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The Book of the Dead
by Douglas Preston
An archaeological excavation leads to a dark discovery in the Egyptian desert.
Az egyiptomi piramisok mélyén megbúvó ősi sírkamrák, a kincsek és a múmiák mellett, sok talányt is őriznek – olykor még a fáraók átkát is. Ez még akkor is igaznak tűnhet, ha a hajdani sírboltot ... (Goodreads)
The Cabinet of Curiosities
by Douglas Preston
Adventure through a mysterious mansion, uncovering secrets and solving puzzles.
Dr. Nora Kelly's life as an archaeologist at New York City 's American Museum of Natural History becomes complicated when Aloysius X. L. Pendergast , a secretive and highly resourceful FBI Special ... (Wikipedia)
Dance of Death
by Douglas Preston
A forensic anthropologist investigates a series of mysterious deaths in the jungle of Peru.
Two brothers on opposite sides of the law battle it out on the streets of New York in this chill-inducing thriller, a follow-up to BRIMSTONE. — As the previous installment came to a close, vicious ... (Goodreads)
The Judas Strain
by James Rollins
A deadly virus is unleashed, and a team of scientists must race against time to find a cure and prevent a global pandemic.
Operatives of the shadowy covert organization SIGMA Force, Dr. Lisa Cummings and Monk Kokkalis search for answers to the bizarre affliction aboard a cruise liner transformed into a makeshift ... (Barnes & Noble)
Map of Bones
by James Rollins
A thrilling adventure to unravel a hidden secret and save humanity.
The bones lead to ancient mysteries and present-day terror . . . To follow them means death. During a crowded service at a cathedral in Germany, armed intruders in monks' robes unleash a nightmare of ... (Goodreads)
Sandstorm
by James Rollins
An archaeological team embarks on a quest for a hidden relic, only to find themselves in the middle of a global conspiracy.
An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum, setting off alarms in clandestine organizations around the world. And now the search for answers is leading Lady Kara ... (Goodreads)
Terminal Freeze
by Lincoln Child
A team of scientists and soldiers discover a prehistoric creature frozen in the Arctic ice, but it's not dead. It's hungry.
The events take place in Alaska , north of the Arctic Circle . A decommissioned military base located near the fictional Mount Fear, the Mount Fear Remote Sensing Installation, is being used by a ... (Wikipedia)
Prey
by Michael Crichton
A swarm of nanorobots designed to self-replicate and evolve escape from a lab, threatening humanity's existence.
The novel is narrated by the protagonist Jack Forman, an unemployed software programmer who used to work for a company called Media Tronics but was fired and blackballed for discovering an internal ... (Wikipedia)
The Venetian Betrayal
by Steve Berry
A thrilling adventure through the streets of Venice, as protagonist Cotton Malone races to uncover a deadly conspiracy.
In 323 BC Babylon, Alexander the Great executes his physician for failing to save his friend Hephaestion using a mysterious draught, and reveals that he has a fever that could well kill him without ... (Wikipedia)
Congo
by Michael Crichton
Exploring a mysterious African jungle in search of a lost civilization, with a ragtag expedition.
The novel starts in 1979, with an abrupt end to an expedition sent by Earth Resource Technology Services Inc. in the dense rainforests of the Virunga region, in the heart of the Congo , when the team ... (Wikipedia)
Postmortem
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner, investigates a serial killer in Richmond, Virginia.
The novel opens as Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia, receives an early-morning call from Sergeant Pete Marino, a homicide detective at the Richmond Police ... (Wikipedia)
A Discovery of Witches
by Deborah Harkness
An enchanted journey of forbidden love, as a witch and a vampire search for an ancient magical book.
Book one of the, New York Times,-bestselling All Souls trilogy—"a wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of, Harry Potter, and, Twilight,” (,People,). Look for the hit TV series ... (Barnes & Noble)
Extreme Measures
by Vince Flynn
CIA operative is sent on a mission to stop a terrorist threat.
The latest pulse-pounding thriller by #1 "New York Times" bestselling phenomenon Vince Flynn explodes onto the scene with a deadly and charismatic hero fans will cheer for all the way to the last ... (Goodreads)
All That Remains
by Patricia Cornwell
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner, investigates a series of murders with a common thread.
In Richmond, Virginia, young lovers are dying. So far, four couples in the area have disappeared, only to be found months later as mutilated corpses. When the daughter of the president's newest drug ... (Goodreads)
Disclosure
by Michael Crichton
A high-tech thriller about sexual harassment in the workplace, where the tables are turned on the male protagonist.
Thomas Sanders' world collapses in just 24 hours - he is passed over for promotion, his new woman boss comes on to him during a drink after work, then, the next morning, he learns that she has ... (Goodreads)
The Atlantis Gene
by A.G. Riddle
A thrilling race to decipher the code of an ancient, mysterious gene.
