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281) Knight's ransom
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Series
First Argentines volume 1
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. A brutal war of succession has plunged the court of Kingfountain into a power struggle between a charitable king who took the crown unlawfully and his ambitious rival, Devon Argentine. The balance of power between the two men hinges on the fate of a young boy ensnared in this courtly intrigue. A boy befittingly nicknamed Ransom. When the Argentine family finally rules, Ransom must make his own way in the world....
Author
Series
Jack Logan novels volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"It's been almost two years since investigative reporter Jack Logan and television producer Taylor Parks brought down the Institute - the secret facility responsible for indoctrinating a generation of America's political and media power players. Their lives are just getting back to normal, and Jack and Taylor have settled into married life with their young son, Evan. But soon a series of bizarre, seemingly random murder/suicides captures Jack's attention...
Author
Series
Logan West novels volume 4
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Following the events of the "fast, hard-hitting, and impossible to put down" (The Real Book Spy) Field of Valor, Logan West continues his mission to bring America's traitorous vice president to justice, even as the clandestine group pulling all the strings makes one last deadly bid to regain their power. The vice president of the United States is missing, the director of the National Security Agency has been assassinated, and the mysterious organization...
284) In rhino we trust
Author
Series
Publisher
Dundurn
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In the third Jenny Willson Mystery, Parks Canada warden Willson joins an American colleague on a secondment to assist Namibian authorities trying to stem the loss of the country's rhinos to illegal hunting. But the plan takes a dramatic turn as Willson finds herself in the crosshairs of a conspiracy involving wildlife poachers backed by a shadowy network of international buyers who are prepared to eliminate any obstacles in their way, including Willson...
Author
Series
Covert-One series volume 4
Language
English
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On the dark waterside docks of Shanghai, a photographer records cargo being secretly loaded. He's brutally killed and his camera destroyed. Two weeks later on the dangerous high seas, the U.S. Navy covertly tracks a Chinese ship rumored to carry tons of chemicals for Saddam Hussein to create new biological weapons. The President cannot let the ship reach Iraq. At the same time, he doesn't want the navy to attack and board it either, because decades...
286) Forest of secrets
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"May, 1586. Ursula and her retinue return home from a lengthy trip to discover she has an unexpected visitor. Etheldreda Hope is a simple countrywoman who has come to Ursula with disturbing tales of strange goings-on in her rural village. Fearing that Etheldreda's reports of mysterious forest rites indicate a possible conspiracy to overthrow Queen Elizabeth in favour of her cousin, Mary Stuart, the queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, orders...
287) Dance with death
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"London, 1893: Private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn are called in to protect Tsesarevich Nicholas from nefarious forces as he travels to England for a royal wedding-in Dance with Death, the next mystery in Will Thomas's beloved series. In June of 1893, the future Nicholas II travels to London for a royal wedding, bringing with him his private security force and his ballerina mistress, Mathilde Kchessinska. Rumored to be the target...
288) Fierce poison
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"London, 1893, there is poisoner loose in the city, with deaths piling up, and private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn are apparently his next target in Fierce Poison by Will Thomas. Private Enquiry agent Cyrus Barker has just about seen it all-he's been attacked by assassins, his office has been bombed, and evil-doers have even nearly killed his dog. But never before has a potential client dropped dead in his office. When Roland Fitzhugh,...
289) Trap the devil
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"A group of some of the most powerful people in the government, the military, and the private sector, has begun a brutal plan to quietly take over the reins of the U.S. government. They've begun to remove the people who stand in their way--and replace them with their own sympathizers and puppets. They've already taken out the Speaker of the House--whose death was made to look like an accidental drowning--and the president and vice president are next....
290) The sweet goodbye
Author
Series
Danny Barrett volume 1
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"In this thrilling new series from Edgar-nominated author Ron Corbett, the most dangerous predator in the Maine wilderness walks on two feet-and it is Danny Barrett's job to bring him down. Something is not right in the North Maine Woods. A small family-run lumber company should not have more than two hundred million unaccountable dollars on their books. Money like that comes from moving something other than wood across the border. The first agent...
