<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Lakin, Christine,]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Lakin, Christine,]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/cml/rss/search?query=Lakin%2C%20Christine%2C&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:23:28 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Nash Falls]]></title><description><![CDATA["Walter Nash is a sensitive, intelligent and kindhearted man. He has a wife and a daughter and a very high-level position at Sybaritic Investments, where his innate skills and dogged tenacity have carried him to the top of the pyramid in his business career. Despite never going on grand adventures, and always working too many hours, he has a happy and upscale life with his family. However, following his estranged Vietnam-veteran father's funeral, Nash is unexpectedly approached by the FBI in the middle of the night. They have an important request: become their inside man to expose an enterprise that is laundering large sums of money through Sybaritic. At the top of this illegal operation is Victoria Steers, an international criminal mastermind that the FBI has been trying to bring down for years. Nash has little choice but to accept the FBI's demands and try to bring Steers and her partners to justice. But when Steers discovers that Nash is working with the FBI, she turns the tables on him in a way he never could have contemplated. And that forces Nash to take the ultimate step both to survive and to take his revenge: He must become the exact opposite of who he has always been. And even that may not be enough"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C4289575</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C4289575</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Baldacci, David]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4289575105</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798228570894/MC.GIF&amp;client=clcpolaris&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1547959316</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 6:20 Man]]></title><description><![CDATA["Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city's most prestigious investment firm. In the mornings, he gazes out the train window at the lavish homes of the uberwealthy, dreaming about joining their ranks. In the evenings, he listens to the fiscal news on his phone, already preparing for the next grueling day in the cutthroat realm of finance. Then one morning Devine's tedious routine is shattered by an anonymous email: She is dead. Sara Ewes, Devine's coworker and former girlfriend, has been found hanging in a storage room of his office building--presumably a suicide, at least for now--prompting the NYPD to come calling on him. If that wasn't enough, before the day is out, Devine receives another ominous visit, a confrontation that threatens to dredge up grim secrets from his past in the army unless he participates in a clandestine investigation into his firm. This treacherous role will take him from the impossibly glittering lives he once saw only through a train window, to the darkest corners of the country's economic halls of power... where something rotten lurks. And apart from this high-stakes conspiracy, there's a killer out there with their own agenda, and Devine is the bull's-eye."--Container.]]></description><link>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3596761</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3596761</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Baldacci, David]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3596761105</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781549160653/MC.GIF&amp;client=clcpolaris&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1305867388</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost Lambs [playaway]]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rippling with humor, warmth, and style, Lost Lambs is a new vision of the charms and pitfalls of family dysfunction. The Flynn family is coming undone. Catherine and Bud's open marriage has reached its breaking point as their daughters spiral in their own chaotic orbits: Abigail, the eldest, is dating a man in his twenties nicknamed War Crime Wes; Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist; the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone--or something--is monitoring the town's citizens. Casting a shadow across their lives, and their small coastal town, is Paul Alabaster, a billionaire shipping magnate. Rumors of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with a mysterious shipping container sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy--one that may just bring them closer together. Irreverent and addictive, pinging between the voices of the Flynn family and those of the panorama of characters around them, Madeline Cash's Lost Lambs is a debut novel of quick-witted observation and surprising tenderness. With it, Cash has crafted a family saga for the twenty-first century, all held together with crazy glue.]]></description><link>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C4301927</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C4301927</guid><category><![CDATA[PLAYAWAY_AUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cash, Madeline]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4301927105</comments><format>PLAYAWAY_AUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250472786/MC.GIF&amp;client=clcpolaris&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=on1569721979</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The House of Cross]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Washington, DC, the president-elect is planning her inauguration. The list of Supreme Court candidates is highly confidential—until it becomes evidence in Detective Alex Cross’s toughest investigation. One candidate is gunned down. A second is stabbed. A third is murdered near midnight on a city street. Cross is the FBI’s top expert in criminal behavior. For the sake of his family, his city, and his country, he must put himself in the most dangerous place there is: inside the mind of a diabolical killer.