Clark Howard
1) Quick silver
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Passionately in love with a woman he does not know is his half-sister, Tony Donovan, the illegitimate son of a wealthy mine owner, struggles to become part of the early gambling boom in Las Vegas.
2) Dirt rich
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Just back from World War I, Sam Sheridan is a bit bewildered by his cool reception in the dusty town of Dane, Tex., when he arrives with his pregnant wife, Georgia, a beat-up car and a letter informing him that a man he never met has left him 100 acres of land.
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Edgar Award Finalist: The true story of a string of brutal crimes committed in the name of religious fanaticism and racial hatred in 1970s San Francisco.
In the early 1970s, a small band of well-dressed, clean-cut African American men began terrorizing the residents of San Francisco with guns and machetes. Their victims ranged from a teenage Salvation Army cadet to a middle-aged Jordanian grocer to an eighty-one-year-old janitor. The streets became...
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Sixteen-year-old Patricia Columbo began working for pharmacist Frank DeLuca, a married father of five, in the 1970s, and the two soon entered into a sexual relationship. Against her father's wishes, Patricia and Frank moved in together. Then, in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, Patricia's father was brutally murdered, along with her mother and thirteen-year-old brother.
Police were suspicious of Patricia's strange behavior after the bodies were discovered,...
5) The Hunters
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A hunting trip turns into a manhunt in this chilling predator-versus-prey thriller from an Edgar Award—winning author.
Four guys from the suburbs are about to set out on a hunting trip. Wes is an architectural draftsman with a secret. Leo has a high-level advertising job, but is miserable with ulcers. Milt sells pharmaceuticals but is disdained by his wife-who happens to be the object of passionate desire for Lamar, who works in insurance.
But...
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Lee Madrigal became a doctor in spite of his difficult working-class upbringing, with a mother who died young and a father who fell under the spell of alcohol. Now Lee serves his neighbors in the California community where he grew up, and has reunited with his high school sweetheart. But the medical cases he's been handling lately have been bothering him: a baby born with inexplicable birth defects; a young man with symptoms that seem to mimic a venereal...
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The story of the infamous escape attempt and bloody siege at Alcatraz.
In 1946, six men attempted to break out of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison on an island off the coast of San Francisco. Their bloody siege lasted two days, and ended with five dead and fifteen wounded-plus two of the perpetrators executed for their role in the endeavor.
In Six Against the Rock-the basis for a TV movie-an award-winning crime writer tells...
8) Siberia 10
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As the Vietnam War rages, blood will be shed at a stateside Marine Corps prison, in this novel.
Siberia 10 is a military prison in California, and tensions are coming to a slow boil within its walls. Inmates are trying to escape; guards are practicing constant brutality; racial tensions are seething. Those confined to Siberia 10 have been trained to fight and kill-and in the midst of chaos, things could turn lethal. Into this tinderbox comes Garth...
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Gritty, suspenseful short fiction about criminals and other characters on the edge from an Edgar Award–winning author.
A hit man who refuses a commission goes into hiding, afraid that everybody who looks twice at him may be carrying a bullet with his name on it. A Vietnam veteran plots revenge on the commanding officer who sent his troops into a cloud of Agent Orange; a ward of hospitalized WWII soldiers schemes to find the whereabouts of the...
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A collection of short fiction, including an Edgar Award–nominated story, about hard-luck characters and the human instinct to survive.
A survivor of Little Bighorn faces down the resulting trauma in the decades following the bloody battle. An old man who has lost his late wife's cat joins forces with an unlikely partner to rescue abused animals. An ex–racecar driver contends with criminals in the midst of the famous Dakar Rally. Challenge...
11) Summit Kill
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One man fights to foil a wild plot for worldwide destruction in this action-packed thriller.
Herr Inman has a plan and the resources to pull it off.
First there will be five assassinations of powerful world leaders-including the pope-then three atomic bombs aimed at major cities. In the resulting chaos, Inman will take over the world...
Christian Alsen is a mercenary hired by Inman to put the scheme in motion. Instead, he sets out in search of a...
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A team of professional stunt performers are likely to lose their livelihoods as a new law goes into effect, severely limiting their ability to take the risks that have made them who they are.
In the meantime, they have a plan to mark a spectacular end to their careers-and possibly their lives-in this action-packed thriller by an Edgar Award—winning author.
13) The Wardens
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The decades-spanning saga of a woman's life in a family of prison wardens-and among the criminals they guard-by a Spur Award—nominated author.
Dru is the daughter of a warden, the first in a long line keeping watch over a local prison. This multigenerational epic follows Dru's relationships and conflicts with men on both sides of the bars through the early twentieth century, when convicts were often treated brutally and lawlessness still lurked...
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When a topless dancer is beaten to death, police detective Joe Kiley strongly suspects her boyfriend, a mob kingpin's brother, is the killer. He isn't-but in the course of trying to track him down, Kiley's partner winds up dead during an unauthorized stakeout.
Now Kiley wants vengeance-if not for the dancer, then for his longtime fellow cop. Despite warnings from the department, he's about to be drawn deep into the world of gangs and organized crime,...
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A "gripping, emotionally charged" account of a brutal crime committed by escaped prisoners from an Edgar Award—winning author (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
In 1973, six members of the Alday family were brutally murdered in their home in Donalsonville, Georgia, by fugitives who escaped from a Maryland prison and broke in to the Alday's house. Two of the escapees were brothers, and they picked up another one of their siblings, only fifteen years...
16) The Arm
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He was known as Cully the Arm-the best crapshooter in Chicago. Life was a game of both skill and luck, and he'd made his way to the big city seeking his chance to be a winner.
Before long he was moving between bars, backrooms, brothels-anywhere a man could gamble. Then he met a seductive woman named Lorry, who was playing a game of her own, and she wasn't about to let any rules get in her way ... The inspiration for the film The Big Town, The Arm...
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A gritty, action-packed novel about a World War II suicide mission that goes sideways from a "superlative storyteller" (Publishers Weekly).
In the midst of World War II, a Japanese submarine base must be destroyed. But someone needs to draw enemy fire while the goal is accomplished and the task would be a suicide mission. Only a certain kind of soldier can handle a job this risky. Now, six men have been chosen to serve as decoys, and a seventh has...
18) The Killings
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A pair of twins have been brutally murdered, and Los Angeles detectives George Cascade and Ed Fenner find themselves working a case with puzzling sexual overtones. When a young, intellectually disabled African American becomes the object of suspicion, tensions flare between the two officers—and it will push them to the edge before the truth can be sorted out.
19) Hard City
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The searing novel of a brutal boyhood in 1940s Chicago-and a young man walking the knife's edge between a life of crime and a brighter future.
The son of a single mother addicted to heroin, Richie grows up in poverty and hardship. His adolescence is a constant battle between hope-in the form of a kind boxing coach, a job in a bowling alley where he can sneak a nap, and a determination to track down his disreputable father-and brutality. Desperately...
20) Last Contract
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A hit man tries to make a clean break from his murderous career in this chilling novel from an award-winning author.
He has no police record, not even a traffic ticket. But he's killed twenty-seven people during his career as a professional assassin. And sometimes it's not just the target who takes a bullet-if the bodyguard or mistress is unfortunate enough to be around. When the time comes, it happens fast: assemble the weapon, load, ditch the evidence.
Now...