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List created by Carol K. (G-Mom) on Jan 6, 2015
List Votes: 1 Books: 50 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 0 List Type: Open
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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Though Not Dead (Kate Shugak, Bk 18) by Dana Stabenow
Kate and the rest of the Park rats are stunned by the death of Old Sam, Kate’s eighty-seven-year-old uncle and foster father. In his will, he leaves almost everything to Kate, including a homestead deep in gold mining country that no one knew he had and a letter that reads simply,...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Potsdam Station (John Russell, Bk 4) by David Downing
In April 1945, Hitler's Reich is on the verge of extinction. Assaulted by Allied bombs and Soviet shells, ruled by Nazis with nothing to lose, Berlin has become the most dangerous place on earth.  John Russell's son Paul is stationed on the Eastern Front with the German Army,...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Poison Flower (Jane Whitefield, Bk 7) by Thomas Perry
Poison Flower, the seventh novel in Thomas Perry's celebrated Jane Whitefield series, opens as Jane spirits James Shelby, a man unjustly convicted of his wife's murder, out of the heavily guarded criminal court building in downtown Los Angeles. But the price of Shelby's freedom is...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
An Unwilling Accomplice (Bess Crawford, Bk 6) by Charles Todd
World War I Battlefield nurse Bess Crawford’s career is in jeopardy when a murder is committed on her watch, in this absorbing and atmospheric historical mystery from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd.  Home on leave, Bess Crawford is asked to accompany a...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
The Potter's Field (Inspector Montalbano, Bk 13) by Andrea Camilleri
An unidentified corpse is found near Vigàta, a town known for its soil rich with potter's clay. Meanwhile, a woman reports the disappearance of her husband, a Colombian man with Sicilian origins who turns out to be related to a local mobster. Then Inspector Montalbano remembers the...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Hideout (Richard Christie, Bk 5) by Kathleen George
This novel in Kathleen George's stunning Pittsburgh-set police procedural series begins when a young mother dies in a hit-and-run accident caused by two young delinquent brothers. Jack and Ryan Rutter flee to Sugar Lake, the summer community where they vacationed as children. As Detective...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus, Bk 1) by Ian Rankin
Once John Rebus was a Para, served in the elite SAS. Now he's an Edinburgh policeman who spends time evading his memories and missing promotion opportunities. Then there is the small matter of the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls and a third missing. Detective Sergeant John...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
A Night Too Dark (Kate Shugak, Bk 18) by Dana Stabenow
In Alaska, somebody disappears every day. Hunters who head into the wilderness… Fishermen who brave the great rivers…Tourists who attempt to do both. In Aleut detective Kate Shugak’s Park, people have been falling off the grid quite a bit lately. And as she and state trooper...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
The Fire Dance (Inspector Huss, Bk 6) (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by Helene Tursten &...
The murder of a young ballerina named Sophie, apparently an arson victim, sets off shrill alarm bells for Detective Inspector Irene Huss, who remembers the matching details of an unsolved case from fifteen years earlier, when Irene had only just started in the police force. The stepfather of...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Sleep While I Sing (Karl Alberg, Bk 2) by L. R. Wright
Nobody knew who she was, this attractive blonde propped up against a tree in the rain. Nobody knew where she was going on this secluded stretch of the Sunshine Coast highway of British Columbia. But had someone considerately dropped her off here with her hair combed, her face clean, and her...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
The Bat (Harry Hole, Bk 1) by Jo Nesbo & Don Bartlett (Translator)
Inspector Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney to observe a murder case.  Harry is free to offer assistance, but he has firm instructions to stay out of trouble. The victim is a twenty-three-year-old Norwegian woman, a minor celebrity back home. Never one to sit on the...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Death in the Truffle Wood (Commissaire Laviolette, Bk 1) by Pierre Magnan
Long a renowned crime writer in France, Pierre Magnan has won numerous prizes and has a huge popular following in his native country. Now, with this mouthwatering series debut, Magnan introduces the celebrated Commissaire Laviolette to U.S. readers. First published in 1978, this delightful...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
A Plague of Secrets (Dismas Hardy, Bk 13) by John Lescroart
Dismas Hardy, Abe Glitsky, and Wyatt Hunt return in a compelling and timely legal thriller filled with blackmail, political intrigue, and multiple murder. The first victim is Dylan Vogler, a charming ex-convict who manages the Bay Beans West coffee shop in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Be Careful What You Wish For (Clifton Chronicles, Bk 4) (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by Je...
