Vachss, Andrew.
Summary: Andrew Vachss stabs his trademark hard-boiled style into the heart of a quaint little seacoast village . . . one seething with corruption beneath its idyllic facade. After a life in various war zones, Dell and Dolly have settled in this town, fulfilling Dolly's lifelong dream. Though she has given up her Médecins Sans Frontières nursing career and moved smoothly into civilian life, Dell had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013
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Vachss, Andrew.
Summary: PI Burke is hired by a lawyer specializing in debunking false claims of child abuse. He is to investigate a charge by a woman that as a child she was molested by a clergyman. Burke discovers the woman was indeed molested, and when she suddenly withdraws the charge he smells a rat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf, c1996. 1996
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Summary: After pleading guilty to a series of homicides, Esau Till sits on death row, writing his life story. But his memoir is his one last chance to protect his brother. And, when it comes to his baby brother, Esau Till is a man without boundaries. When the genetic cards were dealt, Esau drew a genius IQ—and a crippled body. His brother Tory drew a slow mind—and almost superhuman strength. Very early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamscape Media, LLC 2012
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Vachss, Andrew H.
Summary: When a colleague is charged with the murder of a serial rapist, Burke uncovers numerous questionable dealings at the district attorney's office and elects to reopen the original investigation into the rapist's case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2004
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Summary: Returning to New York after years on the run, Burke is forced to step out of the shadows to investigate the murder of his own teenage daughter, and heads for Long Island, where he comes face to face with a depraved killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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Summary: Trapped between his integrity and selling out, Sugar does the only thing he knows: He takes the weight for a crime he didn't commit--while protecting those who worked with him on a successful jewelry heist. But when he gets out, the mastermind behind the robbery, Sully, leans on him for a favor. Sully asks Sugar to go to Florida on a job. He suspects that there's more to this job than what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2010
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Summary: When the shining star of the girls' softball team shoots and kills the most popular boy in school, Dolly, friend to the local teenage girls, asks her husband Dell to uncover the true motive behind the inexplicable crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2013
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Summary: Burke is hired by a group of pimps to stop the "Ghost Van" from killing prostitutes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1988
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Summary: When a calculating predator threatens his loved ones, mercenary soldier Dell attempts to track down a killer who possesses an uncanny talent for disguise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2015
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Summary: After a social worker alerts him to a racket in child abuse, Batman goes to war. He flies to Udon Khai in Southeast Asia and stirs up a revolution to destroy an international ring enslaving children for sex. By the author of Footsteps of the Hawk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1995
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Summary: Burke teams up with his new client, a beautiful woman who wants Burke to find a child's murderer so she can kill him with her bare hands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1998
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Summary: The time, 1959-and America. The place-a small, entirely corrupt Midwestern burg named Locke City, currently owned top to bottom by homegrown Royal Beaumont. Crippled by a childhood disease, Royal rules from a wheelchair-throne; few, though, have ever doubted that his power is absolute. Or not until now, when rival mobs-one Irish, one Italian-suddenly sense windows of opportunity. They lurk at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005