Suspense Novels
LP 10093 THE 37TH HOUR
AUTHOR: COMPTON, JODI
ABSTRACT: Missing persons Sarah comes home to find her
husband, Michael Shiloh missing. He was supposed to be in
Virginia to start his FBI training. But he never arrived.
LP 08490 THE ABSENCE OF NECTAR
AUTHOR: HEPINSTALL, KATHY
ABSTRACT: Alice and Boone Fendar hope for a new man to
drag their mother from her depression after their father
abandons them. Unfortunately, their prayers are answered in
the form of Simon Jester, an abusive man with a hair-trigger
temper, a fondness for poison, and secrets in his past.
LP 09086 ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY
AUTHOR: CONNORS, ROSS
ABSTRACT: A year after a horrific murder, prosecuting
attorney Marty Nickerson of Chatham on Cape Cod secures the
conviction of Manuel Rodriguez for the crime. For Nickerson,
the conviction is fully satisfying until a second murder,
disturbingly similar to the first, occurs.
LP 09058 ACID ROW
AUTHOR: WALTERS, MINETTE
ABSTRACT: A young doctor enters Acid Row, a dank housing
project, and finds herself in the clutches of a dangerous
pedophile.
LP 08693 ADAM AND EVE AND PINCH ME
AUTHOR: RENDELL, RUTH
ABSTRACT: Jock's obsessive-compulsive girlfriend, Minty,
thinks he was killed in a train crash and is tormented by his
ghost. But the cheerfully amoral Jock--AKA Jerry Leach and Jeff
Leigh, depending on which woman he's romancing--faked his
death to move on to yet another unsuspecting lady.
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LP 09824 THE ALTMAN CODE
AUTHOR: LUDLUM, ROBERT AND GAYLE LYNDS
ABSTRACT: On the dark docks of Shanghai, a photographer
recording cargo being secretly loaded is killed and his camera
destroyed. Covert-One director Fred Klein tells the President
there's a Chinese cargo ship with tons of chemicals for new
biological weapons. Klein is ordered to get solid proof.
LP 09887 THE AMBER ROOM
AUTHOR: BERRY, STEVE
ABSTRACT: When Judge Rachel Cutler's father dies, he leaves
his daughter clues to a decades-old secret: the Amber Room,
an exquisite treasure appropriated by the Nazis when they
invaded the Soviet Union. To find out why her father died,
Rachel and her ex-husband, Paul head off to Germany.
LP 08436 AMERICA
AUTHOR: COONTS, STEPHEN
ABSTRACT: The USS America, the most technologically
advanced submarine ever built, is hijacked. The joint chiefs
realize that America carries cruise missiles with warheads
designed to fry every electronic device within a ten-mile
radius. Within hours, missiles rain down on Washington, D.C.
LP 10432 ANGELS CREST
AUTHOR: SCHWARTZ, LESLIE
ABSTRACT: Ethan Denton is out for a drive with his three-yearold son, Nate, in the woods of Northern California, when he
decides to stop to follow several bucks he spots just off the
road. When he returns 15 minutes later, his son is gone, and
his own personal hell is just beginning.
LP 09137 THE APPRENTICE
AUTHOR: GERRITSEN, TESS
ABSTRACT: A doctor is found with his throat slashed, in his
living room in his pajamas. His wife is missing, her nightgown
folded neatly on a chair in the bedroom. There are similarities
to serial killer Warren Hoyt, nicknamed "the Surgeon," who’s
in prison, leading Det Jane Rizzoli to suspect a copycat.
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LP 09350 THE ARRAIGNMENT
AUTHOR: MARTINI, STEVE
ABSTRACT: When Paul Madriani's old friend is gunned down,
Madriani sets out to find the killer. He follows the trail through
shady real-estate dealings, cross-border smuggling, political
corruption, and a nasty fight between Rush's ex and his young
trophy wife over a hefty life-insurance policy.
LP 09241 THE ART OF DECEPTION
AUTHOR: PEARSON, RIDLEY
ABSTRACT: Seattle detectives Lou Boldt, John LaMoia and
Daphne Matthews are working on a suspicious drowning and
the disappearance of two women who are presumed dead.
Catching the killer becomes harder when a suspect starts
stalking Detective Matthews.
LP 09372 AUTOGRAPHS IN THE RAIN
AUTHOR: JARDINE, QUINTIN
ABSTRACT: As Skinner takes a stroll with a film star, surely the
worst of his worries is back at Headquarters, where a new
colleague is scheming to enlarge his territory at Skinner's
expense. But when a gunshot has Skinner and his old flame
diving for cover, it seems danger has zeroed in on him again.
LP 09845 AVENGER
AUTHOR: FORSYTH, FREDERICK
ABSTRACT: As a former "tunnel rat" who fought the Vietcong
in miles of underground passages, Cal Dexter is after Zoran
Zilic, a Serbian leader who's murdered the grandson of a
mining tycoon. Cal leads a foray against Zilic's South American
stronghold.
LP 08927 BAD BOY BRAWLEY BROWN
AUTHOR: MOSLEY, WALTER
ABSTRACT: Easy Rawlings is back working a case on the streets
of Los Angeles. Easy's old friend John needs the help only Easy
can provide. John's stepson, Brawly Brown, has left home and
John has reason to believe this well-meaning boy is caught up
in a situation that's more dangerous than he knows.
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LP 09630 BAD COMPANY
AUTHOR: HIGGINS, JACK
ABSTRACT: Max von Berger, an aide to Hitler, has the Furher’s
diary. Now a billionaire industrialist and a silent partner with
an international crime family who is seeking revenge for a
killing, Berger vows to reveal the diary's secret that would
destroy the current U.S. president.
LP 10423 BE MINE
AUTHOR: MOFINA, RICK
ABSTRACT: Tom Reed is shocked by the message delivered to
Molly Wilson—it’s written in human blood. SFPD Homicide
Inspector, Walt Sydowski works on his most challenging case –
the murder of a fellow detective as Tom races to save his
career, and Molly.
LP 09535 THE BEST REVENGE
AUTHOR: WHITE, STEPHEN.
ABSTRACT: Clinical psychologist Alan Gregory is treating both
FBI agent Kelda James and the man she helped free from death
row--Tom Clone. As Gregory helps them deal with demons
from their pasts, he discovers the real reason Clone was
released from prison.
LP 09132 BETTER TO REST
AUTHOR: STABENOW, DANA
ABSTRACT: A hand clutching a goldpiece emerges from the ice
near where Alaska state trooper Liam Campbell is investigating
the murder of a 74-year-old woman. The hand belonged to a
soldier killed in the crash of the World War II army plane
entombed by the glacier a half century ago.
LP 09220 THE BIRD TABLE
AUTHOR: DAVIES, JONATHAN
ABSTRACT: Sally Donne's cross-examination of Roger Nichols
is brilliant, accused rapist. A witness comes forth to
corroborate Nichols' story, with evidence to prove he was the
victim of a blackmail plot. But Roger Nichols, convinced that
he is bound for jail, puts a shotgun to his head.
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LP 10189 BLACK CREEK CROSSING
AUTHOR: SAUL, JOHN
ABSTRACT: Angel Sullivan moves into the plush community of
Roundtree. Angel, along with Seth Baker, begins to investigate
the history of the house. They discover a book of spells from
the house's original owners, members of a community of
witches; the teens cast spells on the bullies who torment them.
LP 10384 THE BLACKBIRD PAPERS
AUTHOR: SMITH, IAN
ABSTRACT: World-renowned Dartmouth professor Wilson
Bledsoe is discovered dead, his body carved with a racist
epithet into his chest. Two loathsome white supremacists are
arrested. But FBI agent Bledsoe, doesn’t buy this pat solution.
LP 10214 BLIND RUN
AUTHOR: LEWIN, PATRICIA
ABSTRACT: Ethan Decker is a specialized "Hunter" for the U.S.
government, tracking down. A renegade assassin kills Decker’s
son, he leaves his unsuspecting wife to save her from the
madman's threats and exiles himself to a remote desert in New
Mexico.
LP 10149 BLINDED
AUTHOR: WHITE, STEPHEN.
ABSTRACT: Colorado psychotherapist Alan Gregory counsels
Gibbs Storey who fears her husband, Sterling, is a killer. When
therapy reveals the couple's swinging lifestyle and Gibbs's
possible motives for the accusation, Alan turns to detective
Sam Purdy.
