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21) Seven girls gone
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2023.
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"For three years, women have been disappearing--and eventually turning up dead in the small bayou town of St. Augustine, Louisiana. Police detective Beau Hebert is the only one who seems to care, but with every witness quickly silenced and a corrupt police department set on keeping the cases unsolved, Beau's investigation stalls at every turn. With nobody else to trust, Beau calls in a favor from his friend on the FBI's Mobile Response Team. While...
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Valerie Hart novels volume 1
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"When the two strangers turn up at Rowena Cooper's isolated Colorado farmhouse, she knows instantly that it's the end of everything. For the two haunted and driven men, on the other hand, it's just another stop on a long and bloody journey. And they still have many miles to go, and victims to sacrifice, before their work is done. For San Francisco homicide detective Valerie Hart, their trail of victims--women abducted, tortured and left with a seemingly...
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[2013]
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"In 2082, a catastrophic explosion rocks the dedication ceremony of the new United Nations [building] in New York City. Security Director Julia Moro is on the job, chasing after the misogynistic leader of Patria, a long-disbanded international terrorist organization now being whispered about again on the streets. This dangerous, shadowy figure has been linked to several bombing attempts and vicious attacks on women, including the Women of Peace, an...
24) Ghost image
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[2002]
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Plastic surgeon Jackson Maebry finds his life unraveling when his lover is brutally attacked and the San Francisco police suspect he is responsible.
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New York Confidential volume 3
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[2018]
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"Wrapping up a normal day at the office, criminal psychologist Kieran Finnegan is accosted by a desperate woman who shoves an infant into her arms and then flees, only to be murdered minutes later on a busy Manhattan street ... Kieran can't stop thinking about the child and the victim, so her boyfriend, Craig Frasier, does what any good special agent boyfriend would do--he gets the FBI involved. And asks Kieran to keep out of it ... Kieran wont sit...
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[2010]
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Set in 1546, Herring's captivating debut depicts the future Elizabeth I as a keen and shrewd detective. A killer is stalking London, beheading young women and dressing their bodies in nuns' clothes. When one of the princess's own ladies becomes a victim, the 12-year-old Elizabeth, daughter of the now failing Henry VIII, joins with her friends Simon Maldon, a physician's son, and Hugh Bellows, the captain of the king's Welsh Guard, in the hunt for...
28) After the fall
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[1999]
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When Judith's son Danny is accused of a violent crime, Judith must find the strength to keep her marriage and her family together as their lives seem to fall apart.
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c2010
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Follows three generations of a Pakistani family as they make their way through life in the political, social, and religious maze that is their motherland. Through the life of Ujala, it also tells the story of honor crimes against women and how one woman pushes aside her fears to help other women escape from the impossible situtations in which they find themselves.--from publisher's description.
31) The stolen hours
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2021.
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"Lila Nash is on the verge of landing her dream job—working as a prosecutor under the Hennepin County Attorney—and has settled into a happy life with her boyfriend, Joe Talbert. But when a woman is pulled from the Mississippi River, barely alive, things in the office take a personal turn. The police believe the woman’s assailant is local photographer Gavin Spenser, but the case quickly flounders as the evidence wears thin. It seems Gavin saw...
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c2021.
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"One weekend, sisters Tanya and Nessa Bloom pause their respective adult lives and travel to the Boston suburbs to help their mother pack up and move out of their childhood home. For the first time since they were teenagers sharing a bunk bed over a decade ago, they find themselves in the place where long-kept secrets were born, where jealousy, comfort, anger, forgiveness, and repulsion coexist with the fiercest love and loyalty. What they don't expect...
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2021
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Giving The Devil His Due features stories about men who commit violence against women and how they get their comeuppance. The anthology will have a Twilight Zone vibe to send a clear message that misogyny, toxic masculinity, and violence against women is unacceptable. These compelling stories will get the conversation started among book lovers and fandoms worldwide about violence against women. Proceeds from this project are going to support the Pixel...