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Final Gambit (Hardy Boys Casefiles #62)
by Franklin W. DixonFrom the back of the book: Neon nightmares! A cool million in cash can raise temperatures in even the hottest towns, and no city on earth sizzles like Las Vegas, Nevada. The Hardys have come to the Camelot Casino so Frank can compete in the National Computer Chess Championship. But before the first move is made, the boys find themselves pawns in a chilling kidnapping caper. The daughter of a ruthless local businessman is the victim, and Frank and Joe are prime suspects, The only way to clear their name is find the girl and grab her abductors. But the kidnappers are masters of the game. The Hardys must watch their step and make every move count-or they may end up walking into a deadly desert trap! =============== From inside the book: KNIGHT LIFE The Hardys ran through the hotel, hoping to shake the man who was chasing them. "In here," Joe yelled, running through a door labeled Employees Only. Frank followed, then slammed the door and bolted it behind them. Frank sank to one knee to catch his breath. He noticed he was kneeling in dirt instead of tile or carpet. Then he became aware of a noise like thunder-a rolling, staccato sound that seemed to be growing louder. Frank raised his head. A horse in medieval armor was bearing down on them. Astride the horse was a knight, also in full armor. "W-wait a minute," Frank stammered as he stood up, wondering if he'd been knocked unconscious and was dreaming. The knight's lance was pointed directly at him. Both boys whirled to see another knight on horseback charging from the other side. "It's real!" Joe shouted. "You bet it's real," Frank yelled. "And we're caught in the middle."
Final Girls: A Novel
by Riley SagerTHE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER &“If you liked Gone Girl, you&’ll like this.&”—Stephen King Ten years ago, six friends went on vacation. One made it out alive…. In that instant, college student Quincy Carpenter became a member of a very exclusive club—a group of survivors the press dubbed &“The Final Girls&”: Lisa, who lost nine sorority sisters to a college dropout's knife; Sam, who endured the Sack Man during her shift at the Nightlight Inn; and now Quincy, who ran bleeding through the woods to escape the massacre at Pine Cottage. Despite the media's attempts, the three girls have never met. Now, Quincy is doing well—maybe even great, thanks to her Xanax prescription. She has a caring almost-fiancé; a popular baking blog; a beautiful apartment; and a therapeutic presence in Coop, the police officer who saved her life. Her mind won&’t let her recall the events of that night; the past is in the past…until the first Final Girl is found dead in her bathtub and the second Final Girl appears on Quincy's doorstep. Blowing through Quincy's life like a hurricane, Sam seems intent on making her relive the trauma of her ordeal. When disturbing details about Lisa's death emerge, Quincy desperately tries to unravel Sam's truths from her lies while evading both the police and bloodthirsty reporters. Quincy knows that in order to survive she has to remember what really happened at Pine Cottage. Because the only thing worse than being a Final Girl is being a dead one. WINNER OF THE 2018 INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS AWARD FOR BEST HARDCOVER NOVEL
Final Hour (Novella)
by Dean KoontzFollowing Last Light comes Final Hour, the second of two standalone eBook original novellas leading in to Ashley Bell, the highly anticipated new novel of suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz! Just by touching others, Makani Hisoka-O'Brien can see the darkest secrets they keep. The troubling talent has made the Southern California surfer wary of casual contact. But while impulsively saving a stranger from an accident, she experiences her most disturbing vision. With only a good friend to help her, and mere traces of information to guide her, Makani must track down two mysterious women--one of them innocent, one not. But Makani is stepping into the path of an adversary more dangerous than she can imagine: a brutal predator behind a pretty face, who won't go down without drawing blood. Acclaim for Dean Koontz "Dean Koontz is a prose stylist whose lyricism heightens malevolence and tension. [He creates] characters of unusual richness and depth . . . with a level of perception and sensitivity that is not merely convincing; it's astonishing."