Michael Koryta
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
After he is hired by Alyssa Bradford to research the life of her 95-year-old billionaire father-in-law, Eric Shaw visits the man's hometown, where he discovers a restored hotel that has a checkered past--and a newly reawakened evil bent on revenge.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Kimberly Crepeaux is no good, a notorious jailhouse snitch, teen mother, and heroin addict whose petty crimes are well-known to the rural Maine community where she lives. So when she confesses to her role in the brutal murders of Jackie Pelletier and Ian Kelly, the daughter of a well-known local family and her sweetheart, the locals have little reason to believe her story.
3) The ridge
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
For years, a lighthouse at the top of a hill called Blade Ridge has lit up the surrounding woods. But when the lighthouse keeper is found dead, strange things begin happening to the people and animals in the area.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"After discovering seven men murdered aboard their yacht--including two Senate rivals--Israel Pike is regarded as a prime suspect. A troubled man infamous on Salvation Point Island for killing his own father a decade before, Israel has few options, no friends, and a life-threatening secret. Elsewhere on the island, 12-year-old Lyman Rankin seeks shelter from his alcoholic father in an abandoned house only to discover that he is not alone. A mysterious...
5) If she wakes
Author
Language
English
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Description
"When Abby Kaplan investigates a suspicious accident that left a visiting professor dead and senior Tara Beckley a prisoner of locked-in-syndrome, she becomes a target of a mysterious hit man."
Author
Language
English
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Description
Nina Morgan's bloodstained car was found a decade ago on a lonely Florida road. Forensic evidence suggested she&;d been murdered, although her body was never found. Her disappearance left her infant children to the care of their father. Once a pilot, mother, wife, and witness to a gruesome crime, Nina had to flee her old life to save her family. She reinvented herself as Leah Trenton, a guide in the Allagash Wilderness in northern Maine. She never...
7) The prophet
Author
Language
English
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Description
Two brothers, estranged since their sister's abduction and murder when they were teens, are forced into a reunion through a new killing in their small Midwestern town.
8) Last words
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grieving the death of his wife, private investigator Mark Novak reluctantly accepts a case from a suspected murderer who may or may not be innocent.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown, & Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When 13-year-old Jace Wilson witnesses a brutal murder, he's plunged into a new life, issued a false identity and hidden in a wilderness skills program for troubled teens. The plan is to get Jace off the grid while police find the two killers. The result is the start of a nightmare. The killers, known as the Blackwell Brothers, are slaughtering anyone who gets in their way in a methodical quest to reach him. Now all that remains between them and...
11) Rise the dark
Author
Series
Markus Novak novel volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Drawn to the scene of his wife's murder when the man responsible is released from prison, investigator Markus Novak races against time to save the life of a woman who has been abducted by the same fanatical killer.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When Arlen Wagner awakens on a train one hot Florida night and sees death's telltale sign in the eyes of his fellow passengers, he tries to warn them. Only 19-year-old Paul Brickhill believes him, and the two abandon the train, hoping to escape certain death. They continue south, but are soon stranded at the Cypress House--an isolated Gulf Coast boarding house run by the beautiful Rebecca Cady--directly in the path of an approaching hurricane. But...
15) A welcome grave
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
16) Sorrow's anthem
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Oscar winner Angelina Jolie stars as Hannah, a smoke jumper still reeling from the loss of three lives she failed to save from a fire. When she comes across a traumatized twelve-year-old boy, the two set out together to cross miles of thick forest while being hunted by two killers.
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories--a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there's something undeniably alluring in the nature of a stranger: the uninvited guest, the unacquainted neighbor, the fish out of water. No matter how or where they appear, strangers are walking mysteries, complete unknowns in once-familiar...
19) Last Words
Author
Series
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Markus Novak just wants to come home. An investigator for a Florida-based Death Row defense firm, Novak's life derailed when his wife, Lauren, was killed in the midst of a case the two were working together. Two years later, her murderer is still at large, and Novak's attempts to learn the truth about her death through less-than-legal means and jailhouse bargaining have put his job on the line. Now he's been all but banished, sent to Garrison, Indiana...
20) How It Happened
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
An FBI investigator must uncover the secrets of his hometown to solve a double murder in this twisty "page turner" that's "perfect summer reading" (Stephen King).
"And that is how it happened. Can we stop now?"
Kimberly Crepeaux is no good, a notorious jailhouse snitch, teen mother, and heroin addict whose petty crimes are well-known to the rural Maine community where she lives. So when she confesses to her role in the brutal...
"And that is how it happened. Can we stop now?"
Kimberly Crepeaux is no good, a notorious jailhouse snitch, teen mother, and heroin addict whose petty crimes are well-known to the rural Maine community where she lives. So when she confesses to her role in the brutal...