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1) Halt's peril
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Tennyson, the false prophet of the Outsider cult, has escaped and Halt is determined to stop him before he crosses the border into Araluen, but Genovesan assassins put Will and Halt's extraordinary archery skills to the test.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Jay Erlich's nephew has been found at the bottom of a cliff at Morrow Bay. It's all just a tragic suicide, until secrets from the past begin to rear up again. Did a notorious killer, jailed for many decades, have his hand in this? Years ago, Jay Erlich's older brother, Charlie, a wayward child of the sixties, set out for California, where he fell under the sway of a charismatic but deeply disturbed cultlike figure. Tragedy ensued and lives were destroyed,...
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Ten years ago, Grace saw something that would forever change the course of history. When evil in its purest form is unleashed on the world, she and others from their religious community are already hidden deep in the hills of Tennessee, abiding by every rule that will keep them safe, pure--and alive. As long as they stay there, behind the red perimeter.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"During their senior year of college, Shay Evans and her best friend Laurel escaped from a violent, magnetic man and his equally violent views about women and society. Eight years later, Shay has built a new life for herself. But the horrifying news of Laurel's death shatters her world and makes her suspect that the people from her past are back and more dangerous than ever. Recruiting the help of a true-crime podcast host, Shay is determined to find...
5) Cult classic
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author and Thurber Prize finalist Sloane Crosley, Cult Classic is a twisted mystery on the metaphysics of modern love, memory, and mind control in the city"--Provided by publisher.
One night in New York City's Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs into a former boyfriend. And then another. And . . . another....
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
408 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jane MacGuire, the adopted daughter of forensic sculptor Eve Duncan, goes on the run for her life when a painting included in her Paris exhibition draws the attention of the members of a mysterious cult who determine Jane must die.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
329 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Even with retirement in view, Detective Sunderson decides to investigate a cult that has settled near his home nonetheless. Although their so-called 'Great Leader' initially appears to be harmless, Sunderson and his teenage sidekick unearth some startling information. As he digs deeper, Sunderson's search for the Great Leader's true intentions takes him from Michigan to Arizona to Nebraska.
8) Heat
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1994
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
346 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods delivers yet another riveting story of intrigue and deception in this strangely prophetic novel about a man whose life is out of control."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
You can sense him Some refer to it as the Colony. To others, it's a cult. But few locals in the Oregon coastal hamlet of Deception Bay have ever been invited to the inner sanctum of Siren Song. Even the sisters who live there, far from strangers who might recoil at their unnerving psychic abilities, don't know all the terrors buried within its walls... You fear him Eight months into a surrogate pregnancy for her sister, Kristina, Detective Savannah...
Author
Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In the seventh installment in the Strike series, Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in the trap of a dangerous cult. Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organization that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there...
12) Split image
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
What initially appears to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach. Jesse Stone and private investigator Sunny Randall team up to solve two cases involving the gunshot murder of Petrov Ognowski and a religious cult holding an 18-year-old girl against her will.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"At twenty-nine, Alison Marshall is ready to find a place to call home. When she reaches beautiful Palmetto Island, she thinks she may have found it. On a hunch, she contacts the island's only realtor, and learns that an old beach house is on the market. At first, home is everything she hoped it would be. But as days turn into weeks, she uncovers a dark side to this supposedly peaceful haven. The locals have a secret, and once Alison discovers what...
14) Walk the wire
Author
Series
Amos Decker novels volume 6
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Amos Decker, the FBI consultant with a perfect memory, and Alex Jamison, FBI return to solve a gruesome murder of a young woman named Irene Cramer, in a booming North Dakota oil fracking town. The promise of a second gold rush has attracted an onslaught of newcomers all hoping for a windfall, bringing with them problems, including drugs, property crimes, prostitution and now a gruesome murder."--Publisher description
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2011, ©2010
Edition
Del Rey trade paperback ed.
Physical Desc
509 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a nine-meter-long dead squid is stolen, tank and all, from a London museum, curator Billy Harrow finds himself swept up in a world he didn't know existed: one of worshippers of the giant squid, animated golems, talking tattoos, and animal familiars on strike. Forced on the lam with a renegade kraken cultist and stalked by cops and crazies, Billy finds his quest to recover the squid sidelined by questions as to what force may now be unleashed...
16) Divine Madness
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Smion Pulse hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When CHERUB uncovers a link between eco-terrorist group Help Earth and a wealthy religious cult known as The Survivors, James is sent to their isolatated outback headquarters on an infiltration mission. It's a thousand kilometers to the closest town, and James is under massive pressure from the cult's brainwashing techniques. This time he's not just fighting terrorists...he's got to battle for his own mind." -- from P.4 of cover.
Author
Language
English
Description
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the now-classic study of al-Qaeda's 9/11 attack, The Looming Tower. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with both current and former Scientologists--both famous and less well known--and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his extraordinary investigative skills to uncover for us the inner workings of the Church...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"About an aging writer in Montana who's at the stage of his career when his work is increasingly discussed in terms of his legacy. He indulges his lifelong dream of raising pigs, struggles to write the "big novel" he's rashly promised his editor, and attempts to rekindle the long marriage that has sustained him."--[Cover]
20) Godshot: a novel
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it's an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret "assignments," to bring the rain everybody is praying for....
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