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Coma: A Novel
by Robin CookThey called it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and a dozen others-all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures-were victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. They never woke up.Susan Wheeler is a 23-year-old third-year medical student working as a trainee at Boston Memorial Hospital. Two patients during her residency mysteriously go into comas immediately after their operations due to complications from anesthesia. Susan begins to investigate the causes behind both of these alarming comas and discovers the oxygen line in Operating Room 8 has been tampered with to induce carbon monoxide poisoning. After Susan discovers the evil nature of the Jefferson Institute--an intensive care facility where patients are suspended from ceiling by wires in rooms walled by glass and kept alive and healthy until they can be harvested for healthy organs--her life is in danger. Will she become the next victim of large-scale black market organ dealing?
Combat Machines
by Don PendletonKILLER OFFENSIVE One by one, European leaders are dying by assassination. And each of the victims opposed Russia's attempts to gain increasing power. Determined to stop this wave of terror before it hits American shores, Mack Bolan uses the killers' next attack to flush them out. But these assassins are inhumanly fast, impervious to pain and programmed with cutting-edge combat skills by a hard-line Soviet scientist. Now Bolan is being shadowed by a ruthless Russian intelligence team racing to bury him along with this rogue military project. To save a summit of world leaders, the Executioner must play two brutal factions against each other...and send the assassins' creator to meet his maker.
Combat Zone
by Vincent WildeFrom the underbelly of Boston's officially sanctioned red-light district--The Combat Zone--to a neo-Nazi compound in the secluded mountains of New Hampshire, gay cross-dressing sleuth Cody Harper hunts a murderer. Cody is a man who enjoys wielding a whip as much as slipping into a silk chemise. When unrequited love interest Stephen Cross tells Cody about the death threats he's received, Cody resorts to all the tricks in his make-up bag, including his drag persona, Desdemona, to protect his friend. A pious presidential candidate and members of an underground group called "Aryan America" stand in Cody's way in this thrill ride of suspense and mystery.
Combate: Policías Candentes - Crímenes Candentes - Romances Candentes (Patrullas de la Pasión #2)
by Emma CalinUn árbitro de boxeo muerto en Nueva York. La agente de la Interpol, Anna Leyton, conoce al campeón mundial Freddie La Salle en un taxi negro de Londres. Ambos tienen sus pasados y secretos. Se necesitan abiertamente pero ninguno puede revelar la verdad. Un reportero deportivo es asesinado. Matones del crimen organizado conspiran para arreglar apuestas internacionales. Una policía enamorada de su sospechoso número uno se acerca al fuego para expresar el calor de su amor erótico. La pasión a todo riesgo de un boxeador en su mejor momento alimenta las llamas hasta el rojo vivo de la lujuria. Siga la gran pelea que se desarrolla a través de Londres, París y California hasta la campanilla del primer asalto en Nueva York. ¿Puede Freddie La Salle hacer lo que tiene que hacer en el cuadrilátero? ¿Puede el amir verdadero basarse en un engaño? Quítese los guantes y compre este libro para obtener un boleto en la primera fila.
Combater as Mentiras: Combater as Mentiras (Sangue Glacial #2)
by Anna EdwardsA porta da jaula fecha a liberdade de Emma Bryant depois de ela ser presa por um assassinato brutal que ela não cometeu. A leoa de fala forte sabe que a pena que enfrenta é a morte. Ela pode repelir todas as mentiras para sobreviver? Scott Frazier é sempre o brincalhão. Sob a juba do leão dourado está escondido um segredo que só pode salvar a mulher que é conhecida por ser a sua futura companheira desde a primeira vez que a viu. O sangue dos reis corre através dele. Ele fará o maior sacrifício para salvar aquele que ama? Combater as mentiras é a sequência de O Toque da neve; o romance paranormal que fez com que não leitores se convertessem ao género. Ele continua a história da matilha do Sangue Glacial enquanto eles lutam para salvar um membro da posição horrível em que ela se encontra. Mas a história não é tão simples, não quando Nuka Lincoln está por perto, e uma tempestade iminente ameaça o mundo como o conhecem. O mundo do Sangue Glacial está cheio de intrigas, suspense e lutas arrasadoras. Também contém um segredo que não deve ser revelado.
