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Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Rory is an antihero for the ages. Like Shakespeare's Richard III, she confides in her audience, telling us exactly the lengths she'll go to to secure the leading role in Bosworth Academy's senior musical, confessing without shame that she is charming and conniving and brutally ambitious, that we will watch and root for her even as she manipulates and endangers those around her. And we do. Perhaps it's because we don't want to believe that she's as...
Author
Series
Forgotten five volume 4
Publisher
Putnam, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Forgotten Five work to stop President Fuerte from using his supernatural army to sabotage Magdalia Palacio's campaign"--
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Marie Walker has vanished from the face of the earth .Her besotted boyfriend, newspaper photographer Richard Thompson, vows to find her, convinced that Marie's unusual beliefs hold the key.But a shocking discovery makes him question if he ever really knew his girlfriend. And when people around him start to die, Richard is plunged into terrible danger.Drawn into the world of a sinister cult and the darkest corners of the Internet, Richard finds himself...
4) Lie with me
Author
Publisher
Gwen Hernandez
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
On a mission to expose the crimes of a powerful man, Emma Gallagher's informant is killed before he can hand over the proof she needs. When the man who once broke her heart gets the files instead, she'll use their fierce attraction, his guilty conscience...whatever it takes to recover the evidence to bring a murderer to justice.
Former special operator Jason Chin was hired to protect his wealthy client's interests, but when an assassin attacks Emma,...
Author
Series
Refuge volume 5
Publisher
Susan Stoker
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
She’s a survivor, but it will take someone truly special to make her see how strong she can be. As a former Night Stalker Army pilot, Callen “Owl” Kaufman has been in his share of dicey situations. Long-since retired from the military, he thought dangerous missions were a thing of his past, but rescuing Lara Osler from a serial killer was definitely one of the most harrowing yet. Now safe at The Refuge, Lara is struggling to heal months later…and...
8) Heartbeat
Author
Series
Jubilee Kentucky volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Sean Pope already lost Amalie Lincoln once. This time, he will risk everything to never have to say goodbye to her again. Amalie Lincoln moved to Jubilee, Kentucky, to start fresh, build her business, and heal the scars of her past. Little did she know she'd run into Sean Pope, a beloved childhood friend she hasn't seen in decades. But on the day she moves to town, a helicopter explodes under suspicious circumstances, wreaking havoc on the families...
9) Crosshairs
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
NYC detective Michael Bennett teams up with a former Army Ranger and sniper whose long, unexplained absences from duty causes suspicions during the investigation of a serial killer.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A determined reporter and a reluctant FBI agent face off against fascist elements in World War II-era Boston. June, 1943. Wartime tensions are running high, and an atmosphere of distrust and unease is dividing friends and neighbors. The two protagonists of Thomas Mullen's gripping historical thriller find themselves at the center of a dangerous tinderbox, trying to douse the sparks before flames engulf the city. Reporter Anne Lemire writes the Rumor...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"On a run through the woods outside her north Georgia hometown, defense attorney Ama Chaplin encounters a mysterious hiker and recognizes him, too late, as a sociopath she successfully defended when he was a teenager. In the intervening seventeen years, Ama changed her name and moved to Atlanta, anxious to put her past behind her. Michael Walton, her young client, grew into a ruthless and inventive murderer. And now that he's caught her, he can put...
12) One last scream
Author
Series
Special Agent Ricki James thriller volume 2
Publisher
CRC
Pub. Date
©2021
Language
English
Description
"Ricki James is faced with a pair of baffling murders and a desperate killer in this suspense-filled mystery/thriller. Will a cold case from fifty years ago put her in a grave today? There is no doubt that Maxwell Hardy was shot in the chest. So was the other body lying nearby in the rundown and long-abandoned lighthouse. Aside from that, all Special Agent Ricki James knows is that Max was a private investigator, the other victim was an unknown...
Author
Series
National Parks thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In a daring, brutal act of terrorism, an explosion rocks and topples the Statue of Liberty. Special Agent Michael Walker of the National Park Service is awakened by his boss with that news and sent to New York as the agent-in-charge. Not long after he lands, he learns two things - one that Gina Delgado of the FBI has been placed in charge of the investigation as the lead of the Joint Terrorism Task Force and two, that threats of a second terrorism...
14) Bad like us
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Partying with popular classmates they barely know is not what Eva and her BFFs had in mind for their spring break. But things have been off ever since Miles' academic career took a turn for the worse (they don't talk about it), so a trip to a private beach lodge might be exactly what they need. And Eva won’t admit it, but the chance to reconnect with Colton is worth putting up with Piper’s constant livestreams to her thousands of 'besties.' At...
15) One life gone
Author
Series
Special Agent Ricki James thriller volume 3
Publisher
CRC
Pub. Date
©2021
Language
English
Description
"It’s been eighteen months since Special Agent Ricki James was shot and her partner killed, in an ambush during a routine prisoner transport. Despite recurring nightmares, Ricki has slowly pulled the pieces of her life back together and is wearing the badge once more. She’s already solved several tough cases but now things have settled down and she is enjoying some much-deserved breathing space. . . until a second agent is found dead, with a bullet...
16) Hunt
Author
Series
PIGGY volume 3
Publisher
AFK, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Welcome back to the bone-chilling world of PIGGY, the survival-horror game that will have you hearing haunting oinks in your sleep, guaranteed! Three months after his adventures in Doveport, Ben and his friends have been sweeping the island of Lucella for the Infected, administering the newly created cure and reuniting families. However, the only real cure to their problems will be finding out how this infection started, and putting a stop to it....
17) One final target
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Two wounded heroes shattered by tragedy and paralyzed by guilt and must find their footing and work together to catch a killer. A warrant service in the San Bernardino Mountains goes horribly wrong when an IED blast kills four police officers. Devastated by the loss of her team, the lone survivor, Long Beach sergeant Jodie King, struggles with her guilt and grief, especially as the case remains open with no clear leads or suspects. Weeks after the...
Author
Publisher
Southern Tier Editions, Harrington Park Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A "gentlemen's bar" on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the Brownstone is a quaint oasis of Chippendale and Sondheim in a wasteland of chrome and club kids. But the boys in the Brownstone aren't all gentlemen. And their lives are anything but quaint. This collection of witty, affectionate--and disturbing--tales of the city weaves through a colorful assortment of characters linked together in the most surprising ways. These men may be hot, funny, and fashionable...
19) 2054: a novel
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It is twenty years after the catastrophic war between the United States and China that brought down the old American political order. A new party has emerged in the US, one that’s held power for over a decade. Efforts to cement its grip have resulted in mounting violent resistance. The American president has control of the media, but he is beginning to lose control of the streets. Many fear he’ll stop at nothing to remain in the White House....
Author
Series
David Adams volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A client with delusions of a deadly conspiracy draws attorney David Adams into a darkness where only the paranoid know how to get out alive. Former up-and-coming hotshot attorney David Adams left his glamorous corporate law firm to fight for the disenfranchised. With a caseload of petty offenses, a meager office in a crumbling building, and little in the way of compensation, David needs a real case. When he agrees to represent Rebel, David recognizes...