More in the epic tale of Harry Clifton's life.  The Clifton and Barrington families march forward into the sixties, in this epic tale of love, revenge, ambition and betrayal.  Sebastian is dead.  Harry, Sebastian's father, rushes to the hospital only to discover... When...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Death Without Company (Walt Longmire, Bk 2) by Craig Johnson
Sheriff Walt Longmire finds unspeakable viciousness in Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains. When Mari Baroja is found poisoned at the Durant Home for Assisted Living, Sheriff Longmire is drawn into an investigation that reaches fifty years into the mysterious woman's dramatic Basque past....  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
A Spy by Nature (Alec Milius, Bk 1) by Charles Cumming
Alec Milius, a recent graduate of the London School of Economics, is young, smart, and a bit of a slacker, stuck in a shady job and suffering from a lack of direction.  So, when an old family friend offers to put him up for a job in British Intelligence, Alec begins the...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Black List (Scot Harvath, Bk 11) by Brad Thor
Somewhere ... deep inside the United States government is a closely guarded list. Once your name is on the list, it doesn’t come off ... until you’re dead. Someone ... has just added counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath’s name. Somehow ... Harvath must evade assassination...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Detective Inspector Huss (Inspector Huss, Bk 1) by Helene Tursten & Steven T. Mur...
Inspector Irene Huss, stationed in Göteborg, is called through the rain-drenched wintry streets to the scene of an apparent suicide. The dead man landed on the sidewalk in front of his luxurious duplex apartment. He was a wealthy financier connected, through an old-boys' network, with...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
The Paper Moon (Inspector Montalbano, Bk 9) by Andrea Camilleri
Salvo Montalbano is a police inspector in Sicily who is both cynical about the world and a lover of its pleasures. According to a review by Bill Ott, "He teeters on the emotional seesaw of those extremes in his latest adventure, which concerns the murder of a pharmaceutical salesman, who is...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
The Kill Room (Lincoln Rhyme, Bk 10) by Jeffery Deaver
It was a "million-dollar bullet," a sniper shot delivered from over a mile away. Its victim was no ordinary mark: he was a United States citizen, targeted by the United States government, and assassinated in the Bahamas. The nation's most renowned investigator and forensics expert,...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
A Foreign Country (Thomas Kell, Bk 1) by Charles Cumming
On the vacation of a lifetime in Egypt, an elderly French couple is brutally murdered. Then, days later, on the streets of Paris, a young French accountant is kidnapped. When Amelia Levene, who in six weeks is due to take over as the first female Chief of MI6, disappears without a trace while in...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Force of Nature (Joe Pickett, Bk 12) by C. J. Box
In 1995, Nate Romanowski was in a Special Forces unit abroad when his commander, John Nemecek, did something terrible. Now the high-ranking government official and cold-blooded sociopath is determined to eliminate anyone who knows about it -- like Nate, who’s hidden himself away in...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
The Cezanne Chase (Inspector Jack Oxby, Bk 2) by Thomas Swan
New Scotland Yard's art crime detective tackles the mystery behind the destruction of valuable Cézanne paintings, crisscrossing from St. Petersburg, New York City, London, Provence, Boston, and Paris. When Inspector Jack Oxby links the shocking defacing of two of the 26 extant...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Sun and Shadow (Erik Winter, Bk 3) by Ake Edwardson & Laurie Thompson (Translator...