Combattere le Bugie: Il Sangue Glaciale #2 (Il Sangue Glaciale #2)
by Anna EdwardsLa porta della gabbia si chiude sulla libertà di Emma Bryant dopo il suo arresto per un brutale omicidio che non ha commesso. La leonessa dalla voce dura sa che la pena che deve affrontare è la morte. Riuscirà a respingere tutte le bugie per sopravvivere? Scott Frazier è sempre il burlone. Sotto la criniera dorata del leone si nasconde un segreto che potrebbe salvare la donna che sa essere la sua futura compagna dalla prima volta che l'ha vista. Il sangue dei re scorre in lui. Compirà un estremo sacrificio per salvare la donna che ama? Combattere le Bugie è il seguito de Il Tocco della Neve; romanzo paranormale che ha fatto convertire i non lettori al genere. Continua la storia del branco del Sangue Glaciale mentre si sforzano di salvare un membro dall'orribile posizione in cui si trova. Ma la storia non è così semplice, non quando Nuka Lincoln è nei paraggi, e una tempesta imminente minaccia il mondo come lo conoscono. Il mondo del Sangue Glaciale è pieno di intrighi, suspense e combattimenti da urlo. Presenta anche un segreto che non dovrebbe essere rivelato. Una famiglia non è sempre sangue; sono le persone nella tua vita che ti accettano per quello che sei.
Combatting Fear
by Sandy Vaile“Full of heart-wrenching emotion and pulse-pounding action.” —Helene Young, Australian Romance Readers Association award winner for best romantic suspenseHow far would you go to save a child that wasn’t yours? Mild-mannered kindergarten teacher Neve Botticelli leads a double life. Thanks to a childhood tragedy and her paranoid father, she’s a trained warrior with extreme survival skills who lives off the grid. When self-made billionaire Micah Kincaid storms into town in search of his son, Rowan, he’s pushy, entitled, and stands for everything she despises. Micah can’t believe a kindergarten teacher is barring the way to him getting crucial information or even just a glimpse of the boy his cheating ex kidnapped. They share only one thing in common: either will do anything to protect the four-year-old, who they soon discover is being held for ransom by an outlaw motorcycle gang. But as they work together to get Rowan back, they start to see beyond each other’s masks. Could falling in love be even more dangerous than hunting down deadly criminals? Sensuality Level: Behind Closed Doors
Combustion
by Denise A. AgnewA little heat... Former smoke jumper Autumn MacAllister returns to Montana after tragedy almost takes her life. She doesn't expect the chubby insecure boy she once knew to have turned into a virile man with a mind-blowing smile.A little flame... Firefighter Jack Dillon never forgot his childhood crush on Autumn, or the devastating blaze that melded their lives together. Now she's back and creating havoc in his heart, and he can't ignore the banked tension between them that threatens to ignite.Combustion! Now they must combine forces when an arsonist threatens to burn their city, and an old enemy threatens to create a flashover that may consume all they hold dear.
Combustion
by Martin J. Smith"A page-turner with a kicker at the end—you can’t ask for anything better. Intricately plotted and full of character, this one is a great ride that burns with the intensity of a California wildfire."—Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestseller The dry season has hit the Inland Empire of California, depleting the ponds and revealing the muddy grave of Paul Dwyer. From his mansion on the hill, Dwyer lorded over Los Colmas, a small town that he aspired to make big by building mansions for wealthy LA commuters. Some viewed him as a savior, providing construction jobs for locals. Others believed he was ruining their beautiful, close-knit town. But who was angry enough to murder him?Local cop Ron Starke is overwhelmed by the list of suspects and plagued by a difficult captain who is demanding results. Starke investigates Paul Dwyer's dirty money and handshake deals gone wrong, but the name at the top of the suspect list is the most intriguing, and chilling.The developer wasn't the only one with secrets; his widow Shelby has kept her own for decades, none more harrowing than the horrific abuse she and her daughter endured at the hands of Dwyer. And none more volatile than what she knows but must hide about Paul's murder.As the season’s wildfires intensify to historic levels and surge towards Los Colmas, Starke must discover who killed Dwyer before all the evidence burnsand the whole town is erased. "Combustion is exactly what I love in a mystery—fast as a bullet and bristling with suspense. Part Hitchcock, part 'Law and Order,' all terrific."—T. Jefferson Parker, New York Times bestselling author of The Room of White Fire
Come A-Smokin'
by Nelson NyeEscaping from Yuma, Grete Marratt stumbled into Bella Loma where he was mistakenly identified as the scorned and long-departed LukeUsher, the man who had disappeared years before after his father was murdered.
