Hard Boiled Mysteries
LP 09185 2ND CHANCE
AUTHOR: PATTERSON, JAMES
ABSTRACT: Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer of the San Francisco police
Department enlists the help of her friends in the Women's Murder
Club, to track down a serial killer. Meanwhile Lindsay's estranged
father, a former policeman, reenters her life.
LP 06437 THE ABDUCTION
AUTHOR: GRIPPANDO, JAMES
ABSTRACT: October 2000. In a hot presidential race, attorney
general Allison Leahy is pitted against African American general
Lincoln Howe. Days before the election Lincoln's twelve-year-old
granddaughter is kidnapped. Trying to remain objective while
investigating, Allison fights memories of her daughter's kidnapping.
LP 08070 ACT OF REVENGE
AUTHOR: TANENBAUM, ROBERT K.
ABSTRACT: Assistant district attorney Roger ("Butch") Karp and his
private investigator wife Marlene Ciampi both take on cases
involving Mafia family members, and they soon learn that the two
crimes are related. Butch and Marlene's twelve-year-old daughter,
Lucy, witnesses a murder in Chinatown that is also connected.
LP 07033 ACTS OF MALICE
AUTHOR: O'SHAUGHNESSY, PERRI
ABSTRACT: Nina Reilly is an attorney in Lake Tahoe, who takes on a
client accused of murdering his brother on the Tahoe ski slopes. As
she prepares to defend her client, Jim Strong, she has no idea that
this case will lead her into a terrifying confrontation with a
psychopath and threaten all she holds most dear.
LP 04218 AFTER DARK
AUTHOR: MARGOLIN, PHILLIP
ABSTRACT: A law clerk for Oregon supreme court justice Robert
Griffen is found murdered, her office ransacked; there are no clues
and no suspects. The following month a car bomb kills Griffen in his
own driveway, this time there is a suspect.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
1
Maryland LBPH
LP 06796 ALL THE DEAD LIE DOWN
AUTHOR: WALKER, MARY WILLIS
ABSTRACT: Crime reporter Molly Cates's father died over twenty-five
years ago, his death was ruled a suicide. Now new information
prompts her to reopen the case. Her quest becomes even more
painful when a homeless woman insists she knows about a secrets
plot to kill everyone in the Texas legislature. By the time she
convinces Molly of the truth, it may be too late.
LP 07635 AN HONEST BETRAYAL
AUTHOR: ASHFORD, JEFFREY
ABSTRACT: Local drug dealer Jenner is leaving his Italian restaurant
when he is shot . Next day, a young man is knocked off his scooter
by a hit-and-run driver. With little evidence to work on, young PC
Ballard is told by his superiors to close the case. When Ballard hears
about the Jenner shooting he links the two incidents. Determined to
solve his first big case, Ballard puts his theory to the test.
LP 05141 ANATOMY OF A MURDER
AUTHOR: TRAVER, ROBERT
ABSTRACT: A suspenseful account of a murder and the trial which
followed it, as seen by the criminal lawyer who defends the accused.
LP 07550 ANIL'S GHOST
AUTHOR: ONDAATJE, MICHAEL
ABSTRACT: Anil Tissera, a forensic anthropologist helps local
officials discover the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the
island. He discovers skeletons; particularly one, nicknamed "Sailor."
What follows is a story about love, family, identity, about the enemy,
about the quest to unlock the past.
LP 05334 THE ANONYMOUS VENETIAN
AUTHOR: LEON, DONNA
ABSTRACT: A transvestite prostitute has been found with his head
and face beaten which creates a sensation in the Venice Questura.
Commissario Guido Brunetti is put in charge of the murder
investigation.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
2
Maryland LBPH
LP 05495 AS THE WOLF LOVES WINTER
AUTHOR: POYER, DAVID
ABSTRACT: What man or beast is leaving frozen, mangled bodies in
the woods of western Pennsylvania? Leah Friedman, a New York
doctor, retired oil-field worker "Racks" Halvorsen; and twelve-yearold Becky Benning, who knows only she can magically save her
dying brother confront a huge conspiracy involving corrupt big
business, clandestine gas drillers and a secret Asian workforce.
LP 06866 ASHES TO ASHES
AUTHOR: HOAG, TAMI
ABSTRACT: BESTSELLER. Victim advocate Kate Conlan is assigned to
the case of a homeless teenage girl who witnessed a serial killer
burning his victim's body. When Conlan's former lover, FBI agent
John Quinn, arrives to assist, both go through emotional turmoil.
Also the witness is not cooperating.
LP 03755 ATHABASCA
AUTHOR: MACLEAN, ALISTAIR
ABSTRACT: On the oil-rich tar sands of Athabasca along
Alaska's Arctic shore, a group of shrewd cold-blooded men make
plans to hold the entire oil-producing industry hostage. Short,fat
gourmand Jim Brady tackles the oil companies' security and runs
into blackmail, murder, and kidnapping.
LP 09647 BACK STORY
AUTHOR: PARKER, ROBERT B.
ABSTRACT: Boston P.I. Spenser agrees to help actress Daryl Silver
investigate the murder of her mother twenty-eight years ago during
a bank robbery. Spenser and colleague Hawk face danger when
they uncover ties between a hippie group, the mob, and the FBI.
LP 10106 BAD BUSINESS
AUTHOR: PARKER, ROBERT B.
ABSTRACT: When Marlene Cowley hires Spenser to see if her
husband is cheating on her, he finds a two-timing husband, but a
second investigator as well, hired by the husband to look after his
wife. As a result of their joint efforts, Spenser soon finds himself
investigating both individual depravity and corporate corruption.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
3
Maryland LBPH
LP 08704 BASKET CASE
AUTHOR: HIAASEN, CARL.
ABSTRACT: Florida news reporter Jack Tagger is demoted to writing
obituaries. He tries to revive his career by proving that the death of a
has-been rock star was not accidental. Jack's investigation uncovers
multiple murders, kidnapping, and an assault with a frozen Lizard.
LP 07598 BENEATH THE SKIN
AUTHOR: FRENCH, NICCI
ABSTRACT: Zoe, Jenny, and Nakia, live in different parts of
London, but when they are targeted by a sadistic stalker, they
become sisters beneath the skin. At first the police-and even the
women themselves-refuse to take the threats seriously. But
eventually Zoe, Jenny, and Nadia each come to the stark realization
that there will be no rescue.
LP 05794 BEYOND RECOGNITION
AUTHOR: PEARSON, RIDLEY
ABSTRACT: A homicidal arsonist in Seattle is targeting single
mothers but sparing their children. The team of police sergeant Lou
Boldt and psychologist Daphne Matthews investigate. With the help
of a local psychic and her twelve-year-old assistant, they struggle to
prevent more fires.
LP 06868 THE BIG BAD CITY: 87TH PRECINCT SERIES
AUTHOR: MCBAIN, ED
ABSTRACT: On the cutting edge of city crime after more than 40
years in the business, Ed McBain continues his successful 87th
Precinct series with The Big Bad City. A pious, beatiful young nun is
murdered, and the detectives uncover her shocking, earlier life as a
rock singer.
LP 09527 BIRTHRIGHT
AUTHOR: ROBERTS, NORA.
ABSTRACT: Ancient bones are uncovered at a construction site in
Maryland and archaeologist Callie Dunbrook and her ex-husband
are asked to investigate. When a local woman claims that Callie is
her long-lost daughter--kidnapped twenty-nine years earlier--Callie
must search for the truth.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
4
Maryland LBPH
LP 05490 BLACK ALLEY
AUTHOR: SPILLANE, MICKEY
ABSTRACT: A retired Mike Hammer awakes from a near-death coma
to find that he is at the center of a search for $89 billion in
missing mob money. He needs only to look at his hospital bed to see
that the Ponti crime family will be ruthless in their quest for the
dough.
LP 08244 BLACK ECHO
AUTHOR: CONNELLY, MICHAEL
ABSTRACT: When Los Angeles police detective Harry Bosch sees the
tattoo on a corpse, he recognizes the man as William Meadows, one
of his fellow tunnel rats in Vietnam. Although evidence points to
death by drug overdose, Bosch's suspicions of foul play soon have
him tangling with the FBI.
LP 06253 BLIND DESCENT
AUTHOR: BARR, NEVADA
ABSTRACT: When a fellow ranger is injured in a caving accident,
Anna chokes back claustrophobia and joins the rescue team.
Burrowing 800 feet below ground, she negotiates airless tunnells,
gaping pits, vaulting caverns and silently flowing rivers. At the end of
the dangerous descent, she reaches her friend and hears her say, 'It
wasn't an accident.' A would-be killer is drawing Anna Pigeon deep
into the darkness-and closer to hell than she's ever gone before.
LP 05357 BLOOD AND RUBLES
AUTHOR: KAMINSKY, STUART M.
ABSTRACT: In post-Communist Russia,Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov
and his metropolitan police team have their hands full upholding
the law. A trio of nasty cases confirms their worst fears. A bloody
Mafia execution, a gang of murderous brothers and a vanished
treasure trove of Czarist artifacts are the cases consuming Rostnikov
and company.
LP 09329 BLOOD ORCHID
AUTHOR: WOODS, STUART.
ABSTRACT: Orchid Beach, Florida. Police chief Holly Barker and FBI
agent Grant Early investigate the serial murders of potential
buyers of a drug dealer's confiscated property.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
5
Maryland LBPH
LP 06733 BLOOD WORK
AUTHOR: CONNELLY, MICHAEL
ABSTRACT: BESTSELLER. FBI agent Terry McCaleb is forced to retire
and to get a new heart. While recovering, the heart donor's sister
asks him to investigate her sibling's murder. Although his doctor
advises otherwise, McCaleb feels obligated to assist her. McCaleb
discovers, rather than a robbery gone bad, a taunting serial killer.
LP 10355 BLOW OUT
AUTHOR: COULTER, CATHERINE
ABSTRACT: The night before the Supreme Court is to hear opening
arguments in a controversial death-penalty case, a prominent judge
is murdered in the court's library. Married FBI agents Dillon Savich
and Lacey Sherlock are charged with the investigation. The killings
continue, each targeting another Washington power broker.
LP 05526 BLOWN AWAY
AUTHOR: WILTSE, DAVID
ABSTRACT: A phantom bomber with the signature "Spring" bears a
well-nursed grudge against New York City. Spring launches a
campaign of terror. John Becker and FBI Agent Pegeen Haddad
must track down the elusive Spring before more lives are lost.
LP 08232 BLUE DEER THAW
AUTHOR: HARRISON, JAMIE.
ABSTRACT: Corpses begin to surface with the spring thaw in
Sparsely inhabited Absaroka County, Montana. Sheriff Jules Clement
investigates the circumstances while courting his deputy, Caroline
Fair, and contending with the wedding of his best friends in the
newly renovated hotel outside Blue Deer.
LP 05640 THE BLUE WALL
AUTHOR: ABEL, KENNETH
ABSTRACT: Moser and his partner investigate a young woman
found dead in the water. A VIP missing persons report leads Moser
to a Park Avenue address and the girl's father, a wealthy
Guatemalan with a lot to hide. When the Internal Affairs Division
wants him to investigate a fellow cop, it's clear that Moser's going
straight into a federal probe of organized crime.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
6
Maryland LBPH
LP 06288 THE BODY IN THE FJORD
AUTHOR: PAGE, KATHERINE
ABSTRACT: Faith Fairchild’s friend and neighbor Pix Miller heads off
to Norway to investigate the sudden disappearance of a family
friend. Posing as a member of "Scandie Sights," a Norweigian tour
group, Pix is drawn into intrigue - and murder. She discovers a
sinister world of secret histories and deadly promises as her search
for the truth takes a turn she never expected.
LP 09184 BODY OF LIES
AUTHOR: JOHANSEN, IRIS
ABSTRACT: Senator Melton schemes to bring forensic sculptor Eve
Duncan to Baton Rouge to identify a murder victim. While his plot
endangers Duncan's loved ones, she is imperiled by those wishing
the bones to stay quiet. Bodies pile up as Duncan keeps working.
LP 06095 THE BONE COLLECTOR
AUTHOR: DEAVER, JEFFERY
ABSTRACT: Lincoln Rhyme, ex-head of NYPD forensics, was the
nation's foremost criminalist. An accident on the job left him a
quadriplegic who can move just one finger, a great mind strapped to
his bed... Until he sees the crime scene report about a corpse found
buried on a deserted West Side railroad track.
LP 03912 THE BOOKMAN'S WAKE: A MYSTERY WITH CLIFF
JANEWAY
AUTHOR: DUNNING, JOHN
ABSTRACT: Ex-Denver cop Cliff Janeway is happily at work
selling rare and used books when a former police colleague, Clydell
Slater, arrives with an offer.
LP 04532 BORDERLINES
AUTHOR: ARCHER, MAYOR
ABSTRACT: Lieutenant Joe Gunther of the Brattleboro, Vermont
police department is on the edge of burnout. He requests a
reassignment to the small town of Gannet where he has friends and
family--but life is never that easy.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
7
Maryland LBPH
LP 05832 BOTH ENDS OF THE NIGHT: A SHARON MCCONE MYSTERY
AUTHOR: MULLER, MARCIA
ABSTRACT: Sharon McCone's flight instructor Matty asks Sharon to
find her boyfriend, John Seabrook. Shortly afterwards, Matty is killed
in an "accidental" plane crash. Sharon discovers that Seabrook was
placed in the Federal Witness Protection Program after testifying
against a man who has been missing for the last 10 years.
LP 06912 THE BREAKER
AUTHOR: WALTERS, MINETTE
ABSTRACT: A woman's nude body is discovered on a secluded beach
in southern England, and her three-year-old daughter is found
wandering miles away. The murder suspects include an actor
acquaintance, who happens to be at the scene when the corpse is
discovered, and the woman's husband.
