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Fallout
by Carrie Stuart ParksHer carefully crafted life is about to be demolished.After a difficult childhood, Samantha Williams craves simplicity: jigsaw puzzles, lectures at the library, and the students she adores in her role as an elementary school art teacher in the dusty farming community of LaCrosse, Washington.But when an SUV crashes into the building where she teaches, her entire world is upended. Samantha manages to keep the children safe, but her car isn&’t so lucky. Oddly, her purse—with her driver&’s license, credit cards, and other identification—is missing from the wreckage.After authorities discover that the driver in the accident was shot seconds before the crash, Samantha quickly becomes entangled in increasingly strange events that have her constantly looking over her shoulder.Samantha has long tried to forget the tragedy of her past, but the twisting connections she discovers between the murdered driver, a deadly secret government project, and an abandoned town can't be ignored. Those involved are determined to keep these secrets buried, and they&’ll use any means necessary to stop Samantha&’s search for truth.Full-length, stand-alone suspense novelAward-winning, bestselling authorIncludes discussion questions for book clubs
Fallout
by Jordan RosenfeldJournalist Justine Goodman, stifled by new motherhood, surrenders to an obsession with Project Nemesis—an all-women group of eco-anarchists set on dismantling dirty energy companies. She risks everything to gain entry into their inner circle, but tragedy strikes before she can even begin to savor her involvement. Zoe Rasmussen, wearied by her role as energy magnate Phil Rasmussen's wife, clings unhappily to her situation for her daughter's sake. When grief-stricken Justine, armed and unhinged, appears with a demand, Zoe is torn between terror and excitement. But Justine's actions have unwittingly attracted dangerous forces, and as these women hurtle towards collision, they each face the choice: uphold what's right, or risk shattering their lives.
The Fallout (Freyja and Huldar #6)
by Yrsa Sigurdardottir'A magnificent writer' KARIN SLAUGHTERA murdered woman. A missing child. And a father intent on revenge.On a cold day in Reykjavik, a baby goes missing from her pram. When the child's blanket washes up on the beach, and the mother is found dead, everyone's worst fears seem to have been realised.Eleven years later, and detective Huldar and child psychologist Freyja are now working in the same police building, on the same team. Freyja believes that personal and professional relationships must remain separate, however hard that may be. But when a woman's dismembered body is found in a deserted car, her head missing, and Freyja and Huldar find themselves working on the same case, the secrecy around their affair threatens to crack. And when Freyja is accused of a serious breach of police protocol, will Huldar be able to help her? Meanwhile, their search to identify the body takes the case back into secrets of the past, and the unspoken crimes that bind three separate families.The Silence is the gripping and terrifying new novel from the acclaimed author of international bestsellers The Doll and Gallows Rock.
The Fallout (Freyja and Huldar #6)
by Yrsa Sigurdardottir'A magnificent writer' KARIN SLAUGHTERA murdered woman. A missing child. And a father intent on revenge.On a cold day in Reykjavik, a baby goes missing from her pram. When the child's blanket washes up on the beach, and the mother is found dead, everyone's worst fears seem to have been realised.Eleven years later, and detective Huldar and child psychologist Freyja are now working in the same police building, on the same team. Freyja believes that personal and professional relationships must remain separate, however hard that may be. But when a woman's dismembered body is found in a deserted car, her head missing, and Freyja and Huldar find themselves working on the same case, the secrecy around their affair threatens to crack. And when Freyja is accused of a serious breach of police protocol, will Huldar be able to help her? Meanwhile, their search to identify the body takes the case back into secrets of the past, and the unspoken crimes that bind three separate families.The Silence is the gripping and terrifying new novel from the acclaimed author of international bestsellers The Doll and Gallows Rock.
