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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...
Publisher
Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When two brothers find themselves in need of money, an uncle reaches out and offers to pay them to commit murder.
When gambling debt and an expensive courtship place working-class brothers in a financial bind, a rich uncle offers them an out in exchange for committing murder.
Author
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...
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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...
8) Killjoy
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Pub. Date
2002
Language
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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Language
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...
11) Shaker: a novel
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"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"--
12) Fargo
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A car salesman sets in motion a complicated series of events when he decides to mastermind the kidnapping of his wife for ransom.
13) Ten big ones
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Description
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...
14) Camino winds
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Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Description
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...
Publisher
Lion's Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Language
Español
Description
Three different people are catapulted into dramatic and unforeseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's designer pooch disappears into the apartment's floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a Rotweiler with a gunshot wound.
16) 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...
Author
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.
18) Any Man's Death
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Series
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English
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Description
A Detroit mob war draws Peter Macklin back into his old life as a Mafia assassin in award-winning author Loren D. Estleman's riveting hard-boiled thriller The Reverend Thomas Aquinas Sunsmith is halfway through his sermon when killers open fire. He is preaching against the evils of gambling, which a cartel of mobsters is trying to legalize in Detroit. The hail of gunfire misses the reverend, but a choir member is cut down-the first victim in the...
20) Kill Zone
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Series
Language
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...
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