-- Amazon.com]]></description><link>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3964726</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3964726</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patterson, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3964726105</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798874832254/MC.GIF&amp;client=clcpolaris&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1461923406</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resurrection Walk]]></title><description><![CDATA[Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. After getting a wrongfully convicted man out of prison, he is inundated with pleas from incarcerated people claiming innocence. He enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, to weed through the letters, knowing most claims will be false. Bosch pulls a needle from the haystack: a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff’s deputy, but who still maintains her innocence. Bosch reviews the case and sees elements that don’t add up, and a sheriff’s department intent on bringing quick justice in the killing of one of its own. Now Haller has an uphill battle in court, a David fighting Goliaths to vindicate his client. The path for both lawyer and investigator is fraught with danger from those who don’t want the case reopened and will stop at nothing to keep the Haller-Bosch dream team from finding the truth.-- Amazon.]]></description><link>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3815126</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3815126</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Connelly, Michael]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3815126105</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668640319/MC.GIF&amp;client=clcpolaris&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1406597374</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desert Star]]></title><description><![CDATA[A year has passed since LAPD detective Renee Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape. Yet, after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her ticket within the department, Ballard takes back her badge, leaving the Late Show to rebuild the cold case unit at the elite Robbery-Homicide Division. For years, Harry Bosch has been working a case that haunts him but that he hasn't been able to crack--the murder of an entire family by a psychopath who still walks free. Ballard makes Bosch an offer: come work with her as a volunteer investigator in the new Open-Unsolved Unit, and he can pursue his white whale with the resources of the LAPD behind him. The two must put aside old resentments to work together again and close in on a dangerous killer.]]></description><link>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3681033</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3681033</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Connelly, Michael]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3681033105</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668627297/MC.GIF&amp;client=clcpolaris&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1350551532</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Night Fire]]></title><description><![CDATA[Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, but after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before -- the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals. Bosch brings the murder book to Renee Ballard and asks her to help him find what about the case lit Thompson's fire all those years ago. That will be their starting point. The bond between Bosch and Ballard tightens as they become a formidable investigation team. And they soon arrive at a worrying question: Did Thompson steal the murder book to work the case in retirement, or to make sure it never got solved?]]></description><link>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3268143</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3268143</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Connelly, Michael]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3268143105</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781549120770/MC.GIF&amp;client=clcpolaris&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1107593047</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tenant]]></title><description><![CDATA["Blake Porter is riding high, until he's not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make his mortgage payments on his new brownstone, he's desperate to make ends meet for his fiancée, Krista. Enter: Whitney. Beautiful, charming, down-to-earth, and looking for a room to rent, she's exactly what Blake's looking for. Or is she? Because something isn't quite right. The neighbors start treating Blake differently. The smell of decay permeates the kitchen, no matter how hard he scrubs. And Whitney claims she knows what he's done.... Soon it's obvious that danger lives right at home. And by the time Blake realizes it, it'll be far too late. He'll be dead before he realizes the trap is set"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C4219753</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C4219753</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McFadden, Freida]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4219753105</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781666690873/MC.GIF&amp;client=clcpolaris&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1503904201</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shelterwood]]></title><description><![CDATA["Oklahoma 1909. Eleven-year-old Olive Augusta Radley knows that her stepfather doesn't have good intentions toward the two Choctaw girls boarded in their home as wards. When the older girl disappears, Ollie flees to the woods, taking six-year-old Nessa with her. Together they begin a perilous journey to the rugged Winding Stair Mountains, the notorious territory of outlaws, treasure hunters, and desperate men. Along the way, Ollie and Nessa form an unlikely