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Autumn Reiniger expects something special for her twenty-first birthday. Daddy's already given her the sports car and the apartment, now she wants excitement. So her father signs up Autumn and five friends for an "ultimate urban reality" game: a simulated drug deal, manhunt, and jailbreak. Edge Adventures alerts the San Francisco PD, so they can ignore the squealing tires and cries for help. Which is convenient for the real kidnappers zeroing in on...
62) Outrage
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New York District Attorney Roger "Butch" Karp faces one of his most challenging and dramatic cases when his wife Marlene Ciampi learns that his office has indicted the wrong man for murder. What she discovers puts her on the trail of a drug-addicted psychopath with an ax to grind-- and a disgruntled police detective who is willing to lie, withhold evidence, and kill to be labeled a hero.
63) Pacific heights
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2011.
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425 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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65) Quinn
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As a former Navy seal turned cop, Joe Quinn has seen the face of evil and knows just how deadly it can be. When he first met Eve Duncan, he never expected to fall in love with a woman whose life would be defined by her dual desires to bring home her missing daughter and discover the truth behind her disappearance- no matter how devastating. With the help of CIA agent Catherine Ling, they make a shocking discovery that sheds new light on young Bonnie's...
66) Split second
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While FBI agents Savich and Sherlock track down a female serial killer with possible ties to Ted Bundy, Special Agent Lucy Carlisle learns from her dying father that her long-missing grandfather may actually have been murdered by her grandmother years ago, an act connected to a mysterious group called The Protectors.
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Eight days before the summer solstice, a man is butchered in a blood-freezing sacrifice on the ancient site of Stonehenge before a congregation of robed worshippers. Within hours, one of the world's foremost treasure hunters has shot himself in his country mansion, leaving a cryptic letter to his estranged son. Teaming up with an intrepid policewoman, Gideon soon exposes an ancient secret society with a charismatic and ruthless new leader at the helm....
68) Trackers
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Lemmer, a highly skilled bodyguard with a violent, criminal past, has settled into a quiet life in Loxton, South Africa, where the rural tranquility has helped to calm his explosive temper. When a wealthy farmer asks for his help in smuggling a pair of rare black rhinos out of Zimbabwe (where they are murdered for their horns), he has a hard time saying no. Before he knows it, Lemmer is on a small airplane, zipping across the border, an airsickness...
69) Backfire
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When a San Francisco judge is shot at the same time a once-relentless federal prosecutor turns cautious, FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich receive an ominous note from the culprit that blames them for the incident.
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It is only the beginning of May but in Oslo a brutal heat wave has coincided with an alarming increase in violent crime. In the latest instance, police investigator Hanne Wilhelmsen is sent to a macabre crime scene on the outskirts of town. An abandoned shed is covered in blood. On one wall an eight-digit number is written in blood. There is no body--nor any sign of a victim. Is it a kid's prank or foul play? Is it even human blood? As more bloody...
71) The conviction
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Lawyer David Sloane is desperate to get through to his teenage son, Jake, who has spiraled out of control since his mother's brutal murder. So when old friend Tom Molia suggests a guys-only camping trip, Sloane gratefully accepts. The excursion turns into a nightmare when the boys are arrested for vandalizing a general store while their fathers sleep. Before Sloane and Molia realize they're gone, the boys are tried, convicted, and sentenced to a grueling...
72) The expats
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Kate Moore is a working mother, struggling to make ends meet, to raise children, to keep a spark in her marriage ... and to maintain an increasingly unbearable life-defining secret. So when her husband is offered a lucrative job in Luxembourg, she jumps at the chance to start anew. While Kate reinvents herself as an expat, her husband works incessantly at a job she has never understood. Then another American couple arrives, and Kate becomes suspicious...
73) Headhunters
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2012.
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Roger Brown is a corporate headhunter, and a master of his profession. But one career simply can't support his luxurious lifestyle and his wife's fledgling art gallery. Then, at an art opening, he meets Clas Greve, who is not only the perfect candidate for a major CEO job, but also mentions that he owns a priceless lost Rubens painting ... and Brown happens to dabble in art theft. But Greve may turn out to be the worst thing that's ever happened to...
74) Heartbroken
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"Long after anyone expected Kate to do anything with her life, she did. Using the journals left behind by her aunt and grandmother, she wrote a novel based on a very real generation-old love story that ended in tragedy. Across town, Emily is about to set fire to her life. With nowhere to go, she finds herself on the run. Without knowing each other, with lives that couldn't be more different, Kate and Emily head to the same point on the map. Owned...
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When Pope Alexander dispatches a Vatican courtesan, Damiata, to the remote fortress city of Imola to learn the truth behind the murder of his most beloved illegitimate son, she cannot fail, for the scheming Borgia pope holds her own son hostage. When Damiata becomes a pawn in the political intrigues of the pope's surviving son, she enlists obscure Florentine diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli and eccentric military engineer Leonardo da Vinci to help decipher...
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2012.
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485 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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When her brother goes missing after contacting her from the site of an Icelandic rescue mission, Kristin is pursued by vigilantes from the U.S. Army and discovers a conspiracy involving a crashed World War II plane and the fate of its survivors.
77) Outrage
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In a Reykjavik flat, a young man lies dead in a pool of blood. With Detective Erlendur away in a remote part of Iceland, Detective Elinborg, who is already struggling to juggle family life and the relentless demands of her job, is assigned the case. Her investigation into the murdered man's past soon uncovers a squalid tale of double lives, drug dealers, and the unsolved disappearance of a young girl.
78) Ransom River
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While most of the town is focused on the tense and shocking circumstances of a high-profile murder case, Rory's return to Ransom River dredges up troubling memories from her childhood that she can no longer ignore. Selected as a jury member during the trial, she reflects on the accident that ended her affair with a longtime friend. Gradually she becomes aware of her dangerous connection to an unsolved case. But in the wake of a desperate attack on...
79) Rogue
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Robin Monarch is not your ordinary spy. As an orphan in the worst slum of Buenos Aires, he became a thief to survive until a near-fatal injury changed the course of his life forever. Now, after abruptly walking out on the CIA in the middle of a mission, he is back to his old ways. But when he becomes a pawn in an intricate plot to finish the mission he abandoned, those who thought they knew him best discover the truth about Robin Monarch. And about...
80) Sailor
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"Gina fell for the wrong guy. Joe came into her life promising her everything, and he gave it to her, along with a world of hell. But Gina was stronger than Joe realized. After years of suffering the terror of being married to a criminal, she took the one thing he ever gave her that she wanted--her son, Luke. Then she turned the bastard in. With her husband behind bars, her father-in-law will stop at nothing for revenge. He wants his grandson back,...
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