Category: suspense
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No Dominion
By Charlie Huston Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Del Rey, 2006 Genres: Mystery, suspense, paranormal, vampire Series: Joe Pitt Casebook; 2 ISBN: 9780345478252 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 251 Setting: Manhattan, NYC Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: When vampyre detective Joe Pitt discovers that there is a new drug in his neighborhood designed…
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Blood Work
By Michael Connelly Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Warner Books, 1998 Genre: Mystery, suspense Series: Terry McCaleb mysteries; 1 ISBN: 9780446690447 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 469 Setting: Los Angeles, CA Time period: contemporary (late nineties) Plot summary: Former FBI agent Terry McCaleb has a new lease on life, which comes from his…
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The Girl who Played with Fire
By Stieg Larsson (Translated from Swedish by Reg Keeland) Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009 Genres: Thriller, mystery, suspense Series: Millennium trilogy; 2 ISBN: 9780307269980 Intended audience: adult Number of pages: 503 Settings: Stockholm, Sweden and Grenada Time period: around 2004 – 2005 Plot summary: Lisbeth Salander is an extremely introverted…
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Three Days To Never
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By Tim Powers Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Harper, 2007, c2006 Genres:Fantasy, contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy, suspense, thriller, mystery ISBN:9780380798377, 0380798379 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 405 Setting: Mainly Southern CA, but also Israel, various Europeans locations, Mt. Shasta, and NJ. Time period: Most of the story takes place immediately following the Hamornic…
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Already Dead
By Charlie Huston Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Ballantine Books, 2005 Genres: Mystery, suspense, paranormal, vampire Series: Joe Pitt Casebook; 1 ISBN: 034547824X, 9780345478245 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 268 Setting: Manhattan, NYC Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: Joe Pitt wasn’t born with his name. Like most Vampyres he knows, he changed his…
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If I Die in Juárez
By Stella Pope Duarte Place: Publisher & Year: Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2008 Genres: General fiction, suspense Series: Camino del Sol ISBN: 0816526672 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 328 Setting: Ciudad Juárez and the village of Montenegro, Mexico (located in the Chihuahuan desert) Time period: 1995- 96 Plot summary: Since 1993, the bodies…
