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1) Lion & lamb
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"They can catch a killer-if they don't kill each other first. Veena Lion and Cooper Lamb are rival PIs working the same intense headline-making case"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes a novel of sexy romantic suspense for fans of Nora Roberts, Catherine Coulter, and Karen Robards.
TELL THE TRUTH AND SHAME THE DEVIL
Two children who mysteriously disappeared twenty-one years ago are the last thing on Lorna Temple’s mind when she returns to her Pennsylvania hometown to sell the old family property in the wake of her parents’ passing....
TELL THE TRUTH AND SHAME THE DEVIL
Two children who mysteriously disappeared twenty-one years ago are the last thing on Lorna Temple’s mind when she returns to her Pennsylvania hometown to sell the old family property in the wake of her parents’ passing....
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Jane Harper's The Dry or Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects, a searing debut crime novel set in the Australian outback, where the grief and guilt surrounding an unsolved disappearance still haunt a small farming community...and will ultimately lead to a reckoning"--
Author
Series
Vanessa Michael Munroe volume 1
Language
English
Description
Governments pay her.
Criminals fear her.
Nobody sees her coming.
Vanessa “Michael” Munroe deals in information—expensive information—working for corporations, heads of state, private clients, and anyone else who can pay for her unique brand of expertise. Born to missionary parents in lawless central Africa, Munroe took up with an infamous gunrunner and his mercenary crew when she was just fourteen....
Criminals fear her.
Nobody sees her coming.
Vanessa “Michael” Munroe deals in information—expensive information—working for corporations, heads of state, private clients, and anyone else who can pay for her unique brand of expertise. Born to missionary parents in lawless central Africa, Munroe took up with an infamous gunrunner and his mercenary crew when she was just fourteen....
Author
Series
Private justice volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Spotting a familiar-looking child in the mall, Kate Marshall is convinced he is the son she thought died in a boating accident along with her husband three years ago. With police skeptical of her story, she turns to private investigator Connor Sullivan, a former Secret Service agent, to discover the truth"--
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Intervening on behalf of a distraught woman who is holding a gun in the doorway of a Malibu beach house, private investigator Mac Reilly finds himself in possession of the gun and searching for the woman when she later goes missing.
9) Naked greed
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Rescuing a prominent brewery owner from an attack by two rogue policemen, Stone Barrington is catapulted into the turbulent, high-stakes world of beer-making and distribution.
10) Lullaby
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Spenser takes up a seemingly open and closed cold case at the behest of a street-wise 16 year old girl, who believes her mother's murderers went free. As Spenser digs deeper into the mystery, he finds a much more dangerous and complex mystery than he bargained for"--
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novel volume 42
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Trouble always seems to find Stone Barrington, but with his debonair charm, unflappable composure, and cunning foresight, he always gets his man (and his lady ...)"--
12) Windigo Island
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Faced with murmurings of the mythical Windigo beast and rumors of the Michi Peshu spirit when an Ojibwa teenage girl's body washes ashore and a 15-year-old girl goes missing, former sheriff Cork O'Connor leaves the Bad Bluff reservation to find a grotesque link to a sex enterprise partially supported by unscrupulous government agencies' willingness to turn a blind eye to the horrors befalling the missing girl and countless others.
13) The sixth man
Author
Language
English
Description
After alleged serial killer Edgar Roy is apprehended and locked away in a psychiatric unit, private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's lawyer--an old friend of Sean King--to look into the case. But en route to their first meeting with the lawyer, King and Maxwell discover his dead body.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
From the Hollywood Hills to the streets of Barcelona, from lush vineyards and wineries to the most exclusive homes in Europe, let Elizabeth Adler take you on a journey with a story that will hold you spellbound.
Bibi Fortunata was the hottest ticket in town: singer, actress, and celebrity. Two years ago she was arrested on suspicion of murdering her lover and his new mistress, who was also Bibi's best friend.
Bibi was front-page news
...15) Dark Ambitions
Author
Series
Code of honor volume 3
Language
English
Description
Former Army Night Stalker Rick Jordan usually has his camp for foster children to himself during the winter months. But someone has visited recently leaving a trail of blood. One of the two clues left behind tips Rick off to the identity of his visitor, who soon turns up dead. The police deem it an accident, but Rick isnt convinced. With the help of private investigator Heather Shields, he sets out to decipher the remaining clue. Except someone doesnt...
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novel volume 44
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Stone Barrington has wiggled his way out of some tricky situations before, but his latest adversary might pose the biggest threat he's ever faced. This time, it will take every bit of his shrewd cunning to come out on top."--Amazon.com.
17) Holly
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Stephen King's HOLLY marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly's gradual transformation from a shy and reclusive (but also brave and ethical) homebody in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges's partner in Finders Keepers and End of Watch to a full-fledged, smart and occasionally tough private detective on her own in The Outsider and If It Bleeds. In this new novel, Holly once again claims the spotlight,...
Author
Series
Stone Barrington volume 25
Language
English
Description
Returning to New York where he is approached by CIA assistant director and sometime lover Holly Barker, Stone Barrington is drawn into a dangerous game of murder and vengeance against an enemy who is engaged in a nefarious plot beyond Stone's imagining.
19) The wrecker
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Set in 1907, the rousing second thriller to feature detective Isaac Bell (after The Chase) from bestseller Cussler and Scott pits Bell against "the Wrecker," who's been destroying trains and railroad facilities around the country for no apparent reason. These horrific incidents are wreaking havoc on the plans of Osgood Hennessy, the Southern Pacific Railroad's president, who's constructing the massive Cascade Canyon Bridge in Oregon. If the project...
20) Ruff justice
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A dog leash becomes a lethal weapon in this mystery from the Agatha Award finalist, "a rare breed of writer" (The Plain Dealer).
With the excitement of the spring dog show season sweeping Connecticut, prize-winning Poodle owner Melanie Travis is determined to help her son finally lead his Standard Poodle toward a championship title. But the competition is fierce.
Aunt Peg even skips the judging panel to exhibit...
With the excitement of the spring dog show season sweeping Connecticut, prize-winning Poodle owner Melanie Travis is determined to help her son finally lead his Standard Poodle toward a championship title. But the competition is fierce.
Aunt Peg even skips the judging panel to exhibit...