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1) Camino winds
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen - even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime . . . Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida's governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce...
Author
Series
Private volume 9
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Las Vegas is a city of contradictions: seedy and glamorous, secretive and wild, Vegas attracts people of all kinds--especially those with a secret to hide, or a life to leave behind. It's the perfect location for Lester Olsen's lucrative business. He gets to treat gorgeous, young women to five-star restaurants, splashy shows, and limo rides--and then he teaches them how to kill. Private Jack Morgan spends most of his time in Los Angeles, where his...
Author
Series
Finlay Donovan volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Dating. Diapers. And dodging bullets. Who said single moms can't have fun? Finlay Donovan has been in messes before--after all, she's an author and single mom who's a pro at getting out bloodstains for rather unexpected reasons--but none quite like this. After she and her nanny/partner-in-crime Vero accidentally destroyed a luxury car that they may have "borrowed" in the process of saving the life of Finlay's ex-husband, the Russian mob got her out...
4) Shaker
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The tale of a hit man mistaken for a hero whose sudden, unwanted fame makes him a target for the surprising number of people who want him dead. --Publisher
Author
Series
Ruinous love volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
Contract killer Lachlan Kane wants a quiet life working in his leather studio and forgetting all about his traumatic past. But when he botches a job for his boss's biggest client, Lachlan knows he'll never claw his way out of the underworld. At least, not until songbird Lark Montague offers him a deal: use his skills to hunt down a killer and she'll find a way to secure his freedom. The catch? He has to marry her first. And they can't stand each other....
7) The Cartel
Author
Series
Cartel volume 1
Publisher
Urban Books
Language
English
Description
The port of Miami brings in millions of dollars' worth of cocaine every year, and the Cartel controls eighty percent of it. The Diamond family is a force to be reckoned with, but all hell breaks loose when they lose their leader. The most ruthless gangster Miami has ever seen, Carter Diamond, leaves behind a wife, twin sons, a daughter, and a secret. The secret is his illegitimate son, Carter Jones. When young Carter learns of his father's death,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. --Publisher
10) A wanted woman
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"She is a woman of a thousand faces, an assassin who could be anyone, anywhere. The Trinidad contract was supposed to be simple: to make a living man become a dead man. When the job goes bad under the watchful eye of a bank security camera, there is nowhere for agent MX-401, known as Reaper, to hide from the fearsome local warlords, the Laventille Killers. Her employers, the Barbarians, send her to Barbados, the next island over, barely two hundred...
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Series
John Rain volume 5
Language
English
Description
When John Rain, the Japanese/American "contract killer with a conscience" (Entertainment Weekly), learns that his former lover, Midori, has been raising their child in New York, he senses a chance for reconciliation, perhaps even for redemption. But Midori is being watched by Rain's enemies, and his sudden appearance puts mother and child in terrible danger. To save them, Rain is forced to use the same deadly talents he had been hoping to
...12) Envy the night
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
14) River of blood
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Series
Frontiersman volume 2
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Breck Wallace was tuning into a true mountain man on the American frontier. As a teenager in Tennessee he killed in self-defense, then left behind a woman he loved. With a gun and trap lines he is learning how to survive in the Rockies, braving the punishing elements, ruthless outlaws, and forging an uneasy peace with the Indians. But as dangerous as life is, nothing is worse than a powerful man with a murderous grudge. Breckenridge has left two such...
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Series
Corie Geller volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Just a few years ago, Corie Geller was busting terrorists as an agent for the FBI. But at thirty-five, she traded in her badge for the stability of marriage and motherhood. Now Corie is married to the brilliant and remarkably handsome Judge Josh Geller and is the adoptive mother of his fourteen-year-old daughter. Corie fills her days scouting Arabic fiction for literary agencies and, every Wednesday, she joins a group of fellow Shorehaven freelancers...
16) Blackjack
Author
Series
Cross volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Tracking a murderer who has been committing grisly killings throughout the world, Cross and his mercenary teammates are hired by shadowy government operatives to bring in the elusive hunter alive, a goal that is aided by the discovery of a pattern in the killer's targets.
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"First comes love. Then comes murder. Lucas Forester didn't hate his wife. Michelle was brilliant, sophisticated and beautiful. Sure, she had extravagant spending habits, that petty attitude, a total disregard for anyone below her status. But she also had a lot to offer. Most notably: wealth that only the one percent could comprehend. For years, Lucas has been honing a flawless plan to inherit Michelle's fortune. Unfortunately, it involves taking...
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Series
Cartel volume 4
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The Diamond family has survived murder, deceit, and betrayal. Through it all, they're still standing tall, and a new era has begun. After surviving a failed attempt on her life, Breeze has moved into the queen's position by Zyir's side. Zyir has taken over the empire and locked down Miami's streets. He has the world in his palms, but there is always new blood ready to overthrow the throne. Young Carter has retired and moved away from the madness that...
Author
Series
Trust me volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Master con artist Julep Dupree has managed to stay at her private school, but now her life is in danger and, against her better judgment, she takes a shady case.
20) The winter man
Author
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In Silent Night Man the special government agent Millie has loved from afar for years has vowed to protect her from a hit man. In Sutton's Way Wyoming rancher and single father Quinn Sutton rescues a beautiful city woman with secrets of her own.
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