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1) Fatal Tide
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"Melis Nemid is treading in dangerous waters - and she's about to be dragged under. As a marine researcher, Melis knows all too well the dangers that can lurk under even the calmest surfaces. But not even she can guess how deep the darkness runs. Only one oceanographer ever came close to discovering the deadly mystery that lies beneath the sea - and he's disappeared from the face of the earth." -- BOOK JACKET.
2) Fidelity
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When secretive private detective Phil Kramer is murdered, his widow, Emily, and his killer, Jerry Hobart, who has been ordered to kill Emily, compete to uncover the dark truth behind the killing while questioning where their true loyalties lie.
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Marissa Fordham was brutally slashed, mutilated and murdered. Four-year old Haley witnessed the murder of her mother. To protect their fragile witness, the police call in Anne Leone, child advocate. But when one loose thread begins to unravel the shroud of lies behind the case, a truth more terrible than anyone could have imagined is revealed--a truth that will put Anne and Haley directly in the sights of a killer.
4) The Wrecker
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
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In The Chase, Clive Cussler introduced an electrifying new hero, the tall, lean, no-nonsense detective Isaac Bell, who, driven by his sense of justice, travels early-twentieth-century America pursuing thieves and killers . . . and sometimes criminals much worse. It is 1907, a year of financial panic and labor unrest. Train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express line and, desperate, the railroad hires...
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Sisterhood series volume 3
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In the final volume of the author's "Revenge of the Sisterhood" series, founder of the Sisterhood Myra Rutledge has her turn at vengeance as she prepares to avenge the murder of her daughter by the playboy son of a former Chinese ambassador to the United States, who was deported to his native China after the crime.
6) Killer view
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When a skier goes missing, Sun Valley's Sheriff Walt Fleming assembles his team and heads out into the snowy night. Despite the treacherous conditions, Walt and his group, including Tommy Brandon and Walt's best friend, Mark Aker, set off. Within minutes, a shot rings out, and one of their team is dead. By morning, Mark Aker has disappeared. Walt is further challenged by an unexplained illness at a local water-bottling plant that sets off biohazard...
7) Blue heaven
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A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother go on the run in the woods of North Idaho, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder - four men who know exactly who William and Annie are, and who know exactly where their desperate mother is waiting for news of her children's fate. Retired cops from Los Angeles, the killers easily persuade the inexperienced sheriff to let them lead the search for the missing children. William and Annie's...
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In the mountain resort town of South Lake Tahoe, Nina Reilly is known for taking on the underdog cases. She is called to meet with a desperate new client who has just hit a huge slot machine jackpot, and the men in suits are waiting to hand her the check just as soon as she tells them her real identity. Nina helps her client devise a brilliant plan to collect the money while keeping her true identity secret in spite of powerful interests lined up...
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President Will Lee is having a rough week. His vice president just died during surgery. Confirmation hearings for the new vice president are under way, but the nominee may have a few skeletons in his closet. And Teddy Fay, the rogue CIA agent last seen in "Shoot him if he runs," is plotting his revenge on the president's wife. Plus ther are some loose nukes in Pakistan that might trigger World WAr III if Will's diplomatic efforts fall short. It's...
10) Prince of fire
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 5
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"Gabriel Allon is back in Venice, when a terrible explosion in Rome leads to a disturbing personal revelation: the existence of a dossier in terrorist hands that strips away his secrets, lays bare his history. Hastily recalled home to Israel, drawn once more into the heart of a service he had once forsaken, Allon finds himself stalking an elusive master terrorist across a landscape drenched with generations of blood, the trail turning on itself until,...
11) Shattered
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With an ailing mother to support, attorney Lisa Shewmaker takes a job as a research assistant to District Attorney Scott Buchanan. While reviewing cold cases in the Fayette County courthouse, she comes across photos that may help her uncover details about her mysterious past. But when a series of catastrophes strike close to home, Lisa confides in Scott, and their relationship develops into something completely different. Together Lisa and Scott unravel...
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A legendary library, containing written works dating back to ancient Rome and Greece, forms the background of this thriller. When The Book of Spies, one of the bejeweled volumes of the Library of Gold (a rare book archive people have sought for centuries) surfaces, the CIA links a terrorist plot with the library and a cabal of powerful men who have been its keepers. Rare-book expert Eva Blake and former intelligence agent Judd Ryder have personal...
13) The Camel Club
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Camel Club novels volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 23
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The Camel Club is a four-man group of Washington, D.C. misfits, that meet weekly to discuss political conspiracies they believe exist and what actions they might take. One night club members witness the murder of Secret Service employee Patrick Johnson, thus thrusting the wacky crew into the middle of a bigger conspiracy than they could ever have imagined.
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There's no match for the Sisterhood - not even the FBI. Altough the women successfully foiled former FBI director Mitch Riley's plot to frame their friend Judge Nellie Easter and lawyer Lizzie Fox - the friends who saved the Sisterhood from going to prison must remain in exile or risk capture. They can't complain about their opulent digs on a remote luxurious mountaintop, but the ladies desperately miss home and the people they've left behind.
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Amaryllis Coltraine has recently transferred to the New York City police force from Atlanta when she's killed with her own weapon. Eve starts questioning everyone while her husband, Roarke, digs into computer data on Coltraine's life back in Atlanta. To their shock, they discover a connection between this case and their own painful, shadowy pasts. the truth will need to be uncovered one layer at a time, starting with the box sent to Eve containing...
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Paul Janson novels volume 1
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Nobel laureate, international financier, and philanthropist Peter Novak--a billionaire who has committed his life and fortune to fostering democracy around the world through his Liberty Foundation--has been kidnapped. The terrorist known as The Caliph is holding Novak in a near-impenetrable fortress and has refused to negotiate for his release, planning instead to brutally execute his hostage in a matter of days...Running out of time and hope, Novak's...
17) Kill Alex Cross
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Alex Cross novels volume 18
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IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene of the biggest case he's ever been part of. The president's son and daughter have been abducted from their school - an impossible crime, but somehow the kidnapper has done it. Alex does everything he can but is shunted to the fringes of the investigation. Someone powerful doesn't want him too close.
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"On Parrish Island, a restricted island off the coast of Virginia, there is a little-known and never-visited psychiatric facility. There, far from prying eyes, the government keeps in "deep storage" former intelligence employees whose psychiatric state make them a security risk to their own government, people whose ramblings might jeopardize ongoing operations or prove dangerously inconvenient. One of these employees, former Consular Operations agent...
20) The 9th judgment
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Women's Murder Club volume 9
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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A young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. The same night, the wife of A-list actor Marcus Dowling is woken by a cat burglar and in just seconds there is a nearly empty safe, a lifeless body, and another mystery that throws San Francisco into hysteria. Before the Women's Murder Club can piece together either case, one of the killers forces Detective Lindsay Boxer to...