291) Zero hour
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Jack Ryan, Jr. is the one man who can prevent a second Korean War in the latest thrilling entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series"--
When the leader of North Korea is catastrophically injured, his incapacitation inadvertently triggers a “dead-man’s switch,” activating an army of sleeper agents in South Korea and precipitating a struggle for succession. Jack Ryan, Jr. is in Seoul to interview a potential addition to the Campus....
292) The whispering city
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Barcelona 1952. General Franco's fascist government is at the height of its oppressive powers, casting a black shadow across the city. When wealthy socialite Mariona Sobrerroca is found dead in her mansion in the exclusive Tibidabo district, the police scramble to seize control of the investigation. Eager young journalist Ana Martí Noguer is surprised to be assigned to this important story, where she must shadow Inspector Isidro Castro. But Ana...
293) Code 6: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Aspiring playwright, Kate Gamble, is struggling to launch a script she's been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counter-terrorism organization in the Western World. Kate's father adores her, and a play about the dark side of Big Data would be the ultimate betrayal in...
Author
Series
Cass Neary novels volume 4
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Cass Neary needs cash to get home to New York, and she’s already sold her camera - like losing a limb, for a photographer of her experience. Her best chance is to get in on the deal that Griffin, an old flame, is about to cut with a notoriously particular bookseller for a gorgeous, ancient illuminated manuscript: The Book of Lamps and Banners. This Book is more than just a beautiful object - its text and images are said to have a powerful...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew race to identify a link between an ancient Egyptian treasure, a 1927 daredevil aviator's disappearance and the sinking of a modern fishing trawler to prevent a scheme by a cutthroat arms dealer."--
In 1074 B.C., vast treasures disappear from the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs. In 1927, a daredevil American aviator vanishes on an attempted transcontinental flight. And in the present day, a fishing trawler with a mysterious...
296) White lies
Author
Series
Arcane Society novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Level-ten parasensitive Clare Lancaster has resigned herself to the fact that she may never find a suitable mate. A human lie detector, any falsehood-no matter how subtle-sets her blood racing. And most people, to one degree or another, hide behind a façade. Including her business titan father's new "consultant," Jake Salter. His careful conversation walks a delicate line between truth and deception, revealing and resisting. But it is with his help...
297) Tokyo time
Author
Publisher
Brash Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 1942, during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, two seasoned homicide detectives--one a Eurasian, caught between two worlds, and the other, a pacifist Japanese escaping dark and tragic secrets at home--are thrown together to solve a high-profile murder and come to terms with each other under the yoke of a brutal and corrupt military regime. Eurasian homicide detective, Martin Bach, has survived the war and the surrender: now all he has to do...
298) Smokescreen
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Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In this heart-pounding thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan journeys to Africa to help families torn apart by a violent attack deep in the jungle -- but she may be putting herself in more danger than she knows. A journalist shows up on Eve Duncan's doorstep with a plea for help. Jill Cassidy has just come from a small African village with a heart wrenching story: half the villagers -- many...
299) La otra mujer
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Es la historia de un hombre al que una vez amó en Beirut, años atrás, y de un hijo que le arrebataron en nombre de la traición. Esta mujer es la guardiana del secreto mejor guardado por el Kremlin: hace décadas la KGB infiltró a un agente doble en el mismo corazón de occidente, un topo que hoy se encuentra a las puertas del poder absoluto. Solo una persona puede arrojar luz sobre esta conspiración: Gabriel Allon, el ya legendario restaurador...
300) Conspiracy
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"December 1585: King Henry III of France is the last of his line. He has appointed a Protestant as his successor, which has caused a three-way war in his country. As a result, the king is in mortal fear of a coup being orchestrated by the ultra-conservative Catholic League. Radical philosopher, ex-monk and spy Giordano Bruno, forced to return to Paris, is called upon by King Henry to unearth the motivation behind several mysterious but linked deaths....
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