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42) Flash points
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Retired CIA assassin Kirk McGarvey is taking a much needed break. Then a bomb in his car explodes just as he's leaving the vehicle. He barely escapes with his life. The men who went after McGarvey are also after the President of the United States. A controversial candidate, he has just won a heated, heavily contested presidential election. Now his enemies are determined to push him out of office. These men hire a contractor to set up three terrorist...
Author
Series
Ice cream girls ; 2
Publisher
Headline Review
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
'This is devastatingly good' Heat.. From the bestselling author of The Ice Cream Girls comes a gripping emotional thriller of love and obsession and the nature of coercive control.'The author plays a blinder' says the Sun... Verity is telling lies.... And that's why she's about to be arrested for attempted murder... Serena has been lying for years.... And that may have driven her daughter, Verity, to do something unthinkable..... Poppy's lies have...
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
My future hangs in the balance. They’re questioning both of us and every word I say matters. I need to be careful – it’s my word against his, and I can’t afford to lose…
Thirteen years ago. Teenager Lucie babysits our little son Henry. She’s like the daughter I never had. And she believes we’re the perfect family – just me, my husband and Henry.
But Lucie doesn’t really know what’s happening behind closed doors. Until one night,...
Author
Series
Millennium ; 3
Publisher
Companhia das Letras
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Portuguese
Description
If and when Lisbeth Salander recovers, she'll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revenge--against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oceanview
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1962. Judy Cooper, the Black Stiletto, is devastated at the betrayal by her nemesis and former lover, mobster Leo Kelly. Additionally, Leo and his psychotically dangerous sister Christina have set out to ruin the Stiletto's reputation in L.A. with a series of crimes that are made to appear as if the crime-fighter is responsible. The very pregnant Judy must fight back only with her wits and cunning--until disaster strikes and she is forced to...
Author
Publisher
IUniverse
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Zeke Sandaman is a twenty-something Boston bicycle messenger living as far off the radar as he can. With no bank account, no phone, no insurance, and no plans for change, Zeke is quietly paying the price for a short lifetime of bad choices. But everything grows even more uncertain in Zeke's already precarious world when he receives a threat from the remnants of his teenage days spent with the Burgess Street Mob. His incarcerated brother Josh is about...
51) Skin of the wolf
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Months after Father Thomas Kelly, art historian Livia Pietro, and scholar Spencer George found themselves racing through Rome in a desperate effort to locate and preserve an incalculably valuable document, the three are about to be reunited in New York City. Thomas, still trying to assimilate what he learned--that vampires exist, and that Livia and Spencer are among them--is looking forward to seeing Livia again. Livia is excited to be allowed into...
Author
Publisher
Wilcox Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A corrupt stockbroker on the run ... An economy in turmoil ... And a mysterious pendant sought by the richest woman on Wall Street. Terrified of going to jail, Justin Connelly faked his death and fled the seductions of Manhattan for the quiet corners of Providence, Rhode Island. His only keepsake was an antique pendant engraved with strange markings. But then a sailing accident almost kills him for real. In his near-death state, Justin is taken into...
Author
Publisher
RBA Libros
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Disfrutas de una vida tranquila. Tu familia, tu casa, un buen trabajo. Hasta que un día un desconocido se te acerca y te susurra algo íntimo que no esperas sobre un ser querido. Y entonces todo en lo que creías se tambalea. Te gustaría ignorar lo que te ha dicho, pero no puedes. ¿A quién puede interesarle revelar secretos que pueden arruinar tu vida?" --
57) After she left
Author
Publisher
[Claire Amarti]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Abigail Gibson is gone. The morning after Christmas Day, she walks out of her home in the leafy suburbs of Westchester, New York, leaving behind a strange note on the kitchen table; and her ten-year-old son, Sam. When her sister Gillian gets the call, she can barely believe it. Abigail has always been a little, well, unreliable, but she hasn't done anything like this in a decade--not since Sam was born. Now Gillian's left taking care of Sam while...
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