The Fallout (Freyja and Huldar #6)
by Yrsa Sigurdardottir'A magnificent writer' KARIN SLAUGHTERDetective Huldar and psychologist Freyja are once again working together to solve a mysterious case in this incredible new novel.A murdered woman. A missing child. And a father intent on revenge.On a cold day in Reykjavik, a baby goes missing from her pram. When the child's blanket washes up on the beach, and the mother is found dead, everyone's worst fears seem to have been realised.Eleven years later, and detective Huldar and child psychologist Freyja are now working in the same police building, on the same team. Freyja believes that personal and professional relationships must remain separate, however hard that may be. But when a woman's dismembered body is found in a deserted car, her head missing, and Freyja and Huldar find themselves working on the same case, the secrecy around their affair threatens to crack. And when Freyja is accused of a serious breach of police protocol, will Huldar be able to help her? Meanwhile, their search to identify the body takes the case back into secrets of the past, and the unspoken crimes that bind three separate families.The Silence is the gripping and terrifying new novel from the acclaimed author of international bestsellers The Doll and Gallows Rock.(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Fallout
by Paul ThomasTito Ihaka, the unkempt, overweight Maori cop, was demoted to Sergeant due to insubordination and pigheadedness. He investigates the unsolved killing of a seventeen-year-old girl at an election night party in a ritzy villa near Auckland. Ihaka is also embroiled in a very personal mystery. A freelance journalist has stumbled across information that Ihaka's father, Jimmy, a trade union firebrand and renegade Marxist, didn't die of natural causes. The stories weave themselves into an exciting climax in an atmosphere of political maneuvering and intrigue surrounding the United States' confrontation with New Zealand over its anti-nuclear stance.
The Falls
by Karen HarperIt is the spectacular waterfall that first drew Claire and Keith away from their fast-paced, high-tech careers to pursue the dream of opening a bed-and-breakfast in the rustic lodge above Bloodroot River. But the dream becomes a nightmare when Keith's body is found snagged in the river rapids, his death ruled a suicide. Claire knows her husband would never take his own life. But local sheriff Nick Braden thinks her suspicions of foul play are unfounded. Despite his skepticism, Nick and Claire start digging and what they uncover paints a shocking portrait of what really happened that September night.
The Falls
by Ian RankinThe twelfth Inspector Rebus bestseller - a powerfully gripping novel where past and present collide...From the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES'This is, quite simply, crime writing of the highest order' DAILY EXPRESS'The unopposed champion of the British police procedural' GUARDIANA student has gone missing in Edinburgh. She's not just any student, though, but the daughter of well-to-do and influential bankers. There's almost nothing to go on until DI John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that there's more to this than just another runaway spaced out on unaccustomed freedom. Two leads emerge: a carved wooden doll in a toy coffin, found in the student's home village, and an internet role-playing game. The ancient and the modern, brought together by uncomfortable circumstance...
The Falls (A Rebus Novel)
by Ian RankinThe twelfth Inspector Rebus bestseller - a powerfully gripping novel where past and present collide...From the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES'This is, quite simply, crime writing of the highest order' DAILY EXPRESS'The unopposed champion of the British police procedural' GUARDIANA student has gone missing in Edinburgh. She's not just any student, though, but the daughter of well-to-do and influential bankers. There's almost nothing to go on until DI John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that there's more to this than just another runaway spaced out on unaccustomed freedom. Two leads emerge: a carved wooden doll in a toy coffin, found in the student's home village, and an internet role-playing game. The ancient and the modern, brought together by uncomfortable circumstance...
The Falls: The number one bestselling series that inspired BBC One’s REBUS (A Rebus Novel)
by Ian RankinA student has gone missing in Edinburgh. She's not just any student, though, but the daughter of well-to-do and influential bankers. There's almost nothing to go on until DI John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that there's more to this than just another runaway spaced out on unaccustomed freedom. Two leads emerge: a carved wooden doll in a toy coffin, found in the student's home village, and an internet role-playing game. The ancient and the modern, brought together by uncomfortable circumstance...Read by James Macpherson(p) 2001 Orion Publishing Group
The Falls: The number one bestselling series that inspired BBC One’s REBUS (A Rebus Novel)
by Ian RankinA student has gone missing in Edinburgh. She's not just any student, though, but the daughter of well-to-do and influential bankers. There's almost nothing to go on until DI John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that there's more to this than just another runaway spaced out on unaccustomed freedom. Two leads emerge: a carved wooden doll in a toy coffin, found in the student's home village, and an internet role-playing game. The ancient and the modern, brought together by uncomfortable circumstance...Read by James Macpherson(p) 2015 Orion Publishing Group
Falsa innocenza
by Rossana C. L. Alessandra CesanaLa modella Verónica Dreick, decisa ad intercambiare una preziosa informazione per molto denaro, scompare senza poter portare a termine il suo compito. I fatti accadono nel Principato di Monaco, dove la sua amica Marian Fynch e la famiglia di questa l'attendono per trascorrere delle piacevoli vacanze. Tuttavia, dopo qualche ora d'inquietudine per la scomparsa della ragazza, Veronica chiama da Firenze, dando così segni di vita. Vincent Fynch, il fratelo di Marian viaggia fino alla bella città italiana per cercare di conquistare la bella modella desiderando allo stesso tempo, vincere la forte attrazione che sente per la sensuale decoratrice Cat Preston, che mantiene una relazone amorosa con l'architetto e padre del ragazzo, Phil Fynch. Ma che segreto nasconde Veronica? Può essere realzionato con la misteriosa scomparsa del fotografo Alessio Rosso? Il fratello di questo Greg Rosso, cercherà di arrivare alla verità con la speranza di trovare Alessio in vita. La principale indiziata è la famosa modella Belinda Star, con la quale il fotografo manteneva una tormentata relazione. Ma, sarà realmente lei la colpevole?.