With Sun and Shadow, Edwardson introduces readers to detective Erik Winter, the youngest chief inspector in Sweden, who wears sharp suits, cooks gourmet meals, has a penchant for jazz, and is about to become a father. He's also moody and intuitive, his mind inhabiting the crimes...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Prized Possessions (Karl Alberg, Bk 5) by L. R. Wright
RCMP Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg is at a crossroads. Coping with the death of his father and his own inexorable slide into middle age, he must make a decision about his relationship with his lover of eight years, Cassandra Mitchell.  Restless and in desperate need of distraction, Alberg...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Savage Run (Joe Pickett, Bk 2) by C. J. Box
Game warden Joe Pickett looks into the bizarre death of an environmental activist...and what he finds is bigger and far more sinister than anything he imagined... When a massive explosion occurs deep within the forests of Twelve Sleep County and a colorful environmental activist appears to...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Death by Darjeeling (Tea Shop, Bk 1) by Laura Childs
Meet Theodosia Browning, owner of Charleston's beloved Indigo Tea Shop.  Patrons love her blend of delicious tea tastings and southern hospitality.  And Theo enjoys the full-bodied flavor of a town steeped in history -- and mystery... It's tea for two hundred or so at the...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
The Snack Thief (Salvo Montalbano, Bk 3) by Andrea Camilleri & Stephen Satarelli ...
Never has Inspector Montalbano's character--a unique end of humor, cynicism, compassion, earthiness, and love of good food--been more compelling an in The Snack Thief. When an elderly man is man stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Mightier than the Sword (Clifton Chronicles, Bk 5) by Jeffrey Archer
Bestselling novelist Harry Clifton's on a mission to free a fellow author who's imprisoned in Siberia-even if doing so puts Harry's own life, and life's work, in danger. Meanwhile, his wife Emma, chairman of Barrington Shipping, is facing the repercussions of an IRA bombing on...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
The Marseille Caper (Sam Levitt) by Peter Mayle
Lovable rogue and sleuth extraordinaire Sam Levitt is back in another beguiling, as-only-Peter-Mayle-can-write-it romp through the south of France. When Sam's last adventure in France ended, he thought it'd be a while before he went back, especially with the charms of Elena Morales to keep him...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Death Angels (Erik Winter, Bk 4) by Ake Edwardson
Erik Winter joins forces with his British counterparts after a series of brutal murders of young men in London and his own city of Gothenburg. The killer, dubbed Hitchcock, appears to have filmed the butchery, as evidenced by traces of a tripod stand in the victims' blood. The trail...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Winterkill (Joe Pickett, Bk 3) by C. J. Box
Joe Pickett's pursuit of a killer through the rugged mountains of Wyoming takes a horrifying turn when his beloved foster daughter is kidnapped. Now it's personal. It's an hour away from darkness, a bitter winter storm is raging, and Joe is deep in the forest edging Battle Mountain, a shotgun...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
The Edge of Nowhere by Elizabeth George
The first young adult book by a #1 New York Times bestselling author! Whidbey Island may be only a ferry ride from Seattle, but it's a world apart. When Becca King arrives there, she doesn't suspect the island will become her home for the next four years. Put at risk by her ability to hear...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Ties That Bind (Amanda Jaffe, Bk 2) by Phillip Margolin
Amanda Jaffe was a rising star of Portland's legal community, until a run-in with a psychopath left her scared and craving anonymity. But her new case promises to keep her in the spotlight -- and in danger. Defending the accused murderer of a U.S. senator will place her and those she loves...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Shades of Earl Grey (Tea Shop, Bk 3) by Laura Childs
Theo is mingling with the cream of Charleston society at the engagement soirée of the season. But as they eagerly await the dazzling young couple's arrival, the groom meets with a freak accident. The exquisite wedding ring -- a family heirloom from the crown of Marie Antoinette -- is...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Silken Prey (Lucas Davenport, Bk 23) by John Sandford
'All hell has broken loose in the capital.  An influential state senator has been caught with something very, very nasty on his office computer.  The governor can't believe it—the senator's way too smart for that, even if he is from the other party. ...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
