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Stuart Woods Author Read AlikesNovember 5, 2014 |
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If you enjoy reading books by Stuart Woods try these authors.
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McNally's Bluff : An Archy McNally Novel by Vincent LardoWhen the wife of a former carnival performer is found murdered at the center of her husband's newly constructed garden maze, Palm Beach private investigator Archy McNally finds the case complicated by the performer's dramatic personality.
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A Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey ArcherA fateful meeting between Danny Cartwright, an East End cockney garage mechanic, and Spencer Craig, a young West End barrister on the fast track to success, ends in Danny being arrested, convicted of murder--thanks to Spencer, who becomes the prosecution's main witness--and sent to prison, where he spends his time plotting to escape and seek revenge. .
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The Dark Side of Midnight : The Other Side of Midnight, Rage of Angels, Bloodline by Sidney SheldonAn omnibus edition featuring three of the best-selling novelist's most popular works includes The Other Side of Midnight, Rage of Angels, and Bloodline, in which a young woman takes over the helm of an international pharmaceutical company in the wake of her father's sudden death and finds the family threatened by an unknown enemy. .
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Vigilante
by Stephen J. Cannell
A final novel by the Emmy Award-winning television writer best known for such programs as The Rockford Files and The A-Team finds LAPD detective Shane Scully and his partner, Sumner Hitchens, investigating a possible killer in their precinct when a trouble-making activist is found dead in her home.
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Gone
by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Detective Bennett comes out of the Witness Protection Program in an effort to stop the ruthless and charismatic killer, Manuel Perrine, who has sworn revenge in the latest installment of the best-selling series following Tick Tock.
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Deliver Us From Evil
by David Baldacci
Shadowy operative Shaw, from the author's thriller The Whole Truth, and photojournalist Katie James are reunited in a deadly duel of nerve and wits against a surprising enemy, in a struggle that leads them around the world at a breakneck pace.
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Borderline
by Lawrence Block
Available for the first time in half a century, a signature pulp novel by the award-winning author of A Walk Among the Tombstones is set on the Texas-Mexico border and follows the intersecting lives of a professional gambler, a bored divorcee, a beautiful hitchhiker-turned-sex performer, an agenda-seeking redhead and a killer on the run.
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The Inner Circle by Brad MeltzerAfter an archivist goes against security protocol to show an ex-crush the president's private room at the National Archives, the two stumble upon a dictionary once owned by George Washington and are soon entangled in a web of conspiracy and murder.
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The Black Box : A Novel by Michael ConnellyHarry Bosch investigates after a bullet from a recent killing is a match for one used in the unsolved murder of a photographer in 1992 in this new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of The Drop. ( .
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The Heist : A Novel
by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg
A brand new series from #1 New York Times best-selling author Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg, best-selling author and television writer for Monk. What's an FBI agent to do after she's caught the world's most wanted—and irresistibly charming—con man?.
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Identical by Scott TurowBased loosely on the myth of Castor and Pollux, this electrifying novel of murder, sex and betrayal follows Cass as he, released from prison after serving 25 years for the murder of his girlfriend, is subjected to a re-investigation of her murder, while his identical twin brother Paul runs for office.
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Sycamore Row
by John Grisham
A Time to Kill's Jake Brigance returns in a dramatic courtroom showdown that confronts the tortured history of Ford County, where intrigue, suspense and plot twists challenge a small Southern community's pursuit of justice.
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Eureka
by William Diehl
Two decades after a young Thomas Culhane escaped Eureka, California, to fight in World War I, police detective Zeke Bannon uncovers dark secrets from the past that could threaten Culhane's campaign for governor of California
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The Liar by Stephen Fry"Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel is by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist; unprepared to learn about the Mendax device; unprepared for more murders and wholly unprepared for the truth. The Liar is a thrilling, sophisticated and laugh-out-loud hilarious novel from a brilliantly talented writer"
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You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff KorelitzA successful New York City oncologist with the perfect family she always wanted has her life turned upside after her husband goes missing and a chain of horrible revelations sends her reeling, in this new novel from the author of Admission.
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Silent Night : A Spenser Holiday Novel by Robert B. ParkerEntreated by a young street kid to help a mentor who is being threatened during the holiday season, Boston private investigator Spenser, aided by Hawk, follows leads to a dangerous drug kingpin, in a posthumously completed final tale by the award-winning author of the Virgil Cole-Everett Hitch series.
