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Private Games
by James Patterson
The world's greatest athletes are being killed in bizarre ways during the London 2012 Olympics. Private, a security firm, is hired to stop the killer.
This book is a thriller novel set just before and during the 2012 London Olympics . Peter Knight is an investigator for Private London, a subsidiary of Private, a private investigative agency led by ... (Wikipedia)
Guilty Wives
by James Patterson
Four friends on a luxurious girls' weekend in Monte Carlo end up in prison, accused of a crime they didn't commit.
This book is about four friends who are foreigners living in Bern, Switzerland , with their husbands. These four women decide to have a four-day holiday at a lavish resort overlooking Monte Carlo , ... (Wikipedia)
11th Hour
by James Patterson
Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club race against time to stop a deadly attack on San Francisco.
This book has two major plots. The two major plots involve cases in which Boxer quickly becomes involved. Someone is gunning down San Francisco drug dealers and kills an undercover officer. One of ... (Wikipedia)
The Mystery of Blue Train: A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
by Agatha Christie
A luxurious train ride turns into a murder mystery. Hercule Poirot must solve the case before the killer strikes again.
A millionaire strikes a deal on the seedier side of Paris and gives to his heartsick daughter, Ruth Kettering, the "Heart of Fire," one of the world's legendary jewels that once adorned the crown of ... (Goodreads)
The Boy
by Tami Hoag
A small town is rocked by the murder of a young boy, and the investigation uncovers dark secrets and hidden motives.
When Detective Nick Fourcade enters the home of Genevieve Gauthier outside the sleepy town of Bayou Breaux, Louisiana, the bloody crime scene that awaits him is both the most brutal and the most ... (Goodreads)
The Broken Window
by Jeffery Deaver
A twisted killer uses data mining to commit crimes. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs must race against time to stop him.
In the book, a killer has access to the world's greatest data miner called Strategic Systems Datacorp. He is using detailed information to commit crimes and blame them on innocents. Lincoln Rhyme, ... (Wikipedia)
The Lost Years
by Mary Higgins Clark
A woman searches for her missing son, uncovering secrets and danger along the way.
Now in mass market, the latest suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author and Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark, where a biblical scholar is found murdered shortly after discovering the ... (Barnes & Noble)
Moonlight Becomes You
by Mary Higgins Clark
A young woman investigates her father's death and uncovers a web of secrets and lies.
Newport, Rhode Island: a world of old money, old names, and sinister secrets. Maggie Holloway, a fashion photographer, goes to visit a woman who had once been her stepmother, but when she arrives, ... (Goodreads)
The Sinner
by Tess Gerritsen
A woman must face the sins of her past to unravel the mystery of a murder.
The Sinner involves Detective Jane Rizzoli and a main character new to the series, first seen in "The Apprentice" as a minor figure, medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles. When a young novice nun about to ... (Wikipedia)
D is for Deadbeat
by Sue Grafton
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone investigates an old murder case with unexpected connections.
Kinsey Millhone receives a contract from ex-con Alvin Limardo to deliver a cashier's check for twenty-five thousand dollars to a fifteen-year-old boy named Tony Gahan. According to Limardo, Tony ... (Wikipedia)
F is for Fugitive
by Sue Grafton
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone races to uncover the truth behind a murder and a fugitive on the run.
Henry Pitts is having Kinsey's garage apartment rebuilt after it was destroyed in the events of the previous novel . Royce Fowler wants the detective to exonerate his son of the murder of Jean ... (Wikipedia)
K is for Killer
by Sue Grafton
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone is hired to solve the murder of a woman's daughter, but the case becomes more complicated than she anticipated.
Kinsey Millhone is hired by Janice Kepler to investigate the death of her daughter, Lorna Kepler. Lorna had been found dead and badly decomposed ten months earlier in her lonely cabin home. The ... (Wikipedia)
Book of the Dead
by Patricia Cornwell
Dr. Kay Scarpetta investigates a series of murders with a connection to an ancient Egyptian tomb.
Soon after relocating to Charleston, S.C., to launch a private forensics lab, Scarpetta is asked to consult on the murder of U.S. tennis star Drew Martin, whose mutilated body was found in Rome. ... (Goodreads)
Angle of Investigation
by Michael Connelly
A collection of three crime stories featuring detective Harry Bosch, each with its own twist and turn.
LAPD Detective Harry Bosch tackles three tough cases that span a legendary career in this never-before-collected trio of stories. In "Christmas Even," the case of a burglar killed in mid-heist leads ... (Goodreads)
Swansong
by Damien Boyd
A body is found in a lake, and DI Nick Dixon must solve the case before the killer strikes again.
Isobel Swan, a sixth form student, has been murdered. First, her ring finger is severed, then her throat is cut. With the investigation going nowhere fast, Detective Inspector Nick Dixon is sent ... (Goodreads)
Live to Tell
by Lisa Gardner
A gripping thriller following a detective on the hunt for a serial killer.
