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Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Harry Palmer has left the British Secret Service and become a private detective. One of his first assignments is to deliver an apparently innocent thermos flask to an old friend in Helsinki. Palmer is suspicious of the flask and his friend's motives.
23) The sky took him
Author
Series
Alafair Tucker mystery volume 4
Language
English
Description
It's a sad duty that brings Alafair Tucker to Enid, Oklahoma, in the fall of 1915. Her sister Ruth Ann's husband, Lester, is not long for this world, and the family is gathering to send him to his reward. Alafair had planned to make the trip on her own with her youngest daughter Grace. So she is surprised and gratified when her eldest daughter Martha volunteers to come along and care for Grace, freeing Alafair to comfort the soon-to-be-bereaved. Over...
24) Derailed
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Charles is a financially successful Chicago advertising director with a sick daughter and a slightly troubled marriage. Charles has a chance encounter with Lucinda, a lovely and quick-witted financial advisor who is also stuck in a marital rut. Their chemistry is instant, but their eventual one-night-stand is interrupted by a mugger, who is out to milk Charles for every dollar he's got.
25) One mile under
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A thriller "about a whitewater rafting guide who investigates a suspicious death and uncovers a multinational conspiracy"--
26) Deadly deals
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After years of trying to become pregnant without success, Rachel Dawson and her husband Thomas felt their dreams had finally come true the day they brought home their newly adopted twin babies. But soon the birth mother reappears, first demanding more money, then the twins themselves. After spending Thanksgiving with their loved ones on Big Pine Mountain, the ladies of the Sisterhood prepare to assist attorney Lizzie Fox in breaking up an illegal...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with the intent of gathering material for her writing, Fleur Talbot finds a job ?on the grubby edge of the literary world? at the very peculiar Autobiographical Association. Mad egomaniacs writing their memoirs in advance ? or poor fools ensnared by a blackmailer? When the association?s pompous director steals Fleur?s manuscript, fiction begins to appropriate life.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Intelligence officer Amy Cornwall knows too much, way too much. In her career as an Army intelligence officer, Amy Cornwall has seen haunting sights half a world away. None compare to the chilling scene at her Virginia home. It is empty. A phone rings with a terrifying ultimatum: locate and liberate an unnamed captive in forty-eight hours, or her kidnapped husband and ten-year-old daughter are dead. Now, and in open defiance of Army Command, Amy must...
29) An honest lie
Author
Language
English
Description
"Rainy lives at the top of Tiger Mountain. Cloistered in pine trees and fog, it's a sanctuary, a new life. She can hide from the past she wants to forget. When Rainy reluctantly agrees to a girls' weekend in Vegas, she's prepared for an exhausting parade of shots and slot machines. But after a wild night, her friend Braithe doesn't come back to the hotel room. And then Rainy gets the text message, sent from Braithe's phone: someone has her. But Rainy...
30) Heist
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
An accomplished thief has his career jeopardized after he's caught on security cameras during a job. Broke, he and his associates are blackmailed by their longtime fence into jacking Swiss gold bars from an airplane. As they plot the complicated score, he and his crew become suspicious of the relationship between his young wife and the fence's nephew, who has been planted on the crew to keep an eye on them for his uncle. Betrayals and backstabbings...
32) Crossfire
Author
Language
English
Description
Shell-shocked and missing a foot-lost to an IED during his tour of duty in Afghanistan-Captain Tom Forsyth has been sent "home" by the army and, at loose ends, returns to his estranged mother's house for the first time since he joined up at seventeen. But Josephine Kauri, the "first lady of British racing," has always put the horses she trains first and her family last. Tom soon finds himself strained to the breaking point with his mother and stepfather....
33) Creep
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Sheila Tao is a professor of psychology and an expert in human behavior. And when she began an affair with sexy, charming graduate student Ethan Wolfe, she knew she was playing with fire. Consumed by lust when they were together, riddled with guilt when they weren't, she knows the three-month fling with her teaching assistant has to end. After all, she is finally engaged to a kind and loving investment banker who adores her, and she's taking...
34) Hush-hush
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novel volume 56
Language
English
Description
"Stone Barrington is settling in for some downtime in New York City when an anonymous enemy makes himself known. This nameless foe's threats hit close to home, and before Stone can retaliate, the fearsome messages turn into very real consequences. With the help of old friends--and a lovely new tech-savvy acquaintance--Stone sets out to unravel the fatal agenda. But as the web of adversaries expands, Stone realizes that no place is safe, and he'll...
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Ed Crane, a humble barber, suspeacts that his wife Doris is having an affair with her boss. When a stranger comes into town hinting that there is a fortune to be made in investing in the new invention of dry cleaning, Ed hatches a blackmail scheme he hopes will make him rich and get him some revenge at the same time. His plan goes horribly awry when he accidentally commits a murder for which Doris...
36) Lola on fire
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Brody Ellis is down on his luck. His mom walked out when he was a kid, his father recently committed suicide, he's behind on his rent, and now he needs medication for his sister, Molly, who has cerebral palsy. In a desperate bid for some fast cash, Brody robs a convenience store, but he bumps into a young woman as he makes his escape, and realizes too late that he dropped his wallet at the scene of the crime. Just when he expects the police to break...
37) Long time coming
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
All-American astronaut Law Kincaid, determined to find the sender of blackmail threats based on unfounded paternity charges, falls in love with the charming and beautiful Marnie Hibbs during his search.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Pub Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When she is blackmailed over a manuscript she wrote, Lady Lydia Thornton tries to get the money through a bet with the Duke of Penthurst, who is determined to tame her rebellious ways, but ends up making a devil's bargain with him.
39) The last hack
Author
Series
Jack Parlabane volume 8
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Internationally bestselling author Christopher Brookmyre, winner of the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Novel of the Year and finalist for the CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger for his most recent novel, Black Widow, is renowned for his black humor, remarkably well-drawn characters, and killer twists. His new Jack Parlabane thriller, The Hack, is his most unstoppable novel yet. Sam Morpeth has had to grow up way too fast, left to fend for a younger sister...