¿Falsa o seductora? (Contigo a cualquier hora #Volumen 9)
by Marian ArpaUn policía que le quería dar esquinazo al amor. Una florista a quien no le hacía falta ningún hombre para ser feliz. Hugo Chacón era policía por vocación, le encantaba su trabajo, y divertirse con su grupo de amigos que eran como hermanos. Él estaba contento de que los demás se enamoraran, pero a él ya le pasó y no estaba por la labor de repetir. Estaba satisfecho con su vida, con su trabajo y con su hijo, Jandro, fruto de un matrimonio anterior. Paula Zamorano era una florista vecina de Hugo, era una mujer emprendedora y no quería que ningún hombre gobernase su vida. En su pasado vivió varias experiencias que la dejaron marcada y se creó una existencia a su medida. Su amor son las flores y su trabajo. La plácida existencia de ambos se verá sacudida cuando llegue a la comunidad una nueva vecina que se encaprichará de Hugo. ¿Qué hará la nueva vecina cuando vea que Hugo no cae en sus redes? ¿Qué pasará cuando en el edificio en que viven huela a marihuana? Paula es la principal sospechosa, después de todo tiene un invernadero en la terraza interior. ¿Qué hará Hugo al respecto?
Falsas memórias
by Blake CrouchMelhor livro do ano pela Time • NPR • Book Riot E se alguém pudesse reescrever a sua vida? A realidade é feita de memórias. É nisso que acredita Barry Sutton, um inspetor da Polícia de Nova Iorque que se encontra a investigar um fenómeno invulgar chamado Síndrome das Falsas Memórias – uma misteriosa doença que enlouquece as suas vítimas com recordações de uma vida que nunca viveram. Também Helena Smith acredita nisso. Como neurocientista, tem dedicado a sua vida à criação de uma tecnologia que nos permita preservar as memórias mais preciosas. Se for bem-sucedida, qualquer pessoa poderia revisitar o primeiro beijo, o nascimento de um filho ou o último momento de um ente querido. Porém, à medida que a realidade começa a fraturar-se, Barry e Helena percebem que talvez exista algo mais sinistro do que a doença a ameaçar o mundo tal como o conhecem — algo que não ataca somente as memórias, mas o próprio passado. Juntos, iniciam um trabalho em contrarrelógio com o intuito de encontrar uma solução para este fenómeno. Mas como conseguirão fazê-lo, se a própria realidade parece desmoronar-se à volta deles? Os elogios da crítica: «Gloriosamente retorcido… Uma história inebriante, como as que se contam à volta da fogueira.»The New York Times Book Review «Um profundo thriller de ficção científica. Blake Crouch mistura ciência e intriga com mestria na experiência do que significa ser profundamente humano.»Newsweek «Blake Crouch dá uma nova vida a estes temas com uma combinação de emoção, inteligência e meditações filosóficas.» Entertainment Weekly«Uma alucinante viagem pela memória. (…) A inteligência de Blake Crouch está à altura do desafio que criou de superar a estrutura do próprio tempo.»Time «Um thriller inteligente e alucinante… BlakeCrouch integra sem esforço conceitos filosóficos sofisticados num enredo complexo e envolvente.»Publishers Weekly «Mais um livro vencedor de um autor no seu melhor.»AV Club «Um livro brilhantemente único e repleto de ação que me manteve acordado até tardee me fez fugir às responsabilidades até ter devorado a última página… Uma leitura fantástica.»Andy Weir, autor bestseller de O Marciano
False Accusations
by Alan JacobsonA surgeon charged with double homicide is out to clear his name in this debut thriller from the USA Today–bestselling author of the Karen Veil series. Dr. Phillip Madison has everything: wealth, power, and an impeccable reputation. But in the pre-dawn hours of a quiet California suburb, the revered orthopedic surgeon is charged with double homicide—a cold-blooded hit-and-run that has left an innocent young couple dead. Blood evidence has brought the police to his door. An eyewitness has placed him at the crime scene . . . and Madison has no alibi. With his family torn apart, his career forever damaged, no way to prove his innocence, and facing life in prison, Madison hires an investigator to find the person who has engineered the case against him. As his privileged world is brought crashing down by a psychotic seductress, as family and friends abandon him, Madison&’s only hope for vindication rests in revealing a truth at the heart of a lie. It is a disclosure that could cost him more than he ever imagined.False Accusations is a psychological thriller that instantly became a national bestseller and launched Alan Jacobson&’s career, a novel that spurred CNN to call him &“one of the brightest stars in the publishing industry.&”
False Allegations