A savage crime has rocked a working-class neighbourhood of Boston; four members of a family have been brutally murdered. The father is lying in an intensive care unit, his survival in doubt. He is ... (Goodreads)
All By Myself, Alone
by Mary Higgins Clark
A luxurious cruise turns deadly when a priceless emerald necklace goes missing and a passenger is murdered.
From the Queen of Suspense and #1, New York Times, bestselling author comes a thrilling mystery aboard a luxurious but deadly cruise. Fleeing the disastrous and humiliating last-minute arrest of her ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Banker’s Wife
by Cristina Alger
A Swiss banker's wife investigates her husband's death and uncovers a web of corruption and deceit in the world of high finance.
On an early morning in November, a couple boards a private plane bound for Geneva, flying into a storm. Soon after, it simply drops off the radar, and its wreckage is later uncovered in the Alps. ... (Goodreads)
Liar Liar
by M.J. Arlidge
A serial killer is on the loose, and the only way to catch them is to find the truth in a web of lies.
Detective Helen Grace gets caught in an inferno of death and destruction in the red-hot new thriller from the author of Eeny Meeny , Pop Goes the Weasel , and The Doll’s House Detective Helen Grace ... (Goodreads)
The Murder on the Links
by Agatha Christie
Poirot investigates a murder at a golf course, uncovering secrets and lies. A classic whodunit with twists and turns.
Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings travel to Merlinville-sur-Mer, France, to meet Paul Renauld, who has requested their help. Upon arriving at his home, the Villa Genevieve, local police greet them ... (Wikipedia)
Sleepyhead
by Mark Billingham
A serial killer leaves his victims alive but unable to move or communicate. DI Thorne must race against time to catch him before he strikes again.
Detective Inspector Tom Thorne now knows that three murdered young women were a killer's mistakes – and that Alison was his triumph. And unless Thorne can enter the mind of a brilliant madman -- a ... (Goodreads)
The Woman in Our House
by Andrew Hart
A couple's decision to rent out their guesthouse to a mysterious woman leads to dark secrets and dangerous consequences.
What happens when you open your home to the perfect stranger?, Anna Klein is ready to return to work as a literary agent for the first time since having children. She and her husband, Josh, decide to ... (Barnes & Noble)
A Dark Mind
by T.R. Ragan
A serial killer is on the loose and the only person who can stop him is a woman haunted by her own dark past.
Lizzy Gardner is a one-million copy bestselling series., They call him the Lovebird Killer, a merciless fiend unleashing a flood of unspeakable cruelty upon Sacramento’s most loving couples, young ... (Barnes & Noble)
Tear Me Apart
by J.T. Ellison
A champion skier's life is upended when she discovers she has a rare genetic disease. Family secrets and lies are exposed as she fights for survival.
The follow-up to her critically acclaimed Lie to Me , J.T. Ellison’s Tear Me Apart is the powerful story of a mother willing to do anything to protect her daughter even as their carefully constructed ... (Barnes & Noble)
Girl Missing
by Tess Gerritsen
A medical examiner investigates the death of a young woman, leading her to uncover a dark conspiracy involving human trafficking.
The first body is a mystery. She's young. She's beautiful. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Kat Novak, betrays no secrets - except for a notebook clutched in one ... (Goodreads)
Indemnity Only
by Sara Paretsky
Private investigator V.I. Warshawski takes on a case involving a missing person and uncovers a web of corruption and danger.
Meeting an anonymous client late on a sizzling summer night is asking for trouble. But trouble is Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski's specialty. Her client says he's the prominent banker, John ... (Goodreads)
From Potter's Field
by Patricia Cornwell
Dr. Kay Scarpetta investigates a string of murders in New York City, leading her to a homeless woman with a dangerous past.
The story begins as a rotten Christmas for Scarpetta: Temple Gault has struck again, leaving a naked, apparently homeless woman shot in Central Park on Christmas Eve; Scarpetta, as the FBI 's ... (Wikipedia)
What Was Mine
by Helen Klein Ross
A woman kidnaps a baby from a store and raises her as her own. The story follows the lives of the kidnapper, the birth mother, and the daughter.
Simply told but deeply affecting, in the bestselling tradition of Alice McDermott and Tom Perrotta, this urgent novel unravels the heartrending yet unsentimental tale of a woman who kidnaps a baby in ... (Goodreads)
The Liar's Girl
by Catherine Ryan Howard
A young woman's past comes back to haunt her when her ex-boyfriend, a convicted serial killer, resurfaces.
Will Hurley was an attractive, charming, and impressive student at Dublin's elite St. John's College-and Ireland's most prolific serial killer. Having stalked his four young victims, he drowned them ... (Goodreads)
The Lie
by C.L. Taylor
A mother's search for her missing daughter leads to dark secrets and dangerous lies.
I know your name's not really Jane Hughes... Jane Hughes has a loving partner, a job in an animal sanctuary and a tiny cottage in rural Wales. She's happier than she's ever been but her life is a ... (Goodreads)
