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2) Blue water
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
421 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
One ordinary day changes lives as a friend (and drunk driver) slams into the car of a mother and child, killing the child.
3) Breakwater
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
447 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers
All she wants is a new beginning… but ghosts of the past can be hard to shake.
Security consultant Quinn Harlowe just started an independent career and is enjoying a relaxed new lifestyle in her bayside cottage. But then she finds a friend and former colleague dead outside. Local law enforcement deems it suicide, but Quinn has her doubts. It's time to start her own investigation.
As Quinn...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kellerman delights with 17 short mysteries, including three all-new pieces featuring Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, a mystery introducing Faye's newest heroine Cindy Decker, and a story co-written by Faye and her son, budding novelist Jesse Kellerman.
7) The angel
Author
Physical Desc
345 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
While investigating the mysterious legend of an ancient stone angel in Ireland, folklorist Keira Sullivan is rescued from disaster by Simon Cahill, who does not believe in myths or magic until he discovers that they are being followed by a great evil.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Prince of Wales has asked four wealthy entrepreneurs and their wives to Buckingham Palace to discuss a fantastic idea: the construction of a six-thousand-mile railroad that would stretch the full length of Africa. But the prince's gathering proves disastrous when the mutilated body of a prostitute turns up in a linen closet among the queen's monogrammed sheets. With great haste, Thomas Pitt, the brilliant mainstay of Special Services, is summoned...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
453 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Erin Neal has been living a secluded life in the Arizona desert since the death of his girlfriend and he isn't happy when an oil company executive comes calling. A number of important Saudi oil wells have stopped producing and Erin is the world's foremost expert in resolving just these kinds of complications. Erin quickly finds himself stuck in the Saudi desert studying a new bacteria with a voracious appetite for oil and an uncanny talent for destroying...
11) Dead of night
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
583 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
13) Heart and soul
Author
Language
English
Description
Given the difficult task of building an underfunded clinic in an Irish community caught between the past and present, Dr. Clara Casey finds her task complicated by her problematic personal life, her colorful and diverse staff, and the difficult patients they serve.
14) Hot mahogany
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hired by his CIA boss to protect his older brother, an Army intelligence operative who is suffering from amnesia, Stone Barrington learns about his charge's talent for restoring antiques and his links to a haunting event in Vietnam more than thirty years earlier.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of short works is comprised of pieces that previously appeared in "The New Yorker," "Playboy," and "McSweeney's," in a volume that includes such tales as "The Gingerbread Girl" and "N."
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their friend is assaulted in the street of their hard-drinking, gun-toting Colorado town, a young schoolteacher and a spinster set out in an open wagon to find a safer life, an endeavor that pits them against violent natural elements and their friend's assailant.
18) Oxygen
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
519 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
19) Scarpetta
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Leaving behind her Charleston forensic pathology practice to accept an assignment in New York City, Kay Scarpetta learns the story of an injured psychiatric patient who claims he was attacked by a stalker who was killing someone else at the time.
20) Smoke screen
Author
Language
English
Description
The themes of role reversal and the abuse of power figure prominently in a tale in which corruption and betrayals turn friends against one another and force criminals to become heroes.