Come A-Smokin'
by Nelson NyeGrete Marratt, a rising young rancher, sat stone-faced and tight-lipped when the judge asked him why he had cold-bloodedly shot and killed Deputy U.S. Marshal Hugh Clagg. With nothing to say in his own defense, he was declared guilty of murder and was sent to Yuma for life. Somehow Marratt managed to escape, and four days later, stumbled into the town of Bella Loma. There he was mistaken for the scorned and long-departed Luke Usher, a man who had suddenly disappeared years before after his father was mysteriously murdered. Marratt wondered what had scared Usher away from his large inheritance, but he gladly stepped into the vanished man's boots.
Come A-Smokin'
by Nelson NyeGrete Marratt, a rising young rancher, sat stone-faced and tight-lipped when the judge asked him why he had cold-bloodedly shot and killed Deputy U.S. Marshal Hugh Clagg. With nothing to say in his own defense, he was declared guilty of murder and was sent to Yuma for life. Somehow Marratt managed to escape, and four days later, stumbled into the town of Bella Loma. There he was mistaken for the scorned and long-departed Luke Usher, a man who had suddenly disappeared years before after his father was mysteriously murdered. Marratt wondered what had scared Usher away from his large inheritance, but he gladly stepped into the vanished man’s boots.
Come Away, Death
by Mollie HardwickTILL DEATH DO THEM PART . . . Doran Fairweather and her husband, ex-vicar Rodney Chelmarsh, are both secretly relieved when she decides to sublet a friend's London apartment for a while. Maybe the separation will put the spice back into their relationship. But the flat is depressing, her maid is strangely intimidating, and the flat's owner is horribly murdered beside the Thames. Then, in a pre-Tudor house with a curse upon it--owned by a wonderful man who might have stepped out of Shakespeare--Doran discovers another world. There, an unbroken connection with the past is so compelling that an oath of revenge sworn when Richard III ruled England still exerts its evil power . . . even over Doran's innocent loved ones deep in the peaceful English countryside.
Come Back Dead (The Scott Elliott Mysteries #2)
by Terence FahertyA disgraced director wants a comeback, but a rival wants him dead Carson Drury&’s first movie was a smash hit that raised his reputation from that of boy genius to greatest director of all time. His second film, The Imperial Albertsons, was even more ambitious, but aggressive editing from the suits at RKO Pictures ruined the movie, and Drury&’s career with it. Now RKO is dead—killed by the upstart medium known as television—and Drury wants to buy his movie and reedit it, his way. It&’s up to Scott Elliott to make sure Drury lives to see the final cut. A detective working for the ultraexclusive Hollywood Security Agency, Elliott spends his days and nights helping the stars keep their private lives private. There is someone out there who will kill to keep the new version of The ImperialAlbertsons from ever seeing the light of day, and Elliott will turn Hollywood upside down to find him.
Come Clean
by Bill JamesThe fifth title in the popular Harpur and Iles series.Sarah Iles' latest young lover, Ian Aston, and the seedy gangland club he frequents both possess the intense attraction of the forbidden. When one night at the Monty they witness a fatal knifing, they unwittingly learn far too much for their own good of a deadly plot that could, if successfully executed, rearrange the city's criminal power structure. Immediately, the unfaithful wife and petty criminal become targets of both police and underworld observation. In Come Clean Bill James once again explores that no-man's-land of law enforcement, where human concern and naked expediency stand perennially at odds with each other.
