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The face-changers: a novel (Jane Whitefield #4)
By Thomas Perry. 1998
Jane used to help people in trouble start over with new identities. Her new husband, Carey, convinced her to stop,…
but now he needs her help. His mentor, a surgeon, is being falsely accused of murder and believes he will be killed. Meanwhile, someone is posing as Jane - and the impostor isn't out to help anybody. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 1998.The face of deception (The Eve Duncan series. book I)
By Iris Johansen. 1998
When the man who murdered Eve Duncan's daughter was executed, Eve lost the chance to find her daughter's body. Now,…
as a forensic sculptor, she reconstructs faces to identify juvenile skulls. When a billionaire wants to hire her to work on a mysterious adult skull, she reluctantly agrees. Strong language and descriptions of violence. Bestseller. 1998. (The Eve Duncan series ; 1)The face of trespass
By Ruth Rendell. 1974
The falcon at the portal: an Amelia Peabody mystery (Amelia Peabody mystery. #11.)
By Elizabeth Peters. 1999
Amelia Peabody and her extended family, including her niece Lia and Lia's new husband, David, are headed to Egypt for…
the 1911 archaeological season. But their expedition is overshadowed by the accusation that David has been selling forged antiquities. Amelia's son, Ramses, strives to clear David as numerous bodies turn up. 1999. (Amelia Peabody mystery ; 11)The Eyre affair (Thursday Next. #1.)
By Jasper Fforde. 2001
There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits, the Crimean War is still…
being fought, and everyone is disappointed by the ending of "Jane Eyre". Literary detective Thursday Next is pursuing the world's most evil man, who has kidnapped Jane Eyre in a display of literary vandalism. She must also assist her time-travelling father, marry the man she loves and discover the truth about bananas. Some strong language, Followed by "Lost in a good book" (DC30166). 2001. (Thursday Next ; 1)The eye of God (Sigma Force novel #9)
By James Rollins. 2013
A U.S. military satellite crashes, and a search is conducted to recover its valuable cargo. But the satellite turns up…
something chilling: an image of the eastern U.S. seaboard in ruin. Meanwhile, the Vatican receives a package from a vanished colleague. It contains a skull scrawled with Aramaic and a tome bound in human skin. The source of these items: Ghengis Khan, whose tomb allegedly hides vast treasure. Now, Sigma Force must solve a mystery that leads back to Christianity's roots. Sequel to "Bloodline". 2013.The extinction club
By Jeffrey Moore. 2010
Nile Nightingale is startled by a pickup barrelling down the lane, which comes to a stop beside a church cemetery.…
Nile had hoped for some peace when he fled the addictions, exhaustions, and legal problems of home by heading north, illegally, into Quebec's Laurentian Mountains. Instead he finds that the driver has dumped the bloodied but breathing body of a teenage girl, and against his better judgement, Nile resolves to treat her wounds and find those who left her for dead. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and explicit descriptions of violence. c2010.The English breakfast murder (Tea shop mystery. #4)
By Laura Childs. 2003
When the body of local art dealer Harper Fisk shows up in the surf, it befalls Indigo Tea Shop owner…
Theodosia Browning to solve the murder before the killer, who is seeking a sunken treasure rumored to be near the beach, strikes again. 2003.The Etruscan chimera: an archaeological mystery (Archeological Mystery Ser.)
By Lyn Hamilton. 2002
Lara McClintoch, antique store owner and amateur sleuth, is heading home after wrapping up her annual antiquing tour through Europe.…
She is invited to meet billionaire and famous antiques collector Crawford Lake, who wants her to meet the owner of an Etruscan sculpture and persuade him to sell it to her. This turns out to be a difficult task, when the owner turns up dead in his own Etruscan tomb, setting Lara on a quest for the truth, and someone she can trust. 2002.The empty hours: 87th precinct mysteries (87th Precinct ; #15)
By Ed McBain. 1981
This book contains three of the 87th Precinct stories. The title story has Carella investigating the murder of a young,…
rich woman with only a cheque book as evidence. In "J" a Rabbi is viciously killed, and in "Storm" on a skiing holiday Cotton Hawks couldn't stand by and watch the local cops make a mess of the case of a young girl found dead in the snow, skewered with a ski pole. 1981. (87th Precinct ; 15)The English spy (Gabriel Allon. #15.)
