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Black market (Kiki Swinson) volume 3
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English
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"She killed her abusive boyfriend in self-defense. But in jail, violent female gangs paid off by her enemies keep her fearing for her life--and land her in the hospital. From there, a medical testing facility is her one dubious hope for some kind of safety. But from the moment she hits the yard, she and other prisoners are victimized by illegal medical experiments. Injected with lethal diseases and made a test subject for experimental vaccines, she's...
2) Black river
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English
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A former prison guard and talented fiddler returns to his Montana hometown to bury his wife and confront the inmate who, twenty years ago, held him hostage during a prison riot.
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English
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While on vacation, Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch receives a strange summons from Billy Cronk, one of his oldest friends and a man he had to reluctantly put behind bars for murder. Billy wants him to investigate a new female prison guard with a mysterious past, and Mike feels honor-bound to help his friend. But when the guard becomes the victim in a brutal attack at the prison, he realizes there may be a darker cover-up at play--and that Billy...
4) Sanctuary
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Sanctuary novels volume 1
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English
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"Prison-guard-in-training Kenzie is taken hostage by the superpowered criminals of the Sanctuary space station--only to have to band together with them when the station is attacked by mysterious creatures"--
5) Barker House
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Follows the story of nine ... New Hampshire correctional officers over the course of one year on the job. While veteran guards get by on what they consider survival strategies--including sadistic power-mongering and obsessive voyeurism--two rookies, including the only female officer on her shift, develop their own tactics for facing 'the system'"--Publisher marketing.
6) Killing time
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Natalie Price mysteries volume 1
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English
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Thirty-one-year-old Natalie Price has a tough job. A superintendent in the Massachussetts prison system, she rules over inmates' lives just before they get released. She's had to fight hard to be taken seriously in this harsh world, a world that is mostly male-on both sides of the bars. But she believes in what she's doing, and she's good at it.
Now, however, she gets the biggest challenge of her six-year career when a good friend, a college professor...
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Hurricane Anna, a superstorm of two Category 5 hurricanes coming together, will wreak unprecedented havoc along the eastern seaboard. The officers at Ravenhill Correctional Institute in Florida flee, opening all the cell doors and leaving the inmates to fend for themselves as the floodwaters rise. Jack Constantine, an ex-cop serving ten years for killing one of his wife's murderers, is still seeking revenge against two of his wife's killers, who are...
8) Inside out
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Natalie Price mysteries volume 2
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English
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Natalie Price, who first appeared in Elise Title's acclaimed Killing Time, runs Horizon House, a halfway house for about-to-be-released convicts in the Massachusetts prison system. A young woman in a man's world, Nat is constantly under the gun, sometimes literally, to keep things running safely for inmates and employees.
The latest inmate to enter Horizon House is Lynn Ingram, a transsexual who was convicted of manslaughter but, always claimed self-defense....
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Jace Salome novels volume 2
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Zachary County Sheriff’s Office jailer Jace Salome is suffering nightmares as well as backlash from some deputies who are nurturing vehement and sometimes violent anger against her because her whistle-blowing brought down a ring of dirty cops. Just before Christmas, an assistant doctor is murdered in the jail amid rumors of drugs and inmates, and the jail medical provider cutting corners to save money. Jace gets yanked into the investigation by...
11) Cages
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Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Washed-up author Rufus Orton needs money. It's the main reason he takes the gig teaching creative writing to inmates at HMP Holderness. That, and the flattery of prison officer Annabeth Harris, who contacted him out of the blue and begged him to take the job. Annabeth loves Rufus' work. Genuinely. She loves being a prison officer too. But Annabeth is keeping a secret. Fifteen years ago she did something bad, and if it ever comes out, her new, perfect...
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