--The Seattle Times "Demanding much of itself, Koontz's style bleaches out clichés while showing a genius for details. He leaves his competitors buried in the dust."--Kirkus Reviews "A rarity among bestselling writers, Koontz continues to pursue new ways of telling stories, never content with repeating himself."--Chicago Sun-Times "Tumbling, hallucinogenic prose. 'Serious' writers . . . might do well to examine his technique."--The New York Times Book Review "[Koontz] has always had near-Dickensian powers of description, and an ability to yank us from one page to the next that few novelists can match."--Los Angeles Times "Koontz is a superb plotter and wordsmith. He chronicles the hopes and fears of our time in broad strokes and fine detail, using popular fiction to explore the human condition."--USA Today "Characters and the search for meaning, exquisitely crafted, are the soul of [Koontz's] work. . . . One of the master storytellers of this or any age."--The Tampa Tribune "A literary juggler."--The Times (London)
Final Impact: A Novel of the Axis of Time (Axis of Time #3)
by John Birmingham"The action is nonstop, the characters very real-and very different from each other-and, to coin a phrase, it makes you think." -S. M. Stirling, author of Island in the Sea of Time. In the year 2021 a multinational fleet-experimenting with untested weapons technology-pitched through time, crash-landing in 1942. The world is thrown into chaos as Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, Tojo, and Stalin scramble to adapt to new, high-tech killing tools, and twenty-first-century ways of war. For "uptimers" like Britain's Prince Harry and the men and women who serve aboard the supercarrier USS Hillary Clinton, war is a constant struggle with their own downtime allies, who are mired in ignorance and bigotry. As the Allies counter the Nazi assault and set off for the coast of France, Japan begins to buckle, soon every battle will be played out in a lethal dance of might and intelligence, unholy alliances and desperate gambles, and each clash will be fought with the ultimate weapon; knowledge from the future. Thanks to the historical records, all sides know that two superpowers will emerge, while the losers will be pounded into submission. But time has shifted on its axis, so none know who will survive, or how peace will take hold in a world turned upside down. These are the questions that John Birmingham brilliantly answers in his critically acclaimed adventure of war and imagination. Praise for John Birmingham's Weapons of Choice "Birmingham's enthralling battleground mixes provocative historical fiction and socially conscious futurism." -Entertainment Weekly. "High-tech intrigue and suspense similar to the works of Tom Clancy." -Library Journal
Final Jeopardy (Alexandra Cooper #1)
by Linda FairsteinThe days of Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper often start off badly, but she's never before had to face the morning by reading her own obituary.It doesn't take long to sort out why it was printed: a woman's body has been found in a car rented in Alex's name in the driveway of her weekend home. It's not so easy to work out why her lodger - an acclaimed Hollywood star - was murdered, or to be sure that the killer had found the right victim.As Alex's job is to send killers and rapists to jail there are plenty of suspects who might be seeking revenge, and whoever it is needs to be found before Alex's obituary gets reprinted...
Final Jeopardy: A Novel (An Alexandra Cooper Novel #1)
by Linda FairsteinFrom the former chief of the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan District Attorney&’s office comes the bestselling thriller featuring a New York City prosecutor unraveling a terrifying and brutal murder mystery. Alexandra Cooper, Manhattan&’s top sex crimes prosecutor, awakens one morning to shocking news: a tabloid headline announcing her own violent murder. Confused and horrified, Alex discovers that the actual victim was Isabella Lascar, a Hollywood film actress who was staying at Alex&’s Martha&’s Vineyard retreat. This only raises more questions: was Isabella slain by a stalker or was Alex herself the intended target? In an investigation that twists from the alleys of lower Manhattan to the chic boutiques of the Upper East Side, Alex has to get inside the killer&’s head before the killer gets to her. &“With riveting authenticity&” (Vanity Fair), Final Jeopardy is a fast-paced and explosive thriller that only Linda Fairstein could write.
