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Walt Longmire has been sheriff of Wyoming's Absaroka County for almost a quarter of a century and has meted out justice with charm and a high-powered sense of humor. But when Walt tags along with good friend Henry Standing Bear on a trip to Philadelphia, he's in for a shock. A vicious attack on his daughter Cady leaves her near death and Walt discovers that she has unwittingly become embroiled in a deadly political cover-up. With Henry, Deputy Victoria...
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The never-before-told complete story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists -- quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans -- that exposed the shocking truth and confirmed what some had long suspected: that J. Edgar Hoover was operating, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, his own shadow Bureau of Investigation.
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"Robert Littell has been widely praised as one of the best writers in the espionage genre. Now, he's turned his formidable skills towards crime fiction in a novel that has echoes of the great Raymond Chandler. Former CIA agent Lemuel Gunn left the battlefield of Afghanistan for the desert of New Mexico, where he works as a private investigator from the comforts, such as they are, of a mobile home. Into his life comes Ornella Neppi, a thirty-something...
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Eliot Ness is famous for leading the Untouchables against the notorious mobster Al Capone. But that's only part of the picture. His true legacy reaches far beyond Big Al and Chicago. Both fearless and shockingly shy, Ness inspired courage and loyalty in men twice his age, forged law-enforcement innovations that are still with us today, and earned acclaim and scandal in his professional and personal lives. And through it all, he maintained an unwavering...
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"Raymond Chandler's incomparable private eye is back, pulled by a seductive young heiress into the most difficult and dangerous case of his career"It was one of those summer Tuesday afternoons when you begin to wonder if the earth has stopped revolving. The telephone on my desk had the look of something that knows it's being watched. Traffic trickled by in the street below, and there were a few pedestrians, too, men in hats going nowhere."So begins...
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"For twenty-five years, John E. Douglas worked for the FBI, where he headed the elite Investigative Support Unit. The real-life model for FBI Agent Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs, he's had a brilliant and terrifying career, getting inside the minds of notorious murderers and serial killers including Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and David Berkowitz (Son of Sam). Written with long-time collaborator Mark Olshaker, Law & Disorder is Douglas'...
9) Vengeance
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"It's a fine day for a sail, and Victor Delahaye, one of Ireland's most successful businessmen, takes his boat far out to sea. With him is his partner's son--who becomes the sole witness when Delahaye produces a pistol, points it at his own chest, and fires. This mysterious death immediately engages the attention of Detective Inspector Hackett, who in turn calls upon the services of his sometime partner Quirke, consultant pathologist at the Hospital...
10) Holy orders
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When the body of his daughter's friend is brought to his autopsy table, Quirke is plunged into a world of corruption that takes him to the darkest corners of the Irish Church and State.--
When the body of his daughter's friend is brought to his autopsy table, Quirke is plunged into a world of corruption that takes him to the darkest corners of the Irish Church and State. "At first they thought it was the body of a child. Later, when they got it...
11) Cliff Walk
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Prostitution has been legal in Rhode Island for more than a decade; Liam Mulligan, an old-school investigative reporter at dying Providence newspaper, suspects the governor has been taking payoffs to keep it that way. But this isn't the only story making headlines--a child's severed arm is discovered in a pile of garbage at a pig farm. Then the body of an internet pornographer is found sprawled on the rocks at the base of Newport's famous Cliff Walk....
12) Tamarack County
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As a blizzard swells just days before Christmas, the car belonging to the wife of a retired local judge is discovered abandoned on a rural road in Tamarack County. After days of fruitless effort, the search-and-rescue team has little hope that she'll be found alive, if at all. Cork O'Connor, former sheriff and now private investigator, is part of that team. Early on, Cork notices small things about the woman's disappearance that disturb him. But when...
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Unsettled by similarities between a recent murder case and his first investigation as a Marine in Vietnam, Sheriff Walt Longmire wonders about a strangely familiar photograph found in the recent victim's purse.
When the body of a young Vietnamese woman is found alongside the interstate in Absaroka County, Wyoming, Sherriff Walt Longmire is determined to discover the identity of the victim and is forced to confront the horrible similarities of this...
14) The cold dish
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After twenty-five years as sheriff of Absaroka County, Walt Longmire's hopes of finishing out his tenure in peace are dashed when Cody Pritchard is found dead near the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Two years earlier, Cody has been one of four high school boys given suspended sentences for raping a local Cheyenne girl. Somebody, it would seem, is seeking vengeance, and Longmire might be the only thing standing between the three remaining boys and...
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After Vermont is devastated by Hurricane Irene the police are taxed to their limits, leaving Joe Gunther of the VBI involved in an odd series of seemingly unrelated cases. An exposed seventeen-year-old gravesite reveals a coffin filled with rocks. A retired politician turns up dead at his nursing home. And a patient who calls herself The Governor has walked away from a state mental facility.
16) The reckoning
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To the public, he's a hero: a brutal killer who targets sex offenders. Two men are dead already - tortured to death. Even the police don't regard the cases as a priority. Most feel that two dead pedophiles is a step in the right direction. But to DC Maeve Kerrigan, no one should be allowed to take the law into their own hands. Assigned to the case with the new DI, Josh Derwent, Maeve is determined to prove she has what it takes to make it as a female...
17) Deadly Virtues
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The town of Norbold, England, is famous for its low crime rate, thanks to the zero-tolerance policy of Chief Superintendent John Fountain. And new police recruit Hazel Best is happy to keep it that way. Lying with his dog in a jail cell at the local police station while recovering from a concussion, Gabriel Ash hears the last words of a man who is later found beaten to death. He's certain they contained a hidden message, but no one believes him. And...
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It's homecoming in Absaroka County, Wyoming, but the festivities are interrupted when a homeless boy wanders into town. A Mormon "lost boy," Cord Lynear is searching for his missing mother. Sheriff Longmire and companions Victoria Moretti and Henry Standing Bear embark on a high plains scavenger hunt to reunite mother and son. The trail leads to an interstate polygamy group that's harboring a stockpile of weapons and a vicious vendetta.
19) Christine Falls
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"The hero of Christine Falls, Quirke, is a surly pathologist living in 1950s Dublin. One night, after having a few drinks at a party, he returns to the morgue to find his brother-in-law tampering with the records on a young woman's corpse. The next morning, when his hangover has worn off, Quirke reluctantly begins looking into the woman's history. He discovers a plot that spans two continents, implicates the Catholic Church, and may just involve members...
20) The survivor
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Amy Garrett survived a brutal childhood attack in which the assailant was never found. Now she wants her story written in a novel. Kariss interviews Amy and conducts her own research, stepping unaware into a viper's pit of danger. Tigo is working on solving a car bombing and bringing the killer to justice. As Kariss's new story attracts an onslaught of danger that she never expected, can Tigo save the woman he loves and find who wants her dead for...
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