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3) Alex Cross
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Follows the young homicide detective/psychologist as he meets his match in a serial killer. The two face off in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, but when the mission gets personal, Cross is pushed to the edge of his moral and psychological limits in this taut and exciting action thriller.
4) Mud
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Two boys, Ellis and his best friend Neckbone, find a mysterious man named Mud hiding out on a deserted island in the Mississippi. Mud tells the boys fantastic stories about his life, including how he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper. The boys agree to help him, but it isn't long until their small town is besieged by bounty hunters out...
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
70th anniversary limited edition.
Language
English
Description
A calculating wife encourages her wealthy husband to sign a double indemnity policy proposed by smitten insurance agent Walter Neff. As the would-be lovers plot the unsuspecting husband's murder, they are pursued by a suspicious claims manager. It's a race against time to get away with the perfect crime.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn't commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison....
7) Dream house
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Will Atenton quit a high-profile job in Manhattan to relocate his wife, Libby, and their two daughters to a quaint New England town. But as they settle into their new life, they discover their perfect home was once the murder scene of a mother and her children. When Will investigates, he's not sure if he's seeing ghosts or if the tragic events are somehow related to his past. The only clues come from his mysterious neighbor.
8) The paperboy
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
It takes audiences deep into the backwaters of steamy 1960s South Florida, as investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story. With the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Hoping to distance himself from the fallout of a libel conviction, journalist Mikael Blomkvist retreats to a remote island in Sweden's far north where the unsolved murder of a young girl still haunts her industrialist uncle forty years later. Ensconced in a cottage on the island where the killer may still roam, Blomkvist's investigation draws him into the secrets and lies of the rich and powerful, and throws him together with one unlikely ally: tattooed,...
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
After a much-needed break, forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan and FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth return to the Jeffersonian Institute, along with their team of investigative 'squints, ' for another darkly humorous season of murder, mystery, controversy and chemistry. In addition to a vast array of personal crises, ranging from Angela's secret pregnancy to Booth's new relationship with a beautiful reporter, the team tackles a complex caseload...
11) True story
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After journalist Michael Finkel is fired from The New York Times for embellishing a story, he learns that accused murderer Christian Longo has been claiming to be him. Hoping this story will save his career, Finkel begins interviewing Longo in prison. But soon, the men find themselves in an eerie game of cat and mouse in this psychological drama.
15) Shaft
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
[English/Spanish version].
Language
English
Description
JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend's untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ's youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem's heroin-infested underbelly. And while JJ's own FBI analyst's badge may clash with his dad's trademark leather duster, there's no denying family....
16) Niagara
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Although the quaint motel overlooking the famed falls seems like the perfect honeymoon retreat, in fact, it's where the young and beautiful Rose Loomis plans to kill her husband George.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joseph Cotten stars as Uncle Charlie, a calculating and charming killer who hides out in his relatives' small hometown. There, he befriends his favorite niece and namesake, Young Charlie. But she begins to suspect he may be the famed Merry Widow murderer. A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues as the psychopathic killer plots the death of his young niece to protect his secret.
18) Gone
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When her sister disappears, Jill is convinced the serial killer who kidnapped her two years ago has returned, and she sets out to once again face her abductor.
19) Saving Shiloh
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Is ornery Judd Travers a changed man? Marty believes he is, even when a body is found and just about everyone in town thinks Judd is the murderer. But the piece of orange cloth Shiloh digs up may be a clue to what really happened.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Bond is driving from Lake Garda to Siena, Italy with the captured Mr. White in his car's luggage compartment. Bond is attacked by chasing henchmen, but evades them. Bond and M interrogate White regarding his organisation, Quantum. Bond learns that a was sent to kill Camille Montes, but does not succeed. When a bodyguard to the British Prime Minister is accidentally killed, M has Bond's passports and credit cards revoked. Bond and Camille discover...
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