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"Defense attorney Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game. When Mickey learns that the victim was his own former client, a prostitute he thought he had rescued and put on the straight and narrow path, he knows he is on the hook for this one. He...
2) The assassin
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English
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"As Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell strives to land a government contract to investigate John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly, the case takes a deadly turn. A sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and soon the assassin - shooting with extraordinary accuracy at seemingly impossible long range - kills Bell's best witness, a brave and likable man. Then the shooter detonates a terrible explosion that sets the victim's independent...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"One year ago, Isabelle Drake's life changed forever: her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his crib in the middle of the night while she and her husband were asleep in the next room. With little evidence and few leads for the police to chase, the case quickly went cold. However, Isabelle cannot rest until Mason is returned to her -- literally. Except for the occasional catnap or small blackout where she loses track of time, she hasn't slept in...
4) Betrayed
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English
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Judy has always championed the underdog, so when Iris, the housekeeper and best friend of Judy's beloved Aunt Barb, is found dead of an apparent heart attack, Judy begins to suspect foul play. The circumstances of the death leave Judy with more questions than answers, and never before has murder struck so close to home.
5) 15 seconds
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Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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All it takes is 15 seconds to turn a happy life upside down. Henry Steadman is a successful surgeon on his way to a medical convention when he is pulled over by a local policeman. Before he can react, the cop is shot by a mysterious stranger in a speeding blue sedan--an act of violence that plunges Henry into a nightmare world.
6) Dakota
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English
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Amnesiac drifter Andi Oliver moves between waitressing jobs throughout the country until a discovery at a livestock facility renders her a target of two men, including a hired gunman and a pursuer who would claim something from her forgotten past.
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 20 cm.
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English
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"They say every house has its secrets, and the house that Maggie and Nina have shared for so long is no different. Except that these secrets are not buried in the past. Every other night, Maggie and Nina have dinner together. When they are finished, Nina helps Maggie back to her room in the attic, and into the heavy chain that keeps her there. Because Maggie has done things to Nina that can't ever be forgiven, and now she is paying the price. But...
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"The inimitable Quirke returns in another spellbinding crime novel, in which a young woman's dubious suicide sets off a new string of hazards and deceptions. Two years have passed since the events of the bestselling Christine Falls, and much has changed for Quirke, the irascible, formerly hard-drinking Dublin pathologist. His beloved Sarah is dead, his surrogate father lies in a convent hospital paralyzed by a devastating stroke, and Phoebe, Quirke's...
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Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Physical Desc
viii, 484 p. : map ; 20 cm.
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English
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"Andy Prescott is the most laid-back young lawyer in Austin, Texas. Specialising in traffic law, he operates from a small room above a ramshackle tattoo parlour. He rides a trail bike and spends way too much time drinking beer in the sunshine. Ambition has never been Andy's strong point - he prefers to take it easy. That is, until one of Texas's wealthiest men walks into his office. On the spot, billionaire Russell Reeves retains Andy as his lawyer...
10) Roxy's story
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Series
Forbidden sister volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Homeless Roxy wanders the streets of New York, where she is recruited and trained by the head of a high-priced escort service before taking in her long-lost sister in the hopes of reuniting her with their family.
11) Trial
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Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
432 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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When Malcolm Hill, a black eighteen-year-old voting rights worker, is arrested for murder, white congressman Chase Brevard of Massachusetts finds his life transformed in a single moment by the appearance of Malcolm's photo on the news, enveloping him, Malcolm, and Malcolm's mother in a media firestorm that threatens their lives.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Edition
1st Scribner trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
258 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
Description
"On the same day that Roy Cady is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he senses that his boss, a dangerous loan-sharking bar-owner, wants him dead. Known 'without affection' to members of the boss's crew as 'Big Country' on account of his long hair, beard, and cowboy boots, Roy is alert to the possibility that a routine assignment could be a deathtrap. Which it is. Yet what the would-be killers do to Roy Cady is not the same as what he does to them,...
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Series
Dale Brown's Dreamland volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Berkely ed.
Physical Desc
372 p. ; 18 cm.
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English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"The Thomas Berryman Number begins with three terrifying murders in the South. It ends with a relentless and unforgettable manhunt in the North. In between is the riveting story of a chilling assassin, the woman he loves, and the beloved leader he is hired to kill with extreme prejudice"-- Cover verso
15) Smiley's people
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Series
George Smiley novels volume 7
Publisher
Hodder and Stoughton
Pub. Date
1980
Physical Desc
1 v. (various pagings).
Language
English
Description
A Cold War thriller in which George Smiley, chief of the British Secret Service, prepares to engage in his final battle with his Soviet counterpart.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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"It is early summer and Nellie Peck is on the cusp of adolescence gangly, awkward, full of questions, but keenly observant and wiser than many of the adults in her life. The person she most admires is her father, Benjamin, a man of great integrity. His familys century old hardware store is failing and Nellie's mother has had to go back to work. Nellie's older half-sister has launched a disturbing search for her birth father. Often...
17) Trap
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Series
Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi thrillers volume 27
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English
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When a tremendous blast rocks an old school building in East Harlem during a meeting of the New York Charter Schools, killing six and wounding a dozen others, it's initially blamed on a natural gas explosion. However, as Butch Karp digs a little deeper, he discovers the explosion was the work of a mysterious serial arsonist in the employ of the teacher's union president, who is angry at the unqualified successes of the charter school movement in New...
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Department of Truth volume 3
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the Phantom Time Hypothesis to Mothman, find out what terrible secrets await in the archives.
19) Eden in winter
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English
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After the suspcious death of his father, Adam Blaine attempts to help his family heal as the court inquest into Benjamin Blaine's death casts suspicion on those closest to him.
"Two months after the suspicious and much-publicized death of his father on the island of Martha's Vineyard, it is taking all of Adam Blaine's will to suture the deep wounds the tragedy has inflicted upon his family and himself. As the court inquest into Benjamin Blaine's...
20) Don't Believe It
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English
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From the acclaimed author of Twenty Years Later comes a twisting, impossible-to-put-down novel of suspense in which a filmmaker helps clear a woman convicted of murder—only to find she may be a puppet in a sinister game. Fans of Freida McFadden and Alice Feeney will be left breathless by this unforgettable thriller that builds to a shocking conclusion...
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