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Author
Publisher
IG Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A routine prisoner transfer on a rural highway ends with the bus upside-down in a ravine, the driver dead of a heart attack, and convicted murderer Ernie Luntz on the loose, his eyes fixed on the mountain range in the distance, over which lies his hometown of Ash Falls. Set in a moss-draped, Pacific Northwest mountain town, Ash Falls is the story of a closely connected community both held together and torn apart by one man's single act of horrific...
22) The chase
Author
Publisher
Forge, Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Chase is a modern The Fugitive with characters only #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Candice Fox can write. "Are you listening, Warden?" "What do you want?" "I want you to let them out." "Which inmates are we talking about?" "All of them." When 650 of the world's most violent human beings pour out of the Pronghorn Correctional Facility into the Nevada Desert, the biggest manhunt in US history begins. For John Kradle, this...
Author
Publisher
Sinister Grin Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"Will Burgess is used to hard knocks. Abandoned by his father, son of a drug-addicted mother, and charged with raising his six-year-old sister, Will has far more to worry about than most high school freshmen. To make matters worse, Mia Samuels, the girl of Will's dreams, is dating his worst enemy, the most sadistic upperclassman at Shadeland High. Will's troubles, however, are just beginning. Because one of the nation's most notorious criminals -...
Author
Series
Carter Blake thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The first thing you should know about me is that my name is not Carter Blake. When Caleb Wardell, the infamous 'Chicago Sniper', escapes from death row two weeks before his execution, the FBI calls on the services of Carter Blake, a man with certain specialized talents whose skills lie in finding those who don't want to be found. A man to whom Wardell is no stranger. Along with Elaine Banner, an ambitious special agent juggling life as a single...
25) Viper game
Author
Series
Ghostwalkers volume 11
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
GhostWalker Wyatt Fontenot knows the price he paid for the secret military experiments that gave him his special abilities. After all, he left his bayou home a healer and came back a killer. While Wyatt and his GhostWalker brother Gator may have known exactly the sort of game they were getting into, Wyatt never anticipated where it would lead -- or to whom... The swamps hold many mysteries, but few are as sinuously seductive as Le Poivre de Cayenne....
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Sam and Haley Quaid buried their ten-year-old-son and then ended their marriage all in one week. It wasn't a volatile divorce, but three years later, except for trading Christmas cards, Sam and Haley have completely lost touch...until a dramatic weather report sets their paths on a collision course once more. Tropical Storm Gladys is heading straight toward coastal Texas, and locals are anxious as they prepare for devastation. Haley, a Realtor, has...
27) The Ember Blade
Author
Series
Darkweaver legacy volume 1
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Empires rise, civilisations fall and one culture comes to subsume another. It's the way of the world... sometimes ways of life are improved, sometimes they are not. But the progression of change is huge and - usually - unstoppable. In this story, the Ossian way of life is fading and the Dachen way is taking its place and Aren is comfortable with that. Even when his parents are accused of treason he supports the establishment and maintains there's...
Author
Series
Reeve LeClaire novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"Reeve LeClaire is a college student, dammit, not Daryl Wayne Flint's victim. Not anymore-not when Reeve is finally recovering a life of her own after four years of captivity. Flint is safely locked up in Olshaker Psychiatric Hospital, where he belongs. He is walking the grounds of the forensic unit, performing his strange but apparently harmless rituals. It seems that he is still suffering the effects of the head injury he suffered in the car crash...
29) Enigma
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Working with Agent Cam Wittier (Insidious) and New York-based former Special Forces agent Jack Cabot, they must race against the clock to catch an international criminal and solve the enigma of the man called John Doe. When Agent Dillon Savich saves Kara Moody from a seemingly crazy man, he doesn't realize he will soon be facing a scientist who wants to live forever and is using "John Doe" to help him. But when the scientist, Lister Maddox, loses...
Author
Publisher
Narrativa Salamandra
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Amor Towles vuelve con una historia colosal sobre el viaje inici�atico de cuatro j�ovenes por el coraz�on de Estados Unidos durante la d�ecada de los a�nos cincuenta. Contada desde m�ultiples puntos de vista y poblada por un variado elenco de personajes magn�eticos, desde vagabundos que malviven entre ra�iles hasta arist�ocratas del Upper East Side, La autopista Lincoln es una novela arrolladora de encuentros y desencuentros, un...
31) Next in line
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"London, 1988. Royal fever sweeps the nation as Britain falls in love with the 'people's princess'. Which means for Scotland Yard, the focus is on the elite Royalty Protection Command, and its commanding officer. Entrusted with protecting the most famous family on earth, they quite simply have to be the best. A weak link could spell disaster. Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick and his Scotland Yard squad are sent in to investigate the team....
32) Wrong alibi
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Language
English
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Eighteen-year-old Evelyn Jones lands a job in small-town Alaska, working for a man in his isolated mountain home. But her bright hopes for the future are shattered when Donald White disappears, leaving her to face charges of theft, embezzlement—and a brutal double murder. Her protestations of innocence count for nothing. Convicted, she faces life in prison…until fate sends her on the run. Evie's escape leaves her scarred and in hiding, isolated...
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In this thrilling chase narrative, a hunted being escapes certain death at breakneck speed-careening through Europe, heading blindly South. Faster and faster, escaping the assassins, our protagonist flies forward, blending into crowds, adjusting to terrains, hopping on and off ferries, always desperately trying to stay a step ahead of certain death: the past did not exist, only what was current existed-a prisoner of the instant, rushing into this...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In A Small Town, twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the town-burning down homes and businesses. An immense manhunt ensues, but the twelve who plotted it all get away. After two years, all efforts by the local and federal police agencies have been...
35) The peasant king
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Jemmah has always thought of herself as perfectly ordinary . . . until she faces extraordinary circumstances. When her mother, the Persian king's famous senior scribe, is kidnapped, Jemmah and her sister must sneak undetected into enemy territory to rescue her. But infiltrating their adversary's lands proves easier than escaping them. Fleeing through dangerous mountain passes, their survival depends on the skills of a stranger they free from prison:...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After losing his best friend in a boating accident, Nate decides to go on a journey by himself to his family's remote cabin, but when he finds the cabin occupied by escaped inmates, he must depend on his skills to survive.
Four months after his best friend, Dodge, disappeared near their families' camp in a boat accident, Nate is still haunted by nightmares. He'd been planning to make the treacherous trek to the remote campsite with a friend - his...
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