death volume 45
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"A new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series: Lt. Eve Dallas must separate rumors from reality when a woman who traffics in other people's secrets is silenced. The chic Manhattan nightspot Du Vin is not the kind of place Eve Dallas would usually patronize, and it's not the kind of bar where a lot of blood gets spilled. But that's exactly what happens one cold February evening. The mortally wounded woman is Larinda Mars, a self-described...
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Series
Teddy Fay novels volume 5
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Teddy Fay hedges his bets in the latest thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods"--
58) Highway 61
Author
Series
Rushmore McKenzie mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Reluctantly agreeing to help his girlfriend's ex-husband in a case involving a girl's murder and a blackmail scheme, former police officer Rushmore McKenzie struggles to discern the truth when the case puts him on the wrong side of powerful adversaries.
59) The art of theft
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Pub. Date
2019.
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"As "Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective," Charlotte Holmes has solved murders and found missing individuals. But she has never stolen a priceless artwork--or rather, made away with the secrets hidden behind a much-coveted canvas. But Mrs. Watson is desperate to help her old friend recover those secrets and Charlotte finds herself involved in a fever-paced scheme to infiltrate a glamorous Yuletide ball where the painting is one handshake away from...