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81) Doing harm
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 351 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Steve Mitchell, happily married with a wife and two kids, is in line for a coveted position at Boston's University Hospital when his world goes awry. His over-reaching ambition causes him to botch a major surgery, and another of his patients mysteriously dies. Steve's nightmare goes from bad to worse when he learns that the mysterious death was no accident but the act of a sociopath. A sociopath he knows and who has information that could destroy...
82) Deeply Odd
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Odd Thomas journeys through California and Nevada after a vision about the murders of three children, an effort throughout which he befriends a series of eccentric helpers who become allies in a battle against a sociopath and a network of killers.
83) Unnatural acts
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 23
Language
English
Description
When a hedge fund billionaire hires Stone Barrington to talk some sense into his wayward son, it seems like an easy enough job; no one knows the hidden sins and temptations of the ultra-wealthy better than Stone. But as Stone and his erstwhile protege, Herbie Fisher, probe deeper into the case--and an old one comes back to haunt him---he realizes that even he may have underestimated just how far some people will go to cover up their crimes...and plan...
84) Paradox
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Chief Ty Christie of Willicott, Maryland, witnesses a murder at dawn from the deck of her cottage on Lake Massey. When dragging the lake, not only do the divers find the murder victim, they also discover dozens of bones. Even more shocking is the identification of a unique belt buckle found among the bones. Working together with Chief Christie, Savich and Sherlock soon discover a frightening connection between the bones and the escaped psychopath....
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 25
Language
English
Description
"The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate--and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state's evidence and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader...
Author
Series
Serge Storms novels volume 21
Language
English
Description
Perpetually hunting Floridian arcana and lore, Serge and his permanently baked sidekick, Coleman, are on a frenzied literary pilgrimage that leads them back to Riviera Beach, the cozy seaside town where the boys spent their formative years. There's The Legend of Riviera Beach, aka Darby, a welder at the port who surfed the local waves long before the hot spots were hot. And there's a murkier legend of the crazy hermit living in a makeshift jungle...
87) Tenderness
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A psychological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the runaway girl who falls in love with him.
Author
Series
Valerie Hart novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
For Nell Cooper life would never be the same again. The moment she found her mother on the kitchen floor and heard her whisper the words, "Run, they're still here, " the safe world as she knew it ceased to exist. For the two killers, Nell's house was just a random stop on the road to completing a bloody list of macabre tasks. Det. Valerie Hart is obsessed with putting an end to this rampage and will stop at nothing to do it. Unfortunately, she will...
89) Shockwave
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Just before daybreak, a body washes up on a pristine beach. The dead man's skull has been bashed open, and his upper body is covered in neo-Nazi tattoos. An anonymous photographer e-mails an image of the scene to the local news, spurring the police to instantaneous response. Searching for suspects at one of the town's "homeless-by-choice" encampments, the cops pick up Homer, a "walking wounded" schizophrenic, who has been showing off a wristwatch...
90) Anything for you
Author
Series
Valerie Hart novels volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"On a hot summer night, a watchful neighbor locks eyes with an intruder and unwittingly alerts the police to a vicious crime scene next door: a lavish master bedroom where a man lies dead. Next to him, his wife is bleeding out onto the hardwood floor, clinging to life. The victim, Adam Grant, was a well-known San Francisco prosecutor--a man whose connection to Homicide detective Valerie Hart brings her face-to-face with a life she's long since left...
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xxv, 356 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A salute to the real femmes fatales of the domestic suspense genre, and the deceitful children, deranged husbands, vengeful friends, and murderous wives they unleashed. Sarah Weinman, one of today's preeminent authorities of crime fiction, brings together fourteen chilling stories by women who -- from the 1940s through the mid-1970s -- took a scalpel to contemporary society and sliced away to revel its dark essence.
92) Vanishing games
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The gritty, riveting, highly anticipated sequel to the national (and international) best seller Ghostman, by the very young, critically acclaimed, and award-winning Roger Hobbs. It's just before dawn on the South China Sea when three experienced pirates open fire on a small smuggling yacht. Their target: a bag of uncut sapphires worth millions. But when one of them stumbles across an enormous treasure that wasn't on the manifest, everything goes...
Author
Publisher
Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
254 pages : 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Absurdist fictional account of foodie-culture, about a well-traveled female food critic who strikes back against the male-dominated magazine world in which she operates."--Provided by publisher.
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