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Edgar Wallace (2001) Dark Eyes Of London. (First published in 1924) Inspector Holt and his valet Sunny are relaxing in Monte Carlo when they are called back to Scotland Yard. Mr. Gordon Stuart has been found drowned in suspicious circumstances. The investigation leads Holt into a string of exciting adventures and romance. From the creator of King Kong.
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Minette Walters (1993) The Ice House Walters' debut starts with a mysterious disappearance: Ten years ago, Phoebe's husband David vanished without a trace after his wife caught him in bed with their daughter Jane. When a male corpse is discovered in an Icehouse of the estate, the police suspect Phoebe and her two best friends. The investigation threatens to ruin the lives of the three women.
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Joseph Wambaugh (2008) The New Centurions. Ex-cop turned bestselling writer Joseph Wambaugh portrays American cops as hard-drinking, skirt-chasing, foul-mouthed, and cynical. Wambough follows a class of new police recruits through their trials, triumphs and personal failures.
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Colin Watson (1991) The Naked Nuns. Inspector Purbright receives a strange cable - stating that "TWO NAKED NUNS AVAILABLE PHILADELPHIA". Featuring white slave traffic and international crime, this novel is one of Watson's best. His Inspector Purbright is the most intellectually dazzling detective in fiction and Watson's dry wit is unique among English crime fiction writers.
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Douglas Weber (2007) Solomon's key. The CODIS Project: A Conspiracy Thriller. One of the best offsprings of the religious conspiracy genre created by Dan Brown. This book has it all: An ancient secret society in the Vatican, the FBI's DNA index system, a beautiful Moassad agent, Mary Magdalena and an al-Qaeda orchestrated wave of terrorist attacks.
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Kevin Weeks / Phyllis Karas (2006) Brutal: The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger's Irish Mob. The disgusting hero (and co-author of the book), Phyllis Karas is a macho psychopath with an allegedly near genius IQ of 150. He grew up in the Southie projects of Boston and was the right-hand thug of one of the most notorious mob bosses. If you can stand the brutality it's certainly a fascinating read.
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Charles Willeford (2001) The Woman Chaser. Charles Willeford's story is about a cruel, perverted character - a used car salesman who wants to become famous by making a film. With complete lack of compassion he abuses everyone around him to achieve this goal. Willeford's portrait of this psychopath is chilling to the bone.
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Robert Wilson (2002) A Small Death in Lisbon. In 1941, a tough but likeable German businessman, Klaus Felsen, is persuaded by the Gestapo to go to Portugal and seize a large amount of tungsten, vital to the Nazi war effort. In 1999 Catarina Oliviera, daughter of a prominent lawyer, has been found brutally murdered Lisbon and Ze Coehlo, a liberal police inspector is investigating the disgusting circumstances of her death. The two story lines merge in a surprising climax.
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Laura Wilson (2006) A Thousand Lies. A dark story of brutal sadism and sexual abuse.
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Michael Winerip (2005) Adam Canfield of the Slash. Adam is the new coeditor of "The Slash" - a school newspaper. He and two other student journalists find out that the school's ambitious principal may be involved in a case of fund misuse. Should they report the case in their newspaper, or settle for an easy way out? Written by a Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist for the New York Times. Grades 5-8.
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