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1) Oregon Hill
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Willie Black mysteries volume 1
Language
English
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Willie Black is a reporter in Richmond, Va. Pugnacious and defiant, Black was once a star covering politics, and then he was captured by the bottle, messed up one too many times and found himself demoted to the nighttime police beat. He has three ex-wives, a daughter who tolerates him and bean-counter bosses cutting costs by laying off reporters. Then Willie happens to catch a late-night report about a body in a river, which is determined to be
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 11
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English
Description
All the familiar faces--friend and foe--are here: police captain Marino, Kay's niece Lucy, the so-called Werewolf murderer, and (in memoriam) Kay's lover Benton Wesley and his killer, Carrie Grethen. Kay, who nearly killed the Werewolf in self-defense as Black Notice came to a close, now finds herself the target of a corrupt police investigation that will dredge her darkest secrets from the deepest corners of her past.
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English
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Yarni Taylor is a successful corporate attorney who wants nothing more than her husband, Des, to renounce his hustlin' ways and commit to his life as a pastor, especially after someone tries to kill him. But Des isn't ready to abandon his old habits just yet. He has to find out who is behind the murder attempt, and he wonders if the brazen robbery that took place during one of his church services is related in any way. But before he or Yarni can regain...
7) The bottom
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Series
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Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Richmond is in a panic. For the fourth time in eighteen months, a young girl or woman has been brutalized and murdered. This time, the body of a fourteen-year-old is found in Richmond's Shockoe Bottom train station. On her ankle is the same perversely cartoonish tattoo that has led the cops and newspapers to dub the perpetrator the Tweety Bird killer.
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Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
On an early spring morning in Richmond, Virginia, in the year 1885, a young pregnant woman is found floating in the city reservoir. It appears that she has committed suicide, but there are curious clues at the scene that suggest foul play. As the identity of the woman, Lillie, is revealed, her dark family history comes to light. Soon the investigation focuses on her tumultuous affair with her cousin, Tommie Cluverius.--From book flap.
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Series
Raleigh Harmon novels volume 1
Publisher
Fleming H. Revell
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
11) Baby momma drama
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Publisher
Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
"Sensible Jasmine is working, saving, and waiting Mr. Right. In smooth-talking attorney Derrick, she thinks she's found him. But it doesn't take long for Jasmine's shrewd granny Big Momma to expose her man as nothing more as a drug-dealing hustler. Still, Jasmine chooses to remain faithful while Derrick doing time. That is, until she finds him in a clinch on visiting day with his baby's momma, Wendy..." --Cover, p. 4.
Author
Series
Raleigh Harmon novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Forensic geologist Raleigh Harmon must go undercover in a drug trafficking case, relying on her sharpest skills--and the faith that is slowly returning to her--to unravel mysteries in her hometown.
13) Isle of Dogs
Author
Series
Andy Brazil novels volume 3
Language
English
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Description
With an eye for the absurd & with dead-accurate aim on her targets, #1 NYT bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers Isle Of Dogs, a darkly comic portrait of politically driven law enforcement run amok. Chaos breaks loose when the governor of Virginia orders that speed traps be painted on all highways, warning that speeders will be caught by monitoring aircraft flying overhead. But the eccentric Isle of Tangier in the Chesapeake Bay, responds...
Author
Series
Willie Black mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
15) Unthinkable
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Nate Lovejoy is a self-proclaimed nobody, a stay-at-home dad who doesn't believe he's important to anyone but his wife and their two daughters. So it's a shock when members of a powerful secret society kidnap and spirit Nate away to a mansion at the behest of their leader, Vanslow DeGange, who claims to know the future. He's foreseen that a billion people could die--unless Nate acts. It seems improbable, especially given what DeGange says will set...
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 4
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English
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Trying to solve the murder of a thirteen-year-old boy, Dr. Kay Scarpetta and police lieutenant Pete Marino race against time when Kay is implicated in a second brutal killing.
17) Southern cross
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English
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A woman troubleshooter is dispatched to Richmond, Virginia, to clean up the city's scandal-ridden police. For Judy Hammer, chief of police in Charlotte, North Carolina, the assignment turns out to be the most difficult of her career.
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English
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Richmond, Virginia 1811. It's the height of the winter social season. The General Assembly is in session, and many of Virginia's gentleman planters, along with their wives and children, have made the long and arduous journey to the capital in hopes of whiling away the darkest days of the year. At the city's only theater, the Charleston-based Placide & Green Company puts on two plays a night to meet the demand of a populace that's done looking for...
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Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
2011, c1991
Language
English
Description
Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner and sleuth Dr. Kay Scarpetta must employ all the investigative technology at her disposal in a hunt for the brutal murderer of a writer who had been involved in a bizarre relationship.
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