Karen Robards
1) Darkness
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Beautiful, brilliant Dr Gina Solomon is one of a handful of scientists stationed on a remote island off the Arctic Circle. Out conducting research in the last days before winter wraps the area in months-long darkness, she witnesses a plane crash over the Bering Sea, and rescues a survivor from the wreckage - Mal Connolly. With a snowstorm stranding them unexpectedly, it's at least twenty-four hours before they return to the research station ... and...
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Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2017
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Bianca Saint-Yves is smart, talented, beautiful - and one of the best in the world at her profession. She's a high-end thief, a master manipulator, a card shark, a genius of disguise, conning thieves out of the money they stole and giving it back to those who should rightfully have it. A femme fatale Robin Hood, she preys on the bad and those that prey on the less fortunate. Her job will take her all over the world, turning the tables on dangerous...
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Pub. Date
2018
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Clever. Cunning. Highly skilled. There's only one Bianca St. Ives. And for her enemies, that's one too many. Bianca St. Ives was recently put through the wringer, but she came out the same way she always does - the way her father trained her to - hungry for a fight. Still navigating the fallout from a shocking revelation that's left a network of assassins' crosshairs trained on her, Bianca's ready to take fate into her own hands. It's kill or be killed,...
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Charlotte Stone novel volume 3
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Dr Charlotte Stone is a psychologist and expert in criminal pathology with a particularly special talent - she can see dead people. Visited by the spirit world, she truly understands the cases of the murder victims she investigates - and gets a unique insight into their killers.
5) Hunted
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Pub. Date
2014
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Caroline Wallace is one of New Orleans Police Department's top hostage negotiators, and she's never failed to get every hostage out alive. But this time, it's different. The hostages include the chief of police and the mayor. And she's trying to negotiate with Reed Ware, a former colleague who left the force in disgrace, and is considered volatile and extremely dangerous.
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Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2012
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Charlotte Stone has been obsessed with learning what makes human monsters commit terrible crimes since she was 16, when a man butchered the family of her best friend Holly, then left the girl's body on a seaside boardwalk one week later. Years later, knowing it might undermine her credibility as a psychological expert, she tells no one about the visits she gets from the spirit world. Now FBI agent Tony Bartoli suspects the Boardwalk Killer is back....
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Pub. Date
2020
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Celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is both a star and a smokescreen. An unwilling darling of the Nazis, her position of privilege allows her to go undetected as an ally to the resistance. When her estranged mother, Lillian de Rocheford, is captured by Nazis, Genevieve is shaken. She knows it won't be long before the Gestapo succeeds in torturing information out of Lillian that will derail the upcoming allied invasion. The resistance movement is tasked...
8) Shiver
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Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2013
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Single mother Samantha supports herself and her son as best she can, by repo-ing cars. When she hooked her tow truck up to the BMW she'd been sent to haul in, the last thing she expected was to find a beaten, bloody man in the trunk - or to be catapulted into a terrifying fight to survive. Danny was minutes away from dying when Sam found him - he'd been shot by a vicious gang of drug runners who would stop at nothing to see him dead. With his life...
9) Hush
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Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2014
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When Riley Cowan finds her estranged husband Jeff dead in his palatial home, she's sure it's no coincidence. The police rule it a suicide, but Riley thinks someone's out for blood - specifically someone Jeff's father ripped off in one of the biggest financial fraud cases of all time. She suspects that someone is trying to send a message to Jeff's father: tell me where the money is, or everyone you care about will die. Riley's in-laws might be billionaires,...
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Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2022
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Guernica, 1937. When the bombers appear like a flock of birds over the horizon, Sibil Helinger, is enjoying market day in the small Spanish town of Guernica. With no warning, clouds of German planes are upon them and bombs fall on the town like rain. Reeling with shock, she spends the next few days frantically searching for her relatives in the rubble. Though she finds her little sister trapped in the ruins, she discovers her mother and the others...
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Guardian volume 3
Pub. Date
2019
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With her back against the wall, everything's on the line for Bianca St. Ives. She's either going to save the world - or die trying. It took one hell of an effort for the authorities to finally get the jump on master manipulator Bianca St. Ives, but now that they have, it's far from the capture she expected. Instead of taking her in, there's an offer on the table, a one-shot deal that would allow Bianca to walk away scot-free as if they'd never found...
12) Bait
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Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2005
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When Maddie Fitzgerald is attacked in a hotel room, barely escaping with her life, FBI agent Sam McCabe has the feeling that she's got something to hide. So when she is attacked for the second time, McCabe insists that the only way to catch the killer is to use her as bait.
13) Obsession
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Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Katharine remembers the burglars who shot her best friend, the terror she felt the night she nearly died, but there are things she doesn't remember at all. Like her lover's voice on the phone. Like her clothes in her luxurious Washington home. Like her face in the mirror. Everything in her life feels wrong - can things ever be right again?
14) Sleepwalker
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Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2012
Description
No-one was meant to see the photos, least of all a police officer. And - with close circuit cameras capturing every moment of rookie cop Micayla Lange's realisation that Uncle Nicco is seriously involved with the mob - she may now be in mortal danger.
15) Superstition
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Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Pawley's Island, South Carolina, seems like an idyllic, picture perfect community. But then a tabloid news programme airs a feature about the community's one unsolved murder - that of Tara Mitchell and the disappearance of her two friends. Reporter Nicole Sullivan senses that this could be her big break.
16) Justice
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Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2011
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Hired by a prestigious D.C. law firm after witnessing the murder of the First Lady, attorney Jessica Ford is keeping a low profile. But then the rape case she is working on is abruptly dismissed because the victim recants on the stand. The problem is, Jess suspects that the victim recanted because she was threatened.
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Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Dr Charlotte 'Charlie' Stone has dedicated her career as a psychiatrist to exploring the darkest territory of all: the hearts and minds of serial killers. It's a job she's uniquely suited for, thanks to the secret talent that gives her an uncanny edge - Charlie can see dead people, whose tormented spirits cry out to her for the justice only she can provide. But there's little chance for romance with a supernatural suitor when murder comes pounding...
18) Guilty
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Publisher
Hodder
Description
One cold November night when Kate White was fifteen years old, her friends held up a store. One of them killed an off-duty cop. They got away with it. Thirteen years later, Kate has built a new life for herself as a mother and prosecutor. Until the nightmare morning in her courtroom when she comes face to face with the old friend, Mario, who killed that cop so many years ago. First it seems that Kate may have to pull some serious strings to keep her...