Suspense / Thrillers
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SYNOPSIS
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145th Street: Short Stories
MYERS, W |
Wrenchingly honest of short stories capturing the
heartbeat of one memorable block in Harlem.
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23 Shades Of Black
WISHNIA, K |
NYPD cop Filomena Buscarsela has pretty much seen it all
in her five years on the force. But after she recognizes the victim of a
fatal toxic leak, which occurred outside her jurisdiction, her instincts
tell her that something is not what it seems to be.
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Abduction
COOK, R |
Perry Bergman is conducting research in a remote region
of the Atlantic. Perry is invited to dive to the seamount with several
others in a submersible craft. Suddenly the small ship seems to lose power
and is lured into the underwater world of Saranta, inhabited by the
Interterreans.
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Absolute Power
BALDACCI, D |
Can the President of the United States get away with
murder? A suspenseful thriller about ambition, greed and murder.
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Alibi
BROWN, S |
Hammond Cross is determined to be the city's next
district attorney - without sacrificing his integrity. However, while
Hammond anticipates success, someone near him is plotting his downfall.
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All Around The Town
CLARK, M |
Professor Alan Grant is found stabbed to death in his
New Jersey home. All the evidence points to 21-year-old Laurie Kenyon when
she awakens in her dormitory, covered with Grant's blood and clutching the
knife that killed him.
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All The Lucky Ones Are Dead*
HAYWOOD, G |
L.A private investigator Aaron Gunner works two cases
concurrently. In one, he investigates the apparent suicide of a successful
rap artist. In the other, he watches over a threatened conservative
talk-show host.
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All-Night Party*
STINE, R |
Planning an all-night birthday party for Cindy on Fear
Island, Gretchen Davies anticipates dancing, love and non-stop fun, until
Cindy is murdered, and Gretchen realizes that one of her friends is the
killer. |
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Andromedia Strain
CRICHTON, M |
The U.S. Army initiates the "Scoop" satellite
program in an attempt to actively collect space pathogens for use in
biological warfare. When Scoop VII crashes a couple years later in the
isolated Arizona town of Piedmont, the Army ends up getting more than it
asked for, and has to call in the help of Nobel-Prize-winning
bacteriologist, Jeremy Stone.
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Ani’s Ghost
ONDAATJE, M |
After 15 years abroad, Anil Tissera, a native Sri Lankan,
returns to her homeland on a fact-finding mission for the UN. She uncovers
a legacy of murder and deception where everybody, from the government to
the rebels, is complicit.
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Ashes To Ashes
HOAG, T |
"The Cremator" is a serial killer who does
kills his victims and then sets the corpses on fire when he's done with
them. When a homeless juvenile delinquent witnesses one of the flaming
felonies, Kate Conlan and crack homicide profiler John Quinn take the
case. |
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Assassin
HAGBERG, D |
Kirk McGarvey, a former CIA agent, now lives in Paris.
Yevgenni Tarankov is close to coming to power in Russia; his goal is to
return the nation to communism and rule as a despot. A decision is made to
have Tarankov assassinated, and McGarvey reluctantly accepts the
assignment.
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At All Costs
GILSTRAP, J |
Jake and Carolyn have spent thirteen years on the FBI
Most Wanted List for murders they did not commit. Now they are caught and
are fighting for their freedom and their lives.
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Badlands
PORTER, M |
Adam, a New York lawyer, comes to the Badlands to help
the magnetic, complex Henry Blackfoot protect the threatened burial sites
of his Sioux ancestors.
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Before I Say Goodbye
CLARK, M |
Nell MacDermott's husband, Adam, died when his boat
exploded. She discovers that Adam's death was not an accident, turns to a
spiritual medium, and uncovers a dark secret about Adam.
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Berlin Game
DEIGHTON, L |
British agent Bernard Samson must help an undercover
agent known as "Brahms Four" to escape from East Berlin.
Unfortunately, a security leak high in the British organization threatens
the continued success of the Brahms Four network.
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Billy Straight
KELLERMAN, J |
Billy Straight, a bright and resourceful runaway kid,
tries to make a life for himself in Los Angeles's Griffith Park. Then one
day he witnesses the brutal murder of a beautiful young woman, an act that
reinforces his belief in the essentially savage nature of the world around
him.
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Black Friday
PATTERSON, J |
A militia group known as "Green Band"
detonates explosives in several key buildings in New York's financial
district. They have no apparent motive or demand, and their link to an
unseen international terrorist is ambiguous. It is up to Federal Agent
Archer Carroll to unravel the plot before it unravels the Western world.
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Black Notice
CORNWELL, P |
When a half-decomposed body is discovered on a cargo
ship arriving from Belgium, and the autopsy uncovers nothing, Dr. Kay
Scarpetta is right back in the mix. Now she's off to Europe, and will soon
be faced with her most career-threatening - not to mention
life-threatening - case yet. |
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Body Of Christopher Creed
PLUM-UCCI, C |
When class freak and whipping boy Christopher Creed
vanishes without a trace, speculation as to what happened runs rampant in
town, causing accusations that changes several lives forever.
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Brethren
GRISHAM, J |
At a minimum-security federal prison three former judges
meet every day in the law library working on briefs and cases, and
practice law without a license. Their reign is about to end.
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Bumblebee Flies Away
CORMIER, R |
Barney Snow finds himself a control subject at an
experimental clinic where all the other patients are ill.
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Cardinal Of The Kremlin
CLANCY, T |
The US and the USSR are negotiating a treaty while their
secret espionage armies are locked in a struggle. What the Cardinal, a CIA
agent working in the Kremlin knows could change the course of history.
