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Author
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
379 pages (large print) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
What starts as a pleasant summer on Cape Cod for Doc and Mary Adams turns suddenly chilling when their houseguest is murdered in his bed-with the very pills that control his epilepsy. Their son Jack becomes the prime suspect. After all, the victim had been Jack's rival both at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and for the attention of a beautiful whale watcher named Alice. The evidence is too damning to ignore, but an enraged Doc knows his son is...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
324 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A celebrity scholar in a small village tears her nephews from their immediate family and raises them in an atmosphere of cruelty. As old Lydia Perceval plans to destroy yet another group of impressionable young children's love for their parents, the list of those who would have her die grows longer.
4) Living proof
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A man found bloodied in the street is the newest victim of a brutal crime spree Although the cop who finds the man in Alfreton Road describes him as "absolutely stark bollock naked," that is not quite true-he is wearing a sock. The naked man is flabby, middle-aged, and bleeding heavily, in no shape to be sprinting down the street at three in the morning. After the ER doctors patch up his stab wound, the man tells the police he was attacked by a prostitute....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Charlie Parker is asked to look into a controversial series of miscarriages in a small town in New Mexico that's heavily populated by Mexicans. The town has one medical clinic. Her first assumption is to look for some type of environmental problem such as pesticides but that draws a blank. Then she shifts her suspicions onto the medical industry and finds herself embroiled in politics regarding health care among minorities. It's when the dead bodies...
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a daring prison escape, a convict disappears into a crime-ridden city It has been thirteen years since Michael Preston killed his father, and now his mother is dead too. Halfway through his twenty-four year sentence, Michael is a docile prisoner whom the warden doesn't mind letting out for an afternoon to pay his respects. Michael goes to the funeral under armed guard, and when the time comes to return to jail, he gives them the slip. Police...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Literary Agent Charlie Greene needs a break from her mother and her clients. A vacation in Las Vegas seems ideal until she sees a murder on the Strip. Charlie decides not to be involved in the investigation but is drawn in when the cop who took her eyewitness account dies in a suspicious "accident." To solve the case Charlie must deal with corrupt casino owners, their hired help, an arrogant film director, alien abduction conspirators, and a psychic...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A lawman with a hardy appetite for life and an unshakable faith in the explicable, Southern Ute Acting Chief of Police Charlie Moon is not prepared to accept a purely supernatural explanation for the recent strange events of April 1. Nevertheless, something carried off Tommy Tonompicket and his unlikely drinking companion, research scientist William Pizinski, in the black chill of the Colorado night. And something ripped the head off a man outside...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Octogenarian Willie McBride has gone missing and now his obnoxious daughter is pestering Albuquerque CPA Charlie Parker to find him in time for the big family reunion. Apparently, the eccentric old man had one driving obsession: finding gold.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The two sandstone monoliths towering over the southern Colorado landscape are wrapped in ancient mystery. To the local tribes, they are the Twin War Gods, sons of the moon goddess, White Shell Woman. Legends tell of strange happenings in their shadows, of lost treasure and Anasazi blood sacrifice. But it is a much more recent history that troubles former Ute policeman-turned-rancher Charlie Moon, specifically the fresh corpse of a young Native American...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Tenth book in the Charlie Parker Mystery Series. Charlie digs into the cold case of an exploding house in Watson's Lake, New Mexico and tries to work out the complicated life of a man who turns out to have several false identities and an obsession with money. Big money.
17) Stone butterfly
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vii, 294 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Ute shaman Daisy Perika is no stranger to eerie dreams, but when she has a nightmare, lives could be at stake. Convinced that her visions of a wisp-thin girl with blood dripping from her hands are omens, the old woman calls on her nephew, Charlie Moon. Moon, a part-time tribal investigator and full-time Colorado rancher, is skeptical, but he knows better than to dismiss his quarrelsome aunt too quickly. After all, she has been right before. But what...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
For fans of Michael Connelly and CJ Box, here is the first thrilling adventure in the Charlie Hood series from New York Times bestseller and Edgar-award winner T. Jefferson Parker, now featuring an excerpt from his upcoming novel The Room of White Fire.
In this town, it pays to be bad . . .
Allison is an L.A. celebrity, a folk hero, and a modern-day Jesse James who loves a good armed robbery. She has a compulsion...
In this town, it pays to be bad . . .
Allison is an L.A. celebrity, a folk hero, and a modern-day Jesse James who loves a good armed robbery. She has a compulsion...