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Hard Eight
- Author: Janet Evanovich
- Genre: Mystery
Stephanie Plum is a the bombshell bounty hunter from New Jersey. She always has some problems. Her relationship with Joe Morelli is breaking. But adding to all this, she agrees to help her neighbor, whose daughters were suddenly disappeared. Where the girls have gone? What really has happened? Stephanie is ought to find the real truth…
Fearless Fourteen
- Author: Janet Evanovich
- Genre: Mystery
One more story about Stephanie Plum and her friends. Here we find a really mixed plot with a lot of branches coming out. Dom Rizzi robbed a bank, stashed the money, and did the time. His family couldn’t be more proud. He always was the smart one. Joe Morelli, Dom Rizzi, and Dom’s sister, Loretta, are cousins. Morelli is a cop, Rizzi robs banks, and Loretta is a single mother waiting tables at the firehouse. Less than a week after Dom’s release from prison, Joe Morelli has shadowy figures breaking into his house and dying in his basement. He’s getting threatening messages, Loretta is kidnapped, and Dom is missing. Stephanie and Morelli have a long-standing relationship that involves sex, affection, and driving each other nuts. She’s a bond enforcement agent with more luck than talent, and she’s involved in this bank-robbery-gone-bad disaster from day one. Security expert Carlos Manoso, street name Ranger, has a job for Stephanie that will involve night work. Morelli has his own ideas regarding Stephanie’s evening activities.
Finger Lickin Fifteen
- Author: Janet Evanovich
- Genre: Mystery
Stenley Chipotle comes to Trenton to take a part in barbecue cook-off and loses his head – literally. Lula is a witness to the crime and the one person she will talk to is Joe Morelli. Chipotle’s sponsor offers a million-dollar reward to anyone who can provide the information about killers. Lula recruits Stephanie Plum to help her find killers and collect moolah. Stephanie is tracking felons and snooping for security expert Ranger. Can Stephanie hunt 1 killers and what will happened next is on the pages of this book…
Twelve Sharp
- Author: Janet Evanovich
- Genre: Mystery
This is another story of Stephanie Plum, who keeps getting into troubles every minute of her life. With Lula and Joyce Barnhardt and Morelli’s wife throws Stephanie off her stride. Once again she gets into the bottom of mystery, involved in child kidnapping scheme, gets shot at and etc.
Eleven on Top
- Author: Janet Evanovich
- Genre: Mystery
This is a story about Stephanie Plum, who has a little crisis in her career. Here we see how author plunge the character into series of variety events. Stephanie always deals with different kinds of fugitives, who prefer to flee rather than to be under the court. She always receives threatening notes, and her she finds the protection of Joe Morelli, her childhood friend and cop, and Ranger, tough guy and fugitive. In this novel we also meet Lula, Grandma Mazur and Grandma Bella, and Valerie, Stephanie’s sister. All these characters also play not the last part in the plot of the story.
Lean Mean Thirteen
- Author: Janet Evanovich
- Genre: Mystery
Here is another adventure of Stephanie Plum. Now she marries Dickie Orr and have to divorce after 15 minutes of wedding, because she had found him cheating on her with Joyce Barnhardt. Then she meets Carlos Manoso, aka Ranger, and gets in favour with him. Also she turns out that Dickie doing something shady. Suddenly Dickie disappears, and Stephanie becomes a first suspect. What has really happened with Dickie and what is the destiny of Stephanie you will find in the pages of this novel.
Before the frost
- Author: Henning Mankell
- Genre: Mystery
This is a terrifying thriller, written by Henning Mankell, a Swedish mystery writer. The book is the first featuring Linda Wallander, his main character's daughter, as a police officer, and I hope he plans on writing more. The author asks at the beginning, what if one man had survived the Jonestown massacre in Guyana in 1978, and proceeds to follow that man. The plot is exciting and escalates fast into frightening, with ritual murder and sacrifice, disappearances of Linda's two best friends. Underneath, and effectively communicated, is the theme that religion can be a force for either good or evil, and it is a most powerful tool for manipulating people. This is evident all the time in the news, when countries go to war or terrorists commit mass murder, it's always "God is on our side," and who can argue with that? Religious fervor in the wrong hands can result in the worst atrocities. The book finishes on Linda's first official day of work, Sept. 11, 2001.
Slay it with Flowers
- Author: Kate Collins
- Genre: Mystery
Abby Knight, a flower shop owner, has been asked to be a bridesmaid by her cousin. But eventually the wedding ceremony was under threat, because a groomsman suddenly disappears and another one was found dead. Abby is to find out what has happened and bring the light into the truth before the wedding ceremony starts.
Prior Bad Acts
It was a crime so brutal it changed the lives of even the most hardened homicide cops. The Haas family murders left a scar on the community nothing can erase, but convicting the alleged killer - Karl Dahl - is a start. Only Judge Carey Moore seems to be standing in the way. Her ruling that Dahl's prior criminal record is inadmissible as evidence against him raises a public outcry - and puts the judge in grave danger. When an unknown assailant attacks Carey Moore in a parking garage, two of the city's top cops are called in to investigate and keep the judge from further harm. Detective Sam Kovac is as hard-boiled as they come, and his wisecracking partner, Nikki Liska, isn't far behind. Neither detective wants to be on this case, but when Karl Dahl escapes custody, everything changes, and a seemingly straightforward case cartwheels out of control. The stakes go higher when the judge is kidnapped from her home even as the police sit outside watching her house. Now Kovac and Liska must navigate through a maze of suspects that include the step-son of a murder victim, a husband with a secret life, and a rogue cop looking for revenge where the justice system failed.
The Tourist
- Author: Olen Steinhauer
- Genre: Mystery & Thrillers
This impeccably structured novel revolves around Milo Weaver and his battles for identity and meaning within the world of "Tourism". Forget digital cameras and souvenirs, however; Weaver and his colleagues travel the world on behalf of a clandestine US intelligence agency, combatting global organized crime, terrorists and other miscellaneous enemies of the United States. We first meet Weaver as a burned out shell of a man, whose soul is being destroyed by what the job demands of him. Its early pages dart back and forth across a six-year-timespan, introducing us to key characters in the drama to follow, from fellow Tourists to his boss Tom Grainger, from the woman he loves and marries to the woman whose investigation into the death of a hired killer Weaver has been hunting, nicknamed the Tiger, threatens to derail his fragile happiness.
Each of those characters is carefully drawn and feels as vivid and 'real' as does Milo himself in his struggle to extricate himself from a trap to implicate him in murder and treason. Who orchestrates that conspiracy, for what reason and how it is resolved is at the heart of the plot. Steinhauer never strikes a false note in his writing or cuts corners in the intricate plot. Early on, as Milo muses about his profession, "the truth was that intelligence work seldom, if ever, ran in straight lines. Facts accumulated, many of them useless, some connecting and then disconnecting." Steinhauer, however, keeps each fact relevant, and carefully scatters clues to the novel's denouement along the path that the reader will follow. Never, however, does the outcome feel inevitable or predictable; nor are the clues so opaque that the reader feels frustrated or irritated.