Pines and Plains Libraries

Roland Britten, an accountant by profession but an amateur jockey by preference, awakens one morning to discover that he cannot move, he cannot see, and the only sound he can hear is the noise of an engine close by. He finally deduces that he is lying in the dark, tied near a generator, But why? Where? And by Whom?

"Mrs. Loretta Plansky, a recent widow in her seventies, is settling into retirement in Florida while dealing with her 98-year-old father and fielding requests for money from her beloved children and grandchildren. Thankfully, her new hip hasn't changed her killer tennis game one bit. One night Mrs. Plansky is startled awake by a phone call from a voice claiming to be her grandson Will, who desperately needs ten thousand dollars to get out of a jam....

"It's summer in the Dordogne. The heirs of a Périgordian sheep farmer learn that they have been disinherited, and their father's estate sold to an insurance company in return for a policy that will place him in a five-star retirement home for the rest of his life. But the farmer never gets his life of luxury--he dies before moving in. Was it a natural death? Was there foul play? Bruno begins the investigation that leads him to several shadowy insurance...

When the DEA shuts down a dummy corporation operation code named SWORDFISH, they had generated $400 million which they let sit around; years of compound interest has swelled it to $9.5 billion. A covert counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell, headed by Gabriel, wants the money to help finance their war against international terrorism, but it's all locked away behind super-encryption. He brings in convicted hacker Stanley, who only wants to see his...

When DC Fiona Griffiths says 'yes' to her policeman boyfriend, it's an affirmation that she wants finally to put her psychological breakdown behind her. But she still can't resist the challenge of an undercover policing course, and finding it remarkably easy to assume a new identity, she comes top of the class. So when an ingenious payroll fraud starts to look like the tip of a huge criminal iceberg, she is selected to infiltrate the fraudsters' operation....

Offers a brief history of forensic science and describes instances in which its techniques have been used to investigate various crimes, including murder, identity theft, and art forgery.

Following the funeral of a local farmer, Bruno gets a phone call from his son. He tells Bruno that before his father's sudden death, