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Operation Dominance Rain was the highest level of black ops.  Jonny Maxwell was one of that elite team.  Unknown to his team, he was also a serial rapist.  He was convicted of those crimes, but escaped from prison.  He's being tracked by his former colleague Dale Miller and Minneapolis Sex Crimes Unit Detective Nina Capushek.
No Other Option
Wynne, Marcus
New York: Tom Doherty Associates Books, 2001.
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Author's first book.  Christopher Reich's years of experience in the Swiss banking industry lends virisimilitude to this novel set in Zurich.  Nicholas Neuman is a former marine and Harvard MBA.  He leaves his job on Wall Street to take a position with the Swiss bank for which his father was working at the time of his death seventeen years before.  Nick finds evidence that the bank was implicated in his father's death, and is determine to find who was responsible.  This proves difficult, until another banker has a nervous breakdown, a second defects to another bank, and a third dies.
Numbered Account
Reich, Christopher
New York: Delacorte Press, 1998.
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Obsession
Kellerman, Jonathan
New York: Ballantine Books, 2007.
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An abridged reading by Joan Allen on four audiocassettes.  Kay Scarpetta, State of Virginia medical examiner, is working on a series of deaths that occurred as part of arson.  Her old nemsis, Carrie Grethren, seems to be calling the shots.
Point of Origin
Cornwell, Patricia
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Turow brings readers another multi-level legal thriller.  Rommy Ganldoph is on death row, having confessed ten years earlier to murdering three people.  Then another inmate confesses to the crimes.  Was Rommy's confession coerced?  The original judge, prosecutor, and detective all have a lot at stake if Rommy's court-appointed lawyer, Arthur Raven, can prove that the handling of the original case wasn't on the up and up, which could overturn Rommy's death sentence due to reversible errors.
Reversible Errors
Turow, Scott
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
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Author's first novel, and winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel.  Burdon Lane is, to all appearances, a legitimate businessman, a vice president of UniArms, Inc.  In truth, he's a gunrunner, and a transaction which should be routine turns into a disaster involving fires, shoot-outs, and police who don't act like police.  Was this a set-up to mask a political assassination?  Lane goes on the run to buy enough time to find out.
Run
Winter, Douglas E.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
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Charter boat captain takes an end-of-season booking from Sally Moffit, who is making a documentary on dolphins.  While filming, they enounter the yacht of an eccentric American millionaire, and a mysterious underwater behemoth.
Sea Hunter
Garrison, Paul
New York: William Morrow, 2003.
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Ninth book in the Prey series.  Minneapolls cop Lucas Davenport investigates the death of banker Daniel Kresge, shot while hunting in the northwoods with four fellow executives.  Each of them had a reason to wish Kresge dead, but Davenport learns they're not the only ones.
Secret Prey
Sandford, John
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1998.
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Winner of the 2005 Golden Dagger Award for Best.Crime Novel, and the 2006 Barry award for the Best British Crime Novel.  A skeleton is discovered at a housing construction site.  As Reykjavik police detective Erlendur Sveinsson searches for the skeleton's identity, he finds the answer buried deep in the area's past.
Silence of the Grave
Indridason, Arnaldur
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2006.
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When Detective Francis X. Loughlin was new on the police force, a young doctor was murdered and Julian Vega, her apartment manager, was convicted and sent to prison.  Twenty years later, Vega is released from prison on a technicality.  Another doctor is murdered, and fingers point to Vega again.  The DNA test is a shocker--the blood under the new victim's fingernails isn't that of Vega, but of the woman murdered twenty years before.  Peter Blauner won the 1992 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, Slow Motion Riot.
Slipping into Darkness
Blauner, Peter
New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2006.
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Author's first novel.  Television reporter Julia Larsen is stunned when her parents, former governor Harry Radcliffe and his wife Martha, are murdered.  Family friend Matthew Hinson consoles Julia, then draws her under his spell.  When Matthew is arrested for the crimes, Julia struggles to determine if he's really the murderer, or if he's been framed.
