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2013.
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English
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"Sarah Brandt is shattered when she learns that a woman has inquired at Hope's Daughters Mission for Catherine, the abandoned child she has taken as her daughter. The woman claims she was Catherine's nursemaid, now acting on behalf of the girl's mother to reunite them. Unwilling to simply hand Catherine over to a complete stranger, Sarah asks Malloy to investigate. But when he goes to interview the woman at her tenement in Chelsea, he finds she has...
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"Frank Malloy has never known any life other than that of a cop, but his newfound inheritance threatens his position within his department. While trying to keep both his relationship with Sarah and his fortune under wraps, he's assigned to a new case--finding a missing young woman for her worried father, Henry Livingston. It seems the girl had been responding to "lonely hearts" ads in the paper for months before she disappeared. Her father thinks...
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
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Midwife Sarah Brandt is summoned to examine the teenage daughter of the affluent Lintons of Lenox Hill. When pregnancy is confirmed, the young woman denies that any man ever hurt her. Sarah enlists the help of her friend Sergeant Frank Molloy to discover who is responsible. The search becomes more urgent when a minister falls dead during a service, poisoned by cyanide-laced wine in his chalice.
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The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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After the Thin Man -- Nick and Nora investigate a love triangle gone wrong after a dead man is discovered at their door. Another Thin Man-- After a wealthy business partner of Nora's father's is murdered, Nick and Nora's investigation brings them into the killer's crosshairs.
27) Sunrise highway
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Series
Lourdes Robles novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of Star Wars and Son of Sam, a Long Island schoolgirl is found gruesomely murdered. A local prosecutor turns a troubled teenager known as JT from a suspect to a star witness in the case, putting away a high school football star who claimed to be innocent. Forty years later, JT has risen to chief of police, but there's a trail of a dozen dead women that reaches from Brooklyn across Long Island, along the Sunrise Highway, and it's possible...
28) Proving ground
Author
Series
Lourdes Robles novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Nathaniel Dresden never really got along with his father, an infamous civil rights lawyer who defended criminals and spearheaded protest movements. As an act of rebellion, Natty joined the U.S. Army and served in Iraq, coming back with a chest full of commendations and a head full of disturbing memories. But when his father is found murdered near the peaceful confines of Brooklyn's Prospect Park, Natty is forced to deal with the troubled legacy of...
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2021.
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English
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"When a young sculptor is found with the back of her bashed in, Eve Dallas tracks down the wealthy Upper East Side woman who called 911, the details don't add up. Gwen Huffman is comforted by her handsome fiancé as she sheds tears over finding the body--but why did it take an hour to report it? And why is she lying about little things? As Eve and her team look into Gwen, her past, and the people around her, they find that the lies are about more...
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When Paul Rogan sets off a bomb at his office, killing eleven people, no one can understand why. He was a loving husband and father, with everything to live for. Then his wife and daughter are found chained up in the family home, and everything becomes clear. Rogan had been given a horrifying choice - set off the bomb, or see his loved ones suffer and die. Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows the violence won't end here. The men behind the attack are determined,...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"The latest action-packed installment in the Nero Award-winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series follows Lillian and Will tracking the suspicious disappearance of a woman who might have known too much"--
Vera Bodine, an elderly shut-in with an exceptional memory, has gone missing and famed detective Lillian Pentecost and her crackerjack assistant Willowjean "Will" Parker have been hired to track her down. But the New York City of 1947 can be a dangerous...
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Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy and Sarah Brandt are not the only ones who have recently tied the knot. Family friend Mrs. O{u2019}Neill was delighted when her daughter Una wed the seemingly wealthy and charming Randolph Pollock. She didn{u2019}t wonder why such an affluent man would want to marry a poor Irish girl, no matter how pretty she was. But now Mrs. O{u2019}Neill has a problem. Pollock{u2019}s servants have found their employer bludgeoned...
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