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Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c1991
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
303 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone is always telling Stone Barrington that he's too smart to be a cop, but it’s pure luck that places him on the streets in the dead of night, just in time to witness the horrifying incident that turns his life inside out.
Suddenly he’s on the front page of every New York newspaper, and his life is hopelessly entwined in the increasingly shocking life (and perhaps death) of Sasha Nijinsky, the country's hottest and most beautiful television...
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 10
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Attorney Stone Barrington teams up with police chief Holly Barker to find a killer who has fled Barker's home turf in Orchid Beach, Florida, hoping to gain anonymity in the streets of New York City.
3) Lucy
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1990
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
163 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to work for Lewis & Mariah as an au pair for their four children. As Lucy is coming to terms with her employer's lives, she is unraveling the mysteries of her own sexuality.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Lt. Eve Dallas is just home from a long overdue vacation when she responds to a call of an unattended death. The victim is Martin Greenleaf, retired captain, Internal Affairs Bureau. At first glance, the scene appears to be suicide, but the closer Eve examines the body, the more suspicious she becomes. An unlocked open window, a loving wife and family, a too-perfect suicide note--Eve's gut says it's a homicide. After all, Greenleaf put a lot of dirty...
Author
Series
Fischer volume 18083
Publisher
Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Orig.-ausg.
Physical Desc
444 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
Deutsch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Jenna's parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club with her best friends, watching the legendary band Avenue A, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade. Then, from the stage, Jake catches her eye, and smiles. It's the best night of her life. It's the last night of her life. Minutes later, Jake's in the alley getting some fresh air, and the girl from the dance floor comes stumbling out, sick...
Author
Series
Holmes Marple and Poe volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Crime! Murder! Who are you going to call?
In New York City, three intriguing, smart, and stylish private investigators open Holmes, Marple & Poe Investigations. Who are these detectives with famous names and mysterious, untraceable pasts?
Brendan Holmes—The Brain: Identifies suspects via deduction and logic.
Margaret Marple—The Eyes: Possesses powers of observation too often underestimated.
Auguste Poe—The Muscle: Chases down every lead...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown, furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over. It's strictly the straight-and-narrow for him until he needs...
9) Crosshairs
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Detective Michael Bennett faces a professional sniper who could be anyone -- anywhere -- in New York City. A killer uses fearsome precision to take out impossible targets. Detective Michael Bennett teams up with a shooting expert, a former Army Ranger and sniper with the NYPD's Emergency Service Unit. But Officer Rob Trilling seems more comfortable with rifles than he is with people. When this new partner begins to log unexplained absences from duty,...
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this debut novel, a virtuoso pianist gives up her future as a musician to work at a high-end wellness store in New York City where the pursuit of beauty comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator is the youngest student at the Conservatory. She produces a sound from the piano no one else does, employing a special technique she learned from her parents--also stunningly talented musicians--who fled China in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. But...
Author
Series
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned above all to avoid mauvais ton ("bad taste" loses something in the translation). One should not ask servants to wait on one during Ramadan: they must have paid leave while one spends the holy month abroad. One must play the piano; if staying at Claridge's, one must regrettably install a Clavinova in the suite, so that the necessary hours of practice will not...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her college sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has always expected they'd have together: a quiet house in the suburbs, Marion staying home to raise their future children. But instead, Marion finds herself feeling trapped. So when she comes across an opportunity to audition for the famous Radio City Rockettes--the glamorous precision-dancing...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A father's sudden disappearance exposes the private fears, dreams, longings, and joys of a Black American family in the late decades of the twentieth century, in this page-turning and intimate new novel from the author of The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls. It's a warm, bright October afternoon, and Ozro Armstead walks out into the brilliant sunshine on his thirty-seventh birthday. At home, his wife Deborah and daughter Trinity prepare...
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