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Drawing dead: a Rick Redman mystery
Par Grant McCrea. 2009
A murder makes lawyer Rick Redman decide it's time for a career change. A beautiful woman offering a substantial cash…
retainer cements the idea, but when Rick loses the cash in a poker game and he ends up in Nevada, he has no choice but to try to recoup the lost money at the World Series of Poker. And when his brother-in-law turns up dead, it becomes clear that the stakes are higher than he expected. Some descriptions of sex, some descriptions of violence, and explicit strong language. c2009.Dominion
Par C. J Sansom. 2012
1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. As…
the long German war against Russia rages on in the east, the British people find themselves under dark authoritarian rule. Defiance, though, is growing. 2012.Close enough to kill (Zebra Romantic Suspense Ser.)
Par Beverly Barton. 2006
Adams County, Alabama, is a small friendly place where everyone knows each other - but not well enough, because Sherriff…
Bernie Granger has a serial killer on her hands, a man who romances, stalks, kidnaps and then kills his victims. It's Bernie's first big case and her chance to prove herself, especially to her new partner, Memphis police detective Jim Norton. As she and Jim work around the clock and find their feelings for each other growing, the killer makes his next move - one that is chillingly personal. Explicit descriptions of violence. Explicit descriptions of sex. c2006.Cold fear
Par Rick Mofina. 2001
While camping with her family in Montana's Glacier National Park, a 10-year-old girl disappears. As a multi-agency task force launches…
a massive search, the little girl fights to survive in the wilderness while her mother enters her own life-and-death race to rescue her child. Because someone else who knows a dark secret from the past wants to find her daughter, too. 2001.Charles the Bold: the dog years : a novel (Charles the Bold ; #1)
Par Yves Beauchemin, Wayne Grady. 2006
1966. The rest of Montreal is excited by the new subway system, but the birth of Charles Thibodeau is a…
big event for his parents and their east-end Montreal working-class neighbours. Charles endures the death of his mother, the October Crisis, being taken away from his drunken, violent father and becoming part of the Fafard family. His adventures in school, a part-time job and camp lead him to fully earn his title, Charles the Bold. Followed by "Years of fire" (DC31044). Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2006. (Charles the Bold ; 1) Uniform title: Charles le téméraire.Chosen prey (Lucas Davenport series. #12.)
Par John Sandford. 2001
Minneapolis Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport is searching for a serial killer. The unknown perpetrator is actually James Qatar, a fastidious…
art history teacher. His other hobby is combining Internet porn shots with faces of women he secretly photographs, and then sketching the results. Explicit descriptions of sex, violence, and strong language. Sequel to “Easy prey”, followed by “Mortal prey”. 2001.Boston cream (Jonah Geller mystery series. #3.)
Par Howard Shrier. 2012
David Fine is not the kind of guy to go missing. Or so his father tells PI Jonah Geller. A…
brilliant young surgeon-in-training, devout, devoted to his parents--last seen 2 weeks ago leaving the Boston hospital where he worked. Still recovering from a concussion, Jonah and partner Jenn Raudsepp soon find out that David fled for his life after a vicious Irish crime boss tried to abduct him. And that he's more likely dead than alive. Then Jenn joins the ranks of the missing, and Jonah needs help from former hit man Dante Ryan and two local wise guys as he races the clock to save her life, one step ahead of the Boston law. Includes sex, violence and strong language. 2012.Blind alley (Eve Duncan series. #5.)
Par Iris Johansen. 2004
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan reconstructs a victim's face - one who eerily resembles Eve's adopted daughter Jane. While a serial…
killer targets Jane look-alikes, Jane's recurrent nightmares track the path of the murderer to her door. Bestseller. 2004. (Eve Duncan series ; 5)Black Sunday
Par Thomas Harris. 2001
In retaliation for American aid to Israel, an Arab terrorist group plots to blow up the Super Bowl. Their prime…
weapon is a deranged Navy pilot seeking revenge against a world he believes has wronged him. Working with him is beautiful, erotic Dahlia. Some descriptions of sex. Some strong language. Descriptions of violence. Bestseller. 2001, c1975.Blood safari
Par Deon Meyer. 2007
When three masked men break into the Cape Town home of Emma le Roux on Christmas Eve, she fears it…
may be connected to recent evidence that her brother, Jacobus, who she thought died 20 years before, is actually alive. She hires professional bodyguard Martin Lemmer to protect her while she investigates. After Emma is severely injured, Lemmer goes on the offensive, bent on revenge and determined to solve the ever-widening mystery that threatens to kill them both. Explicit strong language, explicit descriptions of violence, and explicit descriptions of sex. 2009, c2007. Uniform title: Onsigbaar.Adieu, Rive-Sud, P.Q: les folles nuits de Montréal
Par Jean-Louis Morgan. 2015
" Milieu des années 1950. À peine remis d'une impossible histoire d'amour, Éric Sanscartier est banni de la Rive-Sud par…