LP 05498 CADILLAC JUKEBOX
AUTHOR: BURKE, JAMES LEE
ABSTRACT: Everyone knew that former Klansman Aaron Crown
shot Louisiana's most famous civil rights leader twenty-eight years
ago. But Crown still proclaims his innocence, and Detective Dave
Robicheaux thinks maybe he really is innocent. It is Karyn LaRose,
the governor's social-climbing wife with whom Robicheaux had an
affair who proves the most poisonous adversary to his investigation.
LP 08265 CANDYLAND
AUTHOR: HUNTER, EVAN AND ED MCBAIN
ABSTRACT: In the first half of the book, a sexually voracious
architect prowls the dark corners of New York looking for some
action before he heads back to his frigid L.A. wife. In the second
half, prostitute's grisly rape-murder engages the attention of the
guys (and girl) in blue.
LP 06882 CELEBRATION
AUTHOR: MICHAELS, FERN
ABSTRACT: After her parents' deaths, Kristine married her
boyfriend, Logan and followed him around the world during his
military career. Now she and their three children have returned to
her Virginia family home where Logan will soon join them. Then he
disappears--with the millions Kristine inherited.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
8
Maryland LBPH
LP 06926 CERTAIN PREY
AUTHOR: SANDFORD, JOHN
ABSTRACT: Clara Rinker, raped at sixteen, killed her
rapist without regret and became a hit woman for the Mafia.
Currently she is "working" for Carmel Loan, a Minneapolis defense
attorney. When the job hits a snag, Clara and Carmel must save
themselves from Minneapolis policeman Lucas Davenport.
LP 06563 CHAIN OF FOOLS
AUTHOR: WOMACK, STEVEN
ABSTRACT: Nashville P.I. Harry James Denton is hired by Betty
Jameson to find her sister, Stacey. The only lead is Stacey's last
known boyfriend - a lowlife called Red Dog who works at a nude
dance club. Finally tracking him down at the Club Exotique, Harry is
helped in his investigation by Ginger, a young stripper.
LP 05332 CHANCE
AUTHOR: PARKER, ROBERT B.
ABSTRACT: When big-time Boston hoodlum Julius Ventura
approaches Spenser about locating his missing son-in-law, he may
not be telling the whole truth. All too soon it becomes clear that
what's really at stake is the ultimate control of gangland Boston, as
Spenser finds himself dead center in a circus of violence - trying to
figure out who has betrayed whom.
LP 08405 CHOSEN PREY
AUTHOR: SANDFORD, JOHN.
ABSTRACT: Minneapolis Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport is searching
for a serial killer. The unknown perpetrator is actually James Qatar, a
fastidious art history teacher. His other hobby is combining
Internet porn shots with faces of women he secretly photographs,
and then sketching the results.
LP 06222 CIMARRON ROSE
AUTHOR: BURKE, JAMES LEE
ABSTRACT: Texas ranger-turned-attorney Billy Bob Hollan agrees to
defend teenager Lucas Smothers, who was found unconscious
at the murder scene of a female acquaintance and arrested for the
crime. Holland has a compelling reason to take the case--Smothers
is his illegitimate son.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
9
Maryland LBPH
LP 05545 THE CLINIC
AUTHOR: KELLERMAN, JONATHAN
ABSTRACT: She was found stabbed to death on a street in one of
L.A.'s safest neighborhoods. For three months the police have found
no clues to the murder of Hope Devane, professor and controversial
author of a pop-psych bestseller. Detective Milo Sturgis turns to
his psychologist friend Alex Delaware for help.
LP 06627 COFFIN DANCER
AUTHOR: DEAVER, JEFFERY
ABSTRACT: Paraplegic NYPD criminalist Lincoln Rhyme is asked to
track down an elusive hired killer he has dealt with before. Called
the Coffin Dancer, the man has killed one federal witness and must
finish off two more this weekend.
LP 05709 COLD CASE
AUTHOR: BARNES, LINDA
ABSTRACT: A case almost a quarter of a century cold turns red hot
when detective Carlotta Carlyle hunts for the source of a
manuscript in the voice of Thea Janis, the young literary sensation
who disappeared twenty-four years previously. The "Cold Case"
squad of the Boston police won't touch this one.
LP 08617 COLD FLAT JUNCTION
AUTHOR: GRIMES, MARTHA.
ABSTRACT: Twelve-year-old Emma Graham is still searching for clues
to old murders in her family when Ben Queen is released from
prison. When Ben's daughter is killed, he becomes the prime suspect
and Emma may be in danger.
LP 07202 COLD HIT
AUTHOR: FAIRSTEIN, LINDA
ABSTRACT: When the corpse of art gallery owner Denise Caxton is
found in the Hudson River, New York assistant DA Alexandra
Cooper teams up with detectives Chapman and Wallace to
determine if Caxton's death was connected with the art world.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
10
Maryland LBPH
LP 09648 COLD PURSUIT
AUTHOR: PARKER, T. JEFFERSON.
ABSTRACT: San Diego detective Tommy McMichael investigates the
murder of elderly Portuguese millionaire Pete Braga--even though
McMichael's Irish family has had a longtime feud with the Bragas.
As McMichael uncovers the old man's secrets, he falls in love with
the main suspect.
LP 03124 CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE
AUTHOR: BUCHANAN, EDNA
ABSTRACT: Britt Montero, police reporter has just learned that D.
Wayne Hudson, a highly respected black football player, has died as
the result of a car chase. As Montero researches her story, she is
visited by the wife of an officer involved in the pursuit; and a voice
on the phone says, "you are dead."
LP 06929 THE CORPSE AT THE HAWORTH TANDOORI
AUTHOR: BARNARD, ROBERT
ABSTRACT: Declan O'Hearn's strangled body is found in the parking
lot of a restaurant. Det Cst Charlie Peace and Det Supt Mike Oddie's
investigation leads them to Ashworth, a nearby artists' colony.
Ashworth, is somethng of a shrine to once renowned painter
Ranulph Byatt. An egotistical and unpleasant man, Byatt had
surprised the community by allowing Declan in his studio.
LP 07502 CRADLE AND ALL
AUTHOR: PATTERSON, JAMES
ABSTRACT: Two pregnant teenagers-one in privileged Newport,
R I, one in a poor Irish village-have nothing in common except that
both are virgins. Private detective and former nun Anne Fitzgerald
investigates the girls. Anne doesn’t know the secret prophecy of
the Virgin of Fatima known only to the Pope: one of these girls will
bear the Messiah while the other will bear the child of Satan.
LP 06026 CRIMINAL JUSTICE
AUTHOR: PARKER, BARBARA
ABSTRACT:. Scraping together a living in a shabby Miami law office,
former U.S. attorney Dan Galindo is drawn into a case that involves
a million-dollar money-laundering scheme. And most shockingly, a
brutal murder that brings the police right to Dan's doorstep.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
11
Maryland LBPH
LP 02555 CROCODILE BIRD
AUTHOR: RENDELL, RUTH
ABSTRACT: At sixteen, Liza has led a very sheltered life
with her mother eve in the gatehouse of Shrove House. But Shrove
House has seen murders over the years, and now the authorities are
closing in. Eve sends Liza to a friend, but Liza flees into the arms
of Sean, the young gardener she has been seeing secretly. As they
travel, Liza slowly recounts her odd life to Sean.
LP 09077 THE CRUSH
AUTHOR: BROWN, SANDRA
ABSTRACT: When Dr. Rennie Newton serves jury duty, she is
unnerved by the stare of the defendant. She suspects he is guilty,
but must defend his inalienable rights. When she arrives home to
find a dozen roses and a sinister note form a secret admirer, Newton
realizes the criminal she let walk may not let her go.
LP 07264 DANGEROUS KISS: A LUCKY SANTANGELO NOVEL
AUTHOR: COLLINS, JACKIE
ABSTRACT: A member of Lucky Santangelo’s family has been
gunned down in a carjacking, and Lucky's fury knows no bounds.
While she is tracking the killer, her relationship with her husband,
Lennie Golden, is put to the test. Then, suddenly, into her life comes
a man from her past – a man with a dangerous kiss.
LP 10308 DARK ROAD HOME
AUTHOR: HARPER, KAREN
ABSTRACT: To escape a stalker, Ohio attorney Brooke Benton
retreats to an Amish community. Her new Amish neighbor, Daniel
Brand, has returned from a stint in the outside world. The two are
thrown together when Daniel's niece is killed by a hit-and-run driver,
and Brooke, fearing she was the target, insists on investigating.
LP 07299 DARKNESS PEERING
AUTHOR: BLANCHARD, ALICE
ABSTRACT: Flowering Dogwood, Maine, police chief commits
suicide when he suspects his son Billy's involvement in the murder of
a mentally retarded girl. Years later Billy's sister, now a detective,
reopens the unsolved case. Another murder occurs, and this one
could also be tied to Billy.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
12
Maryland LBPH
LP 02722 DAY OF ATONEMENT
AUTHOR: KELLERMAN, FAYE
ABSTRACT: Instead of honeymooning, Los Angeles cop peter
Decker and Rina Lazarus are in Brooklyn for Rosh Hashanah with
her orthodox Jewish family. The holidays are interrupted by
startling events: Peter discovers his birth mother, and the troubled
young son of a friend disappears. Putting aside ambivalent feelings,
peter begins an exhaustive search for the boy.
LP 06696DAY OF CONFESSION
AUTHOR: FOLSOM, ALLAN
ABSTRACT: Hollywood lawyer Harry Addison travels to Rome to
recover the body of his brother, Daniel. After he realizes the corpse
is not Daniel, Harry is framed for murder and flees. He uncovers a
sinister plot to destabilize China by genocide, and--still hoping to
find his brother alive--Harry gets help from some unlikely sources.
LP 05306 DAYS OF DRUMS
AUTHOR: SHELBY, PHILIP
ABSTRACT: For rookie secret service agent Holland Tylo, landing
one of the top protection jobs in Washington is a clear sign that her
career is on the right track. But it all blows up in her face when
Senator Westbourne is murdered on her watch.
LP 07669 DEAD RECKONING
AUTHOR: EGLETON, CLIVE
ABSTRACT: The carnage in the doctor's office is appalling-and the
police think one of the dead women is Secret Agent Peter Ashton's
wife, Harriet. Ashton realizes that Jill Sheridan, his ruthless
former lover, is part of the story. A computer hacker and a London
private detective lead to another strand of the mystery.
LP 07214 DEATH AND SHADOWS: A BLACKWATER BAY MYSTERY
AUTHOR: GOSLING, PAULA
ABSTRACT: Laura Brandon recommended her friend Julie to be
physiotherapist at the exclusive Mountview Clinic. Julie is brutally
murdered in the woods. Laura, tinged with guilt, wants to find out
why-so she offers herself as Julie's replacement. As Laura and Sheiff
Matt Gabriel struggle to find leads, ex-cop Tom Gilliam agrees to
help.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
13
Maryland LBPH
LP 06471 DEATH BY ACCIDENT: A SHERIFF DAN RHODES MYSTERY
AUTHOR: CRIDER, BILL
ABSTRACT: A dead man floating in the old swimming pool
could easily be called an accident, but Rhodes uncovers murder.
It's the second death in two weeks. Rhodes goes about looking for a
connection and a killer leading him to physical tests beyond his
body's limits and into the mercy of a vicious killer.
LP 07194 DEATH BYTES
AUTHOR: KNOX, BILL
ABSTRACT: The murder took place in broad daylight beneath
the windows of Glasgow High Court, the two chief witnesses were
law lords, and the attractive woman who was killed had links with
the high-tech world of computer chips-a world where rich pickings
waited for the ruthless.
LP 08576 DEATH IN PARADISE
AUTHOR: PARKER, ROBERT B.
ABSTRACT: Jesse, erstwhile drunk and now sheriff of small-town
Paradise, tackles two criminal and two personal mysteries here: the
murder of a teenage girl found shot dead in a local lake, and the
chronic beating of a local wife by her husband; the conundrum of
Jesse's attraction to alcohol, and the mess of his love life.
LP 07561 DEMOLITION ANGEL
AUTHOR: CRAIS, ROBERT
ABSTRACT: Carol Starkey is struggling to pick up the pieces of her
former life as L.A.'s finest bomb squad technician. When a bomb call
turns into a crime scene, Carol embarks on an investigation of a
series of explosions that are designed to kill bomb technicians, and
Carol is in for the most intense fight of her life.
LP 07126 THE DEVIL'S TEARDROP AUTHOR: DEAVER, JEFFERY
ABSTRACT: On New Year's Eve, early in the day, a grisly attack in
the Dupont Circle Metro station in Washington leaves dozens dead
and the city crippled with fear. A note delivered to the mayor's
office connects the massacre to the Digger, an emotionless
assassin. Parker Kincaid, retired FBI, and Special Agent Lukas have
until midnight to find the Digger before he finds them.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
14
Maryland LBPH
LP 07292 DIAGNOSIS DEAD: A MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA
ANTHOLOY
AUTHOR: KELLERMAN, JONATHAN, ED.
ABSTRACT: Jonathan Kellerman heads an all-star lineup of short
crime stories by contemporary mystery writers such as: Max Allan
Collins, Jeremiah Healy, Carolyn Wheat, Faye Kellerman, John Lutz,
Marilyn Wallace and Nancy Pickard, each a breakneck ride to where
fear and greed meet violence and revenge.
