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Now or never
Par Elizabeth Adler. 1997
A serial killer carefully stalks and murders young women. When Boston police detective Harry Jordan finally gets a partial description,…
he desperately turns to a national television figure for help. Mallory Malone's show has been the downfall for many criminals, but oddly, Malone refuses to profile Jordan's case. Strong language, violence, and explicit descriptions of sexSacrifice
Par Mitchell Smith. 1997
After seven years in a Kansas prison, Tyler Pierce has just pulled off the bank heist of his career when…
he learns that his park-ranger daughter has been killed in Florida. Tyler uses his windfall from the robbery to fund his search for her murderer, a serial killer whose victims are women in uniform. Strong language, violence, and some explicit descriptions of sexCatch your breath
Par Jessica Auerbach. 1996
Recently separated from her policeman husband, Rosie Sloan panics when their two-year-old son, Jason, begins having trouble breathing. Because her…
first child died of SIDS and her father was a doctor, Rosie is very careful to follow Jason's doctor's advice to the letter. So why has someone reported her as an unfit mother? Some strong languageCimarron rose: a novel
Par James Burke. 1997
Texas ranger-turned-attorney Billy Bob Holland agrees to defend teenager Lucas Smothers, who was found unconscious at the murder scene of…
a female acquaintance and arrested for the crime. Holland has a compelling reason to take the case--Smothers is his illegitimate son. Strong language, violence, and some explicit descriptions of sexSee how they run
Par Bethany Campbell. 1996
Teacher Laura Stoner and her twin autistic students witness a driveby shooting. The eight-year-old boys' ability to reel off the…
license number and describe the shooter puts them in grave danger because the victim is a Mafia don. The trio reluctantly go into protective custody but soon learn that may not help them. Strong language, violence, and some explicit descriptions of sexThe whispering wall
Par Patricia Carlon. 1996
Middle-aged widow Sarah Oatland is paralyzed and mute from a stroke. Although her doctor, home nurse, and greedy niece Gwenyth…
don't realize it, Sarah is awake and cognizant, and she can hear through the wall at her headboard. When Gwenyth rents out Sarah's lower rooms, Sarah is horrified to hear the tenants plotting a murderSmithereens
Par Susan Chehak. 1995
Sixteen-year-old May Caldwell lives a dull life with her Iowa family, waiting for something to happen. And happen it does…
with the unexpected arrival of Frances (Frankie) Crane, a slightly older girl from Appalachia whom the family has financially sponsored. Amoral and vibrant, Frankie unlocks the latent wildness in May's troubled psyche. Strong language and descriptions of sexStress
Par Loren Estleman. 1996
Companion to Edsel (BR 10156). It is New Year's Eve 1972 when a Detroit cop moonlighting at a posh party…
shoots and kills three intruders. On the case is officer Charlie Battle, who knows the department is protecting its own yet doggedly pursues the truth up to the startling courtroom climax. Strong language and descriptions of sexFast forward
Par Judy Mercer. 1995
A woman wakes up in a torn-apart house, wearing bloody clothes, and with no idea who she is. The face…
in the mirror is unfamiliar and her overweight body repulses her. Eventually learning she is television producer Ariel Gold, she attempts to hide what must be amnesia while she searches for clues to what happened. Some violencePandora's clock
Par John Nance. 1995
After American 747 flight 66 leaves Germany, a passenger has a heart attack. Pilot James Holland is shocked when London…
refuses to let him make an emergency landing. The passenger was exposed to a mysterious virus and no country (not even the United States) wants to handle a possible epidemic. Doctor Sanders of the CIA is Holland's only real ally, but Sanders must convince the pilot of that in time to save him. Strong language and violence. BestsellerBalboa firefly
Par Jack Trolley. 1994
Six months ago, San Diego police sergeant Tommy Donahoo received an anonymous note warning that the airport, which has caused…
property values to plummet in the Balboa Park area, must be relocated. The note was written by desperate realtor Joseph Foley, who has multiple personalities and plans to shoot a plane out of the sky. What Foley and Donahoo don't realize is that someone else is hatching a similar plan. Strong language and violenceSilent night: a novel
