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Author's first novel, introducing Sherry Moore, a blind woman who has the extraordinary ability to touch a corpse and see the last 18 seconds of that person's life. In this novel, Sherry assists the police in finding a serial killer, returned to the New Jersey shore, where he murdered a number of young women thirty years before.
18 Seconds
Shuman, George D.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
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Advance Readers' Edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Third book in the Lincoln Perry series. In this outing, PI Lincoln Perry is chief suspect in the murder of his ex-wife Karen's husband Jefferson. When Karen's stepson Matthew dies at his own hand, Perry realizes he's being set up. He can only clear himself if he finds Jefferson's murderer himself. Koryta has been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award.
A Welcome Grave
Koryta, Michael
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2007.
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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.
Absolute Friends
Le Carré, John
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2003.
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Just before the presidential elections, the vice presidential candidate's wife is killed when their motorcade was bombed. The attack is attributed to al-Qaeda, but the investigation uncovers a different story altogether--the motive for the bombing appears to be personal rather than political, and the vice-president less the intended victim than a co-conspirator.
Act of Treason
Flynn, Vince
New York: Atria Books, 2006.
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Blindfold Game is a departure from Stabenow's usual Kate Shugak series. It begins with a terrorist bomb in Thailand, then travels across the world to involve the CIA in Washington, DC, and a Coast Guard vessel off the coast of Alaska.
Blindfold Game
Stabenow, Dana
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2006.
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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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The author's first novel. After losing a major case against the Mormon church, attorney Brigham Bybee is reduced to playing second fiddle lawyer for a man accused of murder in Kanah, Utah. The lead lawyer on the case, Ron Watters, a rabid anti-Mormon, is proposing that the victim was actually killed by a secret Mormon hit squad. It doesn't take long for Bybee to figure out that not only was his client set up, Bybee was, too, and he looks into the town's past for answers.
Brigham's Day
Gates, John
New York: Walker & Company, 2000.
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Cairo, Egypt, in 1942 was a hotbed of intrigue. It was filled with people from all over Europe and northern Africa, and was also full of spies. Captain Bert Cutler, former Glaswegian policema, was sent to Cairo to find the leak in British intelligence that is fueling Rommel's advances. But even Bert Cutler isn't who he seems. Maps on endpapers.
City of Gold
Deighton, Len
New York: Harper Collins, 1992.
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When Egyptologist Dan Rawlins sends his assistant to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's to find half of a broke ankh, he has no idea what he has released. The girl is found mudered at the base of Cleopatra's Needle, a monument in Central Park. Half-way across the world, a Mossad agent is on the run in Cairo after stealing the other half of the ankh. The man from whom she stole it, however, is a terrorist intent on using the ankh's power to wreak disaster. He's trailing the thief, needing to find her to reunited the two halves of this powerful object.
Cleopatra's Needle
Siebert, Steven
New York: Tom Doherty Associates Books, 1999.
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This thriller really is about rocket science--the space race between the Americans and the Russians in 1958. Scientist Claude Lucas uncovers a plot by the Russians to destroy Explorer 1, set to launch from Cape Canaveral. Key to plot is a group of Lucas' friends from his Harvard days, all of whom are or have been involved in espionage. Lucas needs to figure out which of his friends might be the traitor.
Code to Zero
Follett, Ken
New York: Dutton, 2000.
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Investment banker Edward Wozny is at first a bit miffed when he's sent to unpack and catalog a collection of rare books owned by one of his bank's clients. His ill-humor soon evaporates, however, when he learns that the collection includes a medieval codex, which sets him on a quest to learn its significance. At the same time, some friends introduce him to a virtual reality game called Momus. He soon becomes immersed in the game, which parallels the legend of the codex.
Codex
Grossman, Lev
Orlando: Harcourt, 2004.
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Cold Justice
Jacobs, Jonnie
New York: Kensington Books, 2002.
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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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When law professor Natalie Greco is invited to give a lecture at a local prison, she doesn't envision anything more than a new audience. Her lecture has hardly begun, however, when a riot breaks out. She goes to the aid of a dying prison guard, an is entrusted with a message to the guard's wife. Delivering the message proves not only difficult, but life-threatening to Naalie.
Daddy's Girl
Scottoline, Lisa
New York: Harper Collins, 2007.
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The Russians have stored enough nuclear fuel deep in the ocean to destroy half the United States. The USS Memphis, a soon-to-be-decommissioned submarine, has been assigned a last mission--to find the containers that house the fuel.
Dangerous Ground
Bond, Larry
New York: Tom Doherty Associates Books, 2005.
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Jacob Winter is a former military intelligence officer who now specializes in what he calls "forensic bureaucracy"--he looks into problems at the top levels of government. This time, he's looking into the disappearance of a U.S. Senator, Lincoln Bowe. Bowe soon turns up dead, in extremely unusual circumstances, which leads to a bizarre solution. Read by Richard Ferrone.
Dead Watch
Sandford, John
New York: Penguin Audio, 2006.
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Signed by the author on title page. The staff and former residents of now-closed The Hawthorne House School for the Treatment of Autistic Children gather for a reunion. The shocking death of the school's founder, Dr. Jay Schermerhorn, brings Chicago detectives Emily Folkstone and Ollie Park to investigate. They discover hidden characteristics behind Dr. Schermerhorn's professional facade.
Death of a Thousand Cuts
D'Amato, Barbara
New York: Tom Doherty Associates Books, 2004.
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Carol Starkey is a former L. A. police bomb squad technician who has been working as a Detective in the Criminal Conspiracy Section after a bomb killed her partner. When a series of explosions takes out a number of bomb technicians, Carol is called in to take the case. Demolition Angel was nominated for the Mystery Writers of America Mary Higgins Clark Award for best novel.
Demolition Angel
Crais, Robert
New York: Doubleday, 2000.
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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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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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