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Murphy Shepherd novels volume 1
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English
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"Murphy Shepherd is a man with many secrets. He lives alone on an island, tending the grounds of a church with no parishioners, and he's dedicated his life to rescuing those in peril. But as he mourns the loss of his mentor and friend, Murph himself may be more lost than he realizes. When he pulls a beautiful woman named Summer out of Florida's Intracoastal Waterway, Murph's mission to lay his mentor to rest at the end of the world takes a dangerous...
3) Taken
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Series
Elvis Cole/Joe Pike novels volume 15
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Hired along with Joe Pike to investigate the allegedly kidnapped missing daughter of a woman, Elvis Cole goes undercover to infiltrate a ring of professional border kidnappers only to be abducted himself.
4) Bare it all
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Series
Love undercover volume 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"As the person responsible for taking down a brutal human trafficker, Alice Appleton fears retaliation at every turn. No one knows about her past, which is exactly how she prefers it--until the sexy cop next door comes knocking"--P. [4] of cover.
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Hackberry Holland novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The investigation of a DEA informant's death pits Texas border town sheriff Hackberry Holland and his deputy, Pam Tibbs, against Mexican drug dealers, Russian mobsters, and the evil preacher Jack Collins.
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Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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Now sober, Atlanta homicide detective Patrick "Tick" Kelly, still haunted by the murder of his wife and children, gets an unexpected second chance at happiness when he works with former DEA agent Kate Rush to expose a local human trafficking ring.
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Series
Caitlin Strong novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A Mexican girl on the run from human traffickers brings fifth-generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong to the sleepy border town where her legendary grandfather once worked, a region that hides a deadly weapon with a potential to give a new enemy the means to terrorize the United States.
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Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The latest from Kathy Reichs finds Tempe Brennan investigating the connections between a long-dead business man, the smuggling of mummified dogs from Peru, and the death of a teenage girl killed in a hit and run. When she discovers a human trafficking enterprise at the center of it all, the scope of the case extends from South America to Afghanistan. And Tempe's soon-to-be ex might have connections that run to the very heart of the trafficking ring"--...
9) The Janes
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Series
Alice Vega novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The electric follow-up to Louisa Luna's acclaimed thriller Two Girls Down, featuring private investigators Alice Vega and Max Caplan.
10) The magistrate
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A brutal murder investigation with connections to corruption at the very highest level threatens not just the career but also the life of Inspector Lu Fei in Brian Klingborn's latest mystery..."--
11) West of the moon
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century Norway, fourteen-year-old Astri, whose aunt has sold her to a mean goatherder, dreams of joining her father in America.
13) Dead on arrival
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
Description
Dawn and Reese Spencer just can't get ahead. Between her desperate desire to start a family and his gambling debts, they barely keep afloat, even with well-paying Norfolk International port jobs. But their calculating co-worker has the perfect plan: help him smuggle containers of precious, illegal-human-cargo past U.S. Customs. For Dawn, risking the innocent lives of undocumented immigrants is unthinkable. But Reese persuades her that no one will...
14) The rescue
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Series
Ryan Decker novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Former CIA operative turned mercenary for hire Ryan Decker's specialty is rescuing kidnap victims. Hired by an influential US senator to liberate her daughter from a human-trafficking ring, Decker never anticipated sabotage or that the assault could go so disastrously wrong. The hostage is dead. His team is wiped out, and so are their families, including Decker's own wife and son--eliminated one by one by the Russian mafia. And he's survived to take...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
Description
BENEATH THE GLITTER Welcomes back beloved characters from THE LONG ROAD BACK. Join Monique and Reed, who are now husband and wife, as they once again give all they have to make the world a better place. This time, the couple, along with fellow agents of a satellite office of the Dallas Ft. Worth FBI, investigate crimes committed by men and women involved in human trafficking. The couple goes undercover to infiltrate a ring to save young girls and...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Description
"Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains,...
17) Hell gate
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Series
Alexandra Cooper novels volume 12
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"New Yrok City government has always been filled with political intrigue, lurid scandal, and the behind-the-scenes deals that keep the city moving. In 'Hell Gate', Alex finds her attention torn between investigating a shipwreck -- one that has contraband cargo, and the political sex scandal of a promising New York congressman now fallen from grace. When Alex discovers that a woman from the wreck and the congressman's lover are connected in a way that...
18) Storm rising
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Series
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English
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In the wake of a devastating hurricane, Special Agent Meg Jennings and her Labrador, Hawk-invaluable members of the FBI's Human Scent Evidence Team-have been deployed to Virginia Beach. They have their work cut out for them. Amid graveyards of debris, and the buried cries for help, the search and rescue operation begins. The most alarming discovery is yet to come-a teenage girl hiding in the Great Dismal Swamp. Shaken by the storm, she has reason...
19) Paint chips
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
What lies beneath the layers of hurt? Though haunted by her troubled past, Dot has found a safe haven. She has a fierce protector and a colorful collection of friends--but sometimes she wonders if her life will ever be normal again. Though college and romance await her, embracing them requires a new kind of strength one she isn't sure she has. Emerging from years of confusion, Cora struggles to latch hold of the sanity she needs to return to the real...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Now a major motion picture starring Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here is a gritty, harrowing story of corruption and one man's violent quest for vengeance. Joe has witnessed things that cannot be erased. A former FBI agent and Marine, his abusive childhood has left him damaged beyond repair. He has completely withdrawn from the world and earns his living rescuing girls who have been kidnapped into the sex trade.When he's hired to save the...
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