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1) Deadly cross
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"A scandalous double homicide in the nation's capital opens the psychological case files on Detective Alex Cross. Until Kay Willingham's shocking murder inside a luxury limousine, the Georgetown socialite, philanthropist, and ex-wife of the sitting vice-president led a public life. Yet few, including her onetime psychologist, had any inkling of Kay's troubled past in the Deep South. Murdered alongside her is Randall Christopher, a respected educator...
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Gracie Lynn Calloway began her small life in Shady Grove, Alabama, fast asleep in a coal bucket on a Peachtree Lane front porch. Brought in one morning with the newspaper, Gracie was well loved and well cared for, yet what she wished for most was a flesh-and-blood mother, someone to whom she could really belong. When Sam Fontana crashes Gracie's twenty-fifth birthday celebration and gives her the news that she is in fact the kidnapped daughter of...
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Detective Cooper Devereaux thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"The second installment in the extraordinary Cooper Devereaux mystery thriller series, which combines the atmosphere of James Lee Burke and Craig Johnson with the noir brilliance of Robert Crais An arsonist is targeting schools in Birmingham, Alabama--with devastating effect. Detective Devereaux--a man you can't quite trust and should never ignore--must put a stop to the elusive pyromaniac's reign of terror before more damage is done. Or worse,...
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Detective Cooper Devereaux thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"It's a desperate race against the clock. Detective Demonbruen and his temporary partner, Jan Loflin, seek a missing six-year-old foster child. Demonbruen, himself a survivor of the foster system, is haunted by his own brutal childhood and the death of his father. He labors under a cloud of suspicion, determined to find the missing boy before it's too late. But are his motives really pure? His record is a minefield of red flags and question marks:...