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Poisoned Pawn
by David Siegel BernsteinCaleb Jacobs is a man with a past. After serving on a failed dark ops assignment in Afghanistan, he leaves Marine Corps Intelligence to try to build a new life in Philadelphia as a homicide police detective.Jacobs is happy, for a time, until he is assigned to solve the murder of Shannon Faraday. During the investigation, he is convinced the evidence points to him as the killer. He knows it is only a matter of time before other investigators see the same. He has no alibi and the clock is counting down.Behind his partner’s back, Jacobs hires a private investigator named Lawrence Holmes. The PI is an irritation to the police, but he is unmistakably brilliant. And, many powerful people in the city owe him favors. Holmes is a bit odd. He insists on calling Jacobs Watson but claims to never have heard the name Sherlock. Jacobs can live with this kind of crazy as long as together they find the real killer.They quickly link the murder to a series of seemingly unrelated crimes occurring throughout Philadelphia, and Jacobs becomes convinced the murder is related to the truth of what had happened during his time in Afghanistan. Old secrets have come back to haunt him.
Poisoned Petals (Penny Lee Garden Mystery #3)
by Joyce Jim LavenePeggy Lee is just about to deliver some endangered sunflowers to Darmus Appleby when a gas explosion blows out his door-and Peggy finds her fellow botanist dead on the kitchen floor. <P><P> Two weeks later his brother dies, with an overpoweringly sweet purple hyacinth tucked in his pocket. Now Peggy must follow her nose-and some cryptic clues from an internet informant-to root out a killer before he strikes again.
Poisoned Prose
by Ellery AdamsWhen Olivia Limoges and other Oyster Bay patrons of the arts sponsor a retreat for famous storytellers, one of them is going to have a very unhappy ending... Olivia thought gathering some of the most renowned storytellers in one place would be a nice, simple way for herself and the Bayside Book Writers to appreciate their talents. But things take a dark turn when the most famous storyteller in the nation--the captivating performer Violetta Devereaux--announces onstage that she will meet her end in Oyster Bay. When Violetta is discovered murdered after the show, everyone involved with the retreat becomes a suspect. There are rumors that Violetta, who grew up in extreme poverty in the Appalachian Mountains, possessed an invaluable treasure. Now Chief Rawlings and the Bayside Book Writers must work at a frenzied pace to solve the crime before someone closes the book on them.
Poisoned Sky (The David Morton Novels)
by Gordon ThomasThe New York Times–bestselling author brings back intelligence agent David Morton who must stop the deployment of a diabolical new weapon. After witnessing extensive air pollution in major US cities, a rogue Russian scientist knows there must be a way to exploit that weakness—and he&’s come up with a bomb that does just that. But as the American president unveils a new initiative to radically change global environmental policies, he has his own deadly weapon at his side: intelligence operative David Morton . . . &“Morton is smarter than Bond.&” —Daily Mail
Poisoned Tarts (A\savannah Reid Mystery Ser. #13)
by G. A. McKevettWhat happens when too rich and too thin becomes too deadly? Voluptuous P. I. Savannah Reid is about to find out as she delves into the disappearance of a celebrity hanger-on that soon leads to something more sinister. As Halloween draws near, Savannah will have to learn a killers deadly "tricks" before someone else is "treated" to murder. . . Halloween in Southern California just doesnt have the frosty bite Savannahs used to, although her latest job promises chills aplenty. The Skeleton Key Three, a celebutante clique so named by the media because of their super-skinny figures and fat trust funds, are in the spotlight again--but this time, its for something more than partying. It seems the one member of the Three who was neither wealthy nor particularly svelte hasnt been heard from in days. The missing girls name is Daisy ONeil, and by all accounts, she had little in common with her so-called friends Tiffy, Kiki, and Bunny. Chubby, smart, and less-than-privileged, Daisys role in the Three seems to have been primarily to be the victim of their vicious jibes and pranks. When Savannah learns that Tiffys acting aspirations were threatened by Daisys genuine talent, the poor little rich girl begins to look big-time guilty. But just when Savannah thinks she has it all figured out--except where the body is stashed--the vibe surrounding the Skeleton Key Three changes from vacuous and suspicious to downright murderous. As preparations are being made for a monster Halloween party, to be held on the Dante compound, the patriarch himself is spotted dressed as Dracula, laid out in his coffin, complete with a real stake through his no-longer-beating heart. Now, with the party seriously pooped and the tabloids on a tear, Savannah will have to put her Halloween candy on the shelf until shes deserving of a reward. And that means finding a killer--fast--before more Hollywood money becomes buried treasure. . . G. A. McKevett is the pseudonym of a well-known author, Sonja Massie. She is currently working on the next Savannah Reid mystery.
