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"Farlingaye Hall is a beautiful hotel in Suffolk on the east coast of England. Unfortunately, it is also the site of the brutal murder of Frank Parris, a retired advertising executive. Stefan Codrescu, a Romanian maintenance man, is arrested after police find blood spatter on his clothes and bed linen. He is found guilty and spends eight years in prison. It appears an open and shut case, but there is more than meets the eye. Alan Conway, the late...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Longing to distance herself from her criminal work as a person who makes information disappear for the right price, Charlotte Alton--aka Karla--accepts one last job eliminating an inmate who is in prison with a mafia boss from Karla's past.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Español
Description
"En un caluroso día de verano, Amy y Nick se disponen a celebrar su quinto aniversario de bodas en North Carthage, a orillas del río Mississippi. Pero Amy desaparece esa misma mañana sin dejar rastro. A medida que la investigación policial avanza, las sospechas recaen sobre Nick. Sin embargo, Nick insiste en su inocencia. Es cierto que se muestra extrañamente evasivo y frío, pero ¿es un asesino?"--Book cover.
4) Purgatorio
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Español
Description
"En el invierno de 1976 Simón Cardoso es detenido por los militares que impusieron una dictadura sangrienta en la Argentina, y nunca más aparece. Treinta años más tarde, su mujer, Emilia Dupuy, se paraliza al oir su voz en una fonda de suburbio en New Jersey. El mundo, que se había desmoronado con la tragedia, recobra su luz. Excepto por un detalle: Simón sigue fijo en la juventud. El tiempo no ha transcurrido para él. A partir de ese enigma,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When a recently retired family patriarch clears out his bank account and disappears during a sweltering summer in 1976, his three children converge on their mother's home for the first time in years and track clues to an ancestral village in Ireland, where they uncover illuminating family secrets.
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English
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On a serene summer Sunday, a routine admission for a run-of-the-mill surgery at Atlanta's Emory Hospital goes tragically wrong, setting off a catastrophic wave of destruction that sends the facility and the surrounding area into lockdown. One of the city's largest and most prestigious institutions, Emory is situated near the Centers for Disease Control, the FBI counter-terrorism headquarters, and a large children's hospital. Anything that happens...
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"New York, 1998. Santiago Larrea, a wealthy Argentine diplomat, is holding court alongside his wife, Lila, and their daughter, Paloma, a college student and budding jewelry designer, at their annual summer polo match and soiree. All seems perfect in the Larreas' world-until an unexpected party guest from Santiago's university days shakes his usually unflappable demeanor. The woman's cryptic comments spark Paloma's curiosity about her father's past,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Two percent of the world's population has disappeared. Was it the Rapture? A mass murder? Cult suicides? Aliens? Based on Tom Perrotta's bestselling novel, the series follows Kevin Garvey, police chief and father of two in Mapletown, New York, three years after the mysterious event. As Garvey struggles to grieve for his losses, rebuild his life, and regain a sense of normalcy within the community, the world around him grows ever stranger.
10) ÆonFlux
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
400 years in the future, after a virus kills off 99% of the world population, only one city on Earth remains. Ruled by the Goodchild dynasty, it is a perfect society of peace and prosperity - except that its citizens keep mysteriously disappearing. A secret agent/assassin/warrior has been given the mission to bring down the regime. But as she goes deeper into her mission, Aeon uncovers some shocking secrets that put the mission, not to mention her...
12) Sherlock Gnomes
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Garden gnomes, Gnomeo and Juliet, recruit renowned detective Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
300 inmates and more than 40 guards disappeared from the Alcatraz prison in 1963 without a trace. The government invented a cover story about the prison being closed, due to unsafe conditions, and officially reported that the inmates had been transferred. A young San Francisco police officer tasked with transferring inmates to the island in 1963 is the first to discover that the inmates are actually missing and not transferred. In present day they...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
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IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"Aidan disappeared for six days. Six agonizing days of searches and police and questions and constant vigils. Then, just as suddenly as he vanished, Aidan reappears. Where has he been? The story he tells is simply. . . impossible. But it's the story Aidan is sticking to. His brother, Lucas, wants to believe him. But Lucas is aware of what other people, including their parents, are saying: that Aidan is making it all up to disguise the fact that he...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
With Mapleton thrown into chaos at the close of season one, season two finds many of its residents searching for a fresh start. Kevin Garvey retires as police chief and moves his newly formed family to a small Texas town that seems to have been spared from the event that shook the rest of the world.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful Berkeley mom with a radical past vanishes while hiking, leaving her family to piece together her secrets, in this keenly observed novel for readers of Emma Straub and Maria Semple--from the bestselling author of all We Ever Wanted Was Everything"--
"Billie is a beautiful Berkeley mom with a radical past--a teenage runaway from Northern California who took up with a group of environmental activists wanted by the FBI, lived dangerously,...
17) Kamchatka
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In 1976, a young boy flees Buenos Aires with his opposition-supporting family, renames himself after his hero Harry Houdini, and dedicates his time in exile to mastering his role model's escape artistry.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought after black market goods to paying customers, her nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking moment mourning her boyfriend, who was killed on the Dutch front lines when the Germans invaded. She likes to think of her illegal work as a small act of rebellion against the Nazis. On a routine delivery, a client asks Hanneke for help. Expecting...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, and imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When Liana Dector, a woman who is possibly a cold-blooded killer wanted by the police, storms into his favorite Boston tavern demanding his help, George Foss, unable to say "no" to his first love, is drawn into a world of murder, betrayal, and secrets from which there is no escape.
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