LP 06071 DIFFERENT WOMEN DANCING
AUTHOR: GASH, JONATHAN
ABSTRACT: Dr. Clare Burtonall is the first doctor on the scene of an
accident -- but not the first Samaritan. A young man known only as
Bonn, seen cradling the victim's head, is abruptly dismissed by the
police. Clare uneasily remembers the dead man as a business
contact of her husband, Clifford, and decides to do some digging.
LP 07489 DILEMMA
AUTHOR: CLEARY, JON
ABSTRACT: When Scobie Malone returns to the bush town of
Collamundra to apprehend a husband who disappeared after the
murder of his wife, it seems a cut and dry case. Meanwhile, Sydney is
agog with the kidnap murder of a child model.
LP 05667 DIRT
AUTHOR: WOODS, STUART
ABSTRACT: Gossip columnist Amanda Dart is the unwitting
victim of an anonymous gossipmonger who is faxing to national
opinon makers the details of her indiscretions. Amanda enlists
Stone Barrington, a New York PI, to learn the identity of the
faxer.
LP 09533 DIRTY WORK
AUTHOR: WOODS, STUART.
ABSTRACT: NY attorney Stone Barrington defends a photographer
he hired for a divorce case accused of killing his subject. When the
autopsy shows the victim was poisoned, the search is on for his
mistress--who may be a professional assassin. Joining Barrington is
British agent Felicity Carpenter.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
15
Maryland LBPH
LP 07252 DO YOU PROMISE NOT TO TELL?
AUTHOR: CLARK, MARY JANE
ABSTRACT: When TV news producer Farrell Slater seizes the
opportunity to expose the story of the possibly fake Faberge Moon
Egg - and, in the process, save her career - the might of television
news collides with the art world's secrecy, and intrigue.
LP 03747 THE DREADFUL LEMON SKY
AUTHOR: MACDONALD, JOHN D.
ABSTRACT: Carrie Milligan, a friend of Travis McGee, comes to his
houseboat with $104,000 in a box and asks him to guard it.
LP 07527 DREAMING OF THE BONES
AUTHOR: CROMBIE, DEBORAH
ABSTRACT: Victoria has uncovered reasons to believe poet Lydia
Brooke's death five years ago was not suicide. Scotland Yard
Superintendent Duncan Kincaid looks into the long-closed case. A
second death occurs, this one clearly murder. Duncan and his lover
Gemma sift through a tangle of relationships, secrets, and lies to find
not just a killer, but a secret which will change their own lives
LP 06687 EASIER TO KILL
AUTHOR: WESLEY, VALERIE WILSON
ABSTRACT: Mandy Magic, popular radio talk show host, hires
Newark P.I. Tamara Hayle after she receives a threatening note and
repeated acts of vandalism. Tamara discovers that Mandy is a
woman of half truths and secrets whose life is chock full of shady
characters. The list includes a former pimp, a bad-tempered best
friend, and the wicked son of a prominent Newark family.
LP 07604 EASY PREY
AUTHOR: SANDFORD, JOHN
ABSTRACT: Chief Lucas Davenport is called in when fashion model
Alie'e Maison, was strangled. There are no shortage of suspects. Her
potential killers range from jilted lovers to drug dealers to a
born-again brother. Then-just Davenport's luck-the body of a second
woman tumbles out of a closet as he's about to leave the scene.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
16
Maryland LBPH
LP 07409 ETON CROP
AUTHOR: JAMES, BILL
ABSTRACT: After Raymond Street was murdered Detective Chief
Superintendent Colin Harpur prepares Naomi Anstruther-to go
undercover. Naomi must shed all aspects of her current life,
including her over-protective boyfriend. But the gangs are well
aware that someone is going to infiltrate them-and they mean to
eliminate her, just as they eliminated Street.
LP 09637 EVERGLADES
AUTHOR: WHITE, RANDY WAYNE
ABSTRACT: Doc Ford returns to his stilt house on Dinkin's Bay to
find an old friend and one-time lover waiting for him. Her
real-estate developer husband has disappeared and been
pronounced dead, and she's sure there's worse to follow-and she's
right.
LP 06600 EVERYBODY DIES
AUTHOR: BLOCK, LAWRENCE
ABSTRACT: Matt Scudder is asked by his old friend Irish mobster
Mick Ballou to investigate the killings of members of his gang.
Soon Scudder and Ballou are targets for murder. Scudder receives
little help from his former colleagues, the cops, who hate Ballou.
LP 02353 EXPLOIT OF DEATH
AUTHOR: SHANNON, DELL
ABSTRACT Called to a shabby apartment to investigate an apparent
suicide, Lt. Luis Mendoza recognizes the corpse as a charming
young French woman he and his wife met on a recent flight. The
clues lead Mendoza to Paris, where the mystery grows more
complex.
LP 06800 THE FACE OF DECEPTION
AUTHOR: JOHANSEN, IRIS
ABSTRACT: Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan can identify the dead from
their skulls. For Eve, whose daughter’s body was never found, the
job is a way to make peace with a nightmare. Billionaire John Logan
offers her a healthy contribution to reconstruct the face of an adult
murder victim. She is taken to a secret lab where every move she
makes and word she speaks is carefully monitored.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
17
Maryland LBPH
LP 06385 FACETS OF MURDER
AUTHOR: HARRISON, RAY
ABSTRACT: When Constable Morton takes his fiancee, Catherine, to
choose an engagement ring, disaster strikes. As the couple inspect
the biggest diamond, the shop is raided, its proprietor, John Searle,
is killed, the diamond is stolen and Catherine abducted. Searle was a
dishonest philanderer, but who could have murdered him?
LP 07192 FADE TO GREY
AUTHOR: ADAMS, JANE
ABSTRACT: A serial rapist who is targeting young blonde women is
stalking the streets of Norwich. Detective Inspector Mike Croft is
faced with an even more horrifying scenario when the forensic
reports come in and each attack is different. In Avebury, inside a
burning car is the body of a young blonde woman.
LP 07107 FAMILY HONOR
AUTHOR: PARKER, ROBERT B.
ABSTRACT: Sunny Randall, P.I. and former cop is hired by a wealthy
family to find their missing daughter, Millicent. With help from
underworld contacts she finds the runaway daughter. But Millicent's
problems are greater than running away and Sunny must take on
the role of bodyguard, is caught in a shooting war with mobsters.
LP 06100 FAT TUESDAY
AUTHOR: BROWN, SANDRA
ABSTRACT: Lieutenant Burke Basile knew his partner's
killer would be acquitted, but he didn't expect his own life to
fall apart as a result. Now all he can think about is getting back
at Pinkie Duvall, the murderer's defense attorney. Pinkie has one
weakness--his wife Remy, and Burke's kidnapping Remy sets off a
confrontation that ends in the middle of Mardi Gras.
LP 07701 FAULT LINES
AUTHOR: COOPER, NATASHA
ABSTRACT: Social worker Kara Huggate is set to be barrister Trish
Maguire's star witness in a case of alleged abuse at a children's
home. When Kara doesn't turn up at court, Trish knows something is
wrong. Back at her chambers, the police tells Trish that Kara has
been brutally murdered.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
18
Maryland LBPH
LP 05993 FINAL APPEAL
AUTHOR: SCOTTOLINE, LISA
ABSTRACT: Philadelphia lawyer Grace Rossi doesn't count on being
assigned to an explosive death penalty appeal. Nor does she expect
ardor in the court, in the form of an affair with her boss, Chief Judge
Armen Gregorian. Then the truly unimaginable happens and Grace
finds herself investigating a murder and unearthing a six-figure
bank account kept by a judge with an alias.
LP 09289 THE FINAL COUNTRY
AUTHOR: CRUMLEY, JAMES
ABSTRACT: Milo Milodragovitch is running a bar and doing a little
private investigating. His relationship with his woman is on the
rocks ever since his overnight fling with the classy, scotch-drinking
Molly McBride. She's persuaded Milo to help her search for and
bring to justice the lowlife who raped and murdered her sister.
LP 02577 FINNEGAN'S WEEK
AUTHOR: WAMBAUGH, JOSEPH
ABSTRACT: Jules Temple's latest money-making scheme is to
transport drums of environmental waste without any concern
about their contents. Two drivers, moving toxic substances and
wanting to make a quick buck, decide to pick up a little extra.
LP 05696 FIRESTORM
AUTHOR: BARR, NEVADA
ABSTRACT: Battling the Jackknife fire in a California national park,
Ranger Anna Pigeon tends the injuries of the firefighters. When the
fire passes, one crew member is found with a knife in his back. With
immediate rescue impossible, Anna must tend to the physical and
emotional wounds of the crew while seeking the identity of the
murderer in their midst.
LP 06564 THE FIRST EAGLE
AUTHOR: HILLERMAN, TONY
ABSTRACT: When Acting Lt. Chee catches a Hopi eagle poacher
huddled over the bloody body of a Navajo Tribal police officer - he
has an open and shut case. Joe Leaphorn shows up to blow it wide
open. Leaphorn has been hired to find a biologist who disappeared
from the same area on the day of the murder. Is she a suspect?
Hard Boiled Mysteries
19
Maryland LBPH
LP 02502 FIRST OFFENSE
AUTHOR: ROSENBERG, NANCY TAYLOR
ABSTRACT: As a probation officer, Ann Carlisle walks the thin line
between vengeful criminals and the system that seeks to punish
them. As a wife, she holds closely guarded secrets about her police
officer husband, who vanished four years ago...and who has now
suddenly reappeared.
LP 08277 THE FIRST VICTIM
AUTHOR: PEARSON, RIDLEY
ABSTRACT: A shipping container washed ashore leads Seattle tv
news anchor Stevie McNeal and reporter friend Melissa on the trail
involving the importation of illegal aliens. When Melissa disappears,
perhaps at the hands of the Chinese Triad, McNeal teams up with
Seattle Police Dept detectives Lou Boldt and Sergeant John LaMoia.
LP 06886 FIVE - RING CIRCUS: SUSPENSE DOWN UNDER
AUTHOR: CLEARY, JON
ABSTRACT: A masked assassin guns down three men at one of
Sydney's finest Chinese restaurants. Inspector Scobie discovers that
one of them was an investor in Olympic Tower, a multimillion dollar
project for the Olympic Games in 2000. As Sydney prepares to be
host of the games, Scobie must solve a scam in which everybody, it
seems, is involved.
LP 07385 FLASHPOINT
AUTHOR: BARNES, LINDA
ABSTRACT: Carlotta Carlyle thinks she is doing a friend a favor when
she agrees to burglarproof an elderly recluse's apartment. But
twenty-four hours later, when the woman turns up dead in her
ransacked home, Carlotta finds herself with entertainment moguls
and real estate magnates breathing down her neck.
LP 06840 FLAT LAKE IN WINTER
AUTHOR: KLEMPNER, JOSEPH T.
ABSTRACT: When a double murder occurs in the nearby town of
Flat Lake, Matthew Fielder is the only lawyer in the area qualified to
take on the case. He's been to "Death School," New York’s Course to
acquaint defense lawyers with the newly reinstated death penalty.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
20
Maryland LBPH
LP 05415 FLESH AND BONES
AUTHOR: LEVINE, PAUL
ABSTRACT: Linebacker-turned-lawyer Jake Lassiter is relaxing, when
a beautiful blond struts into the bar, pumps three bullets into the
man on the next barstool, then collapses into Jake's arms. The
woman is the model Chrissy Bernhardt and the dead man is her
millionaire father. Lassiter agrees to defend Chrissy.
LP 03746 FLETCH
AUTHOR: MCDONALD, GREGORY
ABSTRACT: A San Francisco journalist on an undercover
assignment is asked to commit murder by a California industrialist.
He accepts when he discovers the victim is to be the industrialist
himself.
LP 08110 FLIGHT
AUTHOR: BURKE, JAN
ABSTRACT: When the wreckage of a small plane belonging to a Las
Piernas Police Department detective who disappeared a decade ago
is discovered in the San Bernardino Mountains, an emotional and
disturbing triple-homicide case is reopened with a vengeance. Was
the pilot a sellout who murdered a key witness?
LP 08074 FLINT
AUTHOR: EDDY, PAUL
ABSTRACT: Grace Flint, undercover policewoman, nearly dies in a
sting operation. Months later she gets an unexpected clue about her
attacker, and disappears on a mission of revenge-unaware that she
is about to unravel a web of treachery, extortion, and murder.
LP 05508 FLOATERS
AUTHOR: WAMBAUGH, JOSEPH
ABSTRACT: Mickey Fortney and his partner Leeds run a patrol boat
on San Diego's Mission Bay. The America's Cup has brought a new
group of crazies to town. One especially fiery redhead called Blaze
tweaks Fortney's and Leeds' cops' instincts with her odd behavior.
She leads them on a bizarre trail ending in dual murders on the eve
of the biggest race of all.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
21
Maryland LBPH
LP 08324 THE FORGOTTEN
AUTHOR: KELLERMAN, FAYE
ABSTRACT: Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus are back, investigating
evidence of a hate crime at the local synagogue. But when the
teenaged culprit and his two therapists are found murdered, our
intrepid team realizes that there's much more afoot.
LP 02461 GENERAL'S DAUGHTER
AUTHOR: DEMILLE, NELSON
ABSTRACT: The naked body of Captain Ann Campbell, daughter of
the base commander, is found on the firing range of Fort Hadley,
Georgia. Paul Brenner, an army criminal investigator, soon discovers
that Campbell was not the person she appeared to be and that
almost everyone on base is hiding something.
LP 05942 THE GENESIS CODE
AUTHOR: CASE, JOHN
ABSTRACT: Awakened in the dead of night with the news that his
sister and her young son have died in a blaze in their home, Joe
Lassiter rushes to the scene to find that their deaths were no
accident: They were brutally murdered in their beds before the fire
was set. Head of a thriving high-tech investigative agency in the
nation's capital, he can follow any trail -- and this one is personal.
