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As holiday celebrations take place in Santa Fe, Agent Paul Kagan is on the run with a baby the Russian mafia wants to destroy, and turns to a mother and her young son for help during a violent night where they all must work together to keep the child safe from harm.
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Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett is called to the scene of an aircraft inbound from London to help deal with a passenger who is behaving erratically. She figures out that he's got anterograde amnesia, and can't form new memories. Suddenly a string of clues arises, something to do with a super deadly biological agent code-named "Slick," a missing wife and son, and a secret partnership gone horribly wrong. Jo realizes her patient's addled mind may hold...
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Glen Garber is left with a daughter to raise and a head full of questions when his wife dies in an accident - one that the police say she caused. Sheila wasn't a drinker - she wasn't even supposed to be on the road where she died. A conspiracy is forming around Glen, one that involves virtually everyone he knows and makes him wonder how well he knew the woman he married. Now he's going to have to seek a truth that could get him killed...
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2011
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Maggie Silver is solidly middle class, with a mortgage to pay and an ill mother to support. Doing her best to scramble up the ladder at an elite Southern California PR firm, Maggie tackles her toughest client yet: Senator Henry Paxton, who also happens to be the father of Maggie's estranged best friend. Senator Paxton's young female aide has been found murdered, and Maggie must run damage control to prevent the scandal from growing.
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The follow-up to Vaara, Snow Angels finds Vaara dealing with personal demons and banishment to the graveyard shift in Helsinki's homicide unit. Thrust into the investigation of a World War II hero and the murder of a Russian businessman's wife, Vaara is about to find that the past has a deadly reach indeed.
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In the affluent community of Pacific Heights, the wives of two powerful San Francisco businessmen are unknowingly having affairs with the same man. Attractive and cunning, Ryan Kroll is known for his creative and often violent ways of obtaining information for a powerful corporation. Then the women's therapist discovers that he has stolen their files. The job of stopping Kroll before it's too late falls to Marten Fane, a retired SID detective.
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The Myth: When God cast the Archangel Satan into Hell, ending the War in Heaven, peace prevailed on Earth. Until the Garden of Eden. The Reality: Satan has never been closer to his goal. Bernadette Callahan, an agent for a shadowy government organization known as Section, is pursuing a serial killer with nearly supernatural abilities. Sebastian "Batty" LaLaurie is a religious historian. This unlikely duo pairs up for a race across the globe.
9) Backfire
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San Francisco Judge Ramsey Hunt, longtime friend to FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich, is presiding over the trial of Clive and Cindy Cahill, accused in a string of murders, when the proceedings take a radical turn. Federal prosecutor Mickey O'Rourke becomes suddenly tentative, leading Hunt to suspect he's been threatened, and when Hunt is shot in the back this is all but confirmed. Now Savich and Sherlock race to San Francisco to investigate,...
10) The drowning
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After a man disappears in Fjällbacka, Patrik Hedström and his colleagues are unsure if he is dead or alive. When, four months later he is found murdered, frozen in the ice, it comes to light that one of the dead man's acquaintances, author Christian Thydell, has begun receiving anonymous threats. When he receives a threat during the launch party for his breakthrough novel, he breaks down and shows the letters to Erika Falck, who helped him with...
12) Ransom River
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While most of the town is focused on the tense and shocking circumstances of the trial, Rory's return to Ransom River dredges up troubling memories from her childhood that she can no longer ignore. But in the wake of a desperate attack on the courthouse, Rory realizes that exposing these dark skeletons has connected her to an old case that was never solved, and bringing the truth to light just might destroy her.
13) Sailor
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2012
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Acclaimed novelist of The Kind One and screenwriter of such films as One False Move and The Gift, Tom Epperson brings the violence-soaked world of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men and the heroism of Jack Schaefer's Shane together to create an iconic action thriller for the twenty-first century.
Gina fell for the wrong guy. Joe came into her life promising her everything, and he gave it to her, along with a world of hell.
But Gina was stronger...
15) They disappeared
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"Jeff Griffin, a mechanic, and his wife, Sarah, travel from Montana to Manhattan to give their nine-year-old son, Cole, his dream vacation as they secretly face the heart-wrenching turmoil that has them teetering on divorce. While sightseeing near Times Square, Jeff steps into a store to buy batteries for their camera-but upon returning to the street he finds that Sarah and Cole have vanished. Battling his anguish and police suspicions, Jeff fights...
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"'This document, dear friend, will shatter the Church'-- Reading these words in a letter in a dusty archive, Thomas Kelly is skeptical. The papers to which they refer have vanished, but Father Kelly, a Jesuit priest, doubts anything could ever have had that power-- until the Vatican suddenly calls him to Rome to begin a desperate search for that very document. Meanwhile, standing before a council of her people, Livia Pietro receives instructions:...
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Lisa Kallisto is one of those overworked, overscheduled mothers who never secure enough sleep at night. After getting her three kids off to school, working all day as the manager of a charitable animal shelter and taking care of her household, she's lucky to get a few minutes to herself. So when her daughter's friend Lucinda turns up missing after she was supposed to spend the night at Lisa's home, Lisa is full of blame and self-loathing. And she's...
18) Lexicon
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IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
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Emily Ruff belongs to a secretive, influential organization whose "poets" can break down individuals by psychographic markers in order to take control of their thoughts. Then she makes a catastrophic mistake and falls in love with Wil Jamieson who holds the key to a secret war between rival factions of "poets." In order to survive, Wil must journey to the toxically decimated town of Broken Hill, Australia, as the world crashes toward a Tower of Babel...
19) Snowblind
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"SNOWBLIND is a thrilling contemporary ghost story with both horror and heart. The small New England town of Coventry is haunted by its memories of a deadly winter... in which loved ones were lost, families torn apart, and a town buried in a terrible blizzard. Now, twelve years later, the people plagued by their memories of that storm are haunted once again as a new storm approaches, promising to wreak new havoc. Old ghosts trickle back, and this...
20) The stranger
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Detective Patrik Hedstrom tackles his toughest investigation yet when a string of suspicious deaths points to a potential serial killer who has turned his eye toward Fjallbacka and her dark forests, where two children vanished decades before.
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