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1) Hot blooded
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A prostitute lies strangled in a seedy hotel room in New Orleans' French Quarter. Miles away, on the shores of Lake Ponchartrain, late-night radio host Dr. Samantha Leeds receives a threatening phone call. Who would think to link the two? Detective Rick Bentz is charged with the task of connecting the events.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
As detectives Walt "Hatch" Hatcher, Mary Hall, and Matthew Jackson investigate the killing of a call girl, they discover that the victim may have used a digital video camera to tape her clients and that her death may be tied to a hotly contested political campaign.
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Series
Tony Hill and Carol Jordan volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan turns to clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill to help solve the grotesque murder of a prostitute, a crime that bears a striking resemblance to an earlier series of solved crimes.
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Series
Jack Till volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Jack Till, who has retired from the LAPD, now works as a private investigator, comfortable chasing down routine cases while visiting his 24-year-old daughter, Holly, who has Down syndrome. But when the parents of a recently murdered young girl, about Holly's age, ask for his help when the police come up empty, Till reluctantly takes the case and finds the ruthless killer is responsible for a string of murders across the country.
6) Karen Memory
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A tale set in late nineteenth century steampunk Seattle finds orphaned Karen working in a high-quality bordello, where she confronts a powerful man who owns a dangerous mind-control machine.
8) Discretion
Author
Series
Anna Curtis volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Investigating the falling death of a high-paid escort at the U.S. Capitol building, Assistant U.S. Attorney Anna Curtis teams up with brash FBI Special Agent Samantha Randazzo to examine clues implicating a powerful elected official.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Discovering a murdered co-ed, St. Louis police lieutenant George Hastings encounters minimal leads and little support before a second victim is discovered, a case that prompts a race against time with ties to the secret desires of upstanding citizens.
10) The last sinner
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Series
Rick Bentz/Reuben Montoya volume 9
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
There are killers so savage, so twisted, that they leave a mark not just on their victims, but on everyone who crosses their path. For Detectives Bentz and Montoya, Father John, a fake priest who used the sharpened beads of a rosary to strangle prostitutes, is one such monster. Bentz thought he'd ended that horror years ago when he killed Father John deep in the swamp. But now there are chilling signs he may have been wrong. A new victim has surfaced,...
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Series
Sebastian St. Cyr mystery volume 4
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The sole witness to the slaughter of eight young prostitutes at a house of refuge near Covent Garden, Hero Jarvis, daughter of the Prince Regent's cousin, Lord Jarvis, joins forces with Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, to investigate the massacre, following a trail of danger that takes them from London's seedy underbelly to the highest levels of society.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murder of a prostitute in 1892 Portland, Maine, Deputy Marshal Archie Lean discovers that the victim was ritually executed as a witch, and enlists the help of a criminologist with whom he follows a trail to the spiritual societies of gothic New England.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A vintage-style reimagining of the case of Jack the Ripper pits the nineteenth-century serial killer against Sherlock Holmes, who endeavors to identify and outmaneuver his adversary against a backdrop of their time and without modern technology.
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Series
Commissario Ricciardi volume 6
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
It is one week before Easter, Naples, 1932. At the high-class brothel in the center of town known as Paradiso, Viper, the most famous prostitute of all, is found dead. Who killed her and why? Ricciardi has to untangle a complex knot of greed, frustration, jealousy and rancor in order to solve the riddle of Viper's death.
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Series
Longarm volume 434
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After saving soiled dove Lucy Potter from two attackers, Longarm takes pity on the young woman. He buys her a new dress, gets her cleaned up, and takes her out for a fancy steak dinner. Lucy's got a good heart, and Longarm hopes his kindness might encourage the jaded prostitute to try another line of work. But before Lucy can begin her new life, she's killed by the same men who attacked her. Blinded by rage, Longarm can no longer see the line between...
16) The shark
Author
Series
Forgotten files volume 1
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
At the grisly murder scene of a teen prostitute, Virginia state trooper Riley Tatum's past roars back to haunt her. When she was a teenage runaway, she was kidnapped, drugged, and left unconscious on the streets. She has no memories of what happened, only strange recurring dreams of two men playing cards. Former FBI agent Clay Bowman, Riley's old flame, is Shield Security's newest member. He's plagued by the unsolved case of a serial killer nicknamed...
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Series
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 25
Language
English
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Description
When scandal threatens the monarchy after a female guest turns up dead following one of the debauched stag parties of Edward, the Prince of Wales, the Palace calls in Thomas Pitt of the Special Branch to solve the murder with utmost discretion.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
As the heat rises on a New York summer, a suicide bomb set off in a Times Square subway station nearly claims the life of 68-year-old ex-madam Kathleen. Then a woman is brutally murdered, her body dumped on a marshy beach in Queens. The woman, Sharon, was last seen by Emily, a Deputy Press Officer working at City Hall, getting into a car in front of the building where she and Kathleen both live in far upper Manhattan. Emily uses her position to request...
19) The Blood
Author
Series
Jem Flockhart volume 3
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain identify a link between a suicide and a prostitute's drowning death in a floating hospital that has dark ties to a private anatomy school and the opium dens of the waterfront.
Summoned to the riverside by the desperate note of an old friend, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain find themselves onboard the seamen's floating hospital, an old hulk known only as The Blood. On shore a young woman, a known prostitute, is...
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Series
Madeleine Karno mystery volume 2
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Lene Kaaberbøl returns with her beloved protagonist Madeleine Karno--an ambitious young woman who shatters the confines of nineteenth century France as she struggles to become the first female forensic pathologist and hunt down what appears to be a Jack the Ripper copycat. On June 2nd, 1894, in the wake of President Marie Francois Sadi Carnot's assassination, France descends into chaos and riots in the streets...
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