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Summary: When Father Anselm dies mysteriously while consecrating the host, Sister Agatha, a nun at the cloistered order of The Sisters of the Blessed Adoration in the New Mexico desert, finds herself the prime suspect in the crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
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Summary: Discovering a link between the murder of a Navajo police officer and the plans for a new power plant, Navajo Police special investigator Ella Clah tries to figure out who has been killing the people who oppose the plant's construction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2003
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Summary: Shocked by the murder of a young Navajo woman, Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah calls in FBI Agent Dwayne Blalock for help, but she soon realizes that the murderer may have a link to her own past and to her father, murdered a decade earlier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2007
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Summary: "What happens when an old spook starts to lose his mind? Do the Services have a retirement home for people who know too many secrets but don't remember they're secrets? Or does someone come to take care of the senile spy for good? These are the questions River Cartwright must ask himself as his grandfather--David Cartwright, a Cold War-era operative--starts to forget to wear pants, and starts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2017
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Summary: It's 1982--and Henry is a young cop with a point to prove and an attitude to control. His youthful enthusiasm can sometimes cloud his better judgement. When a series of rash decisions results in disaster, Henry determines to put things right his own way--despite being warned off by his detective inspector. Setting out to smash singlehandedly a dangerous criminal enterprise, Henry's impetuous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2013
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Summary: Flying in the eye of a hurricane, a plane carrying TV reporter Perry Stuart crashes in the Caribbean. In this manner Stuart discovers an island of uranium smugglers, a find which puts his life in danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1999
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Summary: The accidental death of jockey Martin Stukely implicates his friend Gerard Logan, a glassblower, in a dangerous search for a missing videotape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2007
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Summary: With his rising culinary career threatened by an episode of food poisoning at a private affair that he had catered, Max Moreton caters an exclusive luncheon at the Two Thousand Guineas horse race, a party devastated by a bomb blast that kills many of theguests.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2007
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Summary: Geoffrey Mason is well known (as "Perry" Mason) among the pro riders, including Steve Mitchell and Scot Barlow--arguably the two top pros. So when Scot Barlow is murdered--with Mitchell's pitchfork nonetheless--Geoff finds himself pulled into the case as a junior barrister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2008
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Summary: A young man in Britain gives up horse racing to help his millionaire father contest a seat in a parliamentary election. A tale of father-son friendship against the background of political skullduggery. By the author of To the Hilt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1997
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Summary: Thirteen stories on horse racing. In Blind Chance, a blind boy discovers a scheme by crooks to rig bets, while in Carrot for a Chestnut, life punishes a jockey who drugs his horse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1998
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Summary: Foreign Office British diplomat, Peter Darwin uses all of his skills to solve a veterinary surgeon's race-horse nightmare.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1992
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Summary: Foreign Office British diplomat, Peter Darwin uses all of his skills to solve a veterinary surgeon's race-horse nightmare.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1991
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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Summary: After becoming involved with the Stratton Park racecourse, Lee Morris, a young architect, engineer, and builder, finds himself reluctantly drawn into the deadly infighting among members of the clan that owns the facility.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1993
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: When three corpses turn up on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day, including a jockey who had earlier in the day won the Triumph Hurdle, ex-jockey-turned-sleuth Sid Halley investigates a possible link to Lord Enstone's mysterious losing streak.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2006
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Summary: After a number of horses are shot by someone using a weapon called a "humane killer," steeple chase jockey Kit Fielding vows to stop the killing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1987
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Summary: Ian perseveres in his search into the past; discovering the hate that builds silently through the years, the terrible price the relatives pay for their fathers' sins, and a twisted knot of passion compelled to turn love to punishment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1988
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000
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Summary: Geoffrey Mason is well known (as "Perry" Mason) among the pro riders, including Steve Mitchell and Scot Barlow--arguably the two top pros. So when Scot Barlow is murdered--with Mitchell's pitchfork nonetheless--Geoff finds himself pulled into the case as a junior barrister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008