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By Kent Harrington. 2008
Mexico City. Dr. Collin Reeves has found a semi-comfortable niche performing occasional chores for the CIA, acting as a go…
to doctor for the U.S. embassy when American tourists need medical attention, and pursuing his avocation of painting. When CIA veterans Alex Law and Butch Nickels get wind of a possible terrorist bombing plot, they use any means to extract information that might prevent it. Reeves, pressed to keep alive suspects who are being tortured, faces both a moral dilemma and personal danger. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence, and some descriptions of sex. c2008.By Robert Ludlum. 1976
A small vault of documents is hidden from the Nazis at the beginning of World War II. The location of…
the vault is kept secret for thirty years, until a power struggle forces a search for it. Strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. 1976.One cold and rainy morning, the body of a gypsy girl is found floating in a canal. Brunetti suspects she…
fell off a nearby roof while fleeing an apartment she had robbed--but something about the case continues to haunt him. Sequel to "Suffer the little children", followed by "About face". 2008.By Edward Blishen, Leon Garfield. 1970
Many of the classical myths of Greece, told as one continuous tale beginning with Chaos, the rule of the Titans…
and their overthrow by the rebellious gods of Olympus. The great violent energy underlying these myths makes timeless what they tell of human passions, tragedy and comedy. Grades 4-7. 1970.By Gerald Seymour. 1976
In the early hours of the morning three Arab guerrillas make their way across northern France to Boulogne. Their mission…
is to assassinate a senior Israeli nuclear scientist, due to arrive in London in three days time. 1976.By Faye Kellerman. 2006
Seventeen short stories include mysteries and family tales. In the previously unpublished title piece, Rina Decker discovers the body of…
her elderly gardening buddy. In "The Stalker", Dana's boyfriend changes after they marry. Strong language, some explicit descriptions of sex, and some violence. 2006.By Laura Murray. 2013
When the Gingerbread Man joins the children who made him on a school field trip to a fire station, he…
escapes being eaten by Spot the Dalmatian and rides along to a fire. Grades K-3. 2013.By Robert Muchamore. 2008
The world's largest urban warfare training compound stands in the desert near Las Vegas. Forty British commandos are being hunted…
by an entire American battalion. But their commander has an ace up his sleeve: he plans to smuggle in ten CHERUB agents, and fight the best war game ever. Includes violence and strong language. Junior high readers. 2008.By Lafcadio Hearn, Arlene Mosel. 1972
By Alan Furst. 2006
In Paris, on a winter night in 1938, a murder/suicide at a discreet lovers' hotel is not romantic tragedy -…
it is the work of the OVRA, Mussolini's fascist secret police, and meant to eliminate the editor of Liberazione, a clandestine emigre newspaper. In the desperate politics of a Europe on the edge of war, a foreign correspondent is a pawn - worth surveillance, or blackmail, or murder. 2006.By Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö. 1972
By Joanna Bourne. 2010
French Revolution. British spy William Doyle, disguised as a book salesman, meets French aristocrat Marguerite de Fleurignac. Believing she knows…
about a list of men targeted for murder, William offers to escort her to Paris - not realizing Marguerite's dangerous secret. Some descriptions of violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. 2010. (Spymaster series)By Henning Mankell. 2000
Philosophical detective Kurt Wallander and his team make connections between two deaths -- one of a reclusive birdwatcher and the…
other of an orchid florist. Set in Skane on the southern tip of Sweden. 2000.By Jon Cleary. 1982
By Robert Muchamore. 2007
When an MI5 operation goes disastrously wrong, James Adams needs all of his skills to get out of Russia alive.…
Meanwhile, his sister Lauren is on her first solo mission, trying to uncover a brutal human trafficking operation. And when James does get home, he finds that his nightmare is just beginning! For Junior High readers. Sequel to "Man vs beast" (DC38144). Followed by "Mad dogs". 2007. (CHERUB ; 7)By Laurie Thompson, Henning Mankell. 2001
Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team at the Ystad police station in Skåne, southern Sweden, receive an anonymous tip-off that…
comes to pass a few days later: a life raft is washed up on a beach. In it are two men, dressed in expensive suits, shot dead. The dead men were Eastern European criminals, victims of what seems to have been a gangland hit. But as the case soon takes on a sinister turn, Wallander finds himself in Riga, Latvia. There he is plunged into a frozen, alien world of police surveillance, scarcely veiled threats and lies. Some strong language. 2001. (Kurt Wallander ; 2) Uniform title: Hundarna i Riga.By Michael Connelly. 1994
Harry Bosch, maverick homicide detective, is hauled into court, the chief defendant in a civil suit against the LAPD. The…
plaintiffs are the family of "The Dollmaker", a notorious serial killer whom Bosch shot during an arrest three years before. Their allegation? That Bosch killed the wrong man - an accusation which becomes horribly plausible when a new body is found to carry all the hallmarks of a Dollmaker slaying. To clear his name, Bosch must prove that a copycat killer is at work. But can he? Sequel to "The black ice", followed by "The last coyote". 1994.By Elizabeth George. 2000
A collection of three short stories. In 'The evidence exposed', the two week course on 'Great Houses of Britain' brings…
together a varied group of enthusiasts. When one turns up dead, Inspector Thomas Lynley makes a cameo appearance. In 'I, Richard', Malcolm Cousins has spent years in the single-minded pursuit of a priceless letter, probably written by Richard III on the eve of the Battle of Bosworth, but does he want it enough to kill for it? Some strong language. 2000.By Ronald Hardy. 1973
By Lynne Reid Banks. 1988
When Tiki, a fairy, is "earthed" on Jan's foot, they both are terrified, but quickly become friends. Jan is sad…
because she cannot have children, and when Tiki performs a forbidden magic, she incurs the wrath of the Fairy Queen who seeks to exact revenge on Jan's family. Grades 3-6. 1988.