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What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]
By Zoe Heller. 2003
Schoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a solitary existence; aside from her cat, Portia, she has few friends, and no intimates.…
When Sheba Hart joins St. George's as the new art teacher Barbara senses the possibility of a friendship. It begins with lunches and continues with regular invitations to meals with Sheba's seemingly close-knit family. But as their relationship develops, another does as well: Sheba has begun a passionate affair with an underage male student. And when it comes to light and Sheba falls prey to the inevitable media circus, Barbara decides to write an account in her friend's defense-an account that reveals not only an unwitting Sheba's secrets, but her own. What Was She Thinking? is a story of repression and passion, envy and complacence, friendship and loneliness. A complex psychological portrait framed as a wicked satire, it is by turns funny, poignant, and sinister. With it, Zoe Heller's promise of her critically acclaimed first writing you Know.The Final Hour
By Tom Wood. 2017
The enigmatic assassin Victor returns in an explosive thriller from the international bestselling author of A Time to Die and…
The Darkest Day. SOMETIMES THE ONLY WAY TO LIVE... Victor is the ultimate predator. He surfaces to kill, then disappears into thin air. But he’s a disposable commodity for the powerful people he works for—both the good guys and the bad. And no one has his back. Especially now that doing black bag jobs for the CIA has put a target on his head... ...IS TO DIE. Antonio Alvarez, a high-ranking US intelligence official, is determined to clean house and find the legendary killer who slipped away from him during an operation in Paris. There’s only one person Victor can turn to for help: a lethal female assassin whose life he once saved. And now Victor wants her to return the favor—by killing him....Fear Itself
By Andrew Rosenheim. 2011
A compelling, finely-crafted, intelligent thriller set in the Second World War. It is 1940, and war is raging in Europe.…
With forty million citizens of German ancestry, there is great pressure within America to stay out of the fight. Elements ranging from the Nazi-sympathetic German-American Bund to the WASP-led America First movement are working feverishly to make sure America does not intervene on the side of a beleaguered Great Britain. Stephen Nessheim, a 28-year-old German-American Lutheran, is working for the still-fledgling FBI. Having grown up in a small Wisconsin town, Nessheim has attended the University of Chicago already known for its radical theories of education and Leftist sympathies. But Nessheim is conservative, befitting his small town upbringing as the son of a schoolteacher, and plays American football in college. Dealing with his own conflicts and that of his divided community, Nessheim finds himself assigned to infiltrate the Bund to seek out suspected Nazi-extremists. His investigations take him deep into the heart of Roosevelt's government. But as he moves closer to the truth, another even more sinister plot emerges which threatens the very foundations of American democracy. From the Trade Paperback edition.Zero Option
By P. T. Deutermann. 1998
In the weapons safety office of the super secret Anniston Army Depot, a simple accounting mistake points to the unthinkable:…
a single chemical weapon has gone missing from a shipment. In the destruction chamber of an Atlanta military surplus sales facility, a single, gleaming cylinder has been found by a supervisor, who recognizes the chance to make more money in one sale than he has in a lifetime of stealing from the government. A government cop is banished to Atlanta out of Washington for fingering a senior official for corruption. A mute girl sees something in the Atlanta airport that terrifies her, and then places her life in mortal danger. Within the cylinder, a mutation is taking place with a timeline of its own. The army, the cop, the supervisor, and the girl are swept into a whirlwind story where the options become narrower as the danger increases, until each of them is left at the point of Zero Option.Alex and Dog Go Hunting
By Christopher Charman. 2017
Alex doesn't have much to her name despite her knack for thieving and her passionate love of Veronica. When Alex…
is arrested and her relationship with Veronica shattered, she has only one way to clear her name and avoid life in prison.Years later, and now an asset of the US government, Alex has been transformed into a Special Ops assassin, and she has the engineered genes to prove it. Fighting her way through every blacklisted mission possible, and loving every minute of it, it isn't until she's delisted and on the streets that she meets David, a genetic whiz, who suspects that there's a flaw hidden in her new and improved DNA — a flaw that may prove fatal.Forging an uncanny relationship with Dog, a canine with incredible abilities, Alex learns that there are more dark rooms filled with government conspiracies than even she knew existed. As they dodge a desperate military, Alex realizes she'll have to face one of her worst battles yet: one of the heart.Daño colateral: La traición es la única verdad