band with others like themselves, struggling to stay one step ahead of those who seek to exploit them... or worse. Oklahoma 1990. Law Enforcement Ranger Valerie Boren-Odell arrives at Horsethief Trail National Park seeking a quiet place to balance a career and single parenthood. But no sooner has Valerie reported for duty than she's faced with local controversy over the park's opening, a teenage hiker gone missing from one of the trails, and the long-hidden burial site of three children deep in a cave. Val's quest to uncover the truth wins an ally among the neighboring Choctaw Tribal Police, but soon collides with old secrets and the tragic and deadly history of the land itself. In this emotional and enveloping novel, Lisa Wingate traces the story of children abandoned by the law, and the battle to see justice done. Amid times of deep conflict over who owns the land and its riches, Ollie and Val traverse the wild and beautiful terrain, each leaving behind one life in search of another"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3917280</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3917280</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wingate, Lisa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3917280105</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593910511/MC.GIF&amp;client=clcpolaris&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1434260701</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Die for]]></title><description><![CDATA[Travis Devine, skilled at any mission, is sent to Seattle to escort twelve-year-old Betsy Odom, but his real aim is to avoid an enemy known as the girl on the train. As he learns more about Betsy and her parents' deaths, he uncovers a vast conspiracy. Devine will need to confront this threat and distinguish between friends and foes, as the situation reveals that some may be both.]]></description><link>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3980684</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3980684</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Baldacci, David]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3980684105</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798874832162/MC.GIF&amp;client=clcpolaris&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1458581319</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dark Hours]]></title><description><![CDATA["There’s chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year’s Eve countdown. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD detective Renée Ballard waits out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into the air. Only minutes after midnight, Ballard is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party. Ballard quickly concludes that the deadly bullet could not have fallen from the sky and that it is linked to another unsolved murder—a case at one time worked by Detective Harry Bosch. At the same time, Ballard hunts a fiendish pair of serial rapists, the Midnight Men, who have been terrorizing women and leaving no trace. Determined to solve both cases, Ballard feels like she is constantly running uphill in a police department indelibly changed by the pandemic and recent social unrest. It is a department so hampered by inertia and low morale that Ballard must go outside to the one detective she can count on: Harry Bosch. But as the two inexorable detectives work together to find out where old and new cases intersect, they must constantly look over their shoulders. The brutal predators they are tracking are ready to kill to keep their secrets hidden"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3514721</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3514721</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Connelly, Michael]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3514721105</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668602942/MC.GIF&amp;client=clcpolaris&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1277200486</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dark Sacred Night]]></title><description><![CDATA[LAPD Detective Renée Ballard returns to Hollywood Station to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, investigating the death of fifteen-year-old Daisy Clayton. Daisy was a runaway on the streets of Hollywood who was brutally murdered and left in a dumpster. Now, Ballard joins forces with Bosch to find out what happened to Daisy and finally bring her killer to justice.]]></description><link>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3113001</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3113001</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Connelly, Michael]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3113001105</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781549142314/MC.GIF&amp;client=clcpolaris&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1047674389</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Waiting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Renée Ballard and the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet twenty years ago. The arrested man is only twenty-four, so the genetic link must be familial: His father was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror in the city of angels. But when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets and legal hurdles. Meanwhile, Ballard's badge, gun, and ID are stolen--a theft she can't report without giving her enemies in the department ammunition to end her career as a detective. She works the burglary alone, but her mission draws her into unexpected danger. With no choice but to go outside the department for help, she knocks on the door of Harry Bosch. At the same time, Ballard takes on a new volunteer to the cold case unit: Bosch's daughter Maddie, now a patrol officer. But Maddie has an ulterior motive for getting access to the city's library of lost souls--a case that may be the most iconic in the city's