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Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
615 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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Samuel Carver, a man hired to make "accidents" happen, is back in a new adventure that takes him from the war rooms of Washington, D.C., to the merciless Arctic peaks of Norway and from the palaces of the French Riviera to the war-torn countryside of Kosovo.
22) Nobody move
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Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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Nobody Move, which first appeared in the pages of Playboy, is the story of an assortment of lowlifes in Bakersfield, California, and their cat-and-mouse game over $2.3 million. Touched by echoes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, Nobody Move is at once an homage to and a variation on literary form. It salutes one of our most enduring and popular genres - the American crime novel- but with a grisly humor and outrageousness that are Denis Johnson's...
23) The silent hour
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Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Whisper Ridge is a multimillion-dollar piece of architecture that once housed a unique program for paroled murderers. The passion of Alexandra Sanabria, the daughter of a deceased Mafia don, the program never got off the ground. Uninhabited for twelve years, the home remains a strange monument to dangerous secrets. PI Lincoln Perry first gets involved with the house and its legacy when a former tenant asks him to find Alexandra, who has disappeared....
24) Thirteen hours
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It's early morning in Cape Town and Benny Griessel, homicide detective with the South African police service, has a bad feeling. He's been sober for 156 days. But day 157 is going to be very tough. A teenage girl's body has been found on the street, her throat cut. Griessel has been assigned to mentor a young detective on the case. It turns out the girl was American - a P.R. nightmare in South Africa's #1 tourist destination - and she wasn't alone....
25) Triple cross
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Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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The Jefferson Club is a remote private resort for the super-rich where many of the world's business leaders, politicians and celebrities gather for the most exclusive New Year's Eve party in the world. As champagne flows and multibillion-dollar deals are arranged, the unimaginable happens. A highly-trained, heavily-armed paramilitary force breaches the world's best security system and takes everyone hostage - including the children of the club's head...
26) Wrongful death
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Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Minutes after winning a $1.6 million wrongful-death verdict, attorney David Sloane accepts the one case that threatens to blemish his unbeaten record in the courtroom. A woman wants Sloane to sue the U.S. government and military in the mysterious death of her husband, a national guardsman killed in Iraq. While a decades-old military doctrine might make her case impossible to win, Sloane, a former soldier, is compelled to seek justice for the widow...
27) Among thieves
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2010.
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English
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In 1990, $300 million worth of paintings were stolen from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in what remains one of the greatest unsolved art thefts of the twentieth century. Now, nearly twenty years later, the case threatens to break wide open. Members of Boston's criminal underground are turning up dead, and the M. O. suggests IRA training. When Scott Finn learns that one of his clients, Devon Malley, was part of the heist, he's quickly drawn...
29) Blood safari
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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Emma Le Roux hires a personal security expert when her believed-dead brother is named as a suspect in the murders of five people, a situation that exposes her to political tensions, corruption, and life-threatening violence.
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David Sloane and his new partner, Tom Pendergrass, win a malpractice case centered on the death of a young child. But on the heels of victory, an unlikely character - toy designer Kyle Horgan - comes forward to tell Sloane that he's the one truly responsible for the boy's death and possibly others, not the pediatrician Sloane has just proven guilty. When Sloane tries to follow up, he finds Horgan's apartment ransacked, and Horgan missing.
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Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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After being imprisoned for the vehicular manslaughter of her husband, rare book expert Ann Blake gets a chance at early release if she helps find a cache of books believed to be lost, but soon she sights her husband alive and well, who is all-to-willing to see her dead, and she must join an ex-intelligence agent to seek the truth--and stay alive.
32) Capitol betrayal
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Lawyer and former senator Ben Kincaid is in a meeting with the president when Washington suddenly explodes into chaos. Facing an imminent threat to the White House, Kincaid is whisked, along with the president and his advisors, to the underground Presidential Emergency Operations Center, where they discover that a malevolent foreign dictator has hacked into the US nuclear defense system, and is threatening unfathomable destruction.
34) Collusion
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When Detective Inspector Jack Lennon tries to track down his former lover, Marie McKenna, and their daughter, his superiors tell him to back off. Lennon has no intention of following orders that may endanger the only family he has. Meanwhile, an assassin stalks Belfast, tying up loose ends for a vengeance-driven old man. As Lennon unravels a conspiracy that links his daughter to a killer named Fegan, the line between friend and enemy blurs--Publisher's...
35) Crashers
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Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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When a passenger plane slams into the ground outside Portland, Oregon, a team of "crashers" - experts assembled by the NTSB - is sent to investigate, and determines that the plane was brought down deliberately. In LA, Daria Gibron - a former Israeli intelligence agent - spots a suspicious group of men. Risking her life, Daria attaches herself to them and learns that they were responsible for the crash, and are planning another.
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After she moves to New York City and becomes a TV crime fighter, former felony prosecutor Hailey Dean learns that the television industry is filled with treachery. A killer is targeting a series of beautiful actresses, each one a former star struggling to get back into the limelight.
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When the Coastline Killer, a vigilante who's been targeting random victims because they don't respect the environment, claims another victim, the local police consider Jay Macklin--a tourist staying at a remote northern California cottage with his paramedic wife--a suspect.
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On a quiet afternoon in Houston, four-year-old Joey Warner is lured from a sandbox by a stranger looking for his runaway dog. When his mom, Crystal, discovers he has disappeared, her reaction is odd. Meanwhile, on a cattle ranch outside the city, Texas Ranger and profiler Sarah Armstrong assesses a symbol left on the side of a slaughtered prize-winning bull, a figure dating back to sugarcane and slavery. Before long, the two investigations converge......
40) Paganini's ghost
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Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
437 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
After an unsavory art dealer is found dead in his hotel room, violinmaker Giovanni Castiglione must search for an instrument once owned by famed violinist Niccoli Paganini--and solve a mystery that has gone unanswered for over a century.
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