Lincoln Child
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Series
Jeremy Logan novels volume 6
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"A blockbuster new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child, centered on a dominant tech company-Chrysalis-whose groundbreaking virtual reality technology is redefining the way we live . . . and possibly introducing a catastrophic danger to the world. Like millions of people around the world, Jeremy Logan (famed enigmalogist, or investigator of unexplained things) has grown to rely on his incredible new tech device. Made by...
Author
Series
Jeremy Logan novels volume 4
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Yale professor Jeremy Logan is an "enigmalogist" -- an investigator who specializes in analyzing phenomena that have no obvious explanation. Logan finds himself on the storied coastline of Newport, Rhode Island, where he has been retained by Lux, one of the oldest and most respected think tanks in America. Just days earlier, a series of frightening events took place in the sprawling seaside mansion that houses the organization. One of its most distinguished...
Author
Series
Jeremy Logan novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An archaeological expedition digging where it shouldn’t ... A crown so powerful it is rumored to be cursed ... And the one man who can explain it all ...
Deep in a nearly impassable swamp south of the Egyptian border, an archaeological team is searching for the burial chamber of King Narmer, the fabled pharaoh. Narmer's crown might be buried with him: the elusive "double" crown of...
Deep in a nearly impassable swamp south of the Egyptian border, an archaeological team is searching for the burial chamber of King Narmer, the fabled pharaoh. Narmer's crown might be buried with him: the elusive "double" crown of...
Author
Series
Jeremy Logan novels volume 5
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Traveling to an isolated writers' retreat deep in the Adirondacks, Jeremy Logan, an investigator who specializes in unexplained phenomena, discovers a dead hiker whose wounds suggest an unnatural attack before encountering numerous suspects and a woman scientist struggling with the death of her father.
Author
Series
Jeremy Logan novels volume 1
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Summoned to a remote oil rig to diagnose a strange medical ailment among the rig workers, ex-Navy physician Peter Crane soon discovers that the condition is linked to the underwater excavation being done at science research station Deep Storm.
Author
Series
Jeremy Logan novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When a scientific expedition discovers a giant cat frozen in the Alaskan wilderness, the media conglomerate sponsoring the trip makes plans to thaw out the creature on live television, unaware that it is an ancient killing machine that may not be dead.
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
viii, 385 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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Utopia, a theme park featuring high-tech computers and robotics, becomes the scene of a confrontation between the engineer who designed the park's wizardry and a gang of criminals who are holding the park's visitors hostage to their demands.
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Ein dunkles Geheimnis aus der Vergangenheit. Ein eiskalter Plan. Eine Besessenheit, die neue Opfer fordert.
Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast kehrt auf den Stammsitz seiner Familie zurück. Hier erwarten ihn viele sorgsam verdrängte Erinnerungen - auch die an seine Frau Helen, die vor zwölf Jahren bei einem schrecklichen Unfall umgekommen ist. Doch nun findet Pendergast Hinweise, dass Helen in Wahrheit das Opfer eines heimtückischen Mordes wurde....
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Detective D'Agoste erhält einen Brief, den der für Tod erklärte Aloysius Pendergast vor seinem Verschwinden geschrieben hat. Pendergast offenbart darin, dass er einene Bruder hat, einen gefährlichen Verrückten: Diogenes. Und dieser plant ein unglaubliches Verbrechen. D'Agoste beginnt sofort mit den Ermittlungen, die eine bizarre Familiengeschichte hervorbringen. Plötzlich tauch Pendergast wieder auf. Warum tut er so, als sei er in Italien gestorben?...
10) Brimstone
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Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
viii, 497 p. ; 24 cm.
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Art critic Jeremy Grove is found dead, his face frozen in a mask of terror. His body temperature is grotesquely high; he is discovered in a room barricaded from the inside; the smell of brimstone is everywhere ... and the unmistakable imprint of a claw is burned into the wall. As more bodies are discovered--their only connection the bizarre but identical manner of death--the world begins to wonder if the Devil has, is fact, come to collect his due....
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
454 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
The Museum of Natural History receives back a pilfered gem collection, which has been ground to dust. To quell the PR nightmare the museum decides to reopen the Tomb of Senef; that's when the killings and talk of ancient curse start. FBI agent Pendergast is pitted against his brilliant, psychotic brother Diogenes.
12) Cold vengeance
Author
Series
Pendergast volume 11
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"Devastated by the discovery that his wife, Helen, was murdered, Special Agent Pendergast must have retribution. But revenge is not simple. As he stalks his wife's betrayers-a chase that takes him from the wild moors of Scotland to the bustling streets of New York City and the darkest bayous of Louisiana - he is also forced to dig further into Helen's past. And he is stunned to learn that Helen may have been a collaborator in her own murder. Peeling...
14) Dance of death
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 6
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
451 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Stalked throughout his life by his brother Diogenes, FBI Special Agent Pendergast finds himself framed for several murders, a situation that forces him to flee while he works alongside a friend from the NYPD to prove his innocence.
15) Fever dream
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Series
Pendergast novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
With Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta's assistance, Pendergast embarks on a quest to uncover the mystery of his wife's murder. As he probes more deeply into the riddle; the answer to which is revealed in a night of shocking violence, deep in the Louisiana bayou; he finds himself faced with an even greater question: who was the woman he married?
16) Relic
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
382 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Days before a massive exhibition at the New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being murdered. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human. The museum's directors decide to go ahead with the bash in spite of the murders. Now museum researcher Margo Green must find out who or what is doing the killing. Does she have time to stop a massacre?
17) Gideon's sword
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Series
Gideon Crew volume 1
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When Gideon turned 12, he witnessed his world-class mathematician father be accused of treason, then get shot dead. Twelve years later, knowing his father was actually framed, Gideon seeks to avenge his father.
18) Dead mountain
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Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 25 cm.
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"In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their last campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, three violently crushed and missing eyes and tongues. The case, given the code...
19) Bloodless
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 20
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Agent Pendergast faces his most unexpected challenge yet when bloodless bodies begin to appear in Savannah, GA"--On the evening of November 24, 1971, D.B. Cooper hijacked 305--Portland to Seattle--with a fake bomb, collected a ransom of $200,000, and then parachuted from the rear of the plane, disappearing into the night. Fifty years later, Agent Pendergast takes on a bizarre and gruesome case: in the ghost haunted city of Savannah, Georgia, bodies...
20) Reliquary
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 2
Pub. Date
1998, c1997
Physical Desc
464 p. ; 18 cm.
Description
Lieutenant D'Agosta of the New York police and anthropologist Margo Green team up with the Navy's special forces to destroy monsters roaming New York's subterranean world--sewers, tunnels--killing the homeless to eat their brains, the monsters' staple food. By the author of Relic.