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A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname-Buffalo Bill-is stalking women. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the FBI Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, chief of the Bureau's Behavioral Science section. Her assignment: to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter-Hannibal the Cannibal-who is... (more)

School Days (Spenser)

by Robert B. Parker

When a boy is accused of a shocking mass murder, only his grandmother is convinced of his innocence. When she hires Spenser to investigate, the inquiry grows more harrowing with every unexpected turn REVIEW; Spenser returns! A high point of the...classic series. ( Booklist , starred review)

The Closers

by Michael Connelly

"A city that forgets its murder victims is a city lost. This is where we don't forget," Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch is told by his new boss, as he ends a three-year retirement and rejoins the Los Angeles Police Department at the start of The Closers, the 11th installment of Michael Connelly's Edgar-winning series. Having long ago demonstrated his knack for cracking previously unsolved homicides, Bosch is... (more)

Harry Bosch: Book 1

The Black Echo

by Michael Connelly

Joined with a seductive FBI agent and pitted against enemies in his own department, Detective Harry Bosch must choose between justice and vengeance, as he tracks a killer whose true face will shock him. Reissue.

Myth Adventures: Book 11

Myth-ion Improbable (Myth Books)

by Robert Asprin

Apprentice magician Skeeve, his scaly mentor Aahz and beautiful ex-assassin Tanda are back-and this time they're treasure hunting in a dimension that combines the Wild West with the vampire-cursed hills of Transylvania-where gold is common as dirt, and danger lurks behind every sagebrush.

The Vampire Chronicles: Book 8

Blood and Gold

by Anne Rice

Read by 5 CDs6 hours The Vampire Chronicles continue with Anne Rice's spellbinding new novel. Out of the pages of the Vampire Chronicles steps the golden-haired Marius, true Child of the Millenia, once mentor to the Vampire Lestat, always and forever the conscientious slayer of the evildoer, and now ready to reveal the secrets of his two-thousand-year-long existence in his own intense voice. Born in Imperial... (more)

The Gift of Fear

by Gavin De Becker

True fear is often a signal that can save your life. Are you listening? The baby-sitter you've just hired makes you uneasy--what should you do? You sense you are being followed --do you confront the stranger...or run? A fired employee says "You'll be sorry"--should you take him seriously? A person in the elevator you are about to enter just doesn't look right--do you wait for the next car? A date won't... (more)

One Shot (Jack Reacher)

by Lee Child

Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enough, from the world he lives in—no phone, no address, no commitments–ex–military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. In Lee Child’s astonishing new thriller, Reacher’s... (more)

Building Harlequin's Moon

by Larry Niven

The first interstellar starship, John Glenn, fled a Solar System populated by rogue AIs and machine/human hybrids, threatened by too much nanotechnology and rife with political dangers. The John Glenn’ s crew intended to terraform the nearly pristine planet Ymir, in hopes of creating a utopian society that will limit intelligent technology. But by some miscalculation they have landed in another solar system,... (more)

Mitch Rapp: Book 3

Separation of Power

by Vince Flynn

CIA superagent Mitch Rapp is back in action in Vince Flynn's high-velocity New York Times bestseller. Newly appointed CIA director Dr. Irene Kennedy is the target of an inside plot to destroy her and prematurely end the American President's term. To make matters worse, Saddam Hussein is close to entering the nuclear arms race -- something Israel has vowed to stop. With the haunting specter of World War III... (more)

Radiant

by James Alan Gardner

James Alan Gardner broke onto the sf scene with his debut novel, Expendable, which won him numerous fans for its blend of wry humor and fast-paced action set in a world where the flawed are designated as society's explorers. Now he makes his long-awaited hardcover debut with what might be his best book yet ... Explorer Third Class Youn Sue is Expendable -- a member of the highly skilled and highly disposable... (more)

Ali Reynolds: Book 1

Edge of Evil

by J. A. Jance

The end of her high-profile broadcasting career came too soon for TV journalist Alison Reynolds—bounced off the air by executives who wanted a "younger face." With a divorce from her cheating husband of ten years also pending, there is nothing keeping her in L.A. any longer. Cut loose from her moorings, Ali is summoned back home to Sedona, Arizona, by the death of a childhood friend. Once there she seeks solace in... (more)

The Pillars of Solomon (Ben and Danielle)

The Pillars of Solomon (Ben and Danielle)

by Jon Land

Palestinian-American detective Ben Kamal and Israeli police inspector Danielle Barnea return to confront a worldwide criminal plague: white slavery. Ben Kamal hasn't investigated a case since his last assignment with Danielle until he learns about missing children in his native West Bank. And Danielle had put her career on hold until a personal tragedy left her with nothing to turn to except her career; her first... (more)

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The Silence of the Lambs

by Thomas Harris

School Days (Spenser)

by Robert B. Parker

The Closers

by Michael Connelly

The Black Echo

by Michael Connelly

Myth-ion Improbable (Myth Books)

by Robert Asprin

Blood and Gold

by Anne Rice

The Gift of Fear

by Gavin De Becker

One Shot (Jack Reacher)

by Lee Child

Building Harlequin's Moon

by Larry Niven

Separation of Power

by Vince Flynn

Radiant

by James Alan Gardner

Edge of Evil

by J. A. Jance

The Pillars of Solomon (Ben and Danielle)

by Jon Land