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Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A serial killer who vanished 40 years prior emerges from hibernation and is being tracked by a retired LAPD officer, a teenager with a terminal disease, and a genealogist trying to repair her marriage.
82) Trigger
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Working as a vigilante robbing drug dealers after achieving hard-won sobriety, retired cop-turned-private investigator Frank Marr is drawn back into the world of police corruption to prove an old friend's innocence.
83) Out of the dark
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program, an off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets--i.e. assassins. Evan was Orphan X. He broke with the Program, using everything he learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man, a man who helps the truly desperate when no one else can. But now Evan's past is catching up to him. Someone at the very highest...
84) Vapor trail
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
It's hot.
The snow is gone, the ice is gone -- winter is long forgotten. When the phone wakes Phil Broker at five a.m. on the morning of his forty-eighth birthday -- six months removed from his surviving a January cold snap that (in Absolute Zero) nearly claimed his life -- it's already ninety-two degrees. It's July, and Stillwater, Minnesota, finds itself in the middle of the worst heat wave in local memory.
The news on the phone has nothing...
85) The sanctuary
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
403 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Serving time for murdering two abusive men, vigilante priest Danny Hansen must escape from prison after the woman he loves receives a threatening note and a box containing a bloody finger.
86) One got away
Author
Series
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"PI Nikki Griffin--a badass bookseller who punishes abusers--is back in S. A. Lelchuk's One Got Away... Nikki Griffin, a private investigator when she isn't running her small bookstore, is on a case. The matriarch of one of the wealthiest San Francisco families has been defrauded by a con-man, and her furious son enlists Nikki to find the money. And find the con-man. Nikki isn't a fan of men who hurt women. Her secret mission, born of revenge and...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Now that Batman has escaped the 'Knightmares,' he's starting to see the forces rallying against him--and that his father from another universe has joined the other side. The Caped Crusader finally digs into the mystery of how Thomas Wayne, a.k.a. the Flashpoint Batman, escaped the collapse of his dimension and ended up in this part of the Multiverse"--
88) Death wish
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 107 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When his wife and daughter are violently attacked, Dr. Paul Kersey hunts down his family's assailants to deliver justice. Fury and fate collide in this intense action-thriller.
89) Man of steel
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
90) Hangman: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A boy vanishes on his way home from school. His frantic mother receives a ransom call: pay or else. It's only hours before the deadline, and the police have no leads. Enter Timothy Blake, an FBI consultant with a knack for solving impossible cases but whose expertise comes at a price. Every time he saves a life, he takes one, trying to satisfy an urge he fears he can only control for so long. And this time Blake may have met his match. The kidnapper...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
409 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A young woman makes a terrible confession to a priest. An honorable man takes his own revenge for an unspeakable tragedy. An aging inspector tries to get himself sober while taking on the most difficult case of his career. From this beginning, Deon Meyer weaves a story of astonishing complexity and suspense, as Inspector Benny Griessel faces off against a dangerous vigilante who has everything on his side, including public sympathy. A gruesome abuse...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A gripping Rust Belt thriller that captures the characters of a down-and-out Pennsylvania town, revealing their troubled pasts and the crimes that could cost them their lives. In Locksburg, Pennsylvania, a former coal and steel town whose best days seem long past, five thousand residents have toughed it out, and have reasons for both worry and hope as this neglected place teeters between decay and renewal. For some of them, their biggest troubles...
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
In season five, Dexter goes from happily married husband to guilt-ridden single dad. How will it affect his ability to maintain an average-guy facade while satisfying his need to kill? Features all twelve chillingly dramatic fifth-season episodes. Special features include: two episodes from The Borgias season one, two episodes from Episodes season one, interviews, and featurette.
95) The hive
Author
Publisher
KCP Loft
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Physical Desc
411 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's the near future--the day after tomorrow--and the government has shut down online bullying once and for all. With BLINQ, its new social media platform, users can 'like' or 'share,' but they can also 'condemn' posts--and if condemns reach a certain level, users can exact punishment from the original poster in real life. No more anonymous trolling! Instead...hive justice. Seventeen-year-old Cassie McKinney is angry at everything. She's just lost...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Amy was once a party girl, but she now lives a lonely life, helping the house-bound to receive communion in the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn. She stops in at one of the apartments on her route, where Mrs. Epifanio, the elderly woman who lives there, says she hasn't seen her usual caretaker, Diane, in a few days. Supposedly, Diane has the flu--or so Dianes son Vincent said when he first dropped by and vanished into Mrs. E's bedroom to do no-one-knows-what....
97) Bad monkeys
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
“Bad Monkeys has wit and imagination by the bucketload. . . . Buy it, read it, memorize then destroy it. There are eyes everywhere.”
-Chris Moore, bestselling author of A Dirty Job and Lamb
Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder. She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil; her division is called the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons-“Bad Monkeys”...
Author
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Losing has never been easy for a Maddox, but death always wins. Eleven years to the day after eloping with Abby in Vegas, Special Agent Travis Maddox delivers his own brand of vigilante justice to mob boss Benny Carlisi. Vegas's oldest crime family is now preparing for vengeance, and the entire Maddox family is in danger. The secret Thomas and Travis have kept for a decade will be revealed to the rest of the family, and for the first time the Maddoxes...
Author
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Abby Hamiltons world, superheroes do more than just stop crime and save cats stuck in trees--they also drink milk straight from the carton and hog the television remote. Abbys older brother moonlights as the famous Red Comet, but without powers of her own, following in his footsteps has never crossed her mind. That is, until the citys newest vigilante comes bursting into her life. After saving Abby from an attempted mugging, Morristons fledgling...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Civil War may have ended, but division still remains among its survivors. Some continue to rally for equality. Then, there are others, like the Knights of the Rising Sun. They're a group of vicious vigilantes who want to halt progress in Texas and put an end to bluebellies and carpetbaggers by bullet, fire, and noose. The Secret Service sends Gideon Ryder to stop the Knights before they grow from a gang into an army. But as Ryder follows the band...