Adult Summer Reading - Week 11 - Friday

The Body in the Big Apple By Page, Katherine Hall 1999-11 - William Morrow & Company 9780688157487 Check Our Catalog A prequel to the award-winning series brings amateur sleuth Faith Fairchild to New York City, where a friend's life is threatened and time runs out to catch a killer. Includes the author's trademark recipes (all featuring apples). …More

The Body in My Bookcase By Page, Katherine Hall 1998-11 - William Morrow & Company 9780688157470 Check Our Catalog As amateur detective Faith Fairchild prepares a lavish feast for finicky Stephanie Bullock's wedding, Page showcases more the the delicious recipes her readers have come to adore. …More

Untamed By Palmer, Diana 2015-06 - Harlequin Books 9780373788439 Check Our Catalog Stanton Rourke lives life on the edge. The steely mercenary is dangerous in every wayespecially to Clarisse Carrington's heart. She and Rourke were playmates as children, but she's not the innocent girl he once knew. When tragedy robbed Clarisse of her entire family, her life was changed forever. Besides, she's a grown woman now, and there are secrets that hold her back from succumbing to her …More

Appaloosa By Parker, Robert B. 2005-07 - Wheeler Publishing 9781597220002 Check Our Catalog This is a richly imagined novel of the Old West, as spare and vivid as a high plains sunset, from "one of the world's most talented performers" ("The San Diego Union-Tribune") …More

Blue-Eyed Devil By Parker, Robert B. 2010-05 - Putnam Adult 9780399156489 Check Our Catalog After the new chief of police in Appaloosa begins shaking down local merchants for protection money, those who don't want to play along seek the help of Cole and Hitch. But the guns-for-hire are thorns in the side of the power-hungry chief. There will be a showdown, but who'll be left standing? …More

London Bridges By Patterson, James 2004-11 - Hachette International 9780316009577 Check Our Catalog Alex Cross is back - and so is the Big Bad Wolf. Terrorists have seized the world's largest cities. London, Washington, DC, New York, and Frankfurt will be destroyed, unless their demands are met - and their demands are impossible. After a city in the western United States is fire bombed, Alex Cross knows that it is only a matter of time before the bombers' threats to the other cities are …More

Private Games By Patterson, James Author Sullivan, Mark 2012-02 - Little Brown and Company 9780316206808 Check Our Catalog Private has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. 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. …More

Roses Are Red By Patterson, James 2000-11 - Random House Large Print Publishing 9780375430909 Check Our Catalog The Mastermind is behind a series of bank robberies notable for their precise demands -- and their explosive violence when the demands are not met exactly. When detective Alex Cross gets involved and recognizes that a particular kind of criminal mind is at work, the Mastermind decides to make it his personal goal to take revenge on Cross and his entire team. Amidst all this, Cross' relationship …More

Arcadia By Pears, Iain 2016-02 - Knopf Publishing Group 9781101946824 Check Our Catalog From the author of the international best seller"An Instance of the Fingerpost, ""Arcadia"is an astonishing work of imagination. Three interlocking worlds. Four people looking for answers. But who controls the future or the past? In 1960s Oxford, Professor Henry Lytten is attempting to write a fantasy novel that forgoes the magic of his predecessors, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. …More

People We Meet: Unforgettable Conversations By NPR 2014-06 - HighBridge Audio 9781467676342 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: I was disappointed in this book's stories, only 1 or 2 were as moving as I expected. …More

The Raven in the Foregate By Peters, Ellis 2009-04 - Mysterious Press 9780446405348 Check Our Catalog It is Christmas, A.D. 1141, Abbot Radulfus returns from London, bringing with him a priest for the vacant living of Holy Cross, also known as the Foregate. The new priest is a man of presence, learning, and discipline, but he lacks humility and the common touch. When he is found drowned in the millpond, suspicion is cast upon a young man who arrived with the priest's train and was sent to work in …More

The Shepherd's Crown By Pratchett, Terence David John 2015-09 - HarperCollins 9780062429971 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Take one last journey to DiscWorld. Death goes a visiting in Lancre and the world changes, in the land of inbetween the fairy folk feel the change and try to enter again-in Lancre and on the Chalk. But first they have to get by the Witches, the Feegles, and a goat named Mephistopheles. …More

Miller's Valley By Quindlen, Anna 2016-04 - Random House 9780812996081 Check Our Catalog Filled with insights that are hallmarks of Anna Quindlen's bestsellers, this extraordinary novel is about a woman coming of age, as she unearths secrets about her family and her town, and surprising truths about herself. …More

