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In the pale grey light of a
chilly February, Aberdeen is not at its best…
There's a rapist prowling the city's cold granite streets,
leaving a string of tortured women behind. But while DS
Logan McRae's girlfriend is out acting as bait, he's dealing
with the blood-drenched body of an unidentified male, dumped
outside Accident and Emergency. |
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On a cold October night, five
people gather in a run-down motel on the Jersey shore and
begin preparations to break into the Paragon Hotel. Built in
the glory days of Asbury Park by a reclusive millionaire,
the magnificent structure - which foreshadowed the beauties
of art deco architecture - is now boarded up and marked for
demolition. The five people are "creepers," the slang term
for urban explorers: city archeologists with a passion for
investigating abandoned buildings and their dying secrets.
On this evening, they are joined by a reporter who wants to
profile them - anonymously, as this is highly illegal
activity - for a New York Times article. |
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Reece Gilmore has come a long
way to see the stunning view below her. As the sole survivor
of a brutal crime back East, she has been on the run,
desperately fighting the nightmares and panic attacks that
haunt her. |
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In an elegant palazzo on the
Grand Canal, an American ambassador's tryst turns deadly. In
the seamy underbelly of London, a pub-crawling killer is on
the loose. And in a storybook chapel nestled in the
Cotswolds, a marriage made in heaven turns to hell on earth.
Isolated incidents? Or links in a chain of events hurtling
towards catastrophe? So begins Assassin, the tour de force
thriller that heralds the return of every terrorist's worst
nightmare, Alex Hawke.
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Before he became a novelist,
Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the
detectives who worked the homicide beat, In these vivid,
hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the listener past the
yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the
victims, their families and friends—and, of course, the
killers—to tell the real stories of murder and its
aftermath. |
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Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing is
the story of Conover's rookie year as a guard at Sing Sing.
It is a nerve-jangling account of his passage into the
storied prison and the culture of its guards - both
fresh-faced "newjacks" like Conover and brutally hardened
veterans. As he struggles to be a good officer, Conover
angers inmates, dodges blows, works to balance decency with
toughness, and participates in prison rituals - strip
frisks, cell searches, cell "extractions" - that exact a
toll on inmates and officers alike.
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Little Emily Steiner leaves a
church meeting late one afternoon and strolls home along a
lakeside path; a week later, her nude body is discovered
bound in blaze-orange duct tape. Called in by the North
Carolina authorities, forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta
recognizes similarities to the gruesome work of a serial
killer who has long eluded the F.B.I. |
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