Final Judgment
by Joel GoldmanFast, furious. . . sharp, stylish writing. --Jeffery DeaverHead GamesA man's body is found decapitated. Wrapped in plastic. Stuffed in the trunk of a Fleetwood Cadillac parked outside a federal courthouse. The car's owner: a sweet-natured con man who's on trial for mail fraud--but innocent of murder. Kansas City defense attorney Lou Mason has no idea how a corpse ended up in his client's car. But when the victim is identified as a criminal defendant in a sexually charged lawsuit, Mason is forced to team up with a woman from his past--a brilliant FBI agent who may be playing head games of her own. . . Praise for Joel GoldmanLocked and loaded and full of the blood of character and the gritty detail that make up the truth. . . I loved it. --Michael Connelly on ShakedownA page-turner that keeps going full speed until the very end. --Faye Kellerman on No Way OutGoldman is the real deal. --John LescroartA page-turner of the highest caliber. --Michael Connelly
Final Justice
by Nancy KoppIn her most powerful thriller to date, the acclaimed author of Absent Witness tackles the issues that divide our nation-and challenge our laws-in a story as dramatic as today's headlines. When attorney Ann Monroe agrees to represent the victim of a brutal crime, she becomes the target of a group that believes in defending the right to hate ... with acts of violence.
Final Justice (Badge Of Honor #8)
by W.E.B. GriffinDetective Matt Payne-newly promoted to Sergeant and assigned to Homicide-finds himself in the middle of three major assignments. The first, a fatal shooting at a fast-food restaurant, seems simple, but rapidly becomes complicated. <P><P> The second begins complicated and only gets more so, as Payne becomes involved with a local guru who has fled the country, leaving behind the mummified body of his girlfriend in a trunk. And, as if that weren't enough, the self-absorbed star of a series of improbable police movies comes into town-and it is his presence that will complicate Payne's life most of all. Filled with color and detail and plots as real as the headlines, this is a riveting novel of the men and women who put their lives on the line, from the cop on the beat to the commissioner himself.
Final Justice (Reunion Revelations #6)
by Marta PerryA man discovers he has a child and must rescue her from the clutches of cold-blooded killer in this romantic suspense.A DNA test revealed that Mason Grant had a nine-year-old daughter. He’d had no idea that the woman he’d loved and so tragically lost had been pregnant. Or that his own child had been in the custody of the woman’s murderer all these years.Now the killer wanted Mason to pay—in more ways than one—for the return of the girl. And for daring to find love with old friend Jennifer Pappas. But the only payback the cold-blooded murderer would get was final justice.
Final Justice (Sisterhood #12)
by Fern MichaelsFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Collateral Damage. &“Spunky women who fight for truth, justice, and the American way.&”—Fresh Fiction The seven women of the Sisterhood—Myra, Annie, Kathryn, Alexis, Yoko, Nikki, and Isabelle—have risked everything in the name of justice, including their own freedom. Their most recent mission promised to reward them with a presidential pardon and a chance to leave their enforced exile. But before they can enjoy their prize, they&’ll have to tackle a risky new operation in the heart of Sin City. Myra and Annie&’s childhood friend, Beatrice, needs a favor. Her estranged daughter, Marble Rose, has been enjoying a stroke of good luck at the casinos lately—the kind of luck that makes enemies of the most powerful people in Vegas. Those people want Marble Rose stopped, permanently. But as the Sisters investigate with the help of their ally and attorney, Lizzie Fox, they discover a web of corruption that will pit them against their most ruthless opponent yet. Armed with Alexis&’s red bag of tricks, the ladies are about to put a daring plan in action. They&’ve never failed before, but in Vegas, there are no sure bets—and this time, they&’ll have to wager everything they hold dear . . . Series praise &“Readers looking for an updated Charlie&’s Angels in &‘wild women&’ mode will be most satisfied.&”—Publishers Weekly on Lethal Justice &“Readers will enjoy seeing what happens when well-funded, very angry women take the law into their own hands.&”—Booklist on Weekend Warriors &“Delectable . . . deliver[s] revenge that&’s creatively swift and sweet, Michaels-style.&”—
Final Justice (Unit One)
by Jasmine CresswellHE WAS A FATHER?A DNA test revealed that Mason Grant had a nine-year-old daughter.He’d had no idea that the woman he’d loved and so tragically lost hadbeen pregnant. Or that his own child had been in the custody of thewoman’s murderer all these years.Now the killer wanted Mason to pay-in more ways than one-for the return of the girl. And for daring to find love with old friendJennifer Pappas. But the only payback the cold-blooded murdererwould get was final justice.REUNION REVELATIONS:Secrets surface when old friends-and foes-get together.