Jack Ryan's mission is to bring the Cardinal out alive! |
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Cat And Mouse
PATTERSON, J |
Homicide detective Alex Cross is besieged by not one,
but two deadly killers. To make matters worse, Cross has fallen deeply in
love with Christine Johnson, a relationship that leaves him and his family
all the more vulnerable to the deadly game his murderous opponents have
devised.
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Chamber
GRISHAM, J |
Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal
career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible
case.
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Clear And Present Danger
CLANCY, T |
Jack Ryan, hero of The Hunt for Red October, is
in the middle of America's war on drugs. Colombian drug lords have
assassinated three top American officials. America's response is
unprecedented and shocking! |
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Dark Justice
BERNHARDT, W |
When Ben Kincaid successfully defended George Zakin in a
controversial murder trial six years earlier, the attorney never thought
he'd be seeing this client again. Now Zakin has been charged with the
vicious, premeditated murder of a lumberjack, and Kincaid's career - and
life - is bolted to the hot seat. |
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Dark Lady
PATTERSON, J |
Two prominent men are found dead within days of each
other - one appears to be accidental, the other person is apparently the
victim of a ritual murder. But in each case the character of the dead man
seems contradicted by the particulars of his death. Coincidence or
connection?
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Dark Paradise
HOAG, T |
Ex-court reporter Marilee Jennings wants to decipher the
puzzle of her best friend's death, but someone has a stake in silencing
her suspicion. As Mari digs deeper beneath New Eden's picture-perfect
exterior, finding the truth is suddenly no longer a matter of justice -
it's her only hope of staying alive. |
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Death In Holy Orders
JAMES, P |
When the body of the one of the students of an Anglican
theological college is found on the shore, smothered by a fall of sand,
Commander Dalgliesh finds himself embroiled in one of the most horrific
and puzzling cases of his career.
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Death Of Jim Loney
WELCH, J |
An evil-tempered forensic scientist is put to death,
putting many of his colleagues out of misery. Commander Adam Dalgliesh
must exhume the secrets of Dr. Lorrimer's laboratory in order to lay bare
the murderous motive hidden in one human heart.
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Deathwatch
WHITE, R |
Madec was not the kind of man Ben would ordinarily have
chosen as a companion for a quiet hunting trip. He was a cold man who was
dangerous with a gun.
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Debt Of Honor
CLANCY, T |
Jack Ryan comes out of retirement to help prepare the
president to meet the challenges of a new world order.
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Degree Of Guilt
PATTERSON, R |
TV journalist Mary Carelli shoots and kills famous
writer Mark Ransomin his hotel room, claiming that Ransom tried to rape
her. The man she asks to defend her is Christopher Paget, with whom she
has had a complicated relationship. |
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Disclosure
CRICHTON, M |
When Tom Sanders' new boss turns out to be a woman,
Sanders is determined to be professional. But after a closed-door meeting,
the woman accuses him of sexual harassment, and it's her word against his.
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Don't Look Behind You*
DUNCAN, L |
17-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed
forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case,
force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the
pursuit of a hired killer. |
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Don't Scream*
NIXON, J |
When two new guys arrive at Jess's high school, she
thinks the year is really looking up. What she can't know is that there is
a connection between them. One has been given a new identity by the
government. The other is seeking revenge. Jess doesn't know whom she can
trust. Will she be the next victim? |
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Down A Dark Hall
DUNCAN, L |
A psychological thriller in which Kit is chosen as one
of first (and last) students to attend an exclusive girls' school.
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Dragon Tears
KOONTZ, D |
In a shootout, police detective Harry Lyon kills a man
on a murderous rampage. Suddenly, Harry is being stalked by someone, or
something, with a twisted lust for revenge. |
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Eagle Has Landed
HIGGINS, J |
Threatened on all sides, a desperate Adolph Hitler
lashes out with an impossible order: kidnap Winston Churchill - or kill
him.
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Eleventh Plague
MARR, J & BALDWIN, J |
Noted virologist Jack Bryne sets out to track down the
brilliant and diabolical serial killer that is reenacting the biblical
plagues in a vindictive wave of bio-terrorism.
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Elixer
BRAVER, G |
When Chris Bacon, a dedicated medicinal chemist,
journeys to Papua, New Guinea, in search of "miracle drugs that grow
on trees", he discovers tabukari, the "forbidden flower
of the long day" - a blossom with the power to prolong life.
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Emerald
WHITNEY, P |
Carol Hamilton, a journalist, seeks refuge at the Palm
Springs home of her great-aunt, Monica Arlen, a once-celebrated movie. She
decides to write a book about Monica, not realizing that digging into the
past will break open old and terrible secrets that set the stage for
murder. |
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Evil Encounter*
LEVETIN, S |
Michelle begins attending group sessions to help her
deal with her parents' divorce, but her increasingly intense involvement
with the group's charismatic leader leads to even bigger problems for both
her and her mother. |
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Extreme Justice
BERNHARDT, W |
Ben Kincaid decides to abandon his law practice for a
less-stressful pastime: playing with a combo at Uncle Earl's Jazz
Emporium. Compared to litigation, the musician's life is bliss - until a
corpse crashes through the ceiling on the night of the club's swanky
anniversary gala.
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Falsely Accused
TANENBAUM, R |
Butch litigates for a New York law firm, defending
Murray Selig, who was recently fired as chief medical examiner. The
circumstances surrounding Selig's dismissal are questionable, and very
soon a veritable hot pot of political wrongdoing is exposed.
