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(0)David Morrell
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Thomas De Quincey, best known for his sensational memoir Confessions of an Opium Eater, is the prime suspect in a series of horrific murders that paralyze London. The killer seems to be imitating De Quincey's true-crime essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts." Desperate to prevent more atrocities but crippled by addiction, De Quincey is aided by his brilliant daughter, Emily, and two determined Scotland Yard detectives.
4) Burnt sienna
Author
Language
English
Description
Ex-marine Chase Malone must stop a dangerous and powerful arms dealer before he kills again in this new high-action thriller by the bestselling author of "Double Image" and "Black Evening." The wealthy and dangerously twisted arms agent has spent the last two decades marrying a succession of beautiful women--all of whom have met with mysterious deaths just after having their portraits painted by a top artist.
6) MatchUp
Language
English
Description
In this incredible follow-up to the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller FaceOff, twenty-two of the world's most popular thriller writers come together for an unforgettable anthology. MatchUp takes the never-before-seen bestseller pairings of Face Off and adds a delicious new twist: gender. Eleven of the world's best female thriller writers from Diana Gabaldon to Charlene Harris are paired with eleven of the world's best male thriller writers,...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
Assassins, strangers, bloodbrothers. Saul and Drew were the best, expert operatives able to kill without a qualm. Both wanted out, but they had been selected to stop a reign of terror reheated after 40 years--and operating out of the sacred heart of the Vatican.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his Confessions of an Opium-Eater, confronts London's harrowing streets to thwart the assassination of Queen Victoria. The year is 1855. The Crimean War is raging. The incompetence of British commanders causes the fall of the English government. The Empire teeters. Amid this crisis comes opium-eater Thomas De Quincey, one of the most notorious and brilliant personalities of Victorian England. Along with his irrepressible...
14) Double image
Author
Language
English
Description
A Bosnia war criminal hunts the photographer whose photo proved to be the key evidence in his conviction, while the photographer pursues the world's most beautiful woman.
Author
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
As holiday celebrations take place in Santa Fe, Agent Paul Kagan is on the run with a baby the Russian mafia wants to destroy and turns to a mother and her young son for help during a violent night where they all must work together to keep the child safefrom harm.
16) The shimmer
Author
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Santa Fe police officer Dan Page tracks down his missing wife only to witness a bloodbath in Rostov, a remote town in Texas famous for a massive astronomical observatory, a long-abandoned military base, and unexplained nighttime phenomena that draw onlookers from every corner of the globe. Determined to solve the mystery of the Rostov Lights in order to save his wife, he discovers that the decaying military base may not be abandoned at all, and that...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown, and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Opium addict Thomas De Quincey and his irrepressible daughter Emily investigate the strangling of a lawyer in what is the first murder on an English train, and they uncover a dangerous secret that reaches the highest levels of British society.
