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Going, Gone: A Gail McCarthy Mystery
Laura Crum - Perseverance Press
Format: Paperback
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Horse vet Gail McCarthy's life turns stranger than fiction when her old boyfriend, Lonny Peterson, is arrested for murder-by none other than Gail's childhood friend, Bret Boncantini, now a sheriff's deputy in a Sierra foothills town. Lonny is accused of the murder of two local... |
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Writ of Execution
Perri O'Shaughnessy - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book
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Masterful storytelling ... gripping legal drama ... relentless suspense -- these are the hallmarks of Perri O'Shaughnessy's work. Critics hail her legal thrillers as "terrific ... will keep you turning the pages into the night" (USA Today) and "a real puzzler ... with... |
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Tahoe Ice Grave
Todd Borg - Thriller Press; First edition
Format: Paperback
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Early one frigid morning in January a young man named Thos Kahale walked into the icy waters of Lake Tahoe and died a brutal death. Hired to investigate, Owen McKenna learns that the Hawaiian side of the man's family had a secret shrine hidden in a cave in the cliffs of Kauai. Owen... |
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The Tin Man
Dale Brown - Bantam Books
Format: Print book
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In his ten New York Times bestselling novels, Dale Brown pits men and technology against impossible odds, in stories so vivid and authentic you feel you are part of the action. Now the undisputed master of military suspense brings back aerial combat expert Patrick McLanahan--this time at the center... |
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Blaize of Glory
Louise Crawford
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Andrea "Blaize" McCue, Sacramento's wisecracking substance-abuse counselor fights her own food addiction by hitting the gym. But her weight-lifting takes a nosedive when a client is found brutally murdered. Blaize is sure the killer is a brutal rapist from her past. She escaped... |
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Emma Chizzit and the Sacramento Stalker
Mary Bowen Hall
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"When a Sacramento women's group is targeted for Bible-quoted hate mail and cruel pranks, its leaders turn to plucky salvage worker Emma Chizzit for advice. Emma reluctantly agrees to participate in a Take Back the Night rally sponsored by the group, only to fall victim to a |
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Emma Chizzit and the Mother Lode Marauder
Mary Bowen Hall
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Hired to join preservation efforts at a historic mining town in California, Emma Chizzit realizes that someone does not want her there when she discovers a rattlesnake in her picnic basket and threatening notes in her room. Reprint. --This text refers to an out of print or un |
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False Accusations
Alan Jacobson
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False Accusations is a twisting psychological thriller, a tale of deadly revenge where the assurance of "innocent until proven guilty" is not what it seems.
In the predawn hours of a quiet Sacramento suburb, respected orthopedic surgeon Phillip Madison is charged with d |
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Stray Kat Waltz
Karen Kijewski - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book
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Private eye Kat Colorado has always taken pride in being hard-boiled as they come. Suddenly, after the unsolved murder of a cop hits close to home, she's pretty vulnerable. Struggling to survive a mind-numbing personal loss, Kat resists taking on a new client: the battered wife of another... |
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Kat Scratch Fever
Karen Kijewski - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book
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Private detective Kat Colorado decides to look into the mysterious suicide of James Randolph, a Sacramento attorney, but in doing so, she unveils a world of blackmail and deception that leads to violent threats against her, her family, and her friends." |
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Tahoe Payback
Todd Borg - Thriller Press
Format: Perfect Paperback
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The First Body Is Found On Lake Tahoe's Only Island When a man tells Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna that his girlfriend disappeared, McKenna wonders if the woman got cold feet and ran away. But when she turns up murdered on Fannette Island with red roses in her mouth, McKenna discovers... |
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Tahoe Dark
Todd Borg - Thriller Press
Format: Print book
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When Tahoe resident Jonas Montrop is kidnapped, his father pays the ransom but is then murdered. The next day, four robbers in hoodies and hockey masks take down an armored truck loaded with cash destined for a casino at Lake Tahoe. The company's boss calls Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna.... |
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Daughter of Fortune: A Novel
Isabel Allende - Harper Collins Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaqun Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy,... |
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Walk on Earth a Stranger (Gold Seer Trilogy, 1)
Rae Carson - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover
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Gold is in my blood, in my breath, even in the flecks in my eyes.. Lee Westfall has a strong, loving family. She has a home she loves and a loyal steed. She has a best friend--who might want to be something more.. She also has a secret.. Lee can sense gold in the world around her. Veins... |
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The Road to Cardinal Valley
Earlene Fowler - Berkley Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this heartfelt and poignant follow-up to Earlene Fowler’s national bestseller, The Saddlemaker’s Wife, Ruby McGavin returns to the small town of Cardinal, California, where a year ago she brought her husband’s ashes back to his family’s ranch, and discovered safety,... |
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The Proud Breed
Celeste De Blasis - Coward
Format: Book
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Tessa Macleod y Amarista Ramsay and Gavin Ramsay struggle to raise a family and build an empire amid the tumult of California's transition from wilderness territory to state |
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Lost Canyon
Nina Revoyr - Akashic Books
Format: Print book
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"Los Angeles is home to many great storytellers, but Nina Revoyr is one of its finest scribes....[Lost Canyon] pulses with both beauty and terror, and the struggles of these characters, their physical and mental reckonings, are enough to make readers sweat without getting off the couch."--Los... |
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Lightning of Gold: A Western Story
Max Brand - Five Star
Format: Hardcover
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In this dramatic and uncanny story, Lefty Bill Ranger is an Alaskan mail carrier. Lefty Bill Ranger reaches Circle City one night in a terrific snowstorm. There he meets Menneval -- a man who is widely feared throughout the territory -- and is offered a job. He is to go to Tuckerville,... |
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Mr. Monk in Trouble
Lee Goldberg - Berkley
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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Ever since a 1962 unsolved train robbery made it famous, people have flocked to the town of Trouble in Californias gold country, searching for the booty that train robbers supposedly dumped off the Golden Rail Express in a botched heist. When the towns museums watchman is murdered, Adrian... |
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At What Cost: A Detective Penley Mystery
James L'Etoile - Crooked Lane Books
Format: Print book
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What would you do to save your child?Detective John Penley and his new partner, Detective Paula Newberry, of the Sacramento Police Department are tasked with leading the investigation into a local serial killer who has dumped three bodies in the past six weeks--and all of them are missing... |
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Make-Believe Beau
Keli Gwyn - Love Inspired
Format: Print book
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The Courtship Charade As a draftswoman in a man's world, Jessica Sinclair causes a stir as her new male colleagues vie for her attention. And the company manager has an ultimatum: fake a courtship with her boss, Flynt Kavanaugh ... or lose her job. But pretending to be smitten with... |
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Crazy blood : a novel
T Jefferson Parker - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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"A brave and daring writer." -- Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author of Shanghai GirlsThe Carson dynasty rules the ski resort town of Mammoth Lakes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Founded by patriarch Adam, the town is the site of the Mammoth... |
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A Bride Opens Shop in El Dorado
Keli Gwyn
Format: Paperback
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An ever-resourceful widow, Elenora Watkins arrives in El Dorado ready to go into partnership with Miles Rutledge. When he refuses, Elenora becomes the competition across the street. Is this town big enough for the two of them? Miles can't help but stick his well-polished boot in h |
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