18 books like Where are you now?

A Bullet For Cinderella
A Bullet For Cinderella John D. MacDonald · 1955 · 165p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Her veneer was big city ... But one look and you knew that Toni Raselle's instincts were straight out of the river shack she came from. I watched her as she toyed with the man, laughing, her tumbled hair like raw blue-black silk, her brown shoulders bare. Eyes deep-set, a girl with a gypsy look. So this was the girl I had risked my life to find. This was the girl who was going to lead me to a… Shares Thriller, Mystery
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Bones in London Edgar Wallace · 1900 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The new Managing Director of Schemes Ltd has an elegant London office and a theatrically dressed assistant - however Bones, as he is better known, is bored. Luckily there is a slump in the shipping market and it is not long before Joe and Fred Pole pay Bones a visit. They are totally unprepared for Bones' unnerving style of doing business, unprepared for his unique style of innocent and endearing… Shares Thriller, Mystery
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Fifty Candles Earl Derr Biggers · 1926 Shares Thriller, Mystery with this book.
Canto for a Gypsy
Canto for a Gypsy Martin Cruz Smith · 1972 · ★ 4.0 · 191p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Gypsy antique dealer Roman Grey is back in one of Martin Cruz Smith's most beloved novels--​the exciting and fast-paced Canto for a Gypsy . The priceless Royal Crown of Hungary is on display in St Patrick's Cathedral in New York. Guarded by many, including the NYPD and the gypsy antique dealer Roman Grey, a heist is impossible. But everybody wants the legendary Crown of Saint Stephen. The… Shares New york, Thriller
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The Dead Room Heather Graham · 2007 · ★ 4.0 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A year ago, archaeologist Leslie MacIntyre barely survived the explosion that took the life of her fiance, Matt Connolly. In the long months since, she’s slowly come to terms not only with her loss but with her unsettling new ability to communicate with ghosts, a dubious “gift” received in the wake of her own brush with death.Now she’s returned to lower Manhattan’s historic Hastings House, site… Shares New york, Thriller, Mystery
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No Time for Goodbye Linwood Barclay · 2007 · ★ 4.0 · 474p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge wakes up one morning to find her entire family gone. Twenty-five years later, their unexplained disappearance still haunts her. She agrees to appear on the reenactment show Deadline, hoping the TV exposure might provide her with some answers, although her husband, English teacher Terry Archer, is considerably more skeptical. Indeed, not long after the show airs,… Shares Personas desaparecidas, Missing persons, Ficción, Domestic fiction
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The Face of Fear Dean Koontz · 1977 · ★ 3.9 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate To stop a brutal killer, the NYPD enlists the help of clairvoyant Graham Harris. He sees the murders in his mind--sometimes at the moment they are happening. Then he sees the most terrifying vision of all--his own murder... Shares New york, Thriller, Mystery
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Sail Of Stone Åke Edwardson · 2012 Shares Missing persons, Investigation, Thriller, Mystery with this book.
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44 Charles Street Danielle Steel · 2011 · ★ 3.8 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Francesca Thayer es copropietaria de una galería de arte y de una casa antigua en el Village neoyorquino. Ambos proyectos los inició con Todd, su pareja durante años. Ahora que la relación ha terminado, Francesca deberá decidir si lo vende todo o hace frente a los pagos ella sola. Finalmente su padre la ayudará a sacar adelante la galería, pero para mantener la casa, tendrá que alquilar tres de… Shares Ficción, New york, Domestic fiction
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Running blind Desmond Bagley · 1970 · ★ 3.7 · 231p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "It'll be simple", they said at the Department. "You'll just be a messenger boy". But to Alan Stewart, on a deserted road in Iceland with a murdered man at his feet, it looks anything but simple. Someone very ruthless is after the innocent-looking parcel he carries, and Kenniken, a Russian agent with the best of reasons for hating him, has followed him to Iceland. Shares Thriller, Mystery
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The tightrope men Desmond Bagley · 1973 · ★ 3.8 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Giles Denison's life is turned upside down when he awakes to find himself in a luxurious hotel in Oslo and, peering into the bathroom mirror, discovers the face of another man! He has been kidnapped from his flat in London and transformed into famous Finnish scientist, Dr Harold Feltham Meyrick. Compelled to adjust to his new persona (including meeting his daughter) and to play out the role… Shares Thriller, Mystery
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The Man Who Knew Edgar Wallace · 1918 · ★ 3.4 · 145p · ≈ 4h · Moderate John Minute, formerly an unscrupulous African mining magnate, has flown to England, but can’t escape his past. Constantly threatened by blackmailers, he fears death and financial ruin. At the suggestion of the commissioner of police, “The Man Who Knows” is hired to assist in determining the source of these threats. But after John is murdered, suspicion is cast on his nephew, who calls on The Man… Shares Thriller, Mystery
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The Square Emerald Edgar Wallace · 1926 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Leslie Maughan, recognized for her keen mind, has unofficially been promoted to Scotland Yard’s first female investigator. Chancing upon a book of poetry once owned by a Peter Dawlish, convicted forger, Leslie delves into the details of the convict’s case and becomes convinced of Peter’s innocence. Befriending Peter after his release from prison, Leslie discovers a link between him, a lady of… Shares Thriller, Mystery
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The Thirteenth Floor Sid Fleischman · 1995 · ★ 3.8 · 217p · ≈ 7h · Moderate When his older sister disappears, twelve-year-old Buddy Stebbins follows her back in time and finds himself aboard a seventeenth-century pirate ship captained by a distant relative. Shares Siblings, Missing persons, Brothers and sisters, Mystery
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Born in Death Nora Roberts · 2006 · ★ 4.5 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A Eve Dallas Investigation In Death 2060 in New York City. Lieutenant Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers-both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm-are brutally killed on the same night. It doesn't leave Eve a lot of leftover time to put together a baby shower for her buddy Mavis Freestone, but that's supposedly what friends are for. Now Mavis… Shares Missing persons, New york, Investigation, Mystery
When the Sacred Ginmill Closes
When the Sacred Ginmill Closes Lawrence Block · 1986 · ★ 4.0 · 261p · ≈ 8h · Moderate In the dark days, in a sad and lonely place, ex-cop Matt Scudder is drinking his life away -- and doing "favors" for pay for his ginmill cronies. But when three such assignments flow together in dangerous and disturbing ways, he'll need to change his priorities from boozing to surviving. Shares New york, Mystery
Strega
Strega Andrew Vachss · 1987 · ★ 4.0 · 293p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Andrew Vachss's implacable private eye has a new client, Strega. She wants Burke to find an obscene photograph--and that search will take him into the ocean that flows just beneath the city, an ocean whose currents are flesh and money, the anguish of children and the pleasure of twisted adults. It is a place that Burke can visit only at the risk of his sanity and his life. But between the power… Shares New york, Mystery
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Total control David Baldacci · 1996 · ★ 4.5 · 704p · ≈ 23h · Challenging Sidney Archer has it all: a husband she loves, a job at which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust. Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global, the world’s leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give his family the best of… Shares Missing persons, Investigation, Thriller, Mystery

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