Thomas Perry
Author
Language
English
Description
Twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the town-burning down homes and businesses. An immense manhunt ensues, but the twelve who plotted it all get away. After two years, all efforts by the local and federal police agencies have been in vain. The mayor...
2) Strip
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Wrongly implicated in the robbery of a powerful strip club owner, Joe sets out to make the vengeful owner sorry for suspecting him while the real culprit embarks on an increasingly violent crime spree, a case that is complicated by the head detective's bigamous marriages.
Author
Series
Butcher's Boy volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Years after the Butcher's Boy wipes out several mobsters and disappears, Justice Department official Elizabeth Waring is approached by the mythical hit man, who asks her for crucial information in exchange for helping her to crack an unsolved murder case.
4) Runner
Author
Series
Jane Whitefield volume 6
Language
English
Description
After years of a happy, quiet life as the wife of an Amherst, New York, surgeon, former Native American guide Jane Whitefield is drawn back into her dangerous old world when a bomb goes off in the middle of a hospital fundraiser.
6) Blood money
Author
Series
Jane Whitefield volume 5
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Jane Whitefield leaves her quiet life as a newlywed to rescue a young girl fleeing a deadly mafioso and, to stop a growing evil, is forced into an uneasy alliance with a mafia hitman with a photographic memory to steal a fortune from the mob.
Author
Series
Jane Whitefield volume 7
Publisher
Mysterious Press/Grove/Atlantic Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Protecting a man wrongly charged with the murder of his wife, Jane Whitefield is shot and abducted by the real culprits, who threaten to kill her if she does not reveal her client's whereabouts.
9) The old man
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Decades after taking millions of dollars during a mission in Libya and starting over in Vermont under a new name, former Army intelligence offer Dan Chase is forced back on the run after eluding two attackers with an interest in obtaining the loot.
10) The bomb maker
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A bomb is more than a weapon. A bomb is an expression of the bomber's thoughts about you, his predictions of your behavior--a performance designed to fool you into making one fatally wrong move. In The Bomb Maker, Edgar Award-winning author Thomas Perryintroduces us to the dark corners of a mind intent on transforming a simple machine into an act of murder--and to those committed to preventing that outcome at any cost. A threat is called into the...
11) The boyfriend
Author
Series
Jack Till volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Till, who has retired from the LAPD, now works as a private investigator, comfortable chasing down routine cases while visiting his 24-year-old daughter, Holly, who has Down syndrome. But when the parents of a recently murdered young girl, about Holly's age, ask for his help when the police come up empty, Till reluctantly takes the case and finds the ruthless killer is responsible for a string of murders across the country.
Author
Series
Butcher's boy volume 4
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Michael Shaeffer is a retired American businessman, living peacefully in England with his aristocratic wife. But her annual summer party brings strangers to their house, and with them, an attempt on Michael's life. He is immediately thrust into action, luring his lethal pursuers to Australia before venturing into the lion's den-the States-to figure out why the mafia is after him-again-and how to stop them. Eddie's Boy jumps between Michael's current...
Author
Series
Jane Whitefield volume 9
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When she agrees to help a woman escape a crazed ex-boyfriend who is friends with members of a Russian organized crime brotherhood, rescue artist Jane Whitefield leads a deadly crime syndicate on a wild chase through the Northeast from which only one party--Jane or her pursuers--will emerge alive.
Author
Series
Jane Whitefield volume 8
Publisher
Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After two decades spent protecting innocent victims on the run, and a year after getting shot on a job that took a dangerous turn for the worse, Jane McKinnon, née Whitefield, has settled into the quiet life of a suburban housewife in Amherst, New York. Or so she thinks. One morning as she comes back from a long run, Jane is met by an unusual sight: the eight female leaders of her Seneca tribe parked in her driveway in two black cars. A childhood...
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Elle Stowell is a young woman with an unconventional profession: burglary. But Elle is no petty thief--with just the right combination of smarts, looks, and skills, she can easily stroll through ritzy Bel Air neighborhoods and pick out the perfect home for plucking the most valuable items. This is how Elle has always gotten by. She is good at it, and she thrives on the thrill. But after stumbling upon a grisly triple homicide while stealing from...
18) Forty thieves
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Sid and Ronnie Abel are a first-rate husband-and-wife detective team, both retirees of the LAPD. Ed and Nicole Hoyt are married assassins-for-hire living in the San Fernando Valley. Except for deadly aim with a handgun, the two couples have little in common--until they are both hired to do damage control on the same murder case. As the book races toward a high-octane climax, the Abels must fend for their own lives as they circle ever closer to the...
19) Hero: a novel
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After stopping a robbery at the Beverly Hills home of her client, a security guard to the stars is celebrated in the media as a local hero, but also draws the attention of the crime kingpin behind the burglaries.
20) The tombs
Author
Series
Fargo adventure volume 4
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are intrigued when an archaeologist friend requests their help excavating a top secret historical site. What they find will set them on a hunt for a prize greater than they could ever imagine. The clues point to the hidden tomb of Attila the Hun, the High King who was reportedly buried with a vast fortune of gold and jewels and plunder . . . a bounty that has never been found. As they follow the trail through...