by Andrew VachssBurke, ex-con, mercenary, and rumored hit man, makes his living by preying on New York's most vicious predators and occasionally avenging their innocent victims. But in Andrew Vachss's mercilessly suspenseful new novel, Burke finds himself working the other side of the street, where guilt and innocence are as disposable as the sheets in a Times Square hotel . . . and as dirty. Burke's new employer is Kite, a fanatical crusader who specializes in debunking "false allegations" of child sexual abuse. Kite has a case that may be the real thing, but needs Burke to tell him if it is. And if mere money can't persuade Burke to cooperate, Kite has plenty of other incentives at his disposal, including an over-zealous bodyguard with a taste for corsets and brass knuckles. A tour guide to hell written in icy prose, False Allegations is Vachss at his most unnerving. "Burke is the toughest talking first-person narrator since Mike Hammer. " - Los Angeles Times "Vachss . . . writes hypnotically violent prose. " - Chicago Sun-Times
False Cargo
by L. Ron HubbardDiscover intrigue. Brent Calloway is hired by an insurance firm to board a cargo vessel undercover and ensure it makes its way to San Diego in one piece. Once the voyage is underway, Calloway finds fraud, a pattern of organized scuttlings and the true fate of another vessel captained by an old friend. But when Calloway's true identity is revealed, he must fight for his life--and the real danger begins. ALSO INCLUDES THE ADVENTURE STORY "GROUNDED""...one of the great pulp writers, with colorful prose, lively action writing, exotic locales, fresh variations on standard characters and situations, and well-constructed plots."--Ellery Queen
False Charity (The Abbot Agency Mysteries #1)
by Veronica HeleyNewly widowed Bea Abbot must decide what to do with her deceased husband's business, an exclusive organization handling domestic crises. Though Bea is tempted to sell up, she soon begins investigating an accounting irregularity within a catering firm. What Bea doesn't know (but will soon discover) is that someone is way out of control, and finding it all too easy to kill . . .
False Colors
by Richard PowellWhat you're starting to read now is called a jacket blurb. Its purpose is to tell you enough about the book to steam you up into reading it. Jacket blurbs are usually written by publishers, and sometimes they fib a little about how wonderful the book is.But this time the publisher asked me, the author, to write the blurb. I suppose that, after publishing nine other Powell novels, Simon and Schuster feel I ought to do my own exaggerating for a change. So let's get that over with: "This is a magnificent book and you'll love every word of it." Now we can relax.This is a mystery novel. The hero is a young Philadelphia art dealer who gets mixed up in dirty work in the field of art collecting. Maybe I shouldn't call him a hero. If he ever did have the usual mystery story hero's nerves of steel and muscles of iron, they certainly got badly rusted. He's slow and cautious. In fact the guy admits that, in the great race of life, he's just along for the walk. He gets scared in tough spots. I felt sorry about shoving him into so much trouble, even though I did give him a jet-propelled blonde heroine as a sort of workmen's compensation for his injuries. Still and all, there are easier ways of winning a pretty blonde than by battling strong-arm guys, gunmen and a murderer, and I think my hero would have preferred them. I know I would.This story took a lot of research. I read stacks of art books, and talked to artists and dealers. I prowled through museums peering at famous paintings through a magnifying glass. My new knowledge even impresses my artist friends, and it's mighty hard for a writer to impress an artist. To most artists, a writer is a vandal who takes white space that could be used for pictures and clutters it up with words.I've tried to get some of the flavor of Philadelphia into the book. That's an elusive thing to pin down in words, but here's an example of what Philadelphia is like. In most cities, if you owned a valuable old Chippendale chair, you would call everyone's attention to your prize. In Philadelphia, you would sit in it.I hope you like the book. Don't try to please me by saying you stayed up after midnight finishing it, though. It never seems fair to me that people can read in just a few hours something that took me a year to write.--Richard Powell
False Colors
