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151 | 1984 | | The Sicilian The Godfather #2 | Mario Puzo | | |
152 | 1890 | 2013 | The Sign of Four Sherlock Holmes #2 | Arthur Conan Doyle | | |
153 | 2014 | | The Silkworm Cormoran Strike #2 | Robert Galbraith | | |
154 | 1952 | 2016 | The Singing Sands Inspector Alan Grant #6 Cover Blurb | Josephine Tey | | |
| From epubbooks.com:
On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old school chum to recover from overwork and mental fatigue. Traveling on the night train to Scotland, however, Grant stumbles upon a dead man and a cryptic poem about ‘the stones that walk’ and ‘the singing sand,’ which send him off on a fascinating search into the verse’s meaning and the identity of the deceased. Grant needs just this sort of casual inquiry to quiet his jangling nerves, despite his doctor’s orders. But what begins as a leisurely pastime eventually turns into a full-blown investigation that leads Grant to discover not only the key to the poem but the truth about a most diabolical murder. | |
155 | 2015 | 2023 | Small Wars Jack Reacher #19.5 | Lee Child | | |
156 | 2013 | 2021 | Storm Front Derrick Storm #1 | Richard Castle | | |
157 | 1887 | 2013 | A Study in Scarlet Sherlock Holmes #1 | Arthur Conan Doyle | | |
158 | 2014 | 2024 | Switchblade Harry Bosch #16.5 Cover Blurb | Michael Connelly | | |
| From audible.com:
LAPD Detective Harry Bosch seeks justice for the forgotten in this original story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly
An anonymous tip puts Bosch on a case that has remained unsolved for decades, the vicious stabbing of a teenage boy whose body was found in an abandoned Old Hollywood restaurant.
Cold cases are often the toughest: With no body, no murder scene, and no fingerprints, Bosch nevertheless gets lucky when DNA evidence from the murder weapon points to a known killer. But the DA insists that science alone is not enough - he needs the case to be bulletproof before he'll take it to court.
Determined to speak for those who can no longer speak for themselves, Bosch has one chance to wrench a confession out of a cold-blooded killer, or risk letting him walk free for good.
In this gripping, never-before-published story by "master of the crime thriller" (Huffington Post ) Michael Connelly, Detective Harry Bosch quenches his thirst for justice and shows why he is "one of the most popular and enduring figures in American crime fiction" (Chicago Tribune). | |
159 | 1948 | | Taken at the Flood Hercule Poirot Mystery #22 | Agatha Christie | | |
160 | 2018 | | Target: Alex Cross Alex Cross #26 | James Patterson | | |
161 | 2017 | | The People vs. Alex Cross Alex Cross #25 | James Patterson | | |
162 | 1966 | | Third Girl Hercule Poirot Mystery #29 | Agatha Christie | | |
163 | 1935 | | Three Act Tragedy Hercule Poirot Mystery #9 | Agatha Christie | | |
164 | 2017 | 2023 | Three More Jack Reacher Novellas Jack Reacher #22.6 Cover Blurb | Lee Child | | |
| TOO MUCH TIME An original novella featuring Jack Reacher after his time in the army, in a story that leads into Lee Child's fall 2017 new Reacher hardcover novel, The Midnight Line. In "Too Much Time," Reacher finds himself in a tiollowed-out town in Maine, where he witnesses a random bag-snatching but sees much more than a simple crime.
SMALL WARS The telex is brief and to the point: One active-duty personnel found shot to death ten miles north of Fort Smith. Circumstances unknown. The victim was shot twice in the chest and once in the head. A professional hit. The crime scene suggests an ambush. Military police officer Jack Reacher is given the case. He calls his older brother, Colonel Joe Reacher, at the Pentagon for intel and taps Sergeant Frances Neagley to help him answer the big question: Who would kill a brilliant officer on the fast-track to greatness?
NOT A DRILL Jack Reacher is on the road, hitching a ride with some young Canadians who are planning a hike through the dense forests of Maine. They part ways after sharing a hot meal, and Reacher checks out a quiet town surrounded by countryside serene enough to cool even his raging wanderlust. But not for long. First the trail is suddenly closed. Then the military police show up in force. Maybe it's a drill. Or maybe it's trouble - the kind of trouble that always finds Reacher, no matter how far he travels off the beaten path.
And for the first time on audio, additional stories featuring Jack Reacher, including: James Penney's New Identity, Everyone Talks, Maybe They Have a Tradition, Guy Walks into a Bar, No Room at the Motel, and The Picture of the Lonely Diner.
LEE CHILD is the author of eighteen New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher thrillers, with nine having reached the #1 position. All have been optioned for major motion pictures; the first, Jack Reacher, was based on One Shot. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in almost a hundred territories. A native of England and a former television director, Child lives in New York City. Visit the author online at www.leechild.com.
