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  The Shadow of the Empire

  Qiu Xiaolong

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  The legendary Judge Dee Renjie investigates a high-profile murder case in this intriguing companion novel to Inspector Chen and the Private Kitchen Murder set in seventh-century China. 
   
  Judge Dee Renjie, Empress Wu’s newly appointed Imperial Circuit Supervisor for the Tang Empire, is visiting provinces surrounding the grand capital of Chang’an. One night a knife is thrown through his window with a cryptic note attached: ‘A high-flying dragon will have something to regret!’ 
   
  Minutes after the ominous warning appears, Judge Dee is approached by an emissary of Internal Minister Wu, Empress Wu’s nephew. Minister Wu wants Judge Dee to investigate a high-profile murder supposedly committed by the wellknown poetess and courtesan, Xuanji, who locals believe is possessed by the spirit  
  of a black fox. 
   
  Why is Minister Wu interested in Xuanji? Despite Xuanji confessing to the murder, is there more to the case than first appears? With the mysterious warning and a fierce power struggle playing out at the imperial court, Judge Dee knows he must tread carefully …

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  The Boy

  Linsey Lanier

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  "Grabs you from the very beginning." Reader review 
  There’s nothing more terrifying than losing your child. 
  An eerie robotic message on Parker’s cell. 
  Unknown caller. 
  Miranda and Parker follow the lead. 
  Was that a mistake? 
  Answering that call throws her and Parker into the investigation of a grisly murder—an incident that leads to a web of secrets and lies bigger than either of them could have imagined. 
  To top things off, the team they were supposed to form is disgruntled with the management. 
  If Miranda can’t pull things together soon, this time more than one person might end up dead. 
  You’ll want to read this chilling, fast-paced thriller because it’s a story readers say they can’t put down. 
  Get it now. 
  THE MIRANDA'S RIGHTS MYSTERY SERIES 
  Someone Else's Daughter 
  Delicious Torment 
  Forever Mine 
  Fire Dancer 
  Thin Ice 
  THE MIRANDA AND PARKER MYSTERY SERIES 
  All Eyes on Me 
  Heart Wounds 
  Clowns and Cowboys 
  The Watcher 
  Zero Dark Chocolate 
  Trial by Fire 
  Smoke Screen 
  The Boy 
  Snakebit 
  Mind Bender 
  Roses from My Killer 
  Roses from My Killer 
  The Stolen Girl 
  Vanishing Act 
  Predator 
  Retribution 
  Most Likely to Die 
  Sonata for a Killer 
  Fatal Fall 
  Girl in the Park

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  Solitaire Series Episode 38 The:...

  Troy Lambert

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  A Shot at Freedom and Shadows of the Past
   
  Carl wasn't one for chances, but this mission was supposed to be his lifeline. A simple entry, unseen—except nothing is simple in a city built on deceit. Knocking on a door guarded by barking shadows, Carl clutches at an elusive freedom, a card dealt from the edge of the abyss.
   
  Inside, Carl is thrust into a game far deadlier than Solitaire ever promised. The room swells with whispers of betrayal, each figure a ghost from a past he can’t place. Guns flash like lightning in a storm of moral ambiguity. As bullets fly and identities unravel, Carl stares down destiny’s barrel, wondering just who he’ll become on the other side. In a den of secrets, only one question remains: who walks away when the smoke clears?

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  Dead Simple - Meet Roy Grace in...

  Peter James

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  Meet Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on his unforgettable first major case by award winning crime author Peter James, read by Daniel Weyman.It was meant to be a harmless stag-night prank. But a few hours later, the groom has disappeared and his friends are dead.With only three days to the wedding, Roy Grace is contacted by the man’s distraught fiancée to unearth what happened on that fateful night.The one man who ought to know of the groom’s whereabouts is saying nothing. But then he has a lot more to gain than anyone realizes, for one man’s disaster is another man’s fortune . . .Although the Roy Grace novels can be enjoyed in any order, Dead Simple is the first thrilling title in the bestselling series. Enjoy more of the Brighton detective’s investigations with Looking Good Dead and Not Dead Enough.Now a major ITV series, Grace, adapted for television by screenwriter Russell Lewis and starring John Simm.*****23 million copies sold.Creator of Her Majesty Queen Camilla’s favourite fictional detective.'Peter James is one of the best crime writers in the business' – Karin Slaughter, author of the Will Trent series'Peter James is one of the best British crime writers and therefore one of the best in the world' – Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series'One of the world’s most popular detective series' – The Guardian

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  Extraordinary Powers

  Joseph Finder

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  A top-secret project empowers an ex-CIA operative to find who killed the Agency’s director in this thriller by a New York Times–bestselling author. 
   
  The news is shattering: The director of the CIA, Harrison Sinclair, has been killed in a car accident. Sinclair may have been a traitor—or the Agency’s last honest man. Even his son-in-law, Ben Ellison, an attorney and ex-agent, has heard rumors of sinister forces within the Agency that could have ordered Sinclair’s assassination. Soon he is thrust into a web of intrigue and violence beyond his control back into the CIA, and lured into a top-secret espionage project in telepathic ability funded by American intelligence. 
   
  As the project’s first success, Ben uses his “extraordinary powers” in the perilous search for Vladimir Orlov, the exiled former chairman of the KGB—and the only man who might unlock the secret of Sinclair’s death and the whereabouts of a multibillion-dollar fortune in gold spirited out of Russia in the last days of the Soviet Union. The hunt for the truth will bring Ben face to face with his past and culminate in a crowded Washington hearing room where, behind high security barriers, a Senate investigating committee is about to call its secret witness . . . as an assassin prepares to strike . . . in Joseph Finder’s Extraordinary Powers. 
   
  “Spectacular . . . The action is unrelenting . . . Electrifying.” —Boston Sunday Herald 
   
  “Gripping drama in which nothing is quite what it seems.” —Seattle Times 
   
  “An extraordinary, powerful book . . . ingeniously plotted, fast-paced, and frighteningly credible.” —Nelson DeMille

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  Black Wings

  Michael Anderle

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  Valerie Kearie is still dealing with the issues behind her brother's pain. 
   
   
   
  Unfortunately, another group has decided to "elevate" the poor, the weak, and the easily susceptible and help them achieve greatness. Or Death. They do not care which. 
   
   
   
  Introducing a new drug, Ambrosia, to the streets of America provides the organization with money and cannon fodder, so what's the downside? 
   
   
   
  Valerie and Jake must work with a foreign agency to outwit, outthink, and out gun the mastermind. Can Jake and Valerie help and still keep Valerie's secret? 
   
   
   
  Kat hasn't gone away. In fact, Kat is still with Hawk, making his life a living nag-fest. Will Kat help or hinder the investigation? 
   
   
   
  Jake is supporting Valerie for the moment, but where will he need to be when the chips fall? 
   
   
   
  When the Chooser of the Slain is on an operation, everyone needs to keep their wits about them.

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