LP 09809 BLINDSIDE: AN FBI THRILLER
AUTHOR: COULTER, CATHERINE.
ABSTRACT: Married FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon
Savich are searching for the serial murderer of math teachers.
Meanwhile six-year-old Sam Kettering, son of retired agent
Miles, is kidnapped but manages to escape and seeks help
from Tennessee sheriff Katie Benedict.
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LP 09166 BLOOD OF VICTORY
AUTHOR: FURST, ALAN
ABSTRACT: Newly arrived in Istanbul to serve as executive
secretary of the International Russian Union, Russian emigre
journalist I.A. Serebin finds himself yanked into action by the
British secret service, which is intent on stopping the
shipment of Romanian oil to Germany.
LP 08441 BLUE DIARY
AUTHOR: HOFFMAN, ALICE
ABSTRACT: When Ethan Ford fails to show up for work, none of
his neighbors would guess, he has been running from his past
for more than thirteen years. Sometimes locks spring open,
and the devastating truths of Ethan Ford's history shatter the
small-town peace of Monroe, affecting family and friends alike.
LP 09222 BLUEBEARD
AUTHOR: KERRIGAN, JOHN
ABSTRACT: Operation Bluebeard will be the biggest snatch in
history. A top KGB official, persuaded to defect, is to be
plucked off a Russian ship at a Spanish port. "Bluebeard,"
knows too many embarrassing details about moles in British
Intelligence and M16 are determined to get to him first.
LP 10168 THE BODY OF DAVID HAYES
AUTHOR: PEARSON, RIDLEY
ABSTRACT: Years ago, Lou Boldt's wife Liz had an affair with
David Hayes, computer specialist at her bank. Hayes engaged
in a daring embezzlement scheme. Now, years later, Hayes is
trying to retrieve the money he hid for the Russian mob and
contacts Liz to try to gain access to the bank's mainframe.
LP 08706 BONE COLD
AUTHOR: SPINDLER, ERICA
ABSTRACT: Twenty-three years ago, Anna North survived a
living nightmare. A madman kidnapped her, cut off her pinkie,
then vanished. Today Anna lives in New Orleans, writing dark
thrillers under another name.
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LP 08708 THE BONES IN THE ATTIC
AUTHOR: BARNARD, ROBERT
ABSTRACT: Soccer star-turned-media personality Matt Harper
bought Elderholm, a rambling house in Leeds, to settle down
with his love Aileen and her three children. Surveying the attic
with an architect, they discover a tiny body that DI Charlie
Peace identifies as a two-year-old who died 30 years ago.
LP 09091 THE BORIC ACID MURDERS
AUTHOR: MINICHINO, CAMILLE
ABSTRACT: A trip to the Revere Public Library proves fatal for
thirty-six-year-old Yolanda Fiore. Her body is found early one
morning at the bottom of the library's staircase. She'd been
struck on the back of the head before her fall.
LP 09030 THE BURYING FIELD
AUTHOR: ABEL, KENNETH
ABSTRACT: Michael Tournier is ready to break ground for a
shopping mall and housing complex when the discovery of a
historic slave cemetery halts the project. He hires attorney
Danny Chaisson to scope out the attitudes of the locals. What
Danny discovers is a town with dirty politics, 1930s racial
attitudes, and a good-old-boy network led by the local sheriff.
LP 09858 CAPITAL CRIMES
AUTHOR: WOODS, STUART
ABSTRACT: William Henry Lee IV, former senator from Georgia,
has graduated to the presidency of the United States. He's
living comfortably in the White House with his wife, Katharine
Rule Lee, director of the CIA, when a series of murders
threatens the nation's political equanimity.
LP 10253 THE CARDAMOM CLUB
AUTHOR: STOCK, JON
ABSTRACT: Raj Nair, a young British Asian doctor, is posted to
Delhi. It's his first time in India, his first job with M16, and
not everyone is pleased to see him. Ambitious and patriotic, he
is soon forced to question his own loyalties, particularly when
his father is arrested in Britain on spying charges.
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LP 09349 CELT AND PEPPER: A NOTRE DAME MYSTERY
AUTHOR: MCINERNY, RALPH
ABSTRACT: After a young Notre Dame professor/poet dies
unexpectedly, Professor Roger Knight suspects murder. His
erudition, coupled with assistance from his brother Philip, a
private investigator, ultimately leads to a killer.
LP 10113 CHINA LAKE
AUTHOR: GARDINER, MEG
ABSTRACT: Evan Delaney finds that her ex-sister-in-law,
Tabitha, has joined The Remnant- a fanatical band of disciples
of the Reverend Pete Wyoming. Tabitha is also trying to regain
custody of her six-year-old son, in Evan's care while his father
is posted to the Naval Air Warfare Center.
LP 10370 CIRCLES AND SQUARES
AUTHOR: MALCOLM, JOHN
ABSTRACT: Tim Simpson has his heart set on the paintings of
The Nicholsons. When his Scotland Yard friend, Nobby
Roberts, finds Simpson’s name in the diary of the murdered
Moira Bassington, it soon becomes apparent that the dead
woman is connected not only to him but to artist Nicholson.
LP 08502 CLIFFHAVEN
AUTHOR: ROSS, DAN
ABSTRACT: Jean Gordon left her job in New York to come to
Grant Harbor to run Cliffhaven, an eerie old hotel that was
bequeathed to her mother. After her arrival in the small
Massachusetts town, a series of events leaves Jean baffled and
terrified.
LP 08524 CLOSE TO YOU
AUTHOR: CLARK, MARY JANE
ABSTRACT: Eliza Blake, anchor for the KEY Evening Headlines,
has just vacated her New York apartment for a house in the
suburbs, intent on escaping memories of her husband's death.
She begins to receive a fresh crop of threatening phone
calls and letters.
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LP 10190 THE CODEX
AUTHOR: PRESTON, DOUGLAS
ABSTRACT: As a final challenge to his three sons, Maxwell
Broadbent has buried himself and his treasure, over a half a
billion dollars' worth of priceless art, gems, and artifacts
somewhere in the world, like an Egyptian pharaoh. If the sons
wish to claim their inheritance, they must find his tomb.
LP 08656 COMMON MURDER
AUTHOR: MCDERMID, VAL
ABSTRACT: After a former lover of ace reporterGordon's is
accused of attacking, and then murdering, prominent citizen
and anti-Brownlow Common activist, Rupert Crabtree, Gordon
finds herself embroiled in an investigation with far-reaching
political implications.
LP 08749 CONFIDENCE WOMAN
AUTHOR: VAN GIESON, JUDITH
ABSTRACT: When rare book expert Claire Reynier becomes the
victim of credit card fraud, she's stunned to discover that
Evelyn Martin, an old sorority sisiter, is the culprit. She's even
more shocked when Evelyn turns up dead.
LP 08829 THE CONSPIRACY
AUTHOR: CRESSWELL, JASMINE
ABSTRACT: Verity Marlowe's life has spiraled into a haze of
alcohol and self-pity following the death of her husband. The
State Department considers her a security risk, but when
terrorist violence erupts overseas, they have no choice but to
call her back on assignment.
LP 09129 CRANE
AUTHOR: PATTINSON, JAMES
ABSTRACT: Down on his luck since eighteen, when he was
picked up on Liverpool Street Station by the decidedly odd
Heathcliff, Crane promptly teamed up with a young thief
named Charlie Green. Perhaps he would have kept his promise
if the chance of making a million hadn’t dropped into his lap.
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LP 09236 CRIME SCHOOL
AUTHOR: O'CONNELL, CAROL
ABSTRACT: Kathy Mallory again prowls the mean streets of
New York, digging deeper into her past even as she and her
cohorts ferret out a grisly serial killer.
LP 10170 A CRY FROM THE DARK
AUTHOR: BARNARD, ROBERT
ABSTRACT: Bettina Whitelaw’s semi- autobiographical novels
take place in the Outback she left behind after being raped in
her teens by an unknown assailant. The ransacking of her flat
suggests that former acquaintances, fearful of what she may
be writing about them, have pursued her to England.
LP 09733 THE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW
AUTHOR: DIAMOND, DIANA
ABSTRACT: Is it an accident or murder when thrill-seeker
Jonathan Donner, heir to a billion-dollar empire, vanishes
while deep-sea diving? At the top of the suspect list is
Jonathan's new bride, Nicole Pierce, a stunning beauty with a
questionable past.
LP 08700 THE DAY TRADER
AUTHOR: FREY, STEPHEN
ABSTRACT: For Augustus McKnight, there's good news and bad
news: he's just made a killing, but his wife wants a divorce.
