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(0)Joseph Koenig
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English
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A detective fights corruption in a city whose most vicious killers work for the state. More than a decade after the dawn of Iran's Islamic Republic, Darius Bakhtiar still chafes under the harsh yoke of Sharia law. He is an alcoholic in a country where intoxication is punishable by whipping, and a homicide detective in a society that sees death as an opportunity for martyrdom. In Teheran, a young woman is found murdered, but her makeup and scanty clothing...
3) Floater
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English
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A sheriff combs the Everglades for the charming sociopath who killed his ex-wife. Years after their marriage collapses, Buck White splurges on Irene's coffin. She was found floating in a cypress swamp behind a Seminole village, her beauty marred by sadistic violence, a guitar string buried so deep in her neck that it takes two autopsies to dig it out. Sheriff White knows neither the time nor place of death, but the savaged corpse tells him to look...
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In the grimy hell of Brighton Beach, a stripper needs smarts to survive. In the waning years of the Soviet Union, only the very young or very old are allowed to immigrate to the United States. Places like Brooklyn's Brighton Beach, or, as residents call it, 'Little Odessa', are flooded with teenage strivers eager to shake their accents and take what America has to offer. Kate Piro is as ambitious as they come, but her pluck only gets her as far as...
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English
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She's young, headstrong, alone, and she hitched a ride with a killer. Becky should know better than to hitchhike, but there's no other way to get home. She's waiting by the highway when a skinny Vermont hick named Paul Conklin offers her a ride. He's absent-minded and a little bit awkward, but comes off as harmless-until it's too late. They're deep in the woods when he rapes her, too far from town for anyone to hear her scream as he wraps his belt...
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Publisher
Hard Case Crime/Titan Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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"Newspaperman Adam Jordan's byline ran above two big articles in the early editions. One of them got him fired. The other landed him in a job writing true crime pieces for Real detective magazine. The story he's working on now-- a beauty queen found strangled on an Atlantic City beach-- is one that boardwalk power brokers would rather see covered up than covered. And if Adam keeps digging, he may find that he's digging his own grave." -- [P. 4] of...