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In The Blood
by Don DonaldsonSurviving leukemia, Dr. Holly Fisher is ready to have a child using eggs that were saved before she underwent the fertility-killing treatment. To her horror, she learns her eggs have been stolen from the fertility clinic, taken by a man posing as her lawyer. Holly vows to track the man down, never realizing her attempts will put her in the middle of a medical nightmare.
Do No Harm
by Don DonaldsonA pediatric resident's nephew arrives in the emergency room with a mysterious paralysis. A brilliant brain surgeon performs a speculative procedure that cures the boy. But as the resident monitors her nephew's condition, she begins to wonder if the strange side effects are a result of incompetence or something more sinister.
Forbidden Research
by Howard Simonmedical thriller in which animal rights activist-terrorists will stop at nothing to put an end to animal-based scientific research
The Sigma Protocol
by Robert Ludluminvestment banker narrowly escapes death in switzerland and is drawn into a web of espionage and intrigue
New Afghanistan's TV Anchorwoman
by Anne HartIn the New Afghanistan, powerful women, heroines sometimes not only have to make the news and broadcast it, they also have to solve the mysteries. The author of this book donated a digital copy to Bookshare.org. Join us in thanking Anne Hart for providing her accessible digital book to this community.
Broken Shield: A Ralph Lindsey mystery
by Ben BensonAt 2:15 pm, the State Police cruiser headed out onto Route 110 after a black sedan. Detective Ralph Lindsey was on the way to his first big fall. It seemed like a routine arrest at the beginning - three young hoodlums booked on theft. But Ralph was an eager beaver and he pushed a little too fast. Murder first...unnecessary death...and Lindsey finds himself shunned by his own buddies, playing a long hand in a desperate, last-chance bid to trap a killer.
Red Snow
by Edward TopolAnna Kovina, a courageous and sexy policewoman investigating three murders in Siberia where the Russians are laying a pipeline against the Nenets Eskimos' protestation, encounters a Nenets former lover and a brash American power.
So Like Sleep
by Jeremiah HealyCuddy attempts to exonerate a boy who confessed to murder under hypnosis<P> William Daniels nearly didn’t make it to college. A black student raised in one of Boston’s roughest suburbs, he once barely skirted time in juvenile hall for gang activities. Pressure from his mother convinced William to straighten out, and he went on to study at a prestigious university. Years after his first brush with the law, William is in trouble again, and it will take more than a mother’s love to keep him free.<P> While hypnotized by his psychiatrist, William admits to shooting his girlfriend, producing the murder weapon and telling the doctor where to find the body. When he comes out of his state, William is in handcuffs and thinks he killed the girl. But private eye John Francis Cuddy doesn’t trust the psychiatrist, and risks everything to save this bright young man whose mind has been turned against him.
The Defector
by Evelyn AnthonyThe Defector He was her mission: Ivan Sasanov, top KGB agent and a potentially important defector. She was his debriefer Davina Graham, a dedicated British operative who made her work her life. But he was lonely and bored, and he missed his family. So she took him home. When she fell in love with Sasanov, Davina Graham already knew that he would only co-operate if they brought his wife and daughter out of Russia. It was an almost impossible mission booby-trapped by treachery and studded with deceit but it was one for which she had to volunteer.
Sunflower
by Martha PowersBook Description Someone is killing the young girls of River Oaks. He chooses them carefully, prizing golden blond hair that shimmers like the bright yellow sunflowers dotting the small Midwestern town. He taunts his pursuers by leaving sunflower seeds or blooms at each crime scene. But now the killer's hunger is growing more rapacious- the interval between victims becomes shorter with each life he takes. As the town prepares for its annual sunflower festival, the police are running out of time. Multiple murder was the last thing Lieutenant Sheila Brady expected when she left the Milwaukee P.D. for a quieter town. So was fearing for the life of her young daughter. As a lethal deadline draws near, Sheila is determined to find the killer's weakness and bring him down. But he is about to cast aside the rules of his own game, and set an ingenious trap using Sheila's daughter as a pawn. Now Sheila must use all of her instincts as a detective ... and a mother.
The Weatherman
by Steve ThayerIt's the dead of winter, and a serial killer has frozen a city in fear... Television newscaster Andrea Labore sees it as a career-making story... He's called The Weatherman. And he's going to make Andrea a star... Even if it kills her.
