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Michael, a young man who hasn't spoken since a childhood trauma, has a gift for opening locks, and it gets him recruited by professional criminals.
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Harlem Shuffle
A furniture dealer in 1960s Harlem runs a criminal sideline, and the heist novel becomes a portrait of a neighbourhood navigating the edge of the Civil Rights era.
Forfeit
James Tyrone, a racing journalist caring for his paralysed wife, looks into the death of a colleague and finds a racket in racing tips.
Silent Joe
Joe Trona, scarred as a baby when his father threw acid in his face, works as a deputy in Orange County and as bodyguard to the county supervisor who adopted him, until the man is shot dead in front of him.
First Lie Wins
Evie Porter has the perfect boyfriend and a pleasant life in a small Louisiana town, but Evie Porter is not her real name, and when a woman shows up using the name she was born with, the job she was sent to do starts to unravel.
Whip Hand
Sid Halley, a former champion jockey turned private investigator after losing a hand, is hired to find out why promising racehorses keep failing.
Dodgers
East, fifteen, a lookout for a drug house in Los Angeles, is sent with his volatile younger brother and two other boys on a drive halfway across the country to Wisconsin to kill a witness.
Down River
Adam Chase, acquitted of murder five years ago but cast out by his family, comes home to Rowan County, North Carolina, when an old friend asks for help, and bodies start turning up.
Briarpatch
Benjamin Dill, a Senate investigator, goes home to his southern city for the funeral of his sister, a homicide detective killed by a car bomb, and starts asking questions.
Lucky
Lucky Armstrong, raised by her con-man father, is alone after a job goes wrong when she finds she is holding a winning lottery ticket she can't cash, because the name she is living under is stolen.
The Black Echo
LAPD detective Harry Bosch recognises the body found in a drainage pipe near the Mulholland Dam as Billy Meadows, who fought beside him as a tunnel rat in Vietnam, and the case leads to a bank vault robbed from below the city and an uneasy partnership with FBI agent Eleanor Wish.
The Final Girls
Ten years after Quincy Carpenter became one of the 'Final Girls', three young women who each survived a massacre, she has a baking blog and a quiet life in Manhattan, until one of the others is found dead and the third, Sam, turns up at her door.
Five Decembers
In Honolulu in late 1941, detective Joe McGrady chases a killer to Hong Kong just as the Japanese attack, and is trapped behind the lines for the war.