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Fatal Gift
FRASE, H |
After witnessing the murder of a Nashville socialite,
spunky protagonist Kasey Riteman devises a means of avenging the victim
without revealing her own identity. But her plan backfires, putting her
directly in the path of a hired killer.
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Final Flight
COONTS, S |
Navy jet pilot Jake Grafton is a commander of a carrier
that is harboring a deadly female terrorist.
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Final Judgment
PATTERSON, R |
Carolyn Masters, a San Francisco lawyer, is drawn back
to her New England home when her young niece Brett is accused of brutally
murdering the boy she loves.
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Firm
GRISHAM, J |
A young lawyer works undercover for the FBI to reveal
his firm's Mafia connections.
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Foreign Bodies
TAN, H |
Three rootless friends in their twenties, living in
Singapore, are each looking for a place where life holds meaning.
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Fourth Protocol
FORSYTH, F |
It is a time of political unrest in Great Britain, and
behind the Iron Curtain an insidious plot is being hatched, a plan so
incendiary that even the KGB is ignorant of its existence.
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Free Fall*
SWEENEY, J |
Four high school boys, lost in an underground cave, must
band together in this race-against-time thriller.
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Fugitive Nights
WAMBAUGH, J |
Private Investigator Breda Burrows proves her mettle as
she follows a fugitive from remote desert canyons to the golden boulevards
of Palm Springs, from funeral parlors to swank hotels, from celebrity golf
tournaments to high-speed chases. |
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Funhouse
KOONTZ, D |
Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a
traveling carnival. She married a man she hated and produced a child she
could never love. Now Ellen has a new life, a new husband and two normal
children. Memory is drowned in alcohol and prayers - neither of which will
save her kids when the carnival comes back to town.
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Ghost Canoe*
HOBBS, W |
History, nature and suspense combine as Nathan
MacAllister and Native American fisherman Lighthouse George explore the
wild terrain of the Pacific Northwest to unlock the mystery of a
shipwreck.
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Ghost Train
MOWRY, J |
On Remi DuMont's first night in his new home, a train
thunders past his window and he watches a murder being committed. He soon
realizes that the late-night train is a ghost train, and the murder
reenacted on it nightly actually happened more than 50 years ago.
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Godfather
PUZO, M
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A searing novel of the Mafia underworld.
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Gorky Park
SMITH, M |
Chief Police Inspector Arkady Renko was a man too just
for Russia and too cynical for anywhere else. When he found three frozen
corpses in Gorky Park, their fingerprints obliterated and their faces
skinned, he was immediately propelled into an international intrigue. |
Green Flash, And Other Tales Of Horror, Suspense And
Fantasy AIKEN, J
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James Wing, a reporter, warns his best friend's widow
that the beautiful bay she and her neighbors had struggled to save was
going to be sold to developers. Now the developers have set their sights
on Kat Hubble, and they'll do anything, use anyone, to stop her from
interfering in their plans.
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Guilty As Sin
HOAG, T |
As prosecutor Ellen North prepares her case against a
kidnapper, she faces a sensation-driven press corps, political
maneuvering, and her ex-lover as attorney for the defense. |
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Harmful Intent
COOK, R |
Anesthesiologist Jeffrey Rhodes loses a patient in what
should have been a routine childbirth. Found guilty of malpractice,
harmful intent and reckless disregard for human life, Rhodes flees the
authorities in an effort to clear his name and sort out what really
happened that fateful day. |
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Heartbreaker
GARWOOD, J |
Father Tom Madden hears a confession from a killer
seeking absolution for a gruesome crime he has yet to commit. Worse yet,
the madman, who calls himself the Heartbreaker, confesses that his
intended victim is Laurant Madden, Tom's sister.
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Hunt For Red October
CLANCY, T
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Gripping military thriller about the chase of for a
top-secret Russian missile sub.
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I Know What You Did Last Summer*
DUNCAN, L |
Four teenagers conceal their responsibility for a
hit-and-run accident and are pursued by a mysterious avenger.
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Iceberg
CUSSLER, C |
Frozen inside a million-ton mass of ice - the charred
remains of a long-missing luxury yacht, vanished en route to a secret
White House rendezvous. The only clues to the ships priceless - and
missing - cargo: nine ornately carved rings and the horribly burned bodies
of its crew.
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If Winter Comes
HALL, L |
As an escalating world crisis makes the threat of
nuclear warfare imminent, teenage Meredith and her boyfriend Barry draw
closer to each other and to other people important to them during what
could be the last weekend of their lives.
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Into The Darkness
MICHAELS, B |
Meg Venturi unexpectedly inherits an antique jewelry
business. There is one catch to her sudden windfall - she must share the
wealth with a taciturn and oddly attractive young man who has an entire
town stirring up rumors about murderous secrets and a dark legacy. |
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Invasion Of Privacy
O’SHAUGHNESSY, P |
Tahoe attorney Nina Reilly intended to stop practicing
criminal law after being shot during a court case. So how does she become
involved in a murder case after agreeing to represent filmmaker Terry
London in a simple invasion of privacy suit?
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Joshua’s Hammer
HAGBERG, D |
McGarvey, now the CIA's Deputy Director of Operations,
is up against Saudi zillionaire terrorist Osama bin Laden and his fanatic
followers, eager to die on the way to paradise.
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Jurassic Park
CRICHTON, M |
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning
dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Creatures extinct for eons now roam
Jurassic Park, and the world can visit them for a price - until something
goes wrong.
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Key To Midnight
KOONTZ, D |
An American owner of a Japanese nightclub meets a fellow
expatriate who helps her uncover the terrible truth about her real
identity.