Snow Angel
Racina, Thom
New York: Dutton, 1996.
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The second book in the second trilogy about British agent Bernard Samson.  Samson is hiding out in Berlin after the events of the previous book, Spy Hook.  He thinks all is forgiven when he is invited back to London, but then realizes he has yet again played into their hands when he is given an apparent inconsequential assignment in Vienna.  There he meets an American who seems familiar.  Who is he?  Where did they meet?  And does he have anything to do with Samson's assignment?
Spy Line
Deighton, Len
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
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The author's first novel.  An elderly man asks Father Anselm for asylum in Larkwood Priory in England.  Father Anselm later learns that the man is Eduard Schwermann, a former Nazi.  Agnes Aubret lived in occupied Paris during World War II, part of a group that smuggled Jewish children to safety until the group was exposed--by Eduard Schwermann.  When she learns that Schwermann is still alive, Agnes confides her past to her granddaughter Lucy.  Lucy and Father Anselm each try to understand what happened more than fifty years before.
The 6th Lamentation
Brodrick, William
New York: Viking Press, 2003.
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In turn-of-the-century New York, Dr. Laszlo Kreizler (the alienist) joins forces with Police Commissioner Teddy Roosevelt and a New York Times reporter to investigate the murders of boy prostitutes.  The book was nominated for the 1994 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, and was Winner of the 1995 Anthony Award for Best First Novel.  Black cloth over brown boards.  Copper ink on spine. 8vo. 496 pp.
The Alienist
Carr, Caleb
New York: Random House, 1994.
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A powerful weapon is stolen from Iraq and brought to the United States.  The planned use of this weapon is concealed behind another plot, and CIA agent Ryan Kealy must operate outside the usual channels in a race for time to prevent this disaster.
The Assassin
Britton, Andrew
New York: Kensington Books, 2007.
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Daniel Ames has it all--a great job with a great law firm and he's earning more money than he ever thought possible.  One of the firm's clients, a pharmaceutical company, is sued for marketing a drug that causes birth defects.  When evidence is found that the claim may be true, Daniel finds himself in a web of lies and murder.
The Associate
Margolin, Phillip
New York: Harper Collins, 2001.
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Inscribed by the author on the half title page, "Mike, It was great working with you at UW Madison. Best Wishes, Tony Nagle."  Two teen-aged boys discover ancient scrolls which describe what happened to Roman general Hannibal's war chest--reputed to include more gold than existed in all of Rome.  Is it only historians who are interested in the tale?  Not by a long shot.  The search for this treasure draws in treasure hunters, the Mafia, even the CIA.
The Augustus Conspiracy
Nagle, Anthony
Lakeville, MN: Galde Press, 2003.
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First St. Martin's Minotaur Edition.  Young boys are disappearing, and the only link between them is an aviary, or bird yard, at an abandoned house.  When a boy known to Detective Superintendent Parker of the Greater Manchester disappears, he knows he must find the killer before more tragedy occurs.
The Bird Yard
Martin, Julia Wallis
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 1998.
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Lawyer Peter Hale's ego has gotten him into really hot water.  When his father has a heart attack in the middle of a case, rather than following his father's wishes and moving for a mistrial, he decides to impress his father and carry on the case himself.  He loses the case, his job, and his father's regard.  In an effort to redeem himself, he moves to a small town in Oregon as a public defender.  There he gets himself into trouble again by taking on a death-penalty case, for which he woefully unprepared.  It is only when he realizes that his failure means the death of his client that he gets serious about the job.
The Burning Man
Margolin, Phillip
New York: Doubleday, 1996.
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The Camel Club is a group of four conspiracy theorists who keep an eye on current political events in Washington, DC.  When they witness a murder, they find themselves smack dab in the middle of intrigue.  They team up with Secret Service agent Alex Ford to prevent an international disaster.
The Camel Club
Baldacci, David
New York: Warner Books, 2005.
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