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1) Double Cross
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 13
Language
English
Description
Alex Cross faces two crazed killers in this chilling, suspenseful blockbuster from James Patterson, "the man who can't miss" (Time).
A spate of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. With each murder, the case becomes increasingly complex. There's only one thing Alex knows: the killer adores an audience....
A spate of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. With each murder, the case becomes increasingly complex. There's only one thing Alex knows: the killer adores an audience....
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 10
Language
English
Description
Alex Cross joins forces with Scotland Yard and Interpol in pursuit of the Wolf and the Weasel.
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Alex Cross is ready to resign-but when his partner shows up with a case he can't refuse, he goes up against the most bone-chilling killers of his entire career.
Detective Alex Cross is on his way to resign from the Washington, D.C., Police Force when his partner's oldest friend-a Vietnam veteran-is arrested for murder. He is subject to the iron hand of the United States Army, and the evidence...
Detective Alex Cross is on his way to resign from the Washington, D.C., Police Force when his partner's oldest friend-a Vietnam veteran-is arrested for murder. He is subject to the iron hand of the United States Army, and the evidence...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 6
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross must pursue the most brillant killer he's ever confronted--a mysterious criminal called the Mastermind. In a series of crimes that has stunned Washington, D.C, bank robbers have been killing bank employees and their families if the robbers' instructions are not followed to the letter. Alex Cross knows this is no ordinary criminal--the pathological need for control and perfection is too great. Cross is in the midst of a crisis...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Two killers compete with each other for who can commit the most murders. One lives in Los Angeles and specializes in dismembering his victims, the other operates in the Carolinas, his specialty being college girls. By the author of Along Came a Spider.
6) Cat & mouse
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
In this New York Times bestseller, two killers-one operating in America, one in Europe-believe Alex Cross is the only worthy opponent in the deadly game each has planned.
Gary Soneji, a dying prison escapee, is looking for revenge on Cross, while another insane killer is pursued by Thomas Augustine Pierce-a brilliant and relentless detective who may even be better than Cross. As the bodies pile up, and Cross is nearly murdered...
Gary Soneji, a dying prison escapee, is looking for revenge on Cross, while another insane killer is pursued by Thomas Augustine Pierce-a brilliant and relentless detective who may even be better than Cross. As the bodies pile up, and Cross is nearly murdered...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
In Washington, two lots of serial killers compete for the limelight. One lot kills famous people as they work their way up to the president, the other kills black children in ever-growing numbers. Black deputy police chief Alex Cross leads a manhunt.
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
He had always wanted to be famous. When he kidnapped two well-known rich kids it was headline news. Then one of them was found--dead. For such a high-profile case, they needed Alex Cross, police psychologist, and Jezzie Flanagan, a Secret Service agent, and even they were no match for the killer.
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Language
English
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"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...
10) Cross kill
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Series
Language
English
Description
Alex Cross watched a man die at the hands of an old enemy. . . and he's back from the grave for revenge.
Alex Cross, I'm coming for you-even from the grave if I have to.
Along Came a Spider killer Gary Soneji has been dead for over ten years. Alex Cross watched him die. But today, Cross saw him gun down his partner. Is Soneji alive? A ghost? Or something even more sinister?
Nothing will prepare you for the wicked...
Alex Cross, I'm coming for you-even from the grave if I have to.
Along Came a Spider killer Gary Soneji has been dead for over ten years. Alex Cross watched him die. But today, Cross saw him gun down his partner. Is Soneji alive? A ghost? Or something even more sinister?
Nothing will prepare you for the wicked...
Author
Series
Barrett Raines mystery novels volume 4
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
There is a Florida, that has nothing to do with Disney World. Nothing to do with palm trees or Holiday Inns. Tourists are neither courted nor coddled in this Florida, and you can go a hundred miles and never find a golden arch.
So says author Darryl Wimberley, and it's a Florida he knows. He knows, too, that in towns like Pepperfish Keys, there are those who still can't believe that a black man could rise to a high position in the state police. But,...
Author
Series
Berger and Mitry mysteries volume 1
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Author
Series
A Highway 59 novel volume 1
Language
English
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Description
When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home. When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders--a black lawyer from...
14) The black and the blue: a cop reveals the crimes, racism, and injustice in America's law enforcement
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Matthew Horace was an officer at the federal, state, and local level for 28 years working in every state in the country. Yet it was after seven years of service when Horace found himself face-down on the ground with a gun pointed at his head by a white fellow officer, that he fully understood the racism seething within America's police departments. Using gut-wrenching reportage, on-the-ground research, and personal accounts garnered by interviews...
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Language
English
Description
Meet Donald 'Lucky' Gibson. He's considered one of the best detectives around, until he joins his new unit, a team of corrupt cops who are just as bad as the criminals they are supposed to be catching. Lucky soon falls into the trap and becomes one more thug with a badge. After an innocent black man is killed by his white partners, Lucky testifies against them. He uses the media to expose his dirty team, including his captain and the commissioner....
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Description
Travis Roan and his dog Bear are hunters: they travel the world pursuing evildoers in order to bring them to justice. They have now come to Kansas on the trail of Rudolph Bormann, a Nazi doctor and concentration camp administrator who snuck into the US under the name Rudy Goodman in the 1950s and has at last been identified. Travis quickly learns that Goodman has powerful friends who will go to any length to protect the Nazi; what he doesn't know...
Author
Series
Kink P.I volume 1
Publisher
Strebor Books International
Edition
First Strebor Books trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
When Dominic Law left the force for a more lucrative offer to run a friend's private security firm, he thought that his days of suffering as a police detective were over, and he could finally sit back, relax, and take the cases that he wanted, when he wanted. Was he ever wrong. Before he can settle into his cushy new office and flirt with his sexy secretary, Dominic finds himself entangled in the politics and rules that he thought he had left behind....
Author
Series
Kink P.I volume 2
Publisher
Strebor Books
Edition
First Strebor Books trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"Go deeper into the fetish community of Atlanta originally brought to you in Shakir Rashaan's Obsession--the first book in the Kink, P. I. series--as Detective Dominic Law navigates the grit of the streets to solve crimes that have crossed over the line of outrageously erotic"--Amazon.com
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