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9982) The door to bitterness
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The pair of G.I. cops Martin Limón first introduced in Jade Lady Burning (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year) are back with a vengeance in their latest adventures in Seoul and the sin cities surrounding the capital in the 1970s. North Korea is menacing, Vietnam is burning as these two weave through the back alleys and bordellos, as they try to tip back the scales of justice in the right direction. This time they are not only pursuing criminals,...
9983) The traitor's daughter
Author
Series
Veiled Isles trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Spectra Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a London hospital, Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had once been the one of Florence Nightingale's angels of mercy in the Crimean War, meets sudden death by strangulation. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to investigate this horrific crime--which intuition tells him was no random stroke of violence by a madman. Greatly helped by his unconventional friend Hester Latterly, another of Miss Nightingale's nurses, and barrister...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"On the run from some sore poker losers, gambler Lucas Stanton ducks into an office housing the "Great West Detective Agency"--followed by a client who mistakes him for a sleuth. Amanda Baldridge lives in one of Denver's more well-to-do neighborhoods, and someone has snatched Tovarich, her Russian wolfhound puppy. Unable to resolve this case of mistaken identity--and unwilling to refuse the up-front cash from such a lovely patron--Lucas agrees to...
Author
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Public health physician Dr. Maya Summer faces a myriad of medical challenges as she comes to grips with her uneasy past. Helped by faculty physician Alex Reddish, who withstands his own identity trials, she uncovers the grave truth behind a series of illnesses as she and Reddish draw close to one another"--
Dr. Maya Summer works at Arizona Public Health, overseeing and researching a myriad of public health issues. A passionate advocate for a motorcycle...
9987) Condominium: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Florida’s Golden Sands, the dream condominium complex built on a weak foundation and a thousand dirty secrets. The real estate was a steal—literally. The maintenance charges run high as the locals are run out. It’s the home of shortcuts, crackdowns, breakups, oversights, and payoffs. Add it all up, and the new coastline community doesn’t stand a chance against the ever-present specter of disaster: the dreaded hurricane. The big...
9988) Distortion
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Juliet Cole’s life has been dismantled by the murder of her husband. She doesn’t know who---or what---to trust when everything she has believed to be true about her marriage has been a lie.
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling author A.J. Banner comes a dazzling new novel of psychological suspense in the vein of S.J. Watson's Before I Go to Sleep and Mary Kubica's The Good Girl that questions just how much we can trust the people around us. Thirty-four-year-old marine biologist Kyra Winthrop remembers nothing about the diving accident that left her with a complex form of memory loss. With only brief flashes of the last few years of her life, her world...
9992) Runaway
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A failed Glasgow musician looks back on the half century that has passed since he convinced four friends to run away with him as ambitious teens and is haunted by the memory of a traumatizing event. Meanwhile a murderer in London embarks on a nightmarish spree.
9993) Greywalker
Author
Series
Greywalker volume 1
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Seattle P.I. Harper Blaine is viciously attacked and murdered--but after exactly two minutes, somehow she returns to life. Now she's seeing strange things all around her--dark visions from the shadow world--and living a normal life may no longer be possible no matter how hard she tries.
9994) A Galway epiphany
Author
Series
Jack Taylor series volume 16
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Jack Taylor has finally escaped his violent life in Galway for a quiet retirement in the country. But on a day trip back into the city to sort out his affairs, Jack is hit by a truck in front of Galway's Famine Memorial, left in a coma but mysteriously without a scratch on him. When he awakens weeks later, he finds Ireland in a frenzy over the so-called "Miracle of Galway." People have become convinced that the two children seen tending to him are...
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 2
Publisher
AudioGO
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. Along the way, they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other surprises.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nine year old Trisha McFarland, lost in the woods after she wanders off to escape the bickering between her mother and brother, boosts her courage by imagining that her hero, Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Tom Gordon, is with her, helping her survive an unknown enemy.
9997) Invasive
Author
Series
Zer0s volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
On the isolated Kolohe Atoll in the middle of the Pacific ocean, a charismatic billionaire employs a team of scientists to conduct cutting-edge research that he hopes will change the world. In a cabin on a remote lake in the Adirondacks, FBI futurist Hannah Stander finds a barely recognizable human body, which appears to have been skinned alive by thousands of genetically engineered ants. Hannah's investigation leads to Kolohe, where the scientists...
9998) If she only knew
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
She Woke Up With A New Face. . . Not only has Marla Cahill survived a deadly car accident, but her beautiful features have been restored through plastic surgery. She should be grateful. Instead, she's consumed by confusion. . .and panic. For the people gathered at her bedside--her family--are strangers. And so is the woman whose haunted eyes stare back from the mirror. . . She Woke Up With No Memories. . . Secluded at the magnificent Cahill mansion,...
9999) Seven wonders: a novel
Author
Publisher
Ratpac Press, in collaboration with Running Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After his reclusive, math-genius brother is murdered, Jack's search for the killer sends him to the Seven Wonders of the World, where he stumbles upon an ancient mystery.
10000) Shadow child
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A haunting and suspenseful literary tale set in 1970s New York City and World War II-era Japan, about three strong women, the dangerous ties of family and identity, and the long shadow our histories can cast"--
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