hardback
471 pages
copyright 2011
ISBN 978-1-4555-0147-2
LETHAL - SANDRA BROWN
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown is widely acclaimed for her high-velocity and emotionally charged novels of suspense. Now, in her newest book, she returns to the bayous of Louisiana to deliver a heart-pounding tale of corruption, betrayal, and murder...and the stakes couldn't be higher.
Speaking in a whisper he said, "I promise not to hurt you or your kid. But you gotta do everything I say. Okay? Have we got a deal?"
She suddenly realized who he was, and that sent a bolt of terror through her.
You're...You're the man who shot all those people last night."
When Honor Gillette's four-year-old daughter, Emily, informs her that a sick man is lying in their front yard, Honor rushes out to help him. But that "sick" man turns out to be Lee Coburn, the man accused of murdering seven people the night before. Dangerous, desperate, and armed, he promises Honor that she and her daughter won't be hurt as long as she does everything he asks. She has no choice but to accept him at his word.
But everything changes when witnesses a shocking act of brutality --- and makes a terrifying discovert that even those closest to her can't be trusted. . Coburn claims that her beloved late husband, Eddie, a police officer, possessed something extremely valuable that places Honor and her daughter in grave danger. Honor has no idea what Eddie was hiding, but convinces here that he must find it before it falls into the hands of The Bookkeeper, a merciless crime boss and ruthless killer who will now stop at nothing until Coburn --- and Honor and Emily --- are dead.
From FBI offices in Washington, D.C., to a rundown shrimp boat in coastal Louisiana, the desperate trio run for their lives from the very people sworn to protect them and, risking all, unravel a web of corruption and depravity that threatens not only them, but the fabric of our society.
With her inimitable talent for combining nonstop action and suspense with riveting human drama, Sandra Brown once again proves herself to be one of the most mesmerizing storytellers of our time.
1. Hawkins twins Fred and Doral were the perpetrator of the murders.
2. Lee Coburn is an undercover agent
3. Lee Coburn kills Fred Hawkins.
4. Tori Shirah survives her gunshot wound in the head; Bonnell Wallace also survives the attack on his person.
4. Honor's tattoo is key to what Lee Coburn was looking for...USB implicating authorities to human trafficking
5. Janice, wife of Tom VanAllen is The Bookkeeper, who kills (bomb planted in his car) her husband with no remorse; she also shoots and kills Doral.
Finally! Natapos na ang emo tripping ni Katniss. Pero di ako satisfied sa ending at parang naiwan sa ere yung ibang character (Cinna, Prim, & Gale). Ok naman yung libro lalo kung pampalipasoras lalo na pag nasa waiting area ng DFA
hardback
426 pages
copyright 2012
ISBN 978-0-316-20682-2
PRIVATE GAMES - JAMES PATTERSON & MARK SULLIVAN
CELEBRATE THE GLORY OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES --- BEFORE A PSYCHOPATHIC KILLER EXTINGUISHES THE FLAME FOREVER.
ON YOUR MARK
Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Its agents are the smartest, fastest, and most technologically advanced in the world, and 400 of them have been transferred to London to protect more than 10,000 competitors who represent more than 200 countries.
GET SET
The opening ceremony is hours away when Private investigator and single father of twins, Peter Knight, is called to the scene of a ruthless murder. A high-ranking member of the Games organizing committee has been killed. It's clear to Peter that this wasn't a crime of passion, but one of precise calculation.
DIE...AT THE WORLD'S LAST OLYMPIC GAMES
Newspaper reporter Karen Pope receives a letter from a person who calls himself Cronus, claiming responsibility for the murder. He promises to restore the Olympics to their ancient glory and to destroy all those who have ruined the Games with lies, corruption, and greed. Immediately, Karen hires Private to examine the letter, and she and Peter uncover a criminal genius who won't stop until he's completely destroyed the modern Games. "America's #1 storyteller" (Forbes) delivers an exhilarating, action-packed thriller that brings the splendor and emotion of the Olympics to a wildly powerful climax.
1. Cronus is Michael "Mike" Lancer....two-time world champion
hardback
333 pages
copyright 2012
ISBN 978-1-4197-0186-3
THE SISTERS GRIMM: THE COUNCIL OF MIRRORS - MICHAEL BUCKLEY
The ninth and final book in the New York Times bestselling series
THE END IS HERE!
