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"A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in."--Amazon.com.
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While investigating a series of gory killings of young, innocent girls, Edinburgh police detective John Rebus, a former member of Britain's elite SAS, discovers his own ties to the killer and is brought up against his own memories, which hold the key to unraveling the case.
3) Play dead
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When her husband, David Baskin, the Boston Celtics' star player, dies on their Australian honeymoon, fashion model Laura Ayars returns home to discover a half million dollars missing from his account and their house ransacked, prompting her to launch her own investigation into David's death.
4) Night sins
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A peaceful Minnesota town, where crime is something that just doesn’t happen, is about to face its worst nightmare. A young boy disappears. There are no witnesses, no clues—only a note, cleverly taunting, casually cruel. Has a cold-blooded kidnapper struck? Or is this the reawakening of a long-quiet serial killer?
A tough-minded investigator on her first, make-or-break case . . . A local cop who fears that big-city evils have come...
A tough-minded investigator on her first, make-or-break case . . . A local cop who fears that big-city evils have come...
6) Open season
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Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden - especially one like Joe, who won't take bribes or look the other way - is always far from popular. When Joe finds a local hunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile behind his state-owned home, he takes it personally - and thrusts himself into a mystery that threatens the life and family he loves.
7) Monkeewrench
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Haunted by a series of horrifying and violent episodes in their past, Grace McBride and the oddball crew of her software company, Monkeewrench, create a computer game where the killer is always caught, where the good guys always win. But their game becomes a nightmare when someone starts duplicating the fictional murders in real life down to the last detail.
11) Origin in death
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As scientists work to expand the limits of technology Lieutenant Eve Dallas tracks the cunning, cold-blooded killer of a father and son.
12) Born to rock
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High school senior Leo Caraway, a conservative Republican, learns that his biological father is a punk rock legend.
13) Chasing destiny
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Known on the streets for her beauty and impressive motorcycle, Billie discovers that she is pregnant just before her boyfriend decides to return to his wife, a situation that is complicated by an attempt on Billie's life.
14) Haunted in death
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A murder at an infamous building that is reputed to be haunted leads Eve into investigating a forty-year-old case in order to understand what is happening in the present.
15) Incantation
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During the Spanish Inquisition, sixteen-year-old Estrella, brought up a Catholic, discovers her family's true Jewish identity, and when their secret is betrayed by Estrella's best friend, the consequences are tragic.
16) Phantom
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Richard Rahl continues the search for his wife Kahlan Amnell after the Chainfire spell makes everyone else forget her. He becomes persuaded of the importance of fighting against the Imperial Order.
17) Promise me
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Entertainment agent Myron Bolitar, determined to keep his friends' children safe in their last pressure-cooker months of high school, makes two neighborhood girls promise that if they are ever in a bind and afraid to call their parents, they will call him. A few nights later, one of the girls does call, and he takes her to where she says her friend lives. When the girl is reported missing the next day, and her parents learn that Myron was the last...
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Her face, so pale when she'd removed her cloak, had bloomed when her hand had taken the sword. Her eyes, so heavy, so somber, had gone as brilliant as the blade. And had simply sliced through him, keen as a sword, when they'd met his... In the kingdom of Geall, the scholarly Moira has taken up the sword of her people. Now, as queen, she must prepare her subjects for the greatest battle they will ever fight--against an enemy more vicious than any they...
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Take one food writer named Cranky Agnes, add a hitman named Shane, mix them together with a Southern mob wedding, a missing necklace, two annoyed flamingos, and a dog named Rhett and you've got a recipe for a sexy, hilarious novel about the disastrous side of true love...
Agnes Crandall's life goes awry when a dognapper invades her kitchen one night, seriously hampering her attempts to put on a wedding that she's staked her entire net
20) Bleeding Kansas
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From the New York Times bestselling author of the V.I. Warshawski series comes “a gripping contemporary novel…of fear and conflict in heartland America” (Publishers Weekly).
In Kansas, on land that once saw some of America’s bloodiest antislavery battles, three families have coexisted for more than one hundred fifty years: the Grelliers, the Fremantles, and the Schapens. Once allies in the fight against...
In Kansas, on land that once saw some of America’s bloodiest antislavery battles, three families have coexisted for more than one hundred fifty years: the Grelliers, the Fremantles, and the Schapens. Once allies in the fight against...
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