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Promised Land [Spenser Series Book 4]
by Robert B. Parker
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A wisecracking former boxer turned private investigator, Spenser is just settling into his new office when Harv Shepard, a beleaguered businessman, enters, looking for someone to help him find his runaway wife. Thus begins Promised Land, the fourth novel by Robert Parker following the exploits of the tough but cerebral detective Spenser. Why Harv Shepard's wife abandoned her family and to where she has disappeared comprise only half the intrigue, though, as Spenser soon discovers that Harv is a... more info>>
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Murder Mile High [Liz Sullivan Mystery #3]
by Lora Roberts
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The very day Liz Sullivan, freelance writer, returns to Denver to visit her estranged family, her ex-husband's body is dumped at her parents' door. Since Liz had once tried to kill her extremely abusive husband, the police think she's their killer. Liz finds it necessary to do some dangerous sleuthing, if she doesn't want to find herself in prison again--or dead. (Published: 1996)
Words: 71000 - Reading Time: 202-284 min.
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Murder Follows Money [Liz Sullivan Mystery #6]
by Lora Roberts
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Liz Sullivan agrees to a temp job as a media escort for famous Hannah Couch, food maven extraordinaire. But Hannah and her assistant Naomi are at loggerheads, and it's hard to work around their feud and their disagreeable personalities. Then death strikes in the luxury suite where they're staying, and Liz's assignment gets tougher. 6th (and final) Liz Sullivan mystery by Lora Roberts (Published: 2000)
Words: 61000 - Reading Time: 174-244 min.
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Murder Bone by Bone [Liz Sullivan Mystery #4]
by Lora Roberts
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Human bones are discovered by the boys Liz Sullivan is babysitting. As if caring for Bridget Montrose's four children is not demanding enough, there's now an investigation into the fifteen year old crime. Paul Drake reluctantly accepts Liz's helpful observations, but the old crime starts to intrude on the present, with frightening results. (Published: 1997)
Words: 63000 - Reading Time: 180-252 min.
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Murder in the Marketplace [Liz Sullivan Mystery #2]
by Lora Roberts
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Liz Sullivan is temping at SoftWrite and doing census interviews to supplement her freelance writing earnings. She'd met Jenifer Paston briefly that morning at SoftWrite, and in the evening she was there when the young woman's body was discovered. She's in a good position to learn insider details at the software company, but Detective Paul Drake warns her to mind her own business--and her runaway niece and homeless puppy. (Published: 1995)
Words: 67000 - Reading Time: 191-268 min.
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Watching Marcia
by Mike Resnick
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A voyeuristic bookstore clerk's secret passion for one of the regular customers becomes more than just browsing.... (Published: 1981)
Words: 4179 - Reading Time: 11-16 min.
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Revolting Development
by Lora Roberts Smith
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Bridget Montrose discovers the body of a disliked developer in a dumpster. Cruising Palo Alto with little Mick in his stroller, she uncovers surprising goings-on that involve her friends and neighbors. By the time she (and two simpatico cops) finally track down the truth, the murderer's right behind her. (Published: 1988)
Words: 70000 - Reading Time: 200-280 min.
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Origins
by Mike Resnick
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An unpublished cartoonist notices a suspicious connection between his crime stories and his neighbor's behavior ... and reveals the origin of the world's most famous comic strip detective. (Published: 1990)
Words: 3575 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
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Murder in a Nice Neighborhood [Liz Sullivan Mystery #1]
by Lora Roberts
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Liz Sullivan has a past. So she keeps pretty much to herself, living and freelance writing in her VW bus in Palo Alto, California. Then the body of Pigpen Murphy is found under her vehicle. Detective Paul Drake thinks she did it--maybe--so Liz can use the help of her few friends and the ladies in her writing workshop--but there's one problem she has to settle alone. (Published: 1994)
Words: 63000 - Reading Time: 180-252 min.