Poisoned Water (Chenoa Cane #1)
by RaeLynn BlueAbout thirty miles east of the Arizona border, just off Interstate 40, is a heart that beats in time to the ghosts of the west, of the lost, and of the betrayed. A heart that delivers an original, quirky beat all its own. That heart is Nizhoni, New Mexico; a small, dusty town lodged like a spent bullet in the heart of Indian Country. It is a town I know well, for I grew up here, in Nizhoni and it is the place I call home. Fabled for its wide, dry, open spaces, the Southwest truly lives in Nizhoni. Mud-splattered trucks, bull riders and sexy cowboys with their wide-brimmed hats reside among polished local politicians, well-groomed teachers and spotless, luxury SUVs. Here, the ancestors of lore watch over us from the pale, purple plateaus, red mesas, and brown canyons. These ancestors do not always keep us safe.
Poisoned by Gilt
by Leslie CaineGreen with envy To the newly formed design team of Steve Sullivan and Erin Gilbert, it seemed like a great idea: a competition to design and build the most earth-friendly home in Crestview, Colorado. But who would have dreamed that someone’s idea of saving the planet might include murder? Environmental guru Richard Thayers was Steve Sullivan’s architectural mentor and the judge of the contest. Now he is dead—poisoned by some supposedly nontoxic gold paint. Sullivan is certain that Richard’s demise was no accident, but Gilbert’s not so sure. One thing’s clear, though: the mysterious death is quickly poisoning their burgeoning romantic relationship. Suddenly, when another figure in the contest is killed and Sullivan becomes distracted by an attractive divorcee, Erin goes on a mission: not only to find the killer, but to expose the true Steve Sullivan—and the designs he’s hiding in his heart…. From the Paperback edition.
Poisoned by Gilt (A Domestic Bliss Mystery #6)
by Leslie CaineAbout that Green-Eyed MonsterIt seemed like a perfect idea to promote their new business: Erin Gilbert and Steve Sullivan would hold a competition to award the builder and designer of the most earth-friendly home in Crestview, Colorado.But since when did saving the planet lead instead to extinction?!?Environmental guru, Richard Thayers was Sullivan's architectural mentor and the judge of the contest. But now he is dead--poisoned by some supposedly nontoxic gold paint--and Sullivan is convinced that Richard's death is no accident. Erin, normally the suspicious half of the duo, is not so sure.The one thing they both agree on? This mysterious death is murder on their budding romance...When another figure in the contest is killed, and Sullivan becomes distracted by an oversexed divorcee, Erin designs her own plan: not only to find the killer, but to uncover the true Steve Sullivan--and the schemes he's hiding in his heart...
Poisons Unknown
by Frank KaneThe womans body undulated. Her motions became frantic. Wildly, she tore off her clothes . . . The others followed. Nude, danced to the frenzied drum . . . This was New Orleans. Johnny Liddell was no tourist. He had come here to investigate a disappearance. The beating he got by a goon squad, the double-cross from a gorgeous blonde, and the session as target for someones shooting practice-werent exactly like being handed the keys to the city. But before he was through, Johnnys tour of the town led him through a ring of blackmail, murder, and the forced prostitution of some of the most beautiful society women in the city.
