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1) The good guy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Timothy Carrier is sitting in a bar when the man next to him mistakens him for someone else and hands him an envelope with $10,000. The man leaves after handing Tim a photo of a woman marked for death and her address. Soon the killer arrives believing Tim is the one who wants to hire him.
2) The innocent
Author
Series
Will Robie novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up.
Author
Series
Camino Island novels volume 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen--even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime . . . Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida's governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce...
Author
Series
Finlay Donovan novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Dating. Diapers. And dodging bullets. Who said single moms can't have fun? Finlay Donovan has been in messes before--after all, she's an author and single mom who's a pro at getting out bloodstains for rather unexpected reasons--but none quite like this. After she and her nanny/partner-in-crime Vero accidentally destroyed a luxury car that they may have 'borrowed' in the process of saving the life of Finlay's ex-husband, the Russian mob got her out...
Author
Series
Corie Geller volume 1
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition ; First edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Just a few years ago, Corie Geller was busting terrorists as an agent for the FBI. But at thirty-five, she traded in her badge for the stability of marriage and motherhood. Now Corie is married to the brilliant and remarkably handsome Judge Josh Geller and is the adoptive mother of his fourteen-year-old daughter. Corie fills her days scouting Arabic fiction for literary agencies and, every Wednesday, she joins a group of fellow Shorehaven freelancers...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"The tense, darkly funny, unputdownable debut novel from one of the most successful screenwriters of the past 20 years--the tale of a hit man mistaken for a hero whose sudden, unwanted fame makes him a target for the surprising number of people who want him dead"--
7) Ten big ones
Author
Series
Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stephanie's predicament begins outside a deli-mart when it is robbed by a man wearing a devil mask. Before the crime is over, Stephanie's car is in flames--again! But she has also seen the thief's face. Learning that he is a member of the Trenton street gang, she goes after him. But instead of bringing down the thief, she finds herself on the run ...
Author
Series
Smoky Barrett thrillers volume 4
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
For FBI Special Agent Smoky Barrett, her colleague’s wedding is cause for celebration. Until a woman staggers down the aisle—incoherent, wearing only a white nightgown. A fingerprint check determines that she’s been missing for nearly eight years. Her coldly efficient captor toyed with her mind and body, imprisoning her, depriving her of any contact with the outside world. As Smoky fits together the pieces of what remains of the...
Author
Series
Butcher's boy volume 4
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition, First edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Michael Shaeffer is a retired American businessman, living peacefully in England with his aristocratic wife. But her annual summer party brings strangers to their house, and with them, an attempt on Michael's life. He is immediately thrust into action, luring his lethal pursuers to Australia before venturing into the lion's den-the States-to figure out why the mafia is after him-again-and how to stop them. Eddie's Boy jumps between Michael's current...
10) A safe house
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 61
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 25
Publisher
Wheeler Pub,/Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
523 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Times are tough in Savannah for former cop and current PI Robert Brixton, so when he agrees to take on a 20 year-old murder case, he figures he’s got nothing to lose. It’s not long before the trail leads him deep into the corrupt underbelly of Savannah’s power elite, and right into the lap of a secret government organization that’s been offing “troublesome” politicians for decades. The cold case heats up when he joins forces with former...
12) The Redeemer
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 6
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2013
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (14 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Christmas shoppers stop to hear a Salvation Army concert on a crowded Oslo street. A gunshot cuts through the music and the bitter cold: one of the singers falls dead, shot in the head at point-blank range. Harry Hole--the Oslo Police Department's best investigator and worst civil servant--has little to work with: no suspect, no weapon, and no motive. But Harry's troubles will multiply. As the search closes in, the killer becomes increasingly desperate,...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles,...
Author
Series
John Medina series volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
375 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lily Mansfield is a hired assassin, working as a contract agent for the CIA. Now, after nineteen years of service, Lily has been drawn into a dangerous game that hasn't been sanctioned, seeking vengeance for her own reasons. A CIA agent himself, Lucas Swain recognizes the signs of trauma in the line of fire. His orders: either bring her in or bring her down.
Author
Series
Corie Geller volume 2
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
394 pages : 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Corie Geller asked her parents to move from their apartment into the suburban McMansion she shares with her husband and teenage daughter, she assumed they'd fit right in with the placid life she'd opted for when she left the Joint Terrorism Task Force of the FBI. But then her dad gets a call from genial and slightly nerdy film professor, April Brown -- one of the victims of the case he was never able to solve. When April was five years old,...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lucas is a solitary assassin hired to kill a young woman, Ella. When he can't bring himself to pull the trigger the plan falls apart, setting in motion a twisted game of cat and mouse. Now both are marked for death and forced to form an uneasy alliance. Relentlessly pursued across Europe, their only hope for survival is to expose those responsible for brutally murdering her family and bring them to justice.
18) Blood simple
Series
Criterion collection volume 834
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
When Texas bar owner Marty hires a killer to murder his wife and her lover, nothing prepares him for the double and triple crosses.
19) Pulp Fiction
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
[2011] 2014
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction has been hailed by critics and audiences worldwide as a film that redefined cinema. Tarantino delivers an unforgettable cast of characters, including a pair of low-rent hitmen, their boss's sexy wife, and a desperate prizefighter, in a wildly entertaining and exhilarating blend of crime-thriller-drama-comedy that is completely original and entirely unforgettable.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Finding a single assassin in a city of nine million is daunting. Finding five is a nightmare. Join the NYPD Red team in their most explosive case ever. The series from James Patterson and Marshall Karp has always been a must-read. But Karp's latest, NYPD Red 7: The Murder Sorority, tops them all, making it a must-read-now! Lower Manhattan: A sniper's bullet ends the life of a high-profile New Yorker. Five miles uptown, a second prominent victim has...
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