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1) Savages
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Running a lucrative marijuana operation in Laguna Beach, sometime environmentalist Ben and mercenary Chon confront a dangerous adversary in the Mexican Baja cartel, which kidnaps their playmate and confidante Ophelia, compelling the duo to plot ingenious negotiations.
3) Clockers
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In the dark depths of a New Jersey city, a burnt-out homicide detective obsessed with justice chases a street-smart teenaged "clocker" through the streets of hell.
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SO A WAR VET, A PSYCHOPATH, AND A HOT BABE WALK INTO WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK...
...and years later they tell us what Greenwich Village was like in the 1950s. Lawrence Block was on the scene, just starting to find himself as a writer, and A Diet of Treacle was his attempt to get it all down on paper.
It was published by a low-rent paperback house, with a tacky title and a pen name, and disappeared from view until Hard Case Crime found it and published...
6) Alibi
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2009
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Two men think they've found the perfect opportunity--a chance to rob the stash house of Simon Shuller, one of Philadelphia's biggest drug lords. But their plans are spoiled when one of Shuller's men catches them as they break into the stash house. Temperatures flare as the men capture Shuller's worker, Poncho, and force him to show them the goods. What they didn't expect was for Poncho's partner to be armed and very dangerous. An altercation breaks...
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California connection novels volume 2
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Jewel used to be content with being a ride or die chick, playing Bonnie while the men in her life played Clyde. But now she realizes that it was her connections and street smarts that helped her man, Calico, rise to the top, and Jewel wants to be the one in control. She's tired of taking orders from men.
She's willing to do anything to be queen of the streets, but when a deal she makes with the enemy comes back to haunt her, her dream is turned into...
8) Borne
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Borne novels volume 1
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"'Am I a person?' Borne asks Rachel, in extremis. 'Yes, you are a person, ' Rachel tells him. 'But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.' In a ruined, nameless city of the future, Rachel makes her living as a scavenger. She finds a creature she names Borne entangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic despotic bear that once prowled the corridors of a biotech firm, the Company, until he was experimented on, grew large, learned to fly, and broke free....
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This book has been a bestseller on the Amazon Charts.
Jack Palms starred in one hit Hollywood action flick. Now everyone thinks he's still that guy. If he tries to lead the life, will he get burned? Or will he find out he can still act the part?
An old friend from LA calls with a proposition-to show some Czech high rollers a VIP time-and Jack goes in for the payday. When his friend is murdered, Jack dives straight into the heart of San Francisco's...
10) The odds
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The Homicide Department is upside down-Richard Christie is in the hospital, Artie Dolan is headed away on vacation, John Potocki's life is falling apart, and Colleen Greer is so worried about her boss's health, she can hardly think. A young boy in Pittsburgh's North Side neighborhood dies of a suspicious overdose. The Narcotics police are working on tips and they draft Colleen and Potocki to help them. In this same neighborhood, four young kids have...
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BIMBOS, BUSTIERS, AND BOTOX! MURDER MOST FASHIONABLE…
Author Elaine Viets kicks off this funny and fresh cozy series-about a woman on the run from her ex-with a rollicking tale of crime and vanity in the shadow world of wannabe molls. When unlikely sleuth Helen Hawthorne flees St. Louis, she fetches up in Fort Lauderdale, suddenly surrounded by the beautiful and the Botoxed.
They all shop at the same place-Juliana's, the overpriced boutique where...
12) Seizure
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The new Detective Chief Inspector Henry Christie novel - Newly promoted Detective Superintendent Henry Christie could do without dealing with Felix Deakin, a convicted drug dealer serving a heavy prison sentence, who suddenly volunteers some new evidence that could be crucial in an upcoming murder trial. But things go horribly wrong when Deaken escapes from custody and kidnaps a disgraced ex-cop's some to use as a bargaining chip...
13) Drift
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When Philadelphia narcotics detective Doyle Carrick loses his mother and step-father within weeks of each other, he gains a twenty-day suspension for unprofessional behavior and instructions to lay low at the unfamiliar house he's inherited in rural Pennsylvania.
Feeling restless and out of place, Doyle is surprised to find himself falling for his new neighbor, Nola Watkins, who's under pressure to sell her organic farm to a large and mysterious...
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A Young Wife follows the unforgettable journey of Minke Van Aisma across three continents, from a life of opulence in Amsterdam, to rough living on the Argentine coast, to fighting poverty as an immigrant in New York City. She is forced to leave behind a kidnapped son in Argentina, but sets upon the arduous task of struggling to find the child, taking revenge on the people who orchestrated his abduction. This tale of love, betrayal, redemption is...
15) The spotted dog
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"Rising at four o'clock every morning isn't Corinna Chapman's favorite part of running her Australian bakery, Earthly Delights, and the glowing light of dawn starts to feel even harsher when a seemingly disturbed man collapses in her shop. When the man, a military veteran, comes around and reveals that his beloved ex-service dog is missing, Corinna and her longtime companion, Daniel, feel compelled to help. It soon becomes clear, though, that they...
16) The Texan code
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Enjoy two fan-favorite Western romances from New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer!
Mercenary's Woman
All retired soldier of fortune Ebenezer Scott wants is some peace and quiet. Though when schoolteacher Sally Johnson's life is put in danger, Eb will do anything to keep her safe. Sally doesn't want his help-he broke her heart six years ago, and she can't trust him to not hurt her again. Now Eb must risk it all to win the sweet-natured...
17) Something noble
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In order to save her son's life, a single mom must try to convince a selfish drug dealer to donate one of his kidneys to his half-brother.
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A brilliantly original novel of the 1970s counterculture
Alice Duncan is an eleven-year-old girl who looks so much like a grown woman, she attracts the attention of adult men. Abandoned by her mother and neglected by her father who has checked himself into a mental asylum, Alice and her sixteen year old Aunt Esme live on their own in an Upper East Side townhouse, entertaining teenage boys, shoplifting at department stores, and dining on cookies and...
19) The blue kind
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"'A dystopian drug-fantasy--brimming with a labyrinth plot and indelible characters--that unfold in the apocalyptic debris of an all but unrecognizable American city."--
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Family business volume 2
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The members of the Duncan family try to juggle their day jobs running a respectable car dealership with their criminal activities controlling most of the East Coast's drug traffic.
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