Poisons Unknown
by Frank KaneThe woman's body undulated. Her motions became frantic. Wildly, she tore off her clothes ... The others followed. Nude, danced to the frenzied drum ...This was New Orleans.Johnny Liddell was no tourist.He had come here to investigate a disappearance. The beating he got by a goon squad, the double-cross from a gorgeous blonde, and the session as target for someone's shooting practice--weren't exactly like being handed the keys to the city. But before he was through, Johnny's tour of the town led him through a ring of blackmail, murder, and the forced prostitution of some of the most beautiful society women in the city.
Poisons Unknown
by Frank KaneThe woman’s body undulated. Her motions became frantic. Wildly, she tore off her clothes … The others followed. Nude, danced to the frenzied drum …This was New Orleans.Johnny Liddell was no tourist.He had come here to investigate a disappearance. The beating he got by a goon squad, the double-cross from a gorgeous blonde, and the session as target for someone’s shooting practice—weren’t exactly like being handed the keys to the city. But before he was through, Johnny’s tour of the town led him through a ring of blackmail, murder, and the forced prostitution of some of the most beautiful society women in the city.
Poisonville
by Massimo Carlotto Marco Videtta“[An] outstanding fable of greed, corruption and moral abandonment. Filled with echoes of Dante’s Inferno.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)Poisonville is noir par excellence—there’s murder, moral ambiguity, and a less than heroic main character. In this bestselling novel, however, the real killer is not an individual but an entire system.The heavily industrialized northeast, Italy’s richest region, is undergoing dramatic change. It once drove the nation’s economic boom—a regional superpower, affluent and arrogant, a land that abided only its own rules. But then the factory owners began moving their operations across the border to former Soviet countries where labor was cheap and regulatory bodies all but absent. With the factories closed and the jobs gone, new elements insinuated themselves into the old system, and the Brahmin families of the northeast began employing increasingly violent methods to protect their wealth. Once renowned for its economic might, the region is now known for trafficking every imaginable commodity, media personalities and politicians on the payrolls of oligarchs and mobsters, and its ongoing environmental catastrophe.Welcome to Poisonville! Here, the young lawyer Francesco, heir to the region’s second richest family, will have to decide between business as usual or a violent rupture with the ways of the past. The wrong choice could cost him his life.“Corruption, Cynicism. Illegality. Collusion. The world of business described by Massimo Carlotto in Poisonville is frightening as hell.” —La Repubblica“A black fable that exposes that dark side of the wealth that has been generated over the last few decades.” —Il Mattino
Poker Face (Stud Games #1)
by Cindy DeesA Stud Games NovelSurveillance, seduction, and extra-dirty politics. Christian Chatsworth-Brandeis has a problem. A huge one. The US senator he works for has run away with his latest mistress on the eve of a make-or-break fundraising event, and it’s up to him to cover his irresponsible boss’s tracks. Stone Jackson, Senator Lacey’s new bodyguard, looks enough like him that, with some extensive grooming, he might pass for the senator. Christian and Stone hatch a plan to substitute Stone for the senator, but Miami madness and the incendiary heat between them are throwing obstacles in their way. It’s a race to find the senator and pull off the con of the century before the attraction between them spins completely out of control. Previously published by Dreamspinner Press as Ace in the Hole by Ava Drake, July 2016.
