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The Honorary Consul The Honorary Consul Graham Greene In a provincial Argentinean town, Charley Fortnum, a British consul with dubious authority and a weakness for drink, is kidnapped by Paraguayan revolutionaries who have mistaken him for the American … OL106068W
Phineas Redux Phineas Redux Anthony Trollope *The Palliser Novels*, book 4: *Phineas Redux* OL109870W
The way we live now The way we live now Anthony Trollope From a review of the Anthony Trollope canon in The Economist (2020/04/08 edition): *“The Way We Live Now” (1875) is as much a portrait of the last few decades as it is of the high Victorian age, and… OL109871W
Freaky Deaky Freaky Deaky Elmore Leonard A pair of former 1960s student activists who learned how to blow things up as part of their political education have teamed up after a prison stint and are on the loose in Detroit, out for a revenge … OL111647W
The Chicago way The Chicago way Michael T. Harvey Chicago private investigator Michael Kelly is hired by his former partner, John Gibbons, to help solve an eight-year-old rape and battery case, a case it turns out his old friend was once ordered to … OL11783263W
Bite marks Bite marks Jennifer Rardin Jaz Parks here. But I'm not alone. I'm hearing voices in my head - and they're not mine. The problem, or maybe the solution, is work. And the job's a stinker this time -- killing the gnomes that ar… OL11967433W
A beautiful place to die A beautiful place to die Malla Nunn Cooper is dispatched to Jacob's Rest, a remote town deep in the bush, to look into a murder report. Arriving at Old Voster's farm, he finds the white police captain dead face down in a creek. Three o… OL11971050W
Deadly harvest Deadly harvest Heather Graham,Phil Gigante When a young woman is found dead in a field, dressed up as a scarecrow with a slashed grin and a broken neck, the residents of Salem, Massachusetts, begin to fear that the infamous Harvest Man is mor… OL121735W
Recipe for murder Recipe for murder Lisa Harris "Pricilla[sic] never expected to be involved in a real life mystery, but that's exactly where she finds herself when she joins her son at his hunting lodge in the beautiful Colorado mountains. A sup… OL12354674W
A false dawn A false dawn Tom Lowe After thirteen years as a homicide detective, his wife dead, and his best friend shot in a robbery, Sean O'Brien feels like he's been through a war. He leaves the streets of Miami for a simpler life … OL12710843W
The View from the Cherry Tree The View from the Cherry Tree Willo Davis Roberts From his favorite perch in a cherry tree, Rob sees a murder committed, but when he tells his preoccupied family, no one will believe him. "Taut with suspense, this spell-binding story carries the rea… OL13325W
Trial by fire Trial by fire J. A. Jance In the heat of the Arizona desert, a raging fire pushes temperatures to a deadly degree, and one woman is left to burn. Pulled naked and barely breathing from the fire, the victim has no idea who she… OL13655W
An Innocent Client An Innocent Client Scott Pratt A preacher is stabbed to death in a Tennessee motel. The suspect is a waitress at a strip club.Defense attorney Joe Dillard's too burnt out to defend anyone he knows in his heart is guilty.Then he me… OL13750726W
The sad tale of the brothers Grossbart The sad tale of the brothers Grossbart Jesse Bullington Hegel and Manfried Grossbart may not consider themselves bad men - but death still stalks them through the dark woods of medieval Europe. The year is 1364, and the brothers Grossbart have embarked o… OL13771875W
Dead of winter Dead of winter Rennie Airth,Rennie Airth The murder of a young Polish girl in wartime London puts John Madden on the trail of a ruthless hired killerOn a freezing London night in 1944, Rosa Novak is brutally murdered during a blackout. The … OL14864777W
Heist Society (Heist Society #1) Heist Society (Heist Society #1) Ally Carter When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her to the Louvre...to case it. For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her Uncle Eddie traveled to Austria...to steal the crown jewels. When Kat turne… OL14909677W
Nightwalker Nightwalker Heather Graham One night, desperate for money to support her grandfather, Jessy Sparhawk places the bet that will change her life forever. Just as she's collecting her winnings, a man stumbles through the crowd, a … OL14911248W
Garden of Beasts Garden of Beasts Jeffery Deaver German-American Paul Schumann is a brilliant mobster hitman who gets caught and is offered a deal: hunt down and kill Reinhardt Ernst, the ruthless architect of Hitler's clandestine rearmament or fac… OL14927379W
The bone thief The bone thief Jefferson Bass New York Times bestselling author Jefferson Bass delivers an authentic and knuckle-biting thriller in which forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton must confront a crime of unimaginable proportions… OL14932785W
Skin and Bones Skin and Bones Tom Bale An electrifying debut thriller in which a killer goes on the rampage in a quiet Sussex village, leaving only one witness - a woman fighting for her life.On a cold January morning, a nightmare awaits … OL14991403W
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