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1) Silks
Author
Language
English
Description
Defense lawyer Geoffrey Mason agrees to counsel jockey, Steve Mitchell, who has been accused of killing another rider and soon finds himself involved in a web of lies and violence.
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
K'os, a Cousin River woman, nurses her hatred after being brutalized by a trio of Near River men, and when she discovers an abandoned baby at the site of the attack, she believes him to be a sign that she will eventually be avenged, but when Chakliuk grows to manhood he embarks upon a mission of peace between the two peoples, not realizing his mother is out to sabotage his efforts.
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Eliza Benedict unexpectedly hears from the man who kidnapped her when she was twelve and who is now on death row for the rape and murder of his final victim; but as she finds herself being drawn into his situation, it becomes apparent that he has a hidden agenda.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Falling victim to an explosion in the heart of Paris, legendary film and stage actress Carole Barber awakens, only to have lost her memories of herself, her career, and her family, and must struggle to put the pieces of her life back together.
6) 206 bones
Author
Language
English
Description
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan wakes to find herself tied up in a small, dark, enclosed space and tries to think back over her most recent activities--accompanying the remains of a missing heiress from Montreal to the Chicago morgue, and battling an accusation of mishandling an autopsy--in an attempt to figure out where she is and who is responsible.
8) Stolen prey
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In the small upscale Minnesota town of Deephaven, an entire family has been killed--husband, wife, two daughters, dogs. There is something about the murder scene that pokes at Detective Lucas Davenport's cop instincts, leading him into the darkest nightmare of his life.
Author
Language
English
Description
Tim Wallace, devastated after his wife's death, which the police suspect he is responsible for, finds himself once again at the center of a murder investigation when a drunken stranger gives Tim proof of another murder, leading the cops to believe Tim is hiding a dirty secret.
13) 2666
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2009, c2004
Language
Español
Description
Collects a series of five novellas from Roberto Bolaño, in which individuals are drawn for various reasons to the small Mexican border town of Santa Teresa, where hundreds of women have disappeared over the span of a decade.
14) Hell bent
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Brady Coyne's past personal life starts to haunt his professional life after he agrees to represent his ex-girlfriend's brother through divorce proceedings, but when Brady's client is found dead in his rented apartment, he questions the ruling of death by suicide.
Author
Language
English
Description
Zee Finch, a therapist, decides to walk away from her practice after one of her patients commits suicide and returns home to care for her father, who has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, but finds herself confronted with locked away feelings of grief she has kept hidden about her mother's own suicide.
16) No second chance
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A surgeon suspected of killing his wife attempts to save his kidnapped infant daughter without the help of the authorities.
18) Cemetery girl
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Tom and Abby Stuart's twelve-year-old daughter Caitlin went missing for four years when she is found alive and the police have a suspect but Caitlin refuses to talk about it or identify him. Tom decides to try to uncover the truth for himself, he finds that nothing that has happened yet can prepare him for what he is about to discover.
20) Body work
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Chicago detective V. I. Warshawski, having witnessed an outburst by a Gulf War veteran at Club Gouge, where a naked performer was allowing patrons to write on her body, is called to investigate on behalf of the veteran when the person whose drawing upset him is shot to death outside the club.
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