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1) 22 seconds
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 22
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"22 seconds...until Lindsay Boxer loses her badge--or her life. SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer has guns on her mind. There's buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican border ahead of new restrictive gun laws. Before Lindsay can act, her top informant tips her to a case that hits disturbingly close to home. Former cops. Professional hits. All with the same warning scrawled on their bodies: You talk, you die. Now it's Lindsay's...
Author
Language
English
Description
Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students-- a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning's father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced his crooked walk. Not much later,...
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 29
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
Learning that a deceased former client's young prodigy son is being increasingly subjected to danger by greedy caregivers, Isabelle summons the Sisterhood to protect the boy and search for one of their own who has gone missing.
4) Fake truth
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When author Ian Ludlow helps a Chinese movie star defect to the United States, he accidentally winds up becoming the hero in a real-life espionage thriller.
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 22
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A gripping story of deception in the world of international fine art. Restorer and spy Gabriel Allon embarks on a dangerous hunt across Europe for the secret behind the forgery of a seventeenth-century masterpiece that has fooled experts and exchanged hands for millions"--
6) Paradox
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The next chilling thriller in the New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Adina Walker, a scholarship student at a prestigious academy, faces the consequences of a single mistake and competes in a high-stakes contest hosted by the wealthy Remington family, where she uncovers unsettling truths about the sponsors and the contest's high stakes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Ara Zuyev, a highly discreet bodyguard to a powerful billionaire's family, falls under suspicion when the sixteen-year-old in her care is kidnapped, a situation that forces her to team up with savvy FBI agent Luke Patrick, who believes she knows more than she is admitting.
11) The October list
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver's next blockbuster thriller"--
""Gabriela McKenzie's daughter has been kidnapped. In exchange for her safe return, her abductors demand two things: $400,000 in cash, and a document known only as the October List." --Provided by the publisher"--
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando police and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Bosch and the town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous big-business world of prescription drug abuse. Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's LAPD days comes back to haunt him when a long-imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him and seems...
13) Execution
Author
Series
Giordano Bruno novels volume 6
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham decides not to interfere in a Catholic nobleman's assassination plot that has the potential to condemn Mary Queen of Scots, heretic-turned-spy Giordano Bruno goes undercover to prevent the murder of Elizabeth I.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Teen celebrity socialite Margo leads a double life as a cat burglar with a crew of four kickboxing drag queens, but when a big job goes belly-up, each one of them must rely on their special skills to survive the night.
Author
Publisher
MCD
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Following a mysterious murder on an island off the coast of Vietnam, a research team convenes to study an octopus community that seems to be developing its own language and culture. Humans, AIs, and animals are swept up in the machinations of governmentsand corporations in this near-future thriller about the nature of intelligence"--
16) As good as dead
Author
Series
Good girl's guide to murder volume 3
Language
English
Description
Pippa Fitz-Amobi is haunted by the two murder cases she solved, by the victims, by the attention her crime podcast garnered, and by the survivors, which is bad enough--but then it starts to feel like someone is watching her.
17) The short drop
Author
Series
Gibson Vaughn novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A decade ago, fourteen-year-old Suzanne Lombard, the daughter of Benjamin Lombard-then a senator, now a powerful vice president running for the presidency-disappeared in the most sensational missing-person case in the nation's history. Still unsolved, the mystery remains a national obsession.
18) The dissident
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A novel set in 1970s Moscow following a group of Jewish dissidents"--
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Lifelong New Yorker Ronnie Khan never thought she'd leave Queens. She's not an "aim high, dream big" person--until she meets socialite wellness guru Marley Dewhurst. Marley isn't just a visionary; she's a revelation. Seduced by the fever dream of finding her best self, Ronnie makes for the desert mountains of Sedona, Arizona. Healing yoga, transcendent hikes, epic juice cleanses...Ronnie consumes her new bougie existence like a fine wine. But is...
20) The Shadow
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Awakening in a world both unknown and disturbingly familiar, Lamont Cranston, aka the Shadow, must once again go up against his fiercest enemy, Shiwan Khan, and prove that he is not only a super crime-fighter, but an icon.
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