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A woman calling herself as Jessie Potter has just won the jackpot at a Tahoe casino. She seeks lawyer Nina Reilly's help in claiming the money without revealing her true identity. The Gaming Commission aren't the only ones who are interested. Several parties are pursuing the money, and Jessie. Then Nina realizes that she, too, is in danger. Will she and Jessie be able to claim the money without losing their lives? Maps on endpapers.
Writ of Execution
O'Shaughnessy, Perri
New York: Delacorte Press, 2001.
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Kay Scarpetta's tenure as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner has come to an end, and she's now a forensic consultant. While working on a case in Louisiana, she's contacted by the evil Jean Baptiste Chandonne, who had relentlessly pursued Scarpetta in a previous book, The Last Precinct. Thought to be safely ensconced on death row, Chardonne escapes from prison and resumes his pursuit of Scarpetta. Then it appears that there's a connection between the Wolfman and the Louisiana case.
Blow Fly
Cornwell, Patricia
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003.
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Bobbie Rayburn is a baseball player extraordinaire. Gil Renard is a fan who will do anything to support his team. Anything. This is the book on which the movie starring Robert de Niro and Wesley Snipes was based.
The Fan
Abrahams, Peter
New York: Warner Books, 1995.
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The second book in the second trilogy about British agent Bernard Samson. Samson is hiding out in Berlin after the events of the previous book, Spy Hook. He thinks all is forgiven when he is invited back to London, but then realizes he has yet again played into their hands when he is given an apparent inconsequential assignment in Vienna. There he meets an American who seems familiar. Who is he? Where did they meet? And does he have anything to do with Samson's assignment?
Spy Line
Deighton, Len
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
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An American film company making a movie in Prague has been receiving threats. They hire the "ex-hippie dick," Moses Wine, to go to Prague and investigate the threats. Then the film's director is kidnapped, and the threats take on a terrorist aspect. Moses finds himself going far beyond detecting--he also fills in for the missing director.
Director's Cut: A Moses Wine Novel
Simon, Roger L.
New York: Atria Books, 2003.
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A blight which could destroy the entire Napa Valley wine industry has struck. Is this a natural disaster, or a man-made one? Fiddler investigates.
Gatsby's Vineyard
Maxwell, A. E.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1987.
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First paperback edition. Two Danish sailors, Ulf and Torben, are handed a log-book by a sailor who then disappears. In it, reveals the existence of something called the Celtic Ring. Intrigued, they they set off across the North Sea for Scotland. Along the way they barely survive several accidents. Or are they accidents? Things get even more dangerous when they reach Scotland, where they encounter Celtic nationalists and a revived Druid cult. Reviewers in Cruising and Sailing magazines praised the plot and the authentic descriptions of sailing.
The Celtic Ring
Larsson, Bjorn, translated by George Simpson
Dobbs Ferry, NY: Sheridan House, 2000.
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Michael Garrick, a White House lawyer, is on a dream date with the First Daughter, Nora Hartson, a girl who seems to thrive on inappropriate behavior. That behavior gets her, and Garrick, into a dangerous situation, which results in Garrick becoming a suspect in the murder of his boss. No longer able to trust anyone, Garrick must prove his innocence.
The First Counsel
Meltzer, Brad
New York: Warner Books, 2001.
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A tale of World War II and brother against brother. Max and Harry Kelso are brothers, one raised in Germany and one in the United States. Max is the foremost pilot of the Luftwaffe, and Harry is an ace flying with the RAF. As the best of the best, the two men are fated to meet again in the skies over Europe. Performed by Patrick Macnee.
Flight of Eagles
Higgins, Jack
Los Angeles: Dove Audio, 1998.
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An abridged reading by Joan Allen on four audiocassettes. Kay Scarpetta, State of Virginia medical examiner, is working on a series of deaths that occurred as part of arson. Her old nemisis, Carrie Grethren, seems to be calling the shots.
Point of Origin
Cornwell, Patricia
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This is Dan Brown's first novel. It was inspired by an event that happened to one of Brown's students at Phillips Exeter Academy. TRNSLTR is an NSA supercomputer that cracks encrypted codes. Former NSA programmer Ensei Tankado creates an unbreakable code, then dies in Spain wearing a golden decoder ring. Will the ring be lost forever, or retrieved in time to prevent the loss of national secrets?
Digital Fortress
Brown, Dan
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 1998.
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Doubleday Large Print Home Library Edition. Third book in the Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series. In The Sinner, one nun is found brutally murdered in a convent chapel, another critically injured nun beside her. Homicide detective Rizzoli and medical examiner Isles work together to track down the killer.
The Sinner
Gerritsen, Tess
New York: Ballantine Books, 2003.
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Doubleday Large Print Home Library Edition. James Patterson has been awarded the International Thriller Writers' ThrillerMaster for outstanding contribution to the genre. The murder of Alex Cross's wife Maria has never been solved. Cross is a former DC cop, a successful crime writer, and had worked with the FBI. In order to spend more time with his children, he returns to private practice as a psychologist. When his friend John Sampson asks for his help in tracking down a serial rapist, Cross agrees, then finds the rapist may have ties to Maria's death.
Cross
Patterson, James
New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2006.
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Charter boat captain takes an end-of-season booking from Sally Moffit, who is making a documentary on dolphins. While filming, they enounter the yacht of an eccentric American millionaire, and a mysterious underwater behemoth.
Sea Hunter
Garrison, Paul
New York: William Morrow, 2003.
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A powerful weapon is stolen from Iraq and brought to the United States. The planned use of this weapon is concealed behind another plot, and CIA agent Ryan Kealy must operate outside the usual channels in a race for time to prevent this disaster.
The Assassin
Britton, Andrew
New York: Kensington Books, 2007.
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Obsession
Kellerman, Jonathan
New York: Ballantine Books, 2007.
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Straight-arrow judge Richard Quinn presides over the case of a U.S. Senator accused of murdering her husband. Did she do it, or was she set up to take the fall? Quinn learms he may have to vary from the straight and narrow to find the truth.
The Undertaker's Widow
Margolin, Phillip
New York: Doubleday, 1998.
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Fourth in the Jack Novak series of thrillers, Izmir finds Jack on brink of marrying his long-suffering Melody, but must dash off to rescue his former DEA partner and best friend, who has been kidnapped by South American drug smugglers.
Izmir
Hunt, E. Howard
New York: Donald I. Fine Books, 1996.
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John Le Carré has been awarded the British Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award for Lifetime Achievement. In addition, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold won the CWA Gold Dagger Award for the Best Crime Novel, and the Edgar award for Best Novel. A very nice reprint of the 1964 classic, which was the basis for the movie by the same name starring Richard Burton.
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
Le Carré, John
New York: Walker & Company, 2005.
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Joseph Finder has been nominicated for the Crime Writers of America's Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, the Barry Award for Best Thriller, and the International Thriller Writers' Thriller Award for Best Novel. Criminal defense attorney Claire Heller Chapman is stunned to learn that her husband, a man she thought she knew very well--he one had a different name, a different face, a different life. He's been accused of a horrible crime. Which persona is the real one? High Crimes was made into a movie starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd.
High Crimes
Finder, Joseph
New York: William Morrow, 1998.
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