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Series
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Blackmail, murder, and a pretty girl on the run Nevada's attorney general is missing. At dusk on a deserted Nevada highway in a thunderstorm, ex-IRS agent and PI-in-training Mortimer Angel comes across a pretty, scantily-clad girl--Harper Leland. She's cold and alone, thirty miles from the nearest town. When Mort offers her a ride, she orders him out of h is truck at gunpoint. She tries to take off, but he cuts the valve stem on the rear tire. Realizing...
82) Kinsella's man
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Neveda Press
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
The protagonist is John Siloa, a Basque shepherd who becomes the foreman and confidant of a recluse cattle rancher in Nevada. The relationship is complicated by a growing attraction between Siloa and the rancher's daughter, 20 years his junior. By the author of A Still and Woven Blue.
84) Stray dogs
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A penniless gambler who owes money to a gangster is offered blood money by two people--a wife wants a husband killed and the husband wants the wife killed. The offers are tempting, especially as the gangster's henchmen are on the way to collect the debt. The setting is Nevada.
Author
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This Here Is Devil's Work: A Novel trails wildland firefighters and cattle rustlers from small towns in Nevada and Montana through the rugged expanse that connects them. The winding paths of veteran hotshot Morgan and struggling rustler Jacklynn cross when lighting ignites a blaze in the untamed Montana forest and their choices force each other into the crucible"--
86) What we buried
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Siblings Liv and Jory Brewer have grown up resenting each another. Liv--former pageant queen and reality TV star--was groomed for a life in the spotlight, while her older brother, Jory, born with a partial facial paralysis, was left in the shadows. The only thing they have in common is contempt for their parents. Now Liv is suing her mom and dad for emancipation, and Jory views the whole thing as yet another attention-getting spectacle. But on the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bradley Wright/King's Ransom Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Dodging bullets while chasing clues, Lawson races to uncover the truth behind the conspiracy against him. Along the way, friends become enemies, enemies become friends, and a broken man realizes that his only path to redemption, is revenge. But that path is paved with powerful people--dangerous people. People who took everything from him. And if Lawson can evade their pursuit long enough to find them, he'll prove that a man with nothing to lose might...
Author
Series
Desert plains ; 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Retiring prosecutor Jessica Yardley can't turn down one last investigation. This time, it's a set of murders inspired by a series of grisly paintings called The Night Things. She's the only one who can catch the killer, who's left a trail of bodies in a rural community outside of Las Vegas. But the more Jessica finds out, the less clear her case becomes. Out of options, she's forced to consult her serial killer ex-husband--to gain additional insight...
89) Prophet: a novel
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been nemeses and reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence officer and Rao is an ex-MI6 agent, an addict and rudderless pleasure hound, with the uncanny ability to discern the truth of things--about everyone and everything other than Adam. When an American diner turns up in a foggy field in the UK and is followed by a mysterious death, Adam and Rao are...
90) Desire
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
On the spur of the moment, two Belgians in a pub decide to go to America to get rich. The novel describes their adventures, first in Los Angeles, then in the casinos of Las Vegas. A spoof on life in America and Europe by the author of The Sorrow of Belgium.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
When Bridget McQuarry comes to settle in Primrose Creek, she has nothing to lose; her husband, Mitch, was killed in the Civil War, and she has lost her family farm to ruinous Reconstruction taxes. With her baby son and a sister to care for, Bridget vows to make a new start out West. But when Mitch's best friend reappears in her life, he sparks a forbidden passion she thought was forever buried. Trace Qualtrough grew up with Bridget and Mitch -- three...
92) See her run
Author
Series
Aloa Snow ; 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Running for her life could leave her breathless. A former reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Aloa Snow knows what it means to be down and out. Once highly respected, she's now blackballed, in debt, and dealing with the echoes of an eating disorder. Until she gets one more shot to prove that she has what it takes--with a story some would die for...After the body of a promising young athlete, Hayley Poole, is recovered in the Nevada desert, authorities...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After growing up in an austere spiritual compound, two teenagers, Simrin and Arjun, escape and go their separate ways. Years later, Simrin receives an email from Arjun. As they reconnect, Simrin learns that he has become the charismatic leader of Meadowlark, a commune in the Nevada desert that allows children to discover their "gifts." In spite of their fractured relationship, Simrin, a photojournalist, agrees to visit Meadowlark to document its story....
Author
Series
Desert plains ; 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Defense attorney Dylan Aster's unblemished trial record is threatened by an impossible case he gets sucked into. Madeline Ismera, a public defender in Oregon's Jackson County, reaches out to a friend in the DA's office of Nevada's Clark County to ask Dylan for help exactly because of his stellar reputation. The defendant she's been assigned, diagnosed schizophrenic Arlo Ward, is accused of a horrific crime in Coyote Canyon: the slaughter, partial...
95) Connect: a novel
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In a world run by computers, hackers have power--and awkward, homeschooled Colt is among the best. But when Colt secretly submits his mother Naomi's breakthrough research to a biotech conference, and it is immediately shut down, mother and son are forced to go on the run. Now Colt is coding for his life. As the military, and Colt's father, hunt them through a Las Vegas of self-driving cars and surveillance drones, Naomi has to decide how far she...
96) A killer's wife
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen years ago, prosecutor Jessica Yardley's husband went to prison for a series of brutal murders. She's finally created a life with her daughter and is a well-respected attorney. She's moving on. But when a new rash of homicides has her ex-husband, Eddie, written all over them - the nightmares of her past come back to life. The FBI asks Jessica to get involved in the hunt for this copycat killer - which means visiting her ex and collaborating...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The horseman's secret: Will Bishop is doing his best to raise his twelve-year-old daughter on his own while protecting her from the truth about the past. That job just got more difficult with the arrival of the beautiful new teacher, Regan Flynn. He hasn't felt an attraction like this in forever. But any future they might have together would be burdened by the secret he can't afford to reveal-- to anyone. The brother returns: Ten years ago Brett...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"R. S. Belcher's debut novel, The Six-Gun Tarot, was enthusiastically greeted by critics and readers, who praised its wildly inventive mixture of dark fantasy, steampunk, and the Wild West. Now Belcher returns to Golgotha, Nevada, a bustling frontier town that hides more than its fair share of unnatural secrets. 1870. A haven for the blessed and the damned, including a fallen angel, a mad scientist, a pirate queen, and a deputy who is kin to coyotes,...
99) Desert gothic
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
This powerful debut collection, set in the light-filled deserts of Nevada and Arizona, introduces a darkly inventive new voice. Like an early Richard Ford, Don Waters writes with skill, empathy, and an edgy wit of worlds not often celebrated in contemporary literature. In Desert Gothic, Waters unleashes a wild and gritty cast and points them down paths of reckoning, where the characters earn the grace of their hard-won wisdom. Set in bars, mortuaries,...
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