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  Kenyatta's Last Hit

  Donald Goines

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  "The voice of the ghetto itself." —The Village Voice 
   
   
   
  The godfather of urban lit is back with the graphic, thrilling conclusion to Kenyatta's quest to reclaim his streets . . . 
   
   
   
  For Kenyatta, the living urban legend, the war is far from over. With new recruits bolstering his army, he's ready to take down the drug pushers destroying his. This time the battle is moving out of the streets and heading west, where he faces off with his arch enemy in a brutal showdown in Vegas, high atop a glittering hotel. One bullet, one hit, one survivor—winner takes all . . . 
   
   
   
  "He lived by the code of the streets and his books vividly recreated the street jungle and its predators." —New Jersey Voice

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  The Moscow Enigma

  Christian Hirsch

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  Extortion, lies, duplicity and murder, all of which take place in Moscow's dark underworld. At the center, unknowingly, is Alexandra Malikova, a white-collared professional by day and a high-end escort by night. Amid the chaos Alexandra decides to face the scars of her adoptive past, the emptiness of her superficial life and the future with the one man she has fallen in love with. Where no one is who they seem and a vengeful assassin is carrying out orders to prevent a weapon's deal, who will emerge unscathed? And alive?

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  Broiler

  Eli Cranor

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  Gabriela Menchaca and Edwin Saucedo are hardworking, undocumented employees at the Detmer Foods chicken plant in Springdale, Arkansas, just a stone’s throw from the trailer park where they’ve lived together for seven years.  
   
  While dealing with personal tragedies of their own, the young couple endures the brutal, dehumanizing conditions at the plant in exchange for barebones pay. 
   
  When the plant manager, Luke Jackson, fires Edwin to set an example for the rest of the workers—and to show the higherups that he’s ready for a major promotion—Edwin is determined to get revenge on Luke and his wife, Mimi, a new mother who stays at home with her six-month-old son. Edwin’s impulsive action sets in motion a devastating chain of events that illuminates the deeply entrenched power dynamics between those who revel at the top and those who toil at the bottom. 
   
  From the nationally bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author of Don’t Know Tough and Ozark Dogs comes another edge-of-your-seat noir thriller that exposes the dark, bloody heart of life on the margins in the American South and the bleak underside of a bygone American Dream. 
   
  “Taut, harrowing, and charged with profound insight, Broiler pushes four unforgettable characters to the brim. What happens when hard work isn’t enough? Exploring class, ambition, mobility, and desire, Eli Cranor uses bolts of linguistic electricity to show how the things we want can sometimes blind us.”—Danya Kukafka, author of Notes on an Execution

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  Forty Floors of Silence

  Andrew Whitfall

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  Luxury has a lobby. So does murder. 
  When a socialite plummets from the balcony of a glass-and-steel tower, the building swallows the truth. Security footage blinks. Visitor logs vanish. Neighbors remember the wrong hour. Detective Owen Vale has seen cover-ups before, but never an entire high-rise that edits reality. 
  The Chronicle, a luxury residence with forty floors and a concierge who never speaks out of turn, sells more than privacy—it sells control. Behind its velvet silence operates a bespoke security firm that curates lives for the city's most powerful, rewriting details whenever the truth becomes inconvenient. As Vale follows the thin seams the building failed to seal, he finds the victim wasn't the first "accident," only the one that slipped. 
  Every step up the tower tightens the noose: witnesses lawyer up, evidence reappears scrubbed clean, and the concierge's loyalty proves as dangerous as any weapon. When the firm turns its attention to Vale's own daughter, the case stops being a puzzle and becomes a countdown. 
  Taut, atmospheric, and relentlessly surprising, Forty Floors of Silence delivers a classic detective thriller with a modern edge—locked-room intrigue at skyscraper scale. Read it for the razor-sharp twists, stay for a hero who has to outthink a building that refuses to be a crime scene. 
  If you love high-stakes investigations, morally gray power players, and endings you'll want to talk about, this is your next obsession.

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  Heavenly Date - And Other...

  Alexander McCall Smith

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  New York Times best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and recipient of two Booker Judges' Special Recommendations, Alexander McCall Smith delivers an intriguing collection of stories about dating. The emotions in these tales run from the thrill of finding happiness to the humiliation and loneliness of rejection.

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  Bats in the Belfry

  Kevin J. Anderson

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  Ace Ventura meets the Addams Family! 
  A shambling horde of new cases hits Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. in the Unnatural Quarter. Dan and his gang—including his ghost girlfriend, feisty lawyer partner, cop best friend, and little vampire half-daughter Alvina—are out to seek justice, solve mysteries, and keep their heads on straight … or at least attached. 
  Alvina’s singing lessons for the Banshee Tabernacle Choir end on a sour note when the troll choir director plunges to her death from a high belfry, and the only witness is a deaf-as-a-post gargoyle who sits too close to the loud bells. 
  A frustrated imp, woefully unsuccessful in betting on the nightmare races, is dead certain that his bookie BatGN (GN for “gender neutral” to avoid copyright issues) is cheating him. 
  Francine, the salty bartender at the Goblin Tavern, is worried when One Fang the vampire—her on-again, off-again suitor—disappears without a trace. 
  A shady vendor discovers a market for living shrunken heads that are conversational as well as decorative, but the demand by far exceeds the supply. 
  A heartless therapist has ulterior motives when she counsels zombies, distracting them from their woes to concentrate not just on brains, but on self-improvement as well. 
  There is much at stake in the Unnatural Quarter, and it’s up to Dan Shamble to keep the streets dark and safe for monsters and humans alike. After all, the cases don’t solve themselves! 
  This zombie detective puts the P.I. back in R.I.P.

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