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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
467 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an English tycoon dies mysteriously, he leaves a note naming six people who might have wanted him dead. Daisy Kean and PI Harry Montana team up to take the suspects-and also six red herrings-on a Mediterranean cruise, culminating at his beautiful villa on Capri, where his will is to be read and the killer unmasked. With the beautiful seaside settings plus the beginnings of a romance between loner Montana and wary Daisy, passions flare and the...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
286 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Superintendent Runcorn-who Anne Perry fans will remember as William Monk's ex-boss-is feeling rather lonely during his holiday on the remote, snowy island of Anglesey, off the north coast of Wales. However, he is suddenly called into action when the sister of the local vicar is discovered murdered and draped over a gravestone in her brother's churchyard. Investigating this tragic crime with the assistance of the beautiful Melisande gives him just...
10) Hot mahogany
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Language
English
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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."
13) Scarpetta
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Language
English
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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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Driven to solve the mystery of an older sibling's disappearance ten years earlier, young lawyer Carolyn MacKenzie investigates a bizarre community of people who choose to disappear, embarking on a quest with life-threatening consequences.
17) Fired up
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
511 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jack Winters has been experiencing nightmares and blackouts, manifestations of the Winters family curse. The legend says he must find the Burning Lamp or risk turning into a monster. He needs the help of a woman who can read the lamp's dreamight, and is convinced that private investigator Chloe Harper will save him.
19) Hardball
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
When V.I. Warshawski is asked to find a man who's been missing for four decades, the search becomes lethal. Afraid to learn that her adored father might have been a bent cop working for the Chicago P.D., V.I. takes the investigation all the way to its frightening end.
20) Heart and soul
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A story of patients and staff, family, and friends who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old Ireland and the new. • "Good-hearted [and] entertaining." —The Washington Post
Dr. Clara Casey has been offered the thankless job of establishing the underfunded clinic and agrees to take it on for a year. She has plenty on her plate already—two...
Dr. Clara Casey has been offered the thankless job of establishing the underfunded clinic and agrees to take it on for a year. She has plenty on her plate already—two...