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41) The lost symbol
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, at the U.S. Capitol Building to deliver a lecture, is drawn into a desperate search through the hidden tunnels and temples of Washington, D.C., when his mentor Peter Solomon, a prominent Mason and philanthropist, is kidnapped and the only clue to Solomon's whereabouts lies in an ancient invitation to a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom.
42) Painted ladies
Author
Series
Spenser volume 38
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting.
The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen. Convinced that Ashton Prince played a bigger role than just ransom delivery boy, Spenser enters into a daring game of cat-and-mouse with the thieves. But...
44) Leaving time
Author
Language
English
Description
"Alice Metcalf was a devoted mother, loving wife, and accomplished scientist who studied grief among elephants. Yet it's been a decade since she disappeared under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind her small daughter, husband, and the animals to which she devoted her life. All signs point to abandonment . . . or worse. Still Jenna--now thirteen years old and truly orphaned by a father maddened by grief--steadfastly refuses to believe in her...
Author
Series
Millennium volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The Expose
Millenium publisher Mikael Blomkvist has made his reputation exposing corrupt establishment figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with an investigation into sex trafficking, Blomkvist cannot resist waging war on the powerful figures who control this lucrative industry.
The Murder
When a young couple is found dead in their Stockholm apartment, it's a straightforward job for Inspector Bublanski and his team. The killer left...
46) Cross country
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 14
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When the home of Alex Cross's longtime friend Ellie Cox is turned into the worst murder scene Alex has ever seen, he is devastated. The destruction leads him to believe that he's chasing a horrible new breed of killer. As Alex and his girlfriend Brianna Stone begin the hunt for the villain responsible for the killings, they quickly find themselves entangled in the deadly Nigerian underworld of Washington, D.C. What they discover is a strongly organized...
47) 1st to die
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Four friends--homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer, medical examiner Claire Washburn, assistant district attorney Jill Bernhardt, and crime reporter Cindy Thomas--team up to track down a killer who has been stalking newlyweds in San Francisco, but their investigation goes terribly wrong.
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Presents a graphic novel adaption of Ransom Riggs' "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" in which sixteen-year-old Jacob, having traveled to a remote island after a family tragedy, discovers an abandoned orphanage, and, after some investigating, he learns the children who lived there may have been dangerous and quarantined and may also still be alive.
49) P" is for peril
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Kinsey reluctantly takes on the case of a missing doctor whose ex-wife is convinced that he ran off from his current wife--and while theories abound as Kinsey investigates, facts run slim.
50) The collectors
Author
Series
Camel Club volume 2
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The Camel Club, a quartet of eccentrics dedicated to finding out what's really going on in America's government, becomes embroiled in an intriguing and dangerous mystery when the assassination of the U.S. Speaker of the House is linked to the death of the director of the Library of Congress's rare books room.
51) Cross my heart
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The stakes are higher than ever for Alex Cross as he faces his most personal enemy yet: a criminal who threatens his family.
Detective Alex Cross is a family man at heart: nothing matters more to him than his children, his grandmother, and his wife Bree. His love of his family is his anchor, and gives him the strength to confront evil in his work. One man knows this deeply, and uses Alex's strength as a weapon against him in the most...
Detective Alex Cross is a family man at heart: nothing matters more to him than his children, his grandmother, and his wife Bree. His love of his family is his anchor, and gives him the strength to confront evil in his work. One man knows this deeply, and uses Alex's strength as a weapon against him in the most...
52) 7th heaven
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Detective Lindsay Boxer turns to the fellow members of the Women's Murder Club for help as she tries to find the missing teenage son of a recent governor and track down an arsonist that is burning San Francisco's most beautiful homes, with the owners still inside.
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jacob, having traveled to a remote island after a family tragedy, discovers an abandoned orphanage, and, after some investigating, he learns the children who lived there may have been dangerous and quarantined and may also still be alive.
54) Easy prey
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Detective Lucas Davenport is called in to solve a double murder involving one of the world's best-known high-fashion models, while also trying to contend with the reappearance of an old lover in his life.
55) The black box
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In this "superb" thriller, Detective Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to the unsolved killing of a young female photographer during the 1992 L.A. riots (Wall Street Journal).
In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the...
In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the...
56) 12th of never
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A week after giving birth, Lindsay Boxer is investigating two cases: a grisly murder where the main suspect is an NFL player and an eccentric professor who thinks his dreams of a murder are real. Will Detetective Lindsay Boxer be pushed to breaking point?
Author
Series
Mickey Bolitar volume 2
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"When tragedy strikes close to home, Mickey Bolitar and his new friends find themselves at the center of a murder mystery"--Provided by publisher.
58) 4th of July
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
San Francisco police lieutenant Lindsay Boxer, the subject of a police brutality trial after a shoot-out involving two teens, retreats to Half Moon Bay to get away from the media circus and becomes embroiled in the investigation of a series of murders that puts her in mind of an unsolved case from her rookie years.
59) Sizzling sixteen
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Someone wants to kill Vinnie, but who? The list is long, and it's up to Stephanie to whittle it down to one in this 16th Stephanie Plum novel.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this gripping #1 New York Times bestseller from Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark, a Manhattan ER doctor is brazenly murdered in front of his young son in a city playground. Five years later, his killer is still at large.
When Laurie Moran's husband was brutally murdered, only three-year-old Timmy saw the face of his father's killer. Five years later his piercing blue eyes still haunt Timmy's dreams. Laurie is haunted by more—the...
When Laurie Moran's husband was brutally murdered, only three-year-old Timmy saw the face of his father's killer. Five years later his piercing blue eyes still haunt Timmy's dreams. Laurie is haunted by more—the...
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