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An American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser
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Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy (1925) is nothing less than what it purports to be--the harrowing story of a weak-willed young man who destroys himself, a villain who is also victim of the values of a deceptive, materialistic society. Dreiser patterned the story of Clyde Griffiths on a real-life murder that took place in 1906, a charming young social climber who killed his pregnant young girlfriend in order to romance a rich girl who had begun to notice him. A powerful murder story, An Am... more info>>
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Grow Your Own
by Brenda Clough
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The naked city holds a hundred secrets, including talking house plants and a witch with an innovative business plan. (Published: 2000)
Words: 3186 - Reading Time: 9-12 min.
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Bimbos of the Death Sun
by Sharyn McCrumb
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Sharyn McCrumb's Bimbos of the Death Sun is a strange work. Ostensibly a mystery novel complete with a murder and an array of suspects with plausible motives, it won an Edgar Award in 1988 for Best Original Paperback Mystery. Although we follow the plot, curious to know who killed famed novelist Appin Dungannon and why, the fact is that what happens in this novel is in some ways much less important than where it happens. Bimbos of the Death Sun is not a mystery that merely happens to be set at a... more info>>
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Fuzz [A Novel of the 87th Precinct]
by Ed McBain
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For almost 50 years, fans of crime fiction have followed the boys of the 87th Precinct, a fictional urban police department precinct created by the novelist Evan Hunter, writing under the pseudonym Ed McBain. Since the first of almost 50 87th Precinct novels appeared in 1956, a rolling cast of characters in the same setting has grappled with every imaginable kind of crime. Fuzz was published in 1968, when respect for the police was, historically, at a low ebb, and the title comes from the insult... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Find This Woman
by Richard Prather
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Shell Scott. He's a guy with a pistol in his pocket and murder on his mind. The crime world's public enemy number one, this Casanova is a sucker for a damsel in distress. When a pair of lovely legs saunters into his office, he can't help but take the job, even when the case is a killer. There are way too many dames knocking at Shell's door, all saying they are the same woman. Not that Shell minds a private Las Vegas harem, but they are really complicating this case. He has his hands full peeling... more info>> (Published: 2000)
Words: 60351 - Reading Time: 172-241 min.
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The Shrunken Head
by Robert Fish
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Captain José Da Silva has the daunting task of finding a murderer. Hired by the Brazilian Foreign Office, Da Silva sets out to end these jungle killings, but doesn't quite have all the facts. When Agent Wilson shows him one of the victims--not all of him, just his shrunken head--Da Silva realizes that this murder case isn't as open-and-shut as it seems. Now he must investigate, evading the powerful magic and numerous mysteries of the Amazon jungle. (Published: 1963)
Words: 57073 - Reading Time: 163-228 min.
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American Sextet
by Warren Adler
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A political sex scandal of massive proportions! A beautiful young woman dressed in white is found at the bottom of the Duke Ellington Memorial Bridge. Was it a suicide or murder? Fiona FitzGerald, possessed by a painful personal dilemma, is determined to find out, even if her demons might drive her from the police force. As Fiona goes deeper into the fire, a sexual conspiracy is uncovered involving six men from the highest offices in the country--a great American Sextet! (Published: 1983)
Words: 73000 - Reading Time: 208-292 min.
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Immaculate Deception
by Warren Adler
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The clock is ticking for Fiona FitzGerald. The clock is ticking both figuratively and biologically. During Fiona FitzGerald's pursuit to conceive a child, a powerful female pro-life Senator is found dead. It appears to be suicide, but Fiona is puzzled and continues to investigate. The case gets even more baffling when one shocking clue contradicts the entire investigation. (Published: 1991)
Words: 77127 - Reading Time: 220-308 min.
