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Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë · 1846 · ★ 3.9 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with Earnshaw's adopted son, Heathcliff. The novel was influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction. Shares Community pick
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Rough justice Henry Patterson · 2008 · ★ 4.5 · 473p · ≈ 15h · Moderate The master of the game is back, with another pulse-pounding adventure featuring the unstoppable Sean DillonWhilst checking up on the volatile situation in Kosovo the US President's right-hand man Blake Johnson meets Major Harry Miller, a member of the British Cabinet. Miller is there doing his own checks for the British Prime Minister. When both men get involved with a group of Russian soldiers… Shares Ferguson, Dillon, Russia, Secret service
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The Judas Gate Henry Patterson · 2010 · ★ 4.6 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A disturbing tape has made its way to British intelligence, and from them to the new President of the United States: battlefield chatter from an ambush in Afghanistan, in which twelve U.S. Army Rangers and a British medical team died. Most of the Taliban voices are Afghan; however, the voice of the commander bears an Irish accent. The idea that one of their own could be responsible for such a… Shares Ferguson, Dillon, Secret service, Spy Fiction
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Palace of Treason Jason Matthews · 2015 · ★ 4.2 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate 843 pages (large print) ; 23 cm Shares Spy Fiction, Thriller
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The midnight bell Henry Patterson · 2016 · ★ 3.8 · 315p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "The new Sean Dillon novel, a knife-edge story of terrorism and revenge, by "the dean of intrigue novelists" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). "The bell tolls at midnight as death requires it." In Washington, D.C., on a night full of rain, a woman is struck down and killed by a hit-and-run driver. But she is not just any woman--she is the assistant to the head of the secret White House department known… Shares Ferguson, Dillon, Spy Fiction
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On Dangerous Ground Henry Patterson · 1993 · ★ 4.4 · 293p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Una mortífera competencia por el más fabuloso de los botines. En 1944, lord Mountbatten y Mao Zedong firmaron un acuerdo por el que los chinos se comprometían a prorrogar por cien años el estatuto de Hong Kong a cambio de ayuda militar. Dicho convenio, particularmente la copia británica del mismo, desapareció en un desgraciado accidente. Había quedado sin efecto antes de nacer. Han transcurrido… Shares Ferguson, Dillon, Secret service, Spy Fiction
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Our Game John le Carré · 1995 · ★ 3.7 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Tim Cranmer, retired secret servant and Larry Pettifer, bored radical don, philanderer and for 20 years Tim's mercurial double agent against the now vanished Communist threat, have an unresolved rivalry that dates back decades. They follow each other to Moscow and then Southern Russia. Shares Russia, Secret service, Spy Fiction
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The debriefing Robert Littell · 1979 · ★ 3.8 · 202p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A novel of the history of the CIA. Shares Defectors, Spy Fiction
The Beach House
The Beach House Nina Manning Shares Thriller with this book.
A Lighthouse for the Lonely Heart
A Lighthouse for the Lonely Heart Scott William Carter They find his body at the bottom of Heceta Head Lighthouse—Ed Boone, a longtime volunteer who commits suicide rather than see his grim diagnosis to its bitter end. The strangeness of the old man's death makes the local news, but Garrison Gage thinks little of it until the famous Nora West sneaks into town with an unsettling letter in hand. Professing he wants to go to his grave with a clear… Shares Thriller
Skeleton's Key (Delta Crossroads Mystery Romance)
Skeleton's Key (Delta Crossroads Mystery Romance) Stacy Green With the right motive, anyone can be a killer. Caring for Ironwood Plantation is a dream come true for Cage Foster. The dream doesn't last long when a skeleton is found buried beneath the antebellum home. The unearthing of two additional fresh bodies quickly turns into a nightmare which could land him on Mississippi's death row.  Newcomer Dani Evans, a pushy Yankee specialist in historical… Shares Thriller
KILL ZONE: A NEAGLEY THRILLER
KILL ZONE: A NEAGLEY THRILLER Dan Ames Shares Thriller with this book.
Nothing to Lose
Nothing to Lose J. A. Jance · 2022 · ★ 4.5 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate The newest thrilling Beaumont suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance, in which Beaumont is approached by a visitor from the past and finds himself drawn into a missing person’s case where danger is lurking and family secrets are exposed.      Years ago, when he was a homicide detective with the Seattle PD, J. P. Beaumont’s partner, Sue… Shares Thriller
A Desperate Place for Dying
A Desperate Place for Dying Scott William Carter An old flame.A killer on the loose.A crazy cult on the rise.Nearly a year has passed since Garrison Gage became the reluctant guardian of a troubled teenage girl, but neither fatherhood nor the the intervening months has improved his mood. His right knee is still mostly worthless. He still prefers to drink his bourbon alone. And even with a certain blonde bombshell a persistent part of his life,… Shares Thriller
A Purple Place for Dying
A Purple Place for Dying John D. MacDonald & Lee Child From a beloved master of crime fiction, A Purple Place for Dying is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.   Travis McGee’s taking his retirement in installments while he’s still young enough to enjoy it. But sooner or later, his money runs out and he has to work. This time McGee’s lured out West to a strangely secretive meeting… Shares Thriller
The Dog Who Knew Too Much
The Dog Who Knew Too Much Spencer Quinn The fourth installment in the irresistible New York Times bestselling mystery series featuring canine narrator Chet and his human companion Bernie—“the coolest human/pooch duo this side of Wallace and Gromit” (Kirkus Reviews).Humor and intrigue combine for a “thoroughly entertaining comic mystery” (Booklist) as Spencer Quinn’s engaging and unlikely team of crime solvers takes on the case of a boy… Shares Thriller
The Color of Death
The Color of Death Trey Gowdy & Christopher Greyson · 2025 · ★ 4.5 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate None Shares Thriller
Cover of If you can't be good
If you can't be good Ross Thomas · 1973 · ★ 4.1 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Spy Fiction with this book.

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