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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 350 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When he opened the FBI investigation into Russia's election interference, Peter Strzok had already spent more than two decades defending the United States against foreign threats. His career in counterintelligence ended shortly thereafter, when the Trump administration used his private expression of political opinions to force him out of the Bureau in August 2018. But by that time, Strzok had seen more than enough to convince him that the commander...
Author
Series
Description
"On her way home from a grocery shopping trip, Nina Borg is attacked from behind in a parking lot. Dazed and half-conscious, she hears her assailant ask for her forgiveness. Only later does she understand that this isn't for what he's just done, but for what he plans to do to. As a Red Cross nurse, Nina typically finds herself fighting for others' lives, not her own. For the first time, she's the primary target of a hit, and it slowly dawns on her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On her way home from a grocery shopping trip, Nina Borg is attacked from behind in a parking lot. Dazed and half-conscious, she hears her assailant ask for her forgiveness. Only later does she understand that this isn't for what he's just done, but for what he plans to do to. As a Red Cross nurse, Nina typically finds herself fighting for others' lives, not her own. For the first time, she's the primary target of a hit, and it slowly dawns on her...
84) Behind her lives
Author
Series
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
ix, 270 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
""That's not my sister." Overwhelmed by shock and relief, those are the only words Deven can muster when she is called to identify the body of a suicide victim. A body she was informed was her sister, Kennedy. But as she stares at the lifeless stranger, she's filled with questions: Who is this woman? Why was Deven listed as family? And most important, where is Kennedy? Her intuition tells her just one thing: this can't be a total coincidence. Desperate...
85) Assassin's run
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a Russian oligarch is killed by a single bullet on his yacht off the Isle of Capri, Russian intelligence sources speculate that a legendary Israeli assassin, long thought dead, might be responsible. However, David Slaton, the assassin in question, is innocent. Realizing the only way to clear his name is to find out who's truly responsible, he travels to Capri. While he searches, a web of disparate events unfolds across the Middle East. Three...
86) Showstopper
Author
Series
Peter Diamond mystery volume 21
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Since the start of the hit TV show Swift in 2013, its cast and crew have been plagued by misfortune. First, a star actress pulls out of the show before it begins--and by 2019, there have been multiple injuries by fall, fire, or drowning; two deaths; and two missing persons cases. The popular media around Bath, England, quickly decides it's a curse, but is it as simple as that? Is someone behind these fishy incidents? Peter Diamond, Chief Superintendent...
88) Black Rock Bay
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Detective Mia Hart never planned to return home. One terrifying summer night, Mia lost two of her closest friends to suicide. Scarred and broken, she fled St. Lucy's, a small island off the coast of Maine. Now fifteen years later, when the body of a journalist is fished out of the bay near St. Lucy's cliffs, Mia is forced to help with the case--and face all she's been running from. As she approaches the island, the wintry winds of Black Rock Bay...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Simon & Schuster Canada export edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A total stranger on the subway platform whispers, "Take my baby." She places her child in your arms. She says your name. Then she jumps.... In a split second, Morgan Kincaid's life changes forever. She's on her way home from work when a mother begs her to take her baby, then places the infant in her arms. Before Morgan can stop her, the distraught mother jumps in front of an oncoming train. Morgan has never seen this woman before, and she can't understand...
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Florrie Butterfield--eighty-seven, one-legged, and of cheerful disposition--believes there can't be any more surprises in life. Yet one evening, there's an accident at Babbington Hall--the adult residence where she lives--so shocking and strange that Florrie is suspicious; is this really an accident? Or is she being lied to? Is she living alongside a potential murderer? In her efforts to learn the truth, Florrie is forced to look back on her own life,...
91) So We Lie
Author
Series
Publisher
Bouy Media LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
What do we do when the truth hurts too much? Fresh out of the national academy - mother of two - FBI profiler Eva Rae Thomas is in over her head on her first assignment in multi-million-copy bestselling author Willow Rose's breath-taking mystery. When the mother of two, Arlene Wood, crashes her car against a tree at four in the morning, the case seems pretty straightforward. But evidence found in the remains of the car soon raises the question...
Series
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xiv, 408 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Featuring guest-editor contributions by the author of the Joe Pickett series, a latest annual anthology features top-selected short mystery and crime fiction stories from the past year" --
Author
Series
Sinclair's mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
332 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a priceless painting is stolen, our dauntless heroines, Sophie and Lil, find themselves faced with forgery, trickery and deceit on all sides! Be amazed as the brave duo pit their wits against this fiendish puzzle! Marvel at their cunning plan to unmask the villain and prove themselves detectives to be reckoned with - no matter what dangers lie ahead ..." -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Publisher
Imbrifex Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A gritty but tender story about adolescence and racism set in the hills of western Virginia at the end of the Eisenhower years"--
"The gravy train hasnt stopped in the hollers of western Virginia for more than thirty years when Stony Shelor starts his junior year at Jubal Early High. Class divides and racism are still the hardened norms as the Eisenhower years draw to a close. Violence lies coiled under the calm surface, ready to strike at any time....
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Arcade Publishing edition.
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the Man Booker Prize Finalist, His Bloody Project comes a haunting literary mystery and engrossing psychological thriller"--
"Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and perpetually ill at ease, he spends his evenings quietly drinking and surreptitiously observing Adèle Bedeau, the sullen but alluring waitress at a drab bistro in the unremarkable small French town of Saint-Louis. One day, she simply vanishes into thin air...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 268 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"As the US capital was attacked on January 6, 2021, the White House went dark for seven hours and thirty-seven minutes. It was my job to turn the lights on. The void happened to overlap with the hours when supporters of former President Trump brawled with police, smashed windows, and rampaged through the halls of Congress as his loss to Joe Biden was being certified. Why the White House went dark, I didn't know, and, in fact, I didn't really care....
Author
Series
Vineyard novel volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
467 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Annie Sutton is not only a bestselling mystery author, she's the proprietor of the newly opened Vineyard Inn. Recently engaged to local police sergeant John Lyons, instead of making wedding plans, Annie's fighting with him about his older daughter, a troubled teen who has moved home--bringing chaos in her wake. With Annie's beloved brother away on a troublesome journey of his own, Annie needs a friend. She begins to confide in one of the Inn's guests,...
98) Muzzle
Publisher
RLJE Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After his dog is killed in Skid Row, Jake Rosser plummets deep into a sinister underworld to uncover the truth about who may be responsible.
Author
Publisher
Broadside, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 516 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Washington insiders broke rule after rule investigating a Russian conspiracy that turned out not to exist. Somehow this was spun into Donald Trump having something to hide. Jarrett uncovers the bureaucratic malfeasance and malicious politicization of our country's justice system and shows how the law was weaponized by Democrats and the media to create a claim that Trump was working for the Russians. His expose proves that there was no basis for Mueller's...