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1) The drop
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two. DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab? The latter possibility could compromise all of the lab's DNA cases currently in court. Then Bosch and his partner are called to...
Author
Series
Terminal list volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"On his last combat deployment, Lieutenant Commander James Reece's entire team was killed in a catastrophic ambush that also claimed the lives of the aircrew sent in to rescue them. But when those dearest to him are murdered on the day of his homecoming, Reece discovers that this was not an act of war by a foreign enemy but a conspiracy that runs to the highest levels of government. Now, with no family and free from the military's command structure,...
3) Saving faith
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a zealous CIA chief uncovers evidence of bribery in high places, he compels Washington influence peddler Danny Buchanan to spy on his clients, but when Buchanan tells his story to the FBI, the tables are turned. Believe the power: In a secluded house not far from Washington, D.C., the FBI is interviewing one of the most important witnesses it has ever had, a young woman named Faith Lockhart. For Faith has done too much, knows too much, and she'll...
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 23
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
497 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The seemingly perfect marriage of Illinois senator and presidential aspirant Lyle Simmons is held up to harsh public scrutiny when he arrives home from a fundraiser one night to find his wife, Jeanette, has been brutally murdered, and as Washington D.C. detective Charles Chang looks for answers, Simmons' longtime friend Phil Rotondi, a one-time suitor of Jeanette's, must decide whether or not to reveal what he knows.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Language
English
Description
Investigative reporter Carter Ross is working the story of two young boys left home alone and killed in an accidental Newark house fire. The single mother's story of having to work two jobs and being unable to afford childcare sounds plausible, but further checking by Carter reveals she isn't what she seems, and neither is the fire.
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forced back into the working world after her lawyer husband's downfall, Helen discovers a talent for public relations and is tempted away from her dysfunctional family by her childhood crush, who needs her professional assistance.
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 12
Language
English
Description
The Sisterhood, a group of female vigilantes who specialize in bringing to justice criminals who have fallen through the cracks in the legal system, are still hoping for a promised presidential pardon for a past job that resulted in their being forced into exile, but they find their freedom imperiled once again when business titan Ruben Rumson, owner of Info Corp, decides to thrown his considerable weight behind the opponent of the Sisterhood's chosen...
8) Smokescreen
Author
Series
Eve Duncan novels volume 25
Even Duncan forensics thriller volume 25
Eve Duncan forensics thriller volume 25
Even Duncan forensics thriller volume 25
Eve Duncan forensics thriller volume 25
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
422 Pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this heart-pounding thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan journeys to Africa to help families torn apart by a violent attack deep in the jungle -- but she may be putting herself in more danger than she knows. A journalist shows up on Eve Duncan's doorstep with a plea for help. Jill Cassidy has just come from a small African village with a heart wrenching story: half the villagers -- many...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In the concluding volume of Stieg Larsson's Millenium trilogy, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in her head. But she's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll stand trial for three murders. With the help of Mikael Blomkvist, she'll need to identify those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she'll...
10) Thunderhead
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
504 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, and the Thunderhead is not pleased.
11) South: a novel
Author
Publisher
Rare Machines
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
186 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"South is a haunting and hallucinatory reimagination of life in a world under totalitarianism, and an individual's unsuccessful quest for truth, agency, and understanding. B, a journalist, travels to the South of an unnamed desert country for a mysterious mission to write a report about the recent strikes in an offshore oil rig. From the beginning of his trip, he is faced with a cruel and broken landscape of drought and decay, superstitious believers...
12) The fixer upper
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the crosshairs of a political bribery investigation, Dempsey Jo Killebrew suddenly finds herself unemployed and the victim of a sleazy smear campaign by her former boss. Dempsey decides to take up her father's offer of flipping a recently inherited family home in Guthrie, Ga., where she quickly slides into the renovation groove, fits in with the locals, and embarks on a romance.
13) Tatiana
Author
Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 8
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
""In Tatiana, Martin Cruz Smith, 'the master of the international thriller' (The New York Times) creates the most compelling heroine of his career and the most realistic, damning portrait of modern Russia in contemporary literature. One of the iconic investigators of contemporary fiction, Arkady Renko -- cynnical, analytical, and quietly subversive -- has survived the cultural journey from the Soviet Union to the New Russia, only to find the nation...
14) Amsterdam
Author
Publisher
N.A. Talese
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
193 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the affairs of his dead wife, a British publisher discovers compromising pictures of the foreign secretary who was her lover. An opportunity for revenge on both the political and personal level.
15) A safe house
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 61
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Stone Barrington is looking forward to some quiet time in New York City, until he is asked to transport precious, top-secret cargo across the Atlantic. Taking on the challenge, Stone flies off unaware of what--or who--he is bringing with him. But his plans to lie low are quickly spoiled when a dangerous dispatcher tracks down Stone and his tantalizing mystery guest, intent on payback--and silencing anyone who poses a threat. From the English countryside...
16) 1906: a novel
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Now available in paperback, James Dalessandro's "riveting account of corruption, greed, and murder in the City by the Bay" ("Dallas Morning News) was a best-seller in hardcover--"and production has begun on a major motion picture. Set during the great San Francisco earthquake and fire, this page-turning historical novel reveals recently uncovered facts that forever change our understanding of what really happened. Narrated by a feisty young reporter,...
17) The 86th village
Author
Publisher
Agora Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Is it ever too late to right a wrong? Throughout Southern India, eighty-six villages are set to completely submerge due to a government-sanctioned dam across the Krishna river. One such village, Nilgi, has so far avoided the illegal iron-ore mining and floods that have ravaged the district for decades, believing itself to be indestructible and incorruptible despite warnings of impending doom. With whole mountains disappearing from the mining around...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Marshall McEwan left his hometown at age eighteen, he vowed never to return. The trauma that drove him away ultimately spurred him to become one of the most successful journalists in Washington D.C. But just as the political chaos in the nation's capital lifts him to new heights, Marshall is forced to return home in spite of his boyhood vow. His father is dying, his mother is struggling to keep the family newspaper from failing, and the town...
19) Blood heir
Author
Series
Blood heir trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
453 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the Cyrilian Empire, the gifts Affinites use to control the world are unnatural and dangerous. Anastacya Mikhailov, the crown princess, has a secret and deadly Affinity to blood; it is her curse, and the reason she has lived her life behind palace walls. When Ana's father, the emperor, is murdered, her world is shattered. Framed as his killer, Ana must flee the palace to save her life. To clear her name, she must find her father's murderer on her...
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
New York, Autumn, 1907: Former private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is happy with her place in the world. She and her policeman husband, Daniel, have built quite a life for themselves in Greenwich Village, in their modest-yet-beautiful home in Patchin Place, filled with family, friends, and laughter. Molly and Daniel have a good marriage, a true partnership where they value each other's opinions in all things. So when he tells her they're moving...
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