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1) The survivor
Author
Series
Eve Duncan volume 28
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Unearthing the perfectly preserved body of a female warrior in Southeast Asia, archeologist Riley Smith and Eve Duncan seek answers about this extraordinary past life, leading Riley to make a discovery that will change history--if she can survive long enough to share it with the world.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don't know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot's family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Lolo Long's niece Jaya begins receiving death threats, Tribal Police Chief Long calls on Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire along with Henry Standing Bear as lethal backup. Jaya "Longshot" Long is the phenom of the Lame Deer Lady Stars High School basketball team and is following in the steps of her older sister, who disappeared a year previously, a victim of the scourge of missing Native Woman in Indian Country. Lolo hopes that having Longmire...
4) Blowback
Author
Language
English
Description
US President Keegan Barrett has swept into office on his success as Director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with deadly consequences. Barrett personally orders Special Agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel to execute his plan, but their loyalties are divided. The CIA serves at the pleasure of the president, yet they've sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign...
Author
Series
Virtue Falls volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Taylor Summers witnesses the death threat to a young boy, and does the only thing she can do--she sacrifices herself to distract the killers. Her reward is a life in ruins, on the run in the wilderness, barely surviving a bitter winter, and the even more bitter knowledge she has lost everything: her career, her reputation, her identity. She finds refuge in Virtue Falls, and there comes face to face with the knowledge that, to live her life again,...
6) Bad love
Author
Series
Alex Delaware volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
A package containing a tape is delivered to child psychologist/detective Alex Delaware. It contains horrifying screams and a childlike chant of 'Bad love, bad love...' Alex searches his past for a 'bad love' connection and LAPD detective Milo Sturgis uncovers two old murders with 'bad love' scrawled at the scene. Frightening patterns in present-day deaths lead Alex to believe he is the next victim-to-be.
Author
Series
Jigsaw files volume 1
Language
English
Description
"PI Charlie Dodge knows what it's like to have something important disappear. His wife, Annie, suffers from early-onset Alzheimer's, causing her to remember little of the life she shared with her husband. Charlie has devoted his career to saving what he can - missing people, threatened lives. But when prominent Denver multimillionaire Carter Dunleavy vanishes without a trace, Charlie and his assistant, Wyrick, discover missing doesn't always mean...
8) Legacy
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Adrian Rizzo was seven when she met her father for the first time. That was the day he nearly killed her-before her mother, Lina, stepped in. Soon after, Adrian was dropped off at her grandparents' house in Maryland, where she spent a long summer drinking lemonade, playing with dogs, making a new best friend-and developing the stirrings of a crush on her friend's ten-year-old brother. Lina, meanwhile, traveled the country promoting her fitness brand...
Author
Series
Verity Kent volume 5
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
November 1919. A relaxing few weeks by the seaside with her husband, Sidney, could almost convince Verity Kent that life has returned to the pleasant rhythm of pre-war days. Then Verity's beloved Great-Aunt Ilse lands on their doorstep. After years in war-ravaged Germany, Ilse has returned to England to repair her fragile health--and to escape trouble. Someone has been sending her anonymous threats, and Verity's Secret Service contacts can only provide...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Pulled into a deadly game of deception, secrets, and lies, a woman must find the truth in order to defeat a mysterious opponent, protect her daughter, and save her own life in this dazzling standalone psychological thriller with an unforgettable ending. --Amazon.com
Author
Series
Kate Moore volume 2
Publisher
Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After a leisurely start to a normal day, American expat Kate Moore finds herself partnered with a French agent to investigate a bombing threat in Paris.
13) The deadly dance
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin volume 15
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Frustrated by a series of small jobs after opening her own detective agency, Agatha Raisin places the fledgling agency's reputation on the line by alienating her friends and flirting with a chief suspect.
14) X-plosion
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Frank and Joe are assigned to protect Cody Zane, a pro boarder invited to the grand opening of Galaxy X, after Tyrone, the amusement park owner, starts receiving death threats on Cody's life on his cell phone.
Author
Series
Blacktop cowboys novel volume 3
Publisher
Signet Eclipse
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Janie Fitzhugh and Abe Lawson have long been divorced and living apart. Now she's back in town, a changed woman--making cattleman Abe want to wrangle an invitation to her bed. To get his dream ranch, Renner Jackson has partnered with spoiled daddy's girl Tierney Pratt. She thinks she can handle this cowboy, but Renner won't make it easy.
Author
Series
Claire Abbott mystery volume 3
Publisher
Ravan Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Small-town reporter Claire Abbott wakes from a nightmare, convinced a bomb will go off in the local school. And then, strangely enough, there really is a bomb scare. After the school is cleared by police and their sniffer dog, Claire is certain the threat isn't over. People are behaving strangely. Claire believes a bomber will attack the school. But when? And who is the bomber? Claire must track down the culprit and stop him before the bomb goes off....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Emily Page and her husband move from Manhattan to the wealthy enclave of Clairmont, Texas, she hopes she can finally escape her haunted past and outrun the nameless stalker who has been taunting her for years. Pregnant with her first child, Emily just wants to start over. But as she is drawn into a nest of secretive Texas women and into the unnerving company of their queen, Caroline Warwick, Emily finds that acceptance is a very dangerous game....
Author
Publisher
Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
As acting captain of the starship Calypso, Jacklyn Albright is responsible for keeping the last of humanity alive as they limp back to Earth from their forebears' failed colony on a distant planet. Faced with constant threats of starvation and destruction in the treacherous minefield of interstellar space, Jacklyn's crew has reached their breaking point. As unrest begins to spread throughout the ship's Wards, a new threat emerges, picking off crew...
19) Oppo: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's presidential primary season in Washington, D.C., and both parties are on edge. At campaign rallies for all the candidates around the country, there are disturbing incidents of violence and protest and shocking acts of civil disobedience. Peter Rena and Randi Brooks are happy to sit it out. Against this backdrop, Wendy Upton, the highly respected centrist senator, must make a choice: she's been offered the VP slot by both parties' leading candidates....
Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 49
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Carolina Garcia-Ramirez is a rising star in national politics, taking on the establishment with her progressive agenda. Tough, outspoken, and driven, the young congresswoman has ignited a new conversation in Boston about race, poverty, health care, and the environment. Now facing her second campaign, she finds herself not only fighting a tight primary with an old guard challenger but also contending with numerous death threats coming from hundreds...
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