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Water Lily
by Susanna Jones* The Earthquake Bird (Mysterious Press, 9/01), Susanna Jones' debut, won the 2001 John Creasey Award, bestowed by the Crime Writers' Association in England, for Best First Novel. Foreign rights were sold in Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, and Norway. It will be published in trade paperback from Mysterious Press in 3/03.* Susanna Jones writes chilling, psychological suspense that will appeal to the same audience that made Nicci French's Killing Me Softly (Warner, 7/99) a bestseller.* Susanna Jones studies Japanese Noh theatre as part of her drama degree from London University. She lived and worked in Japan before getting her M.A. in writing from Manchester University.
Water Mark (Micky Knight Mystery #6)
by J. M. RedmannIt's just one more body in one more destroyed house. In New Orleans, a few months after Katrina, there are thousands of destroyed houses and hundreds of bodies yet to be found. Can one more matter? It does to Micky Knight as she takes on the quixotic search to find out who the woman was and why she might have died there. But is Micky searching for justice or just doing anything to avoid confronting the ways Katrina destroyed everything that had tied her to New Orleans? In a city that doesn't even have working stoplights, there seems little need for a private investigator. Her friends are all struggling with their own disrupted lives, lost jobs, destroyed homes. And the woman Micky thought she'd be with forever, Cordelia James, hasn't returned. Micky's investigation leads to a tangle of greed and deceit that stretches back generations. Someone is using the destruction wrought by the flooding to finish what was started a hundred years ago. To stop them Micky will have to risk not just life and limb, but any chance to reconnect with Cordelia and rebuild the life she had before Katrina. But if she doesn't stop them, a young Midwestern teenager whose only crime was wanting to help the destroyed city, will be the next body left in an abandoned house. The sixth Micky Knight mystery.
Water Music
by Margie OrfordThere's nowhere to run ...When a little girl is found on an icy hillside, on the brink of starvation, Clare Hart is baffled that nobody has reported her missing.In another troubling turn of events, a distraught woman approaches Clare for help locating her granddaughter, a gifted cellist who has abandoned her music scholarship and been seduced by a cultish religious community and its charismatic leader.As Clare investigates these two cases, she realizes they are connected in ways too horrifying to fathom ...Water Music is a dark and twisting thriller perfect for fans of Deon Meyer and Tess Gerritsen.
Water Signs (Jeri Howard #17)
by Janet DawsonOakland is a city shaped by water. The waterfront, home to the ship and rail yards, is also ripe for development. There’s lots of money to be made, so greed and crime inevitably follow. PI Jeri Howard looks into the murder of a former coworker who was a security guard at a construction site on the Embarcadero. It was a surprise when Cal Bradys body washed up on the Estuary shoreline. But Jeri is certain Cal’s death was no accident, and she’s determined to find out who killed him, and why.
Water and Fire (Elemental Harmony #2)
by Rowan McallisterElemental Harmony: Book TwoAiden Flanagan has spent his entire life fighting who and what he is. After losing control of the power within him one time too many, Aiden flees to his parents' vacation home on Nantucket to lock himself away as punishment and to protect the people he cares about. Getting nowhere on his own, Aiden fears he'll never have enough control to join the world again--and perhaps he doesn't deserve to--until an act of kindness brings Murphy Mizuuchi into his life. Though still grieving the loss of his partner, Murphy's own gifts won't allow him to ignore the strongest projector he's ever encountered or deny the beautiful soul behind Aiden's drama. Drawing on his own recovery, his empathy, and years of practicing meditation, he shows Aiden not only how to find a safe outlet for who he is, but to value his abilities. But Murphy isn't the only one drawn to Aiden's fire. Someone from his past followed Aiden to the island, and it will take both Murphy's and Aidan's powers to protect him from a man who won't stop until he takes all Aiden has.
