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( ) 1. EUREKA by William Diehl The seamy past of America’s most glamorous state lies in this deceptively peaceful area, one hundred miles north of Los Angeles. It was the lawless place from which young, rugged Thomas Culhane escaped to fight World War I. Now it’s a place where, two decades later, police detective Zeke Bannon investigates a death that seems a sad accident.		( ) 26. Under Cover of Daylight by James W.Hall First novel. Thorn lives in Key Largo, selling hand-tied fish flies. His adoptive mother, Kate Truman, a sturdy, outspoken fisherwoman, against land development, results in her rape/murder. Thorn's hunt for the culprit(s) is hard-hitting, nuts-and-bolts prose, effectively picturesque characterization, periodic sex and violence, and a wonderful, cinematic climax.

( ) 2. YEAR ZERO by Jeff Long Nathan Lee Swift is a young anthropologist who falls prey to Professor Ochs, a grave-robber in the worst sense of the word. Miranda Abbott is a scientific wunderkind who has managed to create a way to clone humans. When a virulent plague dating from 00 C.E. (the titular year zero) is released and sweeps across most of the world, leaving billions dead, it is up to Miranda, Nathan Lee, and her scientist colleagues to find a cure. In order to best do that, they make a desperate bid to find antibodies by cloning humans from the first century who may have survived the plague.		( ) 27. THE LAST JUROR by John Grisham In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper. Danny Padgitt was tried & convicted, but Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began.

( ) 3. APOCALYPSE WATCH by Robert Ludlum An elite neo-Nazi organization, a list of it's secret supporters and two brothers who plunge into a labyrinth of deceit & death with the fate of the free world at stake		( ) 28. Incriminating Evidence by Sheldon Siegel Defense Attorney Mike Daley takes a high-profile zinger of a case he doesn't think he can win for a client he can't stnd. His client awoke with a dead male prostitute in his bed!

( ) 4. MIDNIGHT WHISPERS by V.C. Andrews Christie's troubled family history takes a real bad turn when she discovers her favorite Uncle Phillip's unbrotherly love for her mother and now he has begun looking at her. How will she break the Cutler Cove curse?		( ) 29. NAKED JUSTICE by William Bernhardt Tulsa's first black mayor & former college football star was a treasure - until he became the prime suspect in the gruesome murder of his family. The evidence is overwhelming and he needs a miracle. Enter Ben Kincaid.

( ) 5. GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN by P. Margolin One by one the women all vanished. The only clue is a single black rose left on a pillow with the note... "Gone but not forgotten".		( ) 30. PERSONAL INJURIES by Scott Turow The story of a defense attorney caught up in a sting operation targeting crooked judges. The story offers intriguing legal and moral ambiguities and surprising twists, but the strength of the characters is what sets this thriller apart.

( ) 6. DEAD MEAT by Phillip Kerr An innovative thriller set in St. Petersburg, Russia. A once grand & beautiful city now home to cops, hustlers, yuppies & gangsters where everything is up for grabs		( ) 31. GIDEON by Russell Andrews Writer Carl Granville--down on his luck--is approached by a publisher who'll pay a lot of money to turn a top secret diary into a novel. Too good to be true? Of course!

( ) 7. EVERVILLE by Clive Barker Step onto Everville's streets and enter a unique world! This journey will awe, arouse and terrify equally- a strange and sensual wonderland of magical possibility. Monsters most terrible are with human faces!		( ) 32. THE BOOK OF SHADOWS by James Reese A young girl accused of being a witch is swept up in a fantastic, erotic world of a real witch to discover her true nature- and destiny- in this breathtaking, darkly sensual novel taking place in 19th century France.

( ) 8. HOUR OF THE HUNTER by J. A. Jance Diana and her young son try to evade a brilliant, psychopathic predator she helped convict for the brutal torture & murder of a young Indian girl. No matter where they hide she knows he will find them. Frightening!!		( ) 33. FRANKENSTEIN by Dean Koontz If you think you know the story, you only know half the truth. Think modern times with an immortal race of beings, and killers that are more--and less--than human!

