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Author
Series
Sedikhan volume 6
Language
English
Description
At twenty-one, Zilah Dabala has already survived a harrowing past. Now she's convinced she can handle anything on her own, even being held hostage by a terrorist group. But Daniel Siefert is determined to rescue her, and soon their escape ignites an intimacy neither has ever known. Once Daniel learns Zilah's tragic secret, however, he fears she may be lost to him forever
2) GET EVEN
Author
Publisher
HEADLINE BOOK PUBLISHING
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Sharon Conway and Lenny Scott are childhood sweethearts. Everyone says they are too young, but nothing can keep them apart. Sharon doesn't question Lenny's business dealings and it isn't long before his reputation as a hard man destined for the top means they are living the good life with their sons. But one night Lenny doesn't come home. It isn't the first time he has gone AWOL - but it is his last. He is found murdered; beaten to death in an act...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1982
Language
English
Description
In #1 New York Times–bestselling author Richard North Patterson's suspenseful legal thriller, a Northern lawyer in a Southern town risks his life to bring a killer to justice A Yankee through and through, Adam Shaw never felt at ease among the upper crust of the Deep South. An attorney to some of the most powerful people in Alabama, he is close with only two of them. When Adam's best friend, Henry Cantwell, disappears after his wife is murdered,...
Author
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
Language
English
Description
'You are a genuine soaker in Shakespeare, and have not read him as a task. You have him by heart.'-Bernard Shaw wrote in a letter to Hesketh Pearson. Before he became a well-known biographer, Hesketh Pearson was an actor. Few facts are known about Shakespeare, but with an actor's eye and a supreme self-confidence, Pearson has drawn a recognizable portrait of Shakespeare the man-even telling us the colour of his hair and of his predilection for black-haired...
Author
Publisher
Perimeter Six
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Victor Robert Lee's provocative debut spy thriller Performance Anomalies introduces a protagonist to rival the most memorable espionage heroes. Cono is a startling young man of mixed and haunting heritage who has been gifted - or cursed - with a genetic mutation that gives him a hyper-fast neurological system. An orphan and a loner, he acts as a freelance spy, happy to use his strange talents in the service of dubious organizations and governments...
Author
Series
Nightshade Forensic Files volume 3
Publisher
Griffyn Ink Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Eleri wanted a different kind of case. She should have been careful what she wished for. When an odd human skeleton in Michigan's Manistee-Huron National Forest triggers a NightShade investigation, Eleri and Donovan arrive to find it missing. But two other skeletons are a little too easily uncovered--each displays different anomalies that raise alarming questions. The bones aren't from the area or probably even the continent. A decades-old abandoned...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A gripping novel about the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940
In The Man Who Loved Dogs, Leonardo Padura brings a noir sensibility to one of the most fascinating and complex political narratives of the past hundred years: the assassination of Leon Trotsky by Ramón Mercader.
The story revolves around Iván Cárdenas Maturell, who in his youth was the great hope of modern Cuban literature-until he dared to write a story that was...
Author
Series
Long price quartet volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
As a boy, Otah Machi was exiled from his family, Machi's ruling house. Decades later, he has witnessed and been part of world-changing events. Yet he has never returned to Machi. Now his father-the Khai, or ruler, of Machi-is dying, and his eldest brother, Biitrah, has been assassinated, Otah realizes that he must return to Machi for reasons not even he understands.Tradition dictates that the sons of a dying Khai fall upon each other until only one...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
When a CPA with OCD is found shot dead in his locked apartment with a .38 in his hand, only two people don't believe he killed himself. One is streetwise and world-weary Chicago homicide detective John Thinnes. The other is the victim's therapist, Dr. Jack Caleb, whose sudden appearance at the crime scene immediately arouses the cop's suspicions. The two men couldn't be more different. Caleb is wealthy, well-educated, and gay, witty enough to name...
Author
Series
Publisher
Evolved Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
No rest for the Wiccan.
The hunt for a murderer unfolds, dropping Zoe right in the middle of a power struggle between a nightmare of a coven, and a serial killer leaving bodies in ceremonial circles in the rural parts of Baltimore's city limits. A race against celestial bodies and the trail of earthbound body parts keeps our intrepid clairvoyant running right until the very end.
14) The blue ice
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[1948]
Language
English
Description
A ruthless fortune hunter sails to Norway to unlock the mystery of the Blue Ice in this sweeping adventure at the edge of the world. Bill Gansert thrived during World War II. An industrial genius, he mobilized millions of men and machines for the fight against fascism, but when the war is through, he's cut adrift. Unmoored in a country that doesn't need him anymore, Gansert takes to the sea, embarking on an adventure that will take him to the ends...
15) Secrets She Kept
Author
Series
Martina Monroe volume 5
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A ritualistic murder. Multiple suspects. Can the cold case detectives find the truth before the killers strike again?
Ten years earlier, two teenage girls were found murdered by what appeared to be a satanic sacrifice. The case had dominated the news headlines for months before the original investigators failed to arrest the perpetrators of the crime - despite multiple suspects. Without solid evidence to prosecute, and even with the near-heroic efforts...
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[1964, c1963]
Language
English
Description
Few books in the history of New Directions have received such praise as came to Edward Dahlberg's autobiography, Because I Was Flesh, which is now on our paperback list. Because I Was Flesh is the story of Edward Dahlberg's life as a child and young man-in Kansas City, in a Cleveland orphanage, in California and New York-and of the remarkable woman, his mother Lizzie, who shaped it. Seldom has there been so ruthless, and yet so tender a dissection...
18) Drawing dead
Author
Series
Cross series volume 5
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The man known only as Cross and his skilled team of urban mercenaries are back (Blackjack, Urban Renewal), but this time they are on the defensive as they receive a series of cryptic messages. The question is, are they being warned or hunted? A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL. Chicago the reigning number one city in homicides has no shortage of deadly gangs. They all know the Cross Crew occupies a cinderblock bunker called Red 71, and it's the...
20) Straight Jack
Author
Series
Hunt for Jack Reacher volume 16
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Four men in a van barrel toward Chicago on a crime spree fueled by greed and other vengeance. One man driving, another preoccupied with the sophisticated plan. In the back, a new recruit worried and wary, another angry and hot-headed. A day behind them, at a lonely motel in an out of the way New Mexico town, an unthinkable murder brings FBI Special Agent Kim Oto to a dead stop. Soon, Otto realizes the muder is tied to a massive crime wave. Otto and...
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