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1) Split second
Author
Language
English
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Description
Two Secret Service agents sworn to guard their protectees lost them in a single moment . . . and in this #1 New York Times bestseller, they're about to learn that the violence has just begun.
Michelle Maxwell has just wrecked her promising career at the Secret Service. Against her instincts, she let a presidential candidate out of her sight for the briefest moment and the man whose safety was her responsibility vanished into...
Michelle Maxwell has just wrecked her promising career at the Secret Service. Against her instincts, she let a presidential candidate out of her sight for the briefest moment and the man whose safety was her responsibility vanished into...
Author
Series
Camel Club volume 4
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Former CIA assassin Oliver Stone, having assassinated the two men who were responsible for the death of his wife and being hunted by friends and enemies, finds himself embroiled in the secrets of a small Virginia mining town and falling for a widow.
3) Black notice
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
When a dead body is found in the cargo hold of a ship arriving from Belgium, Dr. Kay Scarpetta is called in to investigate and she soon finds herself trying to outwit a brutal killer who calls himself The Werewolf.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
After reluctantly agreeing to babysit her friend Karen's two-year-old son, Meg Langslow is worried when Karen never returns to pick up her child, and suspecting foul play decides to retrace her friend's steps from the previous day.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner of Virginia and consultant for the FBI, is in the midst of a late-night autopsy when the call comes: Temple Brooks Gault, the sadistic serial killer has struck again, and he is hunting for her.
6) Haven Point
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
20210608
Language
English
Description
A sweeping debut novel about the generations of a family that spends summers in a seaside enclave on Maine's rocky coastline, for fans of Elin Hilderbrand, Beatriz Williams, and Sarah Blake.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta is anticipating a quiet New Year's Eve when she is called to investigate the death of a reporter found in the murky waters of a Navy shipyard. Her findings about the cause of death sets the FBI onto the story the dead man was following, leading Scarpetta and everyone involved into the hands of a cult fanatic.
9) Key of valor
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Series
Language
English
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This book concludes Roberts's Key Trilogy, in which mortal women quest to unlock the spellbound souls of ancient demigoddesses. The third and last woman to make the attempt is hairstylist Zoe McCourt. Like her friends Malory and Dana-heroines of the previous installments (Key of Light, Key of Knowledge)-Zoe has a single month and a cryptic set of clues with which to find her key.
Author
Series
Mrs. Murphy volume 19
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beloved authors Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-conspirator, Sneaky Pie Brown, sow the seeds of an all-new mystery featuring Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, sleuthing cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and that incorrigible corgi Tee Tucker. This time around, the onset of spring ushers in more than hay fever as the animal friends must come to the aid of an ailing Harry to sniff out the season's first blossom of murder. Ah, spring! The redbuds open, the robins...
11) Rebel McKenzie
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When feisty twelve-year-old Rebel McKenzie, an aspiring paleontologist, goes to spend the summer taking care of her older sister's seven-year-old son at the mobile home park in Frog Level, Virginia, she never expects to enter a beauty pageant or meet a hand model.
12) Fox tracks
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Sister Jane Arnold tracks clues during an outbreak of crimes related to the world of competitive hunting and the tobacco industry.
Author
Series
Judy Moody volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Judy Moody gets serious about protecting the environment, her little brother Stink thinks she is overdoing it, but she manages to inspire her third grade class to undertake an award-winning, environment-saving project.
16) Point of origin
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta's investigation of a killer who uses fire to hide his crimes turns personal when she learns that her old nemesis, Carrie Grethen, is somehow involved.
17) Obsession
Author
Publisher
Putnams
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Katharine Lawrence, beaten nearly to death in a home invasion during which an old college friend was killed, awakens in the hospital with the feeling that everything is wrong--even her body does not seem to fit--and acts on instinct to run for her life.
Author
Series
Stink volume 4
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Stink Moody, friends Webster and Sophie, and Mrs. Birdwistle visit tourist attractions in Virginia as they try to give away 101 guinea pigs rescued from a laboratory, although Stink is very reluctant to give away his favorite, Astro.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the summer of 1938, Layla Beck's father, a United States senator, cuts off her allowance and demands that she find employment on the Federal Writers' Project, a New Deal jobs program. Within days, Layla finds herself far from her accustomed social whirl, assigned to cover the history of the remote mill town of Macedonia, West Virginia, and destined, in her opinion, to go completely mad with boredom. But once she secures a room in the home of the...
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