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Killing Grounds
STABENOW, D |
While deck handing on a fishing boat, Kate Shugak hauls
in the dead body of the most disliked fisherman around. Kate's search for
the killer isn't making her too popular in town - especially since he's
being hailed as the catch of the day. |
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Killing Mr. Griffin
DUNCAN, L |
The pranks of a group of high school students misfire
and result in the death of their teacher.
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Killing Time
BERGER, T |
In this psychological novel about crime, the hero,
Joseph Detweiler, is the world's most courteous, sensitive, sincere and
likable killer. He is even innocent of the fact that a crime has been
committed.
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Killshot
LEONARD, E |
After a couple witnesses a shakedown scam, they discover
that the Federal Witness Protection Program is a thin cover against
ruthless killers. |
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King Solomon’s Mines
HAGGARD, H |
Three men set out on a journey into the heart of Africa
to search for a lost friend. They stumble upon an unknown country, cut off
from civilization, and learn of a diamond mine, from which no one has
returned. |
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Knife To Remember
CHURCHILL, J |
Popular detective Jane Jeffrey's quiet domesticity is
shattered when Hollywood comes to suburbia and a film crew becomes intent
on using her backyard as a primary location. When the set manager is
stabbed to death, Jane must solve the crime before the killer strikes
again. |
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Lasko Tangent
PATTERSON, R |
William Lasko is a self-made millionaire who has an eye
for wealth and influence, the ear of the president, and a talent for using
both to get what he wants. Now the Economic Crimes Commission wants the
corrupt, untouchable Lasko brought down - and U.S. Attorney Christopher
Paget is tapped to take on the job. |
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Laws Of Our Fathers
TUROW, S |
The mother of a probation officer is shot near a
gang-infested housing project, provoking charges that her son orchestrated
the killing. The ensuing trial reunites a group of affluent Sixties
activists who knew each other in their student days.
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Let Me Call You Sweetheart
CLARK, M |
Attorney Kerry McGrath's chance encounter with a creepy
plastic surgeon sends her on a mission to right a past injustice - finding
out who really killed Suzanne Reardon ten years earlier.
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Letter Of The Law
GREEN, T |
Casey Jordan, former law student of the renowned
Professor Eric Lipton, is hired when the professor, accused of murder, is
dissatisfied with his attorney of choice. Jordan believes the professor to
be innocent - yet why was the victim's underwear found in his luggage at
the airport?
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Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul
ADAMS, D |
When a passenger check-in desk at London's Heathrow
Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the explosion is deemed an
act of God. But which god, wonders holistic detective Dirk Gently?
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Long Walk
KING, S |
In the near future, a young boy is selected to take the
"Long Walk" - a deadly contest of endurance and determination,
in which each step can be the last. |
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Look For Me By Moonlight
HAHN, M |
While visiting the remote inn run by her father and
stepmother in Maine, Cynda feels isolated from her father's new family,
but finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest. At
first she is blind to the subtle signs that Vincent is not what he seems.
Can Cynda free herself - and her family - from Vincent's power before it's
too late? |
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Lords Of Discipline
CONROY, P |
Will McLean, a rebellious outsider with his own personal
code of honor, is battling into manhood the hard way. Immersed in a
poignant love affair with a haunting beauty, Will must boldly confront the
terrifying injustice of a corrupt institution as he struggles to expose a
mysterious group known as "The Ten". |
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Lost World
CRICHTON, M |
Six years have passed since the disastrous ending of Jurassic
Park, but rumors persist that something has survived.
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Loves Music, Loves To Dance
CLARK, M |
New York's trendy magazines are a source of peril when a
killer enacts a bizarre dance of death, using the personal ads to lure his
victims. And if the killer has his way, decorator Darcy Scott will be his
next "date".
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Lucifer Light
SALAZAR, M |
Whether on a call to rescue or a call to arms, the US
Special Forces elite para-rescue teams are first on the scene, first to
put their lives on the line. Along with his unit of ten, Air Force Master
Sergeant Jason Johnson is licensed to kill, but prefers to use his powers
for good - until murder on the job makes it personal. |
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Man Of The Hour
BLAUNER, P |
After David Fitzgerald, a high school English teacher,
heroically risks his life to save a student from a bomb-gutted school bus,
Americans everywhere herald his name. But when suspicions rise that
Fitzgerald may be the one to blame, his few minutes of fame turn into a
potential lifetime of hell.
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Mask
KOONTZ, D |
A beautiful young girl appears out of nowhere. A
teenager with no past, no family - no memories. Carol and Paul were drawn
to her. She was the child they'd never had. Most mothers would die for
such a darling little angel. And that's what frightened Carol most of all. |
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Matter Of Honor
ARCHER, J |
Adam Scott attends the reading of his disgraced father's
will. Part of his inheritance is a letter detailing the events of
Goering's suicide and two unopened letters from the Nazi general giving
him access to a Swiss bank vault and the valuable Russian icon it
contains. However, a state secret is concealed in the painting, and the
KGB and the CIA both want it before the expiration of a crucial deadline. |
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Midnight
KOONTZ, D |
Four citizens of Moonlight Cove are left, still
untouched by the inhuman experiment of computer genius Thomas Shaddock.
They must escape Moonlight Cove and expose the evil - before they face a
fate more tortuous than death, and as inevitable as midnight.
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Midnight Club
PIKE, C |
Rotterdam Home, a hospice where teenagers with terminal
illnesses went to die, was home to the Midnight Club - a group of five
young men and women who met at midnight and told stories of intrigue and
horror. One night they made a pact that the first of them to die would
make every effort to contact the others from beyond the grave.
