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"In this game, even winning can be deadly... Amy Whey is proud of her ordinary life and the simple pleasures that come with itteaching diving lessons, baking cookies for new neighbors, helping her best friend, Charlotte, run their local book club. Her greatest joy is her family: her devoted professor husband, her spirited fifteen-year-old stepdaughter, her adorable infant son. And, of course, the steadfast and supportive Charlotte. But Amy's sweet,...
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Ed Crane, a humble barber, suspects that his wife Doris is having an affair with her boss. When a stranger comes into town hinting that there is a fortune to be made in investing in the new invention of dry cleaning, Ed hatches a blackmail scheme he hopes will make him rich and get him some revenge at the same time. His plan goes horribly awry when he accidentally commits a murder for which Doris...
4) Heist
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An accomplished thief has his career jeopardized after he's caught on security cameras during a job. Broke, he and his associates are blackmailed by their longtime fence into jacking Swiss gold bars from an airplane. As they plot the complicated score, he and his crew become suspicious of the relationship between his young wife and the fence's nephew, who has been planted on the crew to keep an eye on them for his uncle. Betrayals and backstabbings...
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"22-year-old Olivia has been missing for one day...and counting. She was last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley. And not coming back out again. Julia, the detective heading up the search for Olivia, thinks she knows what to expect. A desperate family, a ticking clock, and long hours away from her husband and daughter. But she has no idea just how close to home this case is going to get. Because the criminal at the heart of the disappearance...
6) The debt
Publisher
Distributed under license from High Point Films and Television Ltd
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A retired safecracker thought his criminal past was behind him for good, but when his witless son-in-law fails to repay a ruthless loan shark, violent threats force him to take on one last job to protect his family.
7) Rogue spy
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
Former French child spies and friends Thomas Paxton and Camille Leyland find themselves falling in love as they work to stop a dangerous adversary who knows far too much about both of their pasts.
8) The K Team
Author
Series
K team novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Corey Douglas and his K-9 partner, Simon Garfunkel, have recently retired from the police force. Not ready to give up the life yet, they come up with a proposal for fellow former cop, Laurie Carpenter, and her investigating partner, Marcus. Laurie and Marcus - who help out Laurie's lawyer husband Andy on cases - have been chafing to jump back into investigating on their own, so they are in. They call themselves the K Team, in honor of Simon. Their...
9) Creep
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 357 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Attempting to end her affair with graduate student Ethan Wolfe, Professor Sheila Tao is horrified to discover Ethan's mental instability, a situation that is complicated by his knowledge of compromising information about her personal life.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru.
"The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to intersect: neat, endearing Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in Piura, Peru, who finds himself the victim of blackmail; and Ismael Carrera, a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, who cooks up a plan to avenge...
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"When Rainy reluctantly agrees to a girls' weekend in Vegas, she's prepared for an exhausting parade of shots and slot machines. But after a wild night, her friend Braithe doesn't come back to the hotel room. And then Rainy gets the text message, sent from Braithe's phone: someone has her. But Rainy is who they really want, and Rainy knows why. What follows is a twisted, shocking journey on the knife-edge of life and death. If she wants to save Braithe--and...
12) Zero effect
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Daryl Zero is a genius as a private investigator but a basket case in life. Steve Arlo is Zero's smooth-talking front man and beleaguered gofer. Their search for a shady tycoon's missing keys uncovers blackmail, revenge and murder. But when love zeroes in on Zero, the world's greatest detective suddenly doesn't have a clue.
13) Deal breaker
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The debut of Myron Bolitar, a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent and one of the most fascinating and complex heroes in suspense fiction, Deal Breaker is a page-turning classic from Edgar Award–winner and master storyteller Harlan Coben.
“One of the most engaging heroes in mystery fiction.”—Dennis Lehane
Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time. So is Christian...
“One of the most engaging heroes in mystery fiction.”—Dennis Lehane
Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time. So is Christian...
Author
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Three desperate men converge in the midst of an annual carnival in New Mexico. Sailor used to be Senator Willis Douglass’ protege. When he met the lawmaker, he was just a poor kid, living on the Chicago streets. Douglass took him in, put him through school, and groomed him to work as a confidential secretary. And as the senator’s dealings became increasingly corrupt, he knew he could count on Sailor to clean up his messes. Willis Douglass isn’t...
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Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Each Halloween Sam, Harran, Elisha, Laureen, and Dom hold a funeral for their secrets in an abandoned hut, but when their ritual is disrupted and they start receiving threatening messages, the friends must uncover their blackmailer before all their secrets are told and their lives ruined.
16) His true purpose
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Series
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
366 pages (large print) ; 21 cm.
Description
"In town under false pretenses, Alexander Bennett must convince Janie Roberts to sign a nondisclosure agreement for his boss. But as Janie quickly makes him feel at home, he can't believe the single mother is guilty of blackmail. Can he find the truth without losing the woman he's falling for--or the little boy who longs for a father?"--
17) War on everyone
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Terry and Bob are two crooked cops who frame and blackmail criminals all over town. Looking for the ultimate pay-off, they try to extort a strip club manager and his eccentric, junkie boss, but get more than they bargained for when their hair-brained scheme uncovers a bigger, darker secret.
19) Crossfire
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Shell-shocked and missing a foot--lost to an IED during his tour of duty in Afghanistan--Captain Tom Forsyth has been sent "home" by the army and, at loose ends, returns to his estranged mother's house for the first time since he joined up at seventeen. But Josephine Kauri, the "first lady of British racing," has always put the horses she trains first and her family last. Tom soon finds himself strained to the breaking point with his mother and stepfather....
Author
Series
May List mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
301 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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