( ) 9. CRUEL DOUBT by Joe McGinniss A terrifying true story of apparently ordinary people in a small North Carolina town, whose lives & illusions were shattered one summer night in 1988. A murder mystery.		( ) 34. A Time to Kill by John Grisham A disturbing tale of racism, ignorance, and brutality. "Cobb strung a length of quarter inch ski rope over a limb ... he grabbed her and put the noose around her head." The story is frighteningly believable and expertly crafted around a horrible crime and the tragic consequences that follow.

( ) 10. GUILT by John Lescroart A prosperous San Francisco attorney and a prominent Catholic is charged with savagely killing his wife. There is a secret no one knows and when it explodes . . .		( ) 35. RIVER OF DARKNESS by James Grady It's what happens when an Army Green Beret legend, employed as a master CIA agent living in deepest cover becomes unemployed with his past out to kill him.

( ) 11. DIRTY WORK by Stuart Woods Hired to prove infidelity in an heiress's marriage, Stone Barrington goes undercover. But the work turns dirty -- and catostrophic -- when the errant husband is found dead and the "other woman" disappears.		( ) 36. Flat Lake in Winter by Joseph T. Klempner Beautifully written story about the aftermath of a horrific double homicide in Flat Lake, NY, a small community in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains. Jonathan Hamilton, a mildly retarded adult, has confessed to murdering his grandparents. Looks open & shut, but is it?

( ) 12. THE INTRUDER by Peter Blauner You have a great family, big house & successful career. All is perfect until a malevolent psychopath shows up at your door thoroughly convinced that everything you have is his! Would you handle it like our Jake does?		( ) 37. Private Pleasures by Lawrence Sanders Two chemists research hormones that will affect behavior and enhance their own private pleasures. A scintillating tale by a best-selling author and not easily forgotten.

( ) 13. MAN OF THE HOUR by Peter Blauner First, David is a hero and media sensation, then he becomes a suspect in the bombing of a school bus that he fought to prevent. As the media vilify him and the killers plot, he will find out what true heroes are made of.		( ) 38. SAVING FAITH by David Baldacci The FBI is interviewing one of the most important witnesses it has ever had. A failed assassination attempt kills an agent and has the witness running for her life.

( ) 14. LIGHTNING by Dean Koontz On the night of Laura Shane's birth, a stranger appears from the lightning to prevent her delivery's being botched by an alcoholic physician. Throughout Laura's childhood the stranger reappears at times of danger. Thirty years later another storm flashes and the stranger collapses, shot, at Laura's door. Now Laura protects her erstwhile guardian from mysterious hunters. He reveals that he and the hunters are time travelers. Laura, quick-witted and brave, leads the way to a bloody showdown.		( ) 39. French Kiss by Eric Van Lustbader The murderous search for the Prey Dauw is on--the trio of weapons so imbued with mythic power that it is said whoever possesses them can dominate Indochina and control its opium. Two men have aleady been murdered for the Pray Duaw, and now their brothers, New York lawyer, Chris Haye, and NYPD detective Steve Guarda, are ready to face the savage madman who will stop at nothing to destroy them.

( ) 15. DEAD HEAT by Wendy Haley His signature is gasoline, his game--arson. Louise has seen his shadow, but not his face. Louise thinks she's safe but he's everywhere. He knows her secrets.		( ) 40. THROWNAWAY CHILD by Thomas Adcock NYPD Det Neil Hockaday takes his wife home to New Orleans for the vacation that turns into a Creole stew of secrets, sour politics, ritual murder & bittersweet revenge

( ) 16. DARK JUSTICE by William Bernhardt Attorney Ben Kincaid needs some R & R but blissful Magic Valley is not the place when he becomes caught up in a battle between logging interests and conservationists leading to murder in the Pacific Northwest.		( ) 41. THE FIRM by John Grisham A thriller about a Harvard Law grad aggressively recruited by a curiously obscure firm. They've decided he's their man and to get him they offer top dollar, dangle a BMW, and woo his wife with offers impossible to refuse. But as the wide-eyed youngsters soon discover, there's a catch.

