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Bone Canyon

Lee Goldberg

"The dead were rising in the fire-blackened Santa Monica Mountains and Eve Ronin, the youngest homicide detective in the history of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, was on her way to examine one of them."


The Butterfly House

Katrine Engberg

"Frederik wiped the water off his forehead and put the cap back on his head."


Spin

Patricia Cornwell

"The furnishings are the same as I remember, cheap pinewood painted white."


The Russian Pink

Matthew Hart

"The diamond fleet tugged and jingled at its moorings in the anchorage."


Open House

Katie Sise

"Haley McCullough stared down at Susie’s dead body."


Serpentine

Jonathan Kellerman

"friend, a seasoned homicide detective, is a master of discontent."


Godspeed

Nickolas Butler

"This was the house that would change their fortunes."


Snowdrift

Helene Tursten

"The strong wind had packed the snow into solid drifts, and at any moment a swirl of fine snow, known as 'snow smoke,' could hide the way ahead completely."


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Catherine Coulter

"A full moon cast pale shadows over the two men digging and flinging dirt out of a hole, their movements rhythmic."


Tom Clancy’s
Shadow of the Dragon

Marc Cameron

"The two men in the second-story window across the street from Huludao Smile Swimwear Ltd’s tiny office made no attempt to hide."



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