Poker menteur (Dreamspun Desires (Français) #22)
by Ava Drake Zoé CallaghanTentation, danger et poker menteur. L’amour est un jeu à haut risque. Quand Collin Callahan, agent secret britannique, se retrouve en face du génie des mathématiques, reconverti en surfeur sans domicile fixe, Oliver Elliot, le combat est épique, tout comme leur attirance mutuelle. Ils sont opposés l’un à l’autre dans un match de poker exclusif, ultra secret et ultra illégal à Gibraltar, mais quand les joueurs commencent à mourir, et qu’ils pourraient être les suivants, ils se trouvent un but commun : attraper le tueur avant qu’il ne soit trop tard. Parfaitement équilibrés en poker et en romance, ils luttent tous deux contre des démons personnels qui les consument pendant que les enjeux grimpent. C’est un pari à tout ou rien, qui met en balance leurs vies et l’amour, alors qu’ils se battent pour être le dernier joueur de Seven-card stud debout.
Polar Quest
by Alex ArcherWhen archaeologist Annja Creed reluctantly agrees to help an old colleague on a dig in Antarctica, she wonders what he's gotten her into. It turns out that her former associate has found a necklace made of an unknown metal depicting three snakes. He claims it's over forty thousand years old--and that it may not have earthly origins. As the pair conduct their research, Annja soon realizes she has more to worry about than being caught in snowslides. Because everyone is hiding something--from her friend, to the U. S. military personnel guarding the site. With no one to trust and someone out to kill her, Annja has nowhere to turn. And everything to lose.
Polar Shift (NUMA files #6)
by Clive Cussler Paul KemprecosPolar shift: It is the name for a phenomenon that may have occurred many times in the past. At the very least, it disorients birds and animals and damages electrical equipment. At its worst, it causes massive eruptions, earthquakes, and climatic changes. At its very worst, it would mean the obliteration of all living matter, and if that happens-exit Earth. <P> Sixty years ago, an eccentric Hungarian genius discovered how to artificially trigger such a shift, but then his work was lost, or so it was thought. Now, the charismatic leader of an anti-globalization group plans to use the work to give the world's industrialized nations a small jolt, then reverse the shift back again. The only problem is, it cannot be reversed. Once the shift starts, there is nothing anyone can do about it. <P> Austin, Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA Special Assignments Team certainly have faced dire situations before, but never have they encountered anything like this. This time... even they may be too late.
Polar Star: A Novel (Arkady Renko #2)
by Martin Cruz SmithArkady Renko has made too many enemies and now he toils in obscurity on a Russian factory ship in the middle of the Bering Sea. But when a female crew member is picked up dead with the day's catch, Arkady becomes obsessed with the case and once again discovers more than he wants to know and certainly more than he bargained for....From the Paperback edition.
Polar Star: A Novel (The\arkady Renko Ser. #2)
by Martin Cruz SmithArkady Renko, former Chief Investigator of the Moscow Town Prosecutor's Office, made too many enemies and lost the favour of his party. After a self-imposed exile in Siberia, Renko toils on the 'slime line' of a factory ship in the Bering Sea. But when an adventurous Georgian woman comes up with the day's catch, the signs of murder are undeniable. Up against the Soviet bureaucracy in a complex international web, Renko must again become the obsessed, dedicated cop he once was. And in doing so, he discovers much more than he bargained for...
Polar Storm
by Deborah D. MooreA nonstop blizzard puts one man in a desperate fight for survival in this action-packed prepper thriller from the author of The Journal series. A major snow storm covering most of the northern states isn’t that unusual. One that stays for months on end is very unusual—and it’s a killer.Parker is an easygoing young man who has had every advantage in life, including wealthy parents who have given him everything he’s ever wanted. But after agreeing to live in the woods of northern Michigan for a year, he soon finds that kind of spoiled life has not prepared him for life off-grid—in the woods—in the ruthless wintertime.But with the help of the teenaged boy next door, he begins to learn how to survive in the woods, and just in time. A winter storm of unprecedented magnitude is bearing down on them, and it will take everything they have to make it out alive.
