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"Lots of bleak fun . . . This stellar series just gets better and better." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
The saga begins with a poker game gone lethally awry. When Parker goes in on a messy scam-stealing an armored car-with someone he barely knows, as usual the amateurs get in the way of the job. From a nervous ex-con and his well-intentioned sister to a bank manager's two-timing wife and a beautiful, relentless cop, too many people have...
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Two brothers who are desperately chasing success get more than they bargained for in this suspenseful cat-and-mouse thriller of wealth, crime, and social climbing.
Two brothers. Three secret service agents. And millions for the taking. Charlie and Oliver Caruso are brothers who work at Greene and Greene, a private bank so exclusive there's a $2 million minimum to be a client. But when the door of success slams in their faces, the brothers are presented...
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Internationally bestselling author Alex Kava delivers a searing thriller of one woman's encounter with her past which could jeopardize her future… Melanie Starks has never lived life by the rules. She and her seventeen-year-old son, Charlie, have been running one con job or another for as long as she can remember, justifying the petty crimes as the necessary survival moves of a single mother. But Melanie is ready to give it up. Then Jared Barnett...
4) Chances
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Love's Valley romances volume 3
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Avalon Books
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2006
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English
5) The wreckage
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An international thriller based on one of the bigest bank heists in history.
Billions of dollars are missing from Iraqi banks, and journalist Luca Terracini will risk everything to discover where it is. His Iraqi-American background has made it easier for him to infiltrate the darkest corners of the war, but death of his beloved Nicola in a suicide bombing has made him reckless. He has nothing left to lose.
In pursuit of the money, he meets...
6) The chase
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Isaac Bell thrillers volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
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"A Vonnegut tinged absurdist satire . . . (a) tightly paced, expertly drawn comic romp" from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Mosquito Coast (LitReactor).
Paul Theroux, one of the world's most popular authors, both for his travel books and his fiction, has produced an off-beat story of 1960s weirdos unlike anything he has ever written.
During the time of Lyndon Johnson's presidency, Herbie Gneiss is forced to leave college to get...
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Charles Stross' novel Halting State is a brilliantly conceived techno-crime thriller. The year is 2012, and China, India, and the United States are waging an infowar for economic domination. With innocent gamers mere pawns in the hands of electronic intelligence agencies, programmer Jack Reed is tasked with ferreting out the plot of those who would gladly trade global turmoil for personal gain.
10) Takeover
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Theresa MacLean novels volume 1
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What initially appears to be a bank heist turns into something far more complex and deadly. When forensic scientist Theresa MacLean seizes the opportunity to trade places with the city's best hostage negotiator, she must decide what she is willing t
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Alfred A. Knopf
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c2009
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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When the diabolical Damien Black robs a bank and steals a tiger-eye of great sentimental value, he is pursued by thirteen-year-old Dave Sanchez and his sidekick, a talking gecko named Sticky, who are armed with a magical Aztec armband.
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Alex Cross novels volume 6
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IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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13) Silver surprise
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Guideposts Books & Inspirational Media
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2014
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When Sadie Speer's grandson, Theo Macomb, finds an old ledger at a yard sale in Denver, he eagerly shows it to her. Oddly, the book contains diary entries, not numbers. It seems to hold clues to an unsolved Silver Peak bank robbery that implicated the father of James Morgan, the current bank president and Edwin Marshall's opponent for the mayoral race. Theo tells his friends about the book, inadvertently renewing speculation about the scandal and...
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Firestick volume 3
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Kensington Publishing Corp
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[2021]
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It's Marshal Elwood Firestick McQueen's responsibility to keep the peace in the West Texas town of Buffalo Peak. But when an old friend, Rip Ripley, comes to town, nothing is going to be peaceful. Rip has joined a gang of cutthroats and is planning on robbing the town bank.
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 14
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IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Personal vendettas, hidden treasure, and a monkey named Carl will send bounty hunter Stephanie Plum on her most explosive adventure yet.
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As sleepy as Buffalo Peak's been, legendary marshal Elwood Firestick McQueen and his deputies Beartooth Skinner and Moosejaw Hendricks never expected a couple of drifters to wake it up=by kidnapping two lovely ladies in town. Hardly the sharpest quills on a cactus, these dim drifters call it courtin'. Firestick doesn't see it that way. Now the woman snatchers are heading for West Texas with their reluctant brides-to-bee-- and unwillingly plunging...
18) Widow's tears
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Herbalist ex-lawyer China Bales investigates the murder of a teller at the Pecan Springs bank and follows the clues to a haunted bed and breakfast.
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Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
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[2021]
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Broken Back, West Texas, is a town under siege. Mescaleros who once rode with Geronimo wreak havoc near town limits. Frank James, brother of the legendary Jesse, sits in a jail cell awaiting trial for murder. And a gang of bandits meaner than rattlesnakes and just as quick to kill has just robbed the bank. In their wake, four orphans mourn their banker father, and the townsfolk are left with a paralyzed sheriff and his new deputy. Deputy Sheriff Dan...
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