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2221) El fuego invisible
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
David Salas, un prometedor lingüista del Trinity College de Dublín, se encuentra, después de aterrizar en Madrid para pasar sus vacaciones, con Victoria Goodman, una vieja amiga de sus abuelos y con su joven ayudante, una misteriosa historiadora del arte. Ese hecho trastocará sus planes y lo empujará a una sorprendente carrera por averiguar qué ha sucedido con una de los alumnos de la escuela de literatura que regenta lady Goodman. Para su sorpresa,...
2222) The nightsilver promise
Author
Series
Celestial mechanism cycle volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"In the empire of Albion, the Great Dragons of old are long gone-hunted for centuries by cruel emperors fearing the power they possessed. Now governed by the science of Celestial Physicists, everyone's life is foretold by the track of stars on their wrist. When Paisley Fitzwilliam receives her track, she discovers that she is destined to die before the end of her fourteenth turning. Then, when her mother goes missing, Paisley is the only one left...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"After Andrea's brother, Francis, disappeared, everything changed. Her world turned upside down, and there was nothing she could do to right it. So when she discovers a magical dream world called Reverie in the woods near her home, Andrea jumps at the chance to escape her pain and go inside. But the cost of admission is high: Andrea must give up a memory in order to enter. And she knows exactly which memory she'd like to give up. Once inside, Andrea...
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Series
Hangman's daughter tales volume 4
Pub. Date
2013.
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Description
In 1666, Magdalena, the hangman's daughter and her physician husband arrive at Andechs Abbey where they, along with Jakob Kuisl, the hangman of Schongau, set out to find the mysterious Brother Virgilius, a monk, watchmaker and inventor, who disappeared after creating an eerie automata.
Author
Pub. Date
c2022.
Description
"Minnesota, 1977. For the teens of one close-knit community, summer means late-night swimming parties at the quarry, the county fair, and venturing into the tunnels beneath the city. But for two best friends, it's not all fun and games. Heather and Brenda have a secret. Something they saw in the dark. Something they can't forget. They've decided to never tell a soul. But their vow is tested when their friend disappears--the second girl to vanish in...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
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Description
"Leaving fans "practically [begging] for a sequel" (Bookpage), critically acclaimed author Kristy Woodson Harvey returns with the second novel in her beloved Peachtree Bluff series, featuring a trio of sisters and their mother who discover a truth that will change not only the way they see themselves, but also how they fit together as a family. After finding out her military husband is missing in action, middle sister Sloane's world crumbles as her...
2227) Paradise City: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
When his niece mysteriously vanishes in New York City, Giancarlo Lo Manto, a Naples police inspector, arranges for a temporary assignment to the NYPD, joining forces with Manhattan veteran Jennifer Fabini to search for the missing girl.
2228) Sooner or Later
Author
Series
Pub. Date
p2010
Description
The sequel to #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber's classic Someday Soon!
When stubborn but proper Texas postmistress Letty Madden hires a rough soldier, Jack Murphy, to help her find her brother for the price of one night together, she has no idea that he will fall deeply in love with her.
2229) Critical pursuit
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Officer Brinna Caruso has built a reputation in the precinct as the cop to call when a child goes missing. For Brinna, it's personal: she was one of them. Detective Jack O'Reilly isn't ready to return to his homicide duties after losing his wife to a drunk driver. When he's assigned as her partner, Brinna isn't sure she can rely on Jack. But when a man surfaces with an MO similar to the criminal who abducted Brinna, they must combine efforts to catch...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
1st title: No one has seen Sam Goode's father, Malcolm, since he mysteriously disappeared years ago. Sam had always fantasized that he was abducted by aliens. But that was before he knew the truth: aliens do exist, and some of them seek to destroy our world. That was before he himself became another one of their captives. Now father and son are both missing. But when a rogue Mogadorian named Adam, who now has Number One's memories, decides the only...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"As a nurse ethnicist, Ladarat Patalung works to save the lives of her patients, and to make sure the ones she can't save have at least the dignity of a "good death." But when wealthy foreign travelers start to go missing all across Thailand, Detective Wiriya Mookjai fears that a killer is at large, and turns to Ladarat for help. The travelers have nothing in common, except for brief stays at a mysterious resort, known as the Magic Grove Hotel......
2232) Heartbreak Bay
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
They're hunting a killer so silent, so invisible, that his unspeakable crimes are the only proof he exists. A car submerged in a remote pond. The bodies of two girls strapped into their seats. The mystery of their mother, vanished without a trace, leads Gwen Proctor and Kezia Claremont into dangerous territory. On the surface, Gwen's life is good-two children approaching adulthood, a committed partner, and a harrowing past dead and gone. But that...
2233) No one heard her scream
Author
Series
'No one' thrillers volume 1
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
A savage menace stalks the women of San Antonio and Detective Rebecca Montgomery will do anything to find him. Her sister's body was never found and her murderer is still out there.
2234) The missing sister
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Shayna Darby is finally coming to terms with her parents’ deaths when she’s delivered another blow. The body of her estranged twin sister, Angela—the possible victim of a serial killer—has been pulled from the Seine. Putting what’s left of her life on hold, Shayna heads to Paris. But while cleaning out Angela’s apartment, Shayna makes a startling discovery: a coded message meant for her alone: Alive. Trust no one. Taking the warning...
2235) Turtle under ice
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Told in two voices, sisters Row and Ariana are frozen by grief over their mother's death, years before, until Ariana leaves for reasons Row does not understand.
2236) Cold coast
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Series
The windjammer mystery volume 03
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Detective Brie Beaumont teams with the Maine State Police to investigate a grisly murder "away" Down East near the village of Tucker Harbor, Maine. A second death, a four-year-old mystery involving a research scientist, and a mysterious unexplained phenomenon draw Brie into an ever-tightening web of intrigue and danger.
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Series
Gates of thread and stone volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
To save Reev, Kai must unravel the threads of her past and face shocking truths about her brother, her friendship with Avan, and her unique power. She will leave the only home she's ever known and risk getting caught up in a revolution centuries in the making.
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Series
Decker/Lazarus volume 19
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker reluctantly agrees to do a big favor for an old friend, Terry McLaughlin, but when she and her husband disappear, Decker's search is interrupted by the suspicious death of a young health care worker.
Author
Series
Vera Kelly stories volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"It's spring 1971 and P.I. Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave their cozy Brooklyn apartment for an emergency visit to Max's estranged family in Los Angeles. Max's parents are divorcing--her father is already engaged to a much younger woman and under the sway of an occultist charlatan; her mother has left their estate in a hurry with no indication of return. Max, who hasn't seen her family since they threw her out at the age of twenty-two, prepares...