Schlink, Bernhard
Summary: "A missing painting. A mysterious woman. Her husband and her lover. Here, the internationally acclaimed author delivers what his fans have been waiting for since The Reader--a powerful new novel about obsession, creativity, and love. A brilliant and naïve young lawyer's life is changed forever when a painter and his subject--a breathtakingly beautiful woman--appear at his office in Frankfurt....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHAichner, Bernhard
Summary: A grieving widow and professional mortician discovers there was more to the hit-and-run accident that took her husband's life than she originally thought, and vows to find out and get revenge on those responsible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AICBernhardt, William
Summary: Accused of murdering a police officer he held responsible for the tragic death of his wife, Professor Dennis Thomas implores high-profile lawyer Ben Kincaid to defend him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERBernhardt, William
Summary: In the 1930s Eliot Ness, the famous treasury agent who helped convict Al Capone, accepts a high-ranking public safety position in Cleveland, where the discovery of a dismembered torso soon plunges the city into a state of terror. As the body count rises, Ness pours more energy and manpower into his investigation, desperately trying to live up to his larger-than-life reputation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2009
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Summary: Ex-private eye Tony Casella lives in the Catskill mountains, a lonely old tough guy whose body can no longer do what it once did. His wife and son are dead; his daughter barely talks to him; his bank is threatening to repossess his house. But a chance encounter with a rich young woman on a train changes everything. He is hired to kill her superrich, Jeffrey Epstein-ish husband. That job leads...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2022
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Summary: When an actor from a daytime soap opera dies under suspicious circumstances, Inspector Charlie Peace finds himself investigating suspects among a group of talented actors and an assortment of extras who exchange unethical services for their roles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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Summary: Kit Philipson has always felt like stranger in his family. An only child in Glasgow, Scotland, his mother was a teacher; his father, a journalist, escaped from Nazi Germany at the age of three on one of the 1939 Kindertransports. On her deathbed, Kit's mother tells him he was adopted and his birth name was Novello. A search of old newspaper files reveals that a three-year-old boy named Peter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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Summary: Suspecting foul play in the death of his beloved aunt, Brussels lawyer Merlyn Docherty faces his family's animosity when he realizes that his late aunt had passed him off as dead to protect him from those who would claim his inheritance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2005
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Summary: From veteran police detective Bernard Schaffer comes a powerful new thriller that crackles with authenticity, page-turning suspense, and spellbinding glimpses into the criminal mind . . . "It was one thing to fantasize about evil, to reach into the darkness and play with it a little . . ." Rookie cop Carrie Santero has always been fascinated by serial killers. As a teenager, she wrote a letter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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Summary: "In a snowbound valley, deep in the French Pyrenees, a dark story of madness and revenge is unfolding. The first victim is a horse: its headless, flayed body hangs suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff. On the same day as the gruesome discovery takesplace, Diane Berg, a young psychiatrist starts her first job at a high security asylum for the criminally insane, just a few miles away. She is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Minier 2011Schaffer, Bernard
Summary: Before being promoted to detective, Carrie Santero was given a rare glimpse into the mind of a killer. Through her mentor, Jacob Rein-a seasoned manhunter whose gift for plumbing the depths of madness nearly drove him over the brink-she was able to help capture one of the most depraved serial killers in the country. Now, the discovery of a small human foot buried in the Pennsylvania woods will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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Summary: The war is over. Bernie Gunther, our sardonic former Berlin homicide detective and unwilling SS officer, is now living on the French Riviera. It is 1956 and Bernie is the go-to guy at the Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat, the man you turn to for touring tips or if you need a fourth for bridge. As it happens, a local writer needs just that, someone to fill the fourth seat in a regular game that is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2016
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Summary: When a New York City police commissioner confronts a killer, he discovers a terrorist plot that threatens to bring the worst destruction to the city since the September 11th attacks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Humanix Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KERAdler-Olsen, Jussi
Summary: Sixteen years before Democratic Senator Bruce Jansen was elected president of the United States, a PR stunt brought together five very different people: fourteen-year-old Dorothy "Doggie" Rogers, small-town sheriff T. Perkins, single mother Rosalie Lee, well-known journalist John Bugatti, and the teenage son of one of Jansen's employees, Wesley Barefoot. In spite of their differences, the five...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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Summary: In the aftermath of a young woman's murder at a farmhouse-turned-health resort, lawyer Thora finds the investigation complicated by a rumor that the site is haunted, a concept that takes a toll on Thora's views of reality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009