Joe Barrett
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The panic unleashed by a mysterious contagion threatens the bonds of family and community in a seemingly idyllic suburban community in this "engrossing, disturbing, panic attack of a novel" from the award-winning author of The Turnout and Dare Me (Jodi Picoult).
The Nash family is close-knit. Tom is a popular teacher, father of two teens: Eli, a hockey star and girl magnet, and his sister Deenie, a diligent student. Their...
The Nash family is close-knit. Tom is a popular teacher, father of two teens: Eli, a hockey star and girl magnet, and his sister Deenie, a diligent student. Their...
2) Unplugged
Author
Publisher
Black Rose Writing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The only problem with getting everything you ever wanted is that it forces you to reassess everything you ever wanted in the first place. Thirty-two-year-old Dan Johnson has it all; a nine-digit net worth, a gorgeous fiancé and a luxury riverside brownstone. The only problem is, he doesn’t want any of it. And the endless distractions of digitized society give him no head space to figure out what he does want. So, Dan unplugs. He abandons all things...
3) Marathon
Author
Series
Jonathan Stride volume 8
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
On a rainy June morning, tens of thousands of people crowd into Duluth for the city's biggest annual event: the Duluth Marathon. Then, in a terrifying echo of the Boston bombing, there is an explosion along the race course, leaving many people dead and injured. Within minutes, Jonathan Stride, Serena Dial, and Maggie Bei are at work with the FBI to find the terrorists behind the tragedy. As social media feeds a flood of rumors and misinformation,...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Buettner proposes that you may transform your health using smart eating and lifestyle habits gleaned from new research on the diets, eating habits, and lifestyle practices of the communities he's identified as 'Blue Zones'--those places with the world's longest-lived, and thus healthiest, people: [Ikaria, Greece; Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Loma Linda, California; and Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica]-- Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Jonathan Stride volume 6
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Catalina Mateo shows up unannounced one night in Detective Jonathan Stride’s home, dripping wet from a desperate plunge into the icy waters of Lake Superior. Her sodden clothes stained with blood, Cat spins a tale of a narrow escape from a shadowy pursuer. Stride decides to trust this girl, but his judgment may be clouded by memories of Cat’s mother. Ten years earlier, Cat hid under the porch of her family home while her mother...
7) In the dark
Author
Series
Jonathan Stride volume 4
Language
English
Description
Even those involved in the closest relationships can be kept in the dark about a loved one's past. When a woman shows up in town and informs Stride that she is writing a book about the 30-year-old mystery surrounding the murder of the older sister of the girl who grew up to become Stride's spouse, he's forced to re-examine the validity of his bond with not only his late wife, Cindy, who died of cancer five years earlier, but also that involving his...
8) House Odds
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco volume 8
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Washington insider Joe DeMarco returns in an electrifying thriller that will grab you with its “clever, original, fast-moving, and unpredictable plot” (Phillip Margolin, New York Times–bestselling author).
Author of House Witness, 2019 Edgar Award Finalist for Best Novel
Political fixer Joe DeMarco has handled plenty of difficult situations for his boss, congressman John Mahoney....
Author of House Witness, 2019 Edgar Award Finalist for Best Novel
Political fixer Joe DeMarco has handled plenty of difficult situations for his boss, congressman John Mahoney....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The authors describe their investigation into the death of King Tut, recounting how they drew on forensic clues, historical information, and the writings of Howard Carter to conclude that Tut did not die of natural causes.
10) The voice inside
Author
Series
Frost Easton volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four years after serial killer Rudy Cutter was sent away for life, San Francisco homicide inspector Frost Easton uncovers a terrible lie: his closest friend planted false evidence to put Cutter behind bars. When he's forced to reveal the truth, his sisters killer is back on the streets. Desperate to take Cutter down again, the detective finds a new ally in Eden Shay. She wrote a book about Cutter and knows more about him than anyone. And she's terrified....
11) Stalked
Author
Series
Jonathan Stride volume 3
Language
English
Description
As Lieutenant Jonathan Stride and his lover, P.I. Serena Dial, investigate a deadly crime linked to his partner, Maggie Bei, and pursue a blackmailer, they become the targets of a predator with a brutal past and a terrifying plan for revenge.
Author
Series
Frost Easton volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
San Francisco homicide detective Frost Easton hadn’t seen his estranged friend Denny in years. Not until he dies in Frost’s arms uttering a final inexplicable word: Lombard. Denny appears to be the latest victim in a string of murders linked by a distinctive clue: the painting of a spiraled snake near the crime scenes. Is it the work of a serial killer? Or is Denny’s death more twisted and personal? To find the answer, Frost reaches into a nest...
13) House justice
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a leak within the CIA results in the brutal torture and death of a US spy in Tehran, who just gave information to the CIA about a crooked American contractor in Iran, Joe DeMarco is tasked to investigate. Teaming up with the CIA, DeMarco discovers that the victim once had a fling with a journalist now serving time in prison and threatening to unravel DeMarco's entire operation.
14) Prison noir
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This anthology, with stories set in different prisons across the US, presents a new perspective on prison literature.
15) Immoral
Author
Series
Jonathan Stride volume 1
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Jonathan Stride must step up his investigation when a second teenage girl disappears off the streets of Duluth, Minnesota, and his search for answers takes him to Las Vegas where he learns secrets that change his life forever.
Author
Language
English
Description
The two Minnesota towns couldn't be more different: in affluent Barron, a powerful and secretive scientific research corporation enriches its residents, while downriver in blue-collar St. Croix, victims of that company's carcinogenic waste struggle to survive. The bad blood between the communities escalates into open warfare when the beautiful Ashlynn, daughter of the corporation's president, is found shot dead--and a St. Croix girl, Olivia Hawk,...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Paul Parker was once a great lawyer, but old age has caught up with him at last. He helped put away Lyle and Juan years ago, but now they are out and looking for revenge. Lyle is sure that Parker has the secrets to the location of forgotten riches. The two thugs take the elderly man hostage to force him to get the treasure for them.
18) House rivals
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco volume 10
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In House Rivals, the tenth book in Mike Lawson's award-winning series, DeMarco is taken further out of his element than ever before, sent to North Dakota to protect a passionate but naïve twenty-two-year-old blogger who has put herself in harm's way.
19) The bone house
Author
Series
Cab Bolton volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When 16-year-old Glory, Tresa Fischer's wild-child younger sister, turns up dead on a beach near Mark and Hilary's Florida hotel, Mark becomes the number one murder suspect. Det. Cab Bolton, who isn't one to jump to conclusions, travels from Florida to Wisconsin to unravel Mark--and Glory's--complicated lives.
20) House revenge
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco volume 11
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Joe DeMarco's powerful congressman boss dispatches him to Boston to help an elderly woman who's holding out against a real estate developer intent on tearing down her apartment building. The congressman wants her to take a buyout, but she doesn't, and the developer disrespects him.