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Alex Cross novels volume 32
Pub. Date
2023
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Detective Alex Cross is in the sights of the Dead Hours Killer, a serial murderer on a ruthless mission... An airport killer targeting pilots expands his scope. Alex Cross Must Die. 'Drop whatever you're doing, Detective Cross, and head to Reagan Airport,' DC Metro Police dispatch says. 'A jet just crashed and exploded on the runway. The chief and the FBI want you and John Sampson there pronto.' Cross and Sampson race to the crash site. The plane...
22) Witch king
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day... After being murdered, his consciousness dormant and unaware of the passing of time while confined in an elaborate water trap, Kai wakes to find a lesser mage attempting to harness Kai’s magic to his own advantage. That was never going to go well. But why was Kai imprisoned in the first place? What has changed in the world since his assassination? And why...
23) The stranger
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A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched...
24) The real Justine
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Sharing a whirlwind few days with a woman who abruptly vanishes and spotting her months later arguing with a man who is later found murdered, Michael Coolidge embarks on a psychologically charged effort to determine the woman's innocence.
25) Sunburn: a novel
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware. Polly is set on heading west. Adam says he's also passing through. Yet she stays, and he stays -- drawn to this mysterious redhead whose quiet stillness both unnerves and excites him. Over the course of a punishing summer, Polly and Adam abandon themselves to a steamy, inexorable affair. Still, each holds something back from the other -- dangerous, even lethal secrets. Then someone...
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Pub. Date
c2006
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Elizabeth Lochtefeld was a glowing, charismatic and driven woman who'd built a million-dollar fortune in Manhattan before settling into a new life in one of America's most elite resort communities. She'd planned to dedicate the rest of her life to charity-and to marry and finally start a family of her own. When Lochtefeld met thrity-seven-year-old Tim Toolan- a tall, strapping, handsome, and Columbia graduate and Wall Street ace who'd made it to Vice...
27) Blockade Billy
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Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
c2010
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112 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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"Even the most die-hard baseball fans don't know the true story of William 'Blockade Billy' Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first--and only--player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game's history. Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional...
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"The residents of Haven, Wisconsin have dined on the Fine Chao restaurant's delicious Americanized Chinese food for thirty-five years, happy to ignore any unsavory whispers about the family owners. But when brash, charismatic, and tyrannical patriarch Leo Chao is found dead-presumed murdered-his sons find they've drawn the exacting gaze of the entire town. The ensuing trial brings to light potential motives for all three brothers: Dagou, the restaurant's...
29) Death in the air
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1984, c1935
Physical Desc
230 p. : diagram.
Description
Poirot is on a flight from Paris to London when a woman is found to have died during the flight. She was apparently murdered with a blowgun dart poisoned with snake venom. All of the passengers are under suspicion even though it seems no one came near the victim.
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Royal Spyness mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
2019.
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Georgie is excited when Darcy announces out of the blue that they are flying to Kenya for their extended honeymoon. It is only after they arrive that she suspects he has actually been sent there on an assignment. She tries not to be angry, because she is,after all, in a paradise! They are picked up in Nairobi and taken to a lovely house in Happy Valley--the center of upper-class English life there. Darcy finally confides that there have been some...
31) How it happened
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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Kimberly Crepeaux is no good, a notorious jailhouse snitch, teen mother, and heroin addict whose petty crimes are well-known to the rural Maine community where she lives. So when she confesses to her role in the brutal murders of Jackie Pelletier and Ian Kelly, the daughter of a well-known local family and her sweetheart, the locals have little reason to believe her story. Not Rob Barrett, the FBI investigator and interrogator specializing in telling...
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"From internationally bestselling author Andrea Camilleri, a brilliant, bawdy comedy that will surprise even the most die-hard Montalbano fans. In 1880s Vigàta, a stranger comes to town to open a pharmacy. Fofò turns out to be the son of a man legendary for having a magic garden stocked with plants, fruits, and vegetables that could cure any ailment-a man who was found murdered years ago. Fofò escaped, but now has reappeared looking to make his...
Series
Criterion collection volume 335
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Description
Florence Carala and her lover Julien Tavernier, an ex-paratrooper, want to murder her husband by faking a suicide.
34) Into the blue
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Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While living in the mansion of a multi-millionaire friend, a failed businessman finds himself involved in the murder of two young women.
35) Rope
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Universal Studios
Pub. Date
p2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Two thrill-seeking friends (Granger and Dall) strangle a classmate and then hold a party for their victim's family and friends, serving refreshments on a buffet table fashioned from a trunk containing the lifeless body. When dinner conversation revolves around talk of the 'perfect murder, ' their former teacher (Stewart) becomes increasingly suspicious that his students have turned his intellectual theories into brutal reality."--Container.
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RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A stunning New York socialite and a down-to-earth city cop are caught in a deadly web of illicit passion and heart-stopping suspense in this taut, stylilsh thriller. A detective finds his life turned upside down when he is assigned to protect a beautiful eyewitness to a brutal murder.
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Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
325 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
The investigative journalist documents the 2015 poisoning murder of chiropractic therapist Mary Yoder and the community-dividing investigation that implicated members of the victim's own family.
39) A time to kill
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD, sides A & B (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A murder trial brings a small Mississippi town's racial tensions to the flashpoint. Amid a frenzy of activist marches, Klan terror, media clamor and brutal riots, an unseasoned but idealistic young attorney mounts a stirring courtroom battle for justice.
40) The #1 Lawyer
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Pub. Date
2024.
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A small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation, Stafford Lee Penney, Mississippi's #1 lawyer who has never lost a case, when his wife is scandalously killed, spirals into a legal and personal legal streak, ruining his career, and making him the nation's #1 suspect.
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