Carol Monda
41) The crying tree
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Award-winning broadcast journalist Naseem Rakha delivers a moving tale sure to elicit a deep emotional response from listeners. Irene and Nate embark on a new life in Oregon with their two children, Bliss and Shep. But shortly after their move the family is devastated when Shep is gunned down by an intruder in their home. Irene struggles through the aftermath, awaiting the murderer's execution-but as time passes, she draws closer to a desperate and...
43) Heat wave
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
507 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
California private investigator Kat Vargas lives a lonely life of danger with a painful past. Desperate for a rest, she heads to Twilight Cove, a tiny beach town. After learning that he fathered a baby in high school, Ty Chandler is eager to find her. He hears about the P.I. in his neighborhood and hires her to find his now nineteen-year-old daughter. Joining forces to hunt for the girl, they begin to fall in love. But Kat knows better than to give...
44) Abandon
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
[Book club ed.]
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Rediscover New York Times best seling author, Carla Neggers, sixth book of her thrilling Cold Ridge Series.
On what is supposed to be a quiet long weekend in New Hampshire, Deputy U.S. Marshal Mackenzie Stewart is viciously attacked at the lakefront cottage of her friend, federal judge Bernadette Peacham. Mac fends off her attacker, but he manages to escape. Everything suggests he's a deranged drifter-until FBI special agent Andrew Rook arrives.
With...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This knock-out start to a bracingly original new series features Claire DeWitt, the world's greatest PI-at least, that's what she calls herself. A one-time teen detective in Brooklyn, she is a follower of the esoteric French detective Jacques Silette, whose mysterious handbook Détection inspired Claire's unusual practices. Claire also has deep roots in New Orleans, where she was mentored by Silette's student the brilliant Constance Darling-until...
46) Generation loss
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Harvest ed.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cass Neary made her name in the 1970s as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Her pictures of the musicians and hangers on, the infamous, the damned, and the dead, got her into art galleries and a book deal. But thirty years later she is adrift, on her way down, and almost out. Then an old acquaintance sends her on a mercy gig to interview a famously reclusive photographer who lives on an island in Maine. When...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fleeing for her life after she is shown photographs of ritual killings during a mysterious job in Helsinki, Cass Neary encounters a former lover and exiled musician in Iceland only to be inundated by a series of unsolved murders.
48) Dark sky
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers
She thought she'd turned her life around... until danger comes sweeping in.
Deputy US Marshal Juliet Longstreet has made her share of enemies, and now one of them is out of prison and threatening to kill her. Her mission: find him first.
Hot on her suspect's trail is Special Forces officer Ethan Brooker, who has a way of dropping into Juliet's life without warning. Ethan is a man Juliet knows...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing Reykjavík and a cluster of cult murders, offbeat photographer, Cass Neary, lands in London to rendezvous with her longtime lover, Quinn, a person of interest to both Interpol and the Russian mob. Only Quinn doesn't show up. Alone in London and fearing the worst, Cass hooks up with a young woman with her own dark past, who brings her to the wrong party. Cass becomes entangled with the party's host, Mallo Dunfries, an eccentric gangster with...
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"My friend and former Hunter classmate, Sarah Eggers, wrote a poem years ago referencing an anecdote about Frida Kahlo that has never left me: Clare Boothe Luce, editor of Vanity Fare, commissioned Frida to paint a commemorative portrait of her close friend, Dorothy Hale, a Ziegfeld girl and struggling actress who had committed suicide. Frida took it upon herself to execute an "ex-voto" style painting, detailing Dorothy's jump from the sixteenth floor...
51) Chocolate beach
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Award-winning journalist Julie Carobini is a fresh voice in Christian fiction. Her debut novel whisks listeners away to California's sunny coast where carefree Brianna Stone's idyllic life is complicated by her bizarre new boss, her meddling mother-in-law, and her too-busy-to-believe husband. Reinventing herself with a dazzling wardrobe and flattering hairstyle, Bri tries to recapture her husband's attention before it's too late.
52) Cut and run
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
New York Times best-selling author Carla Neggers has garnered popular and critical acclaim for her trademark blend of romance and suspense. With Cut and Run, she spins a pulse-pounding saga of romantic intrigue involving the world's largest uncut diamond. The Minstrel's Rough is little more than a legend to some. Yet for the Pepperkamp family, its existence has been unquestioned since 1545. Since then it has been entrusted to one family member each...
53) Killing time
Author
Series
One-eyed jacks volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Pocket Books paperback ed.
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
After CIA attorney Eve Salinas kidnaps and drugs ex-operative Mike Brown, he agrees to join her on a hunt for the cold-blooded traitor behind a fatal military operation that haunts them both.
Author
Publisher
Quirk books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the 1990s, heavy metal band Dürt Würk was poised for breakout success--but then lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career and rocketed to stardom as Koffin, leaving his fellow bandmates to rot in obscurity. Two decades later, former guitarist Kris Pulaski works as the night manager of a Best Western--she's tired, broke, and unhappy. Everything changes when a shocking act of violence turns her life upside down, and she begins to suspect...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st Perennial ed.
Physical Desc
294 pages : portrait ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Amanda Eyre Wards debut novel is an intimate portrait of three women whose lives collide during a brutal Texas summer. In Gatestown, Texas, twenty-nine-year-old Karen Lowens awaits her execution with a host of convicted serial killers on death row. In Manhattan, Dr. Franny Wren, also twenty-nine, tends to a young cancer patient, and resists the urge to run from her fiancé and her carefully crafted life. In Austin, Texas, brassy Celia Mills, a once-vibrant...
56) Hellfire Canyon
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Max McCoy has made a name for himself among fans of Old West tales by penning novels that sizzle with the heat of flying lead and lightning-fast gunslingers. Hellfire Canyon features Alf Brolin, a tall drink of water who guns down innocent victims with the same carelessness with which he quotes classic literature. Federal trooper Zach Thomas, however, lacks any appreciation for Brolin's airs and means to see the outlaw put six feet in the ground.
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
11 audio discs (13 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The must-hear anthology for mystery fans who can't get enough of the dark side of Sweden! This short story collection features Sweden's most distinguished and best-loved crime writers, including Henning Mankell, Asa Larsson, Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo and Sara Stridsberg, with a special highlight being a Stieg Larsson story never before published in English. Larsson's companion Eva also contributes a story.