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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An annual backpacking trip has deadly consequences in a chilling new novel from the bestselling author of The Lost Night and The Herd. Emily is having the time of her life--she's in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than ever. But on the last night of their trip, Emily enters their hotel suite to find blood and broken glass on the floor. Kristen says the cute backpacker...
2) Deadline
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Already coping with battle fatigue following his return from Afghanistan, journalist Dawson Scott receives a tip he cannot ignore about a potentially huge story involving the son of terrorists at-large for forty years.
Dawson Scott is a well-respected journalist recently returned from Afghanistan. Haunted by everything he experienced, he's privately suffering from battle fatigue which is a threat to every aspect of his life. But then he gets a call...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
As he grieves his best friend Benny's death, Mason and his friend Calvin, who are targeted by the neighborhood bullies, create an underground haven for themselves, but when Calvin goes missing Mason finds himself in trouble.
Author
Series
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Commander Gray Perce and the Sigma Force participate in an adventure that races from the Roman Coliseum to the icy peaks of Norway, from the ruins of medieval abbeys to the lost tombs of Celtic kings. The ultimate nightmare is locked within a talisman buried by a dead saint--an ancient artifact known as the Doomsday Key--and a secret that has already claimed the lives of a famed geneticist, a Vatican archaeologist, and a U.S. senator's son.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Jack signs on to defend an old school friend's wife who is accused of murdering her college rapist, but he finds the case unexpectedly complicated by the woman's tortured family history and conflicting testimony from an ex-boyfriend.
7) Palindrome
Author
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
After divorcing her physically abusive NFL superstar husband, photographer Liz Barwick accepts an assignment on an idyllic island and begins a romance while her ex-husband plots murderous revenge.
8) Late edition
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, this is "a page-turner... the perfect blend of mystery, adventure and romance" (The Charleston Mercury).
Teresa "Toots" Loudenberry has a knack for finding adventure, even when she's not looking for it. But ever since her friend Sophie convinced her to start holding regular séances, life in Los Angeles is getting a little too dramatic even for Toots's tastes. When their...
Teresa "Toots" Loudenberry has a knack for finding adventure, even when she's not looking for it. But ever since her friend Sophie convinced her to start holding regular séances, life in Los Angeles is getting a little too dramatic even for Toots's tastes. When their...
9) Rogue lawyer
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the right side of the law. Sort of. Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who's also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy. He lives alone in a small but extremely safe penthouse...
10) Roadside crosses
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways. Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of Investigation's foremost kinesics expert, and Deputy Michael O'Neil follow a lead to Travis Brigham, a troubled teenager whose role in a fatal car accident has inspired vicious attacks against him on a popular blog, The Chilton Report. But as the investigation progresses, Travis vanishes--and Dance is forced...
11) Hold tight
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Mike held his son's hand and told him to "hold tight," and he could feel the little hand dig into his but the crush got bigger and the little hand slipped from his and Mike felt that horrible panic, as if a wave hit them at the beach and it was washing his baby out with the tide. The separation lasted only a few seconds, ten at the most, but Mike would never forget the spike in his blood and the terror of those brief few moments. Tia and Mike Baye...
12) Rain gods
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When Hackberry Holland became sheriff of a tiny Texas town near the Mexican border, he'd hoped to leave certain things behind: his checkered reputation, his haunted dreams, and his obsessive memories of the good life with his late wife, Rie. But the discovery of the bodies of nine illegal aliens, machine-gunned to death and buried in a shallow grave behind a church, soon makes it clear that he won't escape so easily. As Hack and Deputy Sheriff Pam...
13) Guilty
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Kate White, single mother and assistant Philadelphia DA, must fight for her life and the life of her son as the terrible events of her past return with a vengeance and the only hope she seems to have lies with homicide detective Tom Braga--a man she has no reason to trust.
14) The crush
Author
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Dr. Rennie Newton, having served on a jury that acquitted notorious contract killer Ricky Lozada, forms an uneasy alliance with Fort Worth detective Wick Threadgill when Lozada makes her the target of his fatal attentions.
15) Stone cold
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
While trying to protect his identity from a man seeking revenge for the death of his father, Oliver Stone, a former CIA assassin, and a group of justice seekers protect Annabelle Conroy, a woman who stole millions of dollars from a casino owner in retaliation for her mother's murder.
16) Mind games
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"As they do each June, the Foxes have driven the winding roads of Appalachia to drop off their children for a two-week stay at their grandmother's. Here, twelve-year-old Thea can run free and breathe in the smells of pine and fresh bread and Grammie's handmade candles. But as her parents head back to suburban Virginia, they have no idea they're about to cross paths with a ticking time bomb. Back in Kentucky, Thea and her grandmother Lucy both awaken...
17) Long time no see
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The heroine of Compromising Positions returns to investigate a disappearance Where did Courtney Logan go? The former investment banker turned suburban dilettante had not lived in Shorehaven for long, but had begun to establish herself there. Her small business-a video production company dedicated to filming newborns-was taking off, and she seemed to have settled into life outside of the big city. Then, suddenly, she disappeared. Judith Singer wants...
18) The broken gun
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1971, c1966
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The broken gun hid the torn remnants of an old diary, a fragmented account of a cattle drive from Texas to Arizona in the 1870's. Nothing extraordinary, except that John and Clyde Toomey, with their 4,000 head of cattle and twenty-seven men, had never arrived-they seemed to have vanished off the face of the Arizona desert. Jacket.
19) Play dead
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2010, c1990
Language
English
Description
When her husband, David Baskin, the Boston Celtics' star player, dies on their Australian honeymoon, fashion model Laura Ayars returns home to discover a half million dollars missing from his account and their house ransacked, prompting her to launch her own investigation into David's death.
20) The Third Twin
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Research scientist Jeannie Ferrami discovers a chilling conspiracy when her study of the genetic components of aggression reveals a plot by the government, a biotech company, and her own university to reshape society through genetic manipulation.
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