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From the highly acclaimed new crime novelist: a story of witness protection, petty thievery, local politics, and murder—set against the turbulent backdrop of the 1980 presidential election
It's the fall of 1980, the last week before the presidential election that pits the downtrodden Jimmy Carter against the suspiciously sunny Ronald Reagan. In a seedy suburban house in Spokane, a small-time crook formerly from New York, Vince Camden,
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Games Afoot, LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Archie Prescot has traveled across the country to design the now-iconic Spokane clock tower for the new Great Northern Railroad Depot. When his talent for creating unique clock chimes connects him with a local patroness, he is thrilled, until she is discovered dead in the workshop of his new colleague. Her grand home on the South Hill provides ample suspects, as Archie works with his lodgers, Detective Carew and his twin brother, to prove his fellow...
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Games Afoot, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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In this sequel to Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Taker, we're once again transported to Spokane, 1901. A body discovered in Hangman Creek looks to be the result of an accidental fall, but what begins as a "simple" mystery for Thomas Carew and his twin brother Bernard quickly becomes a lot more complicated, including implications that tie in with the bombings at the Idaho mines, and perhaps even President McKinley's planned visit. It's been one month...
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Games Afoot, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The Baker is in the Medical Lake asylum, which means all should be well with the world. But when a string of murders draws Marian, Archie, and the Carew brothers to her doorstep, they begin to wonder if she's at it again... Return to 1901 Spokane with Book 3 in the Spokane Clock Tower Mysteries"--Back cover.
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"After moving cross-country with her son and accepting a filmmaker's mentorship, Val Locklier is caught between her insecurities and new possibilities. Miles McKenzie returns home to find a new tenant is living upstairs and he's been banished to a ministry on life support. As sparks fly, they discover that authentic love and sacrifice must go hand in hand"--
"When the ever-cautious Val Locklier moves cross-country with her son for a secure job, everything...
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Frank Scalise]
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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Sandy Banks is the last of The Four Horsemen, a vigilante group of ex-cops determined to right the injustices of a broken court system. But now the project is disintegrating, putting him in the middle of chaos. Betrayed by his final partner, blackmailed by the project head and pursued by federal agents bent on busting the case wide open, Sandy scrambles to escape this mayhem with his soul intact.
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Luna chronicles volume 1
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English
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"Miranda Moon is confused and sick and tired of being sick and tired. Strange things are happening and everything seems to be going wrong -- with her family, her job, even her health. And what is up with the hair on her legs? With no answers in sight, Miranda prays to God for guidance. That's when her reality shifts. She learns of the existence of the Spokane guardians, a pack of werewolves protecting her community against other more frightening creatures....
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Rex Begonia mystery volume 2
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Once again, "the game is afoot" in Spokane, Washington. It's Bloomsday season and one of the largest foot races in the world is about to make its return, when thousands of runners and thousands more spectators will take to the streets in celebration of endurance. In the meantime, the Chief of Police's nephew has been assaulted -- badly beaten and left for dead -- and Detectives Rex Begonia and Ivy Lizei are put on the case. Does it involve the local...
12) Weird sisters
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Lilac city fairy tales volume 3
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Scablands Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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English
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"A nine-year-old Nez Perce Fancy Shawl pow wow dancer, Beth Louie, is killed on the reservation by a hit-and-run drunk driver while walking home from the bus stop with her younger brother. Tire marks and boot tracks on the remote gravel road suggest to a Colville tribal member Ben Moses and his grandson, Alex, who find the two children, that the driver of a pick-up truck tampered with the scene and evidence, and hid the body. Tribal law enforcement...
15) Badge Heavy
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Charlie-316 crime volume 3
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English
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When the Spokane Police Anti-Crime Team (ACT) was formed, the expectation was that its efforts would make a dent in the city's rising crime rate. In only its first few weeks of existence, the team has done even better than hoped for, racking up arrests and seizures of guns, drugs, money, and stolen cars. Everyone from the mayor to the citizenry seems happy with ACT's swift results.But there are darker agendas surrounding this team. Bonds of loyalty...
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China Bohannon volume 6
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English
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"Although still working with her uncle's detective agency, Doyle & Howe Investigations, she's almost given up on becoming a partner and is turning to providing security services, something her uncle, Montgomery Howe, and his partner, Gratton Doyle, aren't interested in. Suitable applicants are hard to find, but she settles on a trustworthy old acquaintance, a somewhat iffy person who likes his booze, and a handsome stranger. When an important job...
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"Seventeen-year-old Pip takes the headstrong twelve-year-old Iris under her protection in the wake of an earth-shattering plague. The duo must navigate the nearly unrecognizable remains of the Spokane Valley, facing roving slave traders, merciless gangs, and worse. Pip and Iris soon meet Fly, a stubborn and courageous older girl, and as the three grow closer and their circumstances grow more perilous, they must also grapple with their own identities...
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Luna chronicles volume 2
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Miranda Moon and the Spokane Guardians are back! With her 'Werewolf 101' training nearly complete Miranda has mastered most of the typical Guardian skills. Unfortunately, her Luna abilities are still evolving and more tightly intertwined with her emotional health than anyone (especially her) counted on. After some serious issues hit close to home Miranda's stress has her and two friends stuck midway through their shift, and at the worst time ever....
19) Four furlongs
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China Bohannon volume 4
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English
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"Smart and sassy bookkeeper China Bohannon is a modern 1890s career woman who'd rather sleuth than type. China is in charge of the Doyle & Howe Detective Agency office on the day a fourteen-year-old girl shows up seeking the detectives' help in a case of what she's calling murder. Neva Sue O'Dells jockey brother has been killed during a race, the horse he was riding -- the dead-on Derby favorite -- lamed. Neva claims her mother and grandfather are...
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Dixie Lee Anderson
Pub. Date
[2019].
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English
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"The emotional story of a life in the making and the mystery that surrounds it. This is the book that takes you through thirty years, in authentic settings, as it moves from the Midwest, through WW II, secret missions and on to Spokane, Washington and the Pacific Northwest. You will move through the intense personal emotions of its central character, John Knowlton, a man shaded with a subconscious undercurrent of recrimination through his struggle...
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