Peter James
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
440 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Some will know how it begins. Her name is Sandy. You might know her as the loving wife of Detective Superintendent Roy Grace. But there's more to her than meets the eye. A woman with a dubious past, a complicated present and an uncertain future. Then she was gone. Some will think they know how it ends. Her disappearance caused a nationwide search. Even the best detective on the force couldn't find her. They thought she was dead. But nobody knows this....
3) Old Yeller
Author
Series
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
The classic story of a hardworking country boy in Texas in the late 1860s and the brave dog who becomes his companion and protector.
Author
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
5) You are dead
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The last words Jamie Ball hears from his fiancée, Logan Somerville, are in a terrified mobile phone call from her. She has just driven into the underground car park beneath the apartment block where they live in Brighton, and seen a man acting strangely. Then she screams and the phone goes dead. The police are on the scene within minutes, but Logan has vanished, leaving behind her neatly parked car and cell phone. That same afternoon, workmen digging...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
553 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The brutal rapes of two women in Brighton bear remarkable similarities to an unsolved series of crimes from 1997. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is forced to delve into his shattered past to find the key to unlocking the current mystery.
7) Dead simple
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Launching a terrifying new series, James introduces recently widowed Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, who's called in when a man is reported missing from a bachelor party. Grace soon discovers that one man's disaster is another man's fortune.
Author
Series
Roy Grace volume 10
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Single girl, 29, redhead and smouldering, love life that's crashed and burned. Seeks new flame to rekindle her fire. Fun, friendship and--who knows--more maybe? In Peter James' Want You Dead, thirty-year old Red Cameron meets handsome, charming and rich thirty-five year old Bryce Laurent through an online dating agency, and is instantly attracted to him. But as their love blossoms, the truth about his past begins to emerge, and with it his dark side....
Author
Series
Roy Grace volume 15
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Roy Grace exposes the dark side of the internet. .You don't know me, but I thought I knew you . . . A man waits at a London airport for Ingrid Ostermann, the love of his life, to arrive. Across the Atlantic, a retired NYPD cop waits in a bar in Florida's Key West for his first date with the lady who is, without question, his soulmate. The two men are about to discover they've been scammed out of almost every penny they have in the world - and that...
10) Run
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Engaging, surprising, provocative and moving...a thoroughly intelligent book, an intimate domestic drama that nonetheless deals with big issues touching us all: religion, race, class, politics and, above all else, family." -- Washington Post
From New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett comes an engrossing story of one family on one fateful night in Boston where secrets are unlocked and new bonds are formed.
Since their mother's death, Tip...
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kipp Brown, successful businessman and compulsive gambler, is having the worst run of luck of his life. He's beginning to lose big style. However, taking his teenage son, Mungo, to their club's big Saturday afternoon football match should have given him a welcome respite, if only for a few hours. But it's at the stadium where his nightmare begins. Within minutes of arriving at the game, Kipp bumps into a client. He takes his eye of Mungo for a few...
12) Love you dead
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
436 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An ugly duckling as a child, Jodie Bentley had two dreams in life--to be beautiful and rich. She's achieved the first, with a little help from a plastic surgeon, and now she's working hard on the second. Her philosophy on money is simple: you can either earn it or marry it. Marrying is easy, it's getting rid of the husband afterward that's harder, that takes real skill. But hey, practice makes perfect... Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is feeling...
13) Dead man's time
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
409 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"New York, 1922. Five-year-old Gavin Daly and his seven-year-old sister, Aileen, are boarding the SS Mauretania to Dublin--and safety. Their mother has been shot and their Irish mobster father abducted. Suddenly, a messenger hands Gavin a piece of paper on which are written four names and eleven numbers, a cryptic message that will haunt him all his life, and his father's pocket watch. As the ship sails, Gavin watches Manhattan fade into the dusk...
14) Not dead yet
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
440 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Roy Grace investigates threats against Gaia Lafayette, a Hollywood star who is filming in Brighton, but when a body is found on a farm miles away, Grace and his men must race against time to stop an obsessive killer.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
Edward P. Jones, a prodigy of the short story, returns to the form that first won him praise in this new collection of 14 stories, All Aunt Hagar's Children. Here he turns an unflinching eye to the men, women, and children caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations that await them in the city, people who in Jones's masterful hands emerge as fully human and morally complex. With the legacy of slavery just a stone's throw behind them...
Author
Language
English
Description
Two leading spiritual masters share their wisdom about living with joy even in the face of adversity, sharing personal stories and teachings about the science of profound happiness and the daily practices that anchor their emotional and spiritual lives. --Publisher
In April 2015, Archbishop Tutu traveled to the Dalai Lama's home in Dharamsala, India, to celebrate His Holiness's eightieth birthday and to create what they hoped would be a gift for...
19) Native son
Author
Series
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what...
20) Meet the parents
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Male nurse Greg Focker wants to pop the question to his girlfriend Pam Byrnes. But she's daddy's little girl, and daddy, has some old-fashioned ideas about manners and manhood. So Pam and Greg make a pilgrimage to the Byrnes' homestead on Long Island. Greg gets off the wrong foot with Mr. Byrnes and never recovers. Little white lies mushroom into ghastly whoppers. Greg finds out that Mr. Byrnes was in the CIA for 34 years. And so the weekend goes...