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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.
Author
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...
3) Dying light
Author
Series
Logan McRae mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Anna Travis mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Author
Series
FBI thrillers. Last series volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Series
Language
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.
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Series
Denton mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Language
English
Author
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.
Author
Series
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
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
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.
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Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
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.
14) Broken bones
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Series
Publisher
Bookouture, an imprint of StoryFire Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Detective Kim Stone and her team are confronted with pursuing a serial killer preying on prostitutes and the mystery surrounding an abandoned newborn baby.
Author
Series
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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English
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It is the spring of 1885 and wealthy New York socialite Beret Osmundsen has been estranged from her younger sister, Lillie, for a year when she gets word from her aunt and uncle that Lillie has died suddenly in Denver. What they do not tell her is that Lillie had become a prostitute and was brutally murdered in the brothel where she was living. When Beret discovers the sordid truth of Lillie's death, she makes her way to Denver, determined to find...
17) The last sinner
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English
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There are killers so savage, so twisted, that they leave a mark not just on their victims, but on everyone who crosses their path. For Detectives Bentz and Montoya, Father John, a fake priest who used the sharpened beads of a rosary to strangle prostitutes, is one such monster. Bentz thought he'd ended that horror years ago when he killed Father John deep in the swamp. But now there are chilling signs he may have been wrong. A new victim has surfaced,...
18) The godless
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Series
Publisher
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,...
19) Karen Memory
Author
Publisher
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...
20) The shark
Author
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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