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Pub. Date
2020.
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"The second novel featuring Detective William Warwick ... William Warwick has been promoted to Detective Sergeant, but his promotion means that he, along with the rest of his team, have been reassigned to the drug squad. They are immediately tasked with apprehending Ahmed Rashedi, a notorious drug dealer, who operates his extensive network out of South London. As the investigation progresses, William runs into enemies old and new: Adrian Heath, from...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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Jeff Buck thought he'd seen it all. Twenty years working undercover in the netherworld of drugs had left him burned out and grateful to assume the quiet job of police chief in the small town of Reminderville, Ohio. That is, until a simple domestic assault case turns out to have links to the murder of a drug runner in upstate New York and a syndicate smuggling billions of dollars in drugs across the U.S.-Canada border.
As Buck reluctantly plunges back...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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A New York City cop who can last eighteen months in Narcotics, without getting killed or demoted first, will automatically get promoted to detective. Undercover narc Janice Itwaru is at month seventeen. Ambitious, desperate for that promotion, she hits the sidewalks of Queens in her secondhand hoochie clothes, hoping to convince potential criminals to commit a felony on her behalf. And things aren't any easier back at the narco office, where she has...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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This haunting and propulsive debut follows a journalist's years-long investigation into his father's old classmate: former high school valedictorian Paul Volkman, who once seemed destined for greatness after earning his MD and his PhD from the prestigious University of Chicago, but is now serving four consecutive life sentences at a federal prison in Arizona. Volkman was the central figure in a massive "pill mill" scheme in southern Ohio. His pain...
9) The pledge
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"Things are looking up for Detective Betty Rhyzyk. She's settled into a happy marriage and been promoted...But when a hostage stand-off puts her on the phone with legendary cartel leader The Knife, things take a turn. The Knife has heard a rival is making a play for the streets of Dallas, none other than Evangeline Roy. The matriarch of a ruthless cult, Evangeline also happens to hold a personal vendetta against Betty. So who better to draw Evangeline...
10) Pain relief
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Series
Miracles and mysteries of Mercy Hospital volume 14
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"When a medication-dispensing machine is broken into and thousands of dollars of valuable and dangerous prescriptions are stolen, Anne Mabry and her friends at Mercy Hospital are determined to find the culprit. As Anne begins to investigate, she discovers that many people had the opportunity and motive to perpetrate the theft. Several hospital employees make it to her list, ranging from the cleaning crew to nurses and even top-performing doctors....
11) Dead canyon
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A David Wolf novel volume 16
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
When a drug runner on pre-trial release disappears before his court date, nobody in the Sluice-Byron County Sheriff's Department is surprised. What is shocking, though, is Detective David Wolf finding the mule's foot, tracking ankle bracelet still attached. It looks like somebody has come to retrieve their man, and to make a statement in the process. Why the bloody theatrics? Wolf wonders, realizing he may never know. Answers involving men like these...
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©2001
Description
A rum tale of friendship gone wrong, "Extreme Prejudice" presents the age-old story of two friends: one on the side of law and order, one not. El Paso based Texas Ranger Jack Benteen is intent on trying to control the drug trade, and the means breaking up the drug cartel run by his old friend Cash Bailey across the border in Mexico. His girl Sarita has tired of life with him, and returned to her former lover--Cash. Cash's cohorts have killed a local...