DICK HILL has been named both a Golden Voice and a Voice of the Century by AudioFile magazine, and has earned numerous Earphones awards for his work. He is also a three-time winner of the Audie Award. To learn more about Dick, visit www.dickhill.com. | |
165 | 1950 | 2016 | To Love and Be Wise Inspector Alan Grant #4 Cover Blurb | Josephine Tey | | |
| From epubbooks.com:
When a young strikingly handsome photographer mysteriously disappears, it’s up to Inspector Alan Grant to discover whether he accidentally drowned, committed suicide, or met his death at the hands of one of his many female admirers. | |
166 | 2018 | 2023 | Too Much Time Jack Reacher #22.3 | Lee Child | | |
167 | 2022 | | Triple Cross Alex Cross #30 | James Patterson | | |
168 | 1999 | 2022 | Tripwire Jack Reacher #3 Cover Blurb | Lee Child | | |
| "Grabs hold with the first page... This is pulse-pounding suspense." - Arizona Daily Star
Jack Reacher's anonymity in Key West is shattered by the appearance of a private investigator who's come to town looking for him. But only hours after his arrival, the stranger is murdered. Retracing the Pl's cold trail back to New York City, Reacher is compelled to find out who was looking for him and why. He never expected the reasons to be so personal, so dangerous, and so very twisted.
"A stylistic thriller as complex and disturbing as its hero." - Stephen White
"A bang-up finale... Makes the reader sit back and gasp." - The Denver Post
"Gives new meaning to what a page-turner should be." - Michael Connelly | |
169 | 2020 | | Troubled Blood Cormoran Strike #5 | Robert Galbraith | | |
170 | 1997 | 2022 | Trunk Music Harry Bosch #5 Cover Blurb | Michael Connelly | | |
| TRUNK MUSIC
Tony Aliso finally has a hit. Stuffed into the truck of his Rolls on a ragged stretch og Mulholland Drive, the B-movie producer took two bullets to the head - the kind of job wiseguys call "Trunk Music." L.A.P.D. Detective Harry Bosch, hungry for action after an involuntary layoff, catches the case and is soon painstakingly unraveling Aliso's life, times, and ties... from his Mob deals to his beautiful wife to a stripper in Vegas to the disgraced FBI agent who just happens to be Harry's ex-girlfriend. How somewhere between L.A. and Las Vegas is the one answer Harry needs. But so are enemies on both sides of the law, the woman he till loves, and the secret that can break your heart - or get you killed. | |
171 | 2017 | 2023 | Two Kinds of Truth Harry Bosch #20 Cover Blurb | Michael Connelly | | |
| THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF TRUTH. TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY. BUT ONLY ONE BOSCH.
TWO KINDS OF TRUTH
Harry Bosch, exiled from the LAPD, is working cold cases for the San Fernando Police Department when all hands are called out to a local drugstore, where two pharmacists have been murdered. The clues lead into the dangerous world of prescription drug abuse. To get to the people at the top, Bosch must go undercover in the shadowy world of organized crime.
Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's LAPD days comes back to haunt him when a long-imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him and seems to have new evidence to prove it. If this conviction is overturned, every case Bosch ever worked on will be called into question. As usual, he must fend for himself as he tries to clear his name and keep a clever killer in prison.
The two cases wind around each other like strands of barbed wire. Along the way, Bosch discovers there are two kinds of truth: the kind that sets you free and the kind that leaves you buried in darkness.
"Connelly writes cops better than anyone in the business." - New York Post | |
172 | 1915 | 2013 | The Valley of Fear Sherlock Holmes #8 | Arthur Conan Doyle | | |
173 | 2001 | | Violets Are Blue Alex Cross #7 Cover Blurb | James Patterson | | |
| Detective Alex Cross must confront his most terrifying nemesis ever - and his own deepest fears - in this electrifying new thriller from the master of suspense, James Patterson.
Alex Cross has never believed in vampires. But when two joggers are found slain in a manner that suggests a macabre ritual, he has to reconsider. Someone believes in vampires enough to have committed a series of bizarre murders that appear to be the work of one. Local police are horrified, and even the FBI is baffled.
