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Series
Dexter books volume 6
Language
English
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Dexter Morgan is not your average serial killer. He enjoys his day job as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami Police Department . . . but he lives for his nighttime hobby of hunting other killers. Dexter is therefore not pleased to discover that someone is shadowing him, observing him, and copying his methods. Dexter is not one to tolerate displeasure, in fact, he has a knack for extricating himself from trouble in his own way.
22) Tropic of night
Author
Series
Jimmy Paz series volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Jane Doe is nothing, a shadow. Once a promising anthropologist, she's now hiding from an unimaginable horror. Miami police detective Jimmy Paz knows that Jane is connected to the ritualistic murders terrifying the city. Together, they must battle a psychopath whose shamanistic powers can alter reality itself.
23) If I survive you
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English
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"In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But America, as the couple and their two children learn, is far from the promised land. Excluded from society as Black immigrants, the family pushes on through Hurricane Andrew and later the 2008 recession, living in a house so cursed that the pet fish launches itself out of its own tank rather than stay. But even as things fall apart, the family remains...
24) Nobody knows
Author
Series
KEY News thrillers volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
With her career shortened by accusations of "ambitious reporting," former Washington journalist Cassie Sheridan is banished to Miami, where she stumbles across a body--and a mystery--while reporting on a hurricane.
25) Act of betrayal
Author
Series
Britt Montero novels volume 4
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
In Miami, crime reporter Britt Montero juggles two assignments at once. In one of them, a number of boys have disappeared and are believed to have been murdered by a serial killer, in another a Cuban journalist is killed by a car bomb.
Author
Series
Dexter books volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In his work as a Miami crime scene investigator, Dexter Morgan is accustomed to seeing evil deeds ... particularly because, on occasion, he rather enjoys committing them himself. Guided by his Dark Passenger (the reptilian voice inside him), he lives his outwardly normal life adhering to one simple rule: he kills only very bad people. Dexter slides through life undetected, working as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami Police Department, helping...
Author
Series
Jimmy Paz series volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Language
English
Description
This top-notch novel confirms Gruber's place as a gifted writer who stretches the conventional bounds of the genre by placing the mysteries of faith and religious experience and the complexities of the human mind as well as spirit at the center of his work.
28) Sea creatures
Author
Publisher
Harper
Language
English
Description
In Sea Creatures, a riveting domestic drama by Susanna Daniel, a mother must make the unthinkable choice between her husband and her son. When Georgia Qullian returns to her hometown of Miami, her toddler and husband in tow, she is hoping for a fresh start. They have left Illinois trailing scandal and disappointment in their wake, fallout from her husband's severe sleep disorder. For months, their three-year-old son has refused to speak a word. On...
Author
Language
English
Description
A convict in prison suspected of multiple murders asks that Detective Sargeant Malcolm Ainslie, a former priest andthe man who put him in jail, be brought to the prison so he can make a confession to him. When Ainslie arrives, the convict tells him he should be investigating his own police department for murder.
30) Personal demon
Author
Series
Women of the Otherworld volume 8
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"New York Times"-bestselling author Armstrong follows "No Humans Involved" with the eighth sexy, action-packed Women of the Otherworld novel featuring a wickedly beautiful, supernaturally gifted heroine who may love danger a bit too much.
Author
Series
Michael Venturi novels volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
.S. Marshal Michael Venturi of the Witness Protection Program relocates a mobster, now a government witness, to a small rural town after creating a new identity for him. The man proves to be a monster unleashed on an unsuspecting community. The results are tragic. To make amends Venturi leaves the Marshals Service and assembles a team of close confidants to secretly create new identities for innocent men and women whose lives have been ruined through...
Author
Series
Dexter books volume 7
Language
English
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Description
A Hollywood star shadows Dexter Morgan to perfect his role and gets more than he bargained for. Dexter favorite hobby is tracking down the worst killers and introducing them to his own brand of playtime.
Author
Series
Britt Montero novels volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
When a brash cub reporter, Trish Tierney, begins taking the headline stories on Britt's crime beat, the scene in the newsroom becomes hotter than on the violent streets.
34) Terminal
Author
Language
English
Description
Third year medical student Sean Murphy goes to a renowned cancer treatment center and discovers the horror of their remarkable cures.
35) Criminal justice
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
"Dan Galindo was once one of the best and brightest young lawyers in the U.S. attorney's office. That was before he refused to put a lying witness on the stand and lost the case. That was before he was tossed out of his job. That was before his wife left him, keeping their beautiful home and young son. And that was before he wound up trying to scrape a living off the bottom of society in a shabby Miami law office."--BOOK JACKET. "But if Dan thinks...
38) Love kills
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Attempting to recover from her lover's death on a Caribbean island, ace crime reporter Britt Montero teams up with the Cold Case Squad on a murder investigation while simultaneously tracking down a serial killer who is targeting honeymooners.
Author
Series
Gideon novels (Eric Jerome Dickey) volume 4
Publisher
Dutton
Language
English
Description
International assassin Gideon spilled blood for the first time when he was seven years old, with a single shot to his victim's head. This pivotal event shaped Gideon throughout his life, made him who he is: one of the fiercest, most feared hired guns in the world. And one of the most hunted. After nearly losing his life in Antigua during a mission that went terribly wrong, Gideon trusts no one. But when a former lover, a grifter named Arizona, resurfaces...
Author
Series
Britt Montero novels volume 7
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Newspaper reporter Britt Montero investigates when the nude corpse of a beautiful woman washes up on the beach. The victim was murdered ten years ago, and her convicted killer--her husband--sits on death row awaiting execution.