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When 16-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Spenser to look into her mother’s death from four years earlier he has doubts about her claim the investigation was botched. Mattie is gruff, street smart and old beyond her years, left to care for her younger siblings and an alcoholic grandmother in a dilapidated apartment in Southie. But her need for closure and her determination to make things right hit Spenser where he lives– they’re the very characteristics he lives by.
Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist Tom Sagan lives in virtual exile—haunted by bad decisions and the shocking truth he can never prove: that his downfall was a deliberate act of sabotage by an unknown enemy. Zachariah Simon has the look of a scholar, the soul of a scoundrel, and the zeal of a fanatic. He also has Tom Sagan’s estranged daughter at his mercy. Simon desperately wants something only Sagan can supply: the key to a 500-year-old mystery.
In the middle of the Indian Ocean, a NUMA research vessel is taking water samples at sunset, when a crew member spots a sheen of black oil ahead of them. But it is not oil. Like a horde of army ants, a swarm of black particles suddenly attacks the ship, killing everyone aboard, while the ship itself goes up in flames. A few hours later, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are on their way to the Indian Ocean. What they will find there on the smoldering hulk of the ship will eventually lead them to the discovery of the most audacious scheme they have ever known: a plan to permanently alter the weather on a global scale. It will kill millions . . . and it has already begun.
The HBO series True Blood is based on this series.
December 21st, 2012 – The End of the World. Or so the Mayans believe. For Dr. Lina Taylor, the study of Mayan artifacts is her life’s work. But what is normally a pretty quiet life for a professor and archeologist is about to get crazy – and fast! Hunter Johnson is as fascinating as he is exasperating. A former Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, he has more secrets than he wants Lina to know about. They are the only people who can solve the mystery of what happened to some very important Mayan artifacts. But finding the missing pieces is only the beginning of a mystery that will plunge these unlikely partners into adventure, romance, and danger more thrilling, sensual, and deadly than either of them knows.
Lindsay Boxer is pregnant at last! But her work doesn’t slow for a second. When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, she discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Francisco’s most untouchable criminals. And it was taken from her own department’s evidence locker. Anyone could be the killer–even her closest friends.
Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the small Minnesota town of Deephaven, an entire family has been killed—husband, wife, two daughters, dogs. There’s something about the scene that pokes at Lucas’s cop instincts—it looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched-earth retribution he’s seen in drug killings sometimes. But this is a seriously upscale town, and the husband was an executive vice president at a big bank. It just doesn’t seem to fit.
Kayleigh Towne is gorgeous with a voice that is taking her to the heights of the country pop charts. Her hit single “Your Shadow” puts her happily in the spotlight, until an innocent exchange with one of her fans leads Kayleigh into a dark and terrifying realm. The fan warns, “I’m coming for you,” and soon accidents happen and people close to Kayleigh die. Special Agent Kathryn Dance must use her considerable skills at investigation and body language analysis to stop the stalker—but before long she learns that, like many celebrities, Kayleigh has more than just one fan with a mission.
A new adventure for this heavenly duo in their second escapade.
In this stirring, emotionally rich multigenerational story—a poignant tale of life, love, and transformation—as a nurse, returning to Sullivans Island from the Iraq War, finds her life has been irrevocably altered by tragedy…and now must rediscover love and purpose with the help of her son and aging mother.
A warm June evening, a local tradition: the students of Nantucket High have gathered for a bonfire on the beach. But what begins as a graduation night celebration ends in tragedy after a horrible car crash leaves the driver of the car, Penny Alistair, dead, and her twin brother in a coma. The other passengers, Penny’s boyfriend Jake and her friend Demeter, are physically unhurt – but the emotional damage is overwhelming, and questions linger about what happened before Penny took the wheel.
There’s never a dull moment for the residents of Corduroy Mansions: Berthea Snark is still at work on her scathing biography of the only loathsome Liberal Democrat member of Parliament–her own son, Oedipus; literary agents Rupert Porter and Barbara Ragg are still battling each other for first crack at the manuscript of Autobiography of a Yeti; fine-arts graduate Caroline Jarvis is busy blurring the line between friendship and romance; and William French is still worrying that his son, Eddie, may never leave home, even though Eddie’s got a new wealthy girlfriend. But uppermost on everyone’s mind is Freddie de la Hay–William’s faithful terrier (and without a doubt the only dog clever enough to have been recruited by MI6)–who has disappeared while on a mystery tour around the Suffolk countryside.
Clare Burke’s life took a devastating turn when she tried to protect her sister, Anne, from an abusive and controlling husband and ended up serving prison time for assault. The verdict largely hinged on Anne’s defense of her spouse—all lies—and the sisters have been estranged ever since. Nearly twenty years later, Clare is living a quiet life in Manhattan as an urban birder and nature blogger, when her niece, Grit, turns up on her doorstep. The two have to dig deep into their family’s difficult past in order to build a relationship. Together they face the wounds inflicted by Anne and find in their new connection a place of healing. When Clare begins to suspect her sister might be in New York, she and her niece hold out hope for a long-awaited reunion with her.
In a recovery unit in New Orleans, where we left him in The Glass Rainbow, Robicheaux is visited by Tee Jolie Melton, who brings him an iPod and promptly disappears. When Dave goes looking for her, he finds her sister instead, encased in a block of ice floating in the gulf.
Tough federal prosecutor Mickey O’Rourke suddenly turns to jelly at the trial of serial killers Clive and Cindy Cahill, then gets shot in the back. FBI agents Lacey Sherlock And Dillon Savich receive the news at the same time that Savich gets a note saying, “You deserve this for what you did.”
Alexandra Cooper is going to some fancy NYC restaurants. But the Manhattan prosecutor will not be eating in them, but uncovering the dirty secrets of the rich and powerful beneath the gleaming surface of NYC’sbest watering holes.
Remember Mick “Scorcher” Kennedy (Faithful Place)? He’s back, puzzling over the murder of Patrick Spain and his two children, found at one of those half-built luxury developments riddling half-broke Ireland. Patrick’s wife is in ICU and recalls an intruder who got past every lock.
Possessed of keenly developed senses because she was blind for the first 20 years of her life, music therapist Kendra Michael is a genius of observation and hence much in demand by the FBI. She isn’t interested in helping manipulative former agent Adam Kyle with a case until she discovers out that it involves a former flame, possibly in the clutches of a serial killer.
Cops shot on the street and judges in their courtrooms; there’s lots of violence in NY as a South American crime lord takes over. Det. Bennett takes his 10 kids upstate but the violence follows as the crime lord targets his family in this 5th in the series.
Art restorer and Israeli spy, Gabriel Allon, is glad to be back in Rome, cleaning up a Caravaggio. Then he gets a call from Monsignor Luigi Donati, the Pope’s personal secretary. who’s found the body of a woman lying beneath the dome od St. Peter’s Basilica.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Will Tent would like finally to make his life more than just work. But no such luck when a crime from 1975 suddenly makes trouble for him.
Two girls and three boys meet and become fast friends at a fancy private school, as the friends split up, they are eventually divided forever by tragedy.
It’s westward ho for Ruth Saunders, who settles in LA with her grandma and finally has a sitcom accepted for production. Alas, the actors are prima donnas, the executives all bottom-liners, and boss oblivious to Ruth’s big crush on him. And Grandma’s upcoming wedding.
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