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English
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Charlie and Oliver Caruso fail to smell a rat when they take over an abandoned account at Greene & Greene, a private bank--until the trap is sprung, and they find themselves the subject of investigations by the bank, the Secret Service and a female private investigator.
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English
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When fifteen-year-old Cathy decides to carpool from Norwalk to tony Greenwich, Connecticut, to study Latin in summer school, she does not expect the shocking events that occurred five years earlier to suddenly come flooding back into her relatively settled life.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Obsessed by the gorgeous Annalise Bonner, who cares only for adventure and the good life, accountant Jordan Wise uses his bookkeeping skills to embezzle half a million dollars from his company and plans an escape to the Virgin Islands.
5) Dead water
Author
Series
Benjamin January volume 8
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In turbulent nineteenth-century New Orleans, free man of color Benjamin January finds himself on a perilous steamboat ride that becomes an inescapable journey of death and murder.
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Series
Language
English
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Mack Malloy is a partner in one of Kindle County's top law firms. An ex-cop who joined the firm on a wave of enthusiasm and optimism, he now feels himself to be on the way down, and possibly out. Bert Kamin, gifted, erratic and combative, is one of the firm's star litigators and he has disappeared.
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Series
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English
Description
Emerson Knight is introverted, eccentric, and has little to no sense of social etiquette. Good thing he's also brilliant, rich, and (some people might say) handsome, or he'd probably be homeless. Riley Moon has just graduated from Harvard Business and Harvard Law. Her aggressive Texas spitfire attitude has helped her land her dream job as a junior analyst with mega-bank Blane-Grunwald. At least Riley Moon thought it was her dream job, until she is...
Author
Series
Rhea Jensen volume 1
Publisher
Bonneville
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
When PI Rhea Jensen is asked to investigate an embezzlement case at a nearby factory, Rhea doesn't think twice. What Rhea doesn't know is that the events that will take place on this case will snowball into a life decision. And what starts out as a humdrum investigation, filled with seemingly chance encounters, will change her life forever.
10) House Privilege
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco thriller volume 14
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The fourteenth novel in Mike Lawson's acclaimed series takes political fixer Joe DeMarco to Boston and beyond, to expose an embezzler and the lengths to which she'll go to protect her wealth."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Covenant Audio
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Abby Breuner fears the worst. Pregnant with her third child, and having problems at work, Abby is alarmed when her husband, Eric, vanishes without any warning. The police seem unable or unwilling to help. And what appeared to be a close-enough-to-perfect life gets permanently turned upside down when she finds an ominous book and a large amount of cash stowed in a forgotten corner of her closet.
12) City limits
Author
Series
Rhea Jensen volume 3
Publisher
Bonneville Books
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
When Salt Lake City PI Rhea Jensen and her best friend Kathryn realize a soon-to-be-father has been set up to take the fall for a crime he didn't commit, Rhea decides to poke around. Little does she know that the ghosts from her past are about to close in, and that the secret society behind the mystery is much more powerful than she could have imagined.
13) The hunted
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Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Brian Haig delivers his a thriller inspired by a true story about one man running between two countries, trying desperately to escape his past. In 1987, Alex Konevitch was thrown out of Moscow University for "indulging his entrepreneurial spirit." But by 1991, he was worth $300 million. On track to become Russia's wealthiest man, he makes one critical mistake: he hires the former deputy director of the KGB to handle...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "Bronze," a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future.
15) El gran engaño
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Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
Un magnate de Barcelona aparece ahorcado en su mansión. Enfrentado a la ruina y al desprestigio social, todo apunta a un suicidio. En su garganta, incrustada, una diminuta cruz, la misma que la madre del fallecido llevaba el día en que fue asesinada cuando el era todavia un nino. Roberto es un honrado inspector de Hacienda, bien conocido por su capacidad de investigar las tramas más turbias de fraude y que está siendo sometido a un cruel chantaje...
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English
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"At the end of the 1990s, with the art market finally recovered from its disastrous collapse, Miss Rebecca Farwell has made a killing at Christie's in New York City, selling a portion of her extraordinary art collection for a rumored 900 percent profit. Dressed in couture YSL, drinking the finest champagne at trendy Balthazar, Reba, as she's known, is the picture of a wealthy art collector. To some, the elusive Miss Farwell is a shark with outstanding...
17) The gatekeeper
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"James Byrne's The Gatekeeper introduces Dez Limerick in the most anticipated new thriller in years. A highly trained team of mercenaries launches a well-planned, coordinated attack on a well-guarded military contractor - but they didn't count on one thing, the right man being in the wrong place at the right time. Desmond Aloysius Limerick ("Dez" to all) is a retired mercenary, and enthusiastic amateur musician, currently in Southern California, enjoying...
Author
Series
A Danny Barrett novel volume 1
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this thrilling new series from Edgar-nominated author Ron Corbett, the most dangerous predator in the Maine wilderness walks on two feet-and it is Danny Barrett's job to bring him down. Something is not right in the North Maine Woods. A small family-run lumber company should not have more than two hundred million unaccountable dollars on their books. Money like that comes from moving something other than wood across the border. The first agent...
19) Poison: a novel
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English
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"Dismas Hardy is looking forward to cutting back his work hours and easing into retirement after recovering from two gunshot wounds. He is determined to spend more time with his family and even reconnect with his distant son, Vincent. But Dismas just can't stay away from the courtroom for long and soon he is pulled into an intense family drama with fatal consequences. Grant Carver, the vigorous patriarch of the Carver family and its four-generations...
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Series
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English
Description
In the aftermath of her financier husband's suicide, Emma Shay Compton's dream life is shattered. Richard Compton stole his clients' life savings to fund a lavish life in New York City and, although she was never involved in the business, Emma bears the burden of her husband's crimes. She is left with nothing. Only one friend stands by her, a friend she's known since high school, who encourages her to come home to Sonoma County. But starting over...
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