Lake Bluff Library Adult Reading Lists

When an anti-terrorist agency decides to uses her groundbreaking artificial intelligence system to stop a dangerous threat against Jafir's monarchy, A.J. Grayson finds herself thrust in the middle of a political conspiracy that leads her into the arms of Damon Toca, the region's newly crowned king.
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After she discovers her sister Tanya dead on the floor of her fashionable New York City townhouse, Letty Carnahan is certain she knows who did it: Tanya's ex; sleazy real estate entrepreneur Evan Wingfield. Even in the grip of grief and panic Letty heeds her late sister's warnings: "If anything bad happens to me - it's Evan. Promise me you'll take Maya and run. Promise me." So Letty grabs her sister's Mercedes and hits the road with a trunkful of emotional baggage and her wailing four-year-old niece Maya.
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Two contract killers, each with a hit out on the other, must fight their growing attraction as they face off in an epic game of love and murder across Western Europe. When Eva and Jonathan hook up on the sleeper train from Florence to Paris, they think they'll never see each other again. Which is too bad, because neither has ever felt a spark like this for another person. But love isn't on the agenda in their line of work. Six months later, they run into each other in the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles. This meeting is not by chance, because Eva has been hired to kill Jonathan. She's a contract killer, but what she doesn't know is that he is too.
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Detective John Bowie is one misstep away from being fired from the Auclair Police Department in coastal Louisiana. Recently divorced and slightly heavy-handed with his liquor, Bowie does all that he can to cope with the actions taken (or not taken) during the investigation of Crissy Mellin, a teenage girl who disappeared more than three years prior. But now, Crisis Point, a long-running true crime television series, is soon to air an episode documenting the unsolved Mellin case.
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Following her husband's murder, Lila Culhane battles his pregnant mistress for leverage while preparing for a high-stakes reining competition, questions her ranch manager and lover's loyalty, and deals with a growing list of suspects in Frank's death.
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In an isolated lighthouse on the California coast, Rowan Winterbourne lives a solitary life with only her secrets for company. For she has a mission that drives her—to avenge herself against Gregory Torval, the powerful drug and arms dealer who murdered her mother and vowed to eliminate everyone in her family.
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Breaking off her brief affair with Gideon Ross, who threatens he'll never let her go, Brooke Harmon, after a year goes by, wants to believe it's all behind her but the fear hasn't disappeared--and she's right to be worried because Gideon is a man who keeps his word.
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When PI Gideon Sweetwater disrupts the kidnapping of Amelia Rivers, they escape and return to the ruins of the hotel where Amelia lost a night to amnesia before gaining powers, desperate to stop a killer and the people who are conducting illegal experiments with a dangerous drug designed to enhance psychic abilities.
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Lieutenant Eve Dallas is frustrated by the case of Giovanni Rossi. Decades ago, during the Urban Wars of the 2020s, he was part of a small, secret organization called The Twelve. Responding to an urgent summons from an old compatriot, he landed in New York and eased into a waiting car. And died within minutes—no identifiable weapon, zero results on facial recognition.
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Surviving a near-fatal shooting, injured Maryland Natural Resources Police officer Sloan Cooper moves back to her quiet hometown and investigates a string of mysterious disappearances across three states with some help from the new man in her life.
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A Paris art gallery owner finds herself in danger when a mysterious man begins leaving her messages.
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