By Daniel Silva. 2015
The target is royal; the game is revenge. Stretched topless upon the foredeck, drink in hand, her flawless skin baking…
in the sun, was the most famous woman in the world. And one deck below, preparing an appetizer of tuna tartare, cucumber, and pineapple, was the man who was going to kill her. But when a bomb explodes aboard her holiday yacht, British intelligence turns to one man to track down her killer: legendary spy and assassin Gabriel Allon. Sequel to "The heist", followed by "The black widow". 2015.The enemy inside: a Paul Madriani novel (Paul Madriani novel. #13)
By Steve Martini. 2015
The English girl (Gabriel Allon. #13)
By Daniel Silva. 2013
When a young British woman vanishes on the island of Corsica, a prime minister's career is threatened with destruction. Gabriel…
Allon, master art restorer, spy, and assassin, is thrust into a game of shadows where nothing is what it seems, and the only thing more dangerous than his enemies might be the truth. Includes violence and strong language. Bestseller. Sequel to "Fallen angel". 2013.The escape artist
By Diane Chamberlain. 1997
After Susanna put her husband through law school and became pregnant, he left her to marry another attorney. When the…
court awards custody of their now eleven-month-old son to her ex-husband, Susanna leaves her new love and flees with the child. Some strong language, some violence, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 1997.The corpse with the emerald thumb (Cait Morgan mystery.)
By Cathy Ace, Frances Thorsen. 2014
A dream vacation at a Mexican beach resort swiftly dissolves into a nightmare for criminologist and foodie Cait Morgan when…
her significant other, Bud Anderson, is wrongly arrested for the murder of the local florist, a gifted plantswoman. With Bud’s freedom, and maybe even his life, at stake, Cait has to fight the clock to work out which member of the small Mexican community might have killed the respected florist, and why. Investigating under the watchful gaze of the local police, Cait has to keep her relationship with Bud a secret, and she soon discovers she’s not the only one with something to hide. 2014.The couturier of Milan: The Triad Years (Ava Lee novel. #9.)
By Ian Hamilton. 2017
Ava attends London Fashion Week for the launch of the PÖ fashion line, one of the major investments she and…
her partners in the Three Sisters - May Ling Wong and Amanda Yee - have made during the last year. With the exponential expansion of the luxury-brand market in China, Ava and her partners are determined to see a young Chinese designer break out in Europe and North America and they go full out in London. The show is a success, but it attracts the attention of Dominic Ventola, the principal partner in the luxury fashion conglomerate VLG. VLG offers to buy the Three Sisters’ stake in PÖ. Ava and her partners decline. A few days later, PÖ comes under attack in the fashion media and a large part of their customer base is pressured by VLG to abandon them. Ava decides to strike back and turns to Xu for assistance, leading to a confrontation between two of the world’s biggest global crime syndicates: the Camorra and the Triad. Sequel to "The princeling of Nanjing". 2017.The darkhouse
By Barbara Radecki. 2016
A teenage girl living in a small island community in New Brunswick discovers that her father, an amateur scientist, has…
been conducting experiments on humans, and may be responsible for the death of the twin sister she never knew she had. For junior and senior high readers. 2016.The dragon turn: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His Fifth Case (Boy Sherlock Holmes. #5.)
By Shane Peacock. 2011
London, 1869. Sherlock Holmes and his friend Irene celebrate her sixteenth birthday by watching Alistair Hemsworth, a magician, make a…
real dragon appear on stage, and even get to meet him - just as he is arrested for the murder of his rival, The Wizard of Nottingham. It seems that traces of the missing Wizard’s blood and his spectacles were found in Hemsworth’s secret studio, and not only is the Wizard his rival, but he also caused a scandal when he lured Hemsworth’s wife away. For junior high readers. Some descriptions of violence. 2011. (The boy Sherlock Holmes ; 5)The drop zone: a T.J. Peterson mystery (A T. J. Peterson mystery ; #1)
By Robert E Kroll. 2015
Detective T.J. Peterson has a problem, and it’s not just how much he’s drinking or the daily, silent, tormenting video…
calls from his estranged daughter. A Catholic priest has been bludgeoned to death in church, apparently by a symbol of his faith, and an unidentified woman’s body had been found. He’s barely holding it together. When a deranged teenager, a possible witness, crosses his path, he is propelled into a sleazy, violent world of underage prostitution, sexual abuse, and human trafficking as he pursues a merciless killer. 2015.The disappeared (Fredrika Bergman mysteries. #3.)
By Kristina Ohlsson. 2014
A young woman is found carved up and buried in a forest glade in a Stockholm suburb. She is identified…
as Rebecca Trolle, a student who went missing two years earlier. While Fredrika Bergman and her team try to find out why Rebecca met such a violent demise, more bodies are found in the same area. Fredrika Bergman is inevitably drawn into the case, but it becomes much more complicated when her lover's name is mentioned in the investigation. 2014. Uniform title: Änglavakter.