Then she's murdered, and McKnight gets her juicy life
insurance policy and a whole lot of trouble.
LP 08408 DEAD AND BURIED
AUTHOR: ENGEL, HOWARD
ABSTRACT: A woman whose husband died in a suspicious
accident hires P.I. Cooperman to investigate. Cooperman lacks
enthusiasm until he finds ties to a former nemesis; then he
risks the wrath of a powerful waste disposal company
apparently in cahoots with city government.
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LP 09832 DEAD RUN
AUTHOR: SPINDLER, ERICA
ABSTRACT: Divorced family counselor Liz Ames relocates from
St. Louis to Key West to investigate the disappearance of her
sister, Pastor Rachel Howard, who left Liz a mysterious phone
message about a teenaged girl, illegal activities and threats to
her life.
LP 09945 DEADLINE
AUTHOR: COLEMAN, VERNON
ABSTRACT: After losing his newspaper job, Mark Watson is
approached by a former colleague whose wife has been
kidnapped. Watson offers to help locate the missing woman
and finds himself in a terrifying race against the deadline date
which would mean certain death for his friend's wife.
LP 08455 DEADLY NIGHTSHADE
AUTHOR: RIGGS, CYNTHIA
ABSTRACT: 92-year-old Victoria Trumbull's keen hearing
results in the discovery of a mutilated body in the harbor at
Martha's Vineyard. Granddaughter Elizabeth, who works in the
harbor office, and her boss, an ex-New York cop, realize that
the murderer may now target Victoria as a witness.
LP 09046 DEATH IN A HOT FLASH
AUTHOR: ISENBERG, JANE
ABSTRACT: English Professor Bel Barrett lets a colleague, Vinny
Vallone--part-time Funeral Services Education teacher, big-time
undertaker--flatter her into acting as a role model by teaching
his class how to research and write. But before Bel starts
Vinny the undertaker turns into Vinny the deceased.
LP 09221 DEATH IN THE WEST WIND
AUTHOR: LAKE, DERYN
ABSTRACT: Newlyweds John and Emilia Rawlings are spending
their honeymoon touring the mysterious county of Devon. The
gruesome discovery of a young girl, badly beaten and bruised,
draws the Apothecary into the investigation.
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LP 10386 DEATH MATCH
AUTHOR: CHILD, LINCOLN
ABSTRACT: The Thorpes were the perfect couple: young,
attractive, and ideally matched. When the Thorpes committ
double-suicide Eden, Incorporated, the worldwide
matchmaking phenomenon that uses its astonishing artificial
intelligence to create supercouples and guarantee its
customers just one thing: lifelong happiness, is suspect.
LP 08831 DEATH OF A HIRED MAN
AUTHOR: WRIGHT, ERIC
ABSTRACT: The Ontario Provincial Police Station received a
disturbing phone call- a homicide in a log cabin on Larch
River. Sergeant Wilkie fears it's Mel Pickett and is almost
relieved when he sees that the victim is Norbert Thompson, a
local "hired man" who had been renting Pickett's cabin.
LP 09152 DECEMBER 6
AUTHOR: SMITH, MARTIN CRUZ
ABSTRACT: Harry Niles knows that there is just one chance for
him to leave Japan before war breaks out. A wheeler-dealer of
the first order, he must extricate himself from the love affairs,
vendettas, investigations, and outright cons that he has
perpetrated over the years.
LP 09450 DECEPTION
AUTHOR: MCCLURE, KEN
ABSTRACT: There is doubt that a genetically modified crop
being grown is licensed by the government. Steven Dunbar, a
medical investigator with the Sci-Med Inspectorate, is sent to
investigate, but finds that the farmer who has made the
complaints, Thomas Rafferty, is a well known drunk.
LP 09398 DERAILED
AUTHOR: SIEGEL, JAMES
ABSTRACT: Just as Charles and Lucinda are about to leave an
afternoon tryst, a man bursts into the room, beats up Charles,
repeatedly rapes Lucinda, and robs them both. Unable to go to
the police, since both are married, they face blackmail.
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LP 09997 DRAGON BONES
AUTHOR: SEE, LISA
ABSTRACT: Inspector Liu Hulan and her husband, attorney
David Stark, are sent to the Three Gorges Dam construction
Site where they find smuggling and sale of valuable artifacts in
Hong Kong, the murder of several members of an international
crew of archaeologists, and a Falun-Gong-like cult.
LP 09283 THE EIGHTH DAY
AUTHOR: CASE, JOHN
ABSTRACT: Danny Cray is hired by a wealthy attorney to find
out who's been bad-mouthing one of his clients, the even
wealthier Italian businessman Zerevan Zebek. Danny's
investigation takes him to Rome, where he learns several
unsettling things winds up on the run for his life.
LP 08712 THE ENGLISH ASSASSIN
AUTHOR: SILVA, DANIEL
ABSTRACT: Gabriel Allon, a world-class art restorer and former
member of the Israeli Secret Service. In Allon's latest
adventure, he comes out of retirement once again and finds
himself enmeshed in a murder investigation whose roots reach
back to the cataclysmic policies of Nazi Germany.
LP 10019 EVERY SECRET THING
AUTHOR: LIPPMAN, LAURA
ABSTRACT: A three-year-old is presumed kidnapped, with
bloody evidence left behind. Suspicion points toward the two
girls convicted of an earlier crime, newly released from
juvenile detention: Alice Manning, the "good girl”, and Ronnie
Fuller, the "bad girl" and presumed murderer.
LP 09999 FACE VALUE
AUTHOR: GRAHAM, PEGGY
ABSTRACT: Employed as gardener-chauffeur to Emily Barkley,
Charlie makes himself indispensable with hopes of inheriting
her lovely house. The girl whom the old lady believes is her
niece pays a long overdue visit and her friend arrives, also
with designs on the house.
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LP 08903 FACELESS STRANGERS
AUTHOR: MCCREERY, NIGEL
ABSTRACT: When the wife of a local MP is found murdered, the
Cambridge Constabulary investigates. It is an entirely different
Matter when the decomposed body of a homeless drug addict
is found. The awful truth of the girl's life and death come to
light, exposing a web of corruption reaching far into Europe.
LP 09742 THE FALLS
AUTHOR: HARPER, KAREN
ABSTRACT: Claire Malvern and her husband Keith open a rural
B&B fishing lodge in the Pacific Northwest. When Keith is
found drowned in Bloodroot Falls, his death is ruled a suicide
by the sheriff, Nick Braden. Claire is convinced otherwise, as
her investigations bring secrets to light, Nick begins to agree.
LP 08908 FATAL
AUTHOR: PALMER, MICHAEL
ABSTRACT: Matt Ruttledge returns to West Virginia to marry
his high school sweetheart and set up a medical practice. His
wife falls victim to a rare strain of cancer. He suspects it was
caused by the toxic brew of nearby Belinda Coal Co., but hard
evidence is nowhere to be found.
LP 09289 THE FINAL COUNTRY
AUTHOR: CRUMLEY, JAMES
ABSTRACT: Milo Milodragovitch is back in Texas, running the
bar of his dreams. Molly McBride’s persuaded Milo to help her
search for and bring to justice the lowlife who raped and
murdered her sister.
LP 09519 FINAL JUSTICE
AUTHOR: GRIFFIN, W.E.B.
ABSTRACT: Matt Payne has just been transferred to Homicide.
The cases he gets are a rich mix: an apparently simple
shooting in a fast food outlet that turns out to be almost
unsolvable; a savage rape and murder with some serious anticop political overtones; and the supervision of a visiting movie
star who wants to make his police pictures more authentic.
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LP 09872 FIRE FLIGHT
AUTHOR: NANCE, JOHN J.
ABSTRACT: Jerry Stein owns of a fleet of military planes
retooled to fight forest fires; the political heat to move "fire
bombing" duties from the forest department to the military
worsens when in-air accidents occur with some frequency.
LP 09101 FIRE ICE: A NOVEL FROM THE NUMA FILES
AUTHOR: CUSSLER, CLIVE.
ABSTRACT: Kurt Austin and his forces at the National
Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) battle Mikhail Razov, a
Russian billionaire who plans to destroy the coastal United
States. Razov fires missiles in the ocean to release methane
hydrate that triggers tsunamis and global warming.
LP 08661 FLOW MY TEARS, THE POLICEMAN SAID
AUTHOR: DICK, PHILIP K.