Sabrina, Daphne, and the rest of the Grimms - except for Granny Relda, whose body has been hijacked by the Master --- fight for the freedom of Freeport Landing in the series' grand finale. As war rips the town apart, Sabrina consults a team of magic mirrors, who prophesy that the only way the good guys will win is if she leads the army. Sabrina has always wanted to be taken seriously, and now she controls the fate of all the Everafters, the very people who have made her life so difficult since she and Daphne arrived in Ferryport Landing. Will they listen to a Grimm? And can she really save them?
1. Coven = a crone, a temptress , an innocent: Baba Yaga, Morgan and Bunny.
2. Seven and Morgan are married.
3. Seven is stabbed and killed by Atticus.
4. Atticus is Charming's brother.
5. Bunny "fixed/rewrote" the story of Snow White by erasing Atticus from the story.
6. Frog Princess (Sharlene) , Sir Lancelot, Friar Tuck and Gepetoo were all killed fighting Atticus and his trolls.
6. Red Riding Hood as the wolf kills Atticus - protected by Armor
7. Uncle Jake tricks Nottingham and Heart about the spell....blank paper; Nottingham and Heart fall to their deaths.
8. Mr. Canis is person who takes The Book of Everafter; he made the Grimm family Everafters by writing them in the book.
9. Daphne becomes a member of the coven....the innocent one.
10. Sabrina gives the spell to Mirror in order to free grandma Relda; The Barrier is broken ;Sabrina gives Mirror her love..."look for your enemy's weaknesses"
11. Sabrina and Puck are married and have children; Alison and Emma
hardback
336 pages
copyright 2009
ISBN 978-1-4391-4791-7
THE 13TH HOUR - RICHARD DOESTSCH
A mesmerizing thriller -- told in reverse!
"The 13th Hour" is the story of a man given the chance to go back in time in one-hour increments to prevent a vicious crime from destroying his life.
Nick Quinn is being held in jail, accused of the murder of his beloved wife, Julia. He knows she's dead; he saw her bloody corpse, shot in the head at point-blank range. The police tell him they found the murder weapon with his fingerprints on it in the trunk of his car. Nick is confused, grief-stricken -- "and completely innocent."
At 9 p.m. on July 28, a gray-haired gentleman visits Nick in the police interrogation room and asks him a simple question: ""If you could get out of here, if you could save her, would you?"" He hands Nick a golden talisman that allows Nick to go back in time, one hour at a time, for a total of twelve hours. With each hour that Nick travels back, he finds more clues to the identity of Julia's real killer, but he also discovers that his actions in the past may have unexpected repercussions in the future.
In his race against time to save the woman he loves most in the world, Nick will find that friends become enemies, old loyalties are tested, and Julia's murder is part of a larger scheme that has its roots in greed and vengeance. Nick has the ability to save Julia, the chance to put his own world in balance, but he is venturing down a precarious route. If he hasn't set things right by the thirteenth hour, his desperate attempts to save Julia's life may lead to a far greater catastrophe than he could have ever imagined.
A surprising and utterly original thriller, "The 13th Hour" is pure page-turning suspense -- full of double crosses, cliffhangers, and shocking revelations.
1. Ethan Dance is the one who kills Julia etc...as seen by Nick as he moves through time
hardback
142 pages
copyright 2012
ISBN 978-0-545-43143-9
THE 39 CLUES: OPERATION TRINITY
A STOLEN MASTERPIECE
For the past 500 years, the Cahills have been the world's most powerful family. For 500 years, they've guarded their secrets with their very lives. Until now.
The Cahills have cracked open their vault to tell the story of the most coveted work of art in the world, a masterpiece that has been the target of a record seven theft attempts. Operation Trinity chronicles the very first attack on Van Eyck's altarpiece, then jumps to WWII and young Grace Cahill's desperate bid to save it from the Nazis. The final story tracks Ian and Natalie Kabra's first solo mission --- and the searing betrayal that nearly costs them everything.
Discover the secret history of one of the world's most tantalizing treasures...if you dare.
hardback
337 pages
copyright 2008
ISBN 978-1-4391-9336-5
A CENTURIES-OLD MYSTERY.
AN "ACCIDENTAL" DEATH.
