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The comfort of strangers
By Ian McEwan. 1981
For Mary and Colin, on holiday in a city where everything is strange to them and they are continually lost…
both physically and mentally, it is easy to close their eyes to the hidden danger lurking behind Robert's apparent friendliness. 1981.The cocktail waitress
By James M Cain. 2012
Following her husband's death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is forced to take a job…
serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet and to have a chance of regaining custody of her young son. At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her, a handsome young schemer who makes her blood race and a wealthy but unwell older man who rewards her for her attentions with a $50,000 tip and an unconventional offer of marriage. Some descriptions of sex. 2012.The company of strangers
By Robert Wilson. 2001
In 1944, while the endgame of the intelligence war is silently being fought, Andrea Aspinall and Karl Voss enter the…
sophisticated world of the war. It is here in this corrupted paradise that they each attempt to find love. After a night of terrible violence Andrea is left with a secret which provokes a lifelong addiction to a clandestine world. In ice-gripped East Berlin, she discovers that the deepest secrets are held not by governments but by those closest to you. 2001.The brutal art
By Jesse Kellerman. 2008
In a decaying New York slum, an elderly tenant has disappeared, leaving behind a huge collection of brilliant paintings. No…
one knows anything much about him. For art dealer Ethan Muller, this is the discovery of a lifetime. He displays the pictures in his gallery and watches as they rocket up in value. But suddenly the police want to talk to him. It seems the missing artist had a sinister past. 2008.The bomb maker
By Thomas Perry. 2018
A threat is called into the LAPD Bomb Squad, a team dispatched to a house whose owner is away, and…
a bomb disguised inside photography equipment exploded in the kitchen. But it is a second bomb hidden in the basement that has devastating consequences--half of the entire Bomb Squad is obliterated within seconds. The fragmented unit turns to Dick Stahl, a former Bomb Squad commander who now operates his own private security company. Having just returned from a grueling job in Mexico, Stahl is reluctant to accept the offer, but senior technicians he had trained were among those killed. On his first day back at the head of the squad, Stahl's team is dispatched to a suspected car bomb outside a gas station. It quickly becomes clear to him that they are dealing with the same mastermind behind the weapon that killed fourteen highly trained men and women barely twenty-four hours before--and that the intended target may be the Bomb Squad itself. As the shadowy organization sponsoring this campaign of terror puts increasing pressure on the bomb maker, and Stahl becomes dangerously entangled with a member of his own team, the fuse on this high-stakes plot only burns faster. 2018.The body in the piazza (Faith Fairchild mystery. #21.)
By Katherine Hall Page. 2013
To celebrate a wedding anniversary, amateur sleuth/caterer Faith Fairchild and her husband are off to Italy for a vacation. The…
plan is to spend a romantic weekend in Rome before heading to Florence to visit Faith's former assistant Francesca at her cooking school. But a dark shadow clouds joy when someone is murdered in the Eternal City almost right before the Fairchilds' eyes. Faith struggles to follow a trail more twisting than fusili and ends up putting both herself and her husband in peril. 2013.The captives: a novel
By Debra Jo Immergut. 2018
Inmate psychologist at a state prison, Frank Lundquist is surprised when his high school object of desire, Miranda Greene, walks…
into his office for a counselling appointment. Miranda is desperate and despairing, and she soon looks to Frank for absolution and perhaps even escape. 2018.The bookworm: a novel
By Mitch Silver. 2018
The discovery of a human arm bone with a rusty handcuff attached to the wrist at a London construction site…
prompts Russian historian Lara "the Bookworm" Klimt to investigate a secret World War II operation and prevent a present-day international conspiracy. 2018.The Bobby Gold stories
By Anthony Bourdain. 2016
Bobby Gold is a lovable criminal. After nearly ten years in prison, he's no sooner out than he's back to…
work breaking bones for tough guys. His turf: the club scene and restaurant business. It's not that he enjoys the job--Bobby has real heart--but he's good at it, and a guy has to make a living. Things change when he meets Nikki, the cook at a club most definitely not in his territory. Smitten, he can't stay away. Bobby Gold has known trouble before, but with Nikki the sauté bitch in his life, things take a turn for life or death. 2016.The cartel: a novel
By Don Winslow. 2015
2004. DEA agent Art Keller has been fighting the war on drugs for thirty years in a blood feud against…
Adán Barrera, the head of El Federación, the world's most powerful cartel, and the man who brutally murdered Keller's partner. Finally putting Barrera away cost Keller dearly--the woman he loves, the beliefs he cherishes, the life he wants to lead. Then Barrera gets out, determined to rebuild the empire that Keller shattered. Unwilling to live in a world with Barrera in it, Keller goes on a ten-year odyssey to take him down, that stretches from the cities, mountains, and deserts of Mexico to Washington's corridors of power to the streets of Berlin and Barcelona. Keller finally comes to the final reckoning with Barrera--and himself--that he always knew must happen. Sequel to "The Power of the Dog." 2015.The bouncer: a novel
By David Gordon. 2018
Joe Brody is just your average Dostoevsky-reading, Harvard-expelled strip club bouncer who has a highly classified military history and whose…
best friend from Catholic school happens to be head mafioso Gio Caprisi. FBI agent Donna Zamora, the best shot in her class at Quantico, is a single mother stuck at a desk manning the hotline. Their storylines intersect over a tip from a cokehead that leads to a crackdown on Gio's strip joint in Queens and Joe's arrest--just one piece of a city-wide sweep aimed at flushing out anyone who might have a lead on the various terrorists whose photos are hanging on the wall under Most Wanted. Outside the jailhouse, the Fed and the bouncer lock eyes, as Gordon launches them both headlong into a nonstop plot that goes from back-road gun show intervention to high-stakes perfume heist and manages to touch everyone from the CIA to the Flushing Triads. Beneath it all lurks a sinister criminal mastermind whose manipulations could cause chaos on a massively violent scale. 2018.The burial hour (Lincoln Rhyme novel. #13.)