Water in Her Veins
by Shannon SchurenA girl unravels a townwide conspiracy when she moves to her late father&’s family estate in this dark small-town fireside mystery.Sixteen-year-old Lola Boyd suffers from a mysterious disease. Her doctors have no explanation for the chronic lethargy, migraines, and lightheadedness that plague her. But when Lola and her mom and stepdad move to Claret Creek, a small rural Colorado town, to live in her late father&’s family home, it&’s a chance at a new start. Until her condition becomes even more complicated.Lola begins having memories that aren&’t her own—visions from another time that suggest a conspiracy of lies stretching back over one hundred years. The more Lola researches the town&’s history, the local creek known for its ancient healing powers, and its revered Dr. Clarett, the more her suspicions begin to rise. Could these visions have something to do with her illness? And why does it seem that her new friends—and the entire town—are so keen to keep her from digging into their past and questioning their superstitions about the infamous Claret creek?The more Lola discovers, the more she doubts who can be trusted—including her own mother. Now it&’s up to Lola to untangle the web and get to the bottom of a multigenerational mystery. For her family, for the town, and for her future.
Water on the Moon: A Novel
by Jean P. MooreAfter her Greenwich, Connecticut farmhouse is destroyed, Lidia Raven is shaken, but also thankful that her teenage twins, Carly and Clarisse, are unharmed and that her friend Polly has been kind enough to take them in. Lidia’s already experienced a string of bad luck: her husband left her and the girls for another man, she lost her job in the financial crisis, and now she’s lost her home. She fears more bad news is on its way—and when she discovers a connection between her and Tina Calderara, the pilot who crashed into her home, she’s proven right. In the midst of her troubles, however, she meets Harry Caligan, the FBI Special Agent assigned to her case . . . and with his help, she plunges into the mystery linking her and her family to Calderara.
Water-Ski Wipeout
by Franklin W. Dixon Matt DavidDetective brothers Frank and Joe try to figure out who's spoiling the fun on a class trip in the third book in an all-new, interactive Hardy Boys chapter book mystery series.Frank and Joe Hardy are super-psyched for their school trip to Lake Poketoe. Along with their friends, they can't wait to go tubing, make s'mores, and take nature walks. And Joe is particularly excited to try out his brand-new water skis during the trip! But when the group tries to head out for their first day of boating, Joe discovers his skis are missing! Who could have taken them? And how could they have disappeared without anyone noticing? With time running out on their trip, can Frank and Joe figure out who the sneaky ski thief could be?
Water: A thriller featuring a frighteningly intelligent serial killer. Nothing like it so far.
by Claudio HernándezSynopsis "WATER": He was called "Coñingan" for his peculiar way of solving serial killer cases. Detective Sean Rickman had no powers or a gift with which to see the killer's face, but he had a good intuition and an intelligence far superior to others. However, in the fall of 2020, in the midst of a pandemic and great storms, there was a killer ahead of him. So much so, that the detective was unable to pursue any theory or hypothesis as bodies appeared drowned in streams, near the lush Maine woods. A killer, with a mental power and a dark way of thinking that no one had ever shown before, knew Rickman's every step, ahead of the detective who never caught a cold. Who was capable of killing young women without leaving any trace, despite his rampage against them? What mental power did the killer have that surpassed all human intelligence? Serial killers are always more intelligent than we all think. The killer had been nicknamed "WATER".