LP 06835 GHOSTMAN
AUTHOR: ROYCE, KENNETH
ABSTRACT: Jones boasted that he never forgot a face. When he was
found dead it was assumed he had remembered one too many. The
man he had claimed to have identified had been publicly executed
in Moscow some years before. The presumed look-alike was called
Mirek. The Security Service calls in Willie 'Glasshouse' Jackson –
Jacko - as they realize that there is a more sinister aspect.
LP 03110 GHOSTWAY
AUTHOR: HILLERMAN, TONY
ABSTRACT: Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is warned to keep
hands off an FBI case investigating the fatal shooting of Albert
Gorman, who was found outside the hogan of Navajo medicine man
Hosteen Begay. Begay and his granddaughter appear to be missing,
and Jim is determined to carry on the search for his people.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
22
Maryland LBPH
LP 06817 THE GIRL WHO HAD EVERYTHING
AUTHOR: FOLEY, RAE
ABSTRACT: When beautiful heiress Mary Ann Rutherford killed
herself the world mourned blamed Jimmy, the shy bewildered
husband. The Rutherford empire unleashed its forces to destroy him.
Only Jimmy's sister Jennifer could slip inside the Rutherford fortress
and discover why Mary Ann had been so terrified of her father - and
what dreadful secret he thought Jimmy knew.
LP 05491 GLADLY THE CROSS-EYED BEAR
AUTHOR: MCBAIN, ED
ABSTRACT: What's cuddly, cute and the object of a high-stakes court
battle? It's Gladly, the cross-eyed teddy bear: brainchild of slightly
cross-eyed beauty Lainie Cummins, Matthew Hope's client and the
litigant in a trademark dispute with toy company tycoons. Hope is
certain he can win the case - until someone murders one of the key
players.
LP 08239 GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
AUTHOR: MARGOLIN, PHILLIP
ABSTRACT: In Hunter's Point, New York, three women disappear;
the only traces are a black rose and a note saying "gone, but not
forgotten." The killer was supposedly caught but ten years later
identical cases appear in Portland, Oregon. Is the man Betsy
Tannenbaum is defending the long-vanished Peter Lake?
LP 03487 THE GOODBYE LOOK
AUTHOR: MACDONALD, ROSS
ABSTRACT: A detective story about a stolen Florentine gold
box that the famed Archer is hired to find. After he locates it,
the first dead corpse appears.
LP 05884 GOSPEL
AUTHOR: JAMES, BILL
ABSTRACT: When his lover, Denise, drifts into the social circle of
Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur’s wealthy and powerful
underworld informant, and a crook the police are pursuing is shot
to death during robbery, she becomes the pawn in a frightening
game of revenge.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
23
Maryland LBPH
LP 09170 THE GRAVE MAURICE: A RICHARD JURY MYSTERY
AUTHOR: GRIMES, MARTHA.
ABSTRACT: Superintendent Richard Jury of Scotland Yard is
hospitalized when Melrose Plant intrigues him with an overheard
conversation about missing horsewoman Nell Ryder--the teenaged
daughter of Jury's surgeon. Under Jury's direction, Plant enters
the sordid underground world of racing.
LP 09010 GRAVE SECRETS
AUTHOR: REICHS, KATHY.
ABSTRACT: Forensic specialist Dr. Tempe Brennan is in Guatemala
identifying the bodies of victims of political massacres committed
decades earlier. She is called to the capital city to assist in a
case involving missing young women, among whom is the Canadian
ambassador's daughter.
LP 05981 GUILT
AUTHOR: LESCROART, JOHN T.
ABSTRACT: No one believes Mark Dooher, a respected and wealthy
lawyer, has brutally murdered his wife. His best friend, criminal
lawyer Wes Farrell; his most prominent client, the bishop of San
Francisco; and his beautiful law clerk, Christina Carrera, all
stand by him. But homicide detective Abe Glitsky suspects Dooher,
especially when an old girlfriend reappears.
LP 07113 RICH AND THE PROFANE: A LOVEJOY MYSTERY
AUTHOR: GASH, JONATHAN
ABSTRACT: Prior George Metivier and his sister Marie ask for
Lovejoy's help to identify valuable antiques that can be sold.
Lovejoy and his friend Gesso, break into the priory in the dead of
night. Gesso is caught but Lovejoy escapes with a rare painting. By
morning the canvas, Gesso, Prior George and his flock are gone.
LP 05426 THE HAND OF DEATH
AUTHOR: YORKE, MARGARET
ABSTRACT: No matter what the police thought George Fortescue
couldn't have done those terrible things - could he? But women had
been raped and murdered. George finds himself accused while the
real killer serenely selects his third victim - and then his fourth.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
24
Maryland LBPH
LP 07375 THE HANGING GARDEN
AUTHOR: RANKIN, IAN
ABSTRACT: Tommy Telford has close links with a Newcastle
gangster nicknamed Mr. Pink Eyes-a Chechen bringing refugees into
Britian as prostitutes. When Insp. Rebus takes under his wing a
distraught call girl, his daughter is the victim of a hit and run and
Rebus knows there is nothing he wouldn't do to bring down prime
suspect Telford.
LP 06894 HAPPY ARE THOSE WHO THRIST FOR JUSTICE
AUTHOR: GREELEY, ANDREW M.
ABSTRACT: Father John Blackwood "Blackie" Ryan once again solves
a mystery based on the Beatitudes from Jesus's Sermon on the
Mount.
LP 08278 HARD NEWS
AUTHOR: DEAVER, JEFFERY
ABSTRACT: Poking around in the video archives, aspiring filmmaker
Rune spotted an interview with Randy Boggs, who's doing hard
time in Attica for a murder he says he didn't commit. Rune is sure
he's innocent and if she can prove it, Current Events will make news
and her career. But someone wants the story killed.
LP 02997 HARDWARE
AUTHOR: BARNES, LINDA
ABSTRACT: Her boyfriend Sam urges part-time cabbie/full time
sleuth Carlotta Carlyle to invest in a computer. Her ex-boss, Boston
police Lt. Mooney wants her to upgrade her .38 s&w for something
with more stopping power. Both types of hardware are going to
come in handy when Carlotta is hired to check into brutal cab
robberies that are causing cabbies to quit in record numbers.
LP 07125 HARM DONE: AN INSPECTOR WEXFORD MYSTERY
AUTHOR: RENDELL, RUTH
ABSTRACT: A convicted pedophile was released back into the
community, preying on the fears of parents in Muriel Campden
Estate where he lives. Then a child disappears and the man himself
is found stabbed to death. Inspector Wexford is charged with
solving the mysterious disappearances, protecting a pedophile, and
catching a killer.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
25
Maryland LBPH
LP 06313 HEAD CASE
AUTHOR: BONANSINGA, JAY
ABSTRACT: The first visitor for the ER patient dubbed John Doe is a
man claiming to be his brother; he pulls a gun and tries to kill him.
John manages to escape, but he sees flashes of bodies and bloodsplashed rooms. Looking for help, he finds an ally in the wounded
beauty Jessie Bates, a tough PI who is willing to take the case.
LP 08206 THE HEARING
AUTHOR: LESCROART, JOHN
ABSTRACT: San Francisco Detective Abe Glitsky investigates the
murder of Elaine Wagner-a star in San Francisco's legal firmament
and, unbeknownst to anyone, Glitsky's daughter. Glitsky leans hard
on his only suspect-a homeless junkie the police found lingering
over Elaine's body, her jewelry in his pocket and a gun in his hand.
LP 06360 HEART TROUBLE
AUTHOR: TROCHECK, KATHY HOGAN
ABSTRACT: Just as her sideline cleaning business takes off, PI
Callahan Garrity is hired by Atlanta socialite Whitney Dobbs,
recently acquitted of a drunk-driving, hit-and-run homicide that
ignited racial tensions. Whitney wants the assets her rich husband
hid after filing for divorce. The case becomes a murder investigation.
LP 05359 HELLFIRE CLUB
AUTHOR: STRAUB, PETER
ABSTRACT: Symptoms of menopause and nightmares about
her service in Vietnam become the least of Nora Chancel's problems
when she is kidnapped by a serial-killer neighbor. On the run, the
unlikely pair collect evidence that Nora's husband's family-owned
publishing company was once involved in a murder
LP 10172 HIGH COUNTRY
AUTHOR: BARR, NEVADA
ABSTRACT: When four young employees of Yosemite National Park
disappear, ranger Anna Pigeon goes undercover as a waitress at the
Ahwahnee Lodge. She discovers there's a connection between at
least one of the missing girls, a crashed plane containing a fortune
in drugs, and the outsiders who've moved into the tent cabin last
occupied by a skilled climber who's also among the disappeared.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
26
Maryland LBPH
LP 09425 HOLLYWOOD TOUGH
AUTHOR: CANNELL, STEPHEN J.
ABSTRACT: Former snitch Nicky Marcella wants LAPD investigator
Shane Scully to find Carol White, his former New Jersey high school
classmate and an aspiring actress. Shane finds she's abandoned her
dreams for an abyss of drugs and prostitution, but her core of
inherent decency touches him. When she's murdered, he refuses to
allow her to be dismissed as just another dead whore.
LP 07236 HOME AT LAST
AUTHOR: STONE, KATHERINE
ABSTRACT: Galen Chandler, anchorwoman for KCOR, strikes a
dangerous deal with a serial killer who has murdered four of the
city's most beautiful women. The Lady Killer's trying to attract the
of Lucas Hunter, a detective who has the uncanny ability to
understand the evil lusts of psychopaths.
LP 05553 HORNET'S NEST
AUTHOR: CORNWELL, PATRICIA
ABSTRACT: A trio of heroes: Andy Brazil, reporter for "The Charlotte
Observer" and eager volunteer cop; Police Chief Judy Hammer,
professionally strong yet personally troubled; and her deputy chief
Virginia West, a genuine head-turner who's married to her job.
LP 08237 HOSTAGE
AUTHOR: CRAIS, ROBERT
ABSTRACT: Former frontline negotiator with LAPD, Jeff Talley is
now chief of police in a sleepy, bedroom community. When three
young men invade a tightly secured home and take the family
hostage, Talley is plunged back into the high-pressure world that he
has desperately been trying to put behind him.
LP 07714 HOT SIX: A STEPHANIE PLUM NOVEL
AUTHOR: EVANOVICH, JANET
ABSTRACT: Carlos Manoso, street name Ranger, is the madman killer
who shot and barbequed the youngest son of international blackmarket arms dealer Alexander Ramos. Ranger is caught on video just
minutes before the crime occurs and he's the number-one suspect.
Ranger is the man who taught Stephanie Plum, bounty hunter,
everything she knows. If she does catch him...what then?
Hard Boiled Mysteries
27
Maryland LBPH
LP 07438 HUGGER MUGGER
AUTHOR: PARKER, ROBERT B.
ABSTRACT: Someone has been killing racehorses at stables across
the south and the Boston PI, Spenser travels to Georgia to protect
the two-year-old destined to become the next Secretariat. President
of Three Fillies Stables, Walter Clive approached Spenser to find out
who is threatening his horse, Hugger Mugger.
LP 10438 THE HUNDRETH MAN
AUTHOR: KERLEY, JACK
ABSTRACT: Cryptic messages found on a pair of corpses in Mobile,
Ala, launch police detective Carson Ryder and veteran cop Harry
Nautilus into a search for a killer. With the body count rising, Ryder
descends into his family's terrifying past by seeking advice from his
brother, a violent, taunting psychopath convicted of similarly
heinous crimes.
LP 06939 HUSH MONEY
AUTHOR: PARKER, ROBERT B.
ABSTRACT: Spenser's associate Hawk asks him to investigate why a
professor was denied tenure at the university. Spenser discovers
intense rivalries between politically correct and conservative cliques.
Spenser's lover asks him to help her girlfriend who's being stalked—
until the woman becomes obsessed with Spenser.
LP 08979 IF LOOKS COULD KILL
AUTHOR: WHITE, KATE
ABSTRACT: New York crime writer Bailey Weggins helps her friend
(and boss), magazine editor-in-chief Cat Jones, discover who
poisoned her nanny. Cat fears that she herself was the target as
Bailey uncovers adultery, jealousy, and back stabbing among the
city's literary elite.
LP 10393 IN THE MOON OF RED PONIES
AUTHOR: BURKE, JAMES LEE
ABSTRACT: Billy Bob has moved to Missoula, Montana, to discover
that the psychopathic Wyatt Dixon is out of prison. Billy Bob
befriends Johnny American Horse, a horse breeder and ecoactivist. Johnny is suspected of murdering the hit man who invaded
his home as well as the burglary of Global Research.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
28
Maryland LBPH
LP 05646 INVASION OF PRIVACY
AUTHOR: O'SHAUGHNESSY, PERRI
ABSTRACT: Filmmaker Terry London's documentary about the
forgotten disappearance of a local Tahoe woman threatens to
expose a murderer who will do anything to stop the film from being
released. The filmmaker is killed and Nina Reilly's closely guarded
secrets become evidence in a murder case. Nina takes on the
defense of the accused murderer.
LP 05937 INVASION OF PRIVACY
AUTHOR: HEALY, JEREMIAH
ABSTRACT: Boston P.I. John Cuddy is hired by Russian immigrant
banker Olga Evorova to investigate her boyfriend, Andrew Dees.
Although she loves Dees, she is concerned because he won't discuss
his past and may just be after her money. Cuddy's interrogation of
Dees's neighbors has unexpected results.
LP 08432 ISLE OF DOGS
AUTHOR: CORNWELL, PATRICIA
ABSTRACT: Chaos breaks loose when the governor of Virginia
orders that speed traps be painted on all streets, warning that
speeders will be caught by monitoring aircraft flying overhead. But
the eccentric 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: 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.
