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Mad River
by John Sandford
A crime thriller featuring a detective's investigation into a series of gruesome murders.
They thought they were Bonnie and Clyde. And what's-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, chips on their shoulders, and guns. The first person they killed was a woman during a ... (Goodreads)
Bad Blood
by John Sandford
A thrilling crime novel, pitting a detective against a deadly mastermind.
Another brilliant Virgil Flowers thriller from the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author. One late fall Sunday in southern Minnesota, a farmer brings a load of soybeans to a local grain elevator- ... (Goodreads)
Heat Lightning
by John Sandford
A small town is rocked by a series of murders, and the sheriff must navigate the town's secrets to catch the killer.
On a hot, humid summer night in Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a call from Lucas Davenport. A body has been found near a veterans’ memorial in Stillwater with two shots to the head and a lemon in his ... (Goodreads)
No Man's Land
by David Baldacci
A disgraced ex-CIA agent must confront a deadly conspiracy in order to clear his name.
The protagonist, John Puller, Jr., a former Army Ranger who served at Iraq and Afghanistan and now works for the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigations Division , is spurred to investigate the unsolved ... (Wikipedia)
The Last Man
by Vince Flynn
A CIA operative's mission to stop a terrorist group from launching a devastating attack.
#1, New York Times, bestselling author of, American Assassin,—now a major motion picture Mitch Rapp’s hunt for a missing CIA asset raises the stakes for his own survival—in Vince Flynn’s “tight, ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Forgotten
by David Baldacci
A former CIA agent's mission to uncover the truth behind his family's mysterious past.
In Paradise, nothing is what it seems... Army Special Agent John Puller is the best there is. A combat veteran, Puller is the man the U.S. Army relies on to investigate the toughest crimes facing the ... (Goodreads)
Red Alert
by James Patterson
Detective Zach Jordan and his partner Kylie MacDonald investigate a series of bombings in New York City.
The NYPD's most elite task force must protect the city from a shadowy killer with a vendetta in this, New York Times, bestselling mystery. The richest of New York's rich gather at The Pierre's ... (Barnes & Noble)
Robert B. Parker's Lullaby
by Ace Atkins
Spenser investigates a 20-year-old cold case involving a missing child, uncovering dark secrets and danger.
Mattie Sullivan, a fourteen-year-old girl, recruits Spenser to solve her mother's murder four years earlier. The man convicted of her murder, Mickey Green, was a friend of Mattie's mother and Mattie ... (Wikipedia)
The Drop
by Michael Connelly
A Los Angeles Police detective investigates a case of lost money and a missing girl.
The book was mentioned in a February 2011 interview, where Connelly explained that Bosch would be "handling two cases at once, a cold case that turns hot and the politically charged investigation ... (Wikipedia)
Without Fail
by Lee Child
An ex-military investigator takes on a secret mission to locate a missing person.
Jack Reacher arrives in Atlantic City after hitching a ride cross-country with a couple of aging blues musicians who dream of playing at B.B. King 's club in New York City . He is approached there by ... (Wikipedia)
Make Me
by Lee Child
An ex-military drifter is framed for a murder and must uncover the truth to clear his name.
Somewhere in the sprawling, flat, desolate Midwestern United States, Reacher arrives by train at a small town named Mother's Rest, curious as to the story behind the name. He meets a Chinese American ... (Wikipedia)
Voodoo River
by Robert Crais
Private investigator Elvis Cole is hired to find a missing mother and uncovers a dark world of voodoo and corruption in Louisiana.
L.A. private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption thirty-six years before. Cole's ... (Goodreads)
Hope to Die
by James Patterson
A gripping mystery involving a detective's desperate search for a serial killer.
Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross's family – his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious ... (Goodreads)
The Enemy
by Lee Child
A retired military cop is tasked with finding a missing American soldier in Iraq.
In the last hours of 1989, Major Gen. Kenneth Kramer dies of a heart attack in a seedy North Carolina motel, apparently while in the company of a prostitute. MP Maj. Jack Reacher investigates and ... (Wikipedia)
The Survivor
by Vince Flynn
CIA agent Mitch Rapp seeks revenge on terrorists who killed his girlfriend. Fast-paced action and political intrigue ensue.
