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41) Midnight Atlanta
Author
Series
Darktown novels volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Arthur Bishop, editor of Atlanta's leading black newspaper, is killed in his office, cop-turned-journalist Tommy Smith finds himself in the crosshairs of the racist cops he's been trying to avoid. To clear his name, he needs to learn more about the dangerous story Bishop had been working on"--
42) Nutcase
Author
Series
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Psychologist Kate Holly is about to get evicted from her office, and her best option may be to share space with her jacuzzi-loving ex-boyfriend, Dr. Thad Glazer. But that's not going to help her patch things up with her firefighter ex-husband. With her oddball patients, meddling mother, and eccentric secretary thrown into the mix--not to mention a spree of suspicious fires--will Kate put her life back together or wind up in a padded cell?
43) Blood trinity
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
A league of international warriors with extraordinary abilities rises up to save mankind from supernatural terrorists. For centuries, mythical gods have roamed our world, Celtic, Greek, Castillian, Hindu⁵the list is long and frightening. When these predators began using Earth as their private hunting grounds, VIPER emerged as a multinational coalition of supernatural warriors to protect us.
44) Water's edge
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Ambitious young attorney Tom Crane is about to become a partner in a high-profile Atlanta law firm. But first he must clear one final matter from his docket--the closing of his deceased father's law practice in his hometown of Bethel, Georgia. Killed in a mysterious boating accident, John Crane didn't appear to leave his son anything except the hassle of wrapping up loose ends. But instead of celebrating his promotion, Tom finds himself packing up...
45) Resistant
Author
Series
Lou Welcome novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Dr. Lou Welcome fills in last minute for his boss at a national conference in Atlanta, he brings along his best friend, Cap Duncan. But an accident turns tragic when Cap injures his leg while running. Surgeons manage to save the leg, but the open wound is the perfect breeding ground for a deadly microbial invader committed to eating Cap alive from the inside out. ... Turning to the Centers for Disease Control for help, Lou uncovers a link to...
46) La última viuda
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsEspañol
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
La autora bestseller del New York Times, Karin Slaughter, regresa con otro thriller electrizante en la querida serie de misterio de Will Trent, esta vez enfrentando a Will y Sara contra un misterioso grupo que planea desatar una epidemia mortal. Gillian Flynn dice que Karin Slaughter es "simplemente una de las mejores escritoras de suspenso que trabajan hoy" y Michael Connelly declara que "sus personajes, su trama y su ritmo no tienen rival entre...
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After being kicked out of the Order of Knights of Merciful Aid, Andrea Nash begins working for Cutting Edge, a small investigative firm owned by her best friend, Kate Daniels, and must enter the underbelly of supernatural Atlanta, where a killer waits, for her first assignment.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Katherine Adams is taking a cruise on the fabulous Ocean Majestic, the largest and most luxurious ocean liner in the world. This is exactly the break Katherine needs from her demanding Atlanta legal practice. On board, she meets John Delaney, a streetwise ex-NYPD detective who is now a lawyer. Romance is in the air, but all is not quite right aboard the Majestic. Events soon turn the romantic dream into a grisly nightmare. After Katherine and Delany...
Author
Series
Darktown novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Responding from pressure on high, the Atlanta police department is forced to hire its first black officers in 1948. The newly minted policemen are met with deep hostility by their white peers and their authority is limited: They can't arrest white suspects; they can't drive a squad car; they can't even use the police headquarters and must instead operate out of the basement of a gym. When a black woman who was last seen in a car driven by a white...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Tai Randolph has started her life over in Atlanta and is celebrating some milestones: a year running the Confederate-themed gun shop she inherited with its busy schedule of reenactments, a year with her sexy, ex-SWAT-team lover Trey, now working a corporate security gig, and a year of confronting a checkered list of ruffians and outright villains, mostly now put behind bars. One of those convicted criminals is her cousin Jasper, whose disreputable...
51) Them: a novel
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A compelling story set in a downtown Atlanta neighborhood known for its main street, Auburn Avenue, which once was regarded as the "richest Negro street in the world." The story centers around Barlowe Reed, a single, forty-something African American who rents a ramshackle house on Randolph Street, just a stone's throw from the historic birth home of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Barlowe, who works as a printer, otherwise passes the time reading and...
Author
Publisher
Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Nestled in the suburbs of Atlanta, one family learns the funniest punchlines can hide the hardest truths in this evocative women's fiction novel from the author of Well-Behaved Indian Women. From the outside, the Joshi family is the quintessential Indian-American family. Decades ago, Bina and Deepak immigrated to America, where she became a pillar of their local Indian community and he a successful psychiatrist. Their eldest daughter, Suhani, is...
Author
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
For Jordan, Victoria, Kingston, and Chancelor, exciting, fast-paced Atlanta offers everything their hometowns couldn't. But career success is easy compared to the city's dating scene of users, losers, and gold diggers. So they decide online dating might just be the answer-as long as they take precautions, work their perfect odds-beating plan, and have each other's backs. With luck, and prayers, they'll fulfill their fantasies and find real love at...
54) Triptych
Author
Series
Will Trent series volume 1
Language
English
Description
"In the city of Atlanta, women are dying--at the hands of a killer who signs his work with a single, chilling act of mutilation. Leaving behind enough evidence to fuel a frenzied police hunt, this cunning madman is bringing together dozens of lives, crossing the boundaries of wealth and race. And the people who are chasing him must cross those boundaries too. Among them is Michael Ormewood, a veteran detective whose marriage is hanging by a thread--and...
Author
Series
Darktown novels volume 2
Publisher
37 INK, Atria
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
""Reads like the best of James Ellroy." --Publishers Weekly (starred review, on Darktown) "Mullen is a wonderful architect of intersecting plotlines and unexpected answers." --The Washington Post, on Darktown From the acclaimed author of The Last Town on Earth comes the gripping follow-up to Darktown. Officer Denny Rakestraw and "Negro Officers" Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith have their hands full in a rapidly changing Atlanta. It's 1950 and racial...
56) Silenciadas
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsEspanol
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"El inspector Will Trent recibe una informacion inquietante mientras indaga sobre la muerte de un preso: uno de los reclusos asegura ser inocente de la despiadada agresion de la que fue acusado hace anos. Afirma que unos policias corruptos, encabezados por Jeffrey Tolliver, le tendieron una trampa para inculparlo y que el verdadero responsable, un asesino que lleva anos sistematicamente atacando a mujeres en el estado de Georgia, sigue libre. El recluso...
57) Heart trouble
Author
Series
Callahan Garrity mystery volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
The fifth book in the exciting Callahan Garrity series sees the cleaning lady/sleuth tracking down the murderer of a woman whom the entire city loved to hate. Callahan Garrity has her hands full trying to expand her House Mouse cleaning business. So she's reluctant to take on a client in need of detective services, especially when that client is the most notorious woman in Atlanta--Whitney Albright Dobbs. Whitney is a wealthy socialite who, while...
58) Old bones
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A timely and penetrating mystery about the intersection of policing, racism, and the community--set in a city at its boiling point--from an author who's been in the trenches and seen it all. A senseless act of violence. During a vigil calling for police reform, students from Spelman College, a historically black women's institution, are assaulted by rifle fire from a passing vehicle. On her way to interview witnesses, Detective Sarah "Salt" Alt...
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