LP 07130 JUPITER'S BONES: PETER DECKER/RINA LAZARUS MYSTERY
AUTHOR: KELLERMAN, FAYE
ABSTRACT: Detective Peter Decker investigates the death
of a cult leader, Father Jupiter, who was once a prominent
astrophysicist. Jupiter had disappeared for ten years until
emerging as the founder of a group of misfits, but he had many
enemies in both lives--including his daughter.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
29
Maryland LBPH
LP 05706 KILLED IN THE FOG
AUTHOR: DE ANDREA, WILLIAM L.
ABSTRACT: Matt Cobb is Vice-President of Special Projects at a large
television network. He solves problems, everything from murder and
mayhem to making sure the right person is picked up at the right
time by the right car. Matt wants to call it quits but finds himself in
jail for murder.
LP 07185 KILLING GAME
AUTHOR: JOHANSEN, IRIS
ABSTRACT: The killer knew Eve Duncan all too well. He knew the
pain she felt for her murdered daughter, Bonnie, whose body was
never found. He knew that as one of the nation's top forensic
sculptors she would insist on identifying nine skeletons unearthed
on a bluff near Georgia's Talladega Falls. And one of those
skeletons might be Bonnie's.
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, Avery searches for the woman who raised
her, and unearths some family secrets.
LP 06244 KING CON
AUTHOR: CANNELL, STEPHEN J.
ABSTRACT: Beano X. Bates is a con man so ingenious he has the nick
name "King Con". The King is threatened when he crosses Joe Rina,
a New Jersey crime boss. But when his beloved cousin Carol is
brutally murdered just before testifying against Rina, Beano
masterminds one final Mother of All Scams.
LP 08148 KISS THE GIRLS
AUTHOR: PATTERSON, JAMES
ABSTRACT: When Washington, D.C., detective Alex Cross learns his
niece Naomi is missing, he heads for North Carolina. Naomi is
thought kidnapped by a man calling himself Casanova. When one
woman escapes and describes a secret house in the woods, the FBI
discovers links between Casanova and the gentleman caller serial
killer in California.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
30
Maryland LBPH
LP 07504 L. A. REQUIEM
AUTHOR: CRAIS, ROBERT
ABSTRACT: Private detective Elvis Cole learns more about his
mysterious partner, ex-cop Joe Pike, when they are asked to search
for a woman Pike once dated. Her death and a series of others
intensify some L.A. cops' distrust of Pike--whom they hold
responsible for a death long ago.
LP 07298 THE LASKO TANGENT
AUTHOR: PATTERSON, RICHARD NORTH
ABSTRACT: William Lasko, a self-made multimillionaire has the ear of
the president. The U S Economic Crimes Commission wants Lasko
brought down-and Christopher Paget, a young U.S. Attorney, has to
gather evidence without alienating the White House by going by
the book. But Lasko makes his own rules by eliminating enemies.
LP 06734 LAST BEST HOPE
AUTHOR: MCBAIN, ED
ABSTRACT: Florida attorney Matthew Hope calls on Steve Carella, of
New York's 87th Precinct, for help in locating Jill Lawton's
missing husband, Jack. Hope and Carella run into a mysterious gang
that is planning to rob a small Florida museum of an ancient Greek
artifact.
LP 07203 THE LAST DANCE: 87TH PRECINCT SERIES
AUTHOR: MCBAIN, ED
ABSTRACT: A man with no enemies is found hanging in an apparant
suicide in Isola's theater district. Detective Carella and Meyer
discover that, drugged and unconscious, he could not possibly have
hung himself. They are dealing with murder and an investigation
taking them into the politics and passions of a musical opening.
LP 07222 LAST RITES
AUTHOR: HARVEY, JOHN
ABSTRACT: The wildfire spread of guns and drugs; gang violence;
police corruption has the Nottingham, England law enforcement
tied up in knots. So when an incarcerated murderer on
compassionate leave disappears from his mother's funeral, the local
cops have no time to spare for a manhunt. They did that job ten
years ago; let the prison authorities find him now.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
31
Maryland LBPH
LP 05489 THE LAWS OF OUR FATHERS
AUTHOR: TUROW, SCOTT
ABSTRACT: The drive-by shooting of an aging white woman at a
gang-plagued housing project sets Turow's novel in motion. In the
ensuing trial, a group of personalities who first met during the
upheavals of the '60's reconvenes in the courtroom of Sonia "Sonny"
Klonsky.
LP 06059 THE LAZARUS HOTEL
AUTHOR: BANNISTER, JO
ABSTRACT: A personal discovery course is Richard Speke's last
chance to recover his shattered nerve and save his job as a TV
reporter. At the penthouse suite of a London skyscraper , he barely
has time to meet Dr. Miriam Graves and the seven others on the
course before odd things start to happen. The only lift suddenly
becomes inoperative; so does the telephone. Then one of the group
is brutally attacked.
LP 06341 A LETHAL FIXATION
AUTHOR: SHEPHERD, STELLA
ABSTRACT: Four weeks after his body was found, the death of
medical student Keith Mayhew is still puzzling detectives. Was he
murdered or did he kill himself? The inquiries of Det Insp Richard
Montgomery are complicated by a parcel bomb in the office of a
senior lecturer in physiology. Then the gruesome killing of a second
student shatters the whole community.
LP 06294 LIFE SUPPORT
AUTHOR: GERRITSEN, TESS
ABSTRACT: As Dr Toby Harper investigates the disappearance of a
Patient, she finds problems at a wealthy retirement home. Toby's
suspicions lead her to a handsome medical examiner whose findings
heighten the mystery. Meanwhile Toby has ongoing difficulties with
her mother, who has Alzheimer's disease.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
32
Maryland LBPH
LP 07653 LISTEN TO THE SILENCE
AUTHOR: MULLER, MARCIA
ABSTRACT: Sharon McCone, a San Francisco investigator, tackles her
most personal mystery yet. When her father suddenly dies, she
heads for San Diego to help settle his affairs. There she uncovers a
truth about four friends, a shattered love affair, and a violent
murder. When someone tampers with her car, Sharon begins to see
how old resentments and hatred can fuel new violence.
LP 05784 LITTLE BOY BLUE
AUTHOR: DEE, ED
ABSTRACT: A young baggage handler is gunned down in an airport
heist gone bad. Detective Joe Gregory senses something odd about
the killing of young Johnny Boy Counihan. While the detectives
interview suspects, a hoods' hangout in Queens is firebombed and
another body is found in a car trunk at the airport, this one covered
with artificial eyes.
LP 10292 LIVE BAIT
AUTHOR: TRACY, P.J.
ABSTRACT: Minneapolis detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth
are called in when elderly Morey Gilbert is found dead in the plant
nursery he runs with his wife, Lily, the crime drought ends-not with
a trickle, but with a torrent.
LP 07211 THE LOST GIRLS
AUTHOR: MOFFAT, GWEN
ABSTRACT: As the water recedes from the Lakedale reservoir in a
prolonged drought, a dog's ghastly find revives the events and
rumours surrounding Joannie's disappearance. Then another violent
death occurs and it is Melinda Pind, amateur sleuth, who makes the
connections to reveal more horrors than had ever been suspected.
LP 08761 MAGGODY AND THE MOONBEAMS: AN ARLY HANKS
MYSTERY
AUTHOR: HESS, JOAN.
ABSTRACT: Maggody, Arkansas. Chief of police Arly Hanks helps out
for a week at a teen camp until a woman's body is discovered. The
victim had belonged to a local cult called "Beamers," who shave
their heads. As Arly investigates she meets an attractive fisherman.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
33
Maryland LBPH
LP 03638 THE MAGIC HOUR
AUTHOR: ISAACS, SUSAN
ABSTRACT: It is a gorgeous august day as Sy Spencer stands on the
deck of his Southampton beachfront estate. Then two shots ring out
and Sy is dead before he hits the deck. Steve Brady, hometown farm
boy turned cop, is assigned to investigate. Steve finds himself falling
for the main suspect--Sy's ex-wife, Bonnie. Then he finds two other
suspects.
LP 03950 MAKE DEATH LOVE ME
AUTHOR: RENDELL, RUTH
ABSTRACT: Alan Groombridge, the manager of a small English
village bank, is bound to a daily grind that begins and ends with his
complaining wife and demanding father-in-law. But Groombridge a
romantic, longs to break away from his tedium. Fate, in the form of
two teenage bank robbers, give him his chance.
LP 07512 MALICE IN THE HIGHLANDS
AUTHOR: THOMAS, GRAHAM
ABSTRACT: Detective-Chief Superintendent Erskine Powell embarks
on a salmon-fishing competition in the Scottish Highlands. But
there, in the castle-dotted countryside along the picturesque River
Spey, a cold-blooded murderer soon turns Powell's haven into a
busman's holiday-and a quiet anglers' paradise becomes just as
deadly as the mean streets of London.
LP 08394 THE MARBLE MASK
AUTHOR: MAYOR, ARCHER
ABSTRACT: A frozen body is found on top of Vermont's tallest
mountain in middle of winter. When the marble-hard body is
thawed out, revealing oddly old-fashioned clothes, an ice-pick
wound to the heart, and a Canadian driver's license dating back 50
years. Identified as an old-time smuggler from Sherbrooke, Quebec,
the body reveals further clues-and points to a priceless marble mask
sculpted by Michelangelo.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
34
Maryland LBPH
LP 02448 MARY, MARY
AUTHOR: MCBAIN, ED
ABSTRACT: After Mary Barton is accused of murder, a wealthy
English woman hires Florida attorney Matthew Hope. Although the
bodies of three girls were found buried in Barton’s garden, Hope
believes she's innocent. The prosecuting attorney has witnesses who
swear they saw Barton with the children and one who even saw her
digging the grave.
LP 07177 MCNALLY'S DILEMMA
AUTHOR: SANDERS, LAWRENCE
ABSTRACT: Playboy Geoffrey Williams is dead; Melva Williams
readily admits to the "crime passionnel". She asks Archy McNally
to shield her daughter from the press. But when he takes Veronica
to the McNally home, her story doesn't match Melva's, which doesn't
match Geoff's, Archy has a dilemma on his hands and the only
person who knows the truth has gotten away.
LP 05990 MCNALLY'S GAMBLE
AUTHOR: SANDERS, LAWRENCE
ABSTRACT: As chief of discreet inquiries in his father's law firm,
Archy McNally investigates the validity of a Faberge Imperial egg.
Client Edythe Westmore wants to buy the egg as an investment, but
her children are strongly opposed. McNally uncovers greed, passion,
and murder amidst the residents of Palm Beach.
LP 06874 THE MIDNIGHT CLUB
AUTHOR: PATTERSON, JAMES
ABSTRACT: NYPD detective John Stefanovitch was shot
trying to bring down drug lord Alexandre St.-Germain. Now
Stefanovitch is in a wheelchair working homicide, and a killer is
targeting drug dealers including St.-Germain. Stefanovitch and a
female journalist want to solve the murders.
LP 05673 THE MILLENNIUM TRAIL
AUTHOR: FOTHERINGHAM, PETER MOIR
ABSTRACT: The horrors of twenty years as a combat photographer
had broken John Lockhart. When he went to Orkney in search of
peace he took the beautiful model Karen Brewer with him. When
she was murdered, Lockhart devoted himself to finding her killers.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
35
Maryland LBPH
LP 04363 MIND PREY
AUTHOR: SANDFORD, JOHN
ABSTRACT: When psychiatrist Andi Manette and her two daughters
are kidnapped, everyone thinks it's for her wealthy family's money.
Instead, their abductor is John Mail, a former patient who is
obsessed with Manette. When Mail learns deputy chief Lucas
Davenport is heading up the investigation, he is thrilled. Mail is a
gamer who played Davenport's computer games.
LP 06904 MOON MUSIC
AUTHOR: KELLERMAN, FAYE
ABSTRACT: Las Vegas homicide detective Poe and his
colleagues investigate the strange mutilation and killing of a
hooker. Meanwhile Poe worries about his former girlfriend (now
married to one of Poe's men) as she struggles with her compulsive
hand washing, running, and other rituals.
LP 09005 MORTAL ALLIES
AUTHOR: HAIG, BRIAN
ABSTRACT: Major Sean Drummond is a JAG lawyer assigned to
defend an officer accused of murder in South Korea. Drummond
finds that his co-counsel is an old law school nemesis, the defendant
is a homosexual, and the CIA has secrets to hide.
LP 08886 MORTAL PREY
AUTHOR: SANDFORD, JOHN
ABSTRACT: Minneapolis cop Lucas Davenport teams up with the FBI
to track down his old enemy, hit woman Clara Rinker. Plot involves
an inept sniper, Mexican drug lords, the St. Louis mob, and the ever
wily Rinker.
LP 06990 MOTION TO SUPPRESS
AUTHOR: O'SHAUGHNESSY, PERRI
ABSTRACT: Attorney Nina Reilly and her son relocate to Lake Tahoe
to recover from her divorce. Nina's first new case involves Misty, a
promiscuous cocktail waitress accused of murdering her abusive
husband. While Nina investigates, she and Misty are almost killed
Hard Boiled Mysteries
36
Maryland LBPH
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-the greatest
train in the world. It now 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 07469 MURMURING THE JUDGES
AUTHOR: JARDINE, QUINTIN
ABSTRACT: In Court Eleven of Edinburgh's old Parliament House, an
armed robbery trial takes a dramatic turn. The judge collapses -the
victim of an apparent heart attack. But as the brutal robberies
continue, it emerges that Lord Archergait's death may have been
murder. Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner must piece together a
puzzle of sinister complexity.
