Adult Summer Reading: Fiction (Mystery and Thriller) at Howard County Library

1222

Author: Holt, Anne,
ISBN: 9781455128808;1455128805
Year: 2011
Date added: 02/10/2012
Summary: A train on its way to the northern reaches of Norway careens off the track during a massive blizzard. The passengers abandon the train for a nearby, centuries-old hotel that is practically empty except for the staff. With plenty of food and shelter from t
Subjects: Travelers - Crimes against - Fiction. - Murder - Investigation - Norway - Storms - Talking books. - Mystery fiction.
Call number: CD M HOL

1222 : a Hanne Wilhelmsen novel /

Author: Holt, Anne,
ISBN: 9781451634716
Year: 2011
Date added: 12/22/2011
Subjects: Storms - Norway - Fiction. - Travelers - Crimes against - Murder - Investigation - Mystery fiction.
Call number: M HOL

The affair : a Reacher novel /

Author: Child, Lee.
ISBN: 9780385344326
Year: 2011
Date added: 10/03/2011
Subjects: Military police - Fiction. - Military bases - Mississippi - Suspense fiction - Murder - Investigation - Fiction - Reacher, Jack (Fictitious character)
Call number: F CHI

The affair : a Reacher novel /

Author: Child, Lee.
ISBN: 9780739378489
Year: 2011
Date added: 02/24/2012
Summary: A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington. Elite military cop Jack Reacher is ordered undercover to get the truth.
Subjects: Military police - Fiction. - Military bases - Mississippi - Large type books. - Suspense fiction - Murder - Investigation - Fiction - Reacher, Jack (Fictitious character)
Call number: LP CHI

The affair a Reacher novel /

Author: Child, Lee.
ISBN: 9780440339359;0440339359
Year: 2011
Date added: 02/29/2012
Summary: Carter Crossing, Mississippi. 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A coverup. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington. Reacher is ordered underco
Subjects: Reacher, Jack (Fictitious character) - Fiction. - Military police - Murder - Investigation - Military bases - Mississippi - Suspense fiction. - Mystery fiction. - Electronic books.
Call number: ELECTRONIC BOOK

The affair [a Reacher novel] /

Author: Child, Lee.
ISBN: 9780307749567;0307749568
Year: 2011
Date added: 11/08/2011
Summary: A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington. Elite military cop Jack Reacher is ordered undercover the truth.
Subjects: Military police - Fiction. - Military bases - Mississippi - Suspense fiction - Murder - Investigation - Fiction - Reacher, Jack (Fictitious character)
Call number: CD F CHI

An American spy /

Author: Steinhauer, Olen.
ISBN: 9780312622893
Year: 2012
Date added: 03/15/2012
Summary: When the CIA's Department of Tourism is dismantled by an elaborate Chinese intelligence scheme that has caused numerous agent deaths, survivor Milo Weaver is placed at risk by his former boss, Alan Drummond, who uses one of Milo's aliases to exact revenge
Subjects: Mystery fiction
Call number: M STE

Archive 17 : a novel of suspense /

Author: Eastland, Sam.
ISBN: 9780345525734
Year: 2012
Date added: 03/16/2012
Subjects: Stalin, Joseph, - Fiction. - Treasure troves - Soviet Union - History - 1925-1953 - Suspense fiction. - Historical fiction.
Call number: F EAS

The book of lost fragrances : a novel of suspense /

Author: Rose, M. J.,
ISBN: 9781451621303
Year: 2012
Date added: 03/08/2012
Summary: A sweeping and suspenseful tale of secrets, intrigue, and lovers separated by time, all connected through the mystical qualities of a perfume created in the days of Cleopatra--and lost for 2,000 years.
Subjects: Perfumes industry - Fiction. - Suspense fiction. - Missing persons - Fiction
Call number: F ROS

Hanging Hill /

Author: Hayder, Mo.
ISBN: 9780802120069
Year: 2011
Date added: 01/25/2012
Summary: After a popular Bath teen's murder, police detective Zoe Benedict looks beyond the usual motives to solve the crime; while her divorced sister, Sally, takes a housekeeping job for a wealthy entrepreneur who behaves in increasingly suspicious ways.
Subjects: Policewomen - Fiction. - House cleaning - Bath (England) - Suspense fiction - Murder - Investigation - Fiction - Sisters - Divorced mothers
Call number: F HAY

The impossible dead /

Author: Rankin, Ian.
ISBN: 9780316039772
Year: 2011
Date added: 11/22/2011
Subjects: Police - Scotland - Fiction. - Police internal investigation - Police corruption - Kirkcaldy (Scotland) - Mystery fiction - Murder - Investigation - Fiction
Call number: M RAN

Iron house

Author: Hart, John,
ISBN: 9781427212238;1427212236
Year: 2011
Date added: 07/26/2011
Summary: "Julian survived at the Iron Mountain Home for Boys only because his older brother, Michael, was fearless and fiercely protective. When tensions boiled over and a boy was brutally killed, Michael fled the orphanage. Now, two decades later, Michael is an e
Subjects: Brothers - Fiction. - Orphans - Boys - Orphanages - Murder - North Carolina - Talking books
Call number: CD F HAR

Iron house /

Author: Hart, John,
ISBN: 9780312380342
Year: 2011
Date added: 07/12/2011
Subjects: Brothers - Fiction. - Orphans - Boys - Orphanages - Murder - North Carolina
Call number: F HAR

The professionals /

Author: Laukkanen, Owen.
ISBN: 9780399157899
Year: 2012
Date added: 03/26/2012
Summary: When a joke about making illicit money escalates to a kidnapping scheme, four friends enjoy the proceeds of a low-risk operation until they abduct the wrong target and capture the attentions of the law and a vengeful organized-crime ring.
Subjects: Kidnapping - Fiction. - Organized crime - Suspense fiction.
Call number: F LAU

So damn lucky /

Author: Coonts, Deborah.
ISBN: 9780765330062
Year: 2012
Date added: 02/27/2012
Subjects: O'Toole, Lucky (Fictitious character) - Fiction. - Resorts - Nevada - Las Vegas - Customer relations - Management - Las Vegas (Nev.)
Call number: F COO

Trail of the Spellmans : document #5 /

Author: Lutz, Lisa.
ISBN: 9781451608120
Year: 2012
Date added: 03/13/2012
Subjects: Women private investigators - Fiction. - Women detectives - Spellman, Isabel (Fictitious character) - Dysfunctional families - San Francisco (Calif.) - Humorous fiction. - Family-owned business enterprises - Fiction - California - San Francisco
Call number: F LUT

A trick of the light /

Wild thing : a novel /

Author: Bazell, Josh.
ISBN: 9780316032193
Year: 2012
Date added: 01/31/2012
Subjects: Billionaires - Fiction. - Paleontologists - Murder - Minnesota - Black humor (Literature) - Suspense fiction - Physicians - Fiction
Call number: F BAZ