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Mickey Haller gets the text, 'Call me ASAP - 187,' and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. When Mickey learns that the victim was his own former client, a prostitute he thought he had rescued and put on the straight and narrow path, he knows he is on the hook for this one. He soon finds out that she was back in LA and back in the life. Far from saving her, Mickey may have been the one who put her in danger.
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Obsidian
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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The sole witness to the slaughter of eight young prostitutes at a house of refuge near Covent Garden, Hero Jarvis, daughter of the Prince Regent's cousin, Lord Jarvis, joins forces with Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, to investigate the massacre, following a trail of danger that takes them from London's seedy underbelly to the highest levels of society.
3) Dying light
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Logan McRae mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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Series
Capital crimes series volume 24
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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On a bright Saturday afternoon on the Washington Mall, the daughter of presidential candidate Robert Colgate's closest friend is kidnapped. The abduction rocks the nation's capital, but no one is prepared for the bombshell about to hit the city, an explosive development that erupts when Detectives Hall and Jackson uncover a shocking connection between the kidnapping and the murder of a Washington, D.C. call girl--and a killer whom no one will see...
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Anna Curtis novels volume 2
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Investigating the falling death of a high-paid escort at the U.S. Capitol building, Assistant U.S. Attorney Anna Curtis teams up with brash FBI Special Agent Samantha Randazzo to examine clues implicating a powerful elected official, a case that risks her career and relationship with chief homicide prosecutor Jack Bailey.
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Series
Louis Kincaid mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When Mark Durand, a high-class Palm Beach escort, is found brutally murdered, South Florida detective Louis Kincaid agrees to help the prime suspect prove his innocence and stumbles upon a hotbed of corruption among the elite.
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Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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A Deputy Press Officer working at City Hall discovers and investigates a strange connection between herself and an ex-madam, who was found brutally murdered, as a wave of violence hits New York City, putting her own life in danger.
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Publisher
Grove
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Jack Till, who has retired from the LAPD after a respected career as a homicide detective, now works as a private investigator, comfortable chasing down routine cases while visiting his 24-year-old daughter, Holly, who has Down Syndrome. But when the parents of a recently murdered young girl, about Holly's age, ask for his help when the police come up empty, Till reluctantly takes the case. It was discovered after her death that the victim had been...
10) Broken bones
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Series
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Bookouture, an imprint of StoryFire Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Detective Kim Stone and her team are confronted with pursuing a serial killer preying on prostitutes and the mystery surrounding an abandoned newborn baby.
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FBI thrillers. Last series volume 1
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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English
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Pitt investigates the murder of a maid at Buckingham Palace, narrowing his group of suspects down to several house guests who are meeting with the Prince of Wales to discuss the funding of a huge project: the Cape to Cairo railway. While the Prince might overlook the unfortunate loss of a maid, the Queen, who is due back soon, will likely veto any Royal support in the scheme if she finds out.
13) Karen Memory
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Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Steampunk novel set in Seattle in the late 19th century--an era when the town was called Rapid City, when the parts we now call Seattle Underground were the whole town (and still on the surface), when airships plied the trade routes bringing would-be miners heading up to the gold fields of Alaska, and steam-powered mechanicals stalked the waterfront. Karen is a "soiled dove," a young woman on her own who is making the best of her orphaned state by...
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Denton mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Language
English
15) The godless
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Series
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Crème De La Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"November, 1381. London has been rocked by a series of bizarre and brutal murders. The corpses of a number of prostitutes have been discovered, their throats slit, their bodies stripped; in each case, a blood-red wig has been placed on their heads. At the same time, a mysterious explosion rips through a royal war cog bound for Calais, killing all on board. Could there be a connection? Summoned to assist in the investigations by Sir John Cranston,...
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Sarah Gilchrist series volume 1
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Despite numerous barriers, Sarah Gilchrist is determined to become a doctor in 1882, the first year the University of Edinburgh admitted women, but is drawn into a murder mystery when a former acquaintance turns up as a corpse in the dissecting room.
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
Description
"There's many who feel the Alaska Territory is no place for a woman on her own. But Charlotte Brody, suffragette and journalist, has never let public opinion dictate her life choices. She's come to the frontier town of Cordova, where her brother Michael practices medicine, for the same reason many come to Alaska--to start over. Cordova is gradually getting civilized, but the town is still rougher than Charlotte imagined. And when a local prostitute--one...
18) The shark
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Series
Forgotten files volume 1
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
At the grisly murder scene of a teen prostitute, Virginia state trooper Riley Tatum's past roars back to haunt her. When she was a teenage runaway, she was kidnapped, drugged, and left unconscious on the streets. She has no memories of what happened, only strange recurring dreams of two men playing cards. Former FBI agent Clay Bowman, Riley's old flame, is Shield Security's newest member. He's plagued by the unsolved case of a serial killer nicknamed...
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John Corey novels volume 8
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English
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"In his dazzling #1 bestseller, Plum Island, Nelson DeMille introduced readers to NYPD Homicide Detective John Corey, who we first meet sitting on the back porch of his uncle's waterfront estate on Long Island, convalescing from wounds incurred in the line of duty. A visit from the local Chief of Police results in the legendary Detective Corey becoming involved in the investigation of the murders of a married couple who were scientists at the top-secret...
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