Ace Atkins
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Series
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English
Description
"Iconic, tough-but-tender Boston PI Spenser delves into the black market art scene to investigate a decades-long unsolved crime of dangerous proportions. The heist was legendary, still talked about twenty years after the priceless paintings disappeared from one of Boston's premier art museums. Most thought the art was lost forever, buried deep, sold off overseas, or, worse, destroyed as incriminating evidence. But when paint chips from the most valuable...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 46
Language
English
Description
Boston PI Spenser and right hand Hawk follow a con man's trail of smoke and mirrors in the latest entry of the iconic crime series. After conning everyone from the cable news shows to the local cops, it looks like the grifter's latest double cross may be his last. Connie Kelly thought she'd found her perfect man on an online dating site. He was silver-haired and handsome, with a mysterious background working for the C.I.A. She fell so hard for M....
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Series
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English
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Description
Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favor. Until now. A heavy-handed developer is trying to buy up Henry's condo on Revere Beach and sends thugs to move the process along. Soon Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, find a trail leading to a mysterious and beautiful woman, a megalomaniacal Las Vegas kingpin, and plans to turn to a chunk of land north of Boston...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 49
Language
English
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Description
"When his apprentice Mattie's childhood friend from the South Boston housing projects is murdered, Spenser traces the victim's demise to an international sex-trafficking ring that has been operating with impunity under the protection of a well-connected billionaire"--
25) The redeemers
Author
Series
Quinn Colson novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
"One of the best crime writers at work today."--Michael Connelly The electrifying new novel in New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins's acclaimed series about the real Deep South. He is only in his early thirties, but now Quinn Colson is jobless--voted out of office as sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, thanks to the machinations of county kingpin Johnny Stagg. He has offers, in bigger and better places, but before he goes, he's got one...
26) The innocents
Author
Series
Quinn Colson novels volume 6
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
367 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"She was just seventeen, a high school dropout named Milly Jones, found walking down the middle of the highway, engulfed in flames. Even in a tough Mississippi county like Tibbehah, it shatters the community, and it is up to Sheriff Quinn Colson, back on the job after a year away, and his deputy Lillie Virgil, to investigate what happened and why. Before long, however, accusations start to fly, national media and federal authorities descend, and what...
27) The forsaken
Author
Series
Quinn Colson novels volume 4
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary new novel in New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins' acclaimed series about the real Deep South-"a joy ride into the heart of darkness" (The Washington Post). Thirty-six years ago, a nameless black man wandered into Jericho, Mississippi, with nothing but the clothes on his back and a pair of paratrooper boots. Less than two days later, he was accused of rape and murder, hunted down by a self-appointed posse, and lynched. Now...
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Series
Spenser novels volume 48
Language
English
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Description
Gabby Leggett left her Boston family with dreams of making it big as a model/actress in Hollywood. Two years later, she disappears from her apartment. Her family, former boyfriend, friends--and the police--have no idea where she is and no leads. Leggett's mother hires Spenser to find her, with help of his former apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, now an L.A. private eye. Spenser barely has time to unpack before the trail leads to a powerful movie studio...
29) The lost ones
Author
Series
Quinn Colson novels volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Newly-elected Tibbehah County sheriff Quinn Colson investigates an old friend's gun sales when stolen military rifles are found in the possession of a Mexican drug gang, a case that is complicated by his discovery of a black market baby adoption ring.
Author
Series
Nick Travers mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Nick Travers mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
226 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Quinn Colson novels volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Physical Desc
358 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
33) The fallen
Author
Series
Quinn Colson novels volume 7
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
358 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A classic southern tale of backroom deals, tainted honor, dysfunctional family, high-stakes greed--and everyday heroism--from the New York Times-bestselling author. Mississippi sheriff Quinn Colson had to admit he admired the bank robbers. A new bank was hit almost every week, and the robbers rushed in and out with such skill and precision it reminded him of raids he'd led back in Afghanistan and Iraq when he was an army ranger. In fact, it reminded...
34) The ranger
Author
Series
Quinn Colson novels volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Returning to what has become his violently corrupt hometown in Mississippi after a tour in Afghanistan, Army Ranger Quinn Colson investigates his uncle's alleged suicide and uncovers shocking personal secrets.
35) The revelators
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Series
Quinn Colson novels volume 10
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shot up and left for dead, Sheriff Quinn Colson has revenge on his mind. With the help of his new wife Maggie, rehabilitation, and sheer force of will, he's walking again, eager to resume his work as a southern lawman and track down those responsible for his attempted murder. But someone is standing in his way: an interim sheriff, appointed by the newly elected Governor Vardaman, the man who Quinn knows ordered his murder. Vardaman sits at the top...
36) White shadow
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Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
370 p. : ill., col. map ; 24cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Nick Travers mysteries volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2002].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nick Travers is looking for Clyde James, a top-notch soul singer who disappeared after his wife was murdered. Finding Clyde should be easy enough. But as he searches, Nick butts heads with the Dixie Mafia and a zealous neo-Confederacy movement.
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Publisher
BenBella Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
When Robert B. Parker passed in early 2010, the world lost two great men: Parker himself, iconic American crime writer whose books have sold more than 6 million copies worldwide, and his best-known creation, Spenser. Parker's Spenser series not only influenced the work of countless of today's writers, but is also credited with reviving and forever changing the genre.
In Pursuit of Spenser offers a look at Parker and to Spenser through the eyes...
In Pursuit of Spenser offers a look at Parker and to Spenser through the eyes...
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
viii, 348 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Throughout the annals of fiction, there have been many celebrated detective teams: Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. Nick and Nora Charles. Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings. Thomas and Charlotte Pitt. The latter were the creation of beloved mystery writer Anne Perry, the editor of Odd Partners. With this collection, Perry has enlisted some of today's best mystery writers to craft all-new stories about unlikely couples who join forces--sometimes unwillingly--to...