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The Ties That Bind
by Warren Adler
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Even judges must be judged. The daughter of a prominent lawyer is found murdered, and a Supreme Court Justice with a sadomasochistic fetish is the target of Fiona FitzGerald's investigation. This is one case that brings Fiona to the darker side of the Washington scene in which sexual aberration and fear of exposure plays a role in murder. (Published: 1994)
Words: 75394 - Reading Time: 215-301 min.
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The Witch of Watergate
by Warren Adler
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A poison pen gets it back. Fiona FitzGerald, a senator's daughter turned Washington, D.C., homicide detective, is back for her fifth gripping thriller, investigating a murder with explosive consequences on Capitol Hill. When Polly Dearborn, the infamous Washington Post investigative reporter whose poison pen had destroyed many a politician's career, is found hanging from her Watergate apartment, the elite of Washington rejoice. "The Witch of Watergate" is dead! But this is no time for detective ... more info>> (Published: 1992)
Words: 64026 - Reading Time: 182-256 min.
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Fifty Candles
by Earl Derr Biggers
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Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933) is best remembered as the creator of Chinese detective Charlie Chan, whose long-running series of exploits (portrayed in the movies first by Warner Oland and later Sidney Toler) made him a world-famous character from the 1930s to the 1950s. At the height of the series, Charlie Chan was nearly on par with Sherlock Holmes ... and he spawned such Oriental detective imitators as Mr. Moto and Mr. Wong. Biggers had always been interested in mystery fiction, but his intere... more info>> (Published: 2001)
Words: 22950 - Reading Time: 65-91 min.
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Trouble in Paradise
by Robert Fish
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It seemed logical that Captain Jose Da Silva of the Brazilian Federal Police Force, a man with a maverick reputation for problem solving, be the one assigned to solve Brazil's growing scourge of death squads. They were unpredictable and ran on their own agenda. So did Da Silva. His superiors knew he worked on the fringes of authority and would send him to the edge-to the remote border town of Paraiso. There had been five new underworld slayings and the signs pointed to a new kind of death squad.... more info>> (Published: 1975)
Words: 64703 - Reading Time: 184-258 min.
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In the Heat of the Night
by John Ball
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Few detective novels can make as strong a claim to social and political relevance as John Ball's 1965 mystery, In the Heat of the Night. Its protagonist, a black police officer from Pasadena California named Virgil Tibbs, passes through a southern town at an inauspicious moment. An orchestra conductor has been gruesomely murdered, and the police, without much in the way of evidence or possible motives for the crime, arrest Tibbs. When the police discover that he is not the killer, but in fact a ... more info>>
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Mute Witness
by Robert Fish
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When famed gangster kingpin Johnny Rossi comes to New York to testify against his crime syndicate associates, it falls to Lieutenant Clancy to keep the government's star witness safe. Why Rossi has come to New York from California, and what is so crucial about his testimony are questions District Attorney Chalmers seems content to keep outside the Lieutenant's purview. However, when guarding Rossi turns out to be a more difficult and perplexing task than Clancy had anticipated, he begins to unco... more info>>
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Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
by Agatha Christie
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While playing golf one day, Bobby hears a yell and then finds that a man has fallen off a mist-shrouded cliff at the seventeenth hole and broken his back. Bobby hears the dying man's words, "Why didn't they ask Evans?" and stays with him until help arrives. The mysterious phrase means nothing to Bobby and what's more, he is an incurious sort of chap. So after the inquest, he returns to his daily preoccupations, and thinks little about the death of the mysterious stranger. Whoever pushed the unfo... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Murder is Easy
by Agatha Christie
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The town of Wychwood-under-Ashe is a curious place. It has a reputation for sorcery and witchcraft, and Luke Fitzwilliam, an older man returning to England after an extended period living abroad, arrives there to gather as much information as he can on local folklore and superstition-or so the townspeople think. In reality, Luke Fitzwilliam is Agatha Christie's protagonist, and therefore a man on the trail of a murderer. In this case it is a murderer carefully concealing his motions beneath the ... more info>> (Published: 1939)
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