Ulterior Motives
by Daniel Oran"The Firm" meets "The Net" in this riveting page-turner that takes readers to the source of our favorite paranoias--computers and conspiracies--and turns into an exciting tale of microprocessed murder, political power plays, and dangerous pursuit. THE FIRM meets THE NET in Daniel Oran's ULTERIOR MOTIVE. This gripping thriller explores the darkest regions of technology and politics. In a live TV appearance, Jack Malcolm -- billionaire chairman of Megasoft, the Seattle software giant -- is answering tough questions about his Presidential campaign when masked terrorists gun him down. Two weeks later, Jonathan Goodman -- an ambitious young Megasoft project manager -- takes a short cut through a company parking garage and becomes the only witness to a fellow employee's murder. Teaming up with Karen Grey -- a gutsy reporter who is willing to risk her reputation for a story -- Jon stumbles onto a shocking conspiracy. But dangerous men are desperate to stop them. And as they get closer to discovering the astonishing truth, they're suddenly running for their lives -- and running out of time. From its explosive opening to its stunning conclusion, ULTERIOR MOTIVE is totally riveting entertainment.
Abandoned Prayers: An Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession, and Amish Secrets
by Gregg OlsenAn account of Danny Stutzman's abuse and murder by his father, Eli Stutzman.
The Gate
by Bob McguireIt was born five decades ago in war. It has been launched from the heart of foreign power. And it has been primed by betrayal and fanaticism. While America sleeps, while homegrown terrorists are unwittingly manipulated by an unknown master, a hyper-weapon silently approaches San Francisco Bay. And only one man has any chance of stopping it.
Send Another Hearse
by Harold Q. MasurIt was a very simple case -- just a matter of missing money.<P> But it soon become more...a lot more.<P> First there was a young widow whose lust for wealth was insatiable; then there was a half-crazed ex-cop who decided to take the law into his own hands. Add to that a stunningly beautiful model. Soon it was a lot more than just some missing money. Soon it was a web of intrigue and danger. And murder!
The Tunnel
by Peter Mars Michael GloverDrug dealers are missing in Boston. It's not a bad thing, but a good thing! But what is making them disappear?<P> The Tunnel is a fast-paced novel about how the men in blue dispose of drug dealers in the City of Boston. Author Peter Mars, a former police officer in Boston knows the streets -- the drug trade and criminals on them, and the labyrinths of abandoned tunnels beneath them. Many cops in Boston and elsewhere do their best to battle the influence of drug dealers, but some look the other way. Others, the heroes of The Tunnel, decided to eliminate drug dealers by becoming judge, jury and executioner of those who are destroying society. The Tunnel is the gripping story of one such cop, Frank Conley. Conley discovers a cache of money during a routine fire investigation of a burned out drug laboratory. Since the money is unknown to anyone but himself and the dead criminals, he decides to use it to finance his own operation to rid the streets of the dealers. Conley is a man who believes his job is to make the world a better place to live, and this unexpected windfall becomes the financing for his plan. He, and several trusted men in his division, take on the mission of ridding the city of a few bad men. They buy a building with a cellar door that leads to one of the city's abandoned tunnels, and the officers begin to deal with crime and criminals on their own terms.
Air Force One
by Max Allan CollinsIt is called the flying White House, the most tightly guarded airborne fortress in the world . . . until now. Terrorists have seized Air Force One thirty thousand feet above the earth.
Sniper (Seals #10)
by Steve MackenzieIn the deadly world of modern warfare, the art of combat is taken to its awesome limits. Only one fighting unit has the skills and ruthlessness to handle all this power, making every corner of the globe its field of fire; using with chilling efficiency every method of infiltration, demolition, deception, and destruction this side of hell. They're Navy. Those who know about them speak in awed whispers of the men they call the... SEALS.<P> What started as a secret test was now a Navy nightmare! The project: probe the ESP communication capabilities of Tynan's troops. The result: short-tempered sailors who'd rather be fighting than telling fortunes. Except for one - who thinks he can actually see the future... and believes he must commit an atrocity to save the world. Mystic or madman, Tynan must stop him - whatever the cost.
Blue Hearts: A Novel
by Jim LehrerCharles Avenue Henderson and Bruce Conn Clark shared a CIA mission in late November of 1963 that helped change the course of world history. When Henderson, now living the quiet life of a bed and breakfast owner with his beloved wife in rural West Virginia, approaches former Secretary of State Clark at a posh D.C. restaurant and suggests they let some of yesterday's secrets out today Clark responds with a plan that puts Henderson's life at risk and tests both of their dormant "spook" skills. Henderson underestimated the depth of Clark's secrets and Clark underestimated Henderson's resolve. It's a mistake that neither will make again as the old allies match cloaks and daggers against each other.
Barracuda
by Irving A. GreenfieldA military adventure with so many deceitful twists and turns you'll be shocked.
Deadly Silence
by Jodie LarsenA rising young attorney and a public relations specialist believe their futures are assured at a prestigious Oklahoma City law firm. That is, until they're brought together on an important case, with their research revealing the firm's chilling link to a series of infant abductions. Now in their search for the truth, they will find that someone will stop at nothing to ensure their silence--even if it means keeping them quiet in a more permanent way!