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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the heartbreak of losing his girlfriend, Beck, Joe Goldberg thought he'd never love again. But when mysterious Amy Adam begins working for Joe at Mooney Books, he finds himself obsessed with his new employee. Amy is Beck's opposite, she hates Twitter, she doesn't even have an email address, she's completely unsearchable online, and she quickly captures Joe's heart. But just before Joe can ask Amy to marry him, she disappears, leaving a trail...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A 21st-century romantic thriller centered around a relationship that gets taken too far, When a brilliant bookstore manager crosses paths with an aspiring writer, his answer becomes clear: anything. As he uses the internet and social media to gather the most intimate of details to get close to her, a charming and awkward crush quickly becomes obsession when he quietly and strategically begins to remove every obstacle, and person, between them.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the perfect home for the perfect family: pretty Nora Howell, her handsome husband, their two teenage daughters, and lovable dog. As California transplants making a fresh start in Brooklyn, they expected to live in a shoebox, but the brownstone has a huge kitchen, lots of light, and a backyard. The catch: its previous residents were victims of a grisly triple homicide that remains unsolved. Soon, peculiar things begin happening. The pug is nosing...
124) Black Christmas
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. But as Riley Stone and her Mu Kappa Epsilon sisters prepare to deck the halls with a series of seasonal parties, a black-masked stalker begins killing sorority women one by one.
125) Trahison
Author
Publisher
Métailié
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
"Burned out and traumatised by her horrifying experiences around the world, aid worker Úrsula has returned to Iceland. She accepts a high-profile government role. On her first day in the post, Úrsula promises to help a mother seeking justice for her daughter, who had been raped by a policeman, and life in high office soon becomes much more harrowing than Úrsula could ever have imagined. A homeless man is stalking her - but is he hounding her, or...
126) Haunting Adeline
Author
Series
Cat and mouse duet volume 1
Publisher
[H. D. Carlton]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The Manipulator. I can manipulate the emotions of anyone who lets me. I will make you hurt, make you cry, make you laugh and sigh. But my words don't affect him. Especially not when I plead for him to leave. He's always there, watching and waiting. And I can never look away. Not when I want him to come closer. The Shadow. I didn't mean to fall in love. But now that I have, I can't stay away. I'm mesmerized by her smile, by her eyes, and the way she...
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The mean Dark Lord has turned into a kindly knight! It s like a dream come true! Is this really happening?!! Nanase became a nurse to chase after Dr. Kairi Tendo. To keep herself safe from a former patient who is stalking her, she stays with Kairi and pretends to be his lover! But the stalker becomes furious and attacks! As she loses consciousness, she reveals to Kairi how she feels!"-- cover page 4.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Coogan's bluff: An Arizona lawman whose unorthodox methods of capturing an escaped murderer anger a tough NYC police lieutenant.
Play Misty for me: Clint Eastwood stars as a radio disc jokey who becomes the victim of psychotic obsession when he tries to end a torrid love affair with a fan.
The beguiled: A wounded soldier finds shelter in an all-girls academy during the Civil War.
The Eiger sanction: A professional assassin is forced out of retirement...
129) Piece of my heart
Author
Series
Under suspicion (Mary Higgins Clark) volume 7
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Television producer Laurie Moran and her fiancée, Alex Buckley, the former host of her investigative television show, are just days away from their midsummer wedding, when things take a dark turn. Alex's seven-year-old nephew, Johnny, vanishes from the beach. A search party begins and witnesses recall Johnny playing in the water and collecting shells behind the beach shack, but no one remembers seeing him after the morning. As the sun sets, Johnny's...
Series
Criterion collection volume 541
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A self-styled preacher marries and murders the widow of an executed convict with whom he once shared a cell. He then terrorizes her two young children to force them to tell him the whereabouts of the $10,000 he knows their father hid before his imprisonment.
Author
Series
Alexandra Cooper novels volume 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Manhattan waterfront is one of New York City's most magnificent vistas, boasting both the majestic Statue of Liberty and the George Washington Bridge, the world's busiest span for motor vehicles. But in "Devil's Bridge," Detective Mike Chapman will discover the peril that lurks along this seemingly benign expanse as he takes on his most personal case yet: the disappearance of Alex Cooper. Coop's sudden disappearance is fraught with terrifying...
132) Wolfhunter River
Author
Series
Stillhouse Lake novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
She can't ignore a cry for help. But in this remote hunting town, it's open season. Gwen Proctor escaped her serial-killer husband and saved her family. What she can't seem to outrun is his notoriety. Or the sick internet vigilantes still seeking to avenge his crimes. For Gwen, hiding isn't an option. Not when her only mission is to create a normal life for her kids. But now, a threatened woman has reached out. Marlene Crockett, from the remote town...
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Bridgett Nelson, the two-time Splatterpunk Award-winning author of the hugely popular A Bouquet of Viscera, has three deranged stories to tell that all you freaks are sure to love! In "Getaway," four college friends go on a beach house vacation in an Outer Banks town. The allure is that it's off-season and the town is completely deserted...so why is there a loud knock on the door in the middle of the night? In "Scars," a famous author holds a contest...
134) Double exposure
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Four years ago, a young heiress survived an attack that claimed the lives of both her parents. The crime made headlines all over Los Angeles, both for the vicious nature of the killings and the seemingly random nature of the attack: nothing was stolen, and the van Aust family had no obvious enemies. Melia van Aust fled the city soon after the murders, which were never solved, but her brother Jasper has not been seen since. After a childhood spent...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A twisted young medical student kidnaps the girl of his dreams and embarks on a dark and delirious road trip across Brazil in the English-language debut of one of Brazil's most celebrated young crime writers. Teo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends, and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the presence of his medical school cadaver--that is, until he meets...
136) Te encontraré
Author
Publisher
Montena
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
El Diamante: La muerte camina a mi lado, pero el segador no es rival para mí. Estoy atrapado en un mundo lleno de monstruos vestidos de hombres y otros que no son lo que parecen. No me retendrán para siempre. Ya no reconozco la persona en la que me he convertido y estoy luchando para encontrar el camino de regreso a la bestia que me caza en la noche. Me llaman diamante, pero sólo han creado un ángel de la muerte. El Cazador: Nací depredador,...
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