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An anoymous tip has led a hard-boiled detective and two deputies into the desert on a recovery operation.
The overwhelming solitude lends the scene an air of remorse and quiet reverence. Lost in his thoughts, the detective draws parallels between violence on a massive scale and the ability of life to endure.
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In this sequel to Kings Row, Parris Mitchell is definitely the proponent of the story - and not Kings Row itself. Parris has achieved his goal as psychiatrist (still a young profession in the Midwest of the First World War) in his hometown hospital - but he is still somewhat in need of his own medicine, as he tries to rationalize his marriage with Elise, emotionally a child-wife. Kings Row seems still to have a predominant percentage of abnormal personalities,...
43) Night Watch
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A classic military romance from a genre veteran
When U.S. Navy SEAL Chief Wes Skelly was sent to L.A. on assignment, he agreed to go on a blind date with beautiful single mother Brittany Evans, sister-in-law of a fellow SEAL. After all, he had been secretly in love for years, albeit with a woman who belonged to another man. So, what did he have to lose?
Plenty, it turned out. Because suddenly, the woman he thought he could never have was available....
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Independently wealthy Gonzalez "Gonzo" Phipps believes someone is out to kill him. And he wants to hire Stern Talbot to put a stop to it.
Of course, Stern is always hungry for a new client. But at what cost?
Something about the diminutive Mr. Phipps seems a little off-kilter, and Stern can't quite figure it out.
Is the guy affiliated with the mob? Is he in trouble with them?
But his greatest fear seems to be police involvement, yet he loudly...
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Radicals, feminists, environmentalists. Activists for animal rights, human rights, civil rights. There are plenty of rebels and dissidents putting their asses on the line. Conversely, there's never been a shortage of reactionaries seeking to repress such vision and passion.
Learning how to fight and/or defend yourself is not the same as promoting belligerent, anti-social behavior. While talk of non-violence is understandable and the struggle for...
46) Suction Cups
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Detective Distraeli Jones is alone in the lobby of a swank hotel. Sitting on the floor. Leaning back against the wall.
Behind him is a blood smear.
He has to get out.
47) Snitch World
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"The Miata jumped the curb and sheared off a light pole. The impact deployed the airbags, but Chainbang was ready. He knifed Klinger's before it was fully inflated and his own before it could crush the glass pipe in his breast pocket. The six-inch blade went through the nylon like a pit bull through a kindergarten."
Snitch World takes place in a San Francisco of menacing technology, where the old cons come up short and the crimes of the gritty night...
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Orrie Hitt's first two novels in one volume!
I'll Call Every Monday
Her name was Irene . . .
She was right up close. I could see the smoke coming into her eyes, dreamy and hot. I pulled her to me and I wasn't gentle about it. For an instant I worried about her husband and her plan-but I couldn't take time out to care.
There's something about a bewitching woman that always gets to the other side of a man. The side where violence and love live, in...
49) Blood Lake
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"The Ecuadorian Andes is one of the few places on earth where you can get a sunburn and freeze to death at the same time."
When New York City PI Filomena Buscarsela takes her teenaged daughter, Antonia, to see their extended family in Ecuador, it's more than a homecoming. Filomena hasn't been back in years, and the trip brings back memories of her previous life as a revolutionary.
Before she's even had time to adjust to her new surroundings, a...
50) The Wrong Thing
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They call him the Kid. He's a killer, a dark Latino legend of the Southwest's urban badlands, "a child who terrifies adults." They speak of him in whispers in dive bars near closing time. Some claim to have met him. Others say he doesn't exist, a phantom blamed for every unsolved act of violence, a ghost who haunts every blood-splattered crime scene.
But, he is real. He's a young man with a love of cooking and reading, an abiding loneliness and an...
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After a divorce and an early retirement from newspaper reporting, Hank Fowler's life is back on track he has a girlfriend, steady freelance work, a teaching job that is, until he gets a call from his old pal Chris Beckwith. Beckwith, his college roommate and a former drug-addict turned motivational speaker, is found dead not too long after. Following up on Chris's sudden death, Hank begins to unravel a series of gruesome murders, all involving motivational...
52) Soft Money
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Even the best cops burn out. 23 Shades of Black's Filomena Buscarsela returns, having traded in her uniform for the trials of single motherhood. Once a cop, always a cop. She may have left the department, but Filomena's passion for justice burns as hot as ever. And when, the owner of her neighborhood bodega is murdered-just another "ethnic" crime that will probably go unsolved and unavenged-Filomena doesn't need much prodding from the dead man's grieving...
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A crime writer uses the modest advance on his latest novel to rent a house on the Normandy coast. There should be little to distract him from his work besides walks on the windswept beach, but as he begins to tell the tale of forty-something Louis - who, after dispatching his own mother, goes on to relieve others of their burdensome elderly relations - events in his own life begin to overlap with the work of his imagination.
55) Moment of Doubt
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A Moment of Doubt is at turns hilarious, thrilling, and obscene. Jim Nisbet's novella is ripped from the zeitgeist of the '80s, and set in a sex-drenched San Francisco, where the computer becomes the protagonist's co-conspirator and both writer and machine seem to threaten the written word itself.
The City as whore provides a backdrop oozing with drugs, poets and danger. Nisbet has written a madcap meditation on the angst of a writer caught in a...
56) Kings Row
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This is Henry Bellamann's wonderful novel that many call a lost American classic. Despite being a critical and commercial success on its release in 1940, leading to a film version with Ronald Reagan two years later, King's Row and the rest of Bellamann's works are largely forgotten today. This is unfortunate, as King's Row is a novel that should be richly appreciated both for the skill of its construction and the richness of its ideas. It's an important...
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A man murdered during Katrina in a hotel room two blocks from her art-restoration studio was closely tied to a part of Johanna's past that she would like kept secret. But missing from the crime scene is a valuable artwork painted in 1926 by a renowned Belgian artist that might bring it all back. An acquaintance, Clay Fontenot, who has enabled a wide variety of personal violations in his life, some of which he has enjoyed, is the scion of a powerful...
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Imaginative but socially inept Jerrie Howard has always perceived herself as a moth surrounded by people full of beauty, color and light. Undeterred by lingering childhood struggles, she managed to achieve high academic honors and graduates from a prominent college by the age of 20.
Now 23, she is co-founder and editor in chief of Lion Publishing Group. With her promising career, bewitchingly gorgeous boyfriend, Leo, and an endless bank account,...
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Money talks.
But who will pay the price?
The sky is dark and heavy when Private Investigator Edgar "Doc" Holiday discovers the body of Hollywood's most famous animal trainer at a ranch in the San Fernando Valley. Titus, the canine star of a major motion picture is still missing, and his disappearance is costing the movie business more than just money.
But as Doc continues his search for the invaluable dog, he soon unearths a deadly secret more complex...
60) Nearly Nowhere
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Fifteen years ago, Kate Ryan and her daughter Ruby moved to the secluded village of Zamora in northern New Mexico to find a quiet life off the grid. But when, Kate invites the wrong drifter home for the night, the delicate peace of their domain is shattered.
Troy Mason manages to hang onto Kate for a few weeks, though his charm increasingly fails to offset his lies and delusions of grandeur. It is only a matter of time before the lies turn abusive,...
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