Barbara D'Amato
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Chicago Police Superintendant Nick Bertolucci is a tough top cop. But, he has a dangerous enemy on the force: his brother Aldo. Aldo is a beat cop who is eaten up by jealousy and resentment of Nick's success. He gets his chance to sabotage his brother's career when records turn up concerning an illegal raid on a Black Panther household back in 1969. When Aldo tries to connect Nick to the scandal, his scheme threatens to collapse the Chicago Police...
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An hour and a half after three-year-old Danielle Gaston is kidnapped from the Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago, a new web site pops up on the World Wide Web, featuring Danielle Gaston. She's isolated in a room with no food and only water to drink. This live-action web page is available to all net users around the world and is soon rebroadcast on CNN and other networks. Since Danielle is the only child of a popular country & western singer and a senator,...
3) Other eyes
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Blue Eriksen is a famous forensic archaeologist based at Northwestern University. She and her team are traveling the globe, testing mummies to research the use of hallucinogens in the development of ancient religions. Armed with evidence from ancient peoples, Blue has become convinced that psilocybin-a hallucinogen derived from mushrooms, can prevent or cure drug addiction. She hopes to develop testing and treatment centers.
Leeuwarden Associates...
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For Chicago cop Suze Figueroa, home is a sanctuary, a quiet refuge from the crime, corruption, and tragedy she encounters everyday on the job. The creaky old Victorian house she shares with her little boy, her invalid sister, and her sister's family seems far removed from the threats and dangers of the mean city streets...or so she believes.
The truth is far more terrifying, for, unknown to Suze, a stranger has moved into the house: an intruder who...
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Cat Marsala mysteries volume 5
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In a Chicago hospital Dr. Edith Crosstant, head of the trauma unit, is found dead suffocated by a gauze pad shoved down her throat. The protagonist, reporter Cat Marsala, on assignment to write about the unit, abandons her research to find the killer. By the author of Hard Women.
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Cat Marsala mysteries volume 9
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The Harry Potter of its time, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and the forty or so other books in the Oz series have become perennial sellers. There are Oz festivals, Oz fan clubs, Oz newsletters, and, of course, Oz Web sites and chat rooms. And now there's "Hard Road, " a Cat Marsala mystery in which author Barbara D'Amato shares her own love of Oz. D'Amato's father knew Oz author L. Frank Baum and as a child played with Baum's children. Five generations...
10) Killer.app
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A cyberthriller on a company selling software which it programs to later access the client's database for criminal purposes. An employe who discovers the racket is silenced, but not before she shares the information with her policewoman sister who goes after the crooks.
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Cat Marsala mysteries volume 4
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NOBODY CARES MUCH ABOUT A DEAD HOOKER ... Nobody but Chicago journalist Cat Marsala, who had befriended the frail young woman who now lies dead in a gutter near Cat's apartment. Four days earlier, Cat had picked Sandra Love, as she liked to be called, out of a crowd of detainees at Women's Court. Cat had something Sandra wanted: a hot meal, in exchange for some information about life on Chicago's streets. That's all Cat intended - a fair trade of...
14) Hardball
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Cat Marsala mysteries volume 1
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Cat Marsala, a freelance writer, accompanies her uncle to a symposium debating the decriminalization of drugs in Illinois. She hopes to interview the leader of the pro-legalization movement, Louise Sugarman. A bomb explodes during the meeting, killing Sugarman and wounding Cat. Sensing a great story, Cat pursues the killer.