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1) Obsession
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Series
Language
English
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Brought in to recover a young Croatian billionaire's wife, who was kidnapped while her husband was making a deal with Centurion Studios, Teddy Fay quickly comes to realize dark forces are at play, while dealing with an obsessive fan with deadly intentions who weasels his way onto the film set.
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English
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"Aspiring playwright Kate Gamble is struggling to launch a script she's been secretly researching her entire life. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counter-terrorism organization in the Western world. Kate's father adores her, and a play about the dark side of Big Data would be the ultimate betrayal in his eyes. But Kate is compelled to tell...
3) Gone
Author
Series
Quincy / Rainie volume 5
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his partner and lover, Rainie Conner, vanishes during her investigation into the case of a missing foster child, private detective Pierce Quincy enlists the aid of his daughter Kimberly, a rookie FBI agent, to uncover the truth.
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Series
Alaskan quest volume 2
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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Description
Bestselling author Tracie Peterson continues her saga of life and love in the rugged Alaskan Territory with the second volume of the ALASKAN QUEST series. When Pinkerton agent Helaina Beecham's obsession with capturing a dangerous fugitive dulls her judgment, she is kidnapped and carried off into the wilderness just as an early winter is approaching. Now her only hope is that Jacob Barringer--the man who has captured her heart--will find her before...
5) Unspoken
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Language
English
Description
Sixteen years after Charlotte Graham's kidnapping, a traumatic event about which she has never spoken, Charlotte is back in Chicago and is the only one who knows the truth, but even with the kind support of Bryce Bishop, she wonders if she can trust him enough to share it.
7) The hostage
Author
Series
Presidential Agent volume 2
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Description
Department of Homeland Security agent Charley Castillo conducts a discreet investigation involving a murdered diplomat's brother-in-law, a man possessing key information about the scandalous United Nations oil-for-food program in Iraq.
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Language
English
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Description
Two sisters go into the family business they didn't know they had--catching killers. Attorney Rhonda Bird returns home after a long estrangement when she learns her father has died. There she makes two important discoveries: her father stopped being an accountant and had opened up a private detective agency, and she has a teenage half sister named Baby. Baby brings in a client to the detective agency, a young man who claims he was abducted. During...
9) Sheik
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
496 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
12) Poison flower
Author
Series
Jane Whitefield novel volume 7
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
274 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Protecting a man wrongly charged with the murder of his wife, Jane Whitefield is shot and abducted by the real culprits, who threaten to kill her if she does not reveal her client's whereabouts.
13) Bella's gift
Author
Publisher
HarperFestival
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
121 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The majestic mare Bella must enlist the help of Fiona, Thunder, Jewel, and Nike to save an imprisoned girl and her animal friends from an evil presense in North of North."--p. [4] of cover.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A literary thriller about the complex underbelly of the immigrant American dream and the dangerous ripple effect one person's damages can have on the lives of others-told unexpectedly by a house that has held unspeakable horrors." -- p. 4 of Cover.
15) A noble radiance
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Series
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English
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A macabre grave is found at the foot of the Italian Dolomites. The body is found to be Roberto Lorenzoni's, only son and heir of one Venice's oldest, most aristocratic families. Commissario Guido Brunetti must move in the highest circles of power and corruption to unravel the mystery behind the young man's disappearance and murder.
16) Sundown
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Series
Sky King ranch volume 3
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Everyone else might believe the mysterious woman at Sky King Ranch has lost her memory, but Colt Kingston knows when someone is lying. Now he just has to find out if the lies are meant to save her . . . or protect them"--
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Language
English
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On his first night with Detroit PD, Officer Walter O'Brien is called to a murder scene. A terrified twenty-year-old has bludgeoned her kidnapper with skill that shocks even O'Brien's veteran partner. Her bold flight from police custody makes the case impossible to solve. By the time Walter is promoted to detective, his fascination with the missing, gray-eyed woman is approaching obsession. And when Walter discovers that he's not alone in his search,...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains,...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Snow falls softly outside Molly Bradley’s home on a frigid January night. Inside, half a dozen close friends are gathered to celebrate the fortieth birthday of Molly’s psychologist husband, Jay. Candlelight gleams against dark wood, wine flows, and the house rings with laughter. Everybody loves Jay, Molly most of all. Yet next morning, Molly discovers Jay dead on the floor of his office, his throat brutally slashed. After decades...