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The disappearance
By J. F Freedman. 1998
Former district attorney Luke Garrison returns to Santa Barbara to defend a man accused of murdering media mogul Doug Lancaster's…
fourteen-year-old daughter. The girl disappeared during a slumber party the year before. The defendant claims he is being framed. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex and violence. 1998.The door to December
By Dean R Koontz. 1985
Six years after her husband, Dylan, disappears with their three-year-old daughter, Melanie, child psychiatrist Laura McCaffrey is summoned by the…
police. They have found Dylan and two others brutally murdered. The three had been holding Melanie prisoner and conducting cruel behaviour modification research on her. Melanie is in a trance, terrified of the door to December and the thing that lurks behind it. Strong language and descriptions of violence. Bestseller. 1994, c1985.The dossier
By Leonard Gross, Pierre Salinger. 1984
An American journalist learns of a dossier, kept in Moscow, that could topple a former French Resistance hero who now…
is running for the presidency of France. Some strong language. 1984.The doomsday key: a Sigma Force novel (Sigma Force novel #6)
By James Rollins. 2009
At Princeton University, a famed geneticist dies inside a biohazard lab. In Rome, a Vatican archaeologist is found dead in…
St. Peter's Basilica. In Africa, a U.S. senator's son is slain outside a Red Cross camp. Three murder victims on three continents, linked by a pagan Druidic cross burned into their flesh. Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force have only days to solve an apocalyptic puzzle dating back centuries. Violence and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2009. (Sigma Force novels ; 6)The doomsday conspiracy
By Sidney Sheldon. 1991
Witnesses had stared in horror at the crash of a "weather balloon" in the Swiss Alps. Commander Robert Bellamy of…
Naval Intelligence has been ordered to find all of them and assure their silence. His only clue is that the witnesses were on the same tour bus. As Bellamy travels the globe, he discovers he is in the midst of an international conspiracy guided by alien forces. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 1991.The demonologist
By Andrew Pyper. 2013
Professor Ullman is a leading authority on Christian religion and myth but he sees what he teaches as nothing more…
than fiction. It's why when he's offered a trip to Venice to be a consultant on a case study based on his expertise as a 'demonologist' he accepts. But what he witnesses will change what he believes forever. Bestseller. 2013.The devil of Nanking
By Mo Hayder. 2005
The devil doctor
By Sax Rohmer. 1994
Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie find themselves standing against the mighty Chinaman, Dr Fu Manchu and his monstrous schemes to…
bring Europe and America under Chinese domination. He and his assassins once again terrorize London's underworld and Nayland and Petrie find themselves in a battle of wits with the most stupendous genius who ever worked for evil. 1994.The death-cap dancers
By Gladys Mitchell. 1981
A member of a folk-dance group is killed on the Yorkshire moors. Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley comes into the case…
when a second dancer is killed and a third seriously injured. 1981.The demon in the teahouse (Judge Ooka series. #2.)
By Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler. 2001
Set in eighteenth-century Japan. Someone is setting fires and killing geishas, and Samurai Judge Ooka needs an inside observer. He…
sends his adopted son, Seikei, under cover into a teahouse. Sequel to "The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn". Followed by "In darkness, death" (DC27555). Grades 5-8. 2001. (Judge Ooka series ; 2)The devil out there: a novella and stories
By Julie Houghton Keith. 2000
"The devil out there" comprises a novella, one long story and five short stories. Spanning three decades, these interconnected tales…
take the reader from pleasure to murder, from love to evil, from destruction to rescue and redemption, all of it lived, understood and misunderstood by a wide variety of characters in intensely described milieus. 2000.The deceiver
By Frederick Forsyth. 1991
Sam McCready is "The Deceiver", one of Special Intelligence Service's most unorthodox and most valued operatives. But at the end…
of the Cold War Sam has made some enemies, and become expendible to the mandarins in Whitehall. He elects to have his fate decided at a special hearing at which his four key operations are reviewed. Strong language. 1991.The deep end
By Joy Fielding. 1986
Joanne, recently separated from her husband, receives a series of sinister phone calls in which the caller claims to be…
an infamous killer-rapist and insists that she will be his next victim. Joanne cannot convince anyone to believe her story. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. c1986.The devil's garden
By Ralph Peters. 1998
A powerful senator's daughter is kidnapped in the Muslim country of Azerbaijan. Lieutenant Colonel Evan Burton from the American embassy…
tracks her down while native factions, Russians, Iranians, Turks, and Israelis all vie for an oil pipeline. Burton is alone, betrayed by everyone. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 1998.The defector (Davina Graham series ; #1)
By Evelyn Anthony. 1980
A man and a woman arrive at a quiet country house to spend the week-end; he is a top KGB…
agent and she is one of the British intelligence's key operatives. Their professional relationship soon becomes charged with strange emotions. Followed by "The avenue of the dead" (DC32936). 1980. (Davina Graham series ; 1)The Devil's alternative
By Frederick Forsyth. 1979
An appalling choice faces the President of the USA and other statesmen: whichever option they choose, men are going to…
die. But Adam Munro is unmoved. He knows that politicians have no objection to loss of life, so long as they are not seen publicly to have had anything to do with it. 1979.The demon crown (Sigma Force novel #13.)
By James Rollins. 2017
An ancient horror is free once more, developed into a weapon of incalculable strength and malignancy, ready to wreak havoc…
on an unsuspecting world. To stop its spread, Commander Grayson Pierce of Sigma Force must decipher a deadly mystery, one that traces back to the founding of the Smithsonian Institution. With each new discovery, the menace they hunt is changing, growing, spreading-- adapting and surviving every attempt to stop it from reconquering a world it once ruled. Running out of time and options, Commander Grayson Pierce will be forced to make an impossible choice. To eradicate this extinction-level threat and expose those involved, he will have to join forces with Sigma’s greatest enemy--the newly resurrected Guild--even it if means sacrificing one of his own. Sequel to "The seventh plague". Bestseller. 2017.The crystal rose
By Rebecca Brandewyne. 2006
Rose Windermere's family returns to England from India in 1835 after close friends are murdered. Fifteen years later Rose receives…
a cryptic message and discovers she's being stalked by businessman Raj Khanna. They fall in love while investigating the past and uncover a plot to assassinate Queen Victoria. Some descriptions of violence. 2006.The dark: new ghost stories
By Ellen Datlow. 2003
16 new ghost stories, varied in locale, period, and style, including westerns, faux memoirs, and romance. In Glenn Hirshberg's "Dancing…
Men," the ghost is the shadow of the Holocaust, which haunts a survivor of the concentration camps. A grandfather clock is animated by the spirit of a murder victim in "The Ghost of the Clock", while the lingering influence of a madwoman who terrorizes a child appears in "Feeling Remains". Some descriptions of violence and strong language. 2003.The dark ground (The lost trilogy ; #1)
By Gillian Cross. 2005
Robert finds himself alone and naked in the middle of thick jungle. He has no idea how he got there.…
The last thing he remembers is being in an airplane on his way back from holiday. As Robert struggles to stay alive, he slowly begins to realise he is not entirely alone. For junior and senior high readers. Followed by "The black room" (DC33237). 2005. (The lost trilogy ; 1)