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61) Les misérables
Author
Language
English
Description
In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean - a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert - Hugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre.
62) Flesh house
Author
Series
Logan McRae mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The 4th thriller in the Number One bestselling crime series from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. Panic grips The Granite City as DS Logan McRae heads up a manhunt for 'The Flesher' - one of the UK's most notorious serial killers. Panic strikes the Granite City... When an offshore container turns up at Aberdeen Harbour full of human meat, it kicks off the largest manhunt in the Granite City's history. Twenty years ago 'The Flesher' was butchering...
64) Burn you twice
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Ten years ago as an undergrad, Joan Mason escaped an arsonist's fire. Shaken, she fled the small collegiate Montana town, leaving behind friends and not looking back. Now a Philadelphia homicide detective, Joan's trying to put her traumas to rest. It's not easy. Elijah Weston, the classmate who torched her house, is out of prison and returning to Missoula. Gut instinct tells Joan he'll strike again. To stop him, she must return to the past as well....
65) Damage
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
His career derailed by the vengeful billionaire Curtlee family for his part in convicting one of their number for murder, former homicide detective Abe Glitsky learns that the killer has won a retrial at the same time a star witness has been murdered.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thirty years ago, a teenage Vincent King was sent to prison. But now, he's served his sentence and is returning to his hometown. The hometown where his childhood best friend, Walk, is now the chief of police. The town where his childhood sweetheart, Star Radley, still lives. The same Star Radley whose sister he killed. Duchess, Star's daughter, is a self-proclaimed outlaw. She needs to be. Who else is going to take care of her and her five-year-old...
67) The unwilling
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in the South at the height of the Vietnam War, The Unwilling combines crime, suspense and searing glimpses into the human mind and soul in New York Times bestselling author John Hart's singular style. Gibby's older brothers have already been to war. One died there. The other came back misunderstood and hard, a decorated killer now freshly released from a three-year stint in prison. Jason won't speak of the war or of his time behind bars, but...
68) A worthy heart
Author
Series
Courage to dream volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The answer to Maggie Montgomery's dream of seeing America has arrived at just the right time. Now she'll be reunited with her beloved brother, Rylan, and finally be able to escape Neill Fitzgerald's increasingly unwanted attentions. While visiting Irish Meadows, Maggie meets an intriguing man she thinks is a stable hand. Only when her brother demands she stay away from Adam O'Leary does she learn he's Rylan's brother-in-law, recently released from...
70) Les miserables
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Suggestive and sexual material, violence and thematic elements.
In early 19th century France the paroled prisoner Jean Valjean seeks redemption, regains his social standing, and rises to the rank of mayor. He encounters a beautiful but desperately ill woman named Fantine and cares for her daughter, Cosette, after her death. All the while he is obsessively pursued by the policeman Javert, who vows to make him pay for the crimes of his past.
72) Revolver
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008, 2005.
Language
English
Description
Upon his release from prison, expert gambler Jake Green sets in motion a complicated revenge scheme to take out the mobster who killed his sister-in-law and put him away.
Author
Series
House of Winslow volume 30
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Kefira Reis, a young Jewish woman, works in a sweatshop in the New York garment district. When her boss abuses her, she fights back and flees. Joshua Winslow has just been released from prison, but when he sets out to find honest work, he is attacked by tramps and badly beaten. A timely encounter with Kefira saves his life. Kefira encourages Josh to live out his dream of becoming an archaeologist, but when they finally arrive in Egypt, complications...
74) Aces
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Aces is the story of a young man who fights against the battering of his mother by his drunken father. The situation escalates until Ace desperately stabs his father to death, and is sent to jail for a period of 15 years. Nine years later he is out on parole. He kills again within a day's time of his release.
75) The burning
Author
Series
Clay Edison novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Things get personal for Deputy Coroner Clay Edison when a murder hits close to home in this riveting, emotional thriller from the bestselling father-son team who write "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King). A raging wildfire. A massive blackout. A wealthy man shot to death in his palatial hilltop home. For Clay Edison, it's all in a day's work. As a deputy coroner, caring for the dead, he speaks for those who cannot speak for themselves....
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When twenty-five-year-old Lewis Taylor is released from the Texas State Prison, he receives little attention as he walks into the midday sunlight, free after serving five years for a crime he didn't commit. His only interest is in getting back to his hometown of Gila Bend, Texas, a quiet farming community about which he has only warm, idyllic memories. During his long years in prison, he survived by thinking fondly of the home he'd known since boyhood--and...
77) Song of the road
Author
Series
Route 66 novels (Dorothy Garlock) volume 3
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
78) Lone jack trail
Author
Series
Neah Bay novels volume 2
Publisher
Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Could your closest friend be a killer? When a body washes up outside Deception Cove, Washington, Jess Winslow--once a US Marine, now a trainee sheriff's deputy--is assigned to investigate. But when she realizes it's "Bad" Brock Boyd, a hometown celebrity lately fallen from grace, things become complicated. The last person seen with Boyd was her own boyfriend, Mason Burke. An ex-convict and newcomer in town, Mason is one of the only people who can...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Two of Dicken's novels are republished. The first follows a group from the tranquil roads of London to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror. The second follows the life of the orphaned Pip from the wild Kent marshes through a series of events as he abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman.
80) Safe house
Author
Series
Burke novels volume 10
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
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