Top secret data has been stolen from the CIA, and the only man who knows its hiding place is dead. CIA operative Mitch Rapp must race to find the classified information in this blistering novel that ... (Goodreads)
Free Fall
by Robert Crais
Detective's quest to uncover the truth behind a mysterious death, unearthing dark secrets.
Private detective Elvis Cole takes Jennifer Sheridan's case, which involves her decorated Los Angeles-cop boyfriend in some mysterious trouble, and Cole and his partner Pike are soon plunged in ... (Goodreads)
The Tin Roof Blowdown
by James Lee Burke
Detective Dave Robicheaux investigates the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, uncovering corruption and violence in New Orleans.
This is James Lee Burke's latest mystery featuring Dave Robicheaux. It is also much more than that. The story begins with the shooting of two would-be looters in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, ... (Goodreads)
The Promise
by Robert Crais
An ex-cop is hired to track down a missing woman, uncovering an unexpected network of lies and secrets.
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are joined by Suspect heroes LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his German shepherd, Maggie, in the new heart-stopping thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Robert ... (Goodreads)
V is for Vengeance
by Sue Grafton
A private detective investigates a cold case leading her to uncover a sinister plot.
For the fourth straight novel in the Alphabet Mystery series, the viewpoint alternates between Millhone and other characters, principally Nora Vogelsang and Lorenzo Dante. The opening chapter, ... (Wikipedia)
The Last Mile
by David Baldacci
A wrongly convicted man is granted a temporary reprieve on death row to help solve a crime.
Convicted murderer Melvin Mars is counting down the last hours before his execution–for the violent killing of his parents twenty years earlier--when he's granted an unexpected reprieve. Another man ... (Goodreads)
The English Girl
by Daniel Silva
A young English woman goes missing in Corsica, and Gabriel Allon is called to investigate. The case leads him to a web of international intrigue.
Madeline Hart is a rising star in Britain’s governing party: beautiful, intelligent, driven by an impoverished childhood to succeed. But she is also a woman with a dark secret: she is the lover of ... (Goodreads)
The Whistler
by John Grisham
A corrupt judge and his accomplice are exposed by a whistleblower, leading to a dangerous game of cat and mouse.
A mysterious source contacts the (fictional) Florida Board on Judicial Conduct (BJC), , promising information that will reveal the identity and crimes of the most corrupt judge in U.S. history. ... (Wikipedia)
The Reversal
by Michael Connelly
A high-profile murder case is retried with a new defense team, uncovering corruption and secrets in the justice system.
Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller finds himself recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, new DNA evidence means ... (Goodreads)
The Black Box
by Michael Connelly
A police detective's pursuit of justice in the face of a relentless killer.
Bosch tackles a 20-year-old cold case which took place during the 1992 Los Angeles riots . A white photojournalist is found killed near a burned-out store. Harry Bosch and Jerry Edgar were the ... (Wikipedia)
The Testament
by John Grisham
A billionaire's will creates a legal battle between his descendants and the townspeople who have been displaced.
In a plush Virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewriting his will. With his death just hours away, Troy Phelan wants to send a message to his children, his ex-wives, and his minions, ... (Goodreads)
Bury Your Dead
by Louise Penny
Detective Armand Gamache unravels a complex murder mystery in the town of Three Pines.
It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has come not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly ... (Goodreads)
The Girl in the Spider's Web
by David Lagercrantz
A hacker teams up with a journalist to battle a criminal organization and save the world.
Computer scientist Frans Balder abandons a prestigious job in Silicon Valley and returns to Sweden to take custody of his autistic son August. Balder is informed by several law enforcement agencies ... (Wikipedia)
A Fatal Grace
by Louise Penny
An intricate murder mystery set in a small Canadian town, as the investigating detective unravels truth and justice.
Inspector Gamache investigates after CC de Poitiers, a sadistic socialite, is fatally electrocuted at a Christmas curling competition in the small Québécois town of Three Pines. CC, who had a ... (Wikipedia)
Sycamore Row
by John Grisham
A lawyer in Mississippi must unravel a mysterious will and its secrets.
The title refers to a row of sycamore trees in the countryside near the fictional town of Clanton, in fictional Ford County, Mississippi . The trees play an important role in the book's plot, though ... (Wikipedia)
