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The goldfinch: [a novel]
Par Donna Tartt. 2013
Aged 13, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise…
tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. Bestseller. Pulitzer Prize winner. 2013.The games (Private series. #12.)
Par James Patterson, Mark T Sullivan. 2016
Also published as "Private Rio". Two years ago Jack Morgan - the head of the renowned worldwide investigation firm Private…
- was in charge of security for the World Cup in Bazil. During the championship final, the action nearly spilled from the field into the stands. Fortunately, Jack and his team averted disaster on football's biggest stage. Now he has returned to Rio to secure the Olympics. But before the torch is lit, the threats come fast and furious as Jack discovers that someone is trying to sabotage the games. A lethal plan put in motion during the World Cup is set to decimate Rio, and turn the Olympics from a worldwide celebration into a horrifying spectacle. Bestseller. 2016.The girl behind the curtain (Hidden women. #3)
Par Stella Knightley. 2013
Sarah Thomson and Marco Donato's complicated love affair continues - their passion is a deep one but both have been…
badly hurt before and are wary of exposing their vulnerabilities to the other. Meanwhile, Sarah begins to research a new subject: In Nineteen-Thirties Germany, Katherine Hazleton escapes her stuffy finishing school and runs away to Berlin in pursuit of an unsuitable man. Alone and penniless when her boyfriend deserts her, she is forced to become a hostess at a cabaret bar. There she reinvents herself as Kitty Katkin. Writing her own songs to accompany her risque dance routines, Kitty is soon a sensation. She is in love with Berlin and her handsome musician lover, Otto. But Germany is about to change. Will Kitty and Sarah find the love they truly deserve? Sequel to "The girl behind the fan". 2013.The girl behind the fan (Hidden women. #2.)
Par Stella Knightley. 2013
Hurt and confused by the sudden end of her strange love affair with Venetian millionaire Marco Donato, Sarah Thomson takes…
her bruised heart to Paris, where she tries to forget her yearning for Marco by throwing herself into a new project: a study of the life of notorious nineteenth-century courtesan, Augustine Levert. It is while she is in France that Sarah meets her ex-boyfriend Steven, who is hoping for reconciliation. Sequel to "The girl behind the mask”. Followed by "The girl behind the curtain". Includes sex. c2013.The girl behind the mask (Hidden women. #1.)
Par Stella Knightley. 2013
Leaving the heartache of sexual betrayal behind her in London, historian Sarah Thomson intends to make the most of her…
research trip to Venice. But she soon finds her attention consumed by mysterious millionaire Marco Donato. Followed by "The girl behind the fan". Includes sex. c2013.The great alone
Par Kristin Hannah. 2018
Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move…
to Kaneq, Alaska. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals want to help out, especially classmate Matthew Walker, who likes everything about Leni. Yet the harsh conditions bring out the worst in Ernt, whose paranoia takes over their lives and exacerbates what Leni sees as the toxic relationship between her parents. Bestseller. 2018.The gods of guilt (Mickey Haller. #5.)
Par Michael Connelly. 2013
Defense attorney Mickey Haller learns that a former client - a prostitute he thought he had put on the straight…
and narrow path - had returned to her old life in L.A. when she was murdered. Haller blames himself for her death. Bestseller. 2013.One cold and rainy morning, the body of a gypsy girl is found floating in a canal. Brunetti suspects she…
fell off a nearby roof while fleeing an apartment she had robbed--but something about the case continues to haunt him. Sequel to "Suffer the little children", followed by "About face". 2008.The gifted: a Joanne Kilbourn mystery (Joanne Kilbourn mysteries. #14.)
Par Gail Bowen. 2013
Jo and Zack are both proud and a little concerned when their youngest daughter Taylor has two paintings chosen for…
a high-level fund-raising auction. One they've seen; the other, Taylor has carefully guarded in her studio. When the hidden painting is finally revealed it sparks a new kind of relationship between Taylor and her model, and becomes the centre of a series of troubling incidents. Includes sex and violence. c2013.The gathering storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time (Wheel of time. #12.)