Waterfront
by Ferguson FindleyA young cop descends into New York City&’s underworld to chase down a killer in this 1951 hard-boiled detective novel, by the author of Counterfeit Corpse. Rookie detective Johnny Malone is on his way to pick up his engagement ring in midtown Manhattan when a man is shot dead on the sidewalk. He tries to handle the situation by the book, but one mistake quickly lets a killer run free and threatens Malone&’s career. As a ruse, the police commissioner announces the detective&’s suspension. But Malone&’s now the only man on the force who can identify the city&’s biggest criminal. Blackie Clegg runs the crime syndicate currently controlling New York&’s harbors. Now, he&’s also wanted for murder. Malone&’s mission is to bring him in—in cuffs or a body bag. Of course, there&’s a good chance Clegg remembers Malone&’s face, too, and Clegg doesn&’t like to leave witnesses . . . The inspiration for the film noir classic, The Mob, starring Broderick Crawford and Ernest Borgnine.</
Waterloo Sunset (Harry Devlin Series #8)
by Martin EdwardsMarry new technology to old-fashioned policing and you've got something special.The car is found just outside Picketsville, Virginia, a smoking ruin of twisted metal and shattered glass. It takes only a glance to confirm that this is Ike Schwartz's car. Ever since he left the CIA, the incorruptible Picketsville sheriff has made enemies at home and abroad. Now, one has caught up with him, with a bomb powerful enough to turn quiet Main Street into a smoking crater. Is this a cop killing—or domestic terrorism?The town plunges into mourning, and Ike's wife Ruth, the president of the local college, puts on a brave face as the sheriff's department organizes a manhunt, the likes of which Picketsville has never seen. Back at the CIA, Ike's old colleague Charlie Garland joins the hunt, becoming fixated on a blurry videotape of the crime scene. Charlie's elastic job description includes monitoring Ike's life.Investigations—led by more than one player—fan around and out of Picketsville as far as a small town in Idaho where Martin Pangborn, head of the radical militia called the Fifty-First Star, runs his organization. If some banks and businesses are too big to fail, are some people too deeply connected or too wealthy to bring to justice? Is Martin Pangborn such a person? The Fifty-First Star's tentacles run long and deep. But the Vulture is something no one, not even Martin Pangborn, is prepared for."Surefooted prose speeds this well-told tale of greed and betrayal among the nation's covert elite." —Publishers Weekly on the 9th Ike Schwartz mystery, Drowning Barbie.
Waterman's Boy, 1st Edition
by Susan SharpeTwo boys from a small town on the Chesapeake Bay help a scientist interested in cleaning up the water for the benefit of animals, plants, and people, while risking parental disapproval of people with too much education and of outsiders' interference in their means of earning a living.Two boys from a small Chesapeake Bay town help a scientist interested in cleaning up the water to benefit animals, plants, and people, while risking disapproval of the local residents toward people with too much education and who interfere in their meansof earning a living.
Watermark: A Novel
by Elise SchillerThe oldest child in a troubled Philadelphia family, Angel Ferente struggles to care for her three sisters while pursuing her goal of attending college on a swimming scholarship. She has a problematic relationship with her mother, Pic, who uses alcohol and drugs to self-medicate and at one point lost custody for a year, and an outright hostile relationship with her stepfather, the only father figure in her life. Angel is the center of stability in the household—making sure the younger girls get to school, ensuring that holidays are observed, doing the family’s laundry at her part-time job at a Laundromat, and even taking care of Pic when she is sick or depressed. It’s 1993, the midst of the crack epidemic, and Angel and her sisters are witness to the everyday events of life in a community beset by poverty and drugs: dealers on the corner, shoot-outs that kill bystanders, prostitutes on the job, and more. Then Angel goes to a team party on New Year’s Eve—and doesn’t come home afterward. In the wake of her disappearance, her teammates, her coach’s church, and her family search the city for her. The result changes their lives forever.
Watery Grave (Sir John Fielding Mystery #3)
by Bruce AlexanderBlind Justice, the first novel featuring legendary eighteenth-century London judge Sir John Fielding, was one of the most highly acclaimed mystery debuts of 1994. Murder in Grub Street, the second novel, was named by The New York Times Book Review as one of the Notable Books of 1995 in crime fiction. Now Fielding returns in his most baffling case yet. John Fielding was famous not only as cofounder of London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners, but also as a magistrate of keen intellect, fairness and uncommon detective ability. When a crime was committed, he often took it upon himself to solve it. What made this all the more remarkable was that he was blind. In Watery Grave, accompanied by his eyes (and the series' narrator), young Jeremy Proctor, Fielding encounters a case that hits close to home, as a stepson returns from the high seas with tales of typhoons and a captain overboard. Was it an accident, or was it murder? Fielding is asked to investigate, but discovers considerably more than he'd bargained for--including some secrets that might better have been left at the bottom of a watery grave. Filled with the authentic sights and sounds and atmosphere of the times, and with a supremely colorful and varied cast of characters, Watery Grave is in every way a delight to read.