A CONSPIRACY THAT MAY END IN MURDER.
Former British Special Air Service officer Ben Hope is running for his life. Enlisted by Leigh Llewellyn—the beautiful, world-famous opera star and Ben’s first love—to investigate her brother, Oliver’s, mysterious death, Ben finds himself caught up in a puzzle dating back to the 1700s.
Though the official report states that Oliver died in a tragic accident, the facts don’t add up. The day Oliver died he sent Leigh all the files realted to his unfinished book on Mozart. As Ben and Leigh piece together Oliver's research, they discover that Mozart --- a notable Freemason --- may have been killed by a shadowy and powerful splinter group of the organization. In the hopes of coming closer to understanding what really happened to Oliver, Ben and Leigh set out to find a missing letter written by Mozart that may prove that the composer's death was really a murder. But after the receipt of a frightening video documenting a ritual sacrifice performed by hooded men --- and with armed assassins at their heels --- Ben and Leigh quickly hooded men, they realize that the sect is still in existence today and will stop at nothing to keep its secrets safe.
From the dreaming spires of Oxford and Venice’s labyrinthine canals to the majes*tic architecture of Vienna, Ben and Leigh must race across Europe to uncover the truth behind the Mozart conspiracy before they become its next victims.
In the tradition of Robert Ludlum and Dan Brown, Scott Mariani’s The Mozart Conspiracy is an electrifying thriller and the start of an exciting new series.
1. Benjamin Hope and Leigh Llewelyn are married.
2. Glass kills Leigh Llewelyn.
*** did Mozart die of acute rheumatic fever or was he poisoned by "aqua toffana" ? ***
paperback
449 pages
copyright 2006
ISBN 0-440-24288-6
THE THIEVES OF HEAVEN - RICHARD DOETSCH
THE MOST CLOSELY GUARDED TREASURE ON EARTH.
AN EXCLUSIVE ANCIENT SECRET.
A BREAKNECK JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF THE VATICAN.
In a small, heavily fortified room just north of the Sistine Chapel, a master thief is about to strike. All he needs is an instant–to steal the most important treasure in the Vatican museum: two antique keys–one gold, one silver–that protect the secret of salvation….
But a surprise awaits Michael St. Pierre deep inside the Vatican, an ancient secret so explosive, it sends him running for his life—from the streets of Rome to a small stone church in Israel—with two stolen keys and a terrible realization: the consequences of his desperate, brazen act are far greater than he could ever have imagined.
For the treasure he has uncovered—the gleaming prize buried within the most clandestine structure on earth—is about to bring him face-to-face with an enemy more shocking, frightening, and insidious than anyone can guess....
1. Michael St. Pierre steals the keys of the Vatican ....the keys to heaven....then recovers it back from August Finster...the devil.
2. Wife of Michael St. Pierre dies.
3. Denis Thal is the assassin of Finster....the man whom he saw in a windowsill assaulting Helen Staten 5 years ago, the day he was caught and sent to prison.
paperback
265 pages
ISBN 978-0-307-94868-7
copyright 2008
translation copyright 2011
HEADHUNTERS - JO NESBO
Roger Brown is a corporate headhunter, and he’s a master of his profession. But one career simply can’t support his luxurious lifestyle and his wife’s fledgling art gallery. At an art opening one night he meets Clas Greve, who is not only the perfect candidate for a major CEO job, but also, perhaps, the answer to his financial woes: Greve just so happens to mention that he owns a priceless Peter Paul Rubens painting that’s been lost since World War II—and Roger Brown just so happens to dabble in art theft. But when he breaks into Greve’s apartment, he finds more than just the painting. And Clas Greve may turn out to be the worst thing that’s ever happened to Roger Brown.
With Headhunters, Jo Nesbo has crafted a funny, dark, and twisted caper story worthy of Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers
1. The Calydonia Boar Hunt is a copy.
2. Clas Greve and Lotte Madsen working together...knew each other in Suriname.
3. Ove Kjikerud is accidentally killed by Roger Brown.
4. Transmitter is placed when Roger's hair is stroked by Diana/Lotte.
5. Roger kills Lotte.
6. Down syndrome child only told to Lotte.
7. Jeremias Lander is hired CEO of Pathfinder, the guy from whom Roger burgles Munch's The Brooch
paperback
324 pages
copyright 2005
ISBN 0-312-33511-3
STILL LIFE WITH JUNE - DARREN GREER
The people in gay bars on Christmas Day are so desperate for basic human contact that they'd go home with a Doc Marten shoe if it made a move, and maybe even if it didn't.