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Misery
KING, S |
After an automobile accident, novelist Paul Sheldon
meets his biggest fan. She is his nurse-and his captor. Now, she wants
Paul to write his greatest work just for her, and she has a lot of ways to
spur him on. One is a needle. Another is an ax. And if they don't work,
she can get really nasty. |
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Missing Since Monday
MARTIN, A |
First Maggie’s little stepsister disappears. Then
Maggie gets threatening phone calls, and fears that she will be the next
one missing.
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Missing*
STINE, R |
What would happen if one day your parents did not come
home? What if they disappeared without a trace, and what if something
terrible had happened to them? This is what happens to Mark and Cara on
one frightful night when they take a wrong turn down the fateful block
called Fear Street. |
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Mistaken Identity
SCOTTOLINE, L |
Alice Connolly, accused of brutally murdering her lover,
a highly decorated police detective claims the police framed her. A
defendant protesting her innocence is not unusual for lawyer Bennie Rosato,
but what astounds her is that Connelly bears an uncanny physical
resemblance to her.
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Moonlight Becomes You
CLARK, M |
Fashion photographer Maggie Holloway's camera uncovers a
plot that has already claimed the lives of two elderly women and now
threatens to make Maggie herself a killer's target.
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Mortal Fear
COOK, R |
At a large Boston clinic, a world-class biologist
stumbles upon a miraculous discovery, a major scientific breakthrough.
Soon, healthy, middle-aged patients are dying of old age, and the ultimate
experiment in terror begins.
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Mutation
COOK, R |
Dr. Victor Frank genetically altered an embryo to create
a perfect child. But the result is far from perfect. Instead of creating
the child of his dreams, he has invented a living nightmare!
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My Gal Sunday
CLARK, M |
Henry Parker Britland IV, a former president, and his
new wife, Sunday, make a formidable team of sleuths - and never more so
than when they set out to solve crimes occurring among their friends in
political high society.
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Needful Things
KING, S |
A little shop called Needful Things opens in the
small town of Castle Rock, Maine. Whatever is the heart’s most secret
desire is for sale - but at a terrible price.
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New Boy*
STINE, R |
When handsome Ross Gabriel comes to Shadyside High,
Janie, Eve and Faith gamble on which one of them he will date first, but
soon regret their feelings for him when the murders begin. |
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New Year's Party*
STINE, R |
Indirectly causing the death of PJ, who had a bad heart,
the attendants at Reenie's Christmas party all agree to hide the body and
the truth until someone begins to hunt down and kill each in turn. |
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Night Games*
STINE, R |
Sneaking out every night to join her friends in a series
of pranks, Diane becomes alarmed when her boyfriend, Lenny, plays a joke
on a hated teacher that proves fatal, and she realizes that her and her
friends have gone too far.
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Night Terrors
DUNCAN, L (ed.) |
Spellbinding short stories set in the shadow world that
appears when the sun goes down, where experiences more terrifying than
nightmares can happen.
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Night Terrors. Stories Of Shadow And Substance*
DUNCAN, L (ed.) |
Nighttime: a time of enveloping dark, eerie shadows and
strange noises. Eleven award-winning young adult authors share their views
of the dark in this spellbinding collection of original short stories,
each one distinct from the next.
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Night Whispers
MCNAUGHT, J |
Policewoman Sloan Reynolds discovers more about the
shadows surrounding her estranged father's past - and the love that holds
the key to her future. |
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No Safe Place
PATTERSON, R |
When Senator Kerry Kilcannon decides to run for
president, he's faced with a maniacal pro-life assassin who's out for his
blood. |
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Oasis
MAGUIRE, G |
Hand Gunther finds his father dead on the floor of the
rundown Massachusetts motel they own. Abandoned by his mother three years
earlier, the boy resents her fiercely when she moves back from the West
Coast to take charge of the family and the motel.
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Odessa File
FORSYTH, F |
The suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into
revelation after revelation: of a Mafia-like organization called
"Odessa"; of a young German journalist turned obsessed avenger
and, ultimately, of a brilliant, ruthless plot to re-establish the
worldwide power of SS mass murderers, and to carry out Hitler's chilling
"Final Solution". |
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On The Edge. Stories At The Brink*
DUNCAN, L |
What does it mean to be "on the edge"? On the
edge of a cliff, on the edge of freedom, on the edge of heartbreak, on the
edge of.... Twelve stellar authors explore the possibilities of being on
the edge in this collection of original stories.
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Paper Doll
PARKER, R |
Olivia Nelson appears to be the perfect wife and mother.
So why was the socialite bludgeoned to death with a hammer? The truth
turns out to be as elusive as needles in a haystack. It's a case where
nothing is what it seems - not even the victim.
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Partner
GRISHAM, J |
When Patrick Lanigan, a bright young partner of a
prominent law firm stages his own death, he believes he has everyone
fooled. Weeks later, a fortune is stolen from his ex-law firm's offshore
account, and Patrick can not completely cover his tracks.
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Party Summer*
STINE, R |
Cari Taylor and her three friends look forward to a
"party summer", working at The Howling Wolf Inn, an old hotel on
a tiny island off Cape Cod. But to their dismay, the hotel id completely
deserted, and someone warns them to leave immediately.
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Patriot Games
CLANCY, T |
A CIA analyst and his family are targets in the
deadliest game of our time: international terrorism. In an explosive wave
of violence, an ultra-left-wing faction of the IRA hunts one man for his
act of salvation in an assassination attempt.
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Pelican Brief
GRISHAM, J |
An unforgettable and chilling story that begins with the
simultaneous assassinations of two Supreme Court justices.