Final Mend
by Angela SmithA recovering alcoholic, Jake Inman has found a new, healthier addiction: training for his successful triathlon career. But when his manager is murdered and beloved goddaughter kidnapped, another obsession takes hold: doing whatever it takes to find Brandon's killer and keep Amy safe. Jake turns to a private investigator for help in solving the case, and though he finds temptation in her whiskey-colored eyes, he knows he must resist his attraction, or risk losing his heart.After a devastating case, Winona Wall has turned her back on her skills as a private investigator, preferring a quiet life as a part-time bartender. That is, until Jake storms into the bar, demanding her help in tracking his missing godchild. Unable to resist Jake's charm, she reluctantly agrees. But even after Amy is found unharmed, Jake insists Amy's mother was more involved with her kidnapping than the police suspect. When the situation takes a turn for the worse, Winona must trust her instincts in order to save them all--and avoid falling in love.Sensuality Level: Sensual
Final Mend
by Angela SmithA recovering alcoholic, Jake Inman has found a new, healthier addiction: training for his successful triathlon career. But when his manager is murdered and beloved goddaughter kidnapped, another obsession takes hold: doing whatever it takes to find Brandon’s killer and keep Amy safe. Jake turns to a private investigator for help in solving the case, and though he finds temptation in her whiskey-colored eyes, he knows he must resist his attraction, or risk losing his heart.After a devastating case, Winona Wall has turned her back on her skills as a private investigator, preferring a quiet life as a part-time bartender. That is, until Jake storms into the bar, demanding her help in tracking his missing godchild. Unable to resist Jake’s charm, she reluctantly agrees. But even after Amy is found unharmed, Jake insists Amy’s mother was more involved with her kidnapping than the police suspect. When the situation takes a turn for the worse, Winona must trust her instincts in order to save them all—and avoid falling in love.Sensuality Level: Sensual
Final Mend
by Angela SmithA recovering alcoholic, Jake Inman has found a new, healthier addiction: training for his successful triathlon career. But when his manager is murdered and beloved goddaughter kidnapped, another obsession takes hold: doing whatever it takes to find Brandon’s killer and keep Amy safe. Jake turns to a private investigator for help in solving the case, and though he finds temptation in her whiskey-colored eyes, he knows he must resist his attraction, or risk losing his heart.After a devastating case, Winona Wall has turned her back on her skills as a private investigator, preferring a quiet life as a part-time bartender. That is, until Jake storms into the bar, demanding her help in tracking his missing godchild. Unable to resist Jake’s charm, she reluctantly agrees. But even after Amy is found unharmed, Jake insists Amy’s mother was more involved with her kidnapping than the police suspect. When the situation takes a turn for the worse, Winona must trust her instincts in order to save them all—and avoid falling in love.Sensuality Level: Sensual
Final Notes
by Carolyn KeeneNancy visits deceased country singer Curtis Taylor's hometown to investigate a report that Taylor has been seen alive. But Nancy discovers that he's not only dead; he was also murdered! Nancy must work quickly to unmask an elusive murderer at the memorial concert for Taylor.
