New Arrivals: Suspense Fiction at the Library

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	Adam, Paul, 1958- Paganini's ghost 1st ed.   New York : Minotaur Books, 2010, c2009. Call Number: F ADAM-P Owned by: KING WHEELOCK Summary: A Parisian art dealer is found dead in his hotel room the day after a Paganini concert. In his wallet is a scrap of sheet music, torn from a page that belongs to the competition's winner. But how did the dead man get hold of it? And why? Detective Antonio Guastafeste asks violin maker Gianni Castiglione to help him navigate the curious world of classical musicians, their priceless instruments, and the unsavory dealers who prey upon them. Art dealers Crimes against Fiction.   Date added: Jan 21
	Berenson, Alex. The midnight house New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2010. Call Number: F BEREN-A Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL MOORE SWASEY Intelligence officers Fiction.   Date added: Jan 21
	Berney, Louis. Gutshot straight 1st ed.   New York : William Morrow, c2010. Call Number: F BERNE-L Owned by: SWANCREEK WHEELOCK Ex-convicts Fiction.   Date added: Jan 21
	Boyd, Noah. The bricklayer 1st ed.   New York : William Morrow/HarperCollins, c2010. Call Number: F BOYD-N Owned by: MAIN SWASEY Private investigators Fiction.   Date added: Jan 27
	Boyd, William, 1952- Ordinary thunderstorms : a novel 1st U.S. ed.   New York : HarperCollins, c2010. Call Number: F BOYD-W Owned by: MAIN SWASEY Summary: Adam Kindred is in London for a job interview and looking at a bright future. Then he has a chance meeting in a restaurant that results in a series of actions that cost him his family, his money, his very identity. Utterly alone, Adam joins London's underground society of dispossessed and tries to figure out what happened to his life. Fate and fatalism Fiction.   London (England) Social conditions Fiction. Date added: Feb 06
	Brown, Tracy, 1974- Snapped 1st ed.   New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2010. Call Number: F BROWN-T Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KING S_TACOMA Summary: A stunning new novel of four friends, their dangerous loves, the fatal betrayal, the unforgiving consequences, and the bittersweet redemption that awaits them. African American women Fiction.   New York (N.Y.) Fiction. Date added: Jan 20
	Cobb, James H. Robert Ludlum's The Infinity affair Grand Central Pub 2009. Call Number: F COBB-J Owned by: MAIN Smith, Jon (Fictitious character) Fiction.   Date added: Jan 11
	Hamilton, Steve, 1961- The lock artist 1st ed.   New York : Minotaur Books, 2010, c2009. Call Number: F HAMIL-S Owned by: MAIN KING WHEELOCK Summary: Traumatized at the age of eight and pushed into a life of crime by reason of his unforgiveable talent--lock picking--Michael sees his chance to escape, and with one desperate gamble risks everything to come back home to the only person he ever loved, and to unlock the secret that has kept him silent for so long. Lock picking Fiction.   Date added: Jan 21
	Harrison, Kim. Black magic sanction 1st ed.   New York : Eos, 2010. Call Number: F HARRI-K Owned by: MAIN Summary: A malicious coven accuses witch detective Rachel Morgan of consorting with demons, which could mean imprisonment--or death. Morgan, Rachel (Fictitious character) Fiction.   Date added: Jan 26
	Hayder, Mo. Skin New York : Grove Press ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2010], c2009. Call Number: F HAYDE-M Owned by: MOORE WHEELOCK Caffery, Jack (Fictitious character) Fiction.   Date added: Jan 21
	Hill, Joe. Horns : a novel New York : William Morrow & Co., 2010. Call Number: F HILL-J Owned by: MAIN Summary: Wealthy Ignatius Parish is possessed of a terrible new power to go with his terrible new look--a macabre talent he intends to use to find the monster who killed his wife Merrin and destroyed his life. Being good and praying for the best got him nowhere. It's time for a little revenge. It's time the devil had his due. Supernatural Fiction.   Date added: Jan 26
