Adrian McKinty
1) The island
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they're deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry, taking...
2) The chain
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Pub. Date
2019.
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Description
A parent receives a panicked phone call from a stranger who reveals that both of their children have been kidnapped by someone who demands that they abduct another child to prevent the murders of their own.
Author
Series
Detective Sean Duffy novel volume no. 6
Pub. Date
2017.
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Description
"As he investigates a bizarre killing with an unusual weapon, Detective Sean Duffy only narrowly escapes becoming the next victim of the sinister underworld of 1980s Belfast"--
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Description
This knockout punch of a thriller from a critically acclaimed author follows a young Cuban detective's quest for vengeance against her father's killer in a Colorado mountain town
A man is killed in a hit-and-run on a frozen mountain road in the town of Fairview, Colorado. He is an illegal immigrant in a rich Hollywood resort community not unlike Telluride. No one is prosecuted for his death and his case is quietly forgotten.
Six months later another...
5) Deviant
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Fourteen-year-old Danny Lopez reviews the path that led him from Las Vegas, Nevada, to an experimental school near Colorado Springs and then to his imminent death at the hands of a cat-killer ready for bigger prey.
Author
Series
Lighthouse trilogy volume Book I
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Thirteen-year-old Jamie is overjoyed when a bequest sends him and his mother to live on an Irish island, where he and his newfound friend Ramsay travel back in time to help a young girl save her people from certain death.
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While mercenary Michael Forsythe is on holiday in Spain a soccer riot breaks out between the Paddies and the Brits and he is arrested. Samantha, a beautiful British Intelligence agent, offers to get him out of prison if he helps her inflitrate an IRA sleeper cell in the United States.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Colonial New Guinea, 1906. A small group of mostly German nudists live an extreme back-to-nature existence on the remote island of Kabakon. Eating only coconuts and bananas, they purport to worship the sun. One of their members, Max Lutzow, has recently died, allegedly from malaria. But an autopsy on his body in the nearby capital of Herbertshöhe raises suspicions about foul play.
Retired British military police officer Will Prior is recruited...
9) Rain Dogs
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Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Rain Dogs, a stunning installment in the Sean Duffy thriller series, following the Edgar Award-nominated Gun Street Girl, is "another standout in a superior series" (Booklist).
It's just the same things over and again for Sean Duffy: riot duty, heartbreak, cases he can solve but never get to court. But what detective gets two locked-room mysteries in one career?
When journalist Lily Bigelow is found dead in the courtyard of Carrickfergus Castle, it...
10) Gun Street Girl
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Belfast, 1985. Amid the Troubles, Detective Sean Duffy, a Catholic cop in the Protestant Royal Ulster Constabulary, struggles with burnout as he investigates a brutal double murder and suicide. Did Michael Kelly really shoot his parents at point-blank and then jump off a nearby cliff? A suicide note points to this conclusion, but Duffy suspects even more sinister circumstances. He soon discovers that Kelly was present at a decadent Oxford party where...