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521) Snow White must die
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus is a tremendous new contemporary mystery series and huge international bestseller--with more than 2.5 million copies in print!On a rainy November day police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: A woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving underneath. According to a witness, the woman may have been pushed. The investigation leads Pia...
522) The foster family
Author
Publisher
Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In their holiday home, a stone's throw from the beach, Elizabeth dials the police with trembling hands. 'My little boy, he's missing.' Elizabeth is Joe's foster mother, but she loves him like her own. The five-year-old, who adores superheroes and watching the birds outside, is the child she has dreamed of. As she looks into the garden, where he was playing just moments ago, her heart feels like it has been ripped from her chest. She was meant to...
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"I don't know who you are or why you've come here,' I say, jabbing my finger at her, shaking as much as my voice. 'But you are not my daughter. You are not Abigail.' Fourteen years ago, our family holiday ended in tragedy when my darling four-year-old girl was snatched from us on the beach. Not a day goes by when I don't picture her wide brown eyes, and the freckles dusting her cheeks. I only looked away for a second, and I have never forgiven myself....
524) An uncommon earl
Author
Series
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The greatest desire of Alexander Allerton, the Earl of Bloxley, is to alleviate the suffering of the poor and less fortunate of England. So when his hackney carriage is involved in an accident that results in the death of one of those he is determined to help, he is devastated. Alexander vows to keep the promise he makes to the injured woman as she takes her final breaths: he will not rest until he finds her young son. After a crippling accident...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Young lovers Héctor and Lilia dreamed of a brighter future for their family in the United States. Héctor left Mexico first, to secure work and housing, but when Lilia, desperate to be with Héctor, impetuously crossed the border with their infant daughter, Alejandra, mother and child were separated. Alejandra disappeared. Now, four years later, the family has a chance to reunite, but the trauma of the past may well be permanent. Back in their sleepy...
526) The glittering world
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Neil Gaiman (The Ocean at the End of the Lane), Scott Smith (The Ruins), and Jason Mott (The Returned), award-winning playwright Robert Levy spins a dark tale of alienation and belonging, the familiar and the surreal, family secrets and the search for truth in his debut supernatural thriller. When up-and-coming chef Michael "Blue" Whitley returns with three friends to the remote Canadian community of his birth, it appears to be...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Ex-Israeli operative turned private investigator, Dotan Naor--to settle a bet--agrees to locate the missing son of former acquaintance, now ruthless Israeli arms merchant, Willy Mizrachi. Willy, who does not hesitate to sell killing machines to the most heinous players in the world, is desperate to find his only son, Itiel, who has headed to an ashram in the Himalayas. The Himalayas are also host to groups of young Israelis who have completed their...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una divisiaon de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Abducted youth Luke Ellis is imprisoned in an inescapable institute, where children with the abilities of telekinesis and telepathy are subjected to torturous manipulation.
En mitad de la nocha en un barrio tranquilo de Minneapolis raptan a Luke Ellis, de doce años, tras haber asesinado a sus padres. Una operación que dura menos de dos minutos. Luke se despierta en el Instituto, en un cuarto exactamente igual al suyo pero sin ventanans. En habitaciones...
529) Pursuit
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Once-straitlaced officer Juliette Worth is wrongly demoted after a hostage situation gone wrong and reassigned to investigating cold-case disappearances, a situation that turns sinister when her own daughter goes missing.
530) Winter water
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Martin, who has always been drawn to the ocean, moves his wife Alexandra and their two young children move to his family's idyllic summer cottage in the picturesque island village of Orust, on the west coast of Sweden. Martin begins to cultivate a mussel farm, where he soon runs into trouble with the locals. One January weekend, in the few moments Martin is distracted by a ringing phone, his young son goes missing, leaving his little red bucket bobbing...
532) The third hell
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
With a bullet lodged too close to his heart, LAPD Detective Nino Angelo is no longer able to do the job he loves. He believes being forced to retire after a twenty-five-year career might be the worst thing that could happen, until his twelve-year-old son goes missing. Matthew vanishes in the middle of the night from the Hollywood Hills condo of Nino's ex-wife, but Nino blames himself for the boy's disappearance, knowing his addiction to police work...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Hard eight. Stephanie, along with Morelli, Ranger, Lula, Valerie, Grandma Mazur, and Mooner, is strapped in for the ride of a lifetime. When a child is kidnapped by his own father, Stephanie is hired to find them both. But things aren't always as they seem¿́¿and soon Stephanie must determine if she's working for the right side of the law. Plus, there's the Morelli question: can a Jersey girl keep her head on straight when more than just bullets...
534) Heaven, my home
Author
Series
Highway 59 volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The thrilling follow-up to the award-winning Bluebird, Bluebird. Texas Ranger Darren Matthews is on the hunt for a boy who's gone missing, but it's the boy's family of white supremacists who are his real target. Nine-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; now he's alone in the darkness of vast Caddo Lake, in a boat whose motor just died. A sudden noise distracts him -- and all goes dark. Darren Matthews is trying to emerge from...
535) Runaway Max
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This must-read novel, based on the hit Netflix series, Stranger things, explores Max's past--the good and the bad--as well as how she came to find her newfound sense of home in Hawkins, Indiana.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
Español
Description
La hija menor de Mackenzie Allen Phillips es raptada durante unas vacaciones familiares, y se encuentran evidencias de que pudo haber sido brutalmente asesinada en una cabaña abandonada en lo más profundo de los bosques de Oregón. Cuatro años después, Mack recibe una sospechosa nota, al parecer procedente de Dios, invitándolo a regresar a esa cabaña durante un fin de semana.
A father, having received an invitation apparently from God, goes...
537) The crocodile caper
Author
Series
Ra the Mighty volume 3
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Ra, the pharoah's pampered cat, and his scarab beetle sidekick, Khepri, investigate when crown prince Dedi disappears from the palace of one of Pharoah's wives in ancient Egypt.
538) Taken in death
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Two young children disappear from their East Side home in New York City, their nanny killed in cold blood. As Lieutenant Eve Dallas begins to unravel the crime scene and search for Henry and Gala MacDermit, she's drawn into the twisted mind of a kidnapper who will stop at nothing to take revenge. Horrific threats concerning the brother and sister hit far too close to home for Eve, drawing her back into memories of her own tortured childhood. But Eve...
539) Dead lock
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Early on a cold Somerset morning, ten year old Alesha Daniels is reported missing by her father, a violent alcoholic. Her mother, a known drug addict, is found unconscious, but it's her mother's boyfriend the police are keen to trace. As the hunt for Alesha gathers pace, a second local girl is taken, plunging another family into the depths of despair. Cutting short his holiday, DI Nick Dixon races home to join the Major Investigation Team, but no...
540) The power of poison
Author
Series
A Dr. Lily Robinson novel volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"More than 20 years ago, Dr. Lily Robinson -- the brilliant pathologist and toxicologist -- was a member of a scientific expedition in Colombia, South America, that ended in the death of her colleagues and, presumably, her little girl. Unaware of the true circumstances of her tragedy, her memory blocked in self-preservation, Dr. Robinson's despair made her fair game for recruitment by a secret government agency whose objective is to eliminate threats...