	Hooper, Kay. Blood ties 1st ed.   New York : Bantam Books, c2010. Call Number: F HOOPE-K Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KING S_TACOMA SWASEY WHEELOCK Summary: The Special Crimes Unit finds itself targeted by a monster intent on destroying both Noah Bishop and his people. Bishop, Noah (Fictitious character) Fiction.   Date added: Jan 29
	Huston, Charlie. Sleepless : a novel 1st ed.   New York : Ballantine Books, c2010. Call Number: F HUSTO-C Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL WHEELOCK Insomniacs Fiction.   Date added: Jan 21
	McDermott, Andy. The Tomb of Hercules : a novel Bantam Book mass market ed.   New York : Bantam Books, 2009. Call Number: F MCDER-A Owned by: MAIN Heracles (Greek mythology) Fiction.   Date added: Feb 02
	Mills, Mark, 1963- The information officer : a novel 1st U.S. ed.   New York : Random House, c2009. Call Number: F MILLS-M Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL KOBETICH MOORE MOTTET S_TACOMA SWANCREEK WHEELOCK Summary: Max Chadwick is the British officer charged with manipulating the news on Malta in 1942 to bolster the population's fragile esprit de corps. When he learns of the brutal murder of a young island woman, along with the evidence that the crime was committed by a British officer, he knows that the Maltese loyalty to the war effort could be instantly shattered unless he can solve the crime quickly. World War, 1939-1945 Malta Fiction.   Malta Fiction. Date added: Feb 06
	Palmer, Michael, 1942- The last surgeon 1st ed.   New York : St. Martin's Press, 2010. Call Number: F PALME-M Owned by: MAIN Summary: Dr. Nick Garrity and psych nurse Gillian Coates determine that one-by-one, each of those in the operating room for a fatally botched case is dying. Their discoveries pit them against genius Franz Koller--the highly-paid master of the "non-kill." As doctor and nurse move closer to finding the terrifying secret behind these killings, Koller has been given a new directive: his mission will not be complete until Gillian and Garrity, the last surgeon, are dead. Physicians Fiction.   Baltimore (Md.) Fiction. Date added: Jan 30
	Patterson, James, 1947- Private 1st ed.   New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2010. Call Number: F PATTE-J Owned by: MAIN Private investigators California Fiction.   Date added: Jan 26
	Porter, Henry, 1953- The bell ringers 1st American ed.   New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2010], c2009. Call Number: F PORTE-H Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL MOORE MOTTET S_TACOMA SWASEY Summary: The death of a former British head of intelligence triggers an all-out resistance movement led by the Bell Ringers against an out-of-control, security-obsessed state. Intelligence officers England Death Fiction.   England Fiction. Date added: Jan 27
	Seeber, Claire. Lullaby 1st U.S. ed.   New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2010, c2007. Call Number: F SEEBE-C Owned by: KOBETICH SWASEY Mothers of kidnapped children Fiction.   Date added: Jan 27
	Straub, Peter, 1943- A dark matter : a novel 1st ed.   New York : Doubleday, 2010. Call Number: F STRAU-P Owned by: MAIN Summary: Old friends try to come to grips with the darkness of the past--a secret ritual that left behind a gruesomely dismembered body--and find themselves face-to-face with the evil they helped create. Date added: Jan 21
	Bradford, Barbara Taylor, 1933- Breaking the rules Large print ed.   Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., 2010, c2009. Call Number: LP BRADF-B Owned by: MAIN Summary: Following a terrifying encounter in the quiet English countryside, a young woman flees to New York. Adopting the initial "M" as her name and reinventing herself as a fashion model, she finds success in Paris fashion and marries a handsome actor. M believes she has put the demons of her past behind her, until bizarre events reveal a dark figure from her past who is determined to shatter her world. Celebrities Fiction.   Date added: Feb 01
