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Author
Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 6
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
656 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Armed men prepare to take the fight to the enemy after three American officials are killed by Colombian drug lords to make their message clear: Leave us alone.
82) March violets
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
245 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1936 Berlin, Bernhard Gunther is a private investigator who solves a case of theft, murder, and corruption within the new Nazi supporting group, the March Violets.
83) Rules of prey
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Formats
Description
The "maddog" murderer who is terrorizing the Twin Cities is two things: insane and extremely intelligent. He kills for the pleasure of it and thoroughly enjoys placing elaborate obstacles to keep police befuddled. Each clever move he makes is another point of pride. But when the brilliant Lieutenant Lucas Davenport--a dedicated cop and a serial killer's worst nightmare--is brought in to take up the investigation, the maddog suddenly has an adversary...
84) The blessing way
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high lonely place, a corpse with a mouth full of sand, abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer. There is palpable evil in the air, and Leaphorn's pursuit of...
85) Borderlines
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Detective Joe Gunther is on temporary assignment in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. The discovery of a man's body may indicate the involvement of a back-to-nature cult. Juggling personal problems, disputes between state and local police, animosity between townies and cult members and an increasing number of homicides, Joe moves as fast as he can to solve the crimes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2008, c1990
Edition
Ballantine Books trade paperback ed.
Physical Desc
345 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
London police detective William Monk returns to work after an accident that has left him with amnesia, but the darkness of his past recedes as he begins his investigation of the brutal murder of Crimean war hero Joscelin Grey.
87) Post captain
Author
Series
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels volume 2
Aubrey and Maturin volume 2
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 2
Aubrey and Maturin volume 2
Aubrey/Maturin novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captain Jack Aubrey, hiding out in France from his creditors, is forced to run for his life when Napoleon goes to war again in 1803.
Author
Series
George Smiley novels volume 8
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ned, approaching the end of his career in British Intelligence, invites us on a sentimental tour of his three decades in espionage.
89) Stardust
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 17
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
256 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a Hollywood-based TV series schedules filming in Boston, Spenser smells trouble. When he signs up to protect the show's star, Jill Joyce, he knows it's on its way.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov’s Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together.
Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had...
Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had...
91) Eyes of prey
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2007, c1991
Edition
Berkley introd. ed.
Physical Desc
358 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Lucas Davenport attempts to solve the murder planned by an evil but intelligent man fascinated by all aspects of death.
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1991, c1979
Physical Desc
[ ] p.
Language
English
Description
Captain Jack Aubrey's hasty trip aboard a dispatch vessel from the Dutch East Indies to England where he is supposed to take command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy, is interrupted by the outbreak of the War of 1812.
93) I, robot
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. With these three, simple directives, Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when...
94) New York dead
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
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1993, c1991
Physical Desc
315 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sequel to: The Thirteen Gun Salute. Captain Aubrey, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane are shipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies.
96) Outlander
Author
Series
Outlander novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly, she is a Sassenach -- an "outlander"--In a Scotland torn by war and raiding Highland clans in the year of our Lord ... 1743. Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into intrigues...
97) Pastime
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1991
Physical Desc
223 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Paul Giacomin enlists Spencer's help in localing his mother who has vanished. As they follow her trail, they are faced with a confrontation that may threaten their lives.
Author
Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 7
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Berkley premium edition.
Physical Desc
1202 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
One terrible act plunges the world into an instant nuclear crisis, and with the American president accused of incompetence, Jack Ryan calls on FBI head Dan Murray to help him avert disaster
99) Corporate bodies
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
189 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Charles Paris, an often out-of-work actor, gets a job starring in a corporate video and stumbles into a murder.
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
For twenty years, Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones... about a love that transcends the boundaries of time... and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of...
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