Nancy Pickard
27) Manhattan mayhem
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English
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From Wall Street and Greenwich Village to Chinatown, Harlem and beyond, the streets and skyscrapers of Manhattan are brimming with crimes and misdemeanors.
28) The runaway
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The runaway: Angie and Mary left with no idea where the road might take them. All they knew was that their stepfather was not going to separate them. He planned to send Angie, the pretty but slow one, off to a special school. As close as the girls were, the could not allow this to happen. So they ran. Along the road they meet a mysterious young man with a common past.
Afraid all the time: Jane Baum left the big city for the country with romantic...
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English
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Never before published stories by Nevada Barr, Barbara Collins, Carole Nelson Douglas, Eileen Dreyer, Vicki Hendricks, Suzann Ledbetter, Elizabeth Massie, Christine Matthews, Denise Mina, Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky, Nancy Pickard, S.J. Rozan, and Julie Smith. In the expert hands of fourteen story tellers, being a housewife takes on a whole new meaning.
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Anger, jealousy, gluttony, sloth, lust, greed, pride. The seven deadly sins have been the roots of crime throughout human history. In this collection, Elizabeth George has gathered 23 tales that probe the dark heart of crime in the name of a pair of particularly wicked transgressions: lust and greed.
35) Kansas City noir
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English
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"Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is comprised of all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. In Kansas City noir, naked ambition meets broken dreams, and blues and the night go together like rye whiskey, vermouth, and bitters."--Back cover.