Polar Volume 1: Came from the Cold (Second Edition)
by Victor SantosThe basis of a Netflix Original Movie!Ripped out of retirement by an assassination attempt, the world's most deadly spy--the former agent known as Black Kaiser--is a wanted man that's wanted . . . dead! On a collision course with his former employer, the Damocles Agency, Black Kaiser goes head to head with a stab-happy, psychotic torture expert and a seductive but deadly redhead. His mission only ends if he dies or kills everyone out to get him, and he's not in the habit of dying.A guns-blazing espionage action-adventure in the grand tradition of Jim Steranko and Frank Miller, this graphic novel by Victor Santos (Mice Templar, Filthy Rich) is a brutal, fast-tempo story of revenge that Newsarama says is "as ice-cold as its name." Originally a silent webcomic, but Santos has crafted a script as hard boiled and intriguing as his art for this hardcover collection.
Polar Volume 2 Eye for an Eye (Polar #2)
by Victor SantosLeft adrift in arctic waters with a gunshot wound to the head, adrift in arctic waters, Christy White was rescued from an icy death by a mysterious man. She craved retribution, and he taught her how to get it--how to make sense of her past and how to kill. They tried to freeze her out, but they should have finished the job, because now she's back with a vengeance!Collecting the second year of the bloody and beautiful silent webcomic by Victor Santos (The Mice Templar, Furious), this rage-fueled revenge story features new noir dialogue crafted by Santos for this edition.
Polar Volume 3 (Polar #3)
by VariousA mob boss discovers his young wife, Maria—seeking an escape from a life of organized crime—has been hiding in a nunnery in rural Europe. Sullivan, a mobster who&’s been tasked with bringing the woman back home, is actually an undercover FBI agent seeking Maria as a star witness in his case against the don. But when Maria&’s whereabouts leak and mobsters, mercenaries, and hit men converge on the convent in the hopes of collecting a reward for Maria, they turn holy ground into a battleground.* Victor Santos (Black Market, Sleepy Hollow) closes out his silent web comic trilogy Polar with this third action-packed season.
Polar Volume 4: The Kaiser Falls
by Victor SantosThis is the final installment in the Polar quadrilogy. Victor Santos (Mice Templar, Filthy Rich) delivers an epic finale to his espionage action adventure! Part one is now a major motion picture!An indomitable, yet aging spy assimilates to retirement in Miami, until a rookie assassin locates him and challenges him to his crown.Living a simple life down in the Miami sunshine gets complicated when Black Kaiser's housemaid has some problems involving a local gang. However, resurfacing to maintain the peace, puts him right in the new adversary's crosshairs. Buckle up because Black Kaiser's last ride is going to get rough!
Polar Vortex
by Tom HarperAn ebook short story set in the coldest place on earth, perfect for fans of Dan Brown, Dan Simmons and Alistair MacLean.Utgard: a tiny island at the frozen edge of the world. Home to scientists, oil men, and the occasional polar bear. For Andy MacDonald it's the most awe-inspiring place on earth: isolated, beautiful and pristine. Mac has always respected the Arctic. He's always understood how dangerous it is.Until the day that a beautiful woman emerges from a whiteout, claiming to be nothing more than a lost environmental activist. Before long Mac is caught up in a dangerous game of cat and mouse. And he's about to find out exactly how deadly the Arctic can be.'Polar Vortex' takes place six months before ZODIAC STATION, the novel Chris Ewan calls 'thrilling and immersive'.
Polar Vortex
by Tom HarperA free ebook short story to celebrate the release of ZODIAC STATION on 19 June 2014, perfect for fans of Dan Brown, Dan Simmons and Alistair MacLean. Utgard: a tiny island at the frozen edge of the world. Home to scientists, oil men, and the occasional polar bear. For Andy MacDonald it's the most awe-inspiring place on earth: isolated, beautiful and pristine. Mac has always respected the Arctic. He's always understood how dangerousit is. Until the day that a beautiful woman emerges from a whiteout, claiming to be nothing more than a lost environmental activist. Before long Mac is caught up in a dangerous game of cat and mouse. And he's about to find out exactly how deadly the Arctic can be.