List #9/Fiction
Explore our curated List #9/Fiction featuring top fiction books you must read. Discover captivating stories, bestsellers, and hidden gems for every book lover.
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Samaritan
by Richard Price
Ray Mitchell returns to New Jersey to the housing project where he grew up to re-evaluate his life, but when he is found savagely beaten -- and refuses to press charges -- childhood friend Detective Nerese Ammons must uncover the truth.
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Bitch Creek
by William G. Tapply
The first in a brand-new mystery series by the author of the Brady Coyne series.
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A Coffin for Dimitrios
by Eric Ambler
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • The classic story of an ordinary man seemingly out of his depth, this is Ambler's most widely acclaimed novel, "one of the masterpieces of the genre" (The New York Times Book Review). A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel leads Charles Latimer, the author of a handful of successful mysteries, into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers. At first merely curious to reconstruct the career of the notorious Dimitrios, whose body has been identified in an Istanbul morgue, Latimer soon finds himself caught up in a shadowy web of assassination, espionage, drugs, and treachery that spans the Balkans.
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Exposure Behind Closed Doors
by Victoria Taylor Murray
EXPOSURE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS is centered around one earth-shattering week in the life of New Orleans Police Lieutenant, Grieco Storm. A police detective whose passions and convictions run as deep and sizzling as the sultry city he is bound by duty and honor to protect. The discovery of arsenic found in the blood-systems of two International Super Models, Johna Bauer and Ursula Rhee; initially ruled accidental prescription drug overdoses by the city's shady coroner, is what initiated a secret branch of the Justice Department to get involved. Not only was the State of Louisiana suddenly faced with the very real possibility of a serial killer being on the loose in their Historical City, but it was suddenly faced with a potential scandal of such magnitude that it could rock New Orleans back several decades, politically, on its ear!
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Shadow Image
by Jaye Roycraft
Never ask Doctor Death to make a house call. Shelby Cort has fled a big-city police department for sanity and quiet as the sheriff of a small Michigan township. When dead bodies start to pop up in unlikely places and the killings go unsolved, Shelby comes under attack from the town officials, the media, and even her own co-workers. She finds an ally in the exotic and sexy new ME. But what Shelby doesn't know may cost her her life. The cool, collected Dr. Ricard de Chaux, who has been filling Shelby's off-duty time with longing and passion, is actually Doctor Death, the new Overlord of the local undead. His top priority is to protect his new charges, even if that means hiding the fact that the killer isn't human. Doctor Death, reluctantly working his way back into human society after years of seclusion, hides one piece of evidence after another. When the killer goes after Shelby and all of Ric's secrets are on the line, where will his allegiance fall? Jaye Roycraft, a former Milwaukee police officer, has incorporated her police procedural knowledge and experience into her books, beginning with her debut novel Rainscape, a combination of romance, mystery, and science fiction. Rainscape was followed by the vampire romance series Double Image, Afterimage, Shadow Image, and Immortal Image and the hard-edged vampire series Half Past Hell and Hell's Warrior. Jaye has presented workshops both online and at conferences, has been a contest judge, and has been a featured panelist at Dragon*Con.
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All He Ever Wanted
by Anita Shreve
Years after escaping from a hotel fire and encountering an elusive woman, who he subsequently married and divorced, a man travels from New England to Florida by train and remembers the relationship. 325,000 first printing.
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Perfume
by Patrick Suskind
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Set in eighteenth-century France, the classic novel that provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille’s genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the “ultimate perfume”—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity. Translated from the German by John E. Woods.
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No Way Back
by Rick Mofina
Winner of the Crime Writer of the Year Award San Francisco crime reporter Tom Reed is burnt out. The breaking story of a jewel heist gone violently awry -- with the murder of a cop and the abduction of a female hostage -- is one most journalists would kill for. Tom hopes it will be his last. But this time, there's more at stake than a Pulitzer. Because the woman taken by the two homicidal fugitives is Ann Reed, Tom's wife. And her capture wasn't random . . . it was personal.
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Conquest of Paradise
by Britt Gillette
September 11th, 2001 marks the beginning of a world-wide war on terror. Unbeknownst to the citizens of the Western Powers, their governments are working on a modern-day Manhattan Project to create a weapon so potent, it will defeat the terrorists of the world once and for all. In an era when the very survival of liberty and the global economic system are daily threatened by weapons of mass destruction, the Western democracies ardently push the limits of the known universe to unleash a weapon of unrivaled omnipotence a self-replicating assembler. Amidst these troubled times, a god-like figure rises to power. As leader of the newly created United Europe, Raphael Vicente sets out on a bold quest to exterminate disease, eliminate poverty, and destroy the world s oppressors. The ascendance of this new breakthrough technology sets the stage for realizing his dream a world entrenched in democratic social justice for all peoples of the world. But in Raphael s world of black and white, the dream of eradicating injustice proves to be a formidable task, and in the end, man s elusive pursuit of perfection drives him to the edge of never-before imagined consequences. decisions must be made, and they leave the world teetering on the brink of annihilation
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The Marshal and the Murderer
by Magdalen Nabb
A young Swiss art student has been reported missing, and Marshal Guarnaccia must travel to the small town where she was studying to find out the truth about her disappearance. When her body is found, it appears that she was the victim of a sex-related crime. But Guarnaccia—who comes from a small town himself—suspects that a local feud with roots in the horrors and betrayals of World War II may play an important part in the solution to the crime.
