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The frightened man

2009
General Denton, an expatriate U.S. Civil War veteran and former frontier sheriff, teams up with social worker Janet Striker in 1900 London to investigate the brutal murder of prostitute Stella Minter and hunt down what might be the long-gone Jack the Ripper.

Whisper to the blood

2009
Part-time private investigator Kate Shugak helps her boyfriend, state trooper Jim Chopin, investigate two deaths connected to the mining of gold in an Alaskan national park.

Shadow season

a novel
2009
Blind professor and former police officer Finn, having made a career change after the murder of his wife, finds the body of a young girl lying in a graveyard and realizes that a pair of vicious criminals are after him and he must stop them before they hurt anyone else.

In their blood

a novel
2009
College dropout Jeremy Stroeb is forced to accept responsibility for his teenage sister, Elise, after his parents--Rachel, an accountant, and Daniel, a controversial professor--are murdered, and hoping to learn the reason for the killings, Jeremy takes a job at his mother's firm and begins to realize his parents were not the people he thought they were.

Code of silence

2009
Ben Reese receives an urgent letter from a distant acquaintance, asking for help in tracking down a murdered who is guilty of breaking United States security, but when Ben realizes the man is connected to a top secret Soviet code, he fears he is in over his head.

All the colors of darkness

2009
Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot investigates an apparent suicide when a man found hanging from a tree is identified as Mark Hardcastle, the local amateur theater company's set and costume designer, and when Mark's lover is found beaten to death in his home, Annie calls in help from Chief Inspector Alan Banks.

Chasing smoke

2008
While battling cancer, Portland homocide detective Skin Kadash investigates the deaths of men who had been suffering cancer as the patients of Skin's own doctor, but when the daughter of the first victim, who insists the deaths were murder, disappears, Skin is left alone solve the mystery without the support of the other officers.

Shakespeare's Hamlet

the manga edition
2008
A graphic novel adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic tragedy about Prince Hamlet of Denmark, who seeks vengeance for his father's murder after being visited by his ghost.

One grave too many

a Diane Fallon forensic investigation
2003
Forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon is pulled away from her new life as director of the RiverTrail Museum of Natural History in Georgia by her former love, Detective Frank Duncan, when a bone that may belong to a member of a murdered family is discovered in the woods.

Southland

2003
Jackie Ishida's last semester of law school is disrupted when her grandfather dies unexpectedly and leaves her a final request in his will, which leads Jackie on a search for the man responsible for a group of murders more than forty years earlier.

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