LP 06223 NIGHT PASSAGE
AUTHOR: PARKER, ROBERT B.
ABSTRACT: Jesse Stone is a thirty-five-year-old washout
from the L.A.P.D. homicide unit. Recently divorced, alcoholic Stone
accepts a job in a small town in Massachusetts. Stone soon finds
himself in the middle of white supremacists, the mob from Boston
and local misconduct.
LP 06322 NIGHT TRAIN
AUTHOR: AMIS, MARTIN
ABSTRACT: Female detective Mike Hoolihan investigates the suicide
of the daughter of her boss and mentor, Colonel Tom Rockwell.
Jennifer Rockwell had everything going for her: brains, beauty, a
devoted family, and a perfect lover. Hoolihan can't fathom what
went wrong. The more clues she finds, the deeper the mystery is.
LP 03485 NIGHTMARE IN PINK
AUTHOR: MACDONALD, JOHN D.
ABSTRACT: Travis McGee's latest case involves his best friend's
sister's fiance, who is murdered. Upon investigation, McGee
uncovers a gigantic swindle that centers around a seventy-milliondollar fortune.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
37
Maryland LBPH
LP 05770 NO BIRDS SING
AUTHOR: BANNISTER, JO
ABSTRACT: Castlemere had had the ram-raid at a local jeweler’s,
the train robbery - with fatal consequences, and a shocking rape.
And who, finally, left that grisly parcel on Chief Superintendent
Shapiro's doorstep? Detective Inspector Liz Graham and Detective
Sergeant Cal Donovan offer themselves as decoys to catch the
perpetrators of these crimes.
LP 05718 NOW OR NEVER
AUTHOR: ADLER, ELIZABETH
ABSTRACT: Three women, all New England college students are
abducted, brutally assaulted and left to die. The latest victim was
found alive and caught a glimpse of the killer's face. Armed with a
sketch, Boston police detective Harry Jordan sets about tracking
the murderer, but to no avail. Mallory Malone, the "TV detective"
helps him.
LP 05895 ECHO
AUTHOR: WALTERS, MINETTE
ABSTRACT: Who was Billy Blake, other than a homeless alcoholic
who wandered the streets? Why was he found dead from
starvation in the garage of Amanda Powell, a woman whose
merchant-banker husband had absconded five years earlier with
a vast sum of money? She discusses what little she knows of the
man's sad life when journalist Michael Deacon covers a story on
homelessness.
LP 08766 THE OATH
AUTHOR: LESCROART, JOHN.
ABSTRACT: Tim Markham, the head of a struggling San Francisco
HMO, is murdered in his own hospital after first surviving a hit-andrun accident. Homicide chief Abe Glitsky investigates while attorney
Dismas Hardy (Glitsky's buddy) defends Dr. Eric Kensing, the prime
suspect.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
38
Maryland LBPH
LP 07344 OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
AUTHOR: O'SHAUGHNESSY, PERRI
ABSTRACT: Two people died, one struck down by lightning and one
mowed down by a hit-and-run driver. In the middle of a
controversial procedure to exhume one of the bodies, powerful
businessman Quentin de Beers is murdered. Charged with murder,
Quentin's angry grandson Jason won't even talk to Nina, his
defense attorney.
LP 07183 OCCAM'S RAZOR
AUTHOR: MAYOR, ARCHER
ABSTRACT: The man lies dead in the middle of the railroad tracks.
As Joe Gunther begins to investigate, another grisly slaying rocks
Brattleboro, Vermont. An anonymous phone call links a local
politician to both murders. Gunther is reminded of an old adage –
Occam's razor -- which advises that too many theories can muddle
clear thinking.
LP 06879 ON BEULAH HEIGHT: DALZIEL AND PASCOE SERIES
AUTHOR: HILL, REGINALD
ABSTRACT: They needed a new reservoir so they'd moved everyone
out of Dendale that long hot summer fifteen years ago. They even
dug up the dead and moved them too. Four inhabitants of the dale
they couldn't move, for nobody knew where they were - three little
girls, and the prime suspect in their disappearance. This was Andy
Dalziel's worst case and now fifteen years on he looks set to relive it.
LP 07087 ORCHID BEACH
AUTHOR: WOODS, STUART
ABSTRACT: Holly Barker, newly discharged from the army, becomes
assistant police chief in a small Florida town. On arrival, she
assumes the chief's duties because he has been shot. She
investigates his assault. The trail leads to a gated
community--guarded by some very shady characters.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
39
Maryland LBPH
LP 05671 OUT OF SIGHT
AUTHOR: LEONARD, ELMORE
ABSTRACT: Overcome by the prison escapees, Deputy U.S. Marshal
Karen Sisco is taken hostage and forced into the trunk of her own
car. And Jack Foley decides to keep her company. Karen escapes
and the two are destined to meet again. This time she's part of the
task force hunting the escapees.
LP 07983 OUT OF THE SHADOWS
AUTHOR: HOOPER, KAY
ABSTRACT: A Tennessee town has just become a monster's hunting
ground. Two bodies are found tortured to death. A third person
goes missing. Sheriff Miranda Knight is determined to make her
small town safe once more, and she calls on FBI profiler Noah
Bishop. He's the one man who knows about her unique abilities.
LP 07624 THE OUTSIDE MAN
AUTHOR: PATTERSON, RICHARD NORTH
ABSTRACT: Society lawyer Adam Shaw finds the dead body of his
best friend's wealthy wife and his friend is missing. Shaw must
gamble his career, his marriage, and his very life in a passionate
quest for the real murderer and learn the truth about his own past
and future.
LP 02414 PAPER DOLL
AUTHOR: PARKER, ROBERT B
ABSTRACT: Private eye Spenser is hired by Loudon Tripp to track
down the murderer of his wife, Olivia. Finding no leads in Boston,
Spenser moves on to Olivia’s hometown in South Carolina to search
for clues from her past. Spenser is tailed, detained, and harassed, but
he still manages to discover that Olivia’s supposedly dead father is
very much alive and so, in fact, is Olivia.
LP 07880 PERISH TWICE
AUTHOR: PARKER, ROBERT B.
ABSTRACT: Boston P.I. Sunny Randall is hired by Mary Lou Goddard
to protect her from threatening phone calls. Sunny's older sister has
discovered that her husband is seeing another woman; and Sunny's
best friend Julie has embarked on an ill-advised affair. Then the
stalking case becomes a murder investigation.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
40
Maryland LBPH
LP 07303 THE PIED PIPER
AUTHOR: PEARSON, RIDLEY
ABSTRACT: Seattle detective Lou Boldt and forensic pathologist
Daphne Matthews must break the conceived network of abductions
of infants with only a penny flute left in the crib. With few leads,
no witnesses, and all signs pointing to a black market adoption
agency, Boldt and Matthews must battle against overwhelming
odds.
LP 03080 A PLACE TO HIDE
AUTHOR: ANTHONY, EVELYN
ABSTRACT: Claire Arbuthnot Fraser, married to an important
cabinet minister, is on her way to Ireland in search of her
half-brother, thought to have been kidnapped by the IRA. But she
may be kidnapped herself before she can reach the old childhood
haunt where she knows he must be.
LP 05946 PLUM ISLAND
AUTHOR: DEMILLE, NELSON
ABSTRACT: NYPD homicide detective John Corey is convalescing in
the Long Island township of Southold, home to farmers, fishermen –
and at least one killer. A young couple that he knows has been
found on their patio, each with a bullet in the head. The local police
chief wants Corey's big-city expertise.
LP 06464 POINT OF ORIGIN
AUTHOR: CORNWELL, PATRICIA
ABSTRACT: When a Virginia horse farm is destroyed by fire, Kay
Scarpetta discovers the remains of a young woman in the home's
master bath. Two similar unsolved cases are unearthed, another
fire consumes another murder victim. When Scarpetta learns that
Carrie Grethen, her old nemesis has escaped from a hospital for the
criminally insane, the investigation becomes personal.
LP 07239 POTOMAC FEVER
AUTHOR: HORROCK, HENRY
ABSTRACT: Cal Terrell and Bobbie Short are homicide detectives in
Washington, D.C. When Mary Jeanne Turner's cocaine-racked body
bobs up in the Chesapeake Bay, Cal and Bobbie think she's just
another statistic in Washington's blood drenched drug culture.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
41
Maryland LBPH
LP 08241 POTSHOT
AUTHOR: PARKER, ROBERT B.
ABSTRACT: Young Mary Lou Buckman hires Spenser to investigate a
local outlaw, the Preacher, and his gang for the murder of her
husband in Potshot, Arizona. The gang has the town and its lawmen
intimidated, so Spenser calls in some cohorts to help him.
LP 07263 PRAYERS FOR RAIN
AUTHOR: LEHANE, DENNIS
ABSTRACT: When Patrick meets Karen Nichols, he thinks of her as
an innocent from a protected upbringing. Six months later Karen
commits suicide. Patrick wonders what can alter a person so
drastically, that suicide is the only option. He looks into the last few
months of her life and enters a cat-and-mouse game with a man who
instead of merely killing his victims, he prefers to make them "wish"
they were dead.
LP 05611 PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD
AUTHOR: KELLERMAN, FAYE
ABSTRACT: The brutal murder of celebrated heart surgeon Azor
Sparks brings shock, public outrage and a demand for answers.
Lieutenant Peter Decker and his crack team of detectives begin
working overtime to unravel the mystery. Sparks’ wife and six adult
children stand to inherit a sizable fortune. Outlaw bikers with their
own agenda suddenly show up at Spark's funeral.
LP 06516 PREY DANCING
AUTHOR: GASH, JONATHAN
ABSTRACT: Dr. Clare Burtonall working late in the city hospital's
Infectious Disease Unit, is left with the dying words of her patient
Marie: "Forgive" - to be delivered to her boyfriend. Clare searches for
the recipient of this message. But quickly she is spiraled into a dark
underworld, where she become the target of one man's vengeance.
LP 03916 PROMISED LAND
AUTHOR: PARKER, ROBERT B.
ABSTRACT: Private eye Spenser and his companion Susan
Silverman are embroiled in a search for a runaway wife in
summertime Cape Cod. There they meet an assortment of villains
with extortion, bank robbery, and murder on their minds.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
42
Maryland LBPH
LP 03486 A PURPLE PLACE FOR DYING
AUTHOR: MACDONALD, JOHN D.
ABSTRACT: Detective Travis McGee is thinking about taking the
case of a potential client, a provocative rich woman, when she is
gunned down beside him without even finishing her story. Strong
language.
LP 06540 RAINBOW SIX
AUTHOR: CLANCY, TOM
ABSTRACT: John Clark, ex Navy SEAL, is off to London to head up
the antiterrorist strike force, Rainbow Six, when his plane is hijacked.
He and co-worker Ding Chavez quickly foil the attempt. In England,
the two deal with bank robbers, hostage situations, a raid, and an
environmentalist who thinks more of nature than humans.
LP 10169 RECKLESS ABANDON
AUTHOR: WOODS, STUART
ABSTRACT: Stone Barrington and Holly Barker first crossed paths in
Florida after her fiance was killed. Now, Holly is in New York, hot
on the trail of Trini Rodriguez, Trini is under the protection of the FBI
as a key witness in several cases, and they're not about to release
him to Holly, who wants him tried in Florida for the murder of 12
people.
LP 05687 RED LEAVES
AUTHOR: SIMONS, PAULLINA
ABSTRACT: When the nude, frozen body of Kristina is discovered in
a snowbank, Detective Spencer O'Malley wonders why no one
reported her missing. Penetrating the mysteries of the relationships
among Kristina, Jim, Conni and Albert, and the secrets shared with
and kept from each other, O'Malley discovers shocking truths.
LP 07505 THE REMORSEFUL DAY
AUTHOR: DEXTER, COLIN
ABSTRACT: For a year, the murder of Yvonne Harrison at her home
in the Cotswald village of Lower Swinstead has baffled the Thames
Valley CID. Why is Chef Inspector Morse adamant that he will not
lead the reinvestigation, despite two anonymous phone calls that
hint at new evidence? And why, if he refuses to take on the case
officially, does he seem to be carrying out his own private inquiries.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
43
Maryland LBPH
LP 08548 RING OF TRUTH
AUTHOR: PICKARD, NANCY.
ABSTRACT: When anti-death-penalty crusader Reverend Bob Wing
is convicted of killing his wife, crime writer Marie Lightfoot pens
another book. Later she unearths evidence that the minister and
another condemned murderer may be innocent.
LP 07492 RITUAL BATH
AUTHOR: KELLERMAN, FAYE
ABSTRACT: Detective Peter Decker is called to investigate a rape in
a Jewish women's bathhouse. The only witness, widow Rina
Lazarus, is willing to cooperate. Decker finds himself drawn to the
community and to Lazarus.
LP 06830 RIVER'S END
AUTHOR: ROBERTS, NORA
ABSTRACT: Since age four, Olivia has believed her father killed her
mother. Over the years her terror faded--thanks to her mother's
family and the policeman who investigated the death. Now the
officer's son plans to write about the murder, and Olivia's
suppressed memories begin to surface.
LP 03452 THE ROSARY MURDERS
AUTHOR: KIENZLE, WILLIAM
ABSTRACT: Priests and nuns in Detroit are being killed in
pairs during the Lenten season. While the homicide squad makes no
headway in catching the killer, a shrewd priest who is also a
mystery buff, attempts to the break the madman's code.
LP 07854 ROUGH DRAFT
AUTHOR: HALL, JAMES W.