ABSTRACT: On October 11 the television star Jason Taverner is
so famous that 30 million viewers eagerly watch his primetime show. On October 12 Jason Taverner is not a has-been but
a never-was a man who has lost not only his audience but all
proof of his existence.
LP 09682 THE FOOTPRINTS OF GOD
AUTHOR: ILES, GREG
ABSTRACT: When his fellow scientist is murdered, David
discovers the genius who runs Project Trinity was responsible
and that his own life is in danger. Unable to reach the
president, David turns to Rachel Weiss, the psychiatrist
probing his nightmares.
LP 09807 THE FUTURE SCROLLS
AUTHOR: MICHAELS, FERN
ABSTRACT: Religious scrolls guarded by the Mendeneres
family for centuries have been stolen by Alexander
Mendeneres' bitter wife and brought to New York City to be
sold to the highest bidder. Alexander uses his daughter Maria
as a lure to entrap his wife, but she gets lost upon her arrival
from Argentina and is rescued by Dani Arnold, an author.
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LP 10426 GARDEN OF BEASTS
AUTHOR: DEAVER, JEFFERY
ABSTRACT: In 1936 Paul Schumann, a mobster hitman is
asked to pose as a journalist covering the summer Olympics
taking place in Berlin. He's to hunt down and kill Reinhardt
Ernst -- the ruthless architect of Hitler's clandestine
rearmament.
LP 08758 GONE FOR GOOD
AUTHOR: COBEN, HARLAN
ABSTRACT: Will Klein suffers a double loss. First, his
ex-girlfriend Julie Miller is viciously raped and murdered; his
older brother Ken becomes the chief suspect and disappears.
Then a few words spoken from his mother's deathbed force
Will to realize that the past has come back to haunt him.
LP 09861 GONE TOO FAR
AUTHOR: BROCKMANN, SUZANNE
ABSTRACT: Lt. Sam Starrett is waiting for a divorce and
determined to stay active in his young daughter's life. But
when Sam shows up at the door of his ex-wife's home in
Sarasota, Florida, he makes a grisly discovery. His daughter is
gone and the body of a woman lies brutally murdered.
LP 08484 THE GOOD GERMAN
AUTHOR: KANON, JOSEPH
ABSTRACT: Jake Geismar, is in Berlin to cover the Potsdam
Conference, and he also wants to find Lena, the married
woman with whom he was involved. But before he can find
her, he becomes intrigued with the murder of a young
American soldier who was on the plane with him.
LP 09208 A HANGING MATTER
AUTHOR: DUFFY, MARGARET
ABSTRACT: Ingrid Langley is rather happy with life. Her latest
books have been successful, the new novel is shaping up well,
the children are thriving, and the future is looking rosy. If only
her husband, Patrick Gillard, a man of mercurial moods at the
best of times, wasn't so monumentally bored.
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LP 09820 HAUNTED GROUND
AUTHOR: HART, ERIN
ABSTRACT: When farmers cutting turf in a peat bog make a
grisly discovery -- the perfectly preserved severed head of a
young woman with long red hair -- Irish archaeologist Cormac
Maguire and American pathologist Nora Gavin team up in a
case that will open old wounds.
LP 10176 HIDDEN PREY
AUTHOR: SANDFORD, JOHN
ABSTRACT: A Russian sailor is assassinated on the docks of
Duluth. Wary of international implications, the governor asks
Lucas Davenport to investigate. The murder may be linked to
the remnants of a dormant Soviet Union network established
between the world wars but forgotten by the motherland.
LP 09770 HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
AUTHOR: ERSKINE, BARBARA
ABSTRACT: When Emma Dickson buys Liza's Cottage, the house
she remembers from childhood holidays. Once there, she is
haunted by nightmares. Mike Sinclair, the new Rector of
Manningtree and Mistley, is worried by the increasing level of
supernatural disturbance in his parish.
LP 08612 HUNTING SEASON
AUTHOR: BARR,NEVADA
ABSTRACT: When the body of Doyce Barnett turns up in
Mississippi's Natchez Trace National Park, ranger Anna Pigeon
finds her investigation stymied. The dead man's brother, an
undertaker with a secret, will do anything to protect it, even if
his cover-up puts Anna's life in danger.
LP 09248 I, RICHARD
AUTHOR: GEORGE, ELIZABETH
ABSTRACT: Elizabeth George is one of our most distinguished
writers, cherished by readers on both sides of the Atlantic. Her
first collection of short stories is an extraordinary offering
that deftly explores the dark side of everyday people --and the
lengths to which they will go to get what they want most.
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LP 08671 ILLUSIONS
AUTHOR: SAUNDERS, JEAN
ABSTRACT: Private Investigator Alexandra Best meets Leanora,
an elderly psychic who warned her of an impending death.
Leanora herself is the victim of her own prophecy and when
her daughter Moira, begs Alex to investigate she is forced to
reveal that someone is stalking both mother and daughter.
LP 08707 THE INTERROGATION
AUTHOR: COOK, THOMAS H.
ABSTRACT: Albert Jay Smalls sits in an interrogation room
accused of an unspeakable crime. The police have no
witnesses, no physical evidence, but they are certain he is
hiding the truth. With less than twelve hours before he must
be released, Smalls will be put through one final interrogation.
LP 09511 INTO THE INFERNO
AUTHOR: EMERSON, EARL
ABSTRACT: Two trucks collide on an icy freeway; the spill is
cleaned up; the damaged rigs are cleared; and the FD
personnel return to their stations. Six months pass; then
firefighters falter and die. As his colleagues succumb to the
malady, firefighter Jim Swope realizes he is trouble.
LP 08432 ISLE OF DOGS
AUTHOR: CORNWELL, PATRICIA
ABSTRACT: The governor of Virginia orders that speed traps be
painted on all streets and highways, warning that speeders will
be caught by monitoring aircraft flying overhead. The Isle of
Tangier, fourteen miles off the coast of Virginia in the
Chesapeake Bay, responds by declaring war on its own state.
LP 09447 THE JANSON DIRECTIVE
AUTHOR: LUDLUM, ROBERT.
ABSTRACT: Former government agent Paul Janson is enlisted
to rescue Hungarian philanthropist Peter Novak, who has been
kidnapped by an Islamic terrorist group led by the Caliph.
Novak's mission is derailed by a traitor and leads to the
discovery of a global political conspiracy.
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LP 08914 JOLIE BLON'S BOUNCE
AUTHOR: BURKE, JAMES LEE
ABSTRACT: When a beautiful teenage girl is killed, the victim
of a particularly savage rape, New Iberia, Louisiana, police
detective Dave Robicheaux senses that the most likely suspect,
Tee Bobby Hulin, is not the actual killer. Though a drug addict
and general ne'er-do-well, Hulin just doesn't fit the profile.
LP 10314 JURY OF ONE
AUTHOR: ELLIS, DAVID
ABSTRACT: Shelly Trotter is thrust into a world in which she's
completely unschooled- the criminal court. Her client is a
seventeen-year-old accused of killing a policeman and she
begins to suspect that he may have been involved in an
undercover operation to entrap dirty cops.
LP 10278 JUST ONE LOOK
AUTHOR: COBEN, HARLAN.
ABSTRACT: Well-ordered happy lives are upended when Grace
Lawson finds among current family snapshots a compromising
picture of her husband taken twenty years ago. First he
disappears, shaken, after Grace confronts him, and then a
serial killer infiltrates the quiet neighborhood.
LP 09626 KEEPING WATCH
AUTHOR: KING, LAURIE R.
ABSTRACT: Allen Carmichael lived on the fringes of the law,
using a soldier's skills to keep watch over those too young to
defend themselves. His specialty has been rescuing children
from abusive parents and escorting them to loving homes. He
is ready to take his final case--a case that could destroy him.
LP 09874 KILLING RAVEN
AUTHOR: COEL, MARGARET
ABSTRACT: When the body of a white man is recovered from a
shallow grave in one of the most troubled corners of the Wind
River Reservation, Father John O'Malley knows that if the
murderer isn't caught quickly, this tragedy will only be the
beginning. The victim's widow is already out for revenge.
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LP 08608 KILLING THE SHADOWS
AUTHOR: MCDERMID, VAL
ABSTRACT: A serial killer murders well-known crime writers by
reenacting the most gruesome parts of their books. Dr. Fiona
Cameron has a personal interest in the case, for the challenge
to her skills, and because her lover, Kit Martin, writes crime
thrillers.
