Straub, Peter
Summary: In the 1960's campus guru, Spenser Mallon, demands sexual favors of his young acolytes. After he invites his most fervent followers to attend a secret ritual in a local meadow, the only thing that remains is a gruesomely dismembered body and the shattered souls of all who were present. Years later one man attempts to write a book to try to understand what happened.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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Summary: A bizarre burglary involving jewels being dissolved in super-strong acid and a note with a square on it left behind sends Inspector Van In on a strange investigation involving Latin phrases, kidnapping, and stolen, priceless art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASPRobertson, Imogen
Summary: Discovering a dead neighbor from a menacing local estate, the unconventional Mrs. Westerman of 1780 Sussex enlists a reclusive local anatomist to uncover the family's secrets, which include ties to the American Revolution and links to the murder of a music shop owner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2009
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Summary: Entrusted with her late husband's discovery of extraterrestrial life and enlisted by her dead husband's friend, anthropologist Pierre Saad, to help him smuggle a newly discovered artifact out of Egypt -- an ancient codex concerning the human authorship of the Book of Genesis -- Lucy Bergmann crash lands her plane on a slip of land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Middle East....
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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Summary: What would you do if a dying stranger begged you to save his daughter and then paid you seven figures to do it? When suburban dad Terry Holbrook stops to help the quickly dying driver of an icy car wreck on a dark, lonely country road, he can't believe the bloody check thrust into his hands is worth the paper it's printed on. Yet, in no time, Terry and his family are swept into a dangerous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BeyerYoung, Hester.
Summary: "From a unique new talent comes a fast-paced debut, introducing a heroine whose dark visions bring to light secrets that will heal or destroy those around her. When New York journalist and recently bereaved mother Charlotte "Charlie" Cates begins to experience vivid dreams about children--visions of injured children, dead children--she's sure that she's lost her mind. Yet these are not the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2015
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Summary: Expectant mother Charlie Cates suffers from prophetic dreams about a threat against her unborn daughter before discovering the astonishing identities of two double murder victims.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOUAlter, Stephen.
Summary: The sleepy Himalayan hill station of Mussoorie, near India's border with Tibet, is home to an eclectic mix of residents including Tibetan refugees and former guerrilla fighters, foreign missionaries, Indian military, tourists, and spies. Here, in a top-secret facility facing the snow-clad Himalayas, India's legendary spymaster, Colonel Imtiaz Afridi, keeps a watchful eye on sensitive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2016
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Summary: An American priest assigned to the Vatican discovers a plan to kill Pope Paul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2018
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Summary: After foiling a plot to burn down the Dome of the Rock, Israeli counterterrorism agent Sam Deker is captured and tortured into unconsciousness. His troubles really begin, however, when he wakes up during the ancient siege of Jericho.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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Summary: When her teenage son, Luke, kills her husband in a tragic bow-hunting accident, Kate McCall suddenly becomes caught up in a dangerous confrontation with a gang of killers that includes Kate's old flame, an ex-con desperately trying to convince his formercolleagues that he lost the heist money.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2008
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Summary: Stymied by infighting and turf battles after being appointed director of the new State Department Crisis Reaction unit, Judd Ryker attempts to prove himself during a coup in Mali that becomes a violent maelstrom of dominating personalities and shifting loyalties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOSPepper, David (David A.)
Summary: "A propulsive political thriller featuring two outsiders caught up in a stunning conspiracy, filled with details and twists that only a true political insider could write"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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Summary: "1985, Boston. In Vietnam, Andy Roark witnessed death and horrifying destruction. But for the soldiers who made it back alive, there are other casualties of war--the loss of tenderness, trust, and connection. Still feeling adrift and unsettled, Andy has struck up a welcome friendship with Nguyen, a Vietnamese restaurant owner. Sipping beer and trading memories after the restaurant shutters,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Colt 2020Gadol, Peter
Summary: "Rebecca's on-again, off-again boyfriend, Ezra, has gone missing, but when she notifies the police, they seem surprisingly unconcerned. They suspect he has been playing the "stranger game," a viral hit in which players start following others in real life, as they might otherwise do on social media. As the game spreads, however, the rules begin to change, play grows more intense and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2018
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Summary: "Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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Summary: "Single girl, 33, redhead and smouldering, love life that's crashed and burned. Seeks new flame to rekindle her fire. Fun, friendship and--who knows--more maybe? In Peter James' Want You Dead, thirty-year old Red Cameron meets handsome, charming and rich thirty-five year old Bryce Laurent through an online dating agency, and is instantly attracted to him. But as their love blossoms, the truth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2014
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Summary: "Detective Superintendent Roy Grace and his Major Crime Team investigate two seemingly unconnected events--the disappearance of a young woman and the discovery of the remains of another young woman who appears to have been dead for thirty years. When another woman goes missing and another body is found, Grace believes Brighton has its first serial killer"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction JamesRobinson, Peter
Summary: When the body of a man is discovered hanging from a tree in the woods near Eastvale, all signs point toward suicide. Inspector Banks finds himself plunged into a case where nothing is as it seems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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Summary: On a balmy June night, Kirsten, a young university student, is strolling home through a silent moonlit park when she is viciously attacked. When she awakes in the hospital, she has no recollection of that brutal night.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Dark Alley 2004
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Summary: When Detective Inspector Bill Reid is found murdered, Chief Inspector Alan Banks, suspecting police corruption, handles the investigation with the utmost discretion until he discovers that Reid's murder is linked to the disappearance of a young English girl six years earlier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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Summary: Adam Knox comes from a long line of patrician Connecticut doctors--a line he broke to serve with an NGO in the war-torn Central African Republic. His attempt to protect his patients there from a brutal militia ended in disaster and disgrace, and now he runs a clinic near Los Angeles's Skid Row, making ends meet by making house calls--cash only, no questions asked--on those too famous or too...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016