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Badge of honor volume 8
Language
English
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Just as with his remarkable military novels, millions of readers have been captured by the rich characters and vivid realism of W. E. B. Griffin’s police dramas. “Griffin has the knack,” writes The Philadelphia Inquirer. He “sets his novel before you in short, fierce, stop-for-nothing scenes. Before you know it, you’ve gobbled it up.”
Now, in Final Justice, Detective...
Now, in Final Justice, Detective...
Author
Series
Badge of honor volume 10
Language
English
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Investigating a string of murders targeting criminals in Philadelphia, homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne becomes alarmed when unrelated vigilante groups begin taking credit for the hits, which become increasingly violent and high-profile.
Author
Series
Badge of honor volume 7
Language
English
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Special Operations detective Matt Payne and his colleagues find themselves drawn into two dangerous cases simultaneously as an ongoing investigation into a squad of dirty cops turns deadly and a chance encounter at a party leads Payne to a woman who may hold the key to a gang of urban terrorists
Author
Series
Badge of honor volume 9
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a gangland shooting at a popular tourist site in Philadelphia, Matthew Payne pursues a suspicion that the case is related to a murder near the Schuykill River, and follows a hunch to the Texas-Mexico border, where he encounters more dangerthan anticipated.
Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne is used to murder, but lately there's been an awful lot of it in Philadelphia. A gangland shooting in a popular tourist location has left six dead,...
Author
Series
Badge of honor volume 6
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Detectives Jason Washington and Matt Payne are under pressure to solve three murders--a policeman shot in his home, a bar owner and his partner's wife gunned down together, and a wealthy young woman dead of a drug overdose
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Investigating rumors about a new partnership between the Mexican drug cartels and the Russian mob, Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne struggles to dismantle an increasingly violent operation involving Russian sex slaves and kidnapped foster teens.
Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne must locate the lone living witness to a sex trade ring connected to the Mexican drug cartels and the Russian mob.
Author
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
"When her sister Erin is murdered and Erin's husband goes missing, Philadelphia homicide detective Bree Taggert vows to uncover the secrets of her sister's life and death, but when the danger hits close to home, her own family is caught in a death grip."
11) Shutter man
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Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A member of Philadelphia’s dangerous Farren crime family—Billy, a killer plagued with a rare disease that prevents him from recognizing faces—targets Detective Kevin Byrne whose investigation into home-invasion cases and a past crime brings him too close to his employer.
12) Final justice
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Recently promoted to sergeant and assigned to the homicide department, detective Matt Payne finds more than his share of challenges in three assignments involving a fast-food shooting, a guru murderer, and a police movie star.
13) The last witness
Author
Series
Badge of honor volume 11
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne struggles to dismantle an increasingly violent operation involving Russian sex slaves and kidnapped foster teens.
Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne must locate the lone living witness to a sex trade ring connected to the Mexican drug cartels and the Russian mob.
Author
Series
Badge of honor volume 13
Language
English
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While investigating the death of a young socialite, Sergeant Matt Payne begins to doubt reports of her long struggle with mental illness and uncovers secrets that place lives at risk.
"The dramatic New York Times-bestselling adventure in W.E.B. Griffin's Badge of Honor series about the Philadelphia police force. Having investigated his share of gruesome murders, Philadelphia Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne is beginning to think nothing can shock him...
16) The killing room
Author
Series
Publisher
William Heinemann
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"In the heart of Philadelphia's badlands, Homicide Detectives Byrne and Balzano are called out to a particularly chilling crime scene. Once the pillar of the neighbourhood, an abandoned church has become a killing room. At first it looks like a random act of violence. But then a second body is found, and a third. Each crime scene more disturbing than the last, each murder more brutal. And it soon becomes horrifyingly clear that a cold, calculating...
Author
Series
Badge of honor volume 12
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In Philadelphia the tension between the Philadelphia Police Department and its Citizens Oversight Committee has long been reaching a boiling point. That turmoil turns from bad to worse shortly after the committee begins targeting police shootings--especially those of twenty-seven-year-old Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne, the "Wyatt Earp of the Main Line"--and then the committee's combative leader is found shot dead point-blank on the front porch of his...
18) The traffickers
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne is used to murder, but lately there's been an awful lot of it in Philadelphia. A gangland shooting in a popular tourist location left six dead, most of them bystanders, and days later the headless body of a Latina turns up in the Schuylkill River. Everybody assumes that they're not related, but Payne can't shake the hunch that there's something more to it - and that hunch leads him to the Texas-Mexico border.
19) Deadly assets
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Tensions between the Philadelphia Police Department and its Citizens Oversight Committee reach a boiling point during an investigation into shootings by young Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne, who investigates the murders of an investigative reporter and hisfamily.
Suffering among the country's highest murder rates; the tension between the Philadelphia PD and its Citizens Oversight Committee has long been reaching a boiling point. That turmoil turns...
20) The doll maker
Author
Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
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"Detectives Byrne and Balzano return to the streets of Philadelphia to put an end to a macabre succession of murdered children. A quiet Philadelphia suburb. A woman cycles past a train depot with her young daughter. There she finds a murdered girl posed on a newly painted bench. Beside her is a formal invitation to a tea dance in a week's time. Seven days later, two more young victims are discovered in an abandoned house, posed on painted swings....
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