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61) The professional
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Hired to counter a blackmailer who has had affairs with several wealthy women, Boston private eye Spenser finds the case turning violent when the women are systematically murdered.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
459 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of two novels includes Christyne Butler's "The Last Chance Maverick," in which architect Jonah Dalton tries to get over his heartbreak with artist Vanessa Brent, who is hiding a trauma of her own.
63) Shadow warrior
Author
Series
Shadow riders volume 4
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Vittorio Ferraro is a man whose family loyalty knows no bounds. He would die for his siblings and the people they love, but what he really wants is to start a family of his own. Deep down, Vittorio has always known finding a woman who could ride shadows would be nearly impossible--let alone one who could accept his particular needs--and he never expected to find her in the middle of a kidnapping ... Grace Murphy has always been drawn to Vittorio Ferraro--or...
Author
Series
Danny Ryan trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond his wildest dreams rich. The former dock worker, Irish mob soldier and fugitive from the law is now a respected businessman - a Las Vegas casino mogul and billionaire silent partner in a group that owns two lavish hotels. Finally, Danny has it all: a beautiful house, a child he adores, a woman he might even fall in love with. Life is good. But then Danny...
66) Alone
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Bobby Dodge, a sniper with the Massachusetts State Police SWAT team, saves a woman and her young son from her armed husband, he finds himself investigating the shooting of a man who had accused his wife of poisoning their son.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When detective Zoe Warren arrives in Royal, Texas, to investigate a case, wealthy rancher Cord Galicia can't believe his innocent best friend is the prime suspect. So Cord decides to woo Zoe as a distraction. But soon she has his libido in custody. With so much at stake--and their very real heat rising by the minute--will his hidden agenda tear them apart?"--Back cover.
69) Loving baby
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This sexy tycoon has everything.... So why is he searching for a baby? To Chief Deputy Suzy Simmons, James Callahan is the dark-haired, sexy-as-hell millionaire with abs from her past. But despite his megacharm and killer body, Suzy deeply distrusts him when he draws her into his investigation of a criminal's murder. The courageous beauty is determined to get answers, not come-ons. As they race against time, James and Suzy face unseen danger with...
70) Damage
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
His career derailed by the vengeful billionaire Curtlee family for his part in convicting one of their number for murder, former homicide detective Abe Glitsky learns that the killer has won a retrial at the same time a star witness has been murdered.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A trenchant analysis of how the wealthiest 9.9 percent of Americans -- those just below the tip of the wealth pyramid -- have exacerbated the growing inequality in our country and distorted our social values"--
Author
Series
In death volume 31
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a series of murders including those of a limousine driver and a high-priced escort, an infuriated NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas enters her husband, Roarke's, rarified circle to prevent the imminent killing of another victim.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
St. Martin's paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
628 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Married by Morning: "In Married by Morning, for two years, Catherine Marks has been a paid companion to the Hathaway sisters--a pleasant position, with one caveat. Her charges' older brother, Leo Hathaway, is thoroughly exasperating. But when one quarrel ends in a sudden kiss, Cat is shocked at her powerful response--and even more so when Leo proposes a dangerous liaison. Leo must marry and produce an heir within a year to save his family home. But...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013, c2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
384 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eagerly visiting New York to escape her suffocating family, young Englishwoman Sophie clashes with her hostess's arrogant grandson, who follows her back to England with an unconventional proposal.
75) Steal
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Imagine everyone's surprise when Carter von Oehson, a sophomore in Dr. Dylan Reinhart's Abnormal Psychology class, posts on Instagram that he plans to kill himself. Twenty-four hours later and still no one has seen him. The one person convinced he's still alive is his father, Mathias von Oehson. But what Mathias knows and how he knows it would ultimately reveal a secret so damaging that it would be as if he were committing suicide himself. Dylan now...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When wealthy socialite Chrissie Montgomery, young, naïve, and set to inherit an enormous fortune, goes missing, PI Philip Marlowe and Anne Riordan, head of her own all-female detective agency, search for this woman who does not want to be found, encountering a dead body along the way.
77) The big kahuna
Author
Series
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A stoner, an Instagram model, a Czech oligarch, and a missing unicorn. Nick Fox and Kate O'Hare have their work cut out for them in their weirdest, wildest adventure yet in this latest entry in the New York Times bestselling series by Janet and Peter Evanovich. Straight arrow FBI Agent Kate O'Hare always plays by the rules. Charming con man Nicolas Fox makes them up as he goes along. She thinks he's nothing but a scoundrel. He thinks she just needs...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of SAY NOTHING The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions: Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sackler's...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What I intend to say to you will come as a shock ..." With these words, Lady Athelinda Playford -- one of the world's most beloved children's authors -- springs a surprise on the lawyer entrusted with her will. As guests arrive for a party at her Irish mansion, Lady Playford has decided to cut off her two children without a penny . . . and leave her vast fortune to someone else: an invalid who has only weeks to live. Among Lady Playford's visitors...
80) Relative silence
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
441 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A powerful family with dark secrets. After personal tragedy, Piper Boone retreats to her childhood home - a secluded mansion for the wealthy Boone family, who are practically American royalty. When catastrophe strikes, her family is put in the spotlight, and the line between victim and suspect gets blurred. A forensic artist with his own haunted past, Tucker Landry is drawn to Piper in the midst of the trauma, but the connections being made to her...