history. -- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3964724</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3964724</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Connelly, Michael]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3964724105</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798874832155/MC.GIF&amp;client=clcpolaris&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1457217472</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confessions of the Dead]]></title><description><![CDATA["Hollows Bend, New Hampshire, is a picture-perfect New England town where weekend tourists flock to see fall leaves and eat breakfast at the Stairway Diner. The crime rate—zero—is a point of pride for Sheriff Ellie Pritchett. The day the stranger shows up is when the trouble starts. The sheriff and her deputy investigate the mysterious teenage girl. None of the locals can place her. She can’t—or won’t answer any questions. She won’t even tell them her name. While the girl is in protective custody, the officers are called to multiple crime scenes leading them closer and closer to a lake outside of town that doesn’t appear on any map…"-- Amazon.com]]></description><link>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3964721</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3964721</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patterson, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3964721105</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798874831776/MC.GIF&amp;client=clcpolaris&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1452550124</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sugar and Salt]]></title><description><![CDATA["Jerome Sugar learned the art of baking in his grandma's bakery, also called Sugar, on San Francisco's historic Perdita Street, right on the same block, in facts, as the Lost and Found Bookshop, which he keeps supplied with goodies. When the restaurant that shares his commercial kitchen loses its longtime tenant, a newcomer moves in: Margot Salton, whose East Texas-style barbecue has earned a devoted following. Margot isn't exactly on the run, but she needs a fresh start. She's taken care of herself her whole life, pulling herself up by her fingernails to recover from trauma. Her dream has been to open a restaurant somewhere far, far from Texas. Margot instantly takes to Jerome's mother, the lively, opinionated Ida, and the older woman proves to be a good mentor. And despite their different backgrounds, Margot and Jerome's attraction is powerful -- even though Jerome worries that Margot will simply move on from him once she's found some peace and stability. But just as she starts to relax into a happy new future, Margot's past in Texas comes back to haunt her."-- Dust jacket]]></description><link>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3645486</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3645486</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wiggs, Susan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3645486105</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063214859/MC.GIF&amp;client=clcpolaris&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1333224210</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Method]]></title><description><![CDATA["Actress Anna Vaughn is fearless-on screen, at least. She tends to play doomed brunettes with a badass streak, and has put in countless hours training for parts and learning how to fight, shoot, and drive like a pro. She likes to believe she is as tough as her characters, but off-camera she leads a far quieter life: trying to keep her acting career alive so she can take care of her younger sister. When her best friend Natalie, her rock, disappears after a night out with a mysterious new man, the signs point to foul play and a circle of spies operating in Manhattan. Anna must use all the tricks she's learned for her roles to hunt for her missing friend. She quickly learns the dangers are all too real. She crosses paths with Kevin Matthews, an FBI agent on the same trail, tracking a string of killings and disappearances and a powerful clique of oligarchs. With Matthews as her handler, she has only days to prepare for the greatest performance of her life-going undercover. She will follow in her friend's footsteps through the gilded mansions, yachts, and secret clubs of New York to infiltrate the conspiracy and bring Natalie home. As the killers close in, her only chance for survival is to become as lethal as the characters she once played"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C4298595</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C4298595</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Quirk, Matthew]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4298595105</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>A Thriller</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063393042/MC.GIF&amp;client=clcpolaris&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1553682858</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holmes, Marple & Poe]]></title><description><![CDATA[In New York City, Brendan Holmes, Margaret Marple, and Auguste Poe open Holmes, Marple & Poe Investigations. The agency's daring methodology and headline-making solves attract the attention of NYPD Detective Helene Grey.]]