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43) The dispatcher
Author
Series
Dispatcher volume 1
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone?999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know. But it changes everything: war, crime, daily life. Tony Valdez is a Dispatcher?a licensed, bonded professional whose job is to humanely dispatch those whose circumstances put them in death's crosshairs, so they can have a second chance to avoid the reaper. But when a fellow Dispatcher...
Author
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Crime. Vengeance. Love. Physics. The infamous Deadbomb Bingo Ray is a high level fixer in the City of Brotherly Love. He's the man you call when you've crossed the line into hopeless and there's no way back to anywhere. Three years have passed since Ray burned a hedge fund manager on behalf of a pool of retirees, and now the money man is back for revenge. While Ray unravels the plot and orchestrates some payback of his own, he unwittingly steps into...
45) Later
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine, as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Silicon Valley scion Captain Don Donogue is dead under mysterious circumstances. Signs point to murder. Just ask Captain Don himself. He's been sending messages about his suspicious death from beyond the grave. Yep, he's been tweeting from the afterlife. Could life after death be Silicon Valley's latest innovation?
47) An honest living
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A sharp and stylish debut from the editor-in-chief of CrimeReads in which an unwitting private eye gets caught up in a crime of obsession between a reclusive literary superstar and her bookseller husband, paying homage to the noir genre just as smartly as it reinvents it. After leaving behind the comforts and the shackles of a prestigious law firm, a restless attorney makes ends meet in mid-2000s Brooklyn by picking up odd jobs from a colorful assortment...
48) Trap
Author
Series
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Happily settled in Florida, Sonja believes she's finally escaped the trap set by unscrupulous drug lords. But when her son Tomas is taken, she's back to square one ... and Iceland. Her lover, Agla, is awaiting sentencing for financial misconduct after the banking crash, and Sonja refuses to see her. And that's not all ... Agla owes money to some extremely powerful men, and they'll stop at nothing to get it back. With her former nemesis, customs officer...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stark House Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Rendered with Edgar-nominated author Andrew Coburn's signature style of chilly elegance, here are eleven stories that touch us with the headiness of an American saga. In the genre-defying territory of his bestselling novels these are the lyrical and beautiful struggles of small-town characters playing out the equations of their lives in this, Coburn's first ever collection of short fiction.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1959 Montana, when a fatal car accident shatters his world, 10-year-old Lucas finds himself confronting crime and vengeance, humor and heroism, all against the backdrop of growing up during the Space Race, the brutal racism of segregation and the hope of a new generation to move us forward.
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Morir en el Golfo es la puesta en escena de un pleito mortal, un trazo nítido e inquietante del modo en que se da la lucha por algunos espacios de poder en el México contemporáneo. De un lado, la hermosa y perversa Anabela Guillaumin y su marido, el desorbitado político Francisco Rojano. Del otro, un cacique sindical petrolero, Lázaro Pizarro, encarnación del mundo corporativo y autoritario mexicano. En medio, el narrador de la historia, un...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From an award-winning author comes a genre-defying thriller about a father desperate to salvage what's left of his family--even if it means a descent into violence. Buried in debt due to his young daughter's illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman, surprising himself with his proclivity for violence. After tragedy destroys the life he knew, Mario agrees to one final job: hijack a cartel's cash shipment before...
54) The big bang
Author
Series
Mike Hammer mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In recent years, nicotine has become as verboten as many hard drugs. The literary styles in this volume are as varied as the moral quandaries herein, and the authors have successfully unleashed their incandescent imaginations on the subject matter, fashioning an immensely addictive collection."--Provided by publisher.
57) Honey: a novel
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"As 24-year-old Nicole Hewett mourns at her father's grave, she worries about her mother, badly injured in the car accident that killed him, and whether they'll be able to make ends meet. Then she sees her beloved childhood friend, Honey, standing beside her old Cadillac. As Honey approaches, Nicole realizes how numb she's felt ever since Honey fled their hometown without explanation six years earlier. Before long, Nicole's old fascination with Honey...
58) Blood standard
Author
Series
Isaiah Coleridge novels volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnams' Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
59) Prophet
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been nemeses and reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence officer and Rao is an ex-MI6 agent, an addict and rudderless pleasure hound, with the uncanny ability to discern the truth of things--about everyone and everything other than Adam. When an American diner turns up in a foggy field in the UK and is followed by a mysterious death, Adam and Rao are...
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Three police officers, all crooked in their own way, investigate the murder of one of their own: Julie Owen has been brutally slain, but can the detectives find the cop killer without revealing their own dark secrets? A gritty and timely procedural exploring flawed characters behind the badge.
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