By Jeffery Deaver. 2017
A traveling businessman is snatched off of an Upper East Side street in broad daylight--or so it appears to the…
eight-year-old girl who is the crime's only witness. The perp leaves a token at the site of the kidnapping--a miniature noose. A crime scene this puzzling demands forensic expertise of the highest order, so Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are called in to investigate. Things take an unexpected turn when a similar kidnapping occurs across the Atlantic in Italy. The killer's MO is bizarre and frightening - obsessed with music, the man records the final breaths of his victims, then uses a keyboard sampler to compose an otherworldly tune that is then posted online. The search for the killer will become a complex case of international cooperation--yet not all is as it seems, and soon Sachs and Rhyme find themselves playing a dangerous game with shadowy parties from across the globe. Bestseller. Sequel to "The steel kiss". 2017.The bootlegger (Isaac Bell Adventure. #7.)
By Clive Cussler, Justin Scott. 2014
1920, both Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing. When Isaac Bell's boss and lifelong friend Joseph Van Dorn is…
shot and nearly killed leading the high-speed chase of a rum-running vessel, Bell swears to him that he will hunt down the lawbreakers, but he doesn't know what he is getting into. When a witness to Van Dorn's shooting is executed in a ruthlessly efficient manner invented by the Russian secret police, it becomes clear that these are no ordinary criminals. Bell is up against a team of Bolshevik assassins and saboteurs-- and they are intent on overthrowing the government of the United States. Sequel to "The striker", followed by "The assassin". 2014.The catch
By Tom Bale. 2013
How far do you go for a friendship? That's the question Daniel Wade is forced to ask when a simple…
favour has fatal consequences. For the sake of his old schoolmate, Robbie - and more importantly for Robbie's sister, Cate - Dan agrees to go along with a lie. But soon he's sucked into a conspiracy that threatens to consume them all. 2013.The broken places (Quinn Colson. #3.)
By Ace Atkins. 2013
A year after becoming sheriff, Quinn Colson is faced with the release of an infamous murderer from prison. Jamey Dixon…
comes back to Jericho preaching redemption, and some believe him; but for the victim's family, the only thought is revenge. Another group don't believe him--the men in prison from Dixon's last job, an armored car robbery. They're sure he's gone back to grab the hidden money, so they do the only thing they can: break out and head straight to Jericho themselves. 2013.The bones of Paris (Touchstone Ser. #2)
By Laurie R King. 2013
Private investigator Harris Stuyvesant is an American agent who's been given the plum assignment of locating beautiful young model Philippa…
Crosby. But when Philippa's trail ends at the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in Montmartre, Stuyvesant discovers a world where art meets sexual depravity - and where a savage killer lurks in the shadows. 2013.The charmers: a novel
By Elizabeth Adler. 2016
Mirabella Matthews' Aunt Jolly died unexpectedly and mysteriously, and as a result, Mirabella has inherited her villa in the South…
of France. Driving there on the way from the train with Verity, the young woman she picked up along the way, Mirabella is run off the road by a motorcycle and she soon discovers that the dangers do not end there. It turns out that Aunt Jolly had a past, and as the various men who were a part of it show up at the villa, Mirabella and Verity must find out who can be trusted and who is using charm to mask the face of a murderer. 2016.The cell
By Colin Forbes. 2003
Tweed, reverting to his one-time role as a detective, faces the most frightening challenge of his career. Is al-Qa'eda about…
to attack London with a strategic onslaught that will make September 11 seem like a tactical attack? Rumours abound as time runs out. With Paul Gray and Bob Newman, Tweed discovers the weird village of Carpford, and also encounters a number of high-profile personnel, any of whom could be involved in the plot to devastate London. But unless Tweed's team can track down the mass killers, thousands of Londoners will be annihilated. Descriptions of violence. 2003.The caretaker
By Thomas William Simpson. 1998
Samantha Henderson's husband, Gunn, receives a mysterious job offer that includes a lot of perks, especially a house with a…
caretaker. Sam becomes involved with the servant, not realizing he's a threat to her family. Strong language, explicit descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. 1998.The causeway
By P. M Hubbard. 1976
Peter Grant is forced ashore on a small island on the Solway Firth. He finds mysterious people, becomes involved in…
their affairs, and comes face to face with love, terror, and violent death. 1976.