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A wealthy man has been abducted-but it's not his money the kidnappers are after-in this inventive thriller by an Edgar Award—winning author.
Devlin's beat is usually organized crime, but now he's been called to the home of Jennifer Keyes, a redheaded actress whose husband has gone missing. It's not Devlin's sort of case, but he finds Jennifer compelling so he agrees to help-and of course, handle the matter with discretion.
J. Walter Keyes's lawyer...
2) The Arm
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He was known as Cully the Arm-the best crapshooter in Chicago. Life was a game of both skill and luck, and he'd made his way to the big city seeking his chance to be a winner.
Before long he was moving between bars, backrooms, brothels-anywhere a man could gamble. Then he met a seductive woman named Lorry, who was playing a game of her own, and she wasn't about to let any rules get in her way ... The inspiration for the film The Big Town, The Arm...
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When a topless dancer is beaten to death, police detective Joe Kiley strongly suspects her boyfriend, a mob kingpin's brother, is the killer. He isn't-but in the course of trying to track him down, Kiley's partner winds up dead during an unauthorized stakeout.
Now Kiley wants vengeance-if not for the dancer, then for his longtime fellow cop. Despite warnings from the department, he's about to be drawn deep into the world of gangs and organized crime,...
4) The Hunters
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A hunting trip turns into a manhunt in this chilling predator-versus-prey thriller from an Edgar Award—winning author.
Four guys from the suburbs are about to set out on a hunting trip. Wes is an architectural draftsman with a secret. Leo has a high-level advertising job, but is miserable with ulcers. Milt sells pharmaceuticals but is disdained by his wife-who happens to be the object of passionate desire for Lamar, who works in insurance.
But...
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A hit man tries to make a clean break from his murderous career in this chilling novel from an award-winning author.
He has no police record, not even a traffic ticket. But he's killed twenty-seven people during his career as a professional assassin. And sometimes it's not just the target who takes a bullet-if the bodyguard or mistress is unfortunate enough to be around. When the time comes, it happens fast: assemble the weapon, load, ditch the evidence.
Now...
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A suspenseful novel about the last-minute battle to save a man on death row and the uproar surrounding his case as his time runs out...
Weldon Whitmen was arrested for committing a series of robberies and bizarre sex crimes while out on parole. Now he's condemned to die. Claiming innocence, he makes headlines with his appeal-and two people decide to come to his aid.
One is a journalist who thinks the sentence is unjust. The other is a law librarian...
7) The Killings
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A pair of twins have been brutally murdered, and Los Angeles detectives George Cascade and Ed Fenner find themselves working a case with puzzling sexual overtones. When a young, intellectually disabled African American becomes the object of suspicion, tensions flare between the two officers—and it will push them to the edge before the truth can be sorted out.
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A collection of short fiction, including an Edgar Award–nominated story, about hard-luck characters and the human instinct to survive.
A survivor of Little Bighorn faces down the resulting trauma in the decades following the bloody battle. An old man who has lost his late wife's cat joins forces with an unlikely partner to rescue abused animals. An ex–racecar driver contends with criminals in the midst of the famous Dakar Rally. Challenge...
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