Peter Abrahams
2) Nerve damage
Author
Language
English
Description
Renowned sculptor Roy Valois receives the worst news since learning of his adored wife Delia's death in South America fifteen years ago. His doctor tells him he's dying-and a morbid curiosity about how he'll be remembered inspires Roy, with the help of a local computer geek, to hack into a newspaper's system to read his prewritten obituary. But the death notice includes a small discrepancy about his late wife-and by calling the mistake to the attention...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
After a knee injury destroys sixteen-year-old Cody's college hopes, he drops out of high school and gets a job in his small Montana town, but when his ex-girlfriend disappears from her Vermont boarding school, Cody travels cross-country to join the search.
Author
Publisher
M. Evans
Pub. Date
©1982
Language
English
Description
A chilling and explosive tale of revenge set in the Middle East from acclaimed suspense novelist Peter Abrahams, aka Spencer Quinn, author of the Chet and Bernie Mysteries After his unit is decimated in the Israeli war, Lieutenant Isaac Rehv returns to Haifa to find his family savagely murdered. Torn apart with grief and rage, he vows that his enemies-and the enemies of Israel-will pay. Months later, Rehv, who is a former literary scholar and professor...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
A brush with the supernatural?
A rock concert?
A reunion?
A poolside revelation?
The need to know what's up?
The confessions of a friend?
The dream of escape?
A sick pet?
An English assignment?
The rear-window view of a murder next door?
The search for the mother you never met?
What keeps you up all night?8) Delusion
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A woman's world is turned upside down when new evidence frees a man she put in prison with her testimony years ago.--From publisher description.
9) Oblivion
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Nick Petrov was a world-famous private investigator -- until a brain trauma destroyed part of his memory and changed who he is forever.
Now a killer is on the loose, looming up from a past that Nick can no longer remember.
10) End of story
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Aspiring author Ivy Seidel accepts a part-time position teaching writing to a group of convicted criminals hoping the experience will add depth and darkness to her own work. But in the haunting writings of charismatic inmate Vance Harrow she discovers a talent possibly greater than her own. And in the startling, disturbing stories Harrow has to tell, Ivy finds a dangerous new purpose-and a terrifying temptation that lures her into an inescapable world...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Description
A woman must untangle a dark enigma that dates back to World War II in order to find her kidnapped son in this riveting international thriller from Peter Abrahams, aka Spencer Quinn, author of the Chet and Bernie Mysteries Rachel Monette arrives home to a scene of unspeakable violence: Her French-born husband, Dan, is dead-the victim of a savage stabbing-and her five-year-old son is missing. A neighbor claims she saw a rabbi taking Adam away. But...
12) Pressure drop
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Nina Kitchener's desire to have a family becomes a nightmare when the child she has had by artificial insemination is kidnapped, and she must find the sperm donor, who she is convinced has stolen her baby.
13) Hard rain
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Jessie Shapiro is annoyed when her daughter, Kate, is late returning from a weekend with her ex-husband, but when it becomes clear that both of them have disappeared without a trace, annoyance gives way to pure terror. The police think it's merely one more battle in the never-ending custody war. Jessie doesn't believe them, and sets out alone on a desperate search for Kate, leaving a world of normalcy and security behind her.
15) Bullet point
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
The only thing seventeen-year-old Wyatt knew about his biological father was that he was serving a life sentence, but circumstances and a new girlfriend bring them together and soon Wyatt is working to prove his father's innocence.
16) A perfect crime
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Series
Language
English
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Description
A cuckolded husband in Boston plots revenge with a complex murder which will be blamed on someone else, but his scheme backfires. By the author of The Fan.
17) Crying wolf
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a new thriller set against the backdrop of an elite New England college campus, a seemingly inconsequential deception to preserve the future of a poor but promising young man has unexpectedly deadly consequences for his friends when they come up with an ingenious scheme involving an arrogant billionaire.
19) Quacky baseball
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
With the game on the line on opening day, nervous rookie Thumby Duckling steps up to the plate.