Final Notice
by Jonathan ValinShe was perfect. She smelled of toothpaste, talc, and something sweeter than lilacs. And in that crazy season of autumn, when Cincinnati was ablaze in the blood-red color of fall, Kate Davis made Harry Stoner feel old, and a little in love too. But for Harry Stoner those were only two more reasons that Kate shouldn't have anything more to do with this case. Because what had started with a twisted act of vandalism in the local library had led Kate and Harry, paired together, on a twisting path to a brutal, unsolved murder and to a pumped-up, speeded-up psycho. Now the May-December thing has to stop. The man Harry and Kate are after was using the cut-up pictures of women to tell the whole world what he intended to do. The last thing he needs is the perfect girl to do it to...
Final Notice (Miss Zukas Mystery #6)
by Jo DereskeLibrarian Helma Zukas usually keeps her home as well organized as the library where she works so she never expected a visit from her elderly Aunt Em to turn her life into chaos and provide her with the makings of a hair-raising whodunit. The moment Helma and her fearless friend Ruth arrive at the airport to pick up the slightly dotty dowager, the trouble begins when the dear lady's purse is snatched. Thinking the incident is safely filed away, they are shocked to arrive home with the recovered purse only to discover the dead body of the would-be thief outside Helma's apartment. Helma can't believe her favorite aunt would be involved in anything unsavory but, with a little investigation, she discovers that Aunt Em's life is not quite an open book. It appears that some dark secrets are about to come to light, and unless Helma can learn the whole story, the final chapters are about to be written as tale of mystery, mayhem...and murder.
Final Notice: A DKA File Novel
by Joe Gores"First-class private eye fiction." — Chicago TribuneAn aging beauty's red Cadillac is repossessed by the bank but quickly returned, thanks to a comic book on its front seat stuffed with $500 in new bills. The repo agency, Dan Kearny Associates, has accidentally interfered with a mob payoff. When one of their agents suffers a savage beatdown by a pair of underworld goons, the DKA team is plunged into a dark mystery involving a former porn star, a blackmail scheme, and a series of murders.Author Joe Gores was hailed by critic Anthony Boucher as "one of the very few authentic private eyes to enter the field of fiction since Dashiell Hammett." The three-time Edgar Award winner's firsthand experience as a detective adds a tough realism to Final Notice, the second book in his DKA File series. This new edition includes a bonus DKA short story by Gores, "File #10: The Maimed and the Halt.""Tight, tense, beautifully plotted." — The New York Times"Gores writes some of the hardest, smoothest, most lucid prose in the field." — The New York Times Book Review
Final Notice: A Dka File Novel (DKA Files)
by Joe GoresThe bank gives Chandra the dancer final notice; Daniel Kearny Associates take her red Caddy, then the trouble starts. In the car the DKA men find $500 in new bills. Suddenly the bank wants to give the Caddy back, and Dan Kearny smells a crime. Putting a tail on Chandra leads the DKA team to a mobster, a former porn star and the wrong side of a blackmail payoff.At the end of the trail waits an underworld shark with a deadly grin - the kind of man who plays murderous games, and plays to win ...
Final Option (The Oregon Files #14)
by Clive Cussler Boyd MorrisonIn Final Option, Juan Cabrillo fights the worst enemy from his past to the terrifying and unexpected ending created by the Grand Master of Adventure, Clive Cussler, in the latest action-packed thriller in his #1 New York Times-bestselling series. <P><P>When the CIA realizes the identities of three American spies in Brazil have been compromised, they turn to Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon to rescue the agents. What seems a routine operation turns out to be a trap designed by Juan Cabrillo's greatest enemy, a man driven by hate to seek the ultimate revenge. <P><P>At the heart of the plot is a state-of-the-art ship that is identical to the Oregon: same weaponry, same technology, same ability to evade capture. The only thing it doesn't have is Cabrillo and his talented crew. But will they be enough to go up against the one ship that rivals their own? <P><P>The crew of the Oregon must piece together a series of disturbing events, including the mysterious sinking of a nuclear attack submarine and the possible discovery of a WWII-era weapon that was thought to be lost in the jungles of Brazil, in the ultimate game of cat and mouse. <P><P><b>A New York Times Bestseller</b>
Final Payment: A Posadas County Mystery (Posadas County Mysteries #0)
by Steven F. HavillThe rugged Cat Mesa country north of the village of Posadas is hosting the first annual Posadas 100, a cycle-cross bicycle race that promises to attract more than 140 competitors. Despite enough injuries during the pre-race practice to promise a spectacular and dangerous race, Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman has even more pressing concerns on her mind. Someone has been using Jerry Turner's big Cessna 206 and then returning it to its hangar at the Posadas airport. Did the airplane end up in Mexico?Estelle has worries at home as well. Facing his first public piano recital, her prodigiously talented seven-year-old son is stubbornly refusing to tell anyone what he plans to play, and it's making everyone, including his music teacher, very nervous. The day of the big race brings a tragedy that doesn't look like an accident, and as the investigation continues, puzzling connections surface deep in Mexico.