LP 09181 KILLJOY
AUTHOR: GARWOOD, JULIE.
ABSTRACT: FBI analyst Avery Delaney's aunt never arrives at
the Colorado spa where they were to meet. With help from
special agent John Paul Renard--tracking a hired killer in the
area--Avery searches for the woman who raised her, and
unearths some family secrets.
LP 09658 LAND OF THE LIVING
AUTHOR: FRENCH, NICCI
ABSTRACT: A woman wakes up in a darkened room, bound,
disoriented. She is terrorized and abused by a man who taunts
her with the names of other victims. But for Abbie Devereaux,
the nightmare really begins after she escapes. Recovering in a
hospital, she confronts the fact that no one believes her story.
LP 09434 THE LAST DETECTIVE
AUTHOR: CRAIS, ROBERT
ABSTRACT: Elvis Cole's relationship with attorney Lucy
Chenier is strained. While Lucy is away on business and her
ten-year-old son, Ben, is staying with Elvis, Ben disappears
without a trace. Desperate to believe that the boy has run
away, evidence mounts to suggest a much darker scenario.
LP 10271 LAST LULLABY
AUTHOR: HAMILTON, DENISE
ABSTRACT: Eve Diamond is following William Maxwell, of the
US Customs Agency, when gunfire at the airport leaves three
dead and a two-year-old child missing. Convinced INS officials
are holding the girl until she can be deported, Eve struggles to
track her down.
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LP 09724 THE LAST NAZI
AUTHOR: POTTINGER, STAN
ABSTRACT: Melissa Gale’s quarry, known only by the name
Adalwolf, was the brilliant young protégé of Dr. Josef Mengele,
the Butcher of Auschwitz. Presumed dead for almost fifty
years, Adalwolf has suddenly reappeared in the United States
to take the lives of three people in a chilling, unusual way.
LP 10254 THE LAST TO DIE
AUTHOR: BARTON, BEVERLY
ABSTRACT: Cherokee Pointe, Tennessee has seen murder
before, but nothing like that of Jamie Upton, heir to the Upton
fortune. The number one suspect is Jamie's former lover,
Jazzy Talbot. With no one to believe her innocence, Jazzy
plunges into a small town's long-buried secrets and sins.
LP 10060 LAWLESS
AUTHOR: DARDEN, CHRISTOPHER AND DICK LOCHTE
ABSTRACT: Mercer Early, a young lawyer, has just been
assigned to a case of an L.A. cop who has shot and killed his
wife. The case seems routine enough-then two more nonviolent cops kill their spouses in cold blood. The three have
some things in common, but the LAPD denies any connection.
LP 09165 LAWRENCE SANDER'S MCNALLY'S ALIBI
AUTHOR: LARDO, VINCENT
ABSTRACT: Decimus Fortesque, a collector of rare
manuscripts, has commissioned Archy to retrieve the
complete, unexpurgated manuscript of Truman Capote's
scandalous Answered Prayers. Less interested in literary
history than in cold cash, McNally takes on the assignment.
LP 09515 LET'S ALL KILL CONSTANCE
AUTHOR: BRADBURY, RAY
ABSTRACT: The screenwriter hears a knocking on his door.
Constance Rattigan, a washed-up movie star, demands that the
screenwriter save her. Rattigan is tortured by the receipt of a
Book of the Dead, a phone-book listing of long-dead stars, with
the names of those still living marked.
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LP 10299 LIARS & THIEVES
AUTHOR: COONTS, STEPHEN
ABSTRACT: Tommy Carmellini, a CIA operative who is unafraid
to walk both sides of the law to attain his objective, uncovers a
dark conspiracy that leads to the highest levels of the
American government-and to a ruthless manipulator who will
stop at nothing to keep a decades-old secret.
LP 09484 LIBERTY
AUTHOR: COONTS, STEPHEN
ABSTRACT: A rogue Russian general has sold nuclear warheads
to a Mideastern anti-American terrorist best known for
"hacking some tourists to death with a machete" in Egypt.
Jack Grafton must identify and locate the terrorist and his
cronies before he detonates the weapons in the U.S.
LP 09471 LIFE SENTENCE
AUTHOR: ELLIS, DAVID
ABSTRACT: Back in high school, Jon was accused of murdering
a girl he met at a party. Grant's father, a state senator at the
time, helped clear Jon's name. When Jon receives a cryptic
blackmail letter, he fears political repercussions because Grant
is running for governor.
LP 10226 LOOSE CANNON
AUTHOR: DRUMMOND, JUNE
ABSTRACT: A peace accord is due to be signed in Jerusalem in
two weeks time, but it is threatened when a airliner, crashes in
the Mediterranean, killing 155 people. The pilot's brother and
ex-girlfriend, a forensic psychiatrist, an FBI investigator and a
Mossad agent must track down the criminals.
LP 09877 LOST BOY LOST GIRL
AUTHOR: STRAUB, PETER
ABSTRACT: A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason.
A week later, her son- beautiful, troubled fifteen-year-old Mark
Underhill- vanishes from the face of the earth. After his sisterin-law's funeral, horror novelist Timothy Underhill searches
for clues to unravel this mystery of death and disappearance.
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LP 10441 LOST CITY
AUTHOR: CUSSLER, CLIVE
ABSTRACT: A mysterious aviator has been found frozen in a
massive glacier; a mutant seaweed is threatening to choke the
world's oceans; a giant submarine is roaming the thermal
vents of the deep sea area known as the Lost City; and the
secretive, arms-dealing Fauchard family is up to no good.
LP 10368 LOST SUMMER
AUTHOR: HARRISON, STUART
ABSTRACT: Adam Turner is an investigative journalist plagued
by the memory of a girl who vanished from the town where he
grew up. When he is asked to look into the suspicious car
accident in which three students were killed, he sees a chance
to exorcise the demons that have haunted him since his youth.
LP 10349 THE MADMAN'S TALE
AUTHOR: KATZENBACH, JOHN
ABSTRACT: More than 20 years ago, Francis was confined
against his will in the Western State Hospital, a run-down
residential mental health facility. Francis and Peter the
Fireman, discover the raped and mutilated body of nurse Short
Blond stuffed into a storage closet.
LP 08431 THE MANHATTAN HUNT CLUB
AUTHOR: SAUL, JOHN
ABSTRACT: Falsely convicted of a brutal crime, Jeff sees his
life vanishing before his eyes. But someone has other plans for
Jeff. He’s sent beneath the streets of Manhattan, where an
invisible population of the homeless, the desperate, and the
mad has carved out its own shadow society.
LP 08488 MANHATTAN IS MY BEAT
AUTHOR: DEAVER, JEFFERY
ABSTRACT: Rune has a TriBeCa loft, and a video store job that
feeds her passion for old movies. Mr. Kelly rents the same
video over and over, a noir classic based on a real-life bank
heist and a million missing dollars. Rune picks up the tape
from Mr. Kelly's apartment when she finds him shot to death.
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LP 09933 MIDNIGHT FLIGHT: BROKEN WINGS SERIES BOOK 2
AUTHOR: ANDREWS, V.C.
ABSTRACT: At Dr. Foreman's School for Girls, the "students"
sleep in barns, work on a farm in the blazing heat, and are
subjected to ruthless guards. Phoebe, Teal, and Robin will be
tempted to commit the ultimate crime of betrayal as
Dr. Foreman cleverly tries to turn them against each other.
LP 08778 MIDNIGHT RUNNER
AUTHOR: HIGGINS, JACK
ABSTRACT: After her brothers are killed one by one, Kate
Rashid swears vengeance on all who have harmed her family.
Never mind that they tried to assassinate the President of the
United States or that villainy ran in their veins.
LP 09004 MIDNIGHT VOICES
AUTHOR: SAUL, JOHN
ABSTRACT: The sudden, tragic death of her husband leaves
Carolyn Evans alone in New York City. She marries successful
Anthony Fleming and settles her family into Central Park West,
Soon, new terrors will come home to roost in the luxurious,
exclusive building named The Rockwell.
LP 08938 MIRAGE
AUTHOR: PASSMAN, DON
ABSTRACT: Computer cryptography whiz John Berger, who
used to work on a secret project he can't remember for people
he never saw, shows up at his current job to find the building
has been bombed--and the bomb was rigged at his desk. He
has an alibi, but the event it's based on never happened.
LP 09063 MISSING
AUTHOR: HEPBURN, SUSAN
ABSTRACT: The Darrowdale Community was a haven where
Laura and Terry Richardson could raise their two children. One
summer's day, Laura went missing, never to be seen again.
