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221) Trespass
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
A husband and wife are kidnapped by extornionists and held for ransom. As the situation gets worse and the pressure gets higher, they begin to uncover a web of deceit and betrayal
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Marked for death: A Drug Enforcement agent ready to retire finds his hometown overrun by violent drug dealers. The enraged cop goes after the evil Jamaican druglord with a vengeance.
Mercenary for justice: No job is too treacherous for soldier of fortune John Seeger, who's blackmailed into orchestrating an impossible prison break, leading a team of soldiers to South Africa to rescue the son of a billionaire arms dealer.
223) Trespass
Pub. Date
2011
Description
A husband and wife are kidnapped by extortionists and held for ransom. As the situation gets worse and the pressure gets higher, they begin to uncover a web of deceit and betrayal.
224) Misconduct
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
When an ambitious young lawyer takes on a big case against a powerful and ruthless executive of a large pharmaceutical company, he soon finds himself involved in a case of blackmail and corruption.
225) The perfect witness
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
This action-packed psychological thriller takes you into the twisted depths of brutality at its worst. As a struggling young filmmaker, Mickey accidentally stumbles upon a notorious serial killer and catches one of his murders on film.
226) The letter
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Set on a rubber plantation in Malaya, this story centers on a woman's reasons for killing a man who was a close family friend.
228) Serial killers
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Interview with a serial killer: Crime writer Ellen Carter has a dark secret: her husband is buried behind the walls of her house. Leslie Steckler rents a room from Ellen, and discovers her secret. He blackmails her into writing the definitive study of mass murder, his biography.
Frozen in fear: A troubled artist traps his female victims in ice sculptures.
In the dead of winter: Sam Tucker was just released from prison. Now, he stalks the Utah desert...
229) Life of crime
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The wife of a corrupt real estate developer is kidnapped by two common criminals, who intend to extort him with inside information about his crooked business and off-shore accounts. But the husband decides he'd actually rather not pay the ransom to get back his wife, setting off an unbelievable sequence of double crosses and twists.
230) Burke & Hare
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Set in the 1820's. William Burke and William Hare luck into some easy money when they discover they can sell a fresh cadaver to Dr. Knox at Edinburgh Medical College for dissection. However, the next cadaver is not quite so easy to obtain, and when word gets out of how profitable the trade is, the duo find themselves blackmailed and in dire need of more bodies. Based on a true story.
231) Witch for hire
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Faye Faulker isn't popular, and that's just fine by her. She spends her lunches at the Loser Table with the other social rejects, aka her best friends, and brushes off the uninspired taunts from the cool kids. But when lonely freshman Cody finds her way to Faye's corner of the cafeteria, it sets off a peculiar chain of events . . . To Cody's surprise, these kids aren't so bad; an overdramatic theater nerd, a handicapable girl in a wheelchair, an...
232) The deep end
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Margaret Hall is the mother of three willing to do whatever it takes to keep her family safe, including trying to cover up the accidental death of her son's "unsavory" friend. The next day a man knocks on her door and demands money to suppress a videotape linking her son to the death, which the police have rules a homicide.
233) The coil
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Liz Sansborough thought she had left her past behind forever. A former CIA field agent as well as the daughter of perhaps the most notorious Cold War assassin, the man known to the world only as The Carnivore, Liz is now a university professor in Southern California specializing in the psychology of violence. But her dead father's legacy has come back to overtake Liz. Someone, somewhere is claiming to have possession of the Carnivore's secret files...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Starting a new school in the fall with her friend Shirley, everything is going well for Jamila until Shirley pulls her into a new assignment: stop Chuck Milton, a school bully who's using blackmail and intimidation to become school president--an assignment that will involve a bit of breaking and entering."--Provided by publisher.
235) 24: Season three
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
It's been three years since CTU agent, Jack Bauer thwarted a terrorist attempt to plunge the United States into war. Now he's back in L.A. after working undercover for six months bringing down drug lord Ramon Salazar. But then the FBI receives a phone call threatening the release of a deadly virus in Los Angeles if Salazar isn't released from prison within six hours. As CTU races to locate the virus, Jack realizes that the only way to prevent additional...
Author
Series
C.B. Strike volume season 2
Pub. Date
2021
Description
The riveting HBO drama series C.B. Strike return for a much-anticipated second season. Based on the fourth of the best-selling Strike novels, written by executive producer J.K. Rowling under pseudonym Robert Galbraith, Lethal White finds private detective Cormora Strike (Tom Burke) and his trusted partner, Robin Ellacott (Holliday Grainger), racing against the clock to uncover the connection between two highly perplexing cases. Over four sharp and...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Detective and mystery stories. If the Fire Bug's true purpose is to make the government hand over one hundred thousand pounds, why does he seem so reluctant to apply the necessary pressure? Why does he content himself with burning down a single warehouse, when he could set an entire riverside wharf ablaze? And why firebomb a single sloop, when it would have been just as easy to destroy the whole fleet? In order to answer these questions, Inspector...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Description
"Witty, sly, and incredibly skilled at her job, Helen Keremos is tired of the busy Toronto life and just wants to truck back to Vancouver and peace. But before she goes, she's hired for one last job, to protect the newly wealthy struggling songbird Sonia Deerfield, who's been receiving death threats and attempts on her life. With predatory "friends" all around Sonia, it's hard to tell who Helen can trust. As the danger increases around them, Helen...