Watson's Apology: A Novel
by Beryl BainbridgeA novel of marital bickering--and murder--based on a historical case in Victorian England, from the bestselling author of The Birthday Boys. In the winter of 1884, John Selby Watson, a clergyman and headmaster living in London, writes a series of love letters--including a marriage proposal--to a woman he met only briefly at a social gathering many years before. Though Anne Armstrong does not remember Watson, she is desperate to escape poverty and the miserable life she shares with her sister in a moldy Dublin boarding house. So she accepts. Despite the abrupt circumstances of their engagement--and Anne's initial distaste for her betrothed--several years of happy marriage follow. But Watson soon becomes entrenched in his studies of classical literature, leaving his wife feeling alienated and dejected. Trivial disputes agitate the couple's domestic life with increasing frequency--a letter goes missing, the page of a book gets stained--until the bickering erupts into full-blown abuse and, during a night of drinking, their toxic environment reaches its destructive climax. Based on a real nineteenth-century murder case, Watson's Apology is a speculative novel about the complex psychological motivations that underlie a seemingly straightforward domestic tragedy. Using dark irony and twisted humor, award-winning British author Beryl Bainbridge reveals the terror that resides in the banal, and the suspense that can be found in the mysteries of the mind and heart.
Wave (Tell Me Why, Tell Me How Ser.)
by Wil MaraWinner of the New Jersey Notable Book Award!It's a beautiful day on the New Jersey shore. The residents of Long Beach Island—a narrow strip of land connected to the mainland by a single bridge—are going about their daily routines, enjoying the lovely weather. They have no idea that far out to sea, a plane carrying a nuclear device has crashed. The resultant explosion triggers a massive underwater landslide . . . and a massive tsunami forms, heading straight for Long Beach Island. By the time anyone realizes the water is coming, it's almost too late. The National Guard is deployed—on the mainland, since the fast-approaching thirty-foot-high wall of water will flatten everything on the island. Terrified residents stream toward the slender lifeline of the bridge, causing the island's first—and last—major traffic jam. In the frantic struggle to reach safety, strangers offer help to people they've never seen before and neighbors turn against neighbors. Some cannot decide which precious possessions must be saved, and so take nothing—or refuse to leave. Others attempt to profit from the panic, looting abandoned homes and businesses. Time is running out. The first wave will hit in less than three hours. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Wave Good-bye
by Lila DareSt. Elizabeth, Georgia, offers charm, Southern hospitality--and the occasional murder. This time, when a new hair salon tries to steal business, it's someone's life that gets cut short... Violetta's salon is up in arms. Business is dead. Snippets, a big box haircutting chain, has opened in St. Elizabeth, undercutting prices and luring away loyal customers. Violetta's daughter, hairdresser Grace Terhune, is shocked to discover that it's her old high school rival Lisa Butterworth who's behind the big sweep--and Grace isn't going to take this sitting down. Snippets' cold-blooded prized employee is doing wonders with Violetta's client list. According to Lisa, it's just business--until a bitter confrontation leaves Grace more than frustrated, and Lisa less than alive. Now Grace is the prime suspect in her rival's murder. And only her friends at Violetta's can save her--before the charge proves permanent. BEAUTY TIPS AND TRICKS INCLUDED!
Wave Riders
by Lauren St JohnThe sea almost killed them, and now it must lead them to the truth in this standalone middle-grade eco-mystery about twins lost on the high seas from the author of the bestselling novel The White Giraffe.Twelve-year-old Jess and Jude live a dream life on a battered old yacht, sailing from one exotic destination to the next with their guardian. But when he vanishes one night after an argument with a stranger, the twins are left alone, facing an incoming storm and an unknown enemy.Surviving at sea is just the start of an adventure that will take them an ocean away to the former home of their missing parents and pit them against one of the world’s most powerful men. How far do they dare go, and what will they risk, to find the truth about who they are really are?Wave Riders from Lauren St John is an exciting and compelling middle-grade tale of sailing, family, and identity.