Cold Barrel Zero By Quirk, Matthew 2016-03 - Mulholland Books 9780316259217 Check Our Catalog A CODE HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT. A BLACK OPS TEAM THAT WENT TOO FAR. John Hayes is a Special Operations legend who went rogue on a deep-cover mission and betrayed his own soldiers. Disgraced and on the run, he returns to the United States to get back to his wife and daughter and take revenge on his accusers with a series of devastating attacks. Only one man can stop him: …More

Even Dogs in the Wild By Rankin, Ian 2016-01 - Little Brown and Company 9780316342513 Check Our Catalog Rebus comes out of retirement...to save his nemesis. Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is feeling the heat. She's investigating the death of a senior government prosecutor, David Minton, who has friends in high places. When one of their own is killed, the powers that be want answers fast. But Clarke is puzzled: if Minton died in a robbery as everyone thinks, why is nothing missing …More

I'm Thinking of Ending Things By Reid, Iain 2016-06 - Gallery/Scout Press 9781501126925 Check Our Catalog "I'm Thinking of Ending Things is one of the best debut novels I've ever read. Iain Reid has crafted a tight, ferocious little book, with a persistent tenor of suspense that tightens and mounts toward its visionary, harrowing final pages" (Scott Heim, award-winning author of Mysterious Skin and We Disappear). You will be scared. But you won't know why …More

The Cheating Curve By Renfroe, Paula T. 2013-03 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9780758287670 Check Our Catalog In this dazzling and bold debut that cuts to the heart of modern relationships, Renfroe introduces two thirty-something best friends, each dealing with a different side of infidelity. …More

The Lawless Land By Richards, Dusty 2016-05 - St. Martin's Press 9781250091956 Check Our Catalog From a talented new author comes the start of a series that chronicles the conception of the Territorial Marshal, which was integral to bringing about justice in the lawless Arizona Territory. The hero of this story is Sam T. Mayes, who pins on the badge and takes on a cutthroat gang. He is accompanied by an alcoholic army scout, a wanted man, and a fierce native woman. …More

When We Were Sisters By Richards, Emilie 2016-06 - Harlequin Enterprises Ltd 9780778322764 Check Our Catalog Love and loyalty made them sisters. Secrets could still destroy them. As children in foster care, Cecilia and Robin vowed they would be the sisters each had never had. Now superstar singer-songwriter Cecilia lives life on the edge, but when Robin is nearly killed in an accident, Cecilia drops everything to be with her. Robin set aside her career as a successful photojournalist to create the …More

Beastly Bones: A Jackaby Novel By Ritter, William 2015-09 - Algonquin Young Readers 9781616203542 Check Our Catalog " I've found very little about private detective R. F. Jackaby to be standard in the time I've known him. Working as his assistant tends to call for a somewhat flexible relationship with reality . . . " In 1892, New Fiddleham, New England, things are never quite what they seem, especially when Abigail Rook and her eccentric employer, R. F. Jackaby, are called upon to investigate the supernatural. …More

Jackaby By Ritter, William 2015-08 - Algonquin Young Readers 9781616205461 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Jackaby sees things no one else can, ghosts, pixies, and others read only about in folk and fairy tales but behind every tale is a truth and behind every truth is a danger. Set in Fiddleham New England, at the turn of the new century, Jackaby and his assistant Emma seek out these truths before the Banshee wails again. …More

Blue Dahlia By Roberts, Nora 2005-01 - Large Print Press 9781594130618 Check Our Catalog Book 1 of the "In The Garden Trilogy" A New York Times Bestseller #1 bestselling author Nora Roberts presents the first novel of her "In the Garden" trilogy. A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries-old mansion just outside of Memphis. And for as long as anyone alive remembers, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked the halls, singing lullabies at …More

Chasing Passion: Falling for Rachel\Convincing Alex By Roberts, Nora 2016-02 - Silhouette Books 9780373282104 Check Our Catalog The unforgettable Stanislaskis return in this pair of stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts Falling for Rachel Landlocked in Manhattan, rugged seaman Zack Muldoon needs a tough, no-nonsense lawyer to save his kid brother's delinquent hide. Public defender Rachel Stanislaski is not what he has in minduntil he discovers there's a lot more to the beautiful, coolheaded …More

Christmas with You: Gabriel's Angel\Home for Christmas By Roberts, Nora 2015-10 - Silhouette Books 9780373281930 Check Our Catalog Feel the magic of the season in two unforgettable stories by #1 New York Times bestselling author NORA ROBERTS GABRIEL'S ANGEL All Gabriel Bradley wants is solitude. But when a very pregnantand very beautifulwoman ends up at his remote cabin during a blizzard, desperate, alone and on the run, the modern-day Scrooge can't bring himself to turn her away. Despite her intrusion, Laura brings …More