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An Irish Murder
by Caitlan O'Connell
Irish detective Rupert Dunne lives a divided existence between a big city career in Dublin and lesser policing matter at home in County Cork. Now estranged from his English wife and at a personal impasse, he finds himself contemplating the possibilities of early retirement. However the usually peaceful countryside of Cork has other things in store for him. The first in a series of murder mysteries set in current day Ireland. This book introduces detective Rupert Dunne, his assistant Murphy, and the people and scenery of West Cork.
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Maigret and the Killer
by Georges Simenon
Maigret, accompanying his physician on an emergency call, is drawn into one of his most stubborn cases yet. The victim, a son of a wealthy perfume manufacturer, had been enjoying an odd hobby before his death: collecting human voices with a tape recorder, often in the rougher districts of Paris. But his wallet and his tape recorder have been left untouched, so the killer's motive is unclear. The absence of clues begins to exasperate Maigret until an anonymous letter reveals that he is dealing with no ordinary criminal. Maigret is a registered trademark of the Estate of Georges Simenon.
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Hard News
by Jeffery Deaver
From the bestselling author of the Bone Collector novels, soon to be an NBC series Rune is an aspiring filmmaker with more ambition than political savvy, paying her dues as an assistant cameraperson for the local news. But she's got her eyes on the prize, the network's hot newsmagazine, Current Events—and she's got the story she knows will get her there. Poking around in the video archives, Rune spots a taped interview with Randy Boggs, who's doing hard time in Attica for a murder he claims he didn't commit. Rune can't say exactly why, but she's sure he's innocent. If she can prove it, Current Events won't merely report the news, it'll make news—and Rune's career. But what she could be writing is Randy Boggs's epitaph—and her own. Rune's newly discovered witness soon turns up dead. A hit man from Miami is on Rune's trail, and Boggs is finding prison even more dangerous than before. Someone wants this story killed, and it could be the girl with the camera who ends up on the cutting room floor.
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Stormy Challenge
by Jayne Ann Krentz
Leya Brandon doesn't know if she can believe anything Court Tremayne tells her. But Court is determined to win Leya's love--and he has no intention of stopping until he succeeds. Reissue.
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Sometimes Naughty, Sometimes Nice
by Kimberly Raye
Sometimes Naughty To Xandra Farrel, men are only good for procreation and pleasure-and sometimes they even need help with that. As proprietor of erotic toy manufacturer Wild Women, Inc., she's ready to launch her best product just as soon as she tests it out. Her subject: Beau Hollister, once the sexiest, most popular bad boy in high school, and the man responsible for the worst sexual experience of Xandra's life. If Xandra can have one mind-blowing night with Beau, the commercial success of her product is a sure thing... Sometimes Nice When Beau started his home renovation company, Hire-a-Hunk, being Xandra's boy toy was not what he had in mind, especially since he blew it way back when. Then Xandra turns up the heat and turns on the seduction. As wills clash and hearts collide, can unexpected love prove that being naughty is sometimes the nicest way a girl can have her Beau...and keep him too?
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Final Account
by Peter Robinson
There's more than blood and bone beneath the skin ... The victim, a nondescript "numbers cruncher," died horribly just yards away from his terrified wife and daughter, murdered by men who clearly enjoyed their work. The crime scene is one that could chill the blood of even the most seasoned police officer. But the strange revelations about an ordinary accountant's extraordinary secret life are what truly set Chief Inspector Alan Banks off -- as lies breed further deceptions and blood begets blood, unleashing a policeman's dark passions ... and a violent rage that, when freed, might be impossible to control.
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Lucky Stiff
by Elizabeth Sims
For Lillian Byrd, a chance encounter with an old friend leads to the discovery that everything she thought she knew about her childhood is a lie. Best friend Duane reveals that the fire that killed Lillian's parents and Lillian's babysitter, Trix, may have been arson, and that Trix may not have been the third person killed after all. Furthermore, at the time of the fire, Duane's father had claimed that his mother had left them, but now he's disappeared too. Lillian and Dunae must set out together in search of the truth behind their parents' mysterious disappearances.
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The Burnt Orange Sunrise
by David Handler
Old-couple Berger and Mitry are back in a new spin on the classic locked-roommystery.
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White Heat
by Cherry Adair
Second in a series of romantic suspense stories involving T-FLAC (Terrorist Force Logistic Assault Command), a privage antiterrorist group.