By María Fihman. 2017
La historia de un comisario que arriba a Sudamérica para buscar al infante entre la mafia local, la burocracia y…
la ambición de quienes nunca pensaron en el daño colateral de su codicia. Fontela no se conformaba y esa insatisfacción hacía de él un adicto al mal, hurgando desesperadamente en lo más profundo de la aberración humana, intentando palpar su textura, tocar consistencia... Esperaba algún día identificar signos que lo revelarán y, entonces, reconocería al criminal en un vistazo. Ese era su plan de vida. Un crimen siempre deja huellas, pero estos indicios suelen diluirse cuando el contexto está lleno de corrupción, cuando la inocencia es una consecuencia de la mentira y la traición es el arma que se esgrime todos los días. En Venezuela cualquiera puede darse por muerto cuando tiene al régimen en su contra; éste es el caso de un niño desaparecido diez años atrás. Sin embargo, hay indicios de que sigue con vida.Venganza de una sicaria
By Lluc Oliveras. 2017
Después de perder a su hermano y madre, Liliana solo piensa en venganza. Descubre cómo logra entrar en los cárteles…
más poderosos de Colombia, convirtiéndose en la sicaria más poderosa. La vida no era para los más débiles, y ella había perdido la inocencia al entrar en un trueque con el diablo: su alma a cambio de una simple venganza y, pese a todo, había salido perdiendo. Liliana, una joven colombiana nacida en uno de los barrios más pobres, ha perdido todo: a su hermano Wilson y a su madre, la inocencia a manos de su padre. Únicamente le queda cobrar venganza, y para ello Alexander la ayudará a entrar en las filas de uno de los cárteles más poderosos de Colombia. Se convertirá en la sacaría más mortífera y eficaz del Cártel del norte, pero esto la llevará a perderse a sí misma. Una novela en la que la vida vale lo que cuesta un gramo de cocaína.A Walk In The Darkness
By Jon Land. 2000
What if the greatest event in history never happened? In 1948 a Turkish archaeological team is slaughtered. Fifty years later,…
a group of American archaeologists, is murdered in the Judean desert.Liars and Thieves (Tommy Carmellini #1)
By Stephen Coonts. 2004
Liars and Thieves is Stephen Coonts as you've never seen him before--a story as chilling as it is unforgettable. Tommy…
Carmellini, a CIA operative who is unafraid to walk both sides of the law to attain his objective, uncovers a dark conspiracy that leads to the highest levels of the American government-and to a ruthless manipulator who will stop at nothing to keep a decades-old secret. Liars and Thieves opens as Carmellini is sent to post guard duty at a farmhouse in West Virginia's remote Allegheny Mountains, where top government operatives are debriefing a star defector: the ultimate KGB insider, a man with records on every operation and every dirty trick the shadowy intelligence agency has ever run, from Lenin to Putin. Carmellini arrives to find the guards shot dead and a ruthless team of commandos--American commandos--killing everyone in sight, then setting the house on fire. He escapes in a hail of bullets with what seems to be the sole survivor, a stunningly attractive translator who then steals his car, abandoning him, after a deadly mountain car chase. But one other person survived the massacre: The man whose fractured memory holds the KGB's most embarrassing secrets, including something for which someone will kill to keep it quiet. Carmellini teams up with his mentor, Admiral Jake Grafton, and together they track down the amnesiac defector. From there, the hunt is on as they become the target of a lethal squad of killers who can only be taking direction from someone very close to the president. From a bloody ambush at a posh Virginia estate, to assassinations on the decaying streets of inner city Washington, to a makeshift safe house at Grafton's Delaware summer home, no place is outside the ruthless conspiracy's reach. Carmellini and Grafton must learn to tell friend from foe as they fight their way through a poisonous wilderness of intrigue, all the way to a presidential convention in New York City--and to the surprising identity of someone standing on the verge of absolute power who has jeopardized the safety of the entire nation to prevent a dark secret from ever seeing the light of day.Lord Jim
By Joseph Conrad, Thomas C. Moser. 1998
Shadow Wolf
By Jenna Kernan. 2015
He wanted justice. For his family. For her. Elite tracker Kino Cosen is hunting for the drug lord who murdered…