The greatest mystery of all time...,the history of human origins...,will be revealed. In Antarctica, researchers discover a mysterious structure, buried in ice. In a lab in Jakarta, an autism ... (Goodreads)
Gone, Baby, Gone
by Dennis Lehane
Private detectives search for a missing four-year-old girl in an urban environment.
Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find four-year-old Amanda McCready, abducted from her bed on a warm, summer night. They meet her stoned-out, strangely ... (Goodreads)
The God Project
by John Saul
A geneticist creates a serum that can enhance intelligence, but it has deadly side effects. A thrilling tale of science gone wrong.
Something is happening to the children of Eastbury, Massachusetts. Something that causes healthy babies to turn cold in their cribs. Something that strikes at the heart of every parent's darkest ... (Goodreads)
Owlflight
by Mercedes Lackey
A young girl with magical abilities is sent to train with a reclusive mage, and together they must defend their land against dark forces.
Apprenticed to a venerable wizard when his hunter and trapper parents disappear into the forest never to be seen again, Darian is strong-willed and difficult–much to the dismay of his kindly master. ... (Goodreads)
The Bourne Identity
by Robert Ludlum
An amnesiac assassin must uncover his past and true identity in a deadly search for the truth.
The preface of the novel consists of two real-life newspaper articles from 1975 about terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, known as " Carlos the Jackal ." The story opens with gunfire on a boat in the ... (Wikipedia)
The Serpent's Tale
by Ariana Franklin
A medieval mystery novel following Adelia Aguilar, a female doctor, as she investigates a series of murders in a convent.
Ariana Franklin combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the drama of historical fiction in the enthralling second novel in the Mistress of the Art of Death series, featuring medieval ... (Goodreads)
The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog
by Elizabeth Peters
Archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her family investigate a murder in Egypt, uncovering a web of secrets and danger.
After returning from their adventure at the Lost Oasis, the Emersons try to get Nefret , their new ward, integrated into English country life. She has difficulty with the immaturity and meanness of ... (Wikipedia)
Lion in the Valley
by Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody and her family encounter danger and intrigue while exploring the tombs of Egypt.
The Emersons return to Egypt in 1895–96 to excavate at Dahshoor - finally, some real pyramids for Amelia! In looking for a keeper for Ramses , they find a demoralized Englishman named Donald Fraser. ... (Wikipedia)
Deep Storm
by Lincoln Child
A team of scientists and Navy SEALs descend to the depths of the ocean to investigate a mysterious illness. But what they find is beyond their wildest imaginations.
In the prologue, three workers – Kevin Lindengood, Fred Hicks, and John Wherry – are operating the rig on the Storm King oil rig in the North Atlantic , off the coast of Greenland . When the ... (Wikipedia)
The Wolf Gift
by Anne Rice
A young reporter bitten by a mysterious creature becomes a werewolf and must navigate his new life and powers.
The time is the present. The place, the rugged coast of northern California. A bluff high above the Pacific. A grand mansion full of beauty and tantalizing history set against a towering redwood ... (Goodreads)
Shadow of Night
by Deborah Harkness
A time-traveling adventure through Elizabethan England, uncovering secrets of the past.
Picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes Diana and Matthew on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, ... (Goodreads)
Bare Bones
by Kathy Reichs
A forensic anthropologist investigates a series of gruesome murders to uncover a mystery.
In the Charlotte summer heat, Brennan is hoping to get away for a few days at the beach with her would-be lover, Detective Andrew Ryan. First she has to identify the skeleton of a newborn baby found ... (Wikipedia)
The Curse of the Pharaohs
by Elizabeth Peters
A thrilling mystery set in ancient Egypt, where a daring sleuth uncovers a deadly secret.
The Emersons are at home in England, aching to return to Egypt, but finding no excuse to return until Lady Baskerville asks them to finish the excavation started by her husband, who died mysteriously ... (Wikipedia)
The Killing Kind
by John Connolly
A private detective is hired to investigate a series of gruesome murders, but soon realizes he may be dealing with a killer beyond human comprehension.
Troubled ex-cop turned private investigator Charlie Parker returns in the latest “compulsively readable” (,Publishers Weekly,) thriller from #1 internationally bestselling author John Connolly. John ... (Barnes & Noble)
Elantris
by Brandon Sanderson
Epic fantasy tale of a cursed city and its inhabitants’ struggles to restore its former glory.
Elantris was once a place of magic, and the immortal Elantrians were gods in the eyes of people, with the divine ability to create and heal with a mere wave of a hand. Anyone in Arelon had the ... (Wikipedia)