Wavemaker II: A Novel (Books That Changed the World)
by Mary-Beth HughesIn this New York Times Notable novel, a New Jersey mother struggles as her husband goes to jail to protect Roy Cohn: “This is a beautiful book.”—Booklist (starred review)“It’s the summer of 1964, and the once-privileged Clemens family is in tatters. Husband Will is serving time at Woeburne penitentiary for refusing to testify against Roy Cohn, who acted as Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s counsel. Genteel wife Kay shuttles between their oceanfront home and son Bo’s bedside at New York Hospital, where he is being treated for cancer. Stretched thin, Kay can only focus on one tragedy at a time, so the needs and confusion of preadolescent daughter Lou-Lou go unnoticed. Told in shifting points of view, this first novel offers rich, nuanced characterizations ripe for book club discussion. Dozens of memorable scenes showcase Hughes's eye for penetrating detail…Highly recommended.”—Library Journal“Reads like an epic: part prison story, hospital-ward drama, family tragedy, and historical flight of fancy.” —Los Angeles Times“A skillfully charted plot about the complex nature of loyalty.”—The New York Times Book Review “Hughes’s portrait of a weary, shell-shocked family is pitch-perfect.”—Time Out New York
Wax Apple (The Mitchell Tobin Mysteries #3)
by Donald E. WestlakeAt a mental institution, Mitch Tobin searches for a patient with a violent sense of humorMitch Tobin is about to be committed. Since his abrupt dismissal from the NYPD, Tobin&’s nerves have been frayed, and if it wasn&’t for his work as a private detective, he might well be in need of actual psychiatric care. But during his stay at the Midway, a halfway house for those recovering from mental illness, he&’ll only be impersonating a patient while trying to uncover the identity of a particularly dangerous prankster.Four booby traps have been set on the grounds of this stately old institution, each one more dangerous than the last. Tobin has only just checked in when he finds trap number five: a tripwire that sends him tumbling down the stairs, snapping his arm. This prankster is not playing around. Tobin will be lucky to leave the Midway with his life intact; hanging onto his sanity may prove even tougher.
Wax: Large Print
by Ethel Lina WhiteReporter Sonia Thompson discovers threads linking prominent members of Riverpool society with the chamber of horrors in a neglected waxworks museum. Married Lilith Nile is using it as a place to meet Sir Julian. Schoolteacher Miss Monroe is obsessed with the moth-eaten figure of Mary of England. And why does Mr Cuttle, the amorous Alderman, take such a keen interest in the museum? When Sir Julian, having spent the night in the waxworks for a bet, is found dead, and an epidemic of purse-snatching sweeps Riverpool, Sonia realises that she is on the verge of uncovering a sinister plot. Forced to bring matters to a head, Sonia resolves to spend a night alone in the waxworks ...
Wax: Large Print (Murder Room #823)
by Ethel Lina WhiteReporter Sonia Thompson discovers threads linking prominent members of Riverpool society with the chamber of horrors in a neglected waxworks museum. Married Lilith Nile is using it as a place to meet Sir Julian. Schoolteacher Miss Monroe is obsessed with the moth-eaten figure of Mary of England. And why does Mr Cuttle, the amorous Alderman, take such a keen interest in the museum?When Sir Julian, having spent the night in the waxworks for a bet, is found dead, and an epidemic of purse-snatching sweeps Riverpool, Sonia realises that she is on the verge of uncovering a sinister plot. Forced to bring matters to a head, Sonia resolves to spend a night alone in the waxworks ...
Waxwork (Sergeant Cribb #8)
by Peter LoveseyThe eighth Sergeant Cribb Investigation set in the seedy underbelly of Victorian London Though the beautiful Miriam Cromer has confessed to the murder of her husband's assistant, she is still confident of her acquittal. But then she is sentenced to hang. She blames her husband, but he has an alibi. Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray must discover what really happened at Park Lodge on 12th March, 1888, and quickly.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Waxwork: The Eighth Sergeant Cribb Mystery (Sergeant Cribb #20)
by Peter LoveseyThe eighth book in the Sergeant Cribb series by Peter LoveseyLondon, 1888. Though Miriam Cromer has confessed to the murder of her husband's assistant, she is still confident of her acquittal. However, the jury sentence her to hang. Miriam then says her husband was the killer, but he has an alibi. Can Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray discover what really happened at Park Lodge on that fateful day in March before it's too late?