his father. After a decade of searching, he's finally got the Viper in his sight-until a woman gets in the way. Now Kino has a new lead. Aid worker Lea Atlaha has seen the Viper face-to-face...and lived. But now Lea's a target. And while Kino thinks he's protecting her because she can help him get justice for his father, he soon realizes that she's not just another witness. As the Viper moves in for the kill, Kino has to choose between his need for vengeance, the traditions of his tribe and the woman he has grown to love.The Broken Hearts Club
By Ethan Black. 1999
Lethal Risk
By W. H. Watford. 2003
The Priestly Sins
By Andrew M. Greeley. 2004
Father Herman Hoffman, in his first parish appointment, witnesses child abuse in the parish rectory. He tells the pastor, the…
father of the victim, and the police but is rebuffed by the archbishop.Sullivan's Law
By Nancy Taylor Rosenberg. 2004
3 Truths and a Lie
By Lisa Gardner. 2016
Boston Detective D.D. Warren faces her most brutal adversaries yet--a class of jaded thriller writers--in New York Times Bestselling Author…
Lisa Gardner's exclusive e-Book short storyIn Lisa Gardner's second short story, after the New York Times bestseller The 7th Month, Detective D.D. Warren takes on her most intimidating assignment yet: a fifty-minute class meant to educate a horde of bloodthirsty thriller writers on the ways of actual police work. Yet sometimes life really does imitate fiction, as D.D. takes the writers through the reality of one of her most twisted cases--a case that involves a seedy motel room, drugs, prostitution . . . and a severed leg. With Gardner's trademark suspense, sharp observations, and thrilling storytelling, Three Truths and a Lie is a fascinating chapter in D.D.'s storied career. Includes an early look at Lisa Gardner's next novel of suspense, Find Her, coming February 9, 2016.Sacred Prey
By Vivian Schilling, Shari Lovendahl. 1994
In an abandoned cabin in a Louisiana bayou, loan shark Adam Claiborne and his brother Kyle have cornered a young…
couple with a big debt to settle. But their collection doesn't go according to plan and Charlie Sinclair and his wife Monique end up dead. Unfortunatebut to Adam Claiborne, it's just business. Until Adam makes his weekly confession and the stern, unfamiliar voice in the confessional refuses to absolve his sins. Until he awakens in the morning and finds himself in bed with Monique Sinclair, the woman he's murdered. Until it sinks in that it's three days before the killings and he is somehow trapped in the body of Charlie Sinclair. And if Adam doesn't find a way to change the events of the next three days, he will be hunted down and murdered...by Adam Claiborne.Forget Me Not: A Novel (Crossroads Crisis Center #1)
By Vicki Hinze. 2010
THEIR ELUSIVE ENEMIES TOOK EVERYTHING. NOW THEY WANT MORE. Crossroads Crisis Center owner Benjamin Brandt was a content…
man-in his faith, his work, and his family. Then in a flash, everything he loved was snatched away. His wife and son were murdered, and grief-stricken Ben lost faith. Determination to find their killers keeps him going, but after three years of dead ends and torment, his hope is dying too. Why had he survived? He’d failed to protect his family. Now, a mysterious woman appears at Crossroads seeking answers and help-a victim who eerily resembles Ben’s deceased wife, Susan. A woman robbed of her identity, her life, of everything except her faith-and Susan’s necklace. The connections between the two women mount, exceeding coincidence, and to keep the truth hidden, someone is willing to kill. Finding out who and why turns Ben and the mystery woman’s situation from dangerous to deadly. Their only hope for survival is to work together, trust each other, and face whatever they discover head on, no matter how painful. But will that be enough to save their lives and heal their tattered hearts?Golden Buddha
By Clive Cussler, Craig Dirgo. 2003
Juan Cabrillo's first adventure with the Oregon-a state of the art spy ship disguised as a nondescript lumber hauler-takes him…
and his crew into dangerous waters, as they try to put Tibet back in the hands of the Dalai Lama by striking a deal with the Russians and the Chinese.Cabrillo's gambling chip is a golden Buddha containing records of vast oil reserves in the disputed land. But first, he'll have to locate-and steal-the all-important artifact. And there are certain people who would do anything in their power to see him fail...Special Forces Savior
By Janie Crouch. 2016
He has to shut down the terrorists or lose everything. Including the woman who's become a target. Omega Sector: Critical…
Response agent Derek Waterman is hunting some very bad men. After weeks of chasing cold leads, he has found the evidence that could expose the architects of a lethal terrorist bombing. But before Derek can start busting bad guys, he needs help from Dr. Molly Humphries, Omega's lead forensic scientist. Molly works to retrieve the data-and overcome her debilitating crush on the super agent. And Derek carefully suppresses his mutual smoldering attraction, sure that his dark past will drive Molly away. But when Molly's kidnapped, Derek will stop at nothing to save her. Even if a lethal enemy will do everything to keep him from doing so.