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Series
Millennium volume 1
Language
English
Description
A crusading journalist joins forces with a 24-year-old pierced and tattooed genius hacker to investigate the whereabouts of a missing woman from one of the wealthiest families in Sweden.
Author
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a prominent Chicago judge and his socialite wife, inner-city art teacher Mia Dennett is taken hostage by her one-night stand, Colin Thatcher, who, instead of delivering her to his employers, hides her in a secluded cabin in rural Minnesota to keep her safe from harm.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A killer who refers to himself as The Teacher stalks New York City, murdering powerful, arrogant people and drawing the attention of Detective Mike Bennett, who tackles the case while also caring for his ten children, who all have the flu virus simultaneously.
7) Beach road
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Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy is hired to represent a high-profile triple-murder suspect, local star athlete Dante Halleyville; but the case becomes complicated by his client's popularity and a dangerous secret being protected by members of East Hampton's elite class.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Description
Horse trainer and former cop Elena Estes finds herself uncomfortably close to her old life as part of the Palm Beach elite when one of her friends is murdered and she uncovers connections between the crime and a group of local men--including her former fiancé--who have made a notorious habit of giving each other alibis for their bad behavior.
Author
Publisher
Random House/Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In an idyllic community of wealthy California families, new teacher Molly Nicoll becomes intrigued by the hidden lives of her privileged students. Unknown to Molly, a middle school tragedy in which they were all complicit continues to reverberate for "her" kids: Nick, the brilliant scam artist; Emma, the gifted dancer and party girl; Dave, the B student who strives to meet his parents' expectations; Calista, the hippie outcast who hides her intelligence...
11) The beach house
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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Description
Law student Jack Mullen puts his own life, and those of his friends on the line when he enlists their help in going up against the local East Hamptom authorities, as well as some of the wealthiest people in the country, in an effort to prove that his younger brother Peter, found dead at the Beach House of ultra-rich Barry Neubauer, was murdered.
12) The husband list
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Series
Language
English
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In New York City in 1894, Caroline Maxwell, having difficulty finding a man to marry from her mother's list of possible suitors, begins to fall in love with her brother's friend and adventurous Irish American Jack Culhane, but worries his lack of a title and family legacy and forces pulling them apart will ruin their relationship.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Kay Lansing, daughter of the landscaper to the wealthy Carrington family, overhears an argument at the New Jersey estate as a child that proves crucial when as an adult she marries Peter Carrington who is subsequently charged with murder.
14) The great Gatsby
Author
Language
English
Description
Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers. But the first edition contained...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Mitchell Wyatt, given away at birth and raised in foster homes and boarding schools, is brought into the family fold just in time to be accused of the murder of his half-brother, William, and to fall in love with the girlfriend of a lawyer whose father orchestrated Mitchell's privileged, but very lonely youth.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A young sophisticated Chicagoan falls for the owner of a farm on Johns Island, a lush Lowcountry paradise off the coast of South Carolina-- trading the bustle of a cosmopolitan city for the vagaries of a small southern town.
17) Breakdown
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
When the teenage daughters of some of Chicago's most influential families discover the body of a ritually murdered victim, investigator Warshawski explores theories that the killing is linked to a hostile media campaign against a senatorial candidate or a wealthy patriarch's childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania.
Author
Series
In Death volume 31
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
When a murder disrupts the Irish vacation she is taking with her husband, Roarke, Eve realizes that no place is safe - not an Irish wood or the streets of the manic city she calls home. But nothing prepares her for what she discovers upon her return to the cop shop in New York City....
A driver for a top-of-the-line limousine service is found dead - shot through the neck with a crossbow. The car was booked by an executive at a venerable security...
19) Unnatural acts
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When a hedge fund billionaire hires Stone Barrington to talk some sense into his wayward son, it seems like an easy enough job; no one knows the hidden sins and temptations of the ultra-wealthy better than Stone. But as Stone and his erstwhile protege, Herbie Fisher, probe deeper into the case-- and an old one comes back to haunt him-- he realizes that even he may have underestimated just how far some people will go to cover up their crimes ... and...
20) A fair maiden
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Katya Spivak is out for a walk on the gracious streets of Bayhead Harbor with her two summer babysitting charges when she’s approached by silver-haired, elegant Marcus Kidder. At first his interest in her seems harmless, even pleasant; like his name, a sort of gentle joke. His beautiful home, the children’s books he’s written, his classical music, the marvelous art in his study, his lavish presents to her — Mr. Kidder’s...
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