Final Portrait (Murder Room #232)
by Vera Caspary'Vera Caspary and others were the forerunners of Gillian Flynn, Megan Abbott, Laura Lippmann and of course, Paula Hawkins' Irish TimesRenowned painter Henry Leveret is found shot dead in his downtown studio, and his estranged son, Michael, returns to his family and his father's circle of friends in order to try to find out who killed him.There are plenty of suspects: his gallery manager, Chandler Sprague, who is in love with Henry's widow; his wealthy heiress assistant Janet Altheim, who was in love with him; and her lover Bruno, who resented Henry are just a few on Michael's list.But Leveret was writing a biography of sorts, his own confession, when he was shot. Was he about to reveal something, a secret that cost him his life?
Final Proof
by Marie RenoMarcia Richardson was found slumped over a set of galley proofs on a Tuesday morning in mid-July. She had been dead at least twelve hours, the police estimated, shot twice through the head at close range by a .22 revolver. Although her fingers had been wrapped around the gun in a clumsy attempt to make the death look like suicide, there was little doubt she had been murdered. Marcia was editorial director of the Readers’ Circle, which ranks with Book-of-the-Month Club and the Literary Guild as one of the Big Three in book clubs. In the small, interconnected world of New York publishing, Marcia’s death set off shock waves. Among those most intimately affected was her friend and colleague, Karen Lindstrom, editor of a smaller book club: Mystery, Suspense, and Intrigue. As a longtime reader of Agatha Christie and Rex Stout, Karen was well acquainted with fictional crime, but she was hardly prepared to cope with the real thing. As an interested observer, however, she had a fund of information about Marcia and the world of publishing that seemed to exert an increasing fascination for Lieutenant Jack Morrison of the New York Police. He wasn’t quite sure he wanted her assistance in solving the case, but he kept inventing excuses to go back and see her again. And Karen was increasingly drawn to him. Together, though sometimes working at cross purposes, they checked out all the men and women in Marcia’s world. It was a chase that led in and out of the New York publishing scene to a surprising but eminently satisfying conclusion.
Final Proof (Library of Congress Crime Classics)
by Rodrigues OttolenguiTwelve mysteries, dozens of clues, and two detectives matching witsDetective Jack Barnes is good at his job—no nonsense and thorough, his dogged nature makes him the best at what he does. Mr. Robert Leroy Mitchel is entirely different: a gentleman and an amateur sleuth, Mitchel is confident in his ability to find answers where the professionals cannot. But by choice or circumstance the two are thrown together in pursuit of the truth. Sometimes partners, often competitors, these dueling detectives tackle a slew of unsolvable cases in Gilded Age New York: a body washed up in the river after its cremation, the disappearance of a priceless emerald that leaves a trail of death in its wake, and an IOU demanding a man's life, to name a few.A long-neglected master of detective stories, Rodrigues Ottolengui was a gifted dentist and lover of mysteries whose work established forensic dentistry as a science and emphasized the value of evidence. Through crisp prose, captivating plot twists, and charming characters, Ottolengui's collection of stories delves into the bizarre—sometimes dangerous, sometimes ridiculous—side of human nature.