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It all starts with stealing from the cookie jar. Crime books of all shapes and sizes. One of them will be the culprit for a good evening’s read.

Shortcut by Arnold Eslava-Grunwaldt

 

It all started with a shortcut. Murder followed. Then an accidental death. Or so it seemed. But then again, nothing is as quite as it seems. Enter Detective Sergeant Hamilcar “Ham” Hitchcock and his General Assignment Squad. Fresh off the Keim case—and recovering from the loss of several key members—the Yonkers, New York-based team reinvents itself and dives headfirst into the latest investigation. And, it’s a doozy. Is the murderer a jealous high school student? A greedy caregiver? An angry homeless man? Or, someone else? As the detectives work to unmask the killer, a bizarre, unrelated death draws their attention—and holds it. Unfortunately, the evidence in both cases is frustratingly scant. At the top of the list are several short-cut cherry striped straws, and a mysterious, corrosive salve. When the stars eventually align in the squad’s favor, their celebration is cut short by an unexpected catastrophe that threatens to pull the team apart again. And the mystery continues.

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Marathon to a million dollars

A series of mysterious narcotics-related homicides suddenly caught the attention of the International Intelligence Agencies when drug mules from all over the world started to turn up dead in perplexing situations.

As they continue to die, the British MI4 is determined to know what’s going down.
But so is the CIA and the Australian Intelligence. And so is the Denmark Intelligence and the French Intelligence, who have also encountered the couriers of death.

Was it just a coincidence? Or was there a sinister justification for these uncanny occurrences?
MI4 Chief Colin Shooter believes there’s a sinister justification behind the unfortunate couriers. He’s a stickler, who never gives up on a conundrum and he’s absolute determined to see things through.

But he needs an agent teeming with world-class, international espionage experience; a guy who knows his stuff like the back of his hand.

And if that means collaborating with old antagonist, Special Agent Jason Clay all over again, it won’t be the end of the world.

Set in London, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Paris, Miami, Australia, Barbados, Houston, Copenhagen, Singapore, The Netherlands, South Carolina and Atlanta, it’s espionage at its very best!

It’s espionage as you’ve never seen it before!

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The White House by O’neil Sharma

1987 Berlin: A brutal series of murders in the Jewish community force Saul Cohen into the role of detective. A victim of the concentration camps himself, Saul finds he must confront his own horrific past as a Sonderkommando, in order to solve the crimes being committed in the present day. However, he is fast losing control of his ability to restrain the nightmare images he has suppressed for so long. As his Alzheimer’s progresses Saul faces the prospect of spending his remaining days in the very place he has spent his life trying to forget: Auschwitz.

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Back to Lazarus: A Sydney Brennan Novel by Judy K. Walker

Back to Lazarus: A Sydney Brennan Novel by Judy K. Walker

Tallahassee private investigator Sydney Brennan digs into a murderer’s past to expose the truth behind his prison cell suicide. But the answers she finds aren’t what her client expects, and they may just be deadly. This is the first book in the Sydney Brennan Mysteries, a PI series with a humorous edge that will appeal to fans of Sue Grafton’s alphabet series.

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A Murderous Approach by Darryl Donaghue

A Murderous Approach by Darryl Donaghue

The toxic world of online misogyny spills out onto the streets…leaving behind a trail of blood.

Sarah’s a recently qualified detective assigned to the Major Crime Team. When a young woman is murdered and her body left on display in the street, Sarah knows she’s going to be hunting an unusual killer.

Her initial enquiries lead her to a variety of suspects — a recently jilted lover, a former police officer with friends in high places, and the victim’s teacher with his penchant for harassing women from the comfort of his keyboard, but no closer to the truth.

Every wasted moment gives the killer a chance to strike again. Just as she feels she has him in her grasp, a second murder throws the case up in the air. The manhunt takes a sinister turn as it leads her down into the depths of the toxic online community that created him. But the killer knows justice is coming. And he’s going to force her into a confrontation she may not survive.

Can Sarah put a stop to the killer’s murder spree, or will she become his next victim?

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