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Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
235 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Retired killer for the mob, Peter Macklin, investigates the dark affairs of his mother-in-law's boyfriend, Benjamin Grinnell, who is on the run from the Ohio mob, and finds himself up against Grinnell's enemies and the police in a race to protect his loved ones.
1582) All the birds, singing
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful new novel about an outsider haunted by an inescapable past: a story of loneliness and survival, guilt and loss, and the power of forgiveness. Jake Whyte is living on her own in an old farmhouse on a craggy British island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. Her disobedient collie, Dog, and a flock of sheep are her sole companions, which is...
1583) Fifteen digits
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books / Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
329 p.; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fifteen-digit bank account number holds the key to a plot involving five behind-the-scenes employees at a law firm who use discarded documents full of sensitive legal information to get rich.
1584) Midnight voices
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Paranoia descends on Cheryl and her children when they move into her new husband's luxurious Manhattan home. Realistic nightmares, a "dead" child who may be living in the building, and her husband's secret past make Cheryl doubt her very sanity.
1585) Saints at the river
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
239 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reporter Maggie Glenn returns to Tanassee, South Carolina, after a long absence to cover the controversy that has erupted over whether the body of a young drowning victim trapped in a deep eddy should be recovered at the risk of endangering divers and the river environment, and is forced to confront her own painful past.
1586) The harem midwife
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
334, [5] pages : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Hannah and Isaac return in this opulent, riveting, and suspenseful tale--a continuation of Roberta Rich's thrilling debut The Midwife of Venice. The Imperial Harem, Constantinople, 1579: Hannah and Isaac Levi, Venetians in exile, have set up a new life for themselves in Constantinople. Isaac runs a newly established business in the growing silk trade, while Hannah, the best midwife in all of Constantinople, plies her trade within the opulent palace...
1587) The Twistrose Key
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages : illustrations, map, music ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a mysterious key arrives for her, eleven-year-old Lin Rosenquist finds a crack in the cellar, a gate to the world of Sylver. This frozen realm is the home of every dead animal that ever loved a child. Lin is reunited with Rufus, the pet she buried under the rosebush and together they must find the missing Winter Prince in order to save Sylver from destruction.
1588) By gaslight: a novel
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
731 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A literary historical suspense novel, centered on the uneasy, complex relationship of William Pinkerton-- the greatest detective of his age-- and Adam Foole, a thief whose past is inextricably linked with Pinkerton's own"--
"By Gaslight is a deeply atmospheric, haunting novel about the unending quest that has shaped a man's life. William Pinkerton is already famous, the son of the most notorious detective of all time, when he descends into the underworld...
1589) The dying game: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A masterly locked-room mystery set in a near-future Orwellian state. The year is 2037, and on the tiny island of Isola, seven people have been selected to compete in a forty-eight-hour test for a top-secret intelligence position with the totalitarian Union of Friendship. One of them is Anna Francis, a workaholic bureaucrat with a nine-year-old daughter she rarely sees and a secret that haunts her. Her assignment: to stage her own death and then to...
1590) Mockingbird songs
Author
Publisher
Orion Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Prison changes a man. Sometimes in ways you can see. Usually in ways you can't. The only reason Henry Quinn survived three years inside was because of Evan Riggs, a one-time country singer, one-time killer, now serving a life sentence. No parole. On the day he gets out, Henry promises Evan he will find his daughter, the daughter he never met, and deliver a letter. A free man, Henry heads to the small Texan town where Evan grew up and where his brother...
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