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Terror town

Kaminsky, Stuart
Abe Lieberman looks for the killer of an African-American woman, Bill is being stalked by a crazy guy.

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3/2006

You Bet Your Life

Kaminsky, Stuart
P.I. Toby Peters is hired by Chico Marx to find out who is trying to rip him off.

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8/1998

A Whisper To The Living

Kaminsky, Stuart M.
What may be the last Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov book as the author passed away in 2009, I find. There's a serial killer in a park, and there's a boxer accused of murdering his wife and his sparring partner. Elena and Iosef get married!

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2/2013

Always Say Goodbye

Kaminsky, Stuart M.
Fifth of the Lew Fornesca series. Lew leaves Florida to go back to Chicago to find out who killed his wife several years ago. Good stuff.

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8/2007

Bright Futures

Kaminsky, Stuart M.
Lew Fonesca is hired to prove that a teen didn't kill a guy everyone hated who was trying to shut down the local high school for gifted students. The Dairy Queen is closed; Lew moves AND buys a car for sixty-six bucks. Victor goes home, too. A small quibble with "twelve hundred years" and "twelve hundred centuries" on page seven, but I'll get over it.

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There were consequences, but there was the promise of windmills. (pg. 146)

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8/2010

Fall Of A Cosmonaut

Kaminsky, Stuart M.
Inspector Rostnikov looks for a missing cosmonaut, Sash looks for who stole a motion picture negative, Karpov looks for the murderer of an ESP researcher.

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7/2001

Lieberman's Choice

Kaminsky, Stuart M.
A cop shoots his wife and her lover and then threatens to blow up the building. Lieberman wins the first confrantation with Frankie Kraylaw. Seconnd book in series.

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5/2003

Lieberman's Day.

Kaminsky, Stuart M.
Frankie Kraylaw shows up again. Abe's brother's son is murdered. Sweet Jesus, what an ending.

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5/2003

Lieberman's Folly

Kaminsky, Stuart M.
Hanrahan screws up drunk, the woman he is to protect get killed. Good as always. First book in series.

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"Don't think of them as people," Liam Hanrahan advised. "Think of them as exact replicas..." --pg. 50.

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5/2003

Lieberman's Law

Kaminsky, Stuart M.
Abe Lieberman deals with skinheads, Palestinians, Korean mobsters, and vandalism at his temple.

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3/2003

Lieberman's Thief

Kaminsky, Stuart M.
Lieberman must catch a burgler to catch a wife murderer. Pretty good.

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4/2003

Murder On The Trans-Siberian Express

Kaminsky, Stuart M.
Inspector Rostnikov takes a trip on the railroad, Karpov visit a skinhead bar.

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1/2002

Not Quite Kosher

Kaminsky, Stuart M.
Chicago policeman Abe Lieberman eventually catches up with an unfortunate thief, deals with a bar-mitzvah.

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3/2003

Retribution

Kaminsky, Stuart M.
Lew Fonesca agrees to find the sister of a mentally-impaired neighbor. And Adele has run off, possibly with all the unpublished manuscripts of a famous reclusive author she met. Plus, people are getting killed. It's all rather depressing... I've decided that Kaminsky's books are peopled by charactors who have had some tragedy in their life, and are often searching for some kind of redemption.

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8/2007

The Big Silence

Kaminsky, Stuart M.
Abe Lieberman threatened by Kim, also there is a little matter of a kidnapped teen boy who is the son of a Mafia snitch.

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4/2003

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6/2005

The Dog Who Bit A Policeman

Kaminsky, Stuart M.
Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov trys to stop the Russian Mafias from killing each off while fellow officer Sasha investigates a dog fighting ring.

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1/1999

Not A Girl Detective

Kandel, Susan
Biographer Cece Caruso investigates a murder in the Nancy Drew fan community. Lots of trivia.

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11/2009

Skullduggery

Karr, Kathleen
Matthew's family dies in a cholera plague in 1839 New York. Living on the streets, he manages to get a job assisting Dr. Cornwall, a phrenologist. Dr. ABC wants a strong helper. Matthew soon finds out why. Great story

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11/2012

The Bad Detective

Keating, H.R.F.
Detective Sargeant Jack Stallworthy wants to give his precious wife Lily the island paradise she craves, but things keep getting in the way. 279 p.

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9/2001

The Clue In The Diary

Keene, Carolyn
Nancy Drew helps out an inventor who has been swindled of his patents. How come Nancy needs the diary translated when she has been speaking to the person who wrote it? Read this entirely on the potty at work!

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"Three strong, capable girls like ourselves shouldn't need any help" -- pg. 159 Famous last words, Nancy!

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5/2010
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