Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Edgar Award–winning novel by the “master of nail-biting suspense”(Los Angeles Times)
Thomas Perry exploded onto the literary scene with The Butcher’s Boy. Back in print by popular demand, this spectacular debut, from a writer of “infernal ingenuity” (The New York Times Book Review), includes a new Introduction by bestselling author Michael Connelly.
Murder has always been...
Thomas Perry exploded onto the literary scene with The Butcher’s Boy. Back in print by popular demand, this spectacular debut, from a writer of “infernal ingenuity” (The New York Times Book Review), includes a new Introduction by bestselling author Michael Connelly.
Murder has always been...
2) Hot shot
Author
Series
Men of the Sisterhood volume 5
Language
English
Description
The Sisterhood is a group of women bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Now their male allies have formed a top-secret organization with the same goals. When Lizzie Fox's husband, Cosmo Cricket, is critically injured in a shooting, the men of head straight to Las Vegas to comfort Lizzie and find the assailant. As the head of Nevada's Gaming Commission, Cosmo has powerful enemies, but the shooting may be related to a private project: Happy...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Russian agent Alexei Volkovoy engages in a globe-trotting investigation into the murder of a prominent female journalist, who was found shot to death on the banks of the Techa River near a radioactive Russian village.
5) Vegas rich
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
522 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
What Happens In Vegas Lasts Forever
When Sallie Coleman abandons Texas to follow her dreams in Las Vegas, she never imagines she'll win so soon--and so big. But a stroke of luck makes her the richest, most powerful businesswoman in Nevada, and in no time at all her transformation is complete--when she marries Philip Thornton and becomes Vegas's most elegant first lady.
Like her future mother-in-law before her, Pennsylvania beauty Fanny Logan makes...
6) Skintight
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
377 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Professional poker player Jax Gallagher should have known better than to wager a World Series baseball that wasn't his to lose. Now the man who won the collectible is demanding his prize…or else. Trouble is, the ball is owned by his estranged father's widow-a flamboyant Las Vegas showgirl. Jax will do whatever it takes to get it back.
Yet Treena McCall is anything but the ruthless gold digger Jax expects. She's built a life for herself filled with...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lucky Santangelo is back with a vengeance! Internationally bestselling author Jackie Collins marks her twenty-fifth novel with "another page-turning tale packed with intrigue, revenge and romance," (Publishers Weekly on Lovers and Players), one not to be missed. And it's all about her most popular heroine-the wildly beautiful Lucky Santangelo-still every bit as strong, sexy, and seductive as ever. But Lucky is older and wiser, and hot to reclaim her...
8) Nightwalker
Author
Language
English
Description
P.I. Dillon Wolf is fascinated by gambler Jessy Spearhawk and by the single word a dying man spoke: Indigo. From the glitz of the Vegas strip to a desert ghost town, the unlikely pair forge ahead with an investigation that will risk both their lives.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The book revolves around Crissy, the star of a beloved Princess Diana tribute show in Las Vegas, and her estranged sister Betsy, a therapist who works with children and adolescents in Vermont. Betsy's boyfriend Frankie works in a mysterious branch of cryptocurrency and, seemingly out of nowhere, proposes that they move to Las Vegas together. Betsy and Crissy must navigate how to go about their newfound physical proximity to one another and their...
10) Vegas sunrise
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
377 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
11) Immoral
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lieutenant Jonathan Stride knows it's not a moral world. One teenage girl has already disappeared on his watch, leaving behind no body, no killer, and no justice. Now, when another girl goes missing on a cold night in Minnesota, Stride must relive his worst nightmare ..."--Page 4 of cover.
12) Private Vegas
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Las Vegas is a city of contradictions: seedy and glamorous, secretive and wild, Vegas attracts people of all kinds--especially those with a secret to hide, or a life to leave behind. It's the perfect location for Lester Olsen's lucrative business. He gets to treat gorgeous, young women to five-star restaurants, splashy shows, and limo rides--and then he teaches them how to kill. Private Jack Morgan spends most of his time in Los Angeles, where his...
13) Running scared
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
v, 389 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the scorching heat of the Southwestern desert, a frightened old man knows his time is quickly running out . . . as the lethal secret he protects can be hidden no longer. Risa Sheridan knows everything about gold-its mysteries, its allure, its perils. Her boss, Shane Tannahill-owner of the ultra-successful Las Vegas gambling mecca, the Golden Fleece-is addicted to the stuff. Now an ancient Celtic piece is being offered to Shane for his collection,...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Charlie, stay out of this. Vegas may be a great place to have fun, but it's a bad place to get involved.
If only she's listened to her conscience. But, literary agent Charlie Greene never listens. This time, Charlie needs a break. She's overworked at the office and at home, between placating crotchety clients, trying to sell books during tough times, and dealing with her teenage daughter and widowed mother. So vacationing in Las Vegas sounds like...
15) Vegas heat
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
©1997
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Vegas Heat is the story of the Thornton dynasty ... of Fanny Thornton, who takes over Babylon, the family's magnificent Las Vegas casino, when her ex-husband Ash falls desperately ill ... of Fanny's twin sons, Sage and Birch, one content in his conventional life while the other's search for happiness leads to tragedy, and renewed hope ... of Fanny's daughter Sunny, betrayed her husband, fighting a battle no woman should ever have to face ... of her...
Author
Language
English
Description
On his third day in Death Valley, Rick Fallon comes upon a deserted Toyota Camry, and soon thereafter, the almost-dead body of Casey Dunbar. Having rescued her, Fallon soon learns what had driven her to give up on life--and, his own life on hold, he resolves to unravel the twisted and dangerous strands of hers, a quest that leads him to the glitter-dome of Las Vegas.
Author
Publisher
Watermark Press
Pub. Date
c1990
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
189 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Leaving Las Vegas, the first novel by John O'Brien, is a disturbing and emotionally wrenching story of a woman who embraces life and a man who rejects it, a powerful tale of hard luck and hard drinking and a relationship of tenderness and destruction. An avowed alcoholic, Ben drinks away his family, friends, and, finally, his job. With deliberate resolve, he burns the remnants of his life and heads for Las Vegas to end it all in the last great binge...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is 1955 in Las Vegas. Sammy and Satchmo are headlining the big hotels - where the casino operators and the color bar say a black man can't buy a drink or a meal or a room. Until now. The Chicago mob man Mo Weiner is bankrolling ex-boxer Worthless Worthington Lee and the city's first all-black hotel-casino. The Ivory Coast is rising up from the dust, on the wrong side of town. And, out of the shadows steps Deacon, a white horn player with a dark...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
Temple Barr is a sharp and sassy public relations ace in Las Vegas whose life is finally taking a turn for the better. Hard-nosed homicide lieutenant Carmen Molina is too busy chasing after her own ex-lover, rogue L.A. cop Rafi Nadir, to pursue Temple's boyfriend, sexy magician Max Kinsella, and nobody Temple knows has been murdered...at least, not in the past few weeks.
Temple takes this downtime as a signal she should buy a new pair of Jimmy Choo...
20) Runaway mistress
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
In Commonwealth Catalog
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing Network can be requested from other Commonwealth Catalog libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Purchase Suggestion Service. Submit Request