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Perfect Spy
LE CARRE, J |
Magnus Pym, Britain's premier spy, has vanished, sending
intelligence communities on a frenzied international manhunt. As the
search plays out, so does a chain of clandestine operations surfacing in
Washington, Vienna, Prague, London and Berlin.
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Personal Injuries
TUROW, S |
Robbie Feaver, a successful personal injury lawyer with
a burgeoning practice, has been paying off judges and squirreling away
part of the riches he earns as a highly successful trial lawyer. When the
IRS happens upon the money trail, and a top prosecutor leans on him to
turn state's evidence and finger some of the corrupt justices, Robbie
calls on George Mason, veteran Kindle County lawyer, to represent him and
win the best deal he can.
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Pet Sematary
KING, S
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When Dr. Louis Creed is first taken to the pet cemetery
in the woods behind his house, he thinks it is just an eccentric, if
morbid, local site. However, after he learns that the Micmac Indian burial
grounds beyond it have the power to bring his daughter's dead cat back
from death, albeit slightly altered, he discovers that he has been touched
by a power beyond anything imaginable.
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Phone Calls*
STINE, R |
After being humiliated by her best friend Diane in front
of a cute boy, Julie decides to get even and plays a telephone prank,
launching an all-out telephone war.
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Pilot’s Wife
SCHREVE, A |
When Kathryn Lyon’s husband, Jack, a pilot, is killed
in a plane crash, she must deal with her grief while simultaneously
discovering that her husband was not the loyal man she thought.
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Point Of Impact
HUNTER, S |
He was one the best Marine snipers in Vietnam, but all
Bob Lee Swagger wants twenty years later is to be left alone. However, a
shadowy military organization seduces Bob into leaving his beloved
Arkansas hills for one last mission for his country, unaware until too
late that the game is rigged. The assassination plot is executed to
perfection, but then Swagger comes out of the operation alive and becomes
the target of a nationwide manhunt.
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Pop Goes The Weasel
PATTERSON, J |
Detective Alex Cross faces a series of chilling murders
in Washington D.C. Cross's ingenious pursuit of the killer produces a
suspect - a British diplomat named Geoffrey Shafer, but proving that
Shafer is the murderer becomes a potentially deadly task.
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Presumed Innocent
TUROW, S |
A courtroom novel about a prosecuting attorney who is
charged with the murder of a female colleague with whom he once had an
affair.
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Prime Witness
MARTINI, S
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When a series of bizarre double murders rocks the small
college town of Davenport, California, Paul Madriani is called in as a
special prosecutor. But soon Madriani fears there may be more than one
killer on the loose. |
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Private Screening
PATTERSON, R |
After a presidential hopeful is shot dead in front of
his rock star girlfriend Stacy Tarrant, fiercely independent attorney Tony
Lord takes on the defense of the accused. A mysterious and ruthless figure
known only as Phoenix takes to the airwaves, the wife of a newspaper mogul
and Stacy's manager, his hostages. He mounts a televised trial in which
Stacy and Tony are helpless defendants, millions of viewers are jurors,
and - unless his chilling demands are met - Phoenix is the unstoppable
executioner. |
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Red Storm Rising
CLANCY, T |
Facing an oil shortage that would leave their country
open to economic and political disasters, Russian leaders decide to seize
the oil in the Persian Gulf. They instigate a ground war that surprises
NATO and the U.S. and threatens to eliminate them as political and
military forces in Europe.
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Rich Girl*
STINE, R |
When Emma Taylor and her best friend Sydney Shue find a
duffel bag stuffed with money, they swear to never tell anyone. But Sydney
tells her boyfriend, Jason. Now Emma thinks Jason will do anything to get
the money for himself - even kill. |
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Roses Are Red
PATTERSON, J |
Detective Alex Cross' nemesis is the Mastermind, a
cunning bank robber who recruits teams of criminals to do his dirty work
while he orchestrates the crimes from the shadows. What makes the
Mastermind especially frightening is that he takes the bank executives'
families hostage in order to ensure compliance, and he kills in cold
blood, seemingly at random.
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Runaway Jury
GRISHAM, J |
Legal thriller about a landmark tobacco case in Biloxi,
Mississippi with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake.
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Runaway*
STINE, R |
Runaway Felicia settled on Shadyside because nobody
there would know about her dark powers, and for once, she could be a
normal girl. However, someone found out about the awful things her powers
made her do. Felicia doesn't want to run away again, but if she stays, she
might lose control, and then people would die. |
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Self-Defense
KELLERMAN, J |
Child psychologist Alex Delaware is treating Lucy Lowell
for a recurring nightmare, suspecting a repressed childhood memory. After
putting his patient through hypnotic regression, he is convinced that she
witnessed a murder and he sets out to prove it.
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Servants Of Twilight
KOONTZ, D |
A strange old woman descends upon Christine and her
6-year-old son in an ordinary southern California parking lot and makes
violent threats. Suddenly Christine's only son is targeted by a group of
religious fanatics. They want to kill him, and they are everywhere!
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Silent Witness
PATTERSON, R |
Lawyer Tony Lord returns to his childhood town because
his boyhood friend, now a school teacher, is accused of murdering a
pregnant student. Lord must not only face a heated courtroom struggle and
an enraged community but also his traumatic past:
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Simple Truth
BALDACCI, D |
25 years ago, Rufus Harms was convicted of a murder he
doesn't remember committing. Then a letter from the army jogs his memory,
and he has a shocking realization: he never intended to kill anyone - he
was coerced. From prison, Rufus files an appeal with the Supreme Court,
unaware that the real killers are on to him.
