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California insurance data analyst John Walker is approached by security consultant Max Stillman, who tells Walker that a colleague with whom Walker had an affair has disappeared after paying a huge benefit to an impostor. Stillman wants to find her and convict her; Walker is convinced the woman is innocent. Teaming up, Walker and Stillman are in an urgent race to track her down.
4) If she wakes
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Tara Beckley is a senior at idyllic Hammel College in Maine. As she drives to deliver a visiting professor to a conference, a horrific car accident kills the professor and leaves Tara in a vegetative state. At least, so her doctors think. In fact, she's a prisoner of locked-in syndrome: fully alert but unable to move a muscle. Trapped in her body, she learns that someone powerful wants her dead--but why? And what can she do, lying in a hospital bed,...
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Jeopardy falls volume 1
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"Christian O'Brady was pulled into a life of crime at a young age by his con artist parents. Now making amends for his corrupt past, he has become one of the country's foremost security experts. When a string of Southwestern art heists targets one of the galleries Christian secured, he is paired up with a gifted insurance investigator who has her own checkered past. Andi Forester was a brilliant FBI forensic analyst until one of her colleagues destroyed...
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Part one: Laine Tavish is now known as the proprietor of an antiques shop in Maryland, not the daughter of a con man. When her past catches up with her, she must find out who is chasing her, and why, with the help of insurance investigator Max Gannon. Part two: Andrea Gannon writes about her grandparents' exploits and murder follows. Detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas must track down the missing diamonds and stop the danger and death that has surrounded...
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"This pair of stepbrothers have their sights set on just one woman.... Scarlet Drake is an insurance fraud investigator hot on the heels of the thief who stole a multimillion-dollar art collection from tycoon Michael Vandenberg's Hamptons estate. Unfortunately, the sexy Wolf of Wall Street is also her prime suspect--along with his equally mouthwatering stepbrother, Montana rancher Sam Reed. Scarlet quickly finds herself tangled up in the two devilishly...
8) Shiver hitch
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Jane Bunker mystery volume 3
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"Jane Bunker thought she'd escaped the pollution, noise, and dead bodies of the big city when she left her job as a Miami homicide detective and moved back to the idyllic town of Green Haven, Maine. But through her work as a marine insurance investigator, it appears she's left behind the bustle of the city, but not the murder. When Jane is called to the remote Acadia Island to assess the damages from a house fire, she also finds a badly burned body...
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Toronto connections novel volume 1
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A guy who wants nothing but romance and a guy who wants nothing but sex will never work--right? Not unless they find a way to fill in the spaces between them.
10) Fadeout
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"Fadeout is the first of Joseph Hansen's twelve classic mysteries featuring rugged Dave Brandstetter, an insurance investigator who is contentedly gay. When entertainer Fox Olson's car plunges off a bridge in a storm, a death claim is filed, but where is Olson's body? As Brandstetter questions family, fans, and detractors, he grows certain Olson is still alive and that Dave must find him before the would-be killer does. Suspenseful and wry, shrewd...
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As an insurance investigator and world renowned expert in nonverbal communication, Dr. Genevieve Lenard faces the daily challenge of living a successful, independent life. Particularly because she has to deal with her high functioning autism. Nothing--not her studies, her high IQ or her astounding analytical skills--prepared her for the changes about to take place in her life. It started as a favour to help her boss' acerbic friend look into the murder...
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"When a civilian disappears, Detective Finn Cavanaugh catches the case. His partner-in-catching-crime? Brainy and beautiful insurance investigator Nik Kowalski, whose method of pursuing people clashes with Finn's own--and whose charms prove all too alluring. As their missing-person case heats up, Nik and Finn race to find the killer haunting their waking nightmares."--Back cover.
13) Dead on arrival
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An insurance fraud investigator goes undercover to expose an aerial ambulance company-only to discover that corruption can kill. Medical insurance fraud investigator Pauline Sokol likes to keep her feet firmly on the ground, but her new undercover assignment has the aero-phobic ex-nurse up in the air. Compelled by her convictions of right and wrong, she takes off in order to ground a land-and-air ambulance company. They've been doing some rather creative...
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Henry Rios volume 8
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"November, 1984. Criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios, fresh out of rehab and picking up the pieces of his life, reluctantly accepts work as an insurance claims investigator and is immediately is assigned to investigate the apparently accidental death of Bill Ryan. Ryan, part of the great gay migration into San Francisco in the 1970s, has died in his flat of carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty gas line, his young lover barely surviving. Rios’s...
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Tom Davin's business is a bit unusual-he finds stolen art and sells it back to its owners for a good penny-until he uncovers a devious plot and finds himself on the run from a vicious Russian assassin
Tom Davin is a Brooklyn insurance investigator in a jam. He arranged an art theft to cover a debt-only somebody swiped the paintings from his crew. Now the insurance company wants him to investigate his own art theft; the local bookie wants his money;...
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During World War II, due to a shortage of qualified pilots, Uncle Sam began a program of training thousands of military pilots. Among these were the Tuskegee Airmen, a unit of African-Americans eager to fly in combat. Fifty years later a Hollywood studio sets out to create a documentary about these brave airmen, featuring grizzled survivors of that long-ago era flying lovingly maintained vintage aircraft. And then...murder strikes on the movie set,...
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Since a burning accident that left him painfully disfigured, John Oats, a well-liked collectible book dealer, has been self-isolating at his beach house in Arena Blanca, California. An avid swimmer, John Oats had taken to night swimming to hide his injuries from daytime beachgoers. When his body is found one morning smashed against the rocks at the treacherous point near the house, the authorities rule it "Death by Misadventure." Insurance companies...
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"Murdered criminals. Flawless forgeries. Encrypted operas. The murder of an opera house director forces world-renowned nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard and her team into an impossible position: protecting notorious criminals--from what appears to be a serial killer. Genevieve plunges into the world of opera, uncovering secrets that a group of organized crime leaders would do anything to keep hidden. She cannot allow her previous...
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"When world-renowned nonverbal communication expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard wakes up in an unknown location, drugged and kidnapped, it pushes the limits of her autism coping skills. For the last year, Russian philanthropist and psychopath Tomasz Kubanov has been studying Genevieve just as she and her team have been studying him. Now forged paintings and mysterious murders are surfacing around her team, with evidence pointing to one of them as the...
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"Mediaeval books. Murdered priests. Bioweapons. Renowned nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard's search for an international criminal is interrupted when her team receives an antique book. At first the book is dismissed--until they discover similar books gifted to people who are now dead. Genevieve's inner strength is put to the ultimate test when someone close to her also falls victim to the vengeful actions of an unsound mind....