Successfully Dating recommends mystery and
suspenseful thrillers that will help
you build an enticing book library. Books also have great display value, showing
off your wide-ranging interest in a variety of subjects by the
books you have around your home.
The Da Vinci Code - While in Paris on business, Harvard
symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone
call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside
the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher.
While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to
discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da
Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously disguised
by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French
cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was
involved in the Priory of Sion -- an actual secret society whose
members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da
Vinci, among others. THE DA VINCI CODE heralds the arrival of a
new breed of lightning-paced, intelligent thriller…utterly
unpredictable right up to its stunning conclusion.
Skinny Dip - Charles "Chaz" Perrone fancies himself a
take-charge kind of guy. So when this "biologist by default"
suspects that his curvaceous wife, Joey, has stumbled onto a
profitable pollution scam he's running on behalf of Florida
agribusiness mogul Red Hammernut, he sets out right away to solve
the problem--by heaving Joey off the deck of a luxury cruise liner
and into the Atlantic Ocean, far from Key West.
But--whoops!--Joey, a former swimming champ, doesn't drown.
Instead, as Carl Hiaasen tells in his 10th adult novel, Skinny
Dip, she makes her way back to shore, thanks both to a wayward
bale of Jamaican marijuana and lonerish ex-cop Mick Stranahan
(Skin Tight, 1989), and then launches a bogus blackmail campaign
that's guaranteed to drive her lazy, libidinous hubby into a
self-protective frenzy.
Brimstone - Art critic Jeremy Grove is found dead, his
face frozen in a mask of terror. His body temperature is
grotesquely high; he is discovered in a room barricaded from the
inside; the smell of brimstone is everywhere...and the
unmistakable imprint of a claw is burned into the wall. As more
bodies are discovered--their only connection the bizarre but
identical manner of death--the world begins to wonder if the Devil
has, in fact, come to collect his due. Teaming with Police Officer
Vincent DAgosta (The Relic), Agent Pendergast is determined to
solve this case that appears to defy everything except
supernatural logic. Their investigation takes them from the luxury
estates of Long Island to the crumbling, legend-shrouded castles
of the Italian countryside, where Pendergast faces the most
treacherous and dangerous adversary of his career.
Bleachers - High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was
probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary
Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory
days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake,
the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football
dynasty. Now, as Coach Rake’s “boys” sit in the bleachers waiting
for the dimming field lights to signal his passing, they replay
the old games, relive the old glories, and try to decide once and
for all whether they love Eddie Rake – or hate him. For Neely
Crenshaw, a man who must finally forgive his coach –-- and himself
– before he can get on with his life, the stakes are especially
high.
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