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Alex Cross volume 10
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When the world's largest cities are seized by terrorists who threaten to set off deadly bombs unless their demands are met, Alex Cross heads a joint investigation by the FBI, CIA, and Interpol to outmaneuver two vicious criminals known as the Weasel and the Wolf. By the author of The Big Bad Wolf.
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Alex Cross volume 1
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600L
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It begins with the double kidnapping of the daughter of a famous Hollywood actress and the young son of the Secretary of the treasury. Gary Soneji is a murderous serial kindapper who wants to commit the crime of the century. Alex Cross is the brilliant homicide detective pitted against him. And Jezzie Flanagan is the female supervisor of the Secret Service who completes one of the most unusual suspence triangles in any thriller you have ever read....
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Alex Cross volume 3
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A relentless roller coaster of heart-pounding suspense and jolting plot twists, Jack and Jill proves that no one can write a more compelling thriller than James Patterson, the master of the nonstop nightmare. Join Alex Cross in a heart-stopping thrill ride as he pieces together the clues of two gruesome murders.
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Alex Cross volume 2
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Two killers compete with each other for who can commit the most murders. One lives in Los Angeles and specializes in dismembering his victims, the other operates in the Carolinas, his specialty being college girls. By the author of Along Came a Spider.
6) Double cross
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Alex Cross volume 13
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Rejoining the police force in the wake of a series of elaborate murders in Washington, D.C., detective Alex Cross finds himself working to outmaneuver the killer's penchant for inducing hysteria with increasingly sensational killings.
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Alex Cross volume 6
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Detective Alex Cross's investigation of a series of bank robberies in Washington, D.C. which have led to the deaths of bank employees and their family members, puts him on a collision course with the mysterious criminal known as "The Mastermind."
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When his passionate romance with nurse Jocelyn Banks is cut short by her kidnapping and brutal murder, young psychologist Jeremy Carrier is left emotionally devastated, haunted by his lover's grisly demise --- and eyed warily by police still seeking a prime suspect in the slaying. To escape the pain, he buries himself in his work at City Central Hospital --- only to be drawn deeper into a waking nightmare when more women turn up murdered in the same...
9) Cat & mouse
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Alex Cross volume 4
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When old enemy Gary Soneji, a prison escapee, joins forces with the enigmatic "Mr. Smith, " a mysterious new threat, psychologist-detective Alex Cross' life hangs in the balance, and it is up to physician and serial killer expert Thomas Augustine Pierce to step in before it is too late.
10) Violets are blue
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Alex Cross volume 7
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Alex Cross has never believed in vampires. But when two joggers are found slain in a manner that suggests a macabre ritual, he has to reconsider. Someone believes in vampires enough to have committed a series of bizarre murders that appear to be the work of one. Local police are horrified, and even the FBI is baffled. Cross takes on the case and plunges into a netherworld of secret clubs and role-players, a world full of poseurs and playactors-and...
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c2000
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As he confronts an unofficial strike by the officers of the Seattle Police Force, Detective Lou Boldt, with the help of police psychologist Daphne Matthews and Sergeant John LaMoia, investigates a string of robberies and the brutal near-murder of a female cop, only to discover that these crimes may be linked to the strike and that his own life is now in danger.
14) Killer
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Alex Delaware novels volume 29
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The City of Angels has more than its share of psychopaths, and no one recognizes that more acutely than the brilliant psychologist and police consultant Dr. Alex Delaware. Despite that, Constance Sykes, a sophisticated, successful physician, hardly seems like someone Alex needs to fear. Then, at the behest of the court, he becomes embroiled in a bizarre child custody dispute initiated by Connie against her sister and begins to realize that there is...
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Boldt and Matthews volume 8
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Seattle forensic psychologist Daphne Matthews investigates the life of Mary-Ann Walker to discover why she threw herself off the Aurora Bridge.
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Tony Hill and Carol Jordan novels volume 9
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"Is it violence if it's virtual? The outspoken women targeted by the increasingly cruel Internet trolls and bullies would probably say so. For some of them, the torrents of bile and vicious threats prove too much. They begin to silence themselves in a series of high-profile suicides. Or do they? Tony Hill isn't convinced. But he's the only one. Former cop Carol Jordan is too busy messing up her life to care. Until she gets an unexpected second chance....
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The New York Times Book Review raves about author Val McDermid, calling her "as smooth a practitioner of crime fiction as anyone out there. She's the best we've got." Her newest thriller, Beneath the Bleeding, once again proves it to be so. Winner of the coveted CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year for The Mermaids Singing, McDermid reunites her popular investigating team of Dr. Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan in Beneath the Bleeding, as...
20) Murderous intent
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[2007]
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A police psychologist is assigned to interview a student suspected of murdering his classmate. As she probes his troubled psyche, she unravels a bizarre, disturbing relationship between the two boys and a series of gruesome murders. Dark secrets and dangerous mind games weave a shocking tale of deception, betrayal and murder.