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Alter ego / by Freeman, Brian,1963-author.;
When a freak accident kills a driver on the remote roads outside Duluth, Jonathan Stride is disturbed to discover that the victim appears to be a ghost, with a false identity and no evidence to suggest who he really was. What's worse, the man has a gun locked in the trunk, and it has recently been fired. It's up to Stride to solve the mystery, but there are those who would stop at nothing to stop him.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Stride, Jonathan (Fictitious character); False personation; Missing persons; Traffic accident investigation; Police;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Slaughter Man / by Parsons, Tony,1953-author.;
On New Year's Day, a wealthy family is found slaughtered inside their exclusive gated community in north London, their youngest child stolen away. The murder weapon - a gun for stunning cattle before they are butchered - leads Detective Max Wolfe to a dusty corner of Scotland Yard's Black Museum devoted to a killer who - 30 years ago - was known as the Slaughter Man. But the Slaughter Man has done his time, and is now old and dying. Can he really be back in the game?
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Wolfe, Max (Fictitious character); Serial murder investigation;
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Revenge in a cold river : a William Monk novel / by Perry, Anne,author.;
"Commander William Monk has learned to live with the fact that he cannot remember the events of his life prior to a horrific carriage accident years ago. But when a ghost from his past, a man he has no recollection of, attempts to frame him for a series of murders, he must rely on the help of his wife Hester and his close friend Oliver Rathbone in order to free himself--from both the charges, and the demons that have haunted him since the accident"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Monk, William (Fictitious character); Murder; Private investigators;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Enigma / by Coulter, Catherine,author.;
"The highly anticipated twenty-first FBI thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter presents Agents Savich and Sherlock with two baffling mysteries. Working with Agent Cam Wittier (Insidious) and New York-based former Special Forces agent Jack Cabot, they must race against the clock to catch an international criminal and solve the enigma of the man called John Doe. When Agent Dillon Savich saves Kara Moody from a seemingly crazy man, he doesn't realize he will soon be facing a scientist who wants to live forever and is using "John Doe" to help him. But when the scientist, Lister Maddox, loses him, he ups the stakes and targets another to take his experiments to the next level. It's a race against time literally as Savich and Sherlock rush to stop him and save both present and future victims of his experiments. In the meantime, Cam Wittier and Jack Cabot must track a violent criminal through the Daniel Boone National Forest. When he escapes through a daring rescue, the agents have to find out who set his escape in motion and how it all ties into the murder of Mia Prevost, the girlfriend of the president's Chief of Staff's only son, Saxton Hainny."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Murder; Savich, Dillon (Fictitious character); Sherlock, Lacey (Fictitious character);
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Smooth operator : a Teddy Fay novel featuring Stone Barrington / by Woods, Stuart,author.; Hall, Parnell,author.;
"When President Kate Lee calls Stone Barrington to Washington on an urgent matter, it's soon clear that a potentially disastrous situation requires the kind of help more delicate than even he can provide, and he knows just the right man for the job. Teddy Fay: ex-CIA, master of disguise, and a gentleman not known for abiding by legal niceties in the pursuit of his own brand of justice"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Barrington, Stone (Fictitious character); Intelligence officers; Private investigators;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The dragon turn / by Peacock, Shane.;
When Inspector Lestrade and his son arrest magician Alistair Hemsworth for the murder of his rival the Wizard of Nottingham, Sherlock Holmes isn't so sure that they have the right man. The Wizard is missing and his spectacles have been discovered along with pools of blood in Hemsworth's secret workshop, but no body has been found, and when Holmes digs deeper, he finds that the clues don't add up to a closed case.LSC
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Detective and mystery stories.; Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character); Magicians; Magic tricks; Missing persons;
© c2011., Tundra Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Extreme prey / by Sandford, John,1944 February 23-author.;
"The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford. After the events in Gathering Prey, Lucas Davenport finds himself in a very unusual situation--no longer employed by the Minnesota BCA. His friend the governor is just cranking up a presidential campaign, though, and he invites Lucas to come along as part of his campaign staff. "Should be fun!" he says, and it kind of is--until they find they have a shadow: an armed man intent on killing the governor. and anyone who gets in the way"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Davenport, Lucas (Fictitious character);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Slocum and the Silver City harlot / by Logan, Jake.;
"Marianne Lomax stands to inherit a huge silver claim-- as soon as she gets past a few problems. Thieves are after the claim, the assay office has burned down, and the only copy of the deed is hidden. John Slocum has problems of his own-- trying to explain a corpse he was unwittingly transporting to Tombstone. But when his former lover Marianne asks for help, he takes on the claim jumpers. And when her son befriends a headstrong young man named Billy McCarty, Slocum steps in to straighten the kid out" -- from publisher's web site.
Subjects: Western stories.; Slocum (Fictitious character); Silver mines and mining; Inheritance and succession;
© c2013., Jove Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Gray Ghost / by Cussler, Clive,author.; Burcell, Robin,author.;
"The search for a legendary automobile threatens the careers and lives of husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo in this thrilling adventure in Clive Cussler's bestselling series. In 1906, a groundbreaking Rolls-Royce prototype known as the Gray Ghost vanishes from the streets of Manchester, England, and it is only the lucky intervention of an American detective named Isaac Bell that prevents it from being lost forever. Not even he can save the good name of Marcus Peyton, however, the man wrongly blamed for the theft, and more than a hundred years later, it is his grandson who turns to Sam and Remi Fargo to help prove his grandfather's innocence. But there is even more at stake than any of them know. For the car has vanished again, and in it is an object so rare that it has the capacity to change lives. Men with everything to gain and a great deal to lose have a desperate plan to find it--and if anybody gets in their way? They have a plan for that, too"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Fargo, Sam (Fictitious character); Fargo, Remi (Fictitious character); Archaeologists; Rolls-Royce automobile; Antique and classic cars;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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Dirty war / by Leather, Stephen,author.;
The target - The Prime Minister. The assassins - hard-bitten jihadists with nothing to lose. The only man who can stop them? Dan "Spider" Shepherd. But Shepherd's reputation is also on the line - he helped get one of the jihadists into the UK during the final days of the War in Afghanistan. Now he has to track down the man whose life he once saved. But the assassins aren't lone wolf killers - someone much more devious is pulling their strings. And the clock is ticking ...
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Great Britain. MI5; Assassins; Attempted assassination; Shepherd, Dan (Fictitious character); Terrorists; Undercover operations;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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