Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Haunted Bookshop (1919) is a novel by Christopher Morley. Although less popular than Kitty Foyle (1939), a novel adapted into an Academy Award-winning film, The Haunted Bookshop is a fast-paced thriller that deserves a modern audience. From unassuming beginnings as a tale about a lovelorn advertising salesman who visits a charming bookstore, The Haunted Bookshop quickly morphs into a story of paranoia, stalking, and kidnapping. "If you are ever...
Author
Language
English
Description
Dr. Jordan Roberts is a bit of a prodigy in her field of medicine, specifically genetics. Quick to bed the charismatic doctor, Saleh, a Saudi Princess and transgender security detail for her brother, must then deal with some emotional fallout. Has she actually been sleeping with the enemy? And if so, who is the enemy working for? When Saleh digs deeper, she uncovers more about Jordan's work than anybody even knew was possible.
Set around 9/11, Predator/Nomad...
3) Down Under
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Foreign Office agent Benbow Smith investigates the disappearance of a bride-to-be-the latest in a series of bizarre abductions-in this thriller from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries Rose Anne Carew is to be married tomorrow. During a last-minute discussion of floral wreathes, a stranger calls, refusing to leave a message for the bride. A few hours later, at half-past six, Rose Anne leaves the vicarage to visit her former nurse's sick child....
Author
Language
English
Description
The relationship between Nick Fullwood and Johns Mayweather has always been built on favors. In high school, and now years later as adults. Nick, a newspaper journalist, needs a desperate favor from Johns, now a police officer. But, this favor is so secret, so dangerous, it could cost both of them their lives. Against the dark nightlife of Los Angeles, these two friends will come face to face with the truth about their friendship, their professions,...
5) Fool Errant
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Political intrigue and industrial espionage are brewing in Britain's Foreign Office in this thriller from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries On a dark, foggy night, Hugo Ross encounters a beautiful woman. She claims to be running away and begs Hugo not to tell anyone that he's seen her. Before boarding her train, she warns him not to take the job he's applying for: secretary to eccentric inventor Ambrose Minstrel. The train pulls away, and...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Benbow Smith investigates the suspicious death of a prominent political figure and a mysterious letter in this thriller from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries Rosalind Denny, the American-born widow of the under secretary for Foreign Affairs, is still grieving for her husband. Eighteen months ago, Gilbert Denny threw away a happy marriage and a promising political career by ending his life. But Rosalind doesn't believe that Gilbert's drowning...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Clandestine operative Benbow Smith recruits a former Secret Service agent to bring down an enemy of the free world in this thriller from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries Lindsay Trevor, a junior partner in a publishing firm, boards a train headed for Waterloo Station. He is contemplating his future as a soon-to-be-married man when the stranger seated across from him asks if he's willing to die for his country. Trevor was taken prisoner...
8) Cold kill
Author
Language
English
Description
"Actress Adelaide Banks is swapping her native New York for London to spend Christmas with her widowed Aunt Rose. Rose wrote in her note that she was off to Paris for a few days and would be back in time for Addy's arrival. But when Addy reaches Rose's Knightsbridge address, no one's home, and she has two unexpected callers . . .Where is Rose, and what has she got herself entangled in? Dragged into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse on the snowy streets...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The next thrilling Ham-Hill Murder Mystery from bestselling cosy crime author Frances Evesham.
A winning horse. A fierce rivalry. A sudden death.
Belinda Sandford thrills to the cheers of the crowd as her beautiful grey racehorse, 'Butterfly Charm', thunders past the finishing post first at Wincanton Racecourse. She feels like the luckiest girl in the world.
But joy soon turns to despair as a stewards' enquiry overturns the result and awards...
Author
Language
Français
Description
Retrouver un carnet manuscrit comme seul espoir de sauver sa peau...
Professeur à l'université de Memphis o il enseigne le journalisme, Paul Krueger se prépare à savourer des vacances méritées en compagnie de son chat George W. lorsqu'il reçoit une étrange invitation à se rendre à Zurich.
D'abord séduit par l'élégance cossue de la ville suisse, Paul découvre rapidement qu'une partie de son passé relève d'une véritable escroquerie...
Author
Language
Français
Description
Un jeune artiste-peintre, imposteur, verra son secret découvert par un mystérieux personnage qui va l'emmener dans une singulière course-poursuite.
Bruno est un jeune artiste-peintre qui a un secret : il n'est pas le créateur de l'une des œuvres présentées lors d'une Exposition dans l'enceinte du prestigieux Palais des Papes d'Avignon. Lui seul connaît la vérité, pourtant, un mystérieux inconnu va percer son secret.
S'engage alors une...
Author
Language
English
Description
Luisa Stein may be a promising young investigative journalist, but this story she has accidentally walked into might just be the end of her relationship, her job or even her life.Sitting on a train to an unknown destination, with a strange man who has given her no name, Luisa wonders how she ended up in this situation. Was it the mystery of the invitation? Or was it the trance-like feeling that made every hair on her body stand on end when this man...
13) The Dark Temple
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A brutal cult; a gruesome rite; a primal evil...At a remote farmhouse outside Turin, a mysterious religious exorcism goes horribly wrong, setting in motion a series of catastrophic events, that threatens to bring the world to its knees… Meanwhile, Professor Alex Harker is settling into his new life in the Templar Brotherhood, when he is suddenly whisked away to the Tower of London. There he learns of a disturbing murder, and a strange riddle hinting...
14) The reckoning
Author
Series
Kit Marlowe mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"December, 1592. England is entering dangerous waters as thoughts turn to the question of the ageing Queen Elizabeth's successor. Christopher Marlowe meanwhile is leading a troupe of the Lord Chamberlain's Men on tour with a controversial new play. Marlowe expects his latest play, Edward II, to ruffle feathers. What he doesn't expect is it to lead to is sudden, violent death. The morning the tour is due to begin, the newest member of the cast is found...
15) Wild Goose Chase
Author
Language
English
Description
Russian spy Eva Fleet and film professor Hieronymus Dent must find a long-lost Hollywood film to prevent a nuclear war. Their epic quest for the stuff-of-legends film is an adventure as suspenseful-and dangerous-as the film itself.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A brutal foe, an ancient mystery... The explosive new Templar thriller.
Cambridge Archaeology Professor Alex Harker is drawn back into the twisted clutches of the Mithras, who are seeking to unearth a knowledge lost to humankind since the dawn of civilisation.
His journey will take him from the Bay of Bengal to the murky depths of the Gibraltar strait, from the Swiss Alps to an island untouched for over 30,000 years, all in pursuit of this fateful...
17) Matthias
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
From Louisiana swamp rat to revivalist huckster to skilled con artist, Matthias Krall clawed his way out of poverty using his natural gifts of grift and manipulation to become the leader of an exclusive retreat center. Exploiting the guise of spiritual guru, Matthias seduces the rich and powerful into turning over their lives and fortunes to his control. But wealth and a small cadre of loyal followers can't protect Matthias from the betrayal he knows...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request