l'influent bandit qui l'employait. Le jeune journaliste parvient à survivre de peine et de misère à Montréal, sur la scène médiatique, en cumulant les emplois et les articles indignes de son talent. Il ira même jusqu'à fréquenter les pires endroits afin d'approfondir ses enquêtes et leur conférer l'intérêt humain tant recherché par la presse à potins. Sanscartier fait des rencontres spectaculaires dans les nombreux cabarets montréalais tenus par le monde interlope, mais également au tout nouveau Saint-Germain-des-Prés, où règne le roi des nuits de la métropole: Jacques Normand. Ainsi, plusieurs artistes destinés à dominer le showbiz québécois fournissent au jeune homme des interviews et des témoignages susceptibles de rétablir sa carrière. L'ancien intrus de Longueuil-Est croisera le chemin du fameux Pax Plante, en pleine lutte contre la corruption qui afflige la ville. Ce chevalier blanc deviendra le mentor de Sanscartier, à qui il exposera sa vision de l'intégrité, ce qui n'empêchera pas son apprenti de se laisser enivrer par une femme liée à la mafia et ses terrifiantes pratiques... Saura-t-il éviter de nouveau un cul-de-sac amoureux, comme celui qu'il a laissé derrière lui, sur la Rive-Sud dont il jure n'avoir rien oublié? "A very bold leap (Charles the Bold ; #3)
Par Yves Beauchemin, Wayne Grady. 2009
After leaving high school at sixteen, Charles takes the leap and sets out to write The Great Montreal Novel. As…
the pages pile up and his money runs out, Charles takes a series of terrible jobs, while encountering smarmy publishers and the Quebec political scene of the 1980s. Sequel to "Years of fire" (DC31044). Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2009. (Charles the bold ; 3) Uniform title: Saut dans le vide.The years of fire (Charles the Bold ; #2)
Par Yves Beauchemin, Wayne Grady. 2007
Charles Thibodeau's high school years are truly years of fire: he discovers girls and politics. Fire also changes his life…
when his estranged father threatens his stepfather's store with arson. Charles must begin dealing drugs to pay him off, desperate to escape that life and fulfil his dreams of becoming a writer. Sequel to "Charles the bold" (DC29961). Descriptions of sex, some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2007. (Charles the Bold ; 2) Uniform title: Saut dans le vide.Killer (Alex Delaware. #29.)
Par Jonathan Kellerman. 2014
Well-used to elevated emotions, psychologist Alex Delaware shrugs off a joking death threat from beautiful Beverly Hills physician Constance Sykes,…
whose attempt to secure legal custody of her baby niece is thwarted by Alex's forthright report to the court. Alex plays down the threat until LAPD's Milo Sturgis rushes to his side with the shocking word on the street that a hit's been taken out on him. But while Alex may be in grave danger, it won't be from the Beverley Hills doctor, for Connie is soon discovered brutally slain. When her sister Cherie and the baby disappear, apparently on the run, Alex's search for answers leads him to aged rockers, charming homeboys and even Machiavellian judges. Sequel to "Guilt". 2014.Cross (Alex Cross series. #12.)
Par James Patterson. 2006
Alex Cross quit his job with the FBI but can't seem to stay away. When a series of brutal rapes…
are committed across Washington and none of the victims will talk, Sampson calls on Alex for help. How many people will meet a gruesome end while the Irishman evades the FBI, the mob hit team and Alex - still haunted by the loss of his first wife and the unsolved mystery of who killed her? Sequel to "Mary, Mary", followed by "Cross". 2006. (Alex Cross Series ; 12)Fear the worst
Par Linwood Barclay. 2010
Divorced car salesman Tim Blake searches for his seventeen-year-old daughter Sydney, who didn’t return home from her summer job at…
a hotel. Tim is unpleasantly surprised to learn, among other things, that Sydney’s supposed employers have never heard of her. Strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2010.No time for goodbye: Gone Without A Trace. Until Now....
Par Linwood Barclay. 2008
On the morning she will never forget, suburban teenager Cynthia Archer discovers her house is empty, with no sign of…
her parents or younger brother Todd. Her family has simply disappeared. Twenty-five years later, married with a daughter of her own, Cynthia fears that her new family will be taken from her just as her first one was. Then a letter arrives which makes no sense and yet chills Cynthia to the core.I let you go
Par Clare Mackintosh. 2015
In a split second, Jenna Gray's world descends into a nightmare. Her only hope of moving on is to walk…
away from everything she knows to start afresh. Desperate to escape, Jenna moves to a remote cottage on the Welsh coast, but she is haunted by her fears, her grief and her memories of a cruel November night that changed her life forever. Slowly, Jenna begins to glimpse the potential for happiness in her future. But her past is about to catch up with her, and the consequences will be devastating. 2015.I see you
Par Clare Mackintosh. 2017
When Zoe Walker sees her photo in the classifieds section of a London newspaper, she is determined to find out…
why it's there. There's no explanation, no website: just a grainy image and a phone number. She takes it home to her family, who are convinced it's just someone who looks like Zoe. But the next day the advert shows a photo of a different woman, and another the day after that. Is it a mistake? A coincidence? Or is someone keeping track of every move they make? 2017.The take
Par Martina Cole. 2006
Freddie Jackson thinks he owns the underworld when he gets out of prison. He's done his time, made the right…
connections, and now he's ready to use them. His wife Jackie just wants her husband home, but she's forgotten the rows, the violence, and the girls Freddie can't leave alone. Bitter, resentful, and increasingly unstable, Jackie watches her life crumble while her little sister Maggie's star rises. In love with Freddie's cousin Jimmy, Maggie is determined not to end up like her sister. 2006.