Traumatized by her mother's disappearance Caitlin has
become estranged from her remaining family and has a
private life where no one knows about her past.
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LP 09256 MISSION COMPROMISED
AUTHOR: NORTH, OLIVER WITH JOE MUSSER
ABSTRACT: U.S. Marine Major Peter Newman is hand picked for
a dangerous clandestine operation as the head of the White
House's Special Projects Office, his orders are clear--hunt
down and eliminate terrorists before they attack the United
States with weapons of mass destruction.
LP 09135 MISTRESS OF JUSTICE
AUTHOR: DEAVER, JEFFERY
ABSTRACT: Taylor Lockwood juggles careers as a jazz
musician and a paralegal at the law firm of Hubbard, White
& Willis. When a multimillion-dollar promissory note is stolen
from his office, Mitchell Reece, a young trial lawyer,
enlists her aid to save both his career and the firm itself.
LP 09570 MONKEEWRENCH
AUTHOR: TRACY, P.J.
ABSTRACT: When people start dying in strange ways in
Minneapolis, the employees of Monkeewrench Software are all
too aware that their new serial-killer computer game is the
model for the crimes. They go to the police with the what,
where, and when of the next murders and quickly become
suspects as the killer strikes again exactly as they predict.
LP 08482 MURDER ON THE TRANS-SIBERIAN EXPRESS
AUTHOR: KAMINSKY, STUART M.
ABSTRACT: Chief Inspector Rostnikov is en route to
Vladivostok in a first-class carriage on the Trans-Siberian
Express. It carries two hand-picked officials of the Moscow
Police...and an extortionist who may have information that
could bring down the entire Russian government.
LP 08487 NAKED CAME THE PHOENIX
AUTHOR: BARR, NEVADA AND OTHERS
ABSTRACT: At the Phoenix Spa, Caroline wakes to find the
guests in turmoil and under suspicion: the spa's owner has
been murdered. As the secrets come out-and the body count
rises, can Caroline keep herself from becoming the next victim?
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LP 08435 THE NEXT ACCIDENT
AUTHOR: GARDNER, LISA
ABSTRACT: FBI Special Agent Pierce Quincy is haunted by
questions. The official report concluded that his daughter's
death was an accident. Amanda Quincy was driving drunk
when her car careened out of control. Quincy is prepared to
risk everything to learn about Amanda's death.
LP 08997 NO MAN STANDING
AUTHOR: SERANELLA, BARBARA
ABSTRACT: Miranda Munch Mancini, one time junkie, hooker
and California biker chick, gets off to a fast start with the
brutal murder of the mother and stepfather of her old buddy,
Ellen Summers. With Munch providing a homecoming welcome,
Ellen is about to transition from prison life to normal society.
LP 08705 NO WAY OUT
AUTHOR: KANE, ANDREA
ABSTRACT: Something is wrong with teacher Julia Talbot's
favorite second-grader, the mayor's son Brian. She suspects
problems at home, inside the mansion of a high-profile
political family. But even Julia doesn't know the real truth.
Venture capitalist Connor Stratford, the boy's uncle, does.
LP 09019 NOBODY KNOWS
AUTHOR: CLARK, MARY JANE
ABSTRACT: When Cassie Sheridan reveals on national TV that
a attacked the FBI director's daughter; the girl commits suicide
and Cassie is demoted to a post in Sarasota, Fla. Vincent Baylor
finds a human hand with a ring on the beach. The killer (who
is also the rapist) wants the ring back and will kill to get it.
LP 08613 ORCHID BLUES
AUTHOR: WOODS, STUART
ABSTRACT: Holly’s wedding day is shattered by a crime. A
team of men hit a bank in Orchid Beach, Florida. She vows to
find these men-who have been careful enough to leave
behind only the corpse of a bank customer-and she finds
herself in the midst of a politically motivated clan.
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LP 10101 PARANOIA
AUTHOR: FINDER, JOSEPH
ABSTRACT: Adam Cassidy is a low level employee at a hightech corporation who hates his job. When he manipulates the
system for a friend, he is charged with a crime. Corporate
Security gives him a choice: prison - or become a spy in the
headquarters of their chief competitor, Trion Systems.
LP 08670 A PASSAGE OF ARMS
AUTHOR: PATTINSON, JAMES
ABSTRACT: In partnership with his friend, Frank Loder, Daniel
Gregg sailed the tramp W.H. DAVIES to the Far East. Trouble
started in Singapore when Walter Crane, the bosun,
disappeared. As a replacement, the Chinese Tommy Chan was
taken on. But he had skills which had nothing to do with
seamanship and a past that might not bear close scrutiny.
LP 09001 PAST TENSE
AUTHOR: TAPPLY, WILLIAM G.
ABSTRACT: Brady Coyne and girlfriend Evie become prime
suspects when a stalker from Evie's past winds up dead
outside the couple's rented Cape Cod cottage. Evie's
subsequent disappearance sends the Boston attorney into
investigative mode.
LP 08825 PAY DAYS
AUTHOR: JAMES, BILL
ABSTRACT: Rival druglords Manse Shale and Panicking Ralphy
Ember and their seconds-in-command, Alf Ivis and Beau Derek,
are trying to decide whether Chief Inspector Richard Nivette
has really crossed over to their side or is "doubling" to gather
information for Chief Supt.
LP 09601 THE PERFECT LIE
AUTHOR: MCCALL, DINAH
ABSTRACT: CIA agent Jonah Slade learns the woman he loved
and lost years ago has been killed in cold blood, her son
kidnapped. Her sister Blaine, turns to Jonah for help, and gives
him no chance to refuse when she tells him the boy is his son.
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LP 10100 PERIL
AUTHOR: COOK, THOMAS H.
ABSTRACT: Sara Labriola is a married woman haunted by the
shattering secrets of her past and terrified of the future. Sara
decides to do the only thing she can: she makes herself
disappear. One afternoon, without telling a soul, she packs a
single suitcase and leaves her life in Long Island behind.
LP 09296 PRESCRIPTION FOR TERROR
AUTHOR: CEREN, SANDRA LEVY
ABSTRACT: One of the Dr. Cory Cohen's patient victims was a
rape victim. This triggers flashbacks of Cory's own terrifying
rape. Her attacker went free, but she vows this one won't.
In her relentless pursuit she risks the loss of a friendship, and
worse, places herself squarely into the killer's path.
LP 09782 PRESUMPTION OF DEATH
AUTHOR: O'SHAUGHNESSY, PERRI
ABSTRACT: In three years, Nina Reilly has taken on some of
Lake Tahoe's most controversial cases and has turned her
struggling one-woman law firm into a thriving practice. Now
she's ready to sort out her complex relationship with her
boyfriend, Monterey P.I. Paul van Wagoner.
LP 08991 PUT A LID ON IT
AUTHOR: WESTLAKE, DONALD E.
ABSTRACT: Having burgled a truck that he didn't realize
contained U.S. mail, Francis Meehan is serving his first stint of
federal time. A visitor to the prison offers him a reprieve of
sorts. To gain his freedom, Meehan has only to steal a
videotape that may be of harm to the President.
LP 09344 RANSOM AT THE OPERA
AUTHOR: HUNTER, FRED
ABSTRACT: Riccardo Nuevo and Maria Cortez are playing Don
Jose and Carmen. In the last act, Don Jose raises his knife to
strike Carmen, drops it and falls dead at her feet. That's not
the way it's supposed to happen!
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LP 09910 REMEMBER WHEN
AUTHOR: ROBERTS, NORA AND J.D. ROBB
ABSTRACT: Laine Tavish is an ordinary woman living in the
small town of Angel's Gap, Maryland, as the proprietor of
Remember When, an antique and gift shop. That's what
everyone in Angel's Gap thinks. They have no idea that she
used to be Elaine O'Hara, daughter of the notorious con man.
LP 09358 RESURRECTION MEN
AUTHOR: RANKIN, IAN
ABSTRACT: Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this
time, so badly that he is sent to a kind of reform school for
damaged cops. While there among the last-chancers known as
"resurrection men," he joins a covert mission to gain evidence
of a drug heist orchestrated by three of his classmates.
LP 09982 RETRIBUTION
AUTHOR: HOFFMAN, JILLIANE
ABSTRACT: Chloe Larson is shattered after a madman in a
clown mask rapes and tortures her until she is near death.
