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When a thirteen-year-old boy is found floating in the river Thames with his throat slit, William Monk, superintendent of the Thames River Police, pursues a child pornographer who runs a sex ring using small boys. Monk's wife Hester and several memorable characters from Dark Assassin return in this richly complex story.
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"It is not the custom for the commander of Special Branch to receive a royal summons so Thomas Pitt knows it must be for a matter of the gravest importance. The body of Sir John Halberd, the Queens confidant, has been found in the shallow water of the Serpentine in Hyde Park, bearing the evidence of a fatal blow to the head. At Her Majestys request, Sir John had been surreptitiously investigating Alan Kendrick, a horse-racing enthusiast who seems...
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Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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On a beautiful morning in mid-May, the body of a young woman is found in one of Notting Hill's private gardens. To passersby, the pretty girl in the white dress looks as if she's sleeping. But Reagan Keating has been murdered, and the lead detective, DI Kerry Boatman, turns to Gemma James for help. She and Gemma worked together on a previous investigation, and Gemma has a personal connection to the case: Reagan was the nanny of a child who attends...
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Rivers of London volume 2
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English
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The song. That's what London constable and sorcerer's apprentice Peter Grant first notices when he examines the corpse of Cyrus Wilkins, part-time jazz drummer and full-time accountant, who dropped dead of a heart attack while playing a gig at Soho's 606 Club. The notes of the old jazz standard are rising from the body, a sure sign that something about the man's death was not at all natural but instead supernatural. Body and soul, they're also what...
8) Dark mirror
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Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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Detective Inspector Kathy Kolla investigates the inexplicable arsenic poisoning of London student Marion Summers, who had moved three years prior without leaving a forwarding address and whose stepfather has an unsavory past.
11) Moriarty
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English
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Days after the encounter at the Swiss waterfall that claimed the lives of Sherlock Holmes and criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty, Pinkerton detective agent Frederick Chase and Scotland Yard Inspector Athelney Jones, a devoted student of Holmes's methods of investigation and deduction, must track down a sinister figure who is determined to stake his claim as Moriarty's successor.
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 28
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt volume 028
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 28
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt volume 028
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 28
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2013.
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English
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When the bodies of two high-profile women are discovered, bearing signs of rape, and an innocent man is accused of the crime, Thomas Pitt's quest for the truth forces him to play a dangerous game of international politics and murder.
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Severn House
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English
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When DCI Brock and DS Poole are called to investigate a murder at a house near Heathrow Airport, it looks like a case of burglary gone wrong. Then the victim's wife, attractive air stewardess Sharon Gregory, disappears, and Brock and Poole find themselves caught up in a complex investigation where nothing is as it seems.
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Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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Just before the Christmas holiday, distinguished London mathematician Henry Rathbone comes to the aid of an old friend whose son Lucien has gone missing. Enlisting the aid of Squeaky Robinson and Crow, Henry soon discovers that Lucien may be involved with a murdered prostitute and a major drugs dealer.
16) Ammunition
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Brant novels volume 7
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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English
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When a murdered body is discovered in the Thames, clues lead to a heinous child-pornography case that police superintendent William Monk thought he had left behind, in an investigation that threatens his friend Oliver Rathbone and forces Monk to consider painful sacrifices.
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Bryant and May mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Octogenarian detectives Arthur Bryant and John May investigate the baffling case of a girl strangled but peacefully laid out in a private, locked garden, the first in a series of similar murders in London's parks.
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Little Brown & Co
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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The earthshaking year of 1968 comes to a sweeping and dangerous close as Detectives Breen and Tozer battle the most powerful members of London society in their probe into a case going back years--the murder of Tozer's younger sister.
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