Raymond Benson
Author
Publisher
Beaufort Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Set in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois during May 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Scott Hatcher and his neighborhood must come to terms with the disappearance then discovery and follow-on official death investigation of Scott's wife Marie and their neighbor John Bergman.
Author
Publisher
Arcade, Crime Wise
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Karissa Glover is a movie producer who moves into a decrepit but functional old mansion in the West Adams Heights area of Los Angeles, where black celebrities of yesteryear--Hattie McDaniel, Louise Beavers, and others--once resided. The former owner was a white actress, Blair Kendrick, who often starred as the "bad girl"--a femme fatale--in films noir of the 1940s. However, Blair's career was cut short when she was tragically killed by the mob after...
Author
Series
James Bond series volume 32
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Just 10 days before the handover of Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule, 007 is sent to investigate the infamous Chinese underworld of Triad. Discovering a diabolical plot of revenge that threatens to derail the return of the former British colony to China, Bond penetrates a deadly high stakes game of intrigue and treachery.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Chicago Special Agent Annie Marino examines the case of a dead young woman who possesses a tattoo Annie has come across before--that of bloody bear claws. Several deceased women with the tattoo have turned up over the past few years, all suspected of being involved in a vast human trafficking operation. Annie's investigation eventually uncovers a sordid plot of procuring sex slaves overseas and marketing them in the US. As the separate lives of these...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Sixty-one-year-old Shelby Truman, a romance novelist, has received a request to visit her childhood friend, Eddie, who is on Death Row. Though mentally ill, Eddie is scheduled to be executed for the disturbing, brutal murders of his wife and unborn child. As Shelby travels home to Texas for the unnerving reunion, she steps back into memories of her past, recalling her five-decade-long relationship with Eddie in order to understand what led the beautiful...
Author
Series
James Bond series volume 35
Language
English
Formats
Description
A formula for making aircraft material that withstands heat generated by supersonic speeds is stolen by criminals in Britain and they hide it inside a Chinese man's pacemaker. James Bond is put on the case, a mission which takes him to the Himalayas. By the author of The Facts of Death.
Author
Series
James Bond series volume 34
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
James Bond battles chemical and biological terrorists on a mission from Texas to Cyprus. The mission is supervised by his new director, a woman.
Author
Series
James Bond series volume 37
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Author
Series
Black Stiletto novels volume 1
Publisher
Oceanview Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Martin Talbot is stunned when he discovers several hidden volumes of his elderly mother's diaries which tell of her adventures as the Black Stiletto, an underground heroine who operated in the late 1950s in New York City, taking on communist spies, the Mafia, and common crooks, and he must find some way to keep her safe when an old enemy surfaces from the past.
Author
Series
Black Stiletto novels volume 3
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Hollywood actress Judy Cooper--who lives a double life as a vigilante called The Black Stiletto--volunteers to work for John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign, only to become involved in a devious plot with a Soviet spy ring.
