The Girl in the Motel
Joe Court, Book 1
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Chris Culver
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A detective is forced to confront the demons of her past while investigating the death of an old friend in the first novel of Chris Culver’s gripping Joe Court Series.
Detective Mary Joe Court sleeps with a shotgun beside her bed and a lovable bull mastiff at her feet. For the past 12 years, she’s hidden from a nightmarish past, but with every passing day, her scars fade, and her heart grows lighter. Now, for the first time in her life, she looks forward to her future. She’s happy.
Then she finds the body.
Someone shot the victim in her chest and left her to die in a cheap motel. Joe knew her well. She grew up with her. They were sisters, of a sort.
Twelve years ago, the victim put a gangster in prison. Now that gangster’s out, and he’s looking to settle scores - Joe included. Joe has fought to leave her past behind. Now, she has to face it or lose everything she cares about. Because the killer hunting her will tear apart her carefully constructed life piece by piece until there’s nothing left.
Unless Joe gets him first.
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Starting your life over at age 38 isn't easy, but that's what Sarah Winston finds herself facing when her husband CJ runs off with a 19-year-old temptress named Tiffany. Sarah's self-prescribed therapy happily involves hitting all the garage and tag sales in and around her small town in Massachusetts. But after returning from a particularly successful day searching for yard-sale treasures, Sarah finds a grisly surprise in one of her bags: a freshly bloodied shirt...that undoubtedly belongs to her ex, CJ, who now happens to be Ellington's chief of police. And Tiffany has gone missing.
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frustrating book
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By: Sherry Harris
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The Last Refuge
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Sam Acquillo is at the end of the line: he's a middle-aged corporate dropout living in a ramshackle cottage in Southampton's North Sea. But then the old lady next door ends up floating dead in her bathtub, and it seems that Sam is the only one who wonders why.
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A hero who doesn't work and play well with others.
- By Cholmondeley on 04-04-13
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Paranoid
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There are people in Edgewater, Oregon, who think that twenty years ago, Rachel Gaston got away with murder. But Rachel still has no idea how a foolish teenaged game turned deadly - or who replaced her soft pellet air gun with a real weapon. When a figure jumped out at her from the darkness, she fired without thinking. By the time she recognized her half-brother, Luke, it was too late.
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This was an awesome book!
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NYPD Red: Booktrack Edition
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NYPD Red is a special task force charged with protecting the interests of Manhattan's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. When a world-famous movie producer is poisoned on the first day of a Manhattan film festival called Hollywood on the Hudson, they are the first ones called. Then an actor is killed on the set of a film. And a Molotov cocktail explodes at a movie premiere.
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The whole book kept. Me on edge
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By: James Patterson, and others
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- claudel lamarre
- 10-20-24
Could not put it down
Really liked this book, thrilling, mysterious and interesting. Grabbed my interest from the first page.
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- E Lorenzen
- 03-17-21
Loved this story
Loved this story. I really like the narration. looking for the next one to read
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- Sylvia
- 11-08-23
More Chris Culver, please
I have gotten bored with most of the female detectives I enjoyed in the past — Tracey has become dull, Kim is just too bitchy, Joanne has run her course and on and on. Joe Short could be my new favorite but i am sorry to see this is the only audiobook adaptation of Chris Culver’s work. Kindle is always good but I can’t read while running or handling routine chores. Hope to see more Culver audios in the future.
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- Kindle Customer
- 07-31-23
Girl in the motel
Enjoyed the story. Kept you wondering what was going to happen next. Listened to if in one setting couldn't put it down.
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- K. F. Adams
- 04-03-24
Fast Read…Engaging Character
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. This author is new to me, but I’ll definitely read more of his books in the future. I look forward to the rest of this series being offered on Audible!
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- harrisc
- 03-19-22
Great Mystery
The Work starts out slow, but once the action starts you won’t be able to put it down.
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- Peter A Dearing
- 06-20-24
Just a great cop story
The author was able to tie in the main character, personal past with her current family in such a way that I could not stop listening.
I’ll be downloading book to immediately
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- Vonda Foley
- 08-07-24
Unexpected
I love the main character!! She is full of grit and determination. Can’t wait to listen to her next story!
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- GM
- 02-13-23
Disappointed
I really enjoyed this book and, as I was listening, was thinking how much I would enjoy the rest of books in the series.
BUT AUDIBLE ONLY HAS ONE BOOK!!! You’ll have to resort to “old school” and READ the rest of the books in the series.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-15-23
A good story. Not your typical police stirrup
The premise is okay. Definitely a different approach to a police/murder case
Unfortunately like so many authors, the same background story keeps being repeated over and over again. It adds nothing to the story and after awhile because annoying.
Since the basic story is good, I endured the repetition and managed to get through the entire book. A little bit of a surprise ending.
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