	Coonts, Stephen, 1946- The disciple Large print ed.   Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., 2010, c2009. Call Number: LP COONT-S Owned by: MAIN Grafton, Jake (Fictitious character) Fiction.   Date added: Feb 01
	Deaver, Jeffery. The Chopin manuscript : a serial thriller Large print ed.   Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., 2010. Call Number: LP DEAVE-J Owned by: WHEELOCK Music Manuscripts Fiction.   Date added: Feb 01
	Ellis, David, 1967- The hidden man Large print ed.   Detroit : Wheeler Pub., 2009. Call Number: LP ELLIS-D Owned by: WHEELOCK Summary: Jason Kolarich is a young, intelligent, successful lawyer struggling with an overwhelming emotion burden that threatens to unravel his life. However, when a long-estranged friend resurfaces needing help, Jason tries to salve old wounds realizing that unsettling events from the past need to be exposed in order to crack not only this case but a connected, decades-old cold case. Trials (Murder) Illinois Chicago Fiction.   Chicago (Ill.) Fiction. Date added: Jan 19
	Ellory, Roger Jon. A quiet belief in angels Large print ed.   Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2009. Call Number: LP ELLOR-R Owned by: MAIN WHEELOCK Summary: Growing up in rural Georgia during the 1940s, Joseph Vaughan finds himself at the center of a series of mutilations and killings of young girls. Just a teenager, Joseph is determined to protect his community, but he is powerless in preventing more murders - and no one is ever caught. Ten years later, desperate and plagued by everything he has witnessed, Joseph sets out to forge a new life in New York. But the past won't leave him alone. Serial murders Georgia Fiction.   Date added: Jan 19
	Flynn, Vince. Pursuit of honor Large print ed.   Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., 2009. Call Number: LP FLYNN-V Owned by: MAIN Rapp, Mitch (Fictitious character) Fiction.   New York (N.Y.) Fiction. Date added: Jan 19
	Gibbins, David J. L. The tiger warrior Large print ed.   Waterville, Me. : Wheeler Pub., 2010, c2009. Call Number: LP GIBBI-D Owned by: WHEELOCK Marine archaeologists Fiction.   Date added: Feb 01
	Greanias, Thomas. The Atlantis revelation Large print ed.   Waterville, Me. : Wheeler Pub., 2010, c2009. Call Number: LP GREAN-T Owned by: S_TACOMA Archaeologists Fiction.   Date added: Feb 01
	Green, George Dawes. Ravens Large print ed.   Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2009. Call Number: LP GREEN-G Owned by: S_TACOMA SWASEY Summary: The Boatwrights just won $318 million in the Georgia State Lottery. It's going to be the worst day of their lives...When two grifters pull up at a convenience store off I-95, they only want to fix a leaky tire and be on their way to Florida - away from their dull Ohio tech support jobs. But this happens to be the store from which a multimillion-dollar Jackpot ticket was sold, and the pretty clerk accidentally reveals the identity of the winning family. Hostages Fiction.   Date added: Jan 19
	Haig, Brian. The hunted Large print ed.   Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2009. Call Number: LP HAIG-B Owned by: MOORE WHEELOCK Summary: It's 1991, the Soviet Union has just collapsed, and a new democratic government is beginning to emerge. Alex Konevitch, who was thrown out of Moscow University in 1987 for indulging his entrepreneurial spirit, is now worth $300 million and is a major financial supporter of the new government. In a country where greed and corruption run rampant and wealth is stolen, not earned, he is on track to become Russia's wealthiest man - and biggest target. Kidnapping victims Fiction.   Date added: Jan 19
