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Marti MacAlister mysteries volume 13
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Chicago detective Marti MacAlister has her work cut out for her these days. First, during the filming of a big Hollywood movie on location in Lincoln Prairie, the body of one of the film's stars turns up dead, along the shores of the Des Plaines River. Then, the skeletal remains of another gunshot victim turn up in a hundred year old building that is being renovated. The closer Marti comes to piecing the clues of each case, the closer they come to...
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Marti MacAlister, Eleanor Taylor Bland's popular African-American heroine, is forced to confront some extremely personal demons from long ago-her husband Johnny MacAlister is long-buried, but now someone from Johnny's past is back, looking for him, and Marti fears she knows who it might be.
In the meantime, her work as a suburban Chicago homicide detective has taken her back in time in another way, to a group of children she once counseled,
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Larry Cole novels volume 5
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When scientist Jonathan Gault is fired from his high-paying job at a military research facility, he is desperate to find new sponsors for his bizarre experiments. Gault's new racket is a deadly home security business for the ultra-rich: booby-trapping their property with high-voltage electricity and snake venom injection devices. Kate Ford, investigative journalist, is tipped off about Gault's shady business. She sets out to uncover his scheme, but...
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Larry Cole novels volume 9
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Chicago police sergeant Joe Donegan came to the department with a plan. To him the police badge was a license to steal, a free ride, and an easy way to get whatever you want, whenever you want-without suffering the consequences. And, when City Councilman Skip Murphy needs an embarrassing situation to go away, Donegan volunteers, as always for a price.
But, Chicago Commander Larry Cole is searching for missing barmaid Sophie Novak, and the trail leads...
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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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Larry Cole novels volume 8
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In The Devil's Shadow, Commander Larry Cole is confronted with the most beautiful and cunning criminal he's ever faced. Julianna Saint has a reputation for getting anything she wants. Her occupation, international thief. Her notoriety has spread from the underworld to the Chicago mob boss, Jake Romano, who has heard that no matter how tight the security, no matter what precautions are taken, Julianna can steal it.
Jake wants her to pull off a nearly...
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Larry Cole novels volume 7
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Hugh Holton, the highest-ranking active police officer writing books today, is well-known for powerful, passion-charged novels. Reviewers compare his books to hurricanes and firestorms, descriptions that are especially apt in the case of Time of the Assassins. The most controversial story in today's inner cities is the CIA's apparent funding of counterinsurgent druglords in Latin America, who, instead of fighting revolutionaries, have used that funding...
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Paul Turner mysteries volume 7
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Boys4U is the world's most popular singing group, at least among teenaged girls, and they have closed out their sold-out world tour with a series of shows in Chicago's brand new arena. The premier group of the inexplicably popular "boy band" trend, they've just finished their very last concert of the tour. While hundreds of tour members, well-wishers, label executives, and various hangers on wait to celebrate another wildly successful tour, the lead...
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Marti MacAlister mysteries volume 12
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Lincoln Prairie Homicide Detective Marti MacAlister does not get along with her new boss. Lieutenant Gail Nicholson disapproves of what she calls Marti's sloppy work habits, and regards her success as a fluke rather than the result of hard work and skill. Marti thinks the woman just may be feeling overly competitive with her, as one of the only other women on the job, and a black woman at that, but Marti knows she must put up with her boss's ill will...
10) Fatal remains
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Marti MacAlister mysteries volume 11
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When Marti MacAlister and her partner Matthew "Vik" Jessenovik respond to a report of skeletal remains found on a wooded piece of land, the pair has no idea it's just the first indication of a convoluted case of murder and conspiracy dating back hundreds of years. The skeleton turns out to be quite a mystery in itself, leading Native American groups and historians specializing in the Underground Railroad to flock to the site.
Unfortunately, for all...
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Paul Turner mysteries volume 6
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Craig Lenzati, the rich and powerful CEO of Chicago's answer to Microsoft, is found brutally murdered with stab wounds all over his body. The murder is reported anonymously, and a quick and quiet resolution to the case is demanded by City Hall. Meanwhile, the list of suspects is almost endless and that along has the powers-that-be breathing down the necks of Chicago Police Detectives Paul Turner and Buck Fenwick. But as the two struggle to untangle...
12) Revenge
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Larry Cole novels volume 10
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A brutally-wronged girl now a woman grown- cold, clever, calculating- mistakenly presumed dead.
A macabre magician with a secret past, stalked by an exotic and enigmatic assassin.
A woman with breathtaking beauty and an insidious scheme that is as vicious as she herself is vindictive.
An ex-pro-lineman turned savage gangster...a threat to everyone with his all-consuming greed.
A young, ambitious cop drawn to a wealthy but willful woman...a woman as...
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In Chicago, the death of a topless dancer leads Detective Joe Kelly and his partner, Nick Bianco, to the local mob. An investigation which costs the life of one of them and draws the survivor into a liaison with the other's widow. By the author of Quicksilver.
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