Par Mary Clark. 1995
The Dornan family is in New York City on Christmas Eve because Tom Dornan has just had surgery for leukemia.…
When his wife drops her wallet, Cally Hunter, desperate for Christmas money, picks it up. Young Brian Dornan follows her, because inside the wallet is a recuperative St. Christopher medal for his dad. But Cally's brother, an escaped convict, is waiting in her apartment, and he has plans for the money and for Brian. Some strong languageDeep sleep
Par Frances Fyfield. 1991
Just when pharmacist Pip Carlton tires of his annoying wife, she dies in her sleep. This leaves him free to…
pursue his voluptuous assistant, Kim Perry. But Kim's ex-husband, Duncan, a detective constable, is still furtively watching Kim's movements. And, though recovering from surgery, prosecuter Helen West, previously appearing in Question of Guilt (BR 9721), has questions about Mrs. Carlton's death. Strong language and violenceStreet: a novel
Par Jack Cady. 1994
An actor, a vet called Symptomatic Nerve Gas, a former nun called Silk, a black poet named Elgin, and Hal,…
who acts like a medieval knight, are homeless regulars at a boarded-up Seattle church, the Sanctuary. A serial killer has taken someone they know from the street, and now a neighbor's daughter is missing. The unlikely group set out to trap the person they come to think of as an inhuman demon. Some strong language and some violenceHostage to fortune
Par Elizabeth Chaplin. 1992
When housewife Susan Bentham wins a football pool of more than a million pounds, her attorney husband, Jeff, doesn't expect…
to change his own life much. He takes a mistress, buys a Rolls, and feels very lucky. But Susan quietly carries out a devious plan until their roles have completely reversed. Jeff is now jobless, in a house he didn't choose, with no money of his own. So he devises his own plan. Some strong language and some descriptions of sexRiding the rap
Par Elmore Leonard. 1995
Retiring bookie Harry Arno sends bounty hunter Bobby Deo to collect money owed him by Chip Ganz. Instead, Chip convinces…
Bobby to help him and ex-convict Louis Lewis kidnap Harry. Luckily for Harry, his former girlfriend Joyce is now dating federal marshal Raylan Givens. Raylan is not too thrilled with Harry, but he is a fair man and good at tracking people and escorting them to prison to "ride the rap." Strong language and some violenceCommission
Par Finn Carling. 1993
A once-famous writer who has isolated himself with his dog on the island of Corsica has become so detached that…
he refers to himself in the third person. Then an eccentric and wealthy family breaks his solitude with a commission, more like a demand, for the writer to produce a book about their son. The reclusive writer is drawn out of himself and his surroundings to investigate the circumstances of the young man's mysterious deathThe indictment
Par MacKenzie Canter. 1994
Kendall Wilkinson grew up with Peyton, now married to Kendall's cousin and their mutual friend, Roger Dufault. Kendall and Peyton…
have an affair that ends six months before Roger, a developer facing fraud charges, is found beaten to death in a motel room. Handling Roger's estate, Kendall discovers a cryptic letter from his own uncle. Before Kendall can find the link, his uncle dies, revealing a sordid, dangerous hobby. Strong language and violenceCriminal conversation
Par Evan Hunter. 1994
New York District Attorney Michael Welles learns that young playboy Andrew Faviola is acting head of the Mafia operation run…
by his imprisoned father, Anthony Faviola. Planning to take him down, Welles orders heavy surveillance of the younger Faviola. What Welles doesn't realize is that his wife is having an affair with the mafioso, who has hidden his true identity from her. Strong language, violence, and explicit descriptions of sexThe forty fathom bank: a novella
Par Les Galloway. 1994
The narrator recalls the year 1940 in San Francisco when, worried about how he would support his family, he settled…
on a get-rich-quick scheme involving shark fishing. He bought an old boat and hired an experienced fisherman. But life at sea proved difficult, especially when the narrator was called upon to cope with rough waters, a silent partner, a dead engine, and--most dangerous--an overactive imagination. Some strong language