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1) Silence
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English
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Six years ago, Jack Till helped Wendy Harper disappear. But now her ex-boyfriend and former business partner, Eric Fuller, is being framed for her presumed murder in an effort to smoke her out, and Till must find her before tango-dancing assassins Paul and Sylvie Turner do.The Turners are merely hired to do a job, though, and prefer to remain anonymous. When they find that a middleman has let the true employer know their identities, finishing the...
4) Killjoy
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Pub. Date
2002
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English
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Avery Delaney, driven by her past to a career in law and order, must use all her skills to save her aunt when she is kidnapped as part of a mad plot for revenge.
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English
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Page Murdock doesn't know why someone wants him dead, but he knows where the hired killers are coming from. Thus begins Murdoch's descent into a hell more decadent, corrupt, and dangerous than even he has ever seen-San Francisco's Barbary Coast. With an unwilling backup man, Murdock takes up temporary residence among the gamblers, dope addicts, prostitutes, and cutthroats of the continent's foulest district. No man here is trustworthy. But perhaps...
7) Delicious
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English
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When the greedy owner of a Las Vegas movie catering company tries to muscle in on a local, family-owned business in Honolulu, it leaves a very bad taste in the mouths of the natives, and the battle for paradise begins for Joseph, a young Hawaiian chef. As far as Joseph's father Sid is concerned, this is an invasion on par with Captain Cook and the mainlanders have to be stopped at all costs. As Joseph defends his family he encounters a TV producer...
10) Shaker: a novel
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"The tense, darkly funny, unputdownable debut novel from one of the most successful screenwriters of the past 20 years--the tale of a hit man mistaken for a hero whose sudden, unwanted fame makes him a target for the surprising number of people who want him dead"--
11) Bait
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Maddie Fitzgerald's past unwilling involvement with the mob comes back to haunt her when an attempt on her life brings her to the attention of the FBI, and into the arms of handsome agent Sam McCabe.
12) Ten big ones
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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She's accidentally destroyed a dozen cars. She's a target for every psycho and miscreant this side of the Jersey Turnpike. Her mother's convinced she'll end up dead . . . or worse, without a man. She's Stephanie Plum, and she kicks butt for a living (well, she thinks it sounds good to put it that way. . . .). It begins as an innocent trip to the deli-mart, on a quest for nachos. But Stephanie Plum and her partner, Lula, are clearly in the wrong place...
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Savannah private investigator Robert Brixton takes on a twenty-year-old murder case that leads him into the corrupt underbelly of the city's government and exposes a secret government organization that has been killing troublesome politicians for decades.
15) Camino winds
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen--even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime . . . Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida's governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce...
17) A Gun for Sale
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A detective and a chorus girl stalk the shadows of a murderer in this thriller from "a pioneer of the modern mood we now think of as noir" ( LA Weekly ). Born out of a brutal childhood, Raven is an assassin for hire whose latest hit -- a government minister -- is one calculated to ignite a war. When the most wanted man in England is paid off in marked bills, he also becomes the easiest to track -- and police detective Jimmy Mather has the lead. But...
18) Kill Zone
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English
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A remarkable new antihero, mob hit man Peter Macklin must end a hostage crisis on a tour boat in Lake Erie Siegfried, a terrorist group made up of a killer, a bassist, an ex-marine, a demolitions expert, a Black Panther, a national guardsman, and a couple of spoiled teenagers, is about to become Detroit's worst nightmare. The motley gang boards a river cruise boat armed with M16s and enough explosives to burn the city down. They have eight hundred...
19) The winter man
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English
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In Silent Night Man the special government agent Millie has loved from afar for years has vowed to protect her from a hit man. In Sutton's Way Wyoming rancher and single father Quinn Sutton rescues a beautiful city woman with secrets of her own.
Best-selling novelist Diana Palmer has well over a hundred books in print, translated and published around the world. She has written historical as well as science-fiction novels, but she is best known for...
20) Roses Are Dead
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English
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Hit man Peter Macklin battles divorce attorneys, mobsters, and hired assassins in this action-packed, hard-boiled thriller For years, Donna ignored the guns in her husband's safe, his long hours, and all the cash he couldn't possibly have made as an "efficiency expert." But finally she was forced to admit that Peter Macklin is a killer for hire. Donna wants a divorce, and she wants to take her husband for all he's worth. But she won't get a penny...
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