The Redeemer (Harry Hole, Bk 6) by Jo Nesbo & Don Bartlett (Translator)
Christmas shoppers stop to hear a Salvation Army concert on a crowded Oslo street. A gunshot cuts through the music and the bitter cold: one of the singers falls dead, shot in the head at point-blank range. Harry Hole—the Oslo Police Department’s best investigator and worst civil...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Courting Trouble SP by Lisa Scottoline
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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Blue Heaven by C.J. Box
A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother go on the run in the woods of North Idaho, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder---four men who know exactly who William and Annie are, and who know exactly where their desperate mother is waiting for news of her children?s fate....  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Chilled to the Bone by Quentin Bates
When a shipowner is found dead, tied to a bed in one of Reykjavik's nicest hotels, sergeant Gunnhildur Gisladottir of the city police force sees no evidence of foul play but still suspects things are not as cut and dried as they seem. As she investigates the shipowner's untimely?and...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Trophy Hunt (Joe Pickett, Bk 4) by C. J. Box
It's an idyllic late summer day in Saddlestring, Wyoming, and game warden Joe Pickett is fly-fishing with his two daughters when he stumbles upon the mutilated body of a moose. Whatever-or whoever-attacked the animal was ruthless: Half the animal's face has been sliced away, the skin...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Storm Front (Virgil Flowers, Bk 7) by John Sandford
In Israel, a man clutching a backpack searches desperately for a boat. In Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a message from Lucas Davenport: You’re about to get a visitor. It’s an Israeli cop, and she’s tailing a man who’s smuggled out an extraordinary relic -- a copper...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
The Bad Quarto: An Imogen Quy Mystery by Unknown Author
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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Divine Justice (Camel Club, Bk 4) by David Baldacci
Known by his alias, 'Oliver Stone', John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who hid the truth of Stone's past and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced. But Stone's freedom has come at a steep price; the assassinations he...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
A Guilty Thing Surprised (Chief Inspector Wexford, Bk 5) by Ruth Rendell
Elizabeth Nightingale found peace and tranquility on her nightly walks through the rich, dense forests surrounding Myfleet Manor. But the peace she treasured was shattered one night when she found death waiting in the woods. Chief Inspector Wexford and his colleague Inspector Burden find a most...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Police (Harry Hole, Bk 10) by Jo Nesbo & Don Bartlett (Translator)
The police urgently need Harry Hole... A killer is stalking Oslo's streets. Police officers are being slain at the scenes of crimes they once investigated but failed to solve. The murders are brutal, the media reaction hysterical.   But this time, Harry can't help... For years,...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Zero Day (John Puller, Bk 1) by David Baldacci
John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigative Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison. Puller has an indomitable spirit and an...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Out of Range (Joe Pickett, Bk 5) by C. J. Box
Joe Pickett is attempting to enjoy -- all right, survive -- his mother-in-law's wedding to a local big-shot rancher when he receives some disturbing news: Will Jensen,a fellow Wyoming game warden and a good friend, has killed himself. And Joe's been picked to temporarily run Jensen's...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Turnstone (Faraday and Winter, Bk 1) by Graham Hurley
Portsmouth is a city on the ropes, a poor, dirty but spirited city, with a soaring crime rate. And it is home for DI Joe Faraday. Faraday has made it in the CID through diligence, an unswerving commitment to principle and an uncanny knack for gauging character. Slow to make friends, a widower...  more

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Carol K. (G-Mom)
Wrongful Death by Lynda La Plante
London's Detective Chief Inspector Anna Travis must decide where her loyalties lie in this masterful tale of suspense from the award-winning, international bestselling author of the Prime Suspect series--who joins Sophie Hannah, Ruth Rendell, Kate Atkinson, and Ian Rankin as one of Britain's...  more

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