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1) Later
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Jamie Conklin, a boy born with an unnatural ability to see and learn things no one else can, is enlisted to help an NYPD detective pursue a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave
Sometimes growing up means facing your demons. The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no...
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-150
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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"December 1941. America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to investigate a homicide that will change his life forever. Because the trail of murder he uncovers will lead him across the Pacific, far from home and the woman he loves; and though the U.S. doesn't know it yet, a Japanese fleet is already steaming toward Pearl Harbor." --
As the Japanese fleet heads undetected towards Pearl Harbor...
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"Cashed out from the NYPD after 24 years, Doak Miller operates as a private eye in steamy small-town Florida, doing jobs for the local police. Like posing as a hit man and wearing a wire to incriminate a local wife who's looking to get rid of her husband. But when he sees the wife, when he looks into her deep blue eyes ... He falls-- and falls hard. Soon he's working with her, against his employer, plotting a devious plan that could get her free from...
4) Easy go
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-MC3
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English
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"Beneath the sands of the Egyptian desert lies treasure beyond imagining. And when a professor of archaeology finds clues to the location of a Pharaoh's lost tomb in ancient hieroglyphs, he hatches a plan to find the burial site -- and plunder it. But can a five-man team of smugglers and thieves uncover what the centuries have hidden? And even if they find it, can they escape with it... and with their lives?" --
5) Odds on
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-MC1
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English
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"The plan: to rob the Reina, a super-luxury hotel off the coast of Spain. The crew: three seasoned criminals with the skills to pull off the heist of the century. The edge: every aspect of the scheme has been simulated on a computer, down to the last variable. The complication: three beautiful women with agendas of their own -- and the sort of variables no computer can fathom..." --
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-013-1
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English
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A novice newspaperwoman gains insight into the nature of mystery itself when her journalism mentors tell her about a 25-year-old unsolved investigation involving a man found dead on an island off the coast of Maine
7) Scratch one
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-MC2
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English
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"To prevent an arms shipment from reaching the Middle East a terrorist group has been carrying out targeted assassinations in Egypt... Portugal... Denmark... France. In response, the United States sends one of its deadliest agents to take the killers down. But when the agent is delayed in transit, lawyer Roger Carr gets mistaken for him. Now, with some of the world's deadliest men after him, will he survive long enough to prove his identity?" --
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Hard Case Crime
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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The lawyer, the jeweler, the art critic, and the oil-company man...self-possessed, independent Lora Winter has had a child with each of them. But when one of these men drives up to her house with a fifth man in the car, Lora runs to hide. That's how this extraordinary novel opens - and by the time it ends, you'll have pieced together a masterful psychological jigsaw puzzle that is miles from a traditional crime novel, but whose desperate characters...
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-065-R
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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"Two killers stalk the streets of Chicago--can one taxi driver corner them both? Eddie Miles is one of a dying breed: a Windy City hack who knows every street and back alley of his beloved city and takes its recent descent into violence personally. But what can one driver do about a killer targeting streetwalkers or another terrorizing cabbies? Precious little--until the night he witnesses one of them in action."--Back cover
11) Killing quarry
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Quarry returns in an all-new assignment that takes the hitman's hitman into uncharted territory, when he finds out that for the first time someone has taken out a hit on him. And is the mysterious killer assigned to hit the hitman someone from Quarry's past? Maybe even a past lover...?
12) Quarry's blood
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When a true crime novelist announces he's the subject of her next book, Quarry, a professional hitman, must journey into his bloody past to settle old scores as killers come out of the woodwork bent on revenge
13) Call me a cab
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Hard Case Crime
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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A New York City cab driver drives a beautiful woman across the country to Los Angeles, where the biggest decision of her life awaits
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-508
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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The new collection contains 20 stories, including classics of the genre and rare, little-known gems such as the title story, Bradbury's first published mystery. A number of the stories were adapted by the author for his popular TV series, The Ray Bradbury Theater, and fans of Bradbury's work will recognize his touch with crime stories about circus sideshow performers and ventriloquists' dummies, sunken cathedrals, time travelers, and robots that look...
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Titan Books
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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"An unforgettable crime. An unforgettable novel. Why would a happily married Florida housewife pick up her husband's .22 caliber Colt Woodsman semi-automatic pistol and use it to kill her two young children and herself? Cynical newspaper reporter Richard Hudson is assigned to find out - and the assignment will send him down a road of self-discovery in this incisive, no-holds-barred portrait of American marriage in the Mad Men era. On the 30th anniversary...
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-135
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"1946: A group of criminals pulls off the heist of the century, stealing a dozen priceless works of art from a Boston museum. Some of the thieves are captured, some are killed -- but the loot is never found. Forty years later, a college student finds himself on the trail of the missing art -- and the multi-million-dollar reward. But three decades after that, the art is still missing, and as his classmates return to Boston's notorious Charlesgate Hotel...
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-113
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Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
October 2013
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English
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"Two identical twin sisters -- one a sexually repressed defense attorney, the other a former libertine now living a respectable life in suburbia -- are about to have their darkest secrets revealed, to the men in their lives and to themselves. As one sister prepares for the toughest trial of her career and the other faces a stalker who knows details of her life that even her husband doesn't, both find themselves pushed to the edge, and confronted by...
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Titan Books
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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"When the beautiful young videographer offered to join his campaign, Senator Lee Rogers should've known better. But saying no would have taken a stronger man than Rogers, with his ailing wife and his robust libido. Enter Barton Brock, the senator's fixer. He's already gotten rid of one troublesome young woman -- how hard could this new one turn out to be? Pursued from Washington D.C. to the streets of Paris, 18-year-old Fanny Cours knows her reputation...
19) Sinner man
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Hard case crime book volume HCC-126
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2016
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English
Description
To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a sinner man...?
20) So many doors
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-137
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
November 2018
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English
Description
"She was his V. She was every man's V. It begins on Death Row, with a condemned man refusing the services of the lawyer assigned to defend him. It begins with a beautiful woman dead, murdered -- Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to all simply as V. That's where this extraordinary novel begins. But the story it tells begins years earlier, on a struggling farm in the shadow of the Great Depression and among the brawling 'cat skinners' of Southern California,...
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