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Raylan by Elmore Leonard U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens
deals with a gang of thieves ransoming kidneys, shady dealings involving a
mining company, and a series of bizarre bank robberies in a world that
runs in parallel to the FX series Justified.
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The Litigators by John
Grisham A young lawyer quits his high pressure job at a prestigious law
firm and goes to work for a couple of ambulance chasers (literally) who
work out of a strip mall and have absolutely no trial experience.
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The Impossible Dead by
Ian Rankin While conducting a routine investigation into possible police
wrongdoing, Matthew Fox becomes interested in a cold case that hearkens
back to the heady days of Scottish nationalism radicals.
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The Drop by Michael
Connelly Harry Bosch juggles two cases: the apparent suicide of the son
of an influential and antagonistic city councilor and a cold case where
newly analyzed DNA evidence points to an unlikely suspect.
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The Cat's Table by Michael
Ondaatje A
young boy travels by steamer from Ceylon to England. Over a magical
three-week period, he befriends two other boys and an assortment of unusual and interesting
people who share the table the farthest from the captain's table.
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The Prague Cemetery by Umberto
Eco An Italian forger living in Paris creates mayhem across Europe when
he creates a series of documents that implicate Jews in an ongoing and
widespread conspiracy to take over the world.
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1Q84 by Haruki Murakami A
young woman, a killer for hire, crosses over into a parallel world with
two moons. A young man is hired to ghost write a fantasy novel that may be
based on real events. A mysterious cult becomes the focus of both as they
strive to find each other after 20 years apart.
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The Cut by George Pelecanos
Iraq war veteran Spero Lucas earns his living by recovering stolen
items and keeping a 40% cut. He's tasked with retrieving 40 lbs of stolen
marijuana for a drug kingpin. No big surprise, he ends up in the middle of
a bad situation that gets progressively worse on the mean streets of D.C.
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The Five by Robert McCammon
A sniper pursues a rock band after taking offense at a music video.
Destroying the band is his new mission in life. The band was on the verge
of breaking up, but the attention drawn by the attacks gives them a level
of success they'd only dreamt about before. Who will be next in the
sniper's sights?
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Satori by Don Winslow
Crime writer Don Winslow revisits super-spy Nicholai Hel, star of
Trevanian's classic novel Shibumi, exploring part of Hel's past
alluded to in that book. Hel is freed from prison by US intelligence on
the condition that he will use his unique skills to assassinate the
Russian liaison to Beijing during the era of the Korean War.
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