Mystery & Thrillers
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The Dog Who Knew Too Much (Chet and Bernie Mysteries, No. 4)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Spencer Quinn
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Atria (2011, Sep 6th).
Pages: 320
“Outstanding….Quinn (suspense novelist Peter Abrahams) manages to sell the conceit of a literate canine narrator by dint of intelligent writing and on-the-mark pacing and tone.” --Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Human cunning and canine smarts triumph once again.” --Kirkus Reviews "A charming tale." --People Magazine “A thoroughly entertaining comic mystery. A must-read, of course, for everyone who likes a canine presence in their crime novels.” --Booklist “How could you not enjoy a doggone good tale like this?” --Bookfairie more
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Defending Jacob: A Novel
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: William Landay
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Delacorte Press (2012, Jan 31st).
Pages: 432
Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student.Every parental instinct Andy has rallies to protect his boy. Jacob insists that he is innocent, and Andy believes him. Andy must. He’s his father. But as damning facts and shocking revelations surface, as a marriage threatens to crumble and the trial intensifies, as the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own—between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between a past he’s tried to bury and a future he cannot conceive. more
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Celebrity In Death
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: J.D. Robb
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Putnam Adult (2012, Feb 21st).
Pages: 400
J.D. Robb is the pseudonym for a number one New York Times bestselling author of more than 190 novels, including the futuristic suspense In Death series. There are more than 400 million copies of her books in print. more
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The Body in the Library (Miss Marple Mystery)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Agatha Christie
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Center Point Pub; Lrg edition (2011, Aug 1st).
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Cheap satin and peroxide blondes were a rare sight in St. Mary Mead, at least before film-man Basil Blake bought a cottage and invited down the London crowd. Then a girl in a garish get-up is found strangled in Colonel Bantry's library, and it appears Basil is involved. more
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The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Large Print))
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Agatha Christie
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Center Point Pub; Lrg edition (2011, Sep 1st).
Pages:
295 p. (large print) ; 22 cm. more
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The Shadow Patrol (A John Wells Novel)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Alex Berenson
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Putnam Adult (2012, Feb 21st).
Pages: 416
In 2009, the CIA's Kabul Station fell for a source who promised to lead it to Bin Laden, but instead he blew himself up, taking the station's most senior officers with him. Now, more than two years later, the station is still floundering, agents are dying, and at Langley the CIA's chiefs wonder if the unthinkable has happened, if somehow the Taliban has infiltrated the station.When they ask John Wells to investigate, he reluctantly agrees to return to the country where his career as an undercover operative began. But there, he finds a vipers' nest of hostility and mistrust-and clues that hint at a drug-trafficking operation involving the Agency, the military, and the Taliban. Americans are dying, and an American is responsible. And only John Wells stands in his way . more
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The Moving Finger (Miss Marple Mysteries (Large Print))
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Agatha Christie
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Center Point Pub; Lrg edition (2011, Sep 1st).
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Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets- a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs. Symmington, commits suicide. Her final note says "I can't go on," but Miss Marple questions the coroner's verdict of suicide. Soon nobody is sure of anyone- as secrets stop being shameful and start becoming deadly.--From back cover. Read more... more
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The Wolf Gift
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Anne Rice
Format: Deckle Edge]
Publisher: Knopf (2012, Feb 14th).
Pages: 400
A daring new departure from the inspired creator of The Vampire Chronicles (“unrelentingly erotic . . . unforgettable”—The Washington Post), Lives of the Mayfair Witches (“Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature”—San Francisco Chronicle), and the angels of The Songs of the Seraphim (“remarkable”—Associated Press). A whole new world—modern, sleek, high-tech—and at its center, a story as old and compelling as history: the making of a werewolf, reimagined and reinvented as only Anne Rice, teller of mesmerizing tales, conjurer extraordinaire of other realms, could create. The time is the present. The place, the rugged coast of Northern California. A bluff high above the Pacific. more
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Private Games
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: James Patterson
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (2012, Feb 13th).
Pages: 416
On your markPrivate, the world's most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Its agents are the smartest, fastest, and most technologically advanced in the world, and 400 of them have been transferred to London to protect more than 10,000 competitors who represent more than 200 countries.Get setThe opening ceremony is hours away when Private investigator and single father of twins, Peter Knight, is called to the scene of a ruthless murder. A high-ranking member of the games' organizing committee has been killed. It's clear to Peter that this wasn't a crime of passion, but one of precise calculation and execution.DieNewspaper reporter Karen Pope receives a letter from a person who calls himself Cronus claiming responsibility for the murders. more
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Oath of Office
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Michael Palmer
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition (2012, Feb 14th).
Pages: 384
Michael Palmer, the New York Times bestselling author of A Heartbeat Away and The Last Surgeon brings us a shocking new thriller at the crossroads of politics and medicine. What if a well respected doctor inexplicably goes on a murderous rampage? When Dr. John Meacham goes on a shooting spree the office, his business partner, staff, and two patients are killed in the bloodbath. Then Meacham turns the gun on himself.The blame falls on Dr. Lou Welcome. Welcome worked with Meacham years before as a counselor after John's medical license had been revoked for drug addiction. Lou knew that John was an excellent doctor and deserved to be practicing medicine and fought hard for his license to be restored. After hearing the news of the violent outburst, Lou is in shock like everyone else, but mostly he's incredulous. more
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