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Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Actress turned private investigator Jasmine Sharp has become accustomed to clients looking for long-lost relatives, so when a woman hires her to find her younger sister Tessa Garrion, Jasmine presumes the case will be relatively straightforward. The assignment takes her back into the world of professional theater, where she is warned off more than once for probing too deeply into the past. Meanwhile, Detective Superintendent and mother-of-two Catherine...
Author
Series
Mirador volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
Searching for a mysterious hacker when her Overworld team is invited to compete in an exclusive tournament, Marisa discovers that the event is rife with corruption, infighting, and dangers that render winning the only way to survive.
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Language
English
Formats
Description
'I am The Owl', he would whisper to himself after he had selected his prey, 'and nighttime is my time.'" Jean Sheridan, a college dean and prominent historian, sets out to her hometown to attend the twenty-year reunion of Stonecroft Academy alumni, where she is to be honored along with six other members of her class. There is something uneasy in the air: one woman in the group about to be feted, Alison Kendall, a beautiful, high-powered Hollywood...
85) La cría
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Ha desaparecido Lucas, el niño más famoso de España. Con más de un millón de seguidores en redes sociales, protagoniza un popular anuncio de galletas junto a Sweet Bunny, un enorme y enigmático conejo de peluche blanco. Candela, una teniente de la Guardia Civil en plena crisis vital, toma las riendas del caso y comienza una trepidante cuenta atrás para determinar si se trata de un secuestro, un caso de violencia vicaria o si podría estar...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
Español
Description
The Outside World takes place in Medellín. There, time is wrapped in a mist, and voices seem like whistles that get lost among tree branches. A castle-like structure stands watch in the overgrown outskirts of the city, and a blond girl runs out the door. Eyes watch, captivated by this unusual presence, and the girl disappears into the forest. It is 1971, and this girl's father, don Diego, has been kidnapped. El Mono is the leader of the crime ring,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When Ian Fleming dismissed his books in a 1956 letter to Raymond Chandler as 'straight pillow fantasies of the bang-bang, kiss-kiss variety' he was being typically modest. In three short years, his James Bond novels were already spearheading a boom in thriller fiction that would dominate the bestseller lists, not just in Britain, but internationally. The decade following World War II had seen Britain lose an Empire, demoted in terms of global power...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It is the wrong time to get sick. Speeding down the highway on the way to work, her two little girls sleeping in the back seat, medical resident Claire Rawlings doesn't have time for the nausea overtaking her. But as the world tilts sideways, she pulls into a gas station, runs to the bathroom, and passes out. When she wakes up minutes later, her car-and her daughters-are gone. The police have no leads, and the weight of guilt presses down on Claire...
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English
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"Groundbreaking, wholly involving, eerily prescient and terrifyingly topical, Dean Koontz's Jane Hawk series sets a new standard for contemporary thrillers. Since her sensational debut in The Silent Corner, readers have been riveted by Jane Hawk's resolute quest to take down the influential architects of an accelerating operation to control every level of society via an army of mind-altered citizens. At first, only Jane stood against the "Arcadian"...
90) The system
Author
Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"An electrifying, multi-voiced thriller tackling our criminal justice system, from the writer Michael Connelly called "one of our most gifted novelists.""--
On December 6, 1993, a drug dealer called Scrappy is shot and left for dead on the lawn outside her mother's house in South Central Los Angeles. Augie, a heroin addict, witnesses the whole thing before he steals all the drugs on her person, as well as the gun that was dropped at the scene. When...
Author
Series
Max Rupert novels volume 3
Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"FEATURING THREE CHARACTERS FROM THE BESTSELLING BOOK-CLUB FAVORITE THE LIFE WE BURY, THIS NOVEL EXPLORES A RIVETING MURDER CASE TOLD FROM TWO OPPOSING PERSPECTIVES. Detective Max Rupert and attorney Boady Sanden's friendship is being pushed to the breaking point. Max is convinced that Jennavieve Pruitt was killed by her husband, Ben. Boady is equally convinced that Ben, his client, is innocent. As the case unfolds, the two are forced to confront...
92) The bones of you
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
I have a gardener's inherent belief in the natural order of things. Soft-petalled flowers that go to seed. The resolute passage of the seasons. Swallows that fly thousands of miles to follow the eternal summer. Children who don't die before their parents. A community in shock When eighteen-year-old Rosie Anderson disappears, the idyllic village where she lived will never be the same again. Local gardener Kate is struck with guilt. She'd come to know...
93) Hold me down
Author
Publisher
Polis Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Gal, a rock star for a hot minute twenty years ago, is back in Boston to play a memorial for her late drummer/best friend when she finds herself freezing on stage at the sight of a face in the crowd. The next day, the middle-aged musician learns that the man she saw has been killed--beaten to death behind the venue--and her friend's widower is being charged in connection with his death. When the friend refuses to defend himself, Gal wonders why and,...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publsihing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Emotionally guarded Daphne Amos always believed she'd found a kindred spirit in her fiancé, Heath. Both very private people, they've kept their pasts hidden from the world, and each other, until Heath's escalating nightmares begin to put a strain on their relationship. Determined to give their impending marriage the best chance of succeeding, Heath insists that Daphne join him on a seven-day retreat with Dr. Matthew Cerny, a psychologiest celebrated...
Author
Publisher
Writer's Digest Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Suspense is one of the most powerful tools a writer has for captivating readers--but it isn't just for thrillers. From mainstream fiction to memoir, suspense creates the emotional tension that keeps readers on the edge of their seats. Mastering Suspense, Structure, & Plot is your hands-on guide to weaving suspense into your narrative. Award-winning author Jane K. Cleland teaches you how to navigate genre conventions, write for your audience, and...
96) The silent boy
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Paris, 1792. Terror reigns as the city writhes in the grip of revolution. The streets run with blood as thousands lose their heads to the guillotine. Edward Savill, working in London as agent for a wealthy American, receives word that his estranged wife Augusta has been killed in France. She leaves behind ten-year-old Charles, who is brought to England to Charnwood Court, a house in the country leased by a group of emigre refugees. Savill is sent...
97) Active memory
Author
Series
Mirador volume 3
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Even in a world where technology connects everyone's minds, it would seem that some secrets can still remain hidden. For all the mysteries teen hacker Marisa Carneseca has solved, one has always eluded her: When she was two years old, she was in a car accident in which she lost her arm and a mob boss's wife, Zenaida de Maldonado, lost her life. No one can tell her what she was doing in that car, or how it led to the feud between the Carnesecas and...
98) Louise's dilemma
Author
Series
Louise Pearlie mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Louise, chief file clerk at the OSS, heads off to talk to the recipient of a puzzling postcard referred to OSS by the US Censor, and her investigation becomes complicated as she realizes the recipient is involved in something illegal.
99) First blood
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
First came the man: a young wanderer in a fatigue coat and long hair. Then came the legend, as John Rambo sprang from the pages of FIRST BLOOD to take his place in the American cultural landscape. This remarkable novel pits a young Vietnam veteran against a small-town cop who doesn't know whom he's dealing with -- or how far Rambo will take him into a life-and-death struggle through the woods, hills, and caves of rural Kentucky.
100) Burning cold
Author
Series
Publisher
Passport Press
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
Budapest: 1956. Newlywed Cara Walden's brother Zoltán has disappeared in the middle of the Hungarian revolution, harboring a deadly wartime secret. Will Cara or the Soviets find him first? Cutting short her honeymoon in Paris to rescue a sibling she's never met was not Cara's idea, but her husband Jakub has a reckless streak, and she is too much in love to question his judgment. Together with her older brother Gray, they venture behind the Iron...
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