ABSTRACT: Ex-Miami policewoman turned mystery writer
Hannah Keller discovers coded clues to her parents' murder inside
one of her books. She soon uncovers the truth--that she's a decoy
in an FBI hunt for a serial killer--and her fragile son's life is
in danger.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
44
Maryland LBPH
LP 06226 ROUGH JUSTICE
AUTHOR: SCOTTOLINE, LISA
ABSTRACT: Criminal Lawyer Marta Richter is only hours away from
winning an acquittal on a murder charge leveled against her client,
millionaire Elliot Steere. But as the jury begins to deliberate,
Steere lets it slip that he sold Marta a bogus self-defense claim
and that he in fact murdered the homeless man who tried to carjack
him. Infuriated, Marta sets out to find the evidence that will
convict Steere-before the jury returns with its verdict.
LP 05564 ROWING IN EDEN
AUTHOR: ROGAN, BARBARA
ABSTRACT: Even though she had asked for it, Sam Pollak could not
help feeling guilty the day he killed his wife. Louise, was, after
all, the only person in the world he loved. It didn't help that
he'd gotten away with it. Or so he thought, until the phone calls
began.
LP 02420 A SAVAGE PLACE: A SPENSER NOVEL
AUTHOR: PARKER, ROBERT B.
ABSTRACT: Boston private eye Spenser flies to Hollywood to act as
bodyguard to Candy Sloan, a t.v. reporter investigating the mob's
takeover of Summit films. Although hired thugs beat her and warn
her she will die if she does not quit "snooping," she does not give
in.
LP 05341 SCARLET WOMEN
AUTHOR: CHRISTILIAN, J. D.
ABSTRACT: New York, 1871. A prostitute named Alice Curry is found
murdered near the East Street docks. Not unusual, except that the
clothes the victim is wearing belong to the missing wife of an
aristocrat. Street-smart private investigator Harp takes on the case.
LP 06793 SECRET PREY
AUTHOR: SANDFORD, JOHN
ABSTRACT: Fighting off depression after his breakup with his
fiancee, Minneapolis cop Lucas Davenport throws himself into his
latest investigation. A bank executive has been shot, and his
murder may be linked to past deaths.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
45
Maryland LBPH
LP 05928 SEE HOW THEY RUN
AUTHOR: PATTERSON, JAMES
ABSTRACT: As he watches helplessly, Dr. David Strauss's wife is
murdered outside his parents palatial home. In Los Angeles,
Strauss's brother is killed during the Academy Award ceremonies.
Dr. David Strauss is soon obsessed with finding the explosive secret
behind the murders of his family members. His dangerous odyssey
takes him across Europe, and finally to the Olympics.
LP 06251 SEE NO EVIL: A MARTI MACALISTER MYSTERY
AUTHOR: BLAND, ELEANOR TAYLOR
ABSTRACT: A young Chicago woman found along the shore of Lake
Michigan. The injuries indicate foul play, but police detective Marti
MacAlister and her partner, Vik, have no strong evidence against
the prime suspect - the victim's drug-dealing boyfriend, but they
must find him soon.
LP 02866 SELF-DEFENSE
AUTHOR: KELLERMAN, JONATHAN
ABSTRACT: Psychologist-detective Alex Delaware doesn't see many
private patients anymore, but Lucy Lowell is an exception--and so
is her dream. After having served as a juror at the agonizing trial
of a serial killer, Lucy begins having a recurring nightmare: a
young child, in a forest at night, witnesses a furtive act.
LP 05781 SENATOR'S DAUGHTER
AUTHOR: GOTTI, VICTORIA
ABSTRACT: The murder of union strongman Joseph Sessio shocked
all of Boston. Taylor Brooke has been assigned to defend Tommy
Washington, the black youth accused of the murder. In her
investigation, Taylor discovers a massive cover-up by the D.A.'s
office, and begins to believe her client has been set up.
LP 06048 SERPENT'S TOOTH
AUTHOR: KELLERMAN, FAYE
ABSTRACT: A lone gunman walks into a trendy L.A. restaurant, and
transforms into a slaughterhouse. Enough of the triggerman's face
remains to identify him as former bartender and would be actor
Harlan Manz, but the press paints him as a psycho. Peter Decker
pursues the truth into Southern California.
Hard Boiled Mysteries
46
Maryland LBPH
LP 05486 SHADES OF TWILIGHT
AUTHOR: HOWARD, LINDA
ABSTRACT: Roanna Davenport was raised a wealthy orphan on her
grandmother's Alabama estate, where she has a passion for horses
and a deep love for her cousin Webb. But when Webb married their
ravishing cousin, Jessie, Roanna's desire became no more than the
stuff of dreams - until the night Jessie is found bludgeoned to death.
LP 09216 SHADOW DANCE
AUTHOR: ANDERSEN, SUSAN
ABSTRACT: A serial killer is preying on Reno showgirls. When a
Scottish American police lieutenant is brought in to solve the
case, he meets the next target, lovely but cold Amanda Charles.
Personalities clash and romance vies with suspense as Tristan
McLaughlin tries to protect Amanda while fighting his attraction
toward her.
LP 07814 SHALLOW GRAVES
AUTHOR: DEAVER, JEFFERY
ABSTRACT: John Pellam had been in the trenches of filmmaking,
with a promising Hollywood career. His world is shattered by a
savage murder, and Pellam is suddenly center stage in an drama of
violence, lust, and conspiracy, which have a stranglehold on this
less than picture perfect locale.
LP 07953 SHELL GAME
AUTHOR: O'CONNELL, CAROL
ABSTRACT: On live television a re-creation of a legendary magic
trick goes horribly awry, murdering a man while a million
people watch. But two people know it is not. An aged magician in a
private hospital in the northern corner of New York state, and
Kathleen Mallory, a New York City policewoman.
LP 02538 THE SIEGE OF THE VILLA LIPP
AUTHOR: AMBLER, ERIC
ABSTRACT: A Charming rogue and swindler, Paul Firman is
trapped in a Riviera villa by Professor Krom who plans to expose
his blackmail schemes unless he cooperates with the professor's
study of the perfect criminal.
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LP 06238 THE SIMEON CHAMBER
AUTHOR: MARTINI, STEVE
ABSTRACT: Attorney Sam Bogardus is interested in Jennifer Davies'
story. Her father had been one of a two-man crew who disappeared
from a naval blimp. Jennifer has received pages from a pirate's
journal with a note implying her father is still alive. Sam's
investigation quickly turns ugly: he is attacked and his partner
murdered.
LP 06530 THE SIMPLE TRUTH
AUTHOR: BALDACCI, DAVID
ABSTRACT: When Rufus Harms, a military prisoner for
twenty-five years, suddenly files for an appeal to the Supreme
Court, his defenders start dying in mysterious accidents. Supreme
Court clerk Sara Evans and John Fiske, brother of one of the
victims, begin to investigate. Meanwhile, Rufus escapes.
LP 07374 SINGING THE SADNESS
AUTHOR: HILL, REGINALD
ABSTRACT: Private investigator Joe Sixsmith is in the Welsh town of
Llanffugiol to take part of a church choir festival. When a local
cottage catches fire, Joe rushes in to rescue a young woman. No less
than three different people hire Joe to discover how the fire
started—but the answer could shatter this small Welsh village.
LP 06992 SINGLE AND SINGLE
AUTHOR: LE CARRE, JOHN
ABSTRACT: When Oliver Hawthorne becomes a magician in
Devon, he thinks he has escaped from the control of his father,
Tiger Single. But when Tiger gets entangled in the illegal
enterprises of the Orlov family from ex-Soviet Georgia, Oliver
feels obliged to help him.
LP 03748 SLEEPING BEAUTY: A LEW ARCHER NOVEL
AUTHOR: MACDONALD, ROSS
ABSTRACT: Lew Archer is on the trail of a young heiress last
seen on a California beach, bitterly clutching an oil-drenched sea
bird after a disastrous oil spill.
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LP 06826 SLIPPING INTO SHADOW
AUTHOR: THOMAS, CRAIG
ABSTRACT: The vast holiday resort of Tripitaka, carved out of the
jungle of northern Burma, is close to completion. Patrick Hyde
suspects the chain's casinos are being used to launder drug profits.
The West is being flooded with ever greater amounts of Burmese
heroin. Could Straits Royal be one vast network for the drug?
LP 05890 SMALL VICES
AUTHOR: PARKER, ROBERT B.
ABSTRACT: Ellis Alves is a bad kid with a long, long record, but did
he really murder Melissa Henderson, a white coed from ritzy
Pemberton College? Alves's former lawyers think he was framed,
and they hire Spenser to uncover the truth.
LP 06876 SOUTHERN CROSS
AUTHOR: CORNWELL, PATRICIA
ABSTRACT: Police chief Judy Hammer and her team--Virginia West
and Andy Brazil--move to Richmond, Virginia, on a one-year
assignment to reorganize the police department. Besides resistance
to change, Hammer encounters city politics, inner-city problems, and
some strange southern criminals.
LP 03415 SPHINX
AUTHOR: COOK, ROBIN
ABSTRACT: Mesmerized by an ancient statue in a Cairo antique
shop, a young Harvard Eyptologist believes she has discovered the
key to a dazzling new find. Her attempts to unlock the mysterious
Curse of the Pharoahs trap her in intrigue, corruption, and murder.
LP 07086 SPLIT IMAGE
AUTHOR: MERCER, JUDY
ABSTRACT: When Jack Spurling resurfaces in her life, Ariel
remembers that he was at the center of one of the most notorious
stories she ever covered - that of a man who got away with the
murder of his wife. Reconstructing the trial, Ariel finds herself
getting closer to Jack and believing in his innocence. Jack's
confident charm brings out in Ariel a compulsion to unearth the
truth. When she digs into Jack's past, she uncovers a sordid tale.
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LP 06684 STANDING IN THE SHADOWS
AUTHOR: SPRING, MICHELLE
ABSTRACT: Laura Principal investigates the case of an eleven year
old boy who has murdered his foster mother. The child, Daryll, has
confessed; his elder brother wants to find out what has turned him
into a ruthless killer. Someone with an interest in the foster mother's
murder is standing in the shadows, watching her every move.
LP 06192 STATE OF MIND
AUTHOR: KATZENBACH, JOHN
ABSTRACT: Twenty-five years ago, Jeffrey Clayton and his mother
and sister fled his tyrannical father - a man later suspected in the
murder of a student. Though the father was never charged, he
committed suicide. Or so it seemed. Someone has recently sent
Jeffrey’s sister Susan a cryptic note. Once deciphered, it carries a
terrifying message: I have found you.
LP 06158 STONE ANGEL
AUTHOR: O'CONNELL, CAROL
ABSTRACT: Seventeen years after her mother's murder, New York
detective Kathleen Mallory returns to her childhood home in
Louisiana for revenge. When her friend and protector Charles Butler
follows her there, Mallory is already in jail. Then the secrets of
the strange town gradually unravel.
LP 09847 STONE COLD
AUTHOR: PARKER, ROBERT B.
ABSTRACT: A pair of sadistic serial killers set their sights on smalltown Massachusetts police chief Jesse Stone. Jesse stalks his stalkers
while he also deals with three rapists, his own drinking, and his exwife.
LP 06324 SUDDEN MISCHIEF
AUTHOR: PARKER, ROBERT B.
ABSTRACT: Brad Sterling -- former Harvard football player, ne'er-dowell, and Susan Silverman's long-out-of-touch husband -- is, by all
appearances, a successful businessman. But when, in the course of
running a vast fundraiser called Galapalooza, he is charged with
sexual harassment, he turns to Susan for help. Susan of course, turns
to Spenser, who reluctantly agrees to take on the case.
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LP 05352 SUDDEN PREY
AUTHOR: SANDFORD, JOHN
ABSTRACT: Minneapolis cop Lucas Davenport is involved in the
shooting deaths of two outlaw women, Candy and Georgie
LaChaise. Imprisoned Dick LaChaise (Candy's husband and Georgie's
brother) escapes when he attends their funeral. He seeks vengeance
by killing the loved ones of the cops responsible for his loss.
LP 07415 THE SUFFOCATING NIGHT
AUTHOR: TAYLOR, ANDREW
ABSTRACT: A controversy about squatters moving into a disused
miltary camp near Lydmouth attracts the attention of Cameron
Rowse, a right-wing London journalist. When Rowse is found
murdered in the Bathurst Arms, Detective Inspector Richard
Thornhill has no shortage of suspects.
LP 03070 SUITABLE FOR FRAMING
AUTHOR: BUCHANAN, EDNA
ABSTRACT: Britt Montero's career and life are threatened as a
conniving, claw-her -way-to-the-top reporter steps into the
newsroom, taking over Britt's leads and sources.
LP 02493 SUMMER OF FEAR
AUTHOR: PARKER, T. JEFFERSON
ABSTRACT: When ex-cop Russ Monroe, in a drunken stupor of
self-pity, visits his ex-wife, Alma Mae Wilson, he sees Marty Parish,
homicide chief leaving. He enters the house and finds Alma
murdered and decides to let Parish report it. When it goes
unreported and a string of other killings continue, each man
suspects the other.
LP 06716 SUNSET LIMITED
AUTHOR: BURKE, JAMES LEE
ABSTRACT: Photojournalist Megan Flynn and her film-producing
brother, Cisco, return to New Iberia, Louisiana, to shoot a movie.
Police detective Dave Robicheaux suspects an ulterior motive since
their father, a union activist, was killed there forty years ago.
When more murders occur, Robicheaux is convinced that the Flynns
are doing more than their work requires.
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LP 06155 SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
AUTHOR: KELLERMAN, JONATHAN
ABSTRACT: The fifteen year old daughter of a diplomat dies on a
school field trip -- forced or lured into the Santa Monica mountains
and killed in cold blood. Her father denies a political motive, leaving
LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware to ask
why. And her father is intent on controlling the investigation.