So begins the story of Cameron Dodds, a disenfranchised writer who visits gay bars on Christmas and works at a Salvation Army Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center in order to steal the stories of the people he meets there. But when Cameron finds a patient hanged in the utilities closet, his infatuation with other people's stories becomes an obsession. Assuming the man's identity, Cameron seeks out and forges a relationship with the victim's mentally challenged sister, who lives in a home uptown. As Cameron becomes more involved in the woman's life, he begins to discover truths that will challenge him to the very core of his identity.
paperback
320 pages
copyright 2004
ISBN 978-0-8129-8242-8
THE EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL - DEBORAH MOGGACH
When Ravi Kapoor, an overworked London doctor, reaches the breaking point with his difficult father-in-law, he asks his wife: "Can't we just send him away somewhere? Somewhere, far far away." His prayer is seemingly answered when Ravi's entrepreneurial cousin sets up a retirement home in India, hoping to re-created in Bangalore an elegant lost corner of England. Several retirees are enticed by the promise of indulgent living at a bargain price, but upon arriving they are dismayed to find that restoration of the once sophisticated hotel has stalled, and that such amenities as water and electricity are ....infrequent. But while their new life lacks in luxury, they come to find that it's plentiful in adventure, stunning beauty, and unexpected love.
1. Dorothy blurts out to Jean that her son Adam is gay.
2. Norman Purse dies in the arms of a eunuch, Sikra.
3. Evelyn regifts the sari given to her by her son Christopher to Pauline.
4. Guy met buy Theresa is Muriel's son, Keith
5. Christopher leaves his wife and children and falls in love with the greeter at the Taj Balmoral, Aisha.
6. Dorothy dies
7. Heroin instead of ashes given to Ravi and Pauline....buried in their garden...build a children's home in Bangalore....buried possibilities
Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.
But he has no idea just how explosive the story will be until, on the eve of publication, the two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander—the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and who now becomes the focus and fierce heart of The Girl Who Played with Fire.
As Blomkvist, alone in his belief in Salander’s innocence, plunges into an investigation of the slayings, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.
1. Zala aka Zalachenko is Salander's father.
2. Ronald Neidermann, half brother of Salander, killed Dag Svensson and Mia Johansson also Nils Bjurman.
When your grandmother is a cranky old witch, your intended prince is a jerk, and your kingdom is about to be invaded "happily ever after" can be exasperating.
But from the bottom of the fishbowl sea to the heights of the mountaintop Dragon Olympics, Princess Emma takes an epic quest to reverse an old spell and save the kingdom of Greater Greensward from peril.
1. Ralf is the green dragon.
2. Haywood's spell is broken.
3. Grassina fall's victim to the family curse .... when touched by a flower would become a nasty hag.
4. Emma's magic is improved....she becomes the new Green Witch.
hardback
424 pages
copyright 2012
ISBN 978-0-316-09756-7
GUILTY WIVES - JAMES PATTERSON AND DAVID ELLIS
You're about to experience the ultimate guilty pleasure. four best friends on a decadent vacation --- thrown in prison for murder
NO HUSBANDS ALLOWED
Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the Bruno Paillard champagne. For four days they're free to live someone else's life. As the weekend moves into pulsating discos, high-stakes casinos, and beyond, Abbie is transported to the greatest pleasure and release she has ever known.
WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT
In the morning's harsh light, Abbie awakens on a yacht, surrounded by police. Something awful has happened--something impossible, unthinkable. Abbie, Winnie, Serena, and Bryah are arrested and accused of the foulest crime imaginable. And now the vacation of a lifetime becomes the fight of a lifetime--for survival. Guilty Wives is the ultimate indulgence, the kind of nonstop joy-ride of excess, friendship, betrayal, and danger that only James Patterson can create
1. Abbie married to Jeffrey Elliot; Winnie married to Christien Brooks; Serena married to Simon Schofield; Bryah married to Colton Gordon
2. Winnie accused of killing her lover, French President Devereaux, and his bodyguard...she is imprisoned with her 3 friends.
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