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Sing Me A Death Song
BENNETT, J |
Jason is desperate to prove that his mother is not
guilty of murder and embarks on a nightmarish trail that leads him from
New York to a small town in Florida where his own life is in danger.
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Snow Falling On Cedars
GUTERSON, D |
In 1954 on the isolated beaches of San Pedro Island in
Puget Sound, a local fisherman mysteriously drowns. When a Japanese
American is charged with his murder, it becomes clear over the course of
the ensuing trial that much more is at stake than one man's guilt.
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Starstruck*
CUSICK, R |
A thriller featuring an aspiring actress whose greatest
role may be keeping herself alive during a glamorous photo shoot at a
famous actor's luxurious - and deadly - mansion.
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Still Waters
HOAG, T |
When divorcee Elizabeth Stuart settles in the small town
of Still Creek and starts a controversial newspaper, she is implicated in
a murder - and very attracted to the arrogant sheriff on the case. |
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Sum Of All Fears
CLANCY, T |
As Deputy Director of the CIA, Jack Ryan faces the
challenge of his career when his proposal for a Middle East peace plan is
thwarted by terrorists who intend to destroy Israel - after detonating an
atomic bomb on American soil.
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Sunburn*
STINE, R |
Claudia Walker accepts her friend Marla's invitation to
spend the weekend at her cliffside beach house. Little did she know that
horrible accidents - fatal accidents - would occur on the beach and in the
house. However, they're not "accidents" - someone's out to get
them! |
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Survival Of The Fittest
KELLERMAN, J |
When a young, mentally disabled Israeli girl is found
brutally murdered with the letters DVLL inscribed on her pocket, Alex
Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis jump on the case. This is not an
isolated incident, as Delaware and Sturgis are soon to discover, but an
elaborate and psychotic scheme by a maniacal group to "cleanse"
the human race. |
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Talking God*
HILLERMAN, T |
A grave robber and a corpse reunite Navajo Tribal Police
Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee. As Leaphorn seeks the identity of a
murder victim, Chee is arresting Smithsonian conservator Henry Highhawk
for ransacking the sacred bones of his ancestors. As the layers of each
case are peeled away, it becomes clear that they are connected. |
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Tenderness*
CORMIER, R |
The lives of two troubled teens dramatically intersect
in this psychological thriller as teenage serial killer Eric Poole and
runaway Lori Cranston embark on a journey that will either save of destroy
them.
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Termination Node
GRESH, L & WEINBERG, R |
When notorious hackers begin dying under suspicious
circumstances, Judy Carmody, one of the best computer-security specialists
money can buy, becomes a fugitive, a player in a desperate race to root
out an unseen enemy before her life is permanently unplugged. |
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Terrorist
COONEY, C |
16-year-old Laura, an American living in London, tries
to find the person responsible for the death of her younger brother Billy,
who has been killed by a terrorist bomb. |
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The 13th Warrior
CRICHTON, M |
The bestselling author of Jurassic Park retells the
outrageous adventure of Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, who accompanies a party of
Viking warriors to the barbaric north and witnesses their cold-blooded
human sacrifices. |
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They Never Came Home
DUNCAN, L |
Joan's boyfriend and her brother are missing, and
everybody assumes that they are dead. Then she receives a mysterious call
from a man who says her brother owes him a lot of money. Can Joan find Dan
and Larry, or are the two destined never to return?
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Thief Of Time*
HILLERMAN, T |
When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at
an ancient burial site, Navajo Tribal Policemen Lt. Joe Leaphorn and
Officer Jim Chee must plunge into the past to unearth the astonishing
truth behind a mystifying series of horrific murders.
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Thin Dark Line
HOAG, T |
Deputy Annie Broussard is drawn into a dangerous, deadly
game when she pursues the investigation of a killer whose case has been
dismissed on a technicality. |
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Thinner
KING, S |
The fantasy of becoming trimmer - and happier - turns
into a nightmare of unrelenting terror for Billy Halleck who is 50 pounds
overweight, sideswipes an old gypsy woman, and receives the sentence to
get "thinner." What will he do when he can't stop losing
weight? |
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Third Eye
DUNCAN, L |
High school senior Karen, who worries that her psychic
powers will make her seem different from other people, is frightened at
first when a young policeman asks her to use her gift to help the police
locate missing children. |
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Tick Tock
KOONTZ, D |
When Vietnamese-American detective/novelist Tommy Phan
finds a strange rag doll on his doorstep, he has no idea of its terrifying
nature. Soon, Tommy finds himself being hunted in his own house after the
doll grows into a monster determined to kill him. |
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Timeline
CRICHTON, M |
Michael Crichton's new novel opens on the threshold of
the 21st century in a world of exploding advances on the
frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points,
without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any
moment of the past can be actualized - and a group of historians can
enter, literally, life in 14th century feudal France.
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Tommyknockers*
KING, S |
Something is happening to the residents of Haven, Maine.
Something that gives everyone in the small town powers no human should
have, turning Haven into a death trap for outsiders - and plunging the
town into the depths of madness. |
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Torchlight
STEVENSON, R |
Two divers attempt to recover a billion dollars in gold
in the sunken remains of a WWI American cruiser while several nations
scheme to gain the treasure for themselves.