></description><link>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3964713</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3964713</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patterson, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3964713105</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798874831264/MC.GIF&amp;client=clcpolaris&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1452550125</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Code 6]]></title><description><![CDATA["Aspiring playwright, Kate Gamble, is struggling to launch a script she's been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counter-terrorism organization in the Western World. Kate's father adores her, and a play about the dark side of Big Data would be the ultimate betrayal in his eyes. But Kate is compelled to tell this story, not only as an artist exploring the personal information catastrophe that affects us all, but as a daughter trying to understand her mother's apparent loss of purpose, made even more disturbing by the suicide note she left behind: I did it for Kate. Then Patrick Battle comes back into her life, changing everything she has ever thought about her play, her father, and her mother's tragic death. Patrick is a childhood friend, but he is now Buck's golden boy with security clearance to the company's most sensitive projects. When Buck comes under investigation by the Justice Department and Patrick suddenly goes missing, Kate doesn't know who to trust. A phone call confirms her worst nightmare: Patrick has been kidnapped, and the ransom demand is "Code 6," the most secret and potentially dangerous technology her father's company has ever developed. Kate's fight to bring Patrick home safely reveals a conspiracy and cover-up that may implicate one of the most powerful executives in the tech industry, while the development of Kate's play unleashes family secrets and the demons behind her mother's cryptic final note. The two paths converge in explosive fashion, leading to a shocking and terrifying discovery that puts Kate and Patrick in the crosshairs of forces who will stop at nothing to control Code 6"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3724197</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3724197</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Grippando, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3724197105</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063223837/MC.GIF&amp;client=clcpolaris&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1353567233</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Code 6 [playaway]]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aspiring playwright, Kate Gamble, is struggling to launch a script she's been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counter-terrorism organization in the Western World. Kate's father adores her, and a play about the dark side of Big Data would be the ultimate betrayal in his eyes. But Kate is compelled to tell this story, not only as an artist exploring the personal information catastrophe that affects us all, but as a daughter trying to understand her mother's apparent loss of purpose, made even more disturbing by the suicide note she left behind: I did it for Kate. Then Patrick Battle comes back into her life, changing everything she has ever thought about her play, her father, and her mother's tragic death. Patrick is a childhood friend, but he is now Buck's golden boy with security clearance to the company's most sensitive projects. When Buck comes under investigation by the Justice Department and Patrick suddenly goes missing, Kate doesn't know who to trust. A phone call confirms her worst nightmare: Patrick has been kidnapped, and the ransom demand is "Code 6," the most secret and potentially dangerous technology her father's company has ever developed. Kate's fight to bring Patrick home safely reveals a conspiracy and cover up that may implicate one of the most powerful executives in the tech industry, while the development of Kate's play unleashes family secrets and the demons behind her mother's cryptic final note. The two paths converge in explosive fashion, leading to a shocking and terrifying discovery that puts Kate and Patrick in the crosshairs of forces who will stop at nothing to control Code 6. Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3747927</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3747927</guid><category><![CDATA[PLAYAWAY_AUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Grippando, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3747927105</comments><format>PLAYAWAY_AUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781669667308/MC.GIF&amp;client=clcpolaris&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1351841747</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 6:20 Man [playaway]]]></title><description><![CDATA["Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city's most prestigious investment firm. In the mornings, he gazes out the train window at the lavish homes of the uberwealthy, dreaming about joining their ranks. In the evenings, he listens to the fiscal news on his phone, already preparing for the next grueling day in the cutthroat realm of finance. Then one morning Devine's tedious routine is shattered by an anonymous email: She is dead. Sara Ewes, Devine's coworker and former girlfriend, has been found hanging in a storage room of his office building--presumably a suicide, at least for now--prompting the NYPD to come calling on him. If that wasn't enough, before the day is out, Devine receives another ominous visit, a confrontation that threatens to dredge up grim secrets from his past in the army unless he participates in a clandestine investigation into his firm. This treacherous role will take him from the impossibly glittering lives he once saw only through a train window, to the darkest corners of the country's economic halls of power... where something rotten lurks. And apart from this high-stakes conspiracy, there's a killer out there with their own agenda, and Devine is the bull's-eye." -- Back cover.]]></description><link>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3711937</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3711937</guid><category><![CDATA[PLAYAWAY_AUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Baldacci, David]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3711937105</comments><format>PLAYAWAY_AUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668623558/MC.GIF&amp;client=clcpolaris&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1340978735</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's Too Short]]></title><description><![CDATA["When Vanessa Price quit her job to pursue her dream of traveling the globe, she wasn't expecting to gain millions of YouTube followers who shared her joy of seizing every moment. For her, living each day to its fullest isn't just a motto. Her mother and sister never saw the age of 30, and Vanessa doesn't want to take anything for granted.  