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21) Gone Bamboo
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
-- Gone Bamboo is a feast of murder, hitmen, and the hitwomen they love.
23) Sleepwalker
Author
Series
Nightwatcher thrillers volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
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Description
When someone starts savagely murdering women near her home, Allison Taylor Mackenna, a survivor of another serial killer, finds her life in danger once again, and worries that her husband, Mack, may be the guilty party.
25) Present Danger
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
To Love
He'll find her. Sooner or later, Aunie Franklin's ex-husband, Wesley, will track her down. She's moved clear across the country to start over, but she knows it's not far enough from a madman obsessed with making her pay...
And To Cherish
James Ryder's new tenant is running from something. Her Southern sass doesn't hide the fading bruises on her face. James doesn't need more complications in his life, but he can't ignore her rising fear....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Set in two Venices, the modern physical world and its virtual counterpart, The Abomination by Jonathan Holt is a propulsive tale of murder, corruption, and international intrigue-the first book in an outstanding new trilogy in which Carabiniere Captain Kat Tapo must unravel a dark conspiracy linking the CIA and the Catholic Church.
By the stunning white dome of one of Venice's grandest landmarks a body with two slugs in the back of the head has...
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Series
Troy Chance novels volume 1
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Witnessing a small boy being thrown into the middle of Lake Champlain, Troy Chance rescues the child only to discover that he had been kidnapped and is at the center of a bizarre and violent plot.
28) The Shut-In
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Description
A woman who watches the world from her studio apartment is determined to solve a murder — but only if the killer doesn't find her first.
Confined to a studio apartment, Tricia Celano watches the outside world through a flying drone. But when her high-tech toy records a vicious murder, she's determined to track down the killer — a killer who knows she's being watched.
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Confined to a studio apartment, Tricia Celano watches the outside world through a flying drone. But when her high-tech toy records a vicious murder, she's determined to track down the killer — a killer who knows she's being watched.
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Lightning-fast stories by James Patterson
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
In "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons", someone is destroying small busts of Napoleon Bonaparte. At first merely a nuisance, vandalism quickly turns to murder after one of the statue owners finds a dead man on his doorstep beside a smashed statue. Reasoning his way back to the source of the statues, Holmes determines that there is more to this case than just antipathy towards the great French leader. Can Holmes and Watson solve the mystery before...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Description
"You came back here to bury your past....Thing is, you gotta kill it first."
Kevin Pearce-baseball star, honor student, the pride of Brighton-was fifteen when he left town in the back of his uncle's cab. He and his buddy Bobby Scales had just committed heinous violence for what they thought were the best of reasons. Kevin didn't want a pass, but he was getting it anyway. Bobby would stay and face the music; Kevin's future would remain bright as ever....
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
In "The Adventure of the Empty House", Sherlock Holmes reappears in London after a 3-year absence, shocking Dr. Watson who believed his good friend had been killed in a confrontation with Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. Holmes is compelled to outwit the "second most dangerous man in London" who has a good reason to hope for Holmes' demise. From the 1905 collection "The Return of Sherlock Holmes".
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Description
The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer-a minister's son-hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's father has come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Description
In this deviously volatile, deliciously creepy thriller from the #1 New York Times bestseller, the lone survivor of a brutal family massacre must uncover the awful truth about the fateful night that left her forever marked...
Has she already had her last chance to be the final girl?
A Goodreads Hot Summer Mysteries
All her life, she's been the girl who survived. Orphaned at age seven after a horrific killing...
Has she already had her last chance to be the final girl?
A Goodreads Hot Summer Mysteries
All her life, she's been the girl who survived. Orphaned at age seven after a horrific killing...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Growers Market is set in remote marijuana country peopled with characters whose backgrounds are diverse and whose futures are uncertain. Sunbeam, who entered adult life as a 1960s San Francisco hippie girl, moved north searching for peace and quiet in unspoiled nature. Eventually she ended up running The Bird of Prey Tavern and growing enough weed to support her tranquil life. The men who eventually work for her-Shadow, Shrimp, Stones, Toon, Shakespeare-are...
37) Nowhere to Hide
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Description
There Are Sins
"Do unto others. . ." Carefully, he carves the words into their flesh. The victims are all young, brunette, pretty. But she's the one he really wants. The others are just a way to ease the rage that has festered for years, until the only thing that calms him is his knife slicing through skin. . .
You Never Live
Detective September Rafferty--Nine to her friends--recognizes the artwork that arrives in the mail. She created it back...
38) The long shot
Author
Pub. Date
1988
Description
An unlikely pair races to find a murderer in the hazy underbelly of Los Angeles
Vivien Cokes and her husband, Jasper, are LA royalty, and they have the lifestyle to prove it. Big parties, a huge mansion in Malibu, and complicated affairs are all part of the package. However, during a morning swim, Vivien makes a discovery that changes her life forever. Smelling smoke, she sees her home in flames, and inside, she finds her husband dead...
Vivien Cokes and her husband, Jasper, are LA royalty, and they have the lifestyle to prove it. Big parties, a huge mansion in Malibu, and complicated affairs are all part of the package. However, during a morning swim, Vivien makes a discovery that changes her life forever. Smelling smoke, she sees her home in flames, and inside, she finds her husband dead...
39) Descent: a novel
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"Descent, the story of a family undone by the disappearance of a daughter who went out for a morning run and didn't come back, marks the adult fiction debut of a remarkable young writer. Stunning in its emotional impact, Descent is a compulsively readable page-turner with a strong literary sensibility. The girl's vanishing--on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning--all the more devastating for its mystery, is the beginning the family's harrowing journey...
40) 30 Red Dresses
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Veata did not expect any special surprises for her eighth birthday, especially the surprise of being sold into slavery.
"An Outstanding read." - San Francisco Review of Books
"Fast-paced and exciting. Highly recommended." - Readersfavorite.com
"A page-turner with rich characters." - Jen Johnson, Author of Scarlet
"Exceptionally well-crafted and a joy to read." - Readersfavorite.com
"His storytelling reels you in with a dramatic, clever,...