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1) Copper River
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Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Atria Paperback ed.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
Esperanto
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Series
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English
Description
"A plane lands in a deserted Upper Peninsula airstrip one night, and five dead bodies are found the next morning. The evidence suggests that not only are these murders the beginning of something bigger, but that Alex McKnight's friend Vinnie may be part of it. Alex knows he needs to find him before it's too late. Vinnie LeBlanc is an Ojibwa tribal member, a blackjack dealer at the Bay Mills Casino, and he just might be Alex's best friend. He's certainly...
3) Ice run
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English
Description
Alex McKnight is in love with Ontario Provincial Police Officer Natalie Reynaud. They brave a violent snowstorm to spend the night together in a hotel in Sault Ste. Marie, where they meet a mysterious man who seems to know a great deal about Natalie's family. The next morning, he's found frozen in a snowbank. But this single incident reignites an old blood feud that goes back decades to an event buried in Natalie's family's past. She doesn't want...
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English
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Lying face down on the floor with a gun to the back of his head is where Alex McKnight finds himself after a game of cards turns into a professional heist at the home of local developer Win Vargas. When the dust settles, McKnight is one of Police Chief Roy Maven's lead suspects. Worse, Vargas' own sense of vigilante justice has targeted the former private eye as well, and the brash millionaire may be responsible for the sudden disappearance of Alex's...
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Series
Alex McKnight novel volume 11
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English
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"On the Mediterranean Sea, a vacationer logs onto the security camera feed from his home in Scottsdale, Arizona. Something about his living room seems not quite right--the room is bright, when he's certain he'd left the curtains closed. Rewinding through the feed, he sees an intruder. When he shifts to the bedroom camera, he sees the dead body. Martin T. Livermore is the key suspect in the abduction and murder of at least five women, but he's never...
7) Let it burn
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Police officer Alex McKnight returns to Detroit at the behest of his old sergeant and rethinks his last case -- he can't let go of his gut feeling that they arrested the wrong man. And that the real killer not only got away, but went on to kill again.
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English
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When a young Native American woman comes to Alex McKnight for help, he hides her in an unoccupied cabin he owns. But when she is gone the next morning, he becomes convinced that her ex-lover, a member of the reservation hockey team, has kidnapped her. He begins a frantic search for her, and discovers that criminal sadism knows no geographical boundaries.
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English
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"Amos Walker is hired by Francis X. Lawes, a private-sector mover and shaker in Detroit politics, to prove that his wife, Paula, who disappeared under sinister circumstances more than six years ago, is dead. Francis wants to remarry without having to wait for the seven-year declaration-of-death rule to kick in. Walker's investigation is complicated by two facts: the police still consider Lawes the prime suspect, and the first-responding officer in...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Loren D. Estleman's most popular characters, PI Amos Walker and hit man Peter Macklin, are together in one story for the first time in Black and White Ball! Detroit hit man Peter Macklin forces private eye Amos Walker to furnish protection for Laurie, Macklin's estranged wife, while Macklin tracks down the party who has threatened to kill her. The man Walker's client suspects cannot be ignored; as his own grown son, Roger Macklin has inherited all...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Two months after an apparent suicide in a place known as Misery Bay, PI Alex McKnight is asked for help from his professional nemesis Sault Ste. Marie police chief Roy Maven. What seems like a simple quest to find a few answers will turn into a nightmare of sudden violence and bloody revenge, and a race against time to catch a ruthless and methodical killer.
15) The witchfinder
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Series
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A dying architect engages Detroit PI Amos Walker to uncover someone who is spreading lies about him The world is waiting for Jay Bell Furlong to die. The grand old man of American architecture is on deathwatch in a Los Angeles hospital, and it won't be long before his obituary hits the front page. Only Amos Walker knows that the impending death is a bit farther off than that. In fact, Furlong has just become Walker's client. The architect is still...
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English
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"When a house near Lee and Joe's home goes up for sale, the couple teams up with Lee's aunt and uncle, Nettie and Hogan, to buy it, remodel it, and resell it for a sweet profit. But after the owners of the house, the Baileys, accept their offer, a local developer, Richard 'Spud' Dirk, suddenly swoops in with a higher one, and it seems their dreams might be snatched away. Lee, never as passionate about the plan as her husband and uncle, is anxious...
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Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Detroit PI Amos Walker searches for a priceless medieval illuminated manuscript - and for evidence that can put his former partner's killer behind bars. Hired by a curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts to serve as his bodyguard during a transaction involving a stolen illuminated manuscript, Amos Walker enters a darkened skin-flick theater where the exchange is supposed to take place. When the deal goes south, he's lucky to leave with his life......
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Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Amos Walker doesn't mean to walk into trouble. But sometimes it finds him, regardless. The missing woman has left a handwritten note that said, "Don't look for me." Any P.I. would take that as a challenge, especially when he found out that she'd left the same message once before, when having an illicit affair. But this time it's different. The trail leads Walker to an herbal remedies store, where the beautiful young clerk knows nothing about the...