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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her children are stolen by a kidnapper who demands her late husband's life insurance premiums in exchange for their return, widowed real estate agent Alice Glendenning turns for help to new friend Charlie Hobbs.
162) Slaves of obsession
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ritual murder, mysterious disappearances, and theft spur Victorian investigator William Monk and his wife Hester to investigate an arms dealer and his seemingly flawless London mansion.
163) Black water
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Merci Rayborn must unravel a tangled web of murder, betrayal, and love when the attempted murder/suicide of young cop Archie Wildcraft, who is still alive with a bullet in his head, and his wife leads her in pursuit of the truth.
164) From Potter's field
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[c1995]
Physical Desc
412p
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta matches wits with a sadistic killer who infiltrates the FBI's top-secret artificial intelligence system and closes in on Scarpetta herself
165) The switch
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
469 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her identical twin sister turns up dead, Melina Lloyd joins forces with her sister's lover to search for the truth about the killing, only to find herself on the run from a criminal mastermind whose evil schemes could have global repercussions.
166) Hand of evil
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
368 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Struggling with the fallout of a failed marriage and halted career, former L.A. news anchorwoman Ali Reynolds finds her tenacious new life in her Arizona hometown threatened by the murder of a real estate tycoon.
167) Beverly Hills dead
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Physical Desc
294 p. : 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A top-ranking executive of a Hollywood movie studio finds his starlet wife and associates under investigation when a screenwriter friend is targeted by witch hunters from the House Un-American Activities Committee.
168) The last precinct
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 26
Physical Desc
449 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Attracting unwanted attentions when she is mandated to research the four-hundred-year-old murder of a Jamestown, Virginia, settler, Kay Scarpetta finds enemies among those she is sworn to protect.
169) Picture me dead
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
When the mutilated body of a woman is found on the side of the road, officer-in-training Ashley Montague and Detective Jake Dilessio join forces to find the truth--an investigation that leads them into a world of corrupt cops, greed, and murder.
170) Justice denied
Author
Language
English
Description
Given a classified assignment involving the true fate of a deceased ex-con, Seattle investigator J.P. Beaumont discovers that the victim had recently attempted to turn his life around and had been murdered for the effort.
171) Rough country
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Investigating the shooting murder of a kayaker at a women-only Minnesota resort, investigator Virgil Flowers finds more suspects than anticipated including the victim's fellow patrons and a talented local country singer.
172) Wicked business
Author
Series
Lizzy and Diesel volume 2
Language
English
Description
Dazzling her patrons with scrumptious cupcakes at her Salem, Massachusetts, bakery, Elizabeth Tucker continues to fall for the irresistible Diesel, who protects her from a villain who is seeking mystical stones tied to the seven deadly sins.
173) Lethal
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Honor Gillette is visited by Lee Coburn, a suspected murderer seeking a valuable object that Honor's late husband left behind, they find themselves running from the FBI and untangling a web of corruption and depravity.
174) The short forever
Author
Series
Stone Barrington volume 8
Language
English
Description
Arriving in London to find a young woman, who has been seen in the company of an unsavory gentleman, for a client, Stone Barrington stumbles upon a deadly rivalry between two spies and is implicated in a horrifying double murder.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Lying Game comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fourth novel. On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person--but also that the cold-reading skills she's honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money....
176) Field of prey
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Lucas Davenport investigates the discovery of several bodies in an abandoned Minnesota farmyard, and realizes they are the work of a local serial killer who has been murdering one victim every summer for years.
177) Day of the Dead
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Joining the Last Chance Club to review unsolved crimes, former sheriff Brandon Walker unexpectedly confronts one of his own botched cases and a serial murderer who is responsible for the heinous deaths of numerous orphan girls.
179) Wicked appetite
Author
Series
Lizzy and Diesel volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
313 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Life in Marblehead has had a pleasant predictability, until Diesel arrives. Rumor has it that a collection of priceless ancient relics representing the Seven Deadly Sins have made their way to Boston's North Shore. Partnered with pastry chef Lizzie Tucker, Diesel bullies and charms his way through historic Salem to track them down, and his criminal mastermind cousin Gerewulf Grimorie. The black-haired, black-hearted Wulf is on the hunt for the relic...
Author
Series
Wilde volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The man known as Wilde is a mystery to everyone, including himself. Decades ago, he was found as a boy living feral in the woods, with no memory of his past. After the police concluded an exhaustive hunt for the child's family, which was never found, he was turned over to the foster system. Now, thirty years later, Wilde still doesn't know where he comes from, and he's back living in the woods on the outskirts of town, content to be an outcast, comfortable...