Karen Robards
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thief. Manipulator. Con artist. Call it what you will—Bianca St. Ives is the best in the business. Growing up, Bianca St. Ives knew she was different from all her friends. Instead of playing hopscotch or combing her dolls' hair, she studied martial arts with sensei masters and dismantled explosives with special-ops retirees. Her father prepped her well to carry on the family business. Now a striking beauty with fierce skills, the prodigy has surpassed...
2) Darkness
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards continues her penchant for "fantastic storytelling" (RT Book Reviews) with this next heart-pumping romantic suspense novel, the tale of a brilliant ornithologist trapped on the remote Attu Island in Alaska, fighting for her life--and that of a handsome stranger--before they're swallowed up in darkness forever. BOOM. That's the sound that changes everything for Dr. Gina Sullivan, a renowned ornithologist...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"September 1943: Berlin is the heart of darkness--and the last place Dr. Elin Lund wishes to be. An expert in psychological profiling, she's been summoned from Copenhagen to investigate the gruesome murders of eight young women. Even in the midst of unspeakable evil, these killings stand apart. And with her homeland now under Nazi occupation and a young son to protect, Elin can't refuse such a request. Homicide Detective Kurt Schneider, head of the...
Author
Series
Guardian volume 2
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bianca St. Ives was recently put through the wringer, but she came out the same way she always does - the way her father trained her to - hungry for a fight. Still navigating the fallout from a shocking revelation that's left a network of assassins' crosshairs trained on her, Bianca's ready to take fate into her own hands. It's kill or be killed, and she's got her finger flush against the trigger. But as Bianca races to outmaneuver her tireless pursuers,...
5) Beachcomber
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Taking the summer off from a high-stress job, Christy travels to a cozy Carolina beach where she falls for a handsome drifter, but when she realizes that the women in a string of killings all resemble her, she fears she may be next.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On an April day in 1937, the sky opens and fire rains down upon the small Spanish town of Guernica. Seventeen-year-old Sibi and her family are caught up in the horror. Griff, an American military attaché, pulls Sibi from the wreckage, and it’s only the first time he saves her life in a span of hours. When Germany claims no involvement in the attack, insisting the Spanish Republic was responsible, Griff guides Sibi to lie to Nazi officials. If she...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Paris, 1944. Celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is an unwilling darling of the Nazis and uses her position of privilege to go undetected as an ally to the resistance. When her estranged mother, Lillian de Rocheford, is captured by Nazis, Genevieve knows the Gestapo will torture information out of Lillian that will derail the upcoming allied invasion. The resistance movement is tasked with silencing Lillian by any means necessary--including assassination....
Author
Publisher
Mira
Physical Desc
475 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A world at war. A beautiful young star. A mission no one expected. Paris, 1944. Celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is both a star and a smokescreen. An unwilling darling of the Nazis, the chanteuse's position of privilege allows her to go undetected as an ally to the resistance. When her estranged mother, Lillian de Rocheford, is captured by Nazis, Genevieve knows it won't be long before the Gestapo succeeds in torturing information out of Lillian...
Author
Series
Guardian volume 3
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Offered her freedom in exchange for a dangerous undercover assignment, master manipulator Bianca St. Ives poses as a female hacker who stole top secret intel from NORAD in order to feed strategic misinformation to North Korea's tyrannical regime.
10) Hunted
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twas the night before Christmas, and dozens of rich, influential hostages are trapped inside a sprawling lakefront mansion in New Orleans. The perp? Detective Reed Ware, model cop turned outlaw. After receiving a panicked call from Hollis "Holly" Bayard, a teenage street tough with a penchant for amateur sleuthing who stumbles upon the scene of a drug-deal-turned- murder, Ware finds his and his friend's lives in dire danger. The crime Holly witnessed...
11) Hush
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Riley Cowan finds her estranged husband Jeff dead in his palatial home, she's sure it's no coincidence. The police rule it a suicide, but Riley thinks someone's out for blood--specifically someone Jeff's father ripped off in one of the biggest financial fraud cases of all time. She suspects that someone is trying to send a message to Jeff's father: Tell me where the money is, or everyone you care about will die. Riley's in-laws might be billionaires,...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
She was Mrs. Lyle Forrest now, the coolly elegant wife of Louisville's most prominent publisher, the slum girl whose dreams — and nightmares — came true the night she married the multimillionaire old enough to be her father. For twelve years Maggy played the role of beautiful, devoted wife, the burnished jewel in Lyle's crown, mother of the child he adored. She did it for David, the son who could never know the price she paid to protect him, would...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After a brush with death while chasing down a brutal murderer with the FBI, serial killer expert Dr. Charlotte Stone wants nothing more than to retire to her research on criminal psychology. But when a colleague, Special Agent Lena Kaminsky, suspects her missing sister has fallen prey to the vicious Cinderella Killer, Charlie rushes to her side. Along with Special Agents Tony Bartoli and Buzz Crane--and of course, Michael Garland, the ever-present,...
14) Justice
Author
Series
Jessica Ford volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Gallery Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Taking a job with a Washington, D.C. law firm after witnessing the murder of the First Lady, attorney Jessica Ford investigates a rape victim's suspicious recant on the stand, a situation that is complicated by the disappearance of Jessica's predecessor.
15) Superstition
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A story on a series of fifteen-year-old unsolved crimes and a television show featuring a renowned psychic draw reporter Nicole Sullivan and police chief Joe Franconi into a perilous search for a murderer when the killer returns.
16) Guilty
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Physical Desc
408 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen years after participating in a robbery that left a police officer dead, Kate, a Philadelphia prosecutor and single mom, is shocked when she learns that she is to prosecute one of her co-conspirators, who threatens to expose her if she does not prevent his conviction.
17) Obsession
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
18) Paradise county
Author
Publisher
Pocket
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
370 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Returning to Georgia after her divorce, Carly Linton, determined to start a new life, sets her sights on local sheriff Matt Converse, the town's former bad boy, but her plans of seduction are thwarted when a dead body is discovered on her property and someone makes it quite clear that she is no longer welcome in the town of Benton.