But after her half sister suddenly leaves Vanessa in custody of her baby daughter, life goes from daily adventure to next-level bad (now with bonus baby vomit in hair). The last person Vanessa expects to show up offering help is the hot lawyer next door, Adrian Copeland. After all, she barely knows him. No one warned her that he was the Secret Baby Tamer or that she'd be spending a whole lot of time with him and his geriatric Chihuahua.  Now she's feeling things she's vowed not to feel. Because the only thing worse than falling for Adrian is finding a little hope for a future she may never see."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3502816</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3502816</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jimenez, Abby]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3502816105</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781549111112/MC.GIF&amp;client=clcpolaris&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1244433339</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dark Hours]]></title><description><![CDATA[There's chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year's Eve countdown. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD detective Renée Ballard is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party. Ballard quickly concludes that the bullet is linked to another unsolved murder--a case at one time worked by Detective Harry Bosch. At the same time, Ballard hunts a fiendish pair of serial rapists, the Midnight Men, who have been terrorizing women and leaving no trace. Determined to solve both cases, Ballard must go outside to the one detective she can count on: Harry Bosch.]]></description><link>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3577387</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3577387</guid><category><![CDATA[PLAYAWAY_AUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Connelly, Michael]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3577387105</comments><format>PLAYAWAY_AUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668608104/MC.GIF&amp;client=clcpolaris&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1285136753</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never Ask Me]]></title><description><![CDATA["In a quiet neighborhood in the wealthy Austin suburb of Lakehaven, the body of Danielle Roberts is discovered on a park bench. Danielle was a beloved member of the community, an adoption consultant who delivered the joy of parenthood to a number of local families. Her murder shocks Lakehaven. Perhaps no other family is as crushed as the Pollitts, who lived two houses down from Danielle and thought of her almost like family. Her death becomes the catalyst for a maelstrom of suspicion and intrigue. . . . The Pollitts always thought they'd always be there for each other. When each begins to suspect the others of the unimaginable, the strength of their bonds will be tested in extraordinary new ways"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3352667</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3352667</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Abbott, Jeff]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3352667105</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781549188138/MC.GIF&amp;client=clcpolaris&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1160005126</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dragonfly]]></title><description><![CDATA[At the height of WWII, five idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the OSS, asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. The men and women from very different backgrounds--a Texan athlete with German roots, an upper-crust son of a French mother and a wealthy businessman, a dirt-poor Midwestern fly fisherman, an orphaned fashion designer, and a ravishingly beautiful female fencer -- all answer the call of duty, but each for a secret reason of his or her own. They bond immediately, in a group code-named Dragonfly. Thus begins a dramatic cat-and-mouse game, as the group seeks to stay under the radar until a fatal misstep leads to the capture and the firing-squad execution of one of their team. But ... is everything as it seems, or is this one more elaborate act of spycraft?]]></description><link>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3234968</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3234968</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Meacham, Leila]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3234968105</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781549150098/MC.GIF&amp;client=clcpolaris&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1105607333</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Warning]]></title><description><![CDATA[A small southern town was evacuated after a freak power-plant accident. As the first anniversary of the mishap approaches, some residents are allowed to return past the national guard roadblocks. Mount Hope natives Maggie and Jordan quickly discover that their hometown is not as it was before. Downed cellular networks fail to resume service. Animals savagely attack humans. And the damaged power plant, where Jordan's father is an engineer, is under military lockdown. As friends and family morph into terrifying strangers, the Maggie and Jordan increasingly turn to each other. Their determination to discover who - or what - has taken control of Mount Hope soon has them in the cross-hairs of a presence more sinister than any they could have imagined.]]></description><link>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3233855</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S105C3233855</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patterson, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cml.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3233855105</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781478995265/MC.GIF&amp;client=clcpolaris&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1101630772</image_url></item></channel></rss>