Come Clean (Harpur and Iles #23)
by Bill JamesThe fifth title in the popular Harpur and Iles series.Sarah Iles' latest young lover, Ian Aston, and the seedy gangland club he frequents both possess the intense attraction of the forbidden. When one night at the Monty they witness a fatal knifing, they unwittingly learn far too much for their own good of a deadly plot that could, if successfully executed, rearrange the city's criminal power structure. Immediately, the unfaithful wife and petty criminal become targets of both police and underworld observation. In Come Clean Bill James once again explores that no-man's-land of law enforcement, where human concern and naked expediency stand perennially at odds with each other.
Come Closer (Isis Hardcover Ser.)
by Sara GranFrom the author of Saturn&’s Return to New York comes this dark psychological thriller. "&‘What we think is impos-sible happens all the time.&’ So claims the beguiling narrator of Come Closer, and after reading this spare and menacing tale, the reader has to agree. Sara Gran has created a sly, satisfying (fast!) novel of one young woman possessed not only by a demon but also by her own secret desires."—Stewart O&’Nan
Come Dark (Posadas County Mystery #21)
by Steven F HavillPosadas County, New Mexico, is in the news. NightZone, a mammoth astronomy theme park, is bringing in jobs, media, and such new infrastructure as a slick narrow-gauge railway to transport tourists from the village of Posadas to the tramway running up the mesa to the project's site. And the Posadas High School girls' volleyball team is on a hot winning streak, exciting everyone. But more news, not good, breaks. Volleyball Coach Clint Scott has been found gunned-down in the girls' shower room, the victim of four bullets, one fired nearly point blank into his heart. Dead for hours, killed soon after the end of last night's game. And, last night, a homegrown Banksy had tagged both one of the railway cars and a section of NightZone's giant radio telescope dish. Then, apparently, this young artist began work on a section of wall outside the girls' locker room at the high school--a project that was clearly--dramatically--interrupted. With morning come two strange incidents. Stacie Willis Stewart, a former Posadas volleyball star, locks up her baby and Jack Russell terrier in her Volvo, walks away to local superstore The Spree--and disappears. A former teacher spots the child and dog before the heat can kill them. Deputy Tom Pasquale, in The Spree's parking lot where he's spotted a suspicious Illinois plate on a Ford Fusion, watched it all. He then leads a fruitless search for her inside the store. No luck--but he does score a man with an Elvis haircut and his wife when they return to the Ford with stories that don't add up. The lead on the murder is Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman, who's still able to call on the retired former sheriff, Bill Gastner--a good thing, for she is surprised by the arrival of her piano-prodigy son, Francisco, age 15, in a sleek Corvette driven some one thousand unchaperoned miles by an eighteen-year-old beauty, a cellist. Their goal: to join the one hundredth birthday celebration for Estelle's mother.
Come Dark: A Posadas County Mystery (Posadas County Mysteries #21)
by Steven F. HavillNext book in the Posadas County Mystery SeriesWhen a series of minor crimes culminate in murder, Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman will have to partner with a retired sheriff to get to the bottom of the casePosadas County, New Mexico, is in the news.NightZone, a mammoth astronomy theme park, is bringing in jobs, media, and much-needed new infrastructure. The property's recently been vandalized, but that's hardly a concern for the county. Plus, the Posadas High School girls' volleyball team is on a hot winning streak, exciting everyone.But more news, not good, breaks. Volleyball Coach Clint Scott has been found gunned-down by the high school, a bullet fired nearly point blank into his heart. A partially finished piece of graffiti outside the school implies that there is a witness, but law enforcement has no idea who it could be. And the next morning, a former volleyball star disappears without a trace—the two instances must be connected, but why?The lead on the murder is Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman, a "lady cop" who's earned the trust of Posadas County. Still, she calls on the retired small town sheriff, Bill Gastner to assist with the baffling investigation. They'll need to track a slippery witness and nab the killer before the town's panic spirals out of control or another person is hurt.When the murder of one of their own shakes up Posadas County, Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman takes on a series of baffling mysteries to make her town safe again.This acclaimed mystery series is:Perfect for fans of C.J. Box and Michael McGarrityFor readers who enjoy police procedurals and Southwest desert mysteries
Come Death and High Water: A George & Molly Palmer-Jones Novel (George & Molly Palmer-Jones Series)
by Ann CleevesBefore Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series following remarkable mysteries in a birdwatching community—now in print for the first time in the US.The picturesque privately owned island of Gillibry off the North Devon coast turns out to be the perfect site for a murder . . .A routine weekend visit by the Gillibry Bird Observatory Trust is made memorable by the owner’s announcement that he is going to sell the island. A sale would mean the end of the Observatory, which makes life worth living for many of the birders on the island.Then a fire in Charlie Todd’s cottage adds to their distress, followed by a fierce storm. The next morning, the birders find Charlie dead in a bird hide. Suddenly their pleasant September weekend assumes a dangerous new face.Charlie Todd’s murder could have been the deed of any member of the Trust. And it falls to one of their own, George Palmer-Jones, to unravel the identity of a killer within their midst.