( ) 17. MASTER SPY by Lawrence Schiller The shocking story of FBI Special Agent Robert P. Hanssen, the man who singlehandedly created the greatest breach of security in the history of our country		( ) 42. BONES by Jan Burke Reporter Irene Kelly has to match wits with a sadistic killer on death row in an attempt to find the body of a young mother missing for 4years. He plea bargains to take Irene & officials to the site where a terrifying secret unfolds

( ) 18. SUDDEN MISCHIEF by Robert B. Parker The relationship between Spenser and Susan Silverman, the sleuth's longtime lover, takes center stage in this story. When Susan's ex-husband, Brad, appears after a decades-long absence, nearly broke and the object of a sexual-harassment suit, Spenser reluctantly agrees to help. As he investigates he discovers that fund-raiser Brad is swimming in very deep water.The deeper Spenser digs, the more bodies he uncovers!		( ) 43. PACIFIC VORTEX by Clive Cussler Dirk Pitt's first adventure! The Pacific Vortex -- a fog-shrouded sea zone where dozens of ships have vanished without a trace. The latest victim is the awesome superb Starbuck, America's deep-diving nuclear arsenal. Its loss poses an unthinkable threat to national defense. Pitt's job is to find it, salvage it, before the sea explodes.

( ) 19. TROPICAL FREEZE by James W. Hall Fisherman Thorn, is getting his life together slowly, rebuilding his house in the Florida Keys. When his boyhood friend, ex-FBI agent Gaeton Richards, disappears. Fast, cinematic scene-shifting, garish gallows humor (Tropical Freeze is the name on Papa John's ice cream truck--with a corpse in its freezer) and a violent, roller-coaster plot lead to a bleak, cynical ending.		( ) 44. The 2nd Deadly Sin by Lawrence Sanders Retired Captain Ed Delaney returns to solve a brutal murder that shocks New York's unshockable art world. The victim is Victor Maitland. Long-considered one of the world's greatest artists, he excelled in capturing the beauty of life on canvas. In private, he destroyed whomever he pleased. Fittingly, Maitland has paid for his sins. But in a world where self-delusion is rewarded, where greed triumphs, and where murder is just another art, who else will pay the price?

( ) 20. Irresistible Impulse by Robert Tanenbaum A killer who preys on the elderly & a stalker after the weak & vulnerable send Homicide Chief Butch Karp & Marlene Ciampi, Private Eye down an explosive path!		( ) 45. JUDGMENT by William L. Coughlin In a rural area outside of Detroit, Bodies are being found in the snow. Neatly washed, wrapped in plastic, methodically laid out like sleeping angels.

( ) 21. HIDE AND SEEK by James Patterson Could it be true that singer, Maggie Bradford had not only murdered her husband, world's most glamorous athlete, Wil Shepard, but another husband as well?		( ) 46. COLD PURSUIT by T. Jefferson Parker Calif Detective Tom McMicael investigates the murder of the former mayor who killed Tom's Grandfather and whose son was brutally beaten by Tom's Father.

( ) 22. When the Sacred Ginmill Closes by L. Block Matt Scudder, ex-N.Y. cop who drowned his career in booze has a chance to help a friend and solve a murder if he can change his priorities to staying sober--and alive!		( ) 47. DETECTIVE by Arthur Hailey Serial killer Elroy "Animal" Doil is hours away from the electric chair. He wants to make a confession that could close 10 other murders and point to some elite politicians

( ) 23. RAGE OF ANGELS by Sidney Sheldon Jennifer is a brilliant, lovely attorney on her way up. Michael is a compelling, charismatic crime lord seeking to expand his domain. Two struggle for absolute power.		( ) 48. TROUBLE IN PARADISE by Robert B. Parker Police Chief Jesse Stone knows there is trouble in his Paradise, Mass. when thieves come to look at a house and end up taking the entire wealthy enclave of Stiles Island

( ) 24. AGAINST THE WIND by J. F. Freedman Nobody could exactly call the defendants nice boys. For starters they had brutally and repeatedly gang-raped a young woman picked up in a bar, but did they . . .?		( ) 49. THE ZERO GAME by Brad Meltzer Two friends on Capitol Hill are playing a secret game. Behind this game is a secret so explosive it will shake Washington to its core. Then, one player turns up dead!

( ) 25. THE SINISTER PIG by Tony Hillerman Sgt Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is troubled by the nameless corpse found on his turf. The FBI calls it a "hunting accident" but Jim knows this hunter was a killer		( ) 50. UNDERCURRENTS by Ridley Pearson Seattle is a city paralyzed by fear. A serial killer is on the loose. As each new victim surfaces--chest slashed, eyes taped open--the tide of panic rises.
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