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Michael Bennett mysteries

Author:
Patterson, James, 1947
 
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Star rating for Step on a crack
Series Volume:
1.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
Pulled into the fray is Detective Michael Bennett, who faces the prospect of losing the love of his life and having to raise their ten children alone. With his own life teetering, he now faces the most sinister challenge of his career: a criminal who kills without hesitation and counters everything the NYPD and FBI throw at him. With the entire world watchng and the tension reaching a boiling point, Bennett must quickly find a way out-or become...
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Star rating for Run for your life
Series Volume:
2.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on New York City, killing the powerful and the arrogant. Discovering a secret pattern to The Teacher's lessons, Detective Mike Bennett realizes he has just hours to save New York from the greatest disaster in history.
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Star rating for Worst case
Series Volume:
3.
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
Description:
Detective Michael Bennett and FBI Abduction Specialist Emily Parker reluctantly team up to stop a killer targeting not only the children of New York's wealthiest families--but the entire city of New York.
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Star rating for Tick tock
Series Volume:
4.
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
Description:
NYC's number one detective, Michael Bennett, has a huge problem-- someone is recreating the crimes of infamous killers from New York's history. Bennett enlists the help of a former colleague, FBI Agent Emily Parker.
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Star rating for I, Michael Bennett
Series Volume:
5.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
Police officers shot Detective Michael Bennett arrests an infamous Mexican crime lord in a deadly chase that leaves Bennett's lifelong friend Hughie McDonough dead. From jail, the prisoner vows to rain epic violence down upon New York City-and to get revenge on Michael Bennett.Judges murdered To escape the chaos, Bennett takes his ten kids and their beautiful nanny, Mary Catherine, on a much-needed vacation to his family's cabin near Newburgh, New...

6. Gone

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Star rating for Gone
Series Volume:
6.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
"A crime lord has declared war on America. Only Detective Michael Bennett knows why. Manuel Perrine doesn't fear anyone or anything. A charismatic and ruthless leader, Perrine slaughters rivals as effortlessly as he wears his trademark white linen suit. Detective Michael Bennett once managed to put Perrine behind bars, the only official in the US ever to accomplish that. But now Perrine is out, and he has sworn to find and kill Bennett and everyone...

7. Burn

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Star rating for Burn
Series Volume:
7.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
Back home in New York, Detective Michael Bennett investigates a burnt body left where a strange party had been held in a condemned building.

8. Alert

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Star rating for Alert
Series Volume:
8.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
New Yorkers aren't easily intimidated, but someone is doing their best to scare them, badly: why? After two inexplicable high-tech attacks, the city that never sleeps is on edge. Detective Michael Bennett, along with his old pal, the FBI's Emily Parker, have to catch the shadowy criminals who claim responsibility -- but they're as good at concealing their identities as they are at wreaking havoc. In the wake of a shocking assassination, Bennett begins...
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Star rating for Bullseye
Series Volume:
9.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Snow blankets the avenues of Manhattan's exclusive Upper West Side. The storm is the perfect cover for a fashionable, highly trained team of lethal assassins as they prowl the streets, hunting their prey. But their first hit is simply target practice. Their next mission may very well turn the Cold War red-hot once again. Stepping directly into the line of fire, the president of the United States is in New York for a summit at the United Nations with...

10. Haunted

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Star rating for Haunted
Series Volume:
10.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
"Detective Michael Bennett is ready for a vacation after a series of crises push him, and his family, to the brink. He settles on an idyllic, small town in the beautiful Maine woods, a recommendation from a former colleague. But just when Bennett thinks he can relax, he gets pulled into a case that has shocked the tight-knit community. Kids are disappearing left and right with no explanation -- until several bodies turn up in the woods. As Bennett...

11. Ambush

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Star rating for Ambush
Series Volume:
11.
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
Only Detective Michael Bennett stands in the way of two lethal cartels fighting for New York City's multi-million-dollar opioid trade. And they know where Bennett, and his family, live. An anonymous tip about a crime in Upper Manhattan proves to be a setup. An officer is taken down--and, despite the attackers' efforts, it's not Michael Bennett. New York's top cop is not the only one at risk. One of Bennett's children sustains a mysterious injury....
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Star rating for Blindside
Series Volume:
12.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"The mayor of New York has a daughter who's missing and in danger. Detective Michael Bennett has a son who's in prison. The two strike a deal. Bennett and the mayor have always had a tense relationship, but now the mayor sees in Bennett a discreet investigator with family worries of his own. Just one father helping another. The detective leaps into the case and sources lead him to a homicide in the Bronx. The victim has ties to a sophisticated hacking...
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Star rating for The Russian
Series Volume:
13.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
"A series of gruesome murders in New York City has Michael Bennett angry -- but when he identifies similar cases in Atlanta and San Francisco, his feelings escalate into all- out alarm. All of the victims are young women. And each one is killed in a horrifyingly distinct fashion.In the midst of such devastating loss of life, Bennett's longtime love, Mary Catherine, is soon to become his bride. As Bennett toils to connect the cases, the killer strikes...
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Star rating for Shattered
Series Volume:
14.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
"Nothing could tear #1 New York Times bestseller Detective Michael Bennett away from his new bride--except the murder of his partner and best friend. NYPD master homicide investigator Michael Bennett and top FBI abduction specialist Emily Parker have a history. Working case after case, each can predict the other's next move. So when she fails to show at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, Bennett risks venturing far outside his jurisdiction. The...
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Star rating for Obsessed
Series Volume:
15.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
When a killer becomes obsessed with his oldest daughter, Detective Michael Bennett will do anything to keep his family safe as he races against time to crack this superstitious killer's code.
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Star rating for Crosshairs
Series Volume:
16.
Average Rating:
2.5 stars
Description:
NYC detective Michael Bennett teams up with a former Army Ranger and sniper whose long, unexplained absences from duty causes suspicions during the investigation of a serial killer.

17. Chase

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Star rating for Chase
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"'This was no suicide,' says Detective Michael Bennett. A man plunges to his death from the roof of a Manhattan hotel. It looks like a suicide-except the victim has someone else's fingerprints and $10,000 in cash. Enter Detective Michael Bennett." -- p. 4 of cover.
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Star rating for Manhunt
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
"Michael Bennett, be grateful you're alive. Someone attacked the Thanksgiving Day Parade directly in front of Michael Bennett and his family. The television news called it 'holiday terror'; Michael Bennett calls it personal. The hunt is on...."--Back cover.