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Total Control
BALDACCI, D |
Sidney Archer thinks her life is perfect until her
husband is killed in a fiery plane crash. Or was he? The FBI thinks he
caused the crash and escaped unharmed. Now Sidney - and the rest of the
country - is on the hunt for Jason Archer. |
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Tricksters
MAHY, M |
While gathered together for the Christmas holiday, a
large New Zealand family and their various guests and hangers-on find
their lives suddenly invaded by three fascinating but rather sinister
brothers and by New Year nothing is the same again. |
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Troubled Waters
WHEAT, C |
Jan, part of an ill-fated student activist group in the
Sixties with lawyer Cass Jameson and her brother, Ron, is a long-time
fugitive wanted for murder. When Jan surrenders to the police, Cass rushes
to Ohio to defend Ron, who now faces related charges. Jan is threatening
to expose the "mole" who betrayed the students to police in 1969
and framed her for murder in 1982.
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Twilight Eyes
KOONTZ, D |
Slim MacKenzie is both hunter and hunted. Sought by
police for murder, Slim also stalks the diabolical Others, genetically
engineered "demons" from a prior Earth civilization.
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Twins*
COONEY, C |
A shivery tale about a young girl who steps into the
shoes of her dead identical twin sister and uncovers a horrifying legacy
of evil. |
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Twisted Summer*
ROBERTS, W |
Cici's dream of an idyllic vacation at her grandparent's
lakeside cottage is shattered when she learns that Brody, the older
brother of a boy she likes, has been convicted of murdering a local girl.
Certain that Brody is innocent, Cici searches for the real killer. |
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Twisted Window*
DUNCAN, L |
Brad tells Tracy that his little sister, Mindy, was
kidnapped by his stepfather, and she helps locate the child. They find the
toddler Brad is searching for, and Tracy arranges to baby-sit for Mindy,
then turn her over to Brad. When Brad shows up with a gun, Tracy realizes
that the story he told was far from the truth.
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Undue Influence
MARTINI, S |
Paul Madriani, a brilliant defense attorney, finds
himself in a complex web of murder and deceit within his own family. His
sister-in-law, Laurel Vega, is mired in a bitter child-custody battle with
her former husband, a powerful state legislator, Jack Vega. When Jack
Vega's new, younger wife is found dead in their opulent home, Laurel Vega
becomes a prime suspect.
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Vision
KOONTZ, D |
The story of a woman haunted by visions of the man who
tortured her in her childhood, vowing one day to return to her.
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Watchers
KOONTZ, D |
When Travis Cornell and Nora Devon meet
"Einstein", they are touched by the dog's intelligence. Einstein
is one of two altered life forms escaped from a top-secret lab. The other
- "The Outsider" - is a deadly crossbreed. To protect
themselves, Travis and Nora must learn to be deadly as well. |
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We All Fall Down*
CORMIER, R |
They entered and trashed their way through the Cape Cod
cottage shortly after 9 p.m. At 9:48, Karen makes the mistake of coming
home early. Thrown down the basement stairs, Karen slips into a coma,
while the vandals slip away. But the avenger has seen it all. |
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Weirdo*
TAYLOR, T |
They call Chip Clewt, who lives in the swamp, the
"weirdo". The swamp is a National Wildlife Refuge with a hunting
ban about to expire. Unexpectedly, the weirdo steps forward to take on the
hunters, despite the risks of messing with hunters' rights. |
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We'll Meet Again
CLARK, M |
When Dr. Gary Lasch, is found dead in his home, his
wife, Molly, is accused of murder. Her lawyer plea-bargains a manslaughter
charge to avoid a murder conviction. Released from prison nearly six years
later, Molly convinces Fran, her friend and an investigative reporter, to
research and produce a program on her husband's death. As hidden aspects
of Gary Lasch's life and the affairs of Remington Health Management come
to light, Fran herself becomes a target for murder.
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When Nobody's Home*
GOROG, R |
Fifteen terrifying short stories about baby-sitting, and
the awful things that happens when nobody's home.
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When The Wind Blows
PATTERSON, J |
Plagued by the mysterious murder of her husband, Frannie,
a veterinarian, throws herself into her work. It is not long before another
bizarre murder occurs and Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional FBI
agent, arrives on her doorstep. Late one night, near the woods of her
animal hospital, Frannie stumbles upon a strange, astonishing phenomenon
that will change the course of her life forever...
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While My Pretty One Sleeps
CLARK, M |
Neeve Kearny may be the only person in New York worried
about the death of Ethel Lambston. When Ethel, a bestselling author famous
for her juicy exposes, is found with her throat cut, Neeve's memories of
her mother's long-unsolved murder come to life. As an innocent witness in
the Lambstone investigation, Neeve is drawn into a sinister labyrinth of
greed and ambition. |
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Whisper In The Night: Tales Of Terror
AIKEN, J
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A collection of 13 short stories involving horror and
the supernatural.
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Whisper Of Death*
PIKE, C |
Returning home one day, Roxanne and Pepper find their
small town - and surrounding towns - empty. Finally they find three other
teens and realize that all five are each connected through the death of
Betty Sue, the plain, shy girl who committed suicide only three months
before. Betty Sue had written stories about them, stories of hate,
revenge, and death . . . in a dead world. |
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White Mercedes*
PULLMAN, P |
Chris is working the lighting at a party in Oxford when
he meets Jenny. They meet again by chance a few days later and begin a
relationship. Jenny has run away from an abusive home, and the separation
of Chris's parents has forced him to grow up before he is ready. Jenny and
Chris make bad decisions that lead to her death.
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Wolf Rider: A Tale Of Terror*
AVI |
Andi places himself in great danger when he tries to
prove that the supposed crank caller, claiming to have committed murder,
is telling the truth.
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Yellow Wallpaper
GILMAN, C |
Chilling masterpiece in which a woman descends into
madness as the only escape from a suffocating marriage and a patronizing
world.
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