Catalog Search Results
1) Endgame
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
'I don't remember pulling the trigger; I only heard the gunshot. And then I saw a mouth opening, as if to speak, a face contorted, one hand in the air. And then a body falling.' A man retires to a sun-baked Turkish town for a quiet life. But he finds a world of suspicion, paranoia and violence. The town has made a murderer of him. The question is, who did he kill?
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Orient Express has embarked from Ostend for a three-day journey to Cologne, Vienna, and Constantinople. The passenger list includes a Jewish trader from London with business interests in Turkey-and a score to settle; a vulnerable chorus girl on her last legs; a boozy and spiteful journalist who's found an unrequited love in her paid companion, and her latest scoop in second class-a Serbian dissident in disguise on his way to lead a revolution;...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A story "recounted in journal form by its protagonist, and begins when he walks into a roadhouse outside of Bakersfield, California, and walks out with a woman. And rapes and murders her. But, um, not in that order. Right. But it's what he does with the rest of his life that's really interesting..."--Publisher's description.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
What if some secrets were never meant to stay buried? When a parish priest is brutally murdered in cold blood, a rural community is left in shock - and fear. New to the Vale of the White Horse, Detective Sergeant Mark Turpin discovers the murder bears the hallmark of a vicious killer who shows no remorse for his victim, and leaves no trace behind. After a second priest is killed, his broken body bearing similar ritualistic abuse, the police are confronted...
6) Ravage & son
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ravage & Son reflects the lost world of Manhattan's Lower East Side--the cradle of Jewish immigration during the first years of the twentieth century--in a dark mirror. Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, serves as the conscience of the Jewish ghetto teeming with rogue cops and swindlers. He rescues Ben Ravage, an orphan, from a trade school and sends him off to Harvard to earn a law degree. But upon his return, Ben rejects the chance...
7) I dare you
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mapledon, 1989...Two little girls were out playing a game of dares. Only one returned home. The ten-year-old told police what she saw: village loner Bill 'Creepy' Cawley dragged her friend into his truck and disappeared. No body was found, but her testimony sent Cawley to prison for murder. An open and shut case, the right man behind bars. The village could sleep safe once again. Now... Anna thought she had left Mapledon and her nightmares behind...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
From his perch at the Chicago Tribune, Mike Hodge had gotten to know Chicago's underbelly like few others. Politicians, gangsters, prostitutes, bootleggers, opium addicts, jazz musicians, and con artists -- he'd observed them all. So perhaps he should have known better when he fell for Annie Walsh, whose family was a bit too connected. Then again, maybe the man who killed Annie Walsh should have known better than to trifle with Mike Hodge.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An American forensic sculptor, reconstructing the faces of three victims, receives a midnight visit from a man who threatens her life unless she alters the faces she's almost completed. The twists and turns of the mystery lead her to a new life, working with forensic archeologists at a site near the Prater amusement park in Vienna. In the second section, an accent coach discovers that the man implicated in the death of his girlfriend in 1970s Buenos...
10) Anthrax Island
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
FACT: In 1942, in growing desperation at the progress of the war and fearing invasion by the Nazis, the UK government approved biological weapons tests on British soil. Their aim: to perfect an anthrax weapon destined for Germany. They succeeded. FACT: Though the attack was never launched, the testing ground, Gruinard Island, was left lethally contaminated. It became known as Anthrax Island. Now government scientists have returned to the island. They...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request