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Series
Wolfe security volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"With the grit, sex, and suspense of Goliath, New York Times bestselling author Laura Griffin's Desperate Girls is a tightly wound, fast-paced thriller that examines intricate relationship dynamics in the wake of a killer's symbolic revenge spree. Defense attorney Brynn Holloran is right at home among cops, criminals, and tough-as-nails prosecutors. With her sharp wit and pointed words, she has a tendency to intimidate, and she likes it that way....
8564) The Witchfinder's Sister
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"A debut literary historical thriller based on the witch hunts in 1640s England--the most intense in English history--in which Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, convicted more than a hundred women of witchcraft. In 1645, Alice Hopkins returns to her brother's house in disgrace, husbandless and pregnant. The brother she remembers is now a grown man and he's hunting witches: women who live on the margins of society--often childless widows, or...
8565) The last verse: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Description
"When aspiring musician Twyla Finch arrives in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1977, the nineteen-year-old Texan is dazzled by the fringe-and-rhinestones country music scene. Live music flows from bars, open mic nights tempt with the chance of stardom, and record label execs seek the next hot new act. As Twyla finds her way in this vibrant town, she soon falls for Chet Wilton, country music hopeful and son of blue-blooded Nashvillians. When a night out with...
8566) Once bitten, twice shy
Author
Series
Jaz Parks novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Introducing Jaz Parks, assistant assassin to a vampire working for the CIA. Jaz and Vayl find that their assignment to take out a Miami plastic surgeon gets complicated when they discover he's in cahoots with a supernatural power.
8567) Deserving Cora
Author
Series
Refuge volume 4
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Cora Rooney desperately needs to win the representative from The Refuge at the veterans’ charity auction…it’s literally a matter of life or death. Of course, as is so often the case for the ex-orphan, nothing goes according to plan, and Cora loses her bid. Yet, she still finds herself in a diner with Bryson Clark, telling him about her best friend, who she suspects has been kidnapped and held against her will. After exhausting all other options,...
8568) Snow
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Two hunters and their guide find a crashed cocaine plane in the Montana wilderness. Each has a reason to steal the cocaine - who will? The two who do steal it soon find themselves hunted by the Mexican cocaine cartel, the DEA, Las Vegas killers, their guide, and the police of several states. From the frozen peaks of Montana to the heights of Wall Street, the slums of Denver and the million-dollar tables at Vegas, Snow is an electric portrait of today's...
8569) Countdown
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
THREE Kira Jordan wakes up in a pitch-black room handcuffed to a metal wall. She has 60 seconds to escape. Thus begins a vicious game where to lose is to die. TWO The man she's been partnered with--her only ally in this nightmare--is a convicted mass murderer. But if he's so violent, why does he protect her? And stranger still, what is it behind those haunted sea-green eyes that makes her want to protect him? ONE No one to trust. Nowhere to run....
Author
Series
Maximum Security volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"When missing turns to murdered, one woman's search for answers will take her to a place she never wanted to go. After searching for her sister for two years, Kate Gallagher is devastated when she's called to the morgue to identify Chrissy's body, the runaway teen the victim of a brutal attack. Kate failed Chrissy once, and she won't do it again--even if finding her sister's killer means following a lethal bounty hunter into the heart of darkness....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
What started as an exploration of the past soon escalates into an all-too-current danger. Someone is watching--someone who really doesn't want Claire digging into the past or Nick making connections to a current, violent murder case he's investigating. The bog's corpses may be long dead, but if Claire and Nick don't figure out who's gunning for a fresh kill, the next bodies to be discovered will be their own.
8572) Dead end girls
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Desperate to escape suffocating expectations and menacing families, seventeen-year-old Maude and her step-cousin Frankie fake their own deaths while on a family vacation in Hawaii, with deadly consequences.
8573) Hollow man
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Dominic is a prosecutor, a musician, and an Englishman living in Texas. He's also a psychopath. His main goal is to hide his condition and lead a seemingly normal life in hopes to pay off his debts and become a full-time musician in Austin's club scene. But on one lousy day his carefully controlled world starts to shatter: he's demoted at work and accused of stealing a fellow musician's song"--Page 4 of cover.
8574) The Outsider
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Things aren't going well for Grayson Hernandez. Just graduated from a fourth-tier law school, he's drowning in student debt. The only job he can find is as a messenger at the Supreme Court, where he's forced to watch the best and the brightest from the outside--the elite group of lawyers who serve as the justices' law clerks. When Gray intervenes in a violent mugging, he finds himself in the good graces of the victim: the Chief Justice of the United...
Author
Series
Bone Island trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
"Reclusive collector Cutter Merlin is seldom seen in Key West--lately, not at all. Officer Liam Beckett visits Merlin's curious house and discovers the gentleman in his study. In his death grip: a volume of occult lore and a reliquary. His eyes are wide with fright, his mouth a horrified rictus where spiders now dwell. Kelsey Donovan returns to the old house to catalog her estranged grandfather's collection of artifacts and antiquities, vowing to...
8576) Quiet teacher
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
"Torn by memories of a warrior life in ancient China, by voices in his head that he's not sure are real and by unresolved urges, celebrated neurosurgeon Xenon Pearl struggles with a serial killer in some of South Florida's grittiest cityscapes"--P. [4] of cover.
8577) The ice queen
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Formats
Description
"The body of 92-year-old Jossi Goldberg, Holocaust survivor and American citizen, is found shot to death execution-style in his house near Frankfurt. A five-digit number is scrawled in blood at the murder scene. The autopsy reveals an old and unsuccessfully covered tattoo on the corpse's arm--a blood type marker once used by Hitler's SS. Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver Bodenstein are faced with a riddle. Was the old man not Jewish after all? Who was he,...
Author
Series
Strain trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
Description
From the authors of the "New York Times" bestseller "The Strain" comes the second volume in the trilogy. The vampiric virus has taken over New York City. Eph Goodweather, head of the Centers for Disease Control's team, leads a small band to stop the bloodthirsty monsters. But it may be too late.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Captain Dan Lenson is under fire both at sea, and in Washington. His command of the first antiballistic-missile-capable cruiser in the Fleet, USS Savo Island, is threatened when he's called home to testify before Congress. There, he must defend his controversial decision to prevent a massive retaliatory missile attack by Israel against civilian targets in the Mideast. Shaken by the near-end of his career, Lenson returns to command uncertain of his...
8580) Gretchen: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2019].
Description
"The new tenants have a terrible secret. So do the landlord and his daughter … Ever since Lucy was two, she's been on the run alongside her mother. She's never understood the reason for a lifetime of paranoia, aliases, and lies. All she understands are the rules: never lock eyes with strangers, never let down your guard, and always be ready to move on. Finally, after thirteen years and eleven states, their next hideaway seems perfect. An isolated,...