Washoe County Library System

"Binge-worthy reading at its best: an addictive, action-packed page-turner of epic proportions about the machinations of one dizzyingly wealthy family in contemporary India and the outsiders who are drawn into their treacherous web"-- "This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill. New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people...

"When two young women leave their college campus in the dead of winter for a 700-mile drive north to Minnesota, they suddenly find themselves fighting for their lives in the icy waters of the Black Root River, just miles from home. One girl's survival, and the other's death--murder, actually--stun the citizens of a small Minnesota town, thawing memories of another young woman who lost her life in the same river ten years earlier, and whose killer...

"Jake Whitmore is enjoying a rare bonding moment with his sixteen-year-old son, Kurt, when disaster strikes. They get in a terrible car accident that threatens to derail not only Kurt's chances at college, but his entire future. Jake makes a split-second decision that saves his son from formal punishment, but plunges them both into a world of guilt, lies, and secrecy. Just when Jake thinks he has everything under control, a malevolent outsider comes...

Waking up in a hospital after a motorcycle crash, Rob Hale becomes obsessed with discerning the fate of a blonde woman on the back of his bike who the doctors and police claim he has imagined, a situation that compels a partnership with a London-based private investigator mysteriously linked to Rob's late sister.

Fen Dexter's quiet life on the idyllic California coast is interrupted one stormy night when a blood covered man shows up on her doorstep, claiming to have been in a car accident. He tells her that he is on his way to San Francisco to help the police solve the murder of his fiancee. Unable to make it to the hospital because of the storm, he stays the night at Fen's and the attraction between them is obvious. The next morning he heads to the hospital,...

While driving along a rural road, Hannah Shire and her aging mother, who suffers from dementia, stop to help a man at the scene of a car accident. The man whispers mysterious words in Hannah's ear. Soon there are people--perhaps even in law enforcement--who want to kill Hannah and her mom for what they 'know.'

Confined to a wheelchair months after the car accident that paralyzed him and killed his father, Noah struggles to come to terms with the changes in his life and the fears that are keeping him from moving forward.

Pilgrim Jones' husband has just left her for another woman, stranding her in a small Swiss town where she is one day involved in a tragic accident. Overcome with guilt, she alights for Africa, befriending a series of locals, each with their own tragic past and each isolated in their own way. Mysteriously, one day a witch doctor's curse is carried into town, setting everyone in the remote Tanzanian outpost on edge. Pilgrim can't shake the feeling she's...

"Una cautivadora novela para romanticos que evoca una decada llena de encanto y elegancia, por la autora de Yo antes de ti. En 1960, Jennifer se despierta en un hospital de Londres. No recuerda nada. Ni el accidente de coche que la ha llevado allu, ni a su marido, ni su propio nombre. Hasta que regresa a casa y por azar encuentra una carta escondida. Asu comienza a recordar al amante por el que estaba dispuesta a arriesgarlo todo. En 2003, Ellie busca...