LP 03947 SUSPICION OF GUILT
AUTHOR: PARKER, BARBARA
ABSTRACT: Miami attorney Gail Conner has just taken on
the biggest case of her career...a case that will mean millions of
dollars to her firm and a partnership for her if she wins. But what
starts out as a suspected forgery of a wealthy woman's last will
and testament turns out to be a brutal murder.
LP 09826 TANGO ONE
AUTHOR: LEATHER, STEPHEN
ABSTRACT: Three recruits prepare for their first day at the
Metropolitan Police training center. All have secrets that they're
eager to put behind them. But the Met has other plans for Jamie,
Bunny, and Tina. They're to join a team of undercover detectives, a
secret unit involved in the long-term penetration of criminal gangs.
LP 06698 TANNER ON ICE: AN EVAN TANNER NOVEL
AUTHOR: BLOCK, LAWRENCE
ABSTRACT: After being frozen for nearly twenty-five years through
cryonics, Evan Tanner wakes up in 1997 at age sixty four. But he
still looks and feels thirty nine! Back at work, his first assignment is
to destabilize the country of Myanmar by assassinating a popular
figure. But Tanner cannot bring himself to murder anyone,
especially a woman.
LP 08256 TELL NO ONE
AUTHOR: COBEN, HARLAN.
ABSTRACT: New York City pediatrician David Beck's wife Elizabeth,
was tragically murdered eight years ago by a serial killer. Or so he
thought. But the young doctor begins receiving mysterious e-mails
containing information only Elizabeth would know.
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LP 06213 TENTH JUSTICE
AUTHOR: MELTZER, BRAD
ABSTRACT: Ben Addison, a Supreme Court clerk, unwittingly leaks
the outcome of a forthcoming Court decision and finds himself the
target of blackmail. Worse, Ben and his intimate circle of friends
begin to treat each other with suspicion when someone in their
group appears to be leaking information to the blackmailer.
LP 03337 THIN AIR
AUTHOR: PARKER, ROBERT B.
ABSTRACT: When Boston police detective's beautiful young
bride vanishes without a trace, he enlists Spenser’s help in
tracking her down.
LP 05790 A THIN DARK LINE
AUTHOR: HOAG, TAMI
ABSTRACT: Pamela Bichon's killer is free, dismissed on a technicality.
Deputy Annie Broussard found Pamela's body and feels the case is
far from over. Pursuing the investigation will mean letting herself be
drawn into the confidence of a suspected killer.
LP 08356 THE THIRD VICTIM
AUTHOR: GARDNER, LISA.
ABSTRACT: The tiny sheriff's office of Bakersville, Oregon, appears
ill-equipped to handle a school shooting by the sheriff's son.
Officer Rainie Conner deals with state and federal authorities and
revisits the long-ago charges of shooting her mother while she
searches for what set the boy off.
LP 05446 THIS FAR, NO FURTHER
AUTHOR: WESSEL, JOHN
ABSTRACT: Harding was once a licensed private investigator. Now
he's an ex-con, working off the books on a simple domestic case take a few pictures of a straying husband and his girlfriend. When
the heartsick wife turns up at his door and the girlfriend turns up
dead he knows he's in trouble.
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LP 06585 THIS MORTAL COIL
AUTHOR: QUINTON, ANN
ABSTRACT: "PETS. Exits arranged. Professionally. Effectively.
Terminally Apply: The Coil Shuffler." reads the business card of a
professional assassin. When physiotherapist Rachel Morland
finds one of these cards on the body of a frail parishioner, her
suspicions are aroused, because she has seen it before - when her
husband committed suicide.
LP 06077 THE THOMAS BERRYMAN NUMBER
AUTHOR: PATTERSON, JAMES
ABSTRACT: The Thomas Berryman Number begins with three
terrifying
murders in the South. It ends with a relentless and unforgettable
manhunt in the North. In between is the riveting story of a
chilling assassin, the woman he loves, and the beloved leader he is
hired to kill with extreme prejudice.
Evanovich, Janet
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Three to Get Deadly Pub: 1997
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LP 05707 Avail:(MD1A) 1 (Other) none
Stephanie Plum, the brassy bail-bond agent from Trenton, N.J., has
been given
the unpopular task of finding beloved icecream vendor Mo Bedemier,
who skipped
bail after his arrest for carrying a concealed weapon.
LP 08236 THE TIN COLLECTORS
AUTHOR: CANNELL, STEPHEN J.
ABSTRACT: Inside the department, Internal Affairs Agents are called
Tin Collectors. If they catch you breaking the rules, they'll come
after your badge. If they want you badly enough, they'll collect
more than just your tin. LAPD Detective Shane Scully tries to stop
his ex-partner from beating his wife and ends up killing him.
Suddenly, Scully is shunned by his fellow cops who seek revenge,
while Internal Affairs zeroes in on the "renegade" cop.
LP 07023 TOP BANANA
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AUTHOR: JAMES, BILL
ABSTRACT: It was all in the papers. Mandy Walsh had been gunned
down, caught in the crossfire between two rival drug gangs. Mandy
was a drug runner: she was also just thirteen years old. For
shattered idealist Chief Constable Mark Lane, the only solution to
this evil is to infiltrate the drug gangs. His sardonic assistant
chief, Desmond Iles, has another solution: let the gangland police
itself in return for a few favors. And Mansel Shale, drug kingpin,
wants nothing more than a working arrangement with the police anything that will make him top banana.
LP 05567 TOTAL ECLIPSE
AUTHOR: RIGBEY, LIZ
ABSTRACT: Opening on a northern California mountaintop this is a
novel of suspense, passion, deception and illusion. Julia Fox is
the essence of the seductive woman; Lomax is her lover, an
astronomer by profession; and Gail is Julia's stepdaughter, a
troubled young woman; and Lewis Fox, Julia's husband is murdered.
LP 05250 TRIAL BY FIRE
AUTHOR: ROSENBERG, NANCY TAYLOR
ABSTRACT: Stella cataloni is the star of the dallas district
attorney's office, with an amazing 100 percent conviction rate. But
the conviction she most desperately wants, that of the arsonist who
killed her parents, agonizingly eludes her.
LP 02472 TRIAL RUN
AUTHOR: FRANCIS, DICK
ABSTRACT: An English gentleman rider, Randall, is asked to visit
Russia and check out what is going on in and around the equestrian
stables being prepared for the British Olympic Riding Team.
Randall, tipped off only to the fact that an element of danger
surrounds the code name "Alyosha", is about to have his first
experience with terrorism. ..
LP 07638 TRIPWIRE
AUTHOR: CHILD, LEE
ABSTRACT: Jack Reacher, ex-miltary policeman, lazy anonymity in
Key
West is shattered by a stranger who comes to town searching for
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him. Hours after his arrival, the stranger turns up beaten to
death, and Reacher follows the man's trail back to New York to find
the people who dispatched him in the first place: an elderly couple
still mourning a son lost in Vietnam; an alluring woman from
Reacher's own past; and at the center of the web, the most vicious
opponent Reacher has ever faced.
LP 06630 TROUBLE IN PARADISE: A JESSE STONE NOVEL
AUTHOR: PARKER, ROBERT B.
ABSTRACT: Jimmy Macklin, just out of jail, is already
planning another job. He heads to Paradise, Massachusetts, to rob
the wealthy residents of nearby Stiles Island. Macklin hopes police
chief Jesse Stone will be ineffectual, but Stone--although
distracted by his ex-wife's arrival--still has his wits about him.
LP 05746 TRUNK MUSIC
AUTHOR: CONNELLY, MICHAEL
ABSTRACT: Back on the job after an involuntary leave of absence,
maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch is ready for a
challenge. The body of a Hollywood producer is found in the trunk
of a Rolls-Royce, shot twice in the head - what looks like "trunk
music," a Mafia hit.
LP 03406 TURTLE MOON
AUTHOR: HOFFMAN, ALICE
ABSTRACT: Like most Florida cities, verity is hot
and humid in may. But in verity, when the sea turtles begin their
migration across west main street, "mistaking the glow of
streetlights for the moon," the people begin to go a little crazy.
Lucy Rosen, new to verity, is totally unprepared when her neighbor
is murdered and her son disappears along with the baby of the
murder victim.
LP 06102 TWANGED: A REGAN REILLY MYSTERY
AUTHOR: CLARK, CAROL HIGGINS
ABSTRACT: Private investigator Regan Reilly agrees to fly home to
the Hamptons to guard Brigid O'Neill, a rising country singer, at a
Fourth of July concert. Brigid is receiving threats from an unknown
fan as well as playing on a fiddle from Ireland--a fiddle with a
curse on it.
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LP 07779 UNDERCURRENTS
AUTHOR: PEARSON, RIDLEY
ABSTRACT: A serial killer rapes and strangles his victims and
craves crosses on their chests. At the same time, a copycat killer
adds prolonged torture to the murders. Sgt. Boldt of the Seattle
Police Department puts together the evidence that provides a
startling finale.
LP 03749 THE UNDERGROUND MAN: A LEW ARCHER NOVEL
AUTHOR: MACDONALD, ROSS
ABSTRACT: Detective Lew Archer searches for a young boy who
has apparently been kidnapped by a disturbed couple possibly high
on drugs. The case is set against the background of a raging
California forest fire.
LP 07521 UNHOLY TRINITY
AUTHOR: ADAM, PAUL
ABSTRACT: Andy Chapman, Rome correspondent for a London
newspaper,
investigates the brutal killing of a controversial left-wing priest
and discovers evidence which appears to implicate the Vatican in
the death. He turns his information over to the investigating
magistrate, the beautiful Elena Fiorini, and together they begin a
hunt for the killers. They are drawn into a terrifying web of
betrayal and violent death, and their own lives are put at risk.
LP 08541 VALHALIA RISING
AUTHOR: CUSSLER, CLIVE
ABSTRACT: Dirk Pitt spots smoke on the horizon from his NUMA
research vessel and races to the flaming cruise ship Golden Dolphin
in time to save most of the 2,000 passengers and crew, including
Kelly Egan, beautiful daughter of the inventor of engines that run
on seawater. Dr. Egan drowns, leaving Kelly with a leather case
that she believes contains the secrets of his life's work but a
couple of ruthless villains want it, too, and with Dirk's help she
narrowly escapes.
LP 07441 VENGEANCE
AUTHOR: KAMINSKY, STUART M.
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ABSTRACT: Three years ago, Lew quit his job and drove his rattling
Toyota south to escape the memories of his late wife. His car broke
down in Sarasota, Florida. He settled there, making ends meet by
doing some investigation work for a local attorney. He was hired by
Carl Sebastian to find his missing wife, Melanie. Following up on
leads, Lew is trailed by a mysterious burly man. Lew seems to be
getting closer to Melanie-but will he find her before the
unthinkable happens?
LP 07356 WALKIN THE DOG
AUTHOR: MOSLEY, WALTER
ABSTRACT: In this new book, the man with "rock-breaking hands"
confronts wrongs that most people would rather ignore and comes
face-to-face with the most dangerous emotion: hope. Nine years
after his release from prison, he has a girlfriend, a steady job,
and a two-legged dog called Killer.
LP 10397 WHITE BIZANGO
AUTHOR: GALLAGHER, STEPHEN
ABSTRACT: Rescued from the morgue and a bizarre and unpleasant
end, Louisiana detective John Lafcadio owes his life to the Cult
Crime Coordinators. Known as the Voodoo Cops, their job is to
dispel superstition and nail crimes of ignorance. When the middle
classes began to adopt Vodoun as a lifestyle fad, their doors were
opened to a ruthless, white male with a command of the religion's
darker practical secrets. Hunting down Lafcadio's would-be-killer will
be no easy task. His victims are also his protectors.
LP 07465 THE WHOLE TRUTH
AUTHOR: PICKARD, NANCY
ABSTRACT: Few killers of our time, whether real or imagined, are in
the same league as Raymond Raintree. He stands in a Florida
courtroom waiting to be convicted for the murder of Natalie Mae
McCullen. Marie Lightfoot is taking it all in. Marie knows the case
will make her best book yet--because Raintree's crime, vile beyond
imagining, is also impossible to turn away from.
LP 08849 WIDOW'S WALK
AUTHOR: PARKER, ROBERT B.
ABSTRACT: Boston private investigator Spenser is hired in a case
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involving a young wife suspected of shooting her millionaire
husband. Spenser's sleuthing seems to stir up trouble, and, after
six more murders, he calls in his bodyguard, Hawk.
LP 06207 WITH CHILD
AUTHOR: KING, LAURIE R.
ABSTRACT: San Francisco homicide detective Kate Martinelli is
feeling lonely, bewildered and angry: her partner Lee, recovering
from a gunshot wound, has decided that she must spend time on
her own, a move that Kate can only see as rejection. Kate befriends
the bright, quirky twelve-year-old Jules, and when the girl's parents
go on a trip, Kate agrees to care for her.
LP 02426 A WREATH FOR THE BRIDE
AUTHOR: O'DONNELL, LILLIAN
ABSTRACT: A young bride drowns on the honeymoon cruise, and
her mother asks private investigator Gwenn Ramadge to find her
murderer. Gwenn, whose line is security and personnel checks, is
reluctant to accept a murder investigation. But, when a second
newlywed is found stabbed to death and a third bride-to-be
disappears, Gwenn discovers what links the three women.
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.
LP 03750 ZEBRA - STRIPED HEARSE
AUTHOR: MACDONALD, ROSS
ABSTRACT: Private detective Lew Archer is hired by Colonel
Blackwell to look into the background of Burke Damis, the fiance of
the colonel's daughter. Archer discovers the body of a man stabbed
with an ice pick, and finds that Harriet and Damis have
disappeared.
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