by Richard PowellWhat you’re starting to read now is called a jacket blurb. Its purpose is to tell you enough about the book to steam you up into reading it. Jacket blurbs are usually written by publishers, and sometimes they fib a little about how wonderful the book is.But this time the publisher asked me, the author, to write the blurb. I suppose that, after publishing nine other Powell novels, Simon and Schuster feel I ought to do my own exaggerating for a change. So let’s get that over with: “This is a magnificent book and you’ll love every word of it.” Now we can relax.This is a mystery novel. The hero is a young Philadelphia art dealer who gets mixed up in dirty work in the field of art collecting. Maybe I shouldn’t call him a hero. If he ever did have the usual mystery story hero’s nerves of steel and muscles of iron, they certainly got badly rusted. He’s slow and cautious. In fact the guy admits that, in the great race of life, he’s just along for the walk. He gets scared in tough spots. I felt sorry about shoving him into so much trouble, even though I did give him a jet-propelled blonde heroine as a sort of workmen’s compensation for his injuries. Still and all, there are easier ways of winning a pretty blonde than by battling strong-arm guys, gunmen and a murderer, and I think my hero would have preferred them. I know I would.This story took a lot of research. I read stacks of art books, and talked to artists and dealers. I prowled through museums peering at famous paintings through a magnifying glass. My new knowledge even impresses my artist friends, and it’s mighty hard for a writer to impress an artist. To most artists, a writer is a vandal who takes white space that could be used for pictures and clutters it up with words.I’ve tried to get some of the flavor of Philadelphia into the book. That’s an elusive thing to pin down in words, but here’s an example of what Philadelphia is like. In most cities, if you owned a valuable old Chippendale chair, you would call everyone’s attention to your prize. In Philadelphia, you would sit in it.I hope you like the book. Don’t try to please me by saying you stayed up after midnight finishing it, though. It never seems fair to me that people can read in just a few hours something that took me a year to write.--Richard Powell
False Conception
by GreenleafPerforming a background check on a prospective surrogate mother for childless tycoons Millicent and Stuart Colbert, detective John Marshall Tanner uncovers terrible secrets when the surrogate disappears two months into her pregnancy.
False Convictions (Casey Jordan #3)
by Tim GreenIn bestselling author Tim Green's latest thriller, Casey Jordan returns--seeking justice in a small town riddled with FALSE CONVICTIONS. Casey is counting on an open-and-shut case, a sure success for her first effort with the Freedom Project, the renowned charity group dedicated to helping exonerate wrongfully convicted prisoners. Not only is the Freedom Project giving Casey the chance to help innocent people, but its founder, Robert Graham, is offering Casey a one-million-dollar annual pledge to her legal clinic for taking on just two jobs a year. Her first assignment is to revive the case of Dwayne Hubbard, an indigent black man serving a life sentence for the rape and murder of a college student seventeen years ago. Using DNA evidence, Casey expects to easily prove Hubbard's innocence. Yet when she arrives in rural Auburn, New York, she meets immediate and aggressive resistance. Tormented by death threats and assassination attempts, Casey investigates a prosecution apparently rife with lies. From the judge, the lawyers, the jury, to the police, she traces a web of corruption surrounding the destruction of one young man. But in all the chaos, Casey's hardest challenge may be just staying alive.
False Evidence (Prologue Crime)
by E. Phillips OppenheimThe story of a gallant soldier who is dismissed his regiment, and disowned by his father, because he has been found guilty, on "false evidence," of cowardice in the field. He changes his name, and later his son falls in love with the daughter of the man whose false evidence led to his ruin.
False Face (Murder Room #221)
by Vera CasparyIt was the party of a lifetime - but she never arrived...'Vera Caspary is an expert at suspense and suspicion' New York TimesWhen popular young schoolteacher Nina Redfield reports to police the whereabouts of Bushie Neal, a criminal on the run, she sets off a chain of events over which she has no control.Nina is about to leave for a Hallowe'en party at a friend's house. An escort is sent to collect her, so it's no surprise to Nina when a masked man in a Harlequin costume calls for her. But Nina and her escort never reach the party . . .Could her past association with Bushie's sworn enemy Nick Brazza have any connection to her disappearance? And has she been spirited to safety - or further into danger?