Twelve years later she is assistant chief of the Miami Dade
State Attorney's office. A lucky break nets serial killer suspect
William Bantling, and C.J. realizes he's the man who raped her.
LP 09105 REVERSIBLE ERRORS
AUTHOR: TUROW, SCOTT
ABSTRACT: Rommy "Squirrel" Gandolph is a Yellow Man, an
inmate on death row for a 1991 triple murder in Kindle
County. His execution is nearing completion when Arthur
Raven, a corporate lawyer who is Rommy's reluctant courtappointed representative, receives word that another inmate
may have new evidence that will exonerate Gandolph.
LP 10322 AS BIG AS THE SKY
AUTHOR: SPRINGER, JAN
ABSTRACT: Private eye Jocelyn Brady reluctantly saves the life
of Daniel McCullen, the man who brutally betrayed her in the
past. They must avoid capture by a prominent organ
transplant surgeon who wants Daniel's lungs and Jocelyn.
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LP 09014 A SACRED OBLIGATION
AUTHOR: ELLIS, JULIE
ABSTRACT: Diane Phillips grows up bright and ambitious in
New York in the 1970's. Her only care is that everyone believes
her father committed suicide when she was a small child. Her
mother has never accepted this version of events and when
she gives in to despair, Diane is compelled to seek the truth.
LP 10126 SANDS OF TIME
AUTHOR: ERSKINE, BARBARA
ABSTRACT: A woman on holiday in France is surprised by her
feelings for a ghost from the First World War. Newly pregnant
Roz relives a tragic love story from long ago. And how can a
traveller be transported suddenly from her seat on a plane to
the snowy Canadian wastes below?
LP 09490 THE SECRET HOUR
AUTHOR: RICE, LUANNE
ABSTRACT: Marine biologist Kate Harris is searching for her
missing sister, Willa, who disappeared six months earlier, and
whom Kate believes might be a victim of a serial killer whose
lawyer is John O'Rourke. As John helps her, pursuing answers
to questions that put them both at grave risk.
LP 10433 SEE JANE DIE
AUTHOR: SPINDLER, ERICA
ABSTRACT:. Jane and her husband, renowned plastic surgeon
Dr. Ian Westbrook are overjoyed that Jane is pregnant. A
woman with ties to Ian is found brutally slain. Unbelievably,
the police focus their investigation on him, making him their
prime suspect.
LP 09628 SEIZURE
AUTHOR: COOK, ROBIN
ABSTRACT: When Senator Ashley Butler is called to chair a
subcommittee introducing legislation to ban new cloning
technology, the senator views his political future in bold relief;
and Dr. Daniel Lowell, inventor of the technique that will take
stem cell research to the next level, sees a roadblock.
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LP 10193 SHADOW ACCOUNT
AUTHOR: FREY, STEPHEN
ABSTRACT: A wayward e-mail crosses Conner's computer
plunging his near perfect world into a terrifying downward
spiral. It's a communication not meant for Conner's eyes,
between people he doesn't know, about a company he's never
heard of- a company engaged in fraud on a massive scale.
LP 09392 SHADOW BOXER
AUTHOR: MULLER, EDDIE
ABSTRACT: Billy Nichols is back on the beat for the San
Francisco Inquirer. A man's in jail, accused of murder. By
aiding a beguiling woman, Billy stumbles on evidence that
could exonerate the defendant, who only months before was
one of the town's top fight promoters.
LP 09040 SHAKER RUN
AUTHOR: HARPER, KAREN
ABSTRACT: Kate Marburn has a quiet and controlled life as the
rose gardener on the estate of Sarah Denbigh, a wealthy
widow. When Sarah dies under mysterious circumstances,
leaving Kate the unexpected heir to Sarah's vast fortune in
Shaker furniture, the police suspect Kate.
LP 08521 SHOCK
AUTHOR: COOK, ROBIN.
ABSTRACT: Harvard coeds Deborah Cochrane and Joanna
Meissner fund a stay in Venice for academic pursuits by
donating ova to the Wingate Infertility Clinic. Later Joanna,
seeking to learn what happened to her gametes, convinces
Deborah to help her investigate. They don't like their findings.
LP 08721 THE SHORT FOREVER
AUTHOR: WOODS, STUART
ABSTRACT: N.Y.P.D. detective-turned-PI Stone Barrington has
gone upscale in lifestyle, international in expertise. Mogul
John Bartholomew hires Stone to fly to London and persuade
his niece, Erica, to leave her cocaine-smuggling boyfriend,
Lance Cabot, and to make sure Lance winds up in jail.
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LP 08637 THE SIGMA PROTOCOL
AUTHOR: LUDLUM, ROBERT
ABSTRACT: American investment banker Ben Hartman waited
four years to return to Zurich after his twin brother died there.
Soon after he lands in Switzerland, Hartman is shot at by an
old college chum. Before he can understand the situation,
Hartman is a target and a fugitive.
LP 09360 SILENT PARTNER
AUTHOR: FREY, STEPHEN
ABSTRACT: Angela Day works at one of Richmond, Virginia's
most venerable banking institutions. When she stumbles onto
evidence of an insidious conspiracy, she herself becomes a
target. With big risks come big rewards -- and big dangers.
LP 09388 THE SILENT VOYAGE
AUTHOR: PATTINSON, JAMES
ABSTRACT: The Cold War is starting when Brett Manning is
sent to so some business in Archangel. His ship is run down by
a much larger vessel. Only Brett and one other man are picked
up, on board a Russian freighter. Brett and his companion
know too much for their own good; their lives are in danger.
LP 09021 SINGLE TO PARIS
AUTHOR: FULLERTON, ALEXANDER
ABSTRACT: SOE operative Rosie Ewing is in Nazi Germany. Two
other agents have been arrested and being held in Paris. They
have information the Gestapo will go to any lengths to extract.
Rosie's brief is to discover where the agents are being held,
then get them out before they either talk or die under torture.
LP 09827 THE SINNER
AUTHOR: GERRITSEN, TESS
ABSTRACT: Medical Examiner Maura Isles and Det. Jane Rizzolo
are called to Boston's Graystones Abbey when two nuns are
discovered in an abandoned chapel, both brutally bludgeoned.
Isles discovers that one had recently given birth; the murder
of a homeless derelict with her face and extremities removed
by her killer; and the menace of a chemical company.
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LP 08538 SKELETON ISLAND
AUTHOR: PATTINSON, JAMES
ABSTRACT: The island was uninhabited except for the
skeleton, and this bony relic could probably have told a very
interesting story if it had been able to speak. But it could not,
and the four young people who had stumbled upon it were
presented with a puzzle which was not easily solved.
LP 09025 SLEEPING PARTNERS
AUTHOR: HUMPHREYS, JAMES
ABSTRACT: Clarissa Morland is twenty-seven, attractive, shyand standing trial for the murder of her ex-lover John Grant.
As intimate details of her life and relationship are laid bare for
the court, even Clarissa finds it hard to believe she is
innocent. But murdering the man she loved in cold blood?
LP 08981 SLOW DOLLAR
AUTHOR: MARON, MARGARET
ABSTRACT: For Judge Knott, the case before her seems to be an
ordinary misdemeanor-except that the personal property that's
been destroyed is an inflatable carnival ride. When the carnival
comes to town, Deborah soon discovers there's nothing
ordinary about this rag-tag collection of rides and games.
LP 09958 THE SMALL BOAT OF GREAT SORROWS
AUTHOR: FESPERMAN, DAN
ABSTRACT: Vlado Petric is a Bosnian cop who stayed on the job
during the fighting in Sarajevo, then joined his family in
Berlin, working in construction. An investigator for the
International War Crimes Tribunal recruits Vlado to help snare
a war criminal--not from the Balkan genocide, but from WWII.
LP 09908 SMOKE SCREEN
AUTHOR: MILLS, KYLE
ABSTRACT:The industry is looking at a $250 billion judgment
in a lawsuit funded by the antismoking industry. A decision is
made to throw Trevor Barnett, a descendant of a tobacco
dynasty to the wolves in a national television appearance with
the anti-smokers' pit bull, Angus Scalia.
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LP 09375 THE SNIPER'S WIFE
AUTHOR: MAYOR, ARCHER
ABSTRACT: Leaving the relative calm of Vermont, Detective
Willy Kunkle must confront his past as he seeks revenge for
the death of his ex-wife in the back alleys of New York City.
Labeled an accidental overdose, her death is considered
routine by the NYPD.