Par Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson. 2009
Rand al’Thor struggles with internal conflict while seeking to unite the fractured kingdoms for Tarmon Gai’don, the last battle. Meanwhile…
Egwene al’Vere, the Amyrlin Seat of the rebel Aes Sedai, tries to mend the divisions. Sequel to “Knife of dreams”. Followed by “Towers of Midnight». 2009.The girl with green eyes
Par Betty Neels. 1990
Lucy wasn't a bright career girl like her two sisters. All she wanted was to find a man she loved…
and settle down with him. But Mr Right seemed to be peculiarly elusive. Until the day she encountered paediatrician William Thurloe. Not that she had the faintest hope of ever attracting his interest with the glamorous Fiona as direct competition! 1990.The girl who was Saturday night
Par Heather O'Neill. 2014
Gorgeous twins Noushcka and Nicolas Tremblay live with their grandfather Loulou in a tiny, sordid apartment on St. Laurent Boulevard.…
Hopelessly promiscuous, wildly funny and infectiously charming, they are also the children of the legendary Québécois folksinger Étienne Tremblay, who was as famous for his brilliant lyrics about working-class life as he was for his philandering bon vivant lifestyle and his fall from grace. Known by the public since they were children, the two siblings have never been allowed to be ordinary. On the eve of their twentieth birthday, the twins’ self-destructive shenanigans catch up with them when Noushcka agrees to be beauty queen in the local St. Jean Baptiste Day parade. The media spotlight returns, and the attention of a relentless journalist exposes the cracks in the family’s relationships. Bestseller. 2014.The Garden of Eden and other criminal delights
Par Faye Kellerman. 2006
Seventeen short stories include mysteries and family tales. In the previously unpublished title piece, Rina Decker discovers the body of…
her elderly gardening buddy. In "The Stalker", Dana's boyfriend changes after they marry. Strong language, some explicit descriptions of sex, and some violence. 2006.The gift of shame (Black Lace Ser.)
Par Sarah Hope-Walker. 2008
Jeffrey is little more than a stranger to Helen when he tells her to do things no other man has…
hinted at. A cultured, wealthy stranger who likes to play games of master and servant. In the secrecy of a London apartment, in the debauched opulence of a Parisian retreat, they become partners of perversity and shame. Emerging from the shadows of guilt, a resolutely virtuous young widow is transformed into a voracious wanton. Explicit descriptions of sex. 2008.The force
Par Don Winslow. 2017
Denny Malone is the "King of Manhattan North," a highly decorated NYPD detective sergeant and the real leader of "Da…
Force," an elite special unit. Only a few know that Malone is a dirty cop. Now he's in a trap and must walk the thin line. Bestseller. 2017.The forgotten: a Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus novel (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus mystery. #13.)
Par Faye Kellerman. 2001
Hate crime leads to murder after a small synagogue is vandalized. As Rina Lazarus and her husband, LAPD detective Peter…
Decker, investigate, they learn their son, Jacob, knows the teenage suspect, Ernesto Golding. Then Golding and his therapist are found dead. Some strong language. Bestseller. Sequel to "Stalker", followed by "Stone kiss". 2001.The fortunate brother
Par Donna Morrissey. 2016
Kyle is still mourning his dead older brother, Chris. But soon the murder and drowning of a local bully, Clar…
Gillard, proves more than distracting as the police cordon off the Now house. The victim's blood was found on the family's pier, and suspicion falls first on Clar's alienated wife, then in the Now family. Behind the turmoil is the quieter but no less intense drama of the aftermath of Chris's death. Father Sylvanus Now drowns his sorrow in a bottle, and mother Addie is facing breast cancer. Tension exists between Kyle and Sylvie Now, unresolved as long as Kyle fails to confront his anger over his sister's role in getting Chris a job on the oil rig. As the mystery of who killed Clar Gillard unfolds, other deeper secrets are revealed. Bestseller. Winner of the 2017 Arthur Ellis Best Crime Novel Award and the 2017 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award.. 2016.The fire engine that disappeared (Martin Beck. #5.)
Par Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö. 1972
The fireman: [a novel]
Par Joe Hill. 2016
When a bizarre virulent plague breaks out in the world's major cities, causing victims to spontaneously combust, a dedicated nurse…
resolves to survive until her baby is born, and receives protection from a mysterious infected man who uses his fire symptoms to help others. Bestseller. 2016.The fifth woman
Par Henning Mankell. 2000
Philosophical detective Kurt Wallander and his team make connections between two deaths -- one of a reclusive birdwatcher and the…
other of an orchid florist. Set in Skane on the southern tip of Sweden. 2000.