May 21, 2013
New Arrivals · Suspense Fiction
These titles were recently added to the collection of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
Red star falling / A Thriller
May 20, 2013
Freemantle, Brian.
New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2013.
352
Captured by the FSB, the Russian intelligence service, MI5 spy Charlie Muffin struggles to survive and discern the fate of his family while British intelligence forces engage in contentious infighting to discover who revealed Charlie's identity.
Tell me
May 20, 2013
Jackson, Lisa.
New York : Kensington Books, 2013.
416
Just as a woman who was convicted of killing her daughter, Amity, twenty years prior is about to be set free after her son recants his testimony, reporter Nikki Gillette, a childhood friend of Amity, seeks the real truth.
Slingshot : a spycatcher novel
May 15, 2013
Dunn, Matthew, 1968-
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2013.
400
The shadow tracer : a novel
May 15, 2013
Gardiner, Meg.
New York : Dutton, 2013.
368
When her quiet life is shattered by a bus accident that reveals she is not related to the five-year-old she claims is her daughter, skip tracer Sarah Keller, unable to prove her innocence, flees authorities and uses her unique skills to protect her daughter and herself.
Drop dead, gorgeous
May 15, 2013
Mason, J. D.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2013.
320
Follows the vigilante justice quest of Lonnie Adebayo, who hunts down the secret half-brother of a man who violated her and left her for dead.
Anonymous sources
May 15, 2013
Kelly, Mary Louise.
New York : Gallery Books, 2013.
336
"An exciting and entertaining debut international thriller from an NPR correspondent about a terrorist's nuclear threat to blow up the White House. Alexandra James, devoted reporter for the New England Examiner, is attractive, exceptionally smart, an experienced high-end shoe shopper, and used to getting what she wants. When she is assigned to cover the death of a Harvard student doing his year abroad, the whirlwind investigation takes her to Cambridge, London, and then to Washington. The globe-trotting adventures suit her well, as Alex has always been able to talk her way into anywhere, sleep with anyone she fancies, and both out-drink and out-shop her demons. But when the circumstances surrounding the student's death point to something more nefarious than a suicide, Alex the hunter soon becomes Alex the hunted. And she must race to find a dangerous killer before she becomes the next victim"-- Provided by publisher.
Eleven days : a novel
May 15, 2013
Carpenter, Lea.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
288
When her beloved Navy SEAL son goes missing during a mission in May 2011, single mother Sara unsuccessfully taps her Washington policymaker contacts for information and traces her son's emerging leadership as documented in letters back home.
The tower
May 14, 2013
Toyne, Simon, 1968-
New York : William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2013.
400
In the conclusion of the Sanctus trilogy, FBI Agent J. J. Shepherd must find the missing director of a NASA Control Center as strange events erupt around the globe, while Liv Adamson, pregnant and close to term, desperately searches for the final secretsof the prophecy.
Release me : a novel
May 14, 2013
Kenner, Julie.
New York : Bantam Books Trade Paperpacks, 2012.
343 p. ; 21 cm.
An erotic, emotionally charged romance between a powerful man who's never heard "no" and a fiery woman who says "yes" on her own terms-- Source other than Library of Congress.
Claim me : a novel
May 14, 2013
Kenner, Julie.
New York : Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks, [2013], ©2013.
viii, 371 pages ; 21 cm
Billionaire Damien Starck continues his obssessive relationship with Nikki Fairchild, as she tries to discover his darkest secrets and they both confront experiences from their troubled pasts.
Evil and the mask
May 14, 2013
Nakamura, Fuminori, 1977-
New York, NY : Soho Press, Inc., [2013]
pages cm
Shadow people
May 14, 2013
Swain, James.
New York : Tor, 2013.
352
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Psychic magician Peter Warlock assists the police with warnings about imminent threats and is confronted by a group of evil spirits that kidnaps human souls, targets Peter's loved ones, and forces him to hunt down a brutal serial killer.
The Navigator
May 14, 2013
Pocalyko, Michael.
New York : Forge, 2013.
352
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
The lost years
May 10, 2013
Clark, Mary Higgins.
Detroit : Large Print Press, 2013, c2012.
457 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Originally published: Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2012.
The abomination
May 7, 2013
Holt, Jonathan.
New York : Harper, 2013.
400
When a woman's body is found wearing the sacred robes of a Catholic priest--a desecration known as the Abomination--Captain Kat Tapo of the Carabinieri unravels a dark conspiracy that tests her loyalties.
Crime of privilege : a novel
May 7, 2013
Walker, Walter.
New York : Ballantine Books, 2013.
416
Pitted against a powerful family when he reopens the scandalous case of a young woman's unsolved murder, George Becket is forced to confront a haunting mistake from his own past while outmaneuvering wealth-driven corruption.
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