Karen Robards
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After a brush with death while chasing down a brutal murderer with the FBI, serial killer expert Dr. Charlotte Stone wants nothing more than to retire to her research on criminal psychology. But when a colleague, Special Agent Lena Kaminsky, suspects her missing sister has fallen prey to the vicious Cinderella Killer, Charlie rushes to her side. Along with Special Agents Tony Bartoli and Buzz Crane--and of course, Michael Garland, the ever-present,...
Author
Series
Guardian volume 3
Language
English
Description
It took one hell of an effort for the authorities to finally get the jump on master manipulator Bianca St. Ives, but now that they have, it's far from the capture she expected. Instead of taking her in, there's an offer on the table, a one-shot deal that would allow Bianca to walk away scot-free as if they'd never found her. And all she has to do is run one last mission--the kind she might never return from.
3) Darkness
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards continues her penchant for "fantastic storytelling" (RT Book Reviews) with this next heart-pumping romantic suspense novel, the tale of a brilliant ornithologist trapped on the remote Attu Island in Alaska, fighting for her life--and that of a handsome stranger--before they're swallowed up in darkness forever. BOOM. That's the sound that changes everything for Dr. Gina Sullivan, a renowned ornithologist...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A world at war. A beautiful young star. A mission no one expected. Paris, 1944. Celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is both a star and a smokescreen. An unwilling darling of the Nazis, the chanteuse's position of privilege allows her to go undetected as an ally to the resistance. When her estranged mother, Lillian de Rocheford, is captured by Nazis, Genevieve knows it won't be long before the Gestapo succeeds in torturing information out of Lillian...
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA
Language
English
Description
Thief. Manipulator. Con artist. Call it what you will—Bianca St. Ives is the best in the business. Growing up, Bianca St. Ives knew she was different from all her friends. Instead of playing hopscotch or combing her dolls' hair, she studied martial arts with sensei masters and dismantled explosives with special-ops retirees. Her father prepped her well to carry on the family business. Now a striking beauty with fierce skills, the prodigy has surpassed...
Author
Series
Guardian volume 2
Language
English
Description
Bianca St. Ives was recently put through the wringer, but she came out the same way she always does - the way her father trained her to - hungry for a fight. Still navigating the fallout from a shocking revelation that's left a network of assassins' crosshairs trained on her, Bianca's ready to take fate into her own hands. It's kill or be killed, and she's got her finger flush against the trigger. But as Bianca races to outmaneuver her tireless pursuers,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Inspired by Picasso's great masterpiece Guernica, New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards returns with a riveting story of intrigue, deception and bravery in the face of war... On an April day in 1937, the sky opens and fire rains down upon the small Spanish town of Guernica. Seventeen-year-old Sibi and her family are caught up in the horror. Griff, an American military attaché, pulls Sibi from the wreckage, and it's only the first time...
8) Beachcomber
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Taking the summer off from a high-stress job, Christy travels to a cozy Carolina beach where she falls for a handsome drifter, but when she realizes that the women in a string of killings all resemble her, she fears she may be next.
9) Hunted
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the chief of police and the mayor of New Orleans are taken hostage by disgraced former co-worker Reed Ware, top hostage negotiator Caroline Wallace allows herself to be taken captive by the handsome Reed only to learn that he is being targeted for his discovery of high-level government corruption.
10) Guilty
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Kat White was fifteen, she and some friends held up a store, and a security guard was killed. No one was caught. Sixteen years later, Kat (now Kate) is with the Philadelphia DA, and a single mom. She discovers that she is to prosecute Mario Castellanos, a friend from that terrible night. When Mario is found dead in her apartment, and another man who knows the secret gets involved, Kate finds that her life and her son's are in danger.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Returning to Georgia after her divorce, Carly Linton, determined to start a new life, sets her sights on local sheriff Matt Converse, the town's former bad boy, but her plans of seduction are thwarted when a dead body is discovered on her property and someone makes it quite clear that she is no longer welcome in the town of Benton.
Author
Series
Dr. Charlotte Stone volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this world, Dr Charlotte Stone is an expert psychologist, helping to catch serial killers. In the next world, Charlotte's ghostly lover - wrongly executed killer Michael Garland - is facing death yet again: the ultimate annihilation of his soul. Can Charlie prove Michael's innocence and rescue him from total oblivion? A stranger has turned up in Big Stone Gap, Virginia - a man who could be Michael's identical twin. But the resemblance is only skin...
13) Justice
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Gallery Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Taking a job with a Washington, D.C. law firm after witnessing the murder of the First Lady, attorney Jessica Ford investigates a rape victim's suspicious recant on the stand, a situation that is complicated by the disappearance of Jessica's predecessor.
Author
Series
Charlotte Stone volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murders of two vacationing families in Virginia Beach, FBI agents Ryan Sinclair and Buzz Crane suspect the work of a notorious serial killer and tap the skills of clinical expert Charlotte Stone, who is also the culprit's only known survivor.
15) Pursuit
Author
Series
Jess and Mark volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
369 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Directed by her inebriated boss to meet with the First Lady in Washington, D.C., rookie lawyer Jessica Ford barely survives a high-speed car crash in which the First Lady is killed, after which anmesia-stricken Jessica begins to suspect that the crash was not an accident.
Author
Series
Charlotte Stone volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Assisting a hysterical woman who claims she was forced to commit murder, serial killer expert Dr. Charlotte Stone, remembering a similar claim by a mental patient, reluctantly taps her psychic powers to uncover the work of a sadistic serial killer while struggling with torn feelings between her murderous ghost lover and special agent Tony Bartoli.
17) Shattered
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her firm unexpectedly goes bankrupt, Kentucky lawyer Lisa Grant must take a job as an assistant to an infuriating district attorney, where she investigates a cold case involving a victim who could be her double.
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
She was Mrs. Lyle Forrest now, the coolly elegant wife of Louisville's most prominent publisher, the slum girl whose dreams — and nightmares — came true the night she married the multimillionaire old enough to be her father. For twelve years Maggy played the role of beautiful, devoted wife, the burnished jewel in Lyle's crown, mother of the child he adored. She did it for David, the son who could never know the price she paid to protect him, would...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Offered her freedom in exchange for a dangerous undercover assignment, master manipulator Bianca St. Ives poses as a female hacker who stole top secret intel from NORAD in order to feed strategic misinformation to North Korea's tyrannical regime.
20) Obsession
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recovering from a murder attempt with an uncanny conviction that everything in her life is profoundly wrong, National Security Agency assistant Katharine Lawrence is drawn into a dangerous investigation by CIA agent Nick Huston.