	Hunt, James Patrick, 1964- Maitland's reply Large print ed.   Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2009. Call Number: LP HUNT-J Owned by: MAIN FERNHILL MOORE WHEELOCK Summary: Part-time bounty hunter Evan Maitland has a rule: if the job involves tangling with organized crime, get out. But when a Chicago-based Chinese Triad threatens his friend and business partner, he has to break it. Frank Chang is an enforcer for the White Lotus Triad, Chinatown, New York. He also lives by a set of rules. Two men of different backgrounds and allegiances, they are stuck in a war between rival triads seeking control of Chicago's heroin market. Bounty hunters Fiction.   Chicago (Ill.) Fiction. Date added: Jan 19
	King, Stephen, 1947- Under the dome : a novel Large print ed.   Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2009. Call Number: LP KING-S Owned by: MAIN MOORE SWASEY WHEELOCK Large type books.   Maine Fiction. Date added: Jan 19
	Lindsay, Jeffry P. Dexter by design Large print ed.   Waterville, Me. : Thorndike, 2009. Call Number: LP LINDS-J Owned by: MAIN MOORE SWASEY WHEELOCK Summary: The macabre, witty bestselling series (and inspiration for the #1 Showtime series Dexter) continues as our darkly lovable killer matches wits with a sadistic artist who is creating bizarre murder tableaux all over Miami. The discovery of a corpse artfully displayed as a sunbather relaxing on a beach chair naturally piques Dexter's curiosity, and Miami's finest realize they've got a terrifying new serial killer on the loose. Forensic scientists Fiction.   Miami (Fla.) Fiction. Date added: Jan 19
	Michaels, Fern. Vanishing act Large print ed.   Waterville, Me.. : Wheeler Pub., 2010, c2009. Call Number: LP MICHA-F Owned by: FERNHILL Female friendship Fiction.   Date added: Feb 01
	Neggers, Carla. Cold river Large print ed.   Detroit : Thorndike Press, c2009. Call Number: LP NEGGE-C Owned by: KING SWASEY Summary: Hannah Shay has finally shown the town of Black Falls what she's worth. Her Three Sisters Cafe is a success, and she's soon to become a prosecutor. When the cafe becomes an epicenter for investigators trying to pierce a violent crime ring that's leaving bloody trails on nearby Cameron Mountain, Hannah suspects a man from her past is involved. Then Sean Cameron returns to the snowy cold of his Vermont hometown to unmask his father's killer. Ambassadors Crimes against Fiction.   Date added: Jan 19
	Parker, T. Jefferson. Iron river : a Charlie Hood novel Large print ed.   Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2010, c2009. Call Number: LP PARKE-T Owned by: SWASEY WHEELOCK Summary: "On a dusty highway just north of the United States/Mexico border, a man named Mike Finnegan is struck by a fast-moving vehicle and flung into the desert. Miraculously, he survives and winds up in a hospital in the tiny border town of Buenavista, seemingly in full possession of his faculties including the eerie ability to understand events happening well outside the view from his hospital bed. Charlie Hood joins a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms task force patrolling the "iron river," where illegal guns flow from United States dealers to the Mexican drug business. Hood is part of a stakeout team when a federal officer's bullet kills an innocent boy. The boy happens to be the son of Benjamin Armenta, head of the Gulf Cartel and one of the most violent men in the world. Armenta's thirst for vengeance even in routine business matters is well known. His hired killers are credited with many of the murders and beheadings of the fifteen thousand people who have died in the cartel wars along the bor Police California Los Angeles County Fiction.   Date added: Feb 01
	Patterson, James, 1947- Witch & wizard Large print ed.   New York : Little, Brown and Co., c2009. Call Number: LP PATTE-J Owned by: MAIN Summary: A sister and brother, along with thousands of young people, have been kidnapped and either thrown in prison or turned up missing after accusations of witchcraft were made against them, and the ruling regime will do anything in order to suppress life and liberty, music and books. Brothers and sisters Fiction.   Date added: Jan 19
	Zahn, Timothy. The domino pattern 1st ed.   New York : Tor, 2010, c2009. Call Number: SCI ZAHN-T Owned by: MAIN MOORE Interplanetary voyages Fiction.   Date added: Jan 27