T. Jefferson Parker
1) The fallen
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After surviving a push from a sixth-floor hotel room, detective Robbie Brownlaw uses his new talent for synesthesia--seeing colorful shapes tied to emotions when someone speaks--to investigate the death of a fellow San Diego cop.
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"Laguna Beach, California, 1968. The Age of Aquarius is in full swing. Timothy Leary is a rock star. LSD is God. Folks from all over are flocking to Laguna, seeking peace, love, and enlightenment. Matt Antony is just trying get by. Matt is sixteen, broke, and never sure where his next meal is coming from. Mom's a stoner, his deadbeat dad is a no-show, his brother's fighting in Nam... and his big sister Jazz has just gone missing. The cops figure she's...
4) Iron river
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Charlie Hood runs the California-Mexico border with the ATF, searching for the iron river-- the massive and illegal flow of firearms that fuels the cartel wars south of the border-- and soon finds a disturbing personal connection.
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Tim Hess is a semiretired veteran cop staring at a death sentence-his own. Detective Merci Rayborn, young enough to be his daughter, is brash, impatient, and not someone from whom Hess wants to be taking orders. He certainly isn't planning on falling in love with her. Together they must track down a psychopathic killer dubbed the "Purse Snatcher" for the chilling way he brags about his shockingly distinctive crimes, abducting and murdering beautiful...
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Returning hero and private investigator Roland Ford is on the trail of a mysterious killer who is beheading CIA drone operators and leaving puzzling clues at each crime scene. His troubled friend Lindsay Rakes is afraid for her own life and the life of her son after a fellow flight crew member is killed in brutal fashion. Even more terrifying is the odd note the killer left behind: "Welcome to Caliphornia. This is not the last." Ford strikes an uneasy...
8) Black water
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A beautiful young woman is dead, her husband is shot in the heart but still alive. It looks like an attempted murder/suicide, but something tells Detective Merci Rayborn that there's more to the story.
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When hired by a beautiful and enigmatic woman to find her missing younger sister, private investigator Roland Ford immediately senses that the case is not what it seems. He is soon swept up in a web of lies and secrets as he searches for the teenager, and even his new client cannot be trusted. His investigation leads him to a secretive charter school, skinhead thugs, a cadre of American Nazis hidden in a desert compound, an arch-conservative celebrity...
10) Crazy blood
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"The Carson dynasty rules the ski resort town of Mammoth Lakes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Founded by patriarch Adam, the town is the site of the Mammoth Cup ski race-a qualifier for the Olympics. But when Wylie Welborn, Adam's illegitimate grandson, returns after a stint in Afghanistan, it reopens a dark moment in Carson family history: the murder of Wylie's father by his jealous and very pregnant wife, Cynthia. Her son Sky, born...
11) The border lords
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When undercover ATF agent Sean Ozburn stops checking in during a mission to infiltrate the Baja Cartel, Charlie Hood watches haunting digital videos that the agent sent to his wife and fears that Oz has switched sides.
12) The jaguar
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When the songwriter wife of a corrupt sheriff's deputy is kidnapped by a ruthless Gulf cartel leader who orders her to compose a folk ballad about his life, her resulting song captures the attentions of her husband and Charlie Hood, who work together to rescue her.
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"Private Investigator Roland Ford has taken a job for a fellow Marine and a rising politician, Dalton Strait. Strait is contending with unexplained bombings of government buildings in his district... but that is not why he hired Ford. Strait's wife, Natalie, has gone missing, leaving behind a cryptic plea for help. Strait has made many enemies during his time in politics--including some of his own family members--all of whom could be looking for revenge....
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A young soldier escaped from a mental institution. A P.I. carrying his own wounds hired to track that soldier down. A race against the clock to bring the soldier home before he reveals the secret that haunts him. Roland Ford-once a cop, then a marine, now a private investigator-is good at finding people. But when he's asked to locate Air Force veteran Clay Hickman, he realizes he's been drawn into something deep and dark. He knows war, having served...
15) Red light
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Merci Rayborn, the Orange County, California, homicide investigator, and her son are living with her father, a retired cop, and she is dating Mike McNally, a fellow officer. When a young prostitute is found murdered and McNally emerges as the primary suspect, Merci must sift through the facts and balance where the truth leads her against where her heart is telling her to go.
16) Faceoff
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Features pairings by twenty-three best-selling suspense writers, including John Sandford, F. Paul Wilson, and R. L. Stine, who in short high-action stories pit their most popular characters against one another.