Cross takes on the case and plunges into a netherworld of secret clubs and role-players, a world full of poseurs and playactors - and someone demented enough to have crossed the line from dark ritual to real blood. At the same time, a lethal super-criminal from Cross's past known as the Mastermind is stalking him, taunting him, and threatening everything he holds dear. Cross has never been closer to defeat, or in greater danger. In a shocking conclusion, Alex Cross must survive a deadly confrontation - only to discover at last the awful secret of the Mastermind. | |
174 | 1999 | 2024 | Void Moon Cassie Black #1 Cover Blurb | Michael Connelly | | |
| From the #1 bestselling author of the Harry Bosch series and Lincoln Lawyer series VOID MOON
In L.A. Cassie Black is another beautiful woman in a Porsche: except Cassie just did six years in prison and still has "outlaw juice" flowing in her veins. Now Cassie is returning to her old profession, taking down a money man in Vegas. But the perfect heist goes very wrong, and suddenly Cassie is on the run - with a near-psychotic Vegas "fixer" killing everyone who knew about the job. Between Cassie and the man hunting her are a few last secrets: like who really set up the job, why Cassie had to take the chance, and how, in the end, it might all be a matter of the moon...
MICHAEL CONNELLY is the author of twenty-nine novels, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers The Wrong Side of Goodbye and The Crossing. His books, which include the Harry Bosch series and Lincoln Lawyer series, have sold more than sixty million copies worldwide. Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels and is the executive producer of the Amazon Studios original series Bosch, starring Titus Welliver. He spends his time in California and Florida.
L. J. GANSER has narrated over 300 books and has won an Audie° award from the Audio Publishers Association, the Scourby Award from the American Foundation for the Blind, and many Earphone Awards from Audiofile Magazine. | |
175 | 2012 | 2023 | A Wanted Man Jack Reacher #17 Cover Blurb | Lee Child | | |
| "Furious action ... [Lee] Child keeps the pacing swift and the surprises rolling.... [A] feverishly thrilling series." - The Miami Herald
Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, another telling stories that don't add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And a hitchhiker with a broken nose. An hour behind them, the FBI descends on an old pumping station where a man was stabbed to death - the knife work professional. The killers nowhere to be seen.
All Jack Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia. All he did was stick out his thumb. But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride. He has tied himself to a massive conspiracy, in which nothing is what it seems, and nobody is telling the truth.
"Smart, breathless... [features] one of the best female characters in the whole Reacher series." - The New York Times
"Subtle and nuanced [with] seductive writing and irresistible plot twists." - Newsweek
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176 | 2014 | 2021 | Wild Storm Derrick Storm #2 | Richard Castle | | |
177 | 2002 | 2022 | Without Fail Jack Reacher #6 Cover Blurb | Lee Child | | |
| "Relentlessly paced...and absolutely mesmerizing." —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Skilled, cautious, and anonymous, Jack Reacher is perfect for the job: to assas-sinate the vice president of the United States. Theoretically, of course. A female Secret Service agent wants Reacher to find the holes in her system, and fast—because a covert group already has the vice president in their sights. They've planned well. There's just one thing they didn't plan on: Reacher. "Everything falls into place like a well-assembled time bomb." —The Boston Globe "A stunner...The suspense becomes nearly unbearable." —Booklist | |
178 | 2010 | 2023 | Worth Dying For Jack Reacher #15 Cover Blurb | Lee Child | | |
| "Don't pick up the latest Jack Reacher novel if you don't have some time on your hands, because Worth Dying For is difficult to put down.... Child manages to get an amazing amount of suspense into the novel." -Associated Press
There's deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska... and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it's the unsolved, decades-old case of a missing child that Reacher can't let go.
"A model of suspenseful storytelling and an outstanding addition to a series that stands in the front rank of modern thrillers." -The Washington Post
The Duncans want Reacher gone - and its not just past secrets they're trying to hide. For as dangerous as the Duncans are, they're just the bottom of a criminal food chain stretching halfway around the world. For Reacher, it would have made much more sense to put some distance between himself and the hard-core trouble that's bearing down on him. For Reacher, that was also impossible.
"Still the thinking man's action hero, supreme butt-kicker and smartest guy in the room." -The Seattle Times | |
179 | 2016 | 2023 | The Wrong Side of Goodbye Harry Bosch #19 Cover Blurb | Michael Connelly | | |
| From audible.com:
Unstoppable detective Harry Bosch returns in a new thriller from New York Times best-selling author Michael Connelly.
Harry Bosch is California's newest private investigator. He doesn't advertise, he doesn't have an office, and he's picky about who he works for, but it doesn't matter. His chops from 30 years with the LAPD speak for themselves.
Soon one of Southern California's biggest moguls comes calling. The reclusive billionaire has less than six months to live and a lifetime of regrets. He hires Bosch to find out whether he has an heir. Using all of his cold-case skills, Bosch pieces together a 65-year-old mystery and finds out that the case is not as simple - or as cold - as he thought.
Swift, unpredictable, and thrilling, The Wrong Side of Goodbye proves once again that "Connelly is still very much in his prime" (Washington Post). | |