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Guilt by Jonathan KellermanWhen he is consulted on a cold case involving the discovery of infant remains in a neglected fixer-upper Tudor mansion, psychologist-investigator Alex Delaware, tracing the long history of past residents, is led down a bloody path littered with unprecedented narcissism and unspeakable cruelty.
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The Terminal Man by Michael CrichtonA team of surgeons perform an operation on a violent paranoid man in an attempt to electronically control his behavior, only to have an unforeseen development from the procedure endanger the city
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Daddy's Gone A Hunting by Mary Higgins ClarkWhen her sister is wrongly implicated in an explosion that has destroyed her family's priceless antiques business and killed an employee, Hannah struggles to find clues in the ashes and discovers a life-threatening secret from the past.
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Christopher's Diary : Secrets of Foxworth by V. C. AndrewsA new novel from the best-selling author of such classic works as Flowers in the Attic shares new insights into the Dollanganger family saga from the perspective of Christopher. TV tie-in.
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Silken Prey by John SandfordInvestigating the murder of a political fixer who had blackmailed his ambitious heiress employer during a vicious smear campaign, Lucas Davenport follows disturbing leads to the Minneapolis police department and a ruthless woman who threatens his life.
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The Red Room
by Ridley Pearson
Pressured into brokering an art deal in Istanbul, surveillance expert John Knox and his partner, the fearless Grace Chu, orchestrate a brief meeting with a mysterious man only to be thwarted by an unexpected number of adversaries.
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Too Much Money : A Novel
by Dominick Dunne
A sequel to People Like Us finds writer Gus Bailey witnessing the disappearance of the old-money society that once occupied him and investigating the murder of one of the world's wealthiest men, an effort that is sabotaged by the man's calculating wife and schemers within Gus's own set.
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Scott Free : A Novel by John GilstrapSherry Carrigan O'Toole is forced into an uneasy alliance with her former husband, Brandon, when their son's plane goes down in the wilderness during a storm, and they race against time, the elements, and a deadly enemy to find him
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Raylan by Elmore LeonardAfter discovering his quarry naked in the bathtub, doped up and missing his kidneys, Federal Marshall Raylan Givens becomes involved, both literally and figuratively, in a case involving the harvesting of organs for sale on the black market where this time the bad guys are girls.
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Poison Flower by Thomas PerryProtecting a man wrongly charged with the murder of his wife, Jane Whitefield is shot and abducted by the real culprits, who threaten to kill her if she does not reveal her client's whereabouts.
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The Angel Esmeralda : Nine Stories by Don DeLilloCollects nine short stories written between 1979 and 2011 that chronicle three decades of American life from the perspective of a range of characters, including a pair of nuns in the South Bronx and two astronauts orbiting the Earth
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The Big Finish : A Thorn Novel by James W. HallTeaming up with the FBI to catch his son's killer by setting himself up as bait, Thorn travels to a small North Carolina town to infiltrate a gang, only to discover that nothing he has been told is true.
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Frenzy by John LutzEx-cop Frank Quinn is forced to confront his past when a serial killer he has encountered before returns, claiming the lives of six women and inviting him to play a deadly game in which the players must either kill or be killed.
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Backflash
by Richard Stark
The master thief, Parker, plots to rob a floating casino on the Hudson River. He puts together a team of robbers, ensures weapons are smuggled on board, and arranges for a getaway boat. The planning is meticulous, but will chance favor the enterprise?
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Live Wire by Harlan CobenWhen a pregnant tennis star reports that her rock-artist husband has gone missing amid scandalous rumors, Myron Bolitar is forced to confront deep secrets about his client's past while struggling with fatherhood roles in his personal life.
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The Lion : A Novel by Nelson DeMilleIn a sequel to the best-selling thriller The Lion's Game, Libyan terrorist Asad Khalil, known as "The Lion," returns to the U.S. to take care of unfinished business, and the only man who can stop him is John Corey, a special agent for the NYPD's Anti-Terrorist Task Force.
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Kill Shot : An American Assassin Thriller by Vince FlynnWorking his way through a list of hit targets who were responsible for the slaughter of hundreds of civilians, assassin Mitch Rapp shoots a drunken Libyan diplomat in Paris only to discover that he has been set up and that his handlers would have him permanently silenced.
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