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Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s Eliot Ness, the famous treasury agent who helped convict Al Capone, accepts a high-ranking public safety position in Cleveland, where the discovery of a dismembered torso soon plunges the city into a state of terror. As the body count rises, Ness pours more energy and manpower into his investigation, desperately trying to live up to his larger-than-life reputation.
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Series
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
Description
Lawyer and former senator Ben Kincaid is in a meeting with the president when Washington suddenly explodes into chaos. Facing an imminent threat to the White House, Kincaid is whisked, along with the president and his advisers, to the underground Presidential Emergency Operations Center, where they discover that a malevolent foreign dictator has hacked into the US nuclear defense system, and is threatening unfathomable destruction.
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Series
Eve Duncan novels volume 11
Thorndike Press large print basic
Catherine Ling volume 1
Eve Duncan forensics thriller volume 11
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Thorndike Press large print basic
Catherine Ling volume 1
Eve Duncan forensics thriller volume 11
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English
Description
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is drawn into the mystery of a child that had been abducted eight years earlier, and must use her skills with age progression as a way to reunite mother and son. But Eve must face looming demons of her own.
7) The betrayal
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Detective Boone Drake has successfully conducted an operation to bring down street gangs and crime bosses. A leak somewhere in the Chicago PD, however, threatens the life of his key witness, and Drake must figure out who the betrayer is before it's too late.
8) Bonnie
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Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When Eve Duncan had her daughter, she discovered a new kind of love. Now, nothing is more important than this little girl. But when the seven-year-old vanishes, Eve's life becomes a nightmare.
9) Ransom river
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
While most of the town is focused on the tense and shocking circumstances of a high-profile murder case, Rory's return to Ransom River dredges up troubling memories from her childhood that she can no longer ignore. Selected as a jury member during the trial, she reflects on the accident that ended her affair with a longtime friend. Gradually she becomes aware of her dangerous connection to an unsolved case. But in the wake of a desperate attack on...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Can a person ever really disappear for good by going off the grid? And what happens when vanishing is no longer an option? Sarah Keller is a single mother to five-year-old Zoe, living quietly in Oklahoma. She's also a skip tracer, an expert in tracking people who've gone on the lam to avoid arrest, prosecution, or debt-- pinpointing their location to bring them to justice. When a school bus accident sends Zoe to the ER, their quiet life explodes....
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English
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"In the latest military thriller from the retired Delta Force Operator and New York Times bestselling author, a hostage situation places America's most powerful political elite at the mercy of its worst enemies. When veteran operator Pike Logan and partner Jennifer Cahill receive a letter from Blaisdell Consulting-the umbrella cover company for their real employer, a top secret counterterrorist unit called the Taskforce-they expect orders for their...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"In Washington, the Kill Committee gathers in the White House's Situation Room to pick the next targets for the United States drone program. At an airbase just outside Las Vegas, a team of pilots, military personnel and intelligence officers follow through on the committee's orders, finding the men who have been deemed a threat to national security and sentenced to death. On the other side of the world, in the mountains where the drones hunt their...
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English
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"For years, the extralegal counterterrorist unit known as the Taskforce has worked in the shadows, anticipating and preventing attacks around the globe. Created to deal with a terrorist threat that shuns the civilized rule of law, it abandoned the same, operating outside of the US Constitution. Though wildly successful, it was rooted in a fear that the cure could be worse than the disease. And now that fear has come home. A Special Forces soldier...
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English
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When ISIS plans an attack no one anticipates, one that cannot be defeated by an airstrike, Pike Logan and the Taskforce are America's only hope.
The United States has anticipated and averted countless attacks from terrorist groups--thanks in large part to the extralegal counterterrorist unit known as the Taskforce. But in The Insider Threat, a much more insidious evil is about to shatter the false sense of safety surrounding civilized nations. While...
16) Shadow play
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Eve Duncan is the most sought-after artist in the field of forensic sculpting. Dedicated to her work ever since her daughter Bonnie was taken and killed at the age of seven, Eve feels a sense of duty to those whose lives were lost and whose bones are now in her hands. When a sheriff in California contacts her with a request for help on the reconstruction of the skull of a nine-year-old girl whose body has been buried for eight years, his intensity...
17) As time goes by
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
" In this exciting thriller from Mary Higgins Clark, the #1 New York Times bestselling 'Queen of Suspense,' a news reporter tries to find her birth mother just as she is assigned to cover the high-profile trial of a woman accused of murdering her wealthy husband. Television journalist Delaney Wright is on the brink of stardom after she begins covering a sensational murder trial for the six p.m. news. She should be thrilled, yet her growing desire...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Published in the United Kingdom in 2015, Christobel Kent's The Crooked House has drawn comparisons to works by the pantheon of British female literary suspense writers--Daphne du Maurier, Agatha Christie, P. D. James, and Kate Atkinson. In this darkly atmospheric psychological thriller, she accomplishes what those celebrated writers do best: she creates an insular world (a single house, a small town) where something sinister has occurred, and subtly...
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