Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Ripley novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Highsmith explores Ripley's bizarrely paternal relationship with a troubled young runaway, whose abduction draws them into Berlin's seamy underworld.
46) Backflash
Author
Series
Parker thrillers volume 18
Formats
Description
The master thief, Parker, plots to rob a floating casino on the Hudson River. He puts together a team of robbers, ensures weapons are smuggled on board, and arranges for a getaway boat. The planning is meticulous, but will chance favor the enterprise?
Author
Series
Legend (Marie Lu) volume 2
Description
June and Day make their way to Las Vegas where they join the rebel Patriot group and become involved in an assassination plot against the Elector in hopes of saving the Republic.
Author
Series
Baroque cycle (Neal Stephenson) volume 3
Formats
Description
In the wake of a power struggle between the throne-seeking Tories and Whigs in early eighteenth-century England, Daniel Waterhouse teams up with Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group that uses time bombs to kill Natural Philosophers.
49) Legend
Author
Series
Legend (Marie Lu) volume 1
Appears on list
Description
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-old Day--a famous criminal, and prodigy June--the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
Author
Series
Parker thrillers volume 11
Formats
Description
Emissaries from a small African nation ask Parker to help them steal back half of their country's wealth in diamonds.
Author
Series
Parker thrillers volume 14
Formats
Description
A dark and memorable account of Parker trapped in a fenced-in amusement park that has closed for the winter.
Author
Series
Parker thrillers volume 9
Formats
Description
Parker makes the mistake of letting an amateur in on the score, and one of them is a pretty woman named Claire.
55) The outfit
Author
Series
Parker thrillers volume 3
Formats
Description
When the Outfit tries to kill him, Parker declares war. Ripping off the syndicate is easy, but going one-on-one with Bronson, the Outfit's big boss, is the hard part. Hard for anyone but Parker, because the entire underworld understands that whatever Parker does -- he does for keep.
Author
Series
Parker thrillers volume 13
Formats
Description
It begins with a rock concert - Parker and his fellow thieves are ripping off the box office - and then moves to a mysterious problem - colleagues turning up dead.
Author
Description
"Serving a ten-year sentence in a Nevada prison for armed robbery, Ethan Lockhart hopes that he can one day become a productive, law-abiding member of society ... When he's given a forty-eight-hour furlough to attend his sister Abby's funeral, he learns that her body was never found ... and he begins to suspect that there's more to her death than was reported ... But to get to the bottom of the mystery, he'll have to return to his unsavory past."--...
Author
Description
In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells her a cautionary tale of the one-armed sister, and what happens to girls who disobey their mothers and go into the Baxter's Tunnels. Now Lala lives on the beach with her husband, Adan, a petty criminal with endless charisma whose thwarted burglary of one of the beach mansions sets off a chain of events with terrible consequences. -- adapted from jacket
59) Taste of marrow
Author
Series
River of teeth volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"A few months ago, Winslow Houndstooth put together the damnedest crew of outlaws, assassins, cons, and saboteurs on either side of the Harriet for a history-changing caper. Together they conspired to blow the dam that choked the Mississippi and funnel the hordes of feral hippos contained within downriver, to finally give America back its greatest waterway. Songs are sung of their exploits, many with a haunting refrain: "And not a soul escaped alive."...
60) The score
Author
Series
Parker thrillers volume 5
Formats
Description
The fifth Parker novel has the main character planning a score that involves a dozen professional crooks ready to take over a rich, remote North Dakota town.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Request an item not in the catalog. Submit Request