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The Friends of Eddie Coyle George V. Higgins · 1972 · ★ 4.0 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Eddie Coyle is a small-time punk with a big-time problem - who to sell out to avoid being sent up again. Eddie works for Jimmy Scalisi, supplying him with guns for a couple of bank jobs. But a cop named Foley is onto Eddie, and he's leaning on him to finger Scalisi, a gang leader with a lot to hide. And then there's Dillon, a full-time bartender and a part-time contract killer pretending to be… Shares: Massachusetts, Boston

Darkness, Take My Hand Dennis Lehane · 1996 · ★ 4.4 · 511p · ≈ 17h · Moderate The master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class Boston in this terrifying tale of darkness and redemption. Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro's latest client is a prominent Boston psychiatrist running scared from a vengeful Irish mob. The private investigators know something about cold-blooded retribution. Born and bred on the mean streets… Shares: Massachusetts, Boston, Police, Mystery

Northern Lights Nora Roberts · 2004 · ★ 4.1 · 562p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Lunacy, Alaska, was Nate Burke’s last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he’d watched his partner die on the street—and the guilt still haunts him. With nowhere else to go, he accepts the job as Chief of Police in this tiny, remote Alaskan town. But just as he wonders whether this has been all a big mistake, an unexpected kiss on New Year’s Eve under the brilliant Northern Lights of the Alaska sky lifts… Shares: Policía, Novela, Police

The Judas Goat Robert B. Parker · 1978 · 181p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Private eye Spenser returns to take on the terrorists who killed his client's wife and daughters in a London bombing, chasing them across Europe to the Montreal Olympics and a devastating climax. Shares: Massachusetts, Boston

God Save the Child Robert B. Parker · 1974 · ★ 4.0 · 185p · ≈ 6h · Moderate New York Times bestselling author of the Spenser series of crime thrillers - Book 2 in the series -Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he's run away -- until the comic strip ransom note arrives.  It doesn't take Spenser long to get the picture -- an affluent family seething with rage,… Shares: Massachusetts, Boston

A Long Shadow Charles Todd · 2006 · ★ 4.5 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate It's New Year's Eve, 1919. Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge has accompanied his sister to the home of mutual friends for dinner but gets a call from the office and has to leave. On the steps outside, he sees a brass cartridge casing, like countless others he's seen during the war. But this one has an engraving in the metal. Curious, he pockets it.Soon after, Rutledge is on the southern coast… Shares: Great Britain, Police

The Blood Royal Barbara Cleverly · 2011 · ★ 4.0 · 311p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A story of murder, mystery and espionage (with a dash of romance) set in London in the long, hot summer of 1922, against the backdrop the Romanov murders and the disappearance of the Tsar's fortune.A beautiful and traumatized young Russian woman turns herself in at the British consulate in Russia, begging to be sent to relatives in England and rescued from the mysterious tragedies of her past.… Shares: Great Britain, Police

Black and Blue Ian Rankin · 1997 · ★ 4.2 · 520p · ≈ 17h · Moderate John Biblia aterrorizó a Glasgow en los años 60 y 70, cuando asesinó a tres mujeres. asesinatos por los cuales nunca pudieron detenerlo. Ahora, Johnny Biblia, como lo han bautizado los medios de comunicación, parece matar para apropiarse de la gloria del legendario asesino. Son cuatro los casos que el inspector, John Rebus, relaciona y que aparentemente conducen al depravado asesino. Al mismo… Shares: Policía, Police, Mystery

The Widening Gyre Robert B. Parker · 1983 · ★ 4.0 · 183p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The adoring wife of a senatorial candidate has a smile as sweet as candy and dots her "i's" with little hearts. A blond beauty, she is the perfect mate for an ambitious politician, but she has a little problem with sex and drugs -- a problem someone has managed to put on videotape. The big boys figure a little blackmail will put her husband out of the race. Until Spenser hops on the candidate's… Shares: Massachusetts, Boston, Mystery

Resurrection Men Double Sided A2 Poster Ian Rankin · 2001 · ★ 4.0 · 440p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Sent to a rehabilitation school after a serious mistake, Inspector John Rebus discovers that among his fellow "resurrection men" are a group of classmates plotting a drug heist and joins forces with his protTgT, Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke to investigate ties to an art dealer's murder, a crime that could lead to scandal and danger at the highest level of law enforcement. 50,000 first… Shares: Police, Thriller, Mystery

A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant #2) Josephine Tey · 1936 · ★ 3.9 · 197p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A woman's body is found on the English seacoast, and twisted in her hair is an article screaming murder. For Inspector Alan Grant, the case becomes a nightmare, as too many clues and too many motives arise. (cc. Edmonton Public Library website.) Shares: Great Britain, Police, Mystery

The Angel of Terror Edgar Wallace · 1923 · ★ 3.6 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The Angel of Terror aka The Destroying Angel Jack Glover of Rennet, Glover and Simpson does not believe his cousin Meredith killed Bulford. Meredith's father was an eccentric and unless Meredith is married by the age of thirty his sister inherits everything. She is dead and Meredith, now in prison, is thirty next Monday. Meanwhile Lydia Beale is struggling to pay her dead father's creditors. When… Shares: Crime, Thriller, Mystery

Sweet Revenge Nora Roberts · 1988 · ★ 4.1 · 430p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Kurzbeschreibung Gefährliche Verstrickung (Sweet Revenge) - Nora Roberts Die Prinzessin Adrianne scheint ein glückliches und ausgefülltes Leben zu führen. Die ebenso schöne wie elegante Frau verbringt ihre Tage damit, Wohltätigkeitsgesellschaften zu unterstützen, nachts eilt sie von einer glamourösen Gala zur nächsten. Doch die Wirklichkeit sieht anders aus. Seit zehn Jahren lebt Adrianne nur… Shares: Policía, Police, Thriller, Mystery

Sudden Mischief Robert B. Parker · 1998 · 274p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Brad Sterling - former Harvard football player, ne'er-dowell, and Susan Silverman's long-out-of-touch ex-husband - is, by all appearances, a successful businessman. But when he is charged with sexual harassment in the course of running a vast fund-raiser called Galapalooza, he turns to Susan for help. Though Brad denies the charge, he's desperate, behind in alimony and child support to other… Shares: Massachusetts, Boston

Destination James Ellroy · 1999 · ★ 3.3 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Collection of crime stories, some fiction, some nonfiction. Shares: Criminal investigation, Novela, Police, Crime

A Drink Before the War Dennis Lehane · 1994 · ★ 4.1 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Taking on a seemingly simple assignment to pinpoint the whereabouts of a cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential State House documents, private investigators Patrick Mckenzie and Angela Gennaro uncover a ring of extortions, assassination, and child prostitution. Shares: Massachusetts, Boston, Mystery

Dark Guardian Christine Feehan · 2002 · ★ 4.5 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Jaxon Montgomery is a woman hunted. Trained by the Special Forces, honed by a traumatic childhood, she is a policewoman with an undisputed reputation. She meets her match when she is set up to be murdered by an enemy. Hunted on all sides, she can only turn to the mysterious stranger who seems more dangerous than any other she has ever known. He ran with the wolves… Materialized from the mists…… Shares: Policía, Novela

Looking for Rachel Wallace Robert B. Parker · 1980 · ★ 4.5 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Moderate When Spenser accepts a job as a "bodyguard" for a beautiful young woman, he gets in way over his head. Shares: Massachusetts, Boston, Mystery

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