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Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In a grubby Athens hotel, Rydal Keener is bored and killing time with petty scams. But when he runs into another American, Chester MacFarland, dragging a man's body down the hotel hall, Rydan impulsively agrees to help, perhaps because Chester looks like his father. Then Rydal meets Collete, Chester's younger wife, and captivated, becomes entangled in their sordid lives, as the drama marches to a shocking climax at the ruins of the labyrinth at Knossos"--Amazon.com....
82) Behind the mask
Author
Publisher
Jerry Schneider Enterprises LLC
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Private detective, Bob Crowder, is the man behind the mask. He had some ingenious ways of ferreting out crime--fighting crooks by acting like a crook! Erle Stanley Gardner (famous for Perry Mason) wrote four stories about Bob Crowder. We have gathered them all together in this book. Follow his exploits in: Second-story law ; Restless pearls ; Behind the mask ; Jack of hearts.
83) Wild blues
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lizzie relates, through a victim statement, her harrowing journey through the Adirondacks seeking her disabled friend, Matias, who was kidnapped by escaped convicts.
84) Killer's choice
Author
Series
Jack Dana novels volume 3
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Jack Dana, retired Marine infantry officer and novelist, matches wits with a criminal he calls "the Monster" after friends are killed and others are kidnapped --
85) The heartless
Author
Series
Bruno Johnson novels volume 7
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Court bailiff Bruno Johnson reverts to violent crime mode when his daughter is threatened by a violent killer awaiting trial --
86) Redspace rising
Author
Series
Ten thousand thunders volume 2
Publisher
Flame Tree Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Harris Alexander Pope is the man who ended the Partisan War on Mars. All he seeks now is solitude and a return to the life that was stolen from him. Yet when he learns that the worst war criminals are hiding in other bodies, he is forced into an interplanetary pursuit. Teaming up with other survivors eager for their own brand of vengeance, Harris begins to suspect a darker truth: Maybe what he remembers about the war isn't what happened at all..."--...
87) Splintegrate
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"One of the many charms of planet Lyndir is the Between-World, home to the licensed entertainers of the Sa'adani Empire. The most famous of these is the seductive Kes, a professional dominatrix who is the crowning gem of the palatial house Tryst. When a high-powered imperial authority decides that the crime-cartel boss Janus, one of Kes's most devoted clients, needs to be taken out, Kes becomes their unwilling tool: she's imprisoned and turned into...
88) The nothing man
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books / Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
War changed Clinton Brown. Permanently disfigured by a tragic military accident, he's struggling to find satisfaction from life as a rewrite man for Pacific City's Courier. Shame has led him to isolate himself from closest friends and even his estranged, still faithfully devoted wife, Ellen. Only the bottle keeps him company. But now Ellen has returned to Pacific City, and she's ready to do whatever it takes to get Brown back. Even if it means exposing...
89) Anybody home?
Author
Publisher
CLASH Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"What came first, the home or the desire to invade? A seasoned invader with multiple home invasions under their belt recounts their dark victories while offering tutelage to a new generation of ambitious home invaders eager to make their mark on the annals of criminal history. From initial canvasing to home entry, the reader is complicit in every strangling and shattered window. The fear is inescapable. Examining the sanctuary of the home and one...
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this collection of nineteen unforgettable crime tales, Joe R. Lansdale brings his legendary mojo and gritty, dark humor to harrowing heists, revenge, homicide, and mayhem. No matter how they begin, things are bound to get ugly--and fast"--
Author
Publisher
Cash Money Content
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Picking up where Trick Baby left off we dive into the world of Johnny O'Brien, better known as White Folks. After learning to use his fair skin to his advantage to rise to the top of the Chicago con game, Folks is back for the big money and the big stakes of the long con. Following the death of his partner and mentor, Blue, Folks takes off for Canada. Having honed his skills and polished his acting, Johnny is done cheating marks out of small money....
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 17
Language
English
Description
Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don't add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a broken nose, hitching a ride east to Virginia. An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others, but he never came out. He has been executed, the knife work professional,...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Serving a ten-year sentence in a Nevada prison for armed robbery, Ethan Lockhart hopes that he can one day become a productive, law-abiding member of society ... When he's given a forty-eight-hour furlough to attend his sister Abby's funeral, he learns that her body was never found ... and he begins to suspect that there's more to her death than was reported ... But to get to the bottom of the mystery, he'll have to return to his unsavory past."--...
Author
Series
Serge Storms novels volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Recounts several months in the lives of about 15 losers who are lower on the criminal food chain than even an Elmore Leonard character. Take the insurance executive who has turned to money laundering to save his failing business after Hurricane Andrew; or the three thug wannabes who end up as vigilantes defending a community of senior citizens against their rapacious landlord; or take Serge and Coleman, who can only be described as Cheech and Chong...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Olivia Taylor Jones's life has exploded. She's discovered she is not only adopted, but her real parents are convicted serial killers. Fleeing the media frenzy, she took refuge in the oddly secluded town of Cainsville. She has since solved the town's mysteries and finds herself not only the target of its secretive elders but also her stalker ex-fiancé. Visions continue to haunt her: particularly a little blond girl in a green sundress who insists...
96) The million
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Every thirty years, ten billion visitors overrun Earth during one month of madness: partying, polluting, and brawling. In between, the world is ruled by the Million; the inheritors and custodians of all of humanity's wealth and history, they lead unimaginable lives of privilege and wealth, and they see it as their due. Gavin Penn-of-Chaffee is an illegal child-a visitor hidden among the Million. When the family that raised him in secret is torn apart,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A novel based on a series of actual murders committed by a young Bonnie and Clyde throughout the Southwest.
Jimmie John Hall wasn't anything until he was a killer, and Betty Dienhardt wasn't anything until she met Jimmie John Hall. When they get together, sparks fly and bullets follow. The first to go are Betty's parents, but Betty isn't bothered. She only wants to be with her man - the first person to ever make her feel special. They set off on...
98) Moll Flanders
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Moll is a headstrong young woman whose unfortunate social position leaves her in the most dire of circumstances. A destitute and hapless outcast, Moll is forced into a lifestyle that could easily break her spirit. But summoning courage in the face of adversity, Moll strives to triumph against overwhelming odds ... until the day she meets a very special man--one who promised to change her life forever.
Author
Series
Frost files volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Teagan Frost might be getting better at moving shit with her mind - but her job working as a telekinetic government operative only ever seems to get harder. That's not even talking about her car-crash of a love life. And things are about to get even tougher. No sooner has Teagan chased off one psychotic kid hell-bent on trashing the whole West Coast, but now she has to contend with another supernatural being who can harness devastating electrical...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
Travis Roan and his dog Bear are hunters: they travel the world pursuing evildoers in order to bring them to justice. They have now come to Kansas on the trail of Rudolph Bormann, a Nazi doctor and concentration camp administrator who snuck into the US under the name Rudy Goodman in the 1950s and has at last been identified. Travis quickly learns that Goodman has powerful friends who will go to any length to protect the Nazi; what he doesn't know...
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