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5782) A conspiracy of bones
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 19
Language
English
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with a new riveting novel featuring her vastly popular character forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who must use all her tradecraft to discover the identity of a faceless corpse, its connection to a decade-old missing child case, and why the dead man had her cell phone number. Its sweltering in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Temperance Brennan, still recovering from neurosurgery following...
5783) Bamboo and blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
v2008.
Language
English
Description
In a late 1990s North Korea, a younger Inspector O is working Pyongyang as the country's nuclear missile program begins to escalate. The wife of a North Korean diplomat turns up dead in Pakistan under suspicious circumstances, but as Inspector O investigates, he discovers that the woman's death could lead to a larger conspiracy.
5784) A killing in Zion
Author
Series
Art Oveson novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"After a high-profile case thrusts deputy Art Oveson into the spotlight, Salt Lake City's mayor taps him to head the city's Anti-Polygamy Squad. As a Mormon ashamed that his own ancestors played a part in the church's polygamist past, Art's eager to do his part to remove the extremists still practicing plural marriage. But after one of the polygamist patriarchs is murdered and a shell-shocked young woman found at the scene of the crime, Art finds...
5785) Silent scream
Author
Series
South Shores volume 5
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
What started as an exploration of the past soon escalates into an all-too-current danger. Someone is watching--someone who really doesn't want Claire digging into the past or Nick making connections to a current, violent murder case he's investigating. The bog's corpses may be long dead, but if Claire and Nick don't figure out who's gunning for a fresh kill, the next bodies to be discovered will be their own.
Author
Series
Poisoner mysteries volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[[2012] 2012]
Language
English
Description
Mistress of death Francesca Giordano--court poisoner to the House of Borgia--returns to confront an ancient atrocity that threatens to extinguish the light of the Renaissance and plunge the world into eternal darkness. As the enemies of Pope Alexander VI close in and the papal court is forced to flee from Rome, Francesca joins forces with her lover, the brilliant and ruthless Cesare Borgia to unravel a conspiracy that strikes at the heart of Christendom....
5788) The fourth sacrifice
Author
Series
China novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
She's back! Tattooed, hard working, and often crabby dairy farmer and biker Stella Crown is hot - both in temperature and temperament. Her sister-in-law is a nag, her fiance Nick is ill, and her bank account is in the red. But when a local country star turns up dead at the county fair, where Stella's teenage employee Zach is an exhibitor, things turn from hot to ugly.
5790) The secret crown
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After Jonathon Payne and David Jones are pulled into a mystery surrounding documents found in a World War II bunker, they quickly find themselves in a struggle to uncover the truth about the mythical treasure of King Ludwig II.
5791) Saturday
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Description
From the pen of a master-the #1 bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Atonement-comes an astonishing novel that captures the fine balance of happiness and the unforeseen threats that can destroy it. A brilliant, thrilling page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Saturday is a masterful novel set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man-a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper...
5792) Vicious circle
Author
Series
Hector Cross novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
Hector Cross left behind a career of high risks and warfare when he married his beloved Hazel Bannock. But after his new life is tragically upended, he recognizes the ruthless hand of an old enemy behind the attack. Determined to fight back, Hector draws together a team of his most loyal friends and fellow warriors to hunt down those who pursue him and his loved ones. For he and Hazel have a child, a precious daughter, whom he will go to the ends...
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 11
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
[p2012]
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murder of a millionaire who was killed with a weapon linked to the deaths of four San Francisco criminals, pregnant detective Lindsay Boxer is horrified to realize that the killer could be among her closest friends.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
"Inspector Alan Banks--hailed as "a man for all seasons" by Michael Connelly--must face the music when he becomes embroiled in one of his most perplexing and distressing cases in this haunting page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson. Two women. Two crimes. The first is a poet claiming she was assaulted decades earlier by a man now regarded as one of the country's national treasures. The second is a girl found on a remote...
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English
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Catherine Ling: raised in Hong Kong, she has been a CIA Operative since she was fourteen years old. Now, years later, Catherine is as lethal as she is beautiful. Her mentor, Hu Chang, brilliant and deadly, taught Catherine everything she knows. Now, he is calling her to rescue an imprisoned journalist - a woman who has been subjected to unspeakable horrors. Catherine will be fighting a man so evil, his crimes stretch back 40 years. Can she save a...
5797) Virus mortal
Author
Publisher
Plaza y Janes
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
La nueva novela del maestro del thriller médico. Cuando una enfermedad desconocida y letal golpea a su familia y una despiadada compañía de seguros amenaza con arrebatárselo todo, el expolicía Brian Murphy decide defenderse. Un mosquito tigre pica a Emma Murphy durante una barbacoa en la playa, de vacaciones con su familia. En el camino de regreso a casa, Emma sufre un ataque y su marido Brian la lleva a urgencias. Una decisión innecesaria...
5798) Icarus
Author
Series
Benny Griessel novels volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A week before Christmas, a young photographer discovers a plastic-wrapped corpse amidst the sand dunes north of Cape Town. It doesn't take long for the police to identify the body as that of Ernst Richter--the tech whiz founder of Alibi, an Internet service that provides unfaithful partners with sophisticated cover stories to hide their affairs. Assigned to the case is lead detective Benny Griessel--but unfortunately, his two years of sobriety have...
Author
Publisher
Willam Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Michael Irwin's The Skull and the Nightingale is a chilling and deliciously dark, literary novel of manipulation and sex, intrigue and seduction, set in 18th-century England. When Richard Fenwick returns to London, his wealthy godfather, James Gilbert, has an unexpected proposition. Gilbert has led a sedate life in Worcestershire, but feels the urge to experience, even vicariously, the extremes of human feeling: love, passion, and something much more...
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Series
Lost treasure of the Templars volume 2
Publisher
Signet Select
Pub. Date
c2016
Language
English
Description
When their search to uncover the Templar's secrets leads them to valuable information, records of international trade that could possibly yield the greatest wealth in the world, Jessop and Mallory are caught in the cross hairs of Europe's most powerful families.
While trying to decipher what few clues they have managed to recover about the Templar’s secrets, Jessop and Mallory discover that the legendary “treasure” they have been searching...
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