Come Destroy Me
by Vin PackerHe was sixteen the summer he killed the girl - a brown-haired boy painfully aware of beauty and in search of it.The trouble was, he had a kind of adoration for Jill Latham’s cool beauty and her mysticism. So when she revealed to him her secret and terrible life, it shattered him.It was as if by killing her, he restored his shattered goddess to himself.
Come Die with Me: A Brock Callahan Mystery (The Brock Callahan Mysteries #4)
by William Campbell GaultBrock gets caught in a dangerous triangle between a jockey, a mobster, and L.A.&’s finest blonde Gloria Malone is a big woman with a little husband, and a problem only Brock Callahan can solve. Her jockey beau, Tip, has fallen in with a half-reformed gangster, and Gloria fears trouble for the pint-sized horseman. But as Brock quickly finds, L.A.&’s criminals have more to fear from Tip than he does from them. The short man has a long mean streak, a girl on the side, and a couple of illegitimate children to boot. Even his horses don&’t like him. Brock isn&’t surprised when someone decides to end the little gremlin&’s racing career once and for all—with a carving knife. The world of horse racing is buried under a layer of grime that&’s thicker than the Santa Anita racetrack&’s mud after a thunderstorm. To penetrate it, Brock will have to take the whip into his own hand and do whatever it takes to stay on the horse. Come Die With Me is the 4th book in the Brock Callahan Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Come Easy - Go Easy
by James Hadley ChaseWhen Chet Carson broke jail he thought he'd found a safe hideout in a lonely filling station. But instead he finds himself caught up in a dangerous threesome - an elderly owner, his gorgeous wife, Lola, and a safe with a fortune inside, which Lola wants. Her chance comes when she uncovers Chet's identity and threatens him with jail unless he opens the safe.Chet is in dead trouble. If he lands in prison again he'll be crucified, but if he opens the safe Lola will pin the rap on him anyway. Somehow there has to be a third way ...
Come Easy - Go Easy (Murder Room #113)
by James Hadley ChaseWhen Chet Carson broke jail he thought he'd found a safe hideout in a lonely filling station. But instead he finds himself caught up in a dangerous threesome - an elderly owner, his gorgeous wife, Lola, and a safe with a fortune inside, which Lola wants. Her chance comes when she uncovers Chet's identity and threatens him with jail unless he opens the safe.Chet is in dead trouble. If he lands in prison again he'll be crucified, but if he opens the safe Lola will pin the rap on him anyway. Somehow there has to be a third way ...
Come Find Me
by Megan MirandaFrom the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls and The Perfect Stranger comes a captivating thriller about two teens who connect when each discovers a mysterious radio frequency, which suggests their family tragedies are mysteriously connected.After surviving an infamous family tragedy, sixteen-year-old Kennedy Jones has made it her mission to keep her brother's search through the cosmos alive. But then something disturbs the frequency on his radio telescope--a pattern registering where no signal should transmit. In a neighboring county, seventeen-year-old Nolan Chandler is determined to find out what really happened to his brother, who disappeared the day after Nolan had an eerie premonition. There hasn't been a single lead for two years, until Nolan picks up an odd signal--a pattern coming from his brother's bedroom.Drawn together by these strange signals--and their family tragedies--Kennedy and Nolan search for the origin of the mysterious frequency. But the more they uncover, the more they believe that everything's connected--even their pasts--as it appears the signal is meant for them alone, sharing a message that only they can understand. Is something coming for them? Or is the frequency warning them about something that's already here?