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Author
Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
To pay back an old debt, Pike is coerced into protecting Larkin Barkley, a hard-partying young heiress whose life is in danger after a wrong place wrong time encounter that quickly escalates and spins out of control.
Author
Series
Bud Shumway mystery volume 17
Publisher
Yellow Cat Pub
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
199 pages.
Language
English
Description
When Utah Sheriff Bud Shumway gets a strange letter saying a perfect crime is about to be committed, he has no idea that it’s just the beginning of a series of cryptic happenings, from a body that goes missing to finding another that happens to belong to a popular local photographer.
Throw in an assortment of plein-air artists, radio-control pilots (even a blimp!), Van Gogh aficionados (say that real fast), the Invisible Man, a strange canvas with...
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Happy and content in his hometown of Aurora, Minnesota, Cork O'Connor has left his badge behind and is ready for a life of relative peace, setting up shop as a private investigator. But his newfound state of calm is soon interrupted when Henry Meloux, the Ojibwe medicine man and Cork's spiritual adviser, makes a request: Will Cork find the son that Henry fathered long ago? With little to go on, Cork uses his investigative skills to locate Henry Wellington,...
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
252 p.
Language
English
Description
When Bernie breaks into an apartment to steal a box, he finds a body.
Author
Series
Language
English
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The organized criminal gangs of the former Soviet Union are bound by what they call the thieves' code. The first rule is this: A thief must forsake his mother, father, brothers, and sisters. He must have no family -- no wife, no children. We are his family. If any of the rules are broken, it is punishable by death. Frank Meyer had the American dream -- until the day a professional crew invaded his home and murdered everyone inside. The only thing...
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
352 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Karl Lindstrom's lumber mill explodes in the early morning hours, killing Ojibwe elder Charlie Warren. The local Native Americans are up in arms over Lindstrom's plan to cut down Our Grandfathers, a grove of old-growth white pines sacred to tribal lore. Outside conservationists have also descended on the town, eager to save the 300-year-old trees. When a person identifying himself as the Eco-Warrior, soldier of the Army of the Earth, claims responsibility...
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 10
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Antiquarian book dealer and fashionable thief Bernie Rhodenbarr once again indulges his appetite for breaking and entering in his never-ending quest for fun and profit.
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
Description
A domestic-disturbance call on the Ojibwa reservation turns nasty when someone starts taking potshots at Cork. Elsewhere, the body of a Chicago businessman is found on the banks of Mercy Falls. The victim was trying to broker a deal between his casino-management company and the reservation. Could someone on the res have killed him?
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English
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When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike -- and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken, and are now lost in the gray and changing world of the professional border kidnappers, who prey not only on innocent victims but also on one another -- buying, selling, and stealing victims like commodities. Fortunately,...
Author
Series
Harper Connelly mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
Hired to find a boy gene missing in Doraville, North Carolina, Harper Connelly and her brother Tolliver head there-only to discover that the boy was only one of several who had disappeared over the previous five years. All of them teenagers. All unlikely runaways. All calling for Harper. Harper soon finds them-eight victims, buried in the half-frozen ground, all come to an unspeakable end. Afterwards, what she most wants to do is collect her fee and...
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English
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Dru Rayne and her uncle fled to L.A. after Hurricane Katrina; but now, five years later, they face a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru's uncle beaten by a protection gang, he offers his help, but neither of them want it -- and neither do the federal agents mysteriously watching them. As the level of violence escalates, and Pike himself becomes a target, he and Elvis Cole learn that Dru and her uncle are not who they seem -- and that everything...
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1978
Physical Desc
166 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
An attempted robbery involves jewel thief Bernie Rhodenbarr in a murder investigation in which he becomes the chief suspect.
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"...The latest in the series finds the sheriff running for his life from professional hit men who have already put a bullet through his leg. Desperate, he finds sanctuary outside a small town called Bodine on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in an old resort owned by his cousin, Jewell DuBois. Though Jewell, a bitter widow whose husband may have been killed by cops, keeps Cork at arm's length, her fourteen-year-old son, Ren, is looking for a friend....
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
291 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Bernie Rodenbarr meets the woman of his dreams at the Humphrey Bogart film festival, a woman whose past may be as dark as a movie theater.
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the daughter of a powerful businessman dies as a result of her meth addiction, her father, strong-willed and brutal Buck Reinhardt, vows revenge. His target is the Red Boyz, a gang of Ojibwe youths accused of supplying the girl's fatal drug dose. When the head of the Red Boyz and his wife are murdered in a way that suggests execution, the Ojibwe gang mobilizes, and the citizens of Tamarack County brace themselves for war, white against red. Both...
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
258 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bernie Rhodenbarr investigates a murder and the burglary of a baseball card collection.
Author
Series
Bernie Rhodenbarr volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1979
Physical Desc
196 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Accused of a murder he did not commit, a master thief is determined to prove his innocence.
59) Voodoo River
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Series
Language
English
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L.A. private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption thirty-six years before. Cole's assignment is to find out their biological history and report back.
It seems all too clear cut. But when he gets to Louisiana and begins his search, he finds that there's something much darker going on. Other people are also looking for Taylor's parents,...
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
viii, 309 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
As a blizzard swells just days before Christmas, the car belonging to the wife of a retired local judge is discovered abandoned on a rural road in Tamarack County. After days of fruitless effort, the search-and-rescue team has little hope that she'll be found alive, if at all. Cork O'Connor, former sheriff and now private investigator, is part of that team. Early on, Cork notices small things about the woman's disappearance that disturb him. But when...
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