LP 09136 SOCIAL CRIMES
AUTHOR: HITCHCOCK, JANE STANTON
ABSTRACT: When husband Lucius dies, prominent New York
socialite Jo Slater is shocked to learn that he has left his
sizable estate to a mysterious French countess. Exiled from the
kingdom of money, and power, Jo struggles to rebuild her life
only to find herself thwarted at every turn by the countess.
LP 09156 THE SOUL CATCHER
AUTHOR: KAVA, ALEX
ABSTRACT: When a senator's daughter is murdered at a
religious revival in Washington, FBI Special Agent Maggie
O'Dell, suspects it's the work of a serial killer. She discovers
the girl's murder is connected to the suicides of five young
men during a Waco-like standoff in a rural Massachusetts
cabin—even if they're not sure how.
LP 09920 SOUTHERN STORM: CAPE REFUGE SERIES BOOK 2
AUTHOR: BLACKSTOCK, TERRI
ABSTRACT: Police Chief Cade disappears without a trace after
accidentally hitting a man with his patrol car and killing him.
While the rest of the police force looks for him, Blair Owens
can't believe he is guilty of such a crime. Instead, she conducts
her own search for the truth.
LP 08586 SPECIAL COMMISSION
AUTHOR: HALL, JOHN
ABSTRACT: In a remote fortified manor house, the May Day
celebrations are rudely interrupted when a man is found
murdered. The obvious suspect, an uninvited and unwanted
guest, refuses to appear before a judge and jury.
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LP 09319 SPHERE OF INFLUENCE
AUTHOR: MILLS, KYLE
ABSTRACT: A new terrorist threat brings FBI agent Mark
Beamon back from the wilderness. A videotape proves that a
terrorist cell in the United States has access to modern missile
technology. Suspecting there is a connection between the Mob
and the fanatics, Beamon goes undercover with a fellow agent.
LP 08971 STALKING WIDOW
AUTHOR: BURKE, JOHN
ABSTRACT: Andrew Merrick becomes aware of a mysterious
young woman following him. Two old acquaintances meet
hideous deaths; and after his wedding and a poisonous attack
on the bride, a third disappears. Gradually their link with the
young woman becomes clear- and Andrew could be in danger.
LP 08605 THE STONE FLOWER GARDEN
AUTHOR: SMITH, DEBORAH
ABSTRACT: Darleen Union and Eli Wade are childhood friends
torn apart by a murder that has never been solved. Darleen is
the heir to Hardigree Marble Company, and Eli is the boy
genius destined to make something of himself. But now, years
later, long-buried secrets are about to be, literally, dug up.
LP 09378 SURFACE TENSION
AUTHOR: KLING, CHRISTINE
ABSTRACT: Seychelle Sullivan owns a salvage tug near Fort
Lauderdale, Fla.; when her radio picks up a distress call from
the Top Ten, she hurries to the scene, hoping to net a windfall.
The luxurious yacht is skippered by her former lover, Neal,
who seems to have abandoned ship and left a dead body.
LP 08434 THE SURGEON
AUTHOR: GERRITSEN, TESS
ABSTRACT: Blistering ER trauma-work spells the main
melodrama: a gruesome serial killer who collects his victims'
wombs has over the years become quite skilled with his blade.
The really awful part: he removes the womb while the naked
woman lies awake and can see his power over her.
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LP 09002 THE SURVIVORS CLUB
AUTHOR: GARDNER, LISA
ABSTRACT: Jillian, Carol, and Meg were victims of Eddie
Como, the brutal "College Hill Rapist". Having banded together
in the Survivors Club, the women share confidences and pain.
On the day the rapist's trial is set to begin, Como is shot by a
Sniper. The Survivors Club members are prime suspects.
LP 09507 SUSPICION OF MADNESS
AUTHOR: PARKER, BARBARA
ABSTRACT: Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana's getaway to an
isolated villa in the Florida Keys sounds romantic, but their
perfect vacation fizzles the moment that attorney Anthony
encounters a menacing former client. Suddenly, their secluded
island becomes their vulnerable fortress.
LP 09340 THE SWAYING PILLARS
AUTHOR: FERRARS, ELIZABETH
ABSTRACT: Helena Sebright viewed it as a sunlit holiday-a visit
to Africa as temporary governess to a small girl. When the one
man whom Helena felt she could trust turns violently against
her, the lovely young girl knows she stands alone between the
monstrous evil and the child she has sworn to protect.
LP 09801 TELEGRAM FROM THE PALACE
AUTHOR: TOYE, GEOFFREY
ABSTRACT: Lucy is dead- murdered within days of her
hundredth birthday, as she predicted to her priest. Now her
killers are after her only living relative, her grandson Morgan
John, who escapes to the one place where he will leave no
tracks: the sea.
LP 08919 THE TEXAS RANGER
AUTHOR: PALMER, DIANA
ABSTRACT: Marc's testimony, when he was only a rookie cop,
that helped the defense attorney defeat 15-year-old Josette's
rape charges. Nine years later, the case has been reopened
and both the dedicated Texas Ranger and the rising star of
the Attorney General's office have been assigned to work it.
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LP 08616 TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE
AUTHOR: MICHAELS, KASEY
ABSTRACT: PI Grady Sullivan and sham heiress Annie Kendall
lob jokes back and forth while trying to stop someone who
wants to kill manipulative toilet-paper billionaire Archie
Peevers.
LP 10399 TWISTED THINGS
AUTHOR: SWINDELLS, MADGE
ABSTRACT: Clara Conner wakes up in a hospital. Patrick, her
husband, is missing, presumably killed by the explosion that
tore the Connemara apart. As Clara begins to sort through
Patrick’s business affairs, she realizes her husband had led a
double life. He was involved with criminals and owed money.
LP 08439 UNDER SUSPICION
AUTHOR: LEE, RACHEL
ABSTRACT: The theft of an ancient dagger-associated with a
terrifying legend-brings the police into the museum. As the
police investigate, Anna becomes the main suspect. When her
only ally-Detective Gil Garcia-starts to doubt her, Anna must
find who took the dagger, who killed a museum security
guard, and the truth behind the dagger's curse.
LP 09079 UNFIT TO PRACTICE
AUTHOR: O'SHAUGHNESSY, PERRI
ABSTRACT: When Nina Reilly wakes up to find her SUV stolen,
her life changes instantly, not because of the lost car itself but
because her briefcase, containing three of her current files,
was in the backseat. Each of those files contains potentially
disastrous information should they land in the wrong hands.
LP 08541 VALHALIA RISING
AUTHOR: CUSSLER, CLIVE
ABSTRACT: Dirk Pitt races to the flaming cruise ship
Golden Dolphin in time to save most of the 2,000 passengers
and crew, including Kelly Egan, daughter of the inventor of
engines that run on seawater. Dr. Egan drowns, leaving Kelly
with a leather case.
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LP 09028 VANISHED
AUTHOR: GANSKY, ALTON
ABSTRACT: J. D. Stanton investigates the mysterious
disappearance of the entire population of a secret military
research facility in the heart of a barren desert.
LP 08450 VANISHING POINT
AUTHOR: VAN GIESON, JUDITH
ABSTRACT: Fifty-one-year-old Claire has spent years
preserving the legend of Jonathan Vail, a controversial writer.
Jonathan's mysterious but timely disappearance occurred
shortly after he was drafted to serve in Vietnam, and his body,
as well as the journal he was purportedly writing, never
resurfaced.
LP 08690 THE VETERAN
AUTHOR: FORSYTH, FREDERICK
ABSTRACT: A Ugandan shopkeeper witnesses the mugging of a
middle-aged man by two thugs. The shopkeeper has a perfect
view of the crime so, when the man dies of his injuries, it
would appear that the two thugs, now up on a murder charge,
will be convicted. But justice does not always come easily.
LP 08552 THE VIKING FUNERAL
AUTHOR: CANNELL, STEPHEN J.
ABSTRACT: Sergeant Shane Scully is back with a big problem:
he spots an old friend and colleague who supposedly
committed suicide. It seems that there's a bunch of cops
running around who went deep undercover and promptly went
bad.
LP 08404 WRIT OF EXECUTION
AUTHOR: O'SHAUGHNESSY, PERRI.
ABSTRACT: Lake Tahoe attorney Nina Reilly is hired to help a
young woman who has won millions in a casino but who can't
reveal her true identity. Nina's sometime lover, Paul van
Wagoner, helps to investigate even as witnesses are being
murdered.
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