The Twelfth Card is a two-day cat-and-mouse chase through the streets of uptown Manhattan as quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs try to outguess Thompson Boyd, a man whose past has turned him into a killing machine as...
Murder for hire
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Author:Deaver, JefferySummary: - Author:Nesbø, JoSummary:
A fantastically gripping thriller from the internationally acclaimed author of The Snowman, The Leopard, and Phantom: antihero police investigator Harry Hole chases a desperate, faceless contract killer at large in Oslo. Christmas...
- Author:Ku, Pyŏng-moSummary:
Hornclaw is an assassin. But now, at sixty-five and nearing the end of her career, she has just slipped up. As Hornclaw's world closes in, this final chapter in her career may also mark her own bloody end.
- Author:Sallis, JamesSummary:
Sallis' novel tracks the fortunes of three men of vastly different ages, backgrounds, and ambitions. Though they never meet, a hired killer on his last job, a burned out detective, and a young boy plagued by nightmares have their lives...
- Author:Karp, MarshallSummary:
Finding a single assassin in a city of nine million is daunting. Finding five is a nightmare. A network of professional assassins is on the loose in New York City, and it's up to the Red team to find them.
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Author:Oasis, Hampton, BrendaSummary:A crippled economy changes Lola Jones' silver spoon status to copper and threatens to rip her sheltered family from the upper echelons of society and drop them in the slums of East St. Louis. One thing can save Lola's children from the...
- Author:Chambers, Lori, Verrelli, NadiaSummary:
An RCMP sting caught Nicole Doucet (Ryan) trying to hire a hitman to kill her ex-husband. It was supposed to be an open-and-shut case. It wasn't. She was acquitted on the basis of duress in a context of abuse. But her ordeal did...
- Author:McKinnon, Hannah MarySummary:
Lucas Forest didn't hate his wife, he just wanted her fortune. For years he honed his plan until taking out the hit, but now a photo and note show up on his doorstep and Lucas goes from hunter to prey.
- Author:Locke, JohnSummary:
What if someone offered you $100,000 with the only stipulation being that a murderer would be killed if you accept the money? Would you take it? The people who choose to take it are about to find out the ramifications of their decisions...
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Author:JaQuavis, AshleySummary:The Diamond family has survived murder, deceit, and betrayal. Through it all, they're still standing tall, and a new era has begun. Jump back into the madness with Ashley and JaQuavis' highly anticipated fourth installment of the wildly...
- Author:Grisham, JohnSummary:
“In American icon John Grisham’s new novel, Camino Winds , an odd assortment of mystery and crime authors, some of them felons themselves, discover one of their colleagues has been murdered during the fury of a massive hurricane—the...
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Author:Bruen, Ken, Starr, JasonSummary:Five valuable lessons: don't hire a psychopath to kill your wife, don't use Drano to get rid of a body, hotel room doors aren't very secure, a wig isn't much of a disguise, and secrets can kill.
- Author:Woods, StuartSummary:
In this latest adrenaline-charged thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods, Stone Barrington takes on a vengeful rival. Stone Barrington is looking forward to some quiet time in New York City, until he is asked to...
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Author:Grimaldi, JeremySummary:From the outside looking in, Jennifer Pan seemed like a model daughter living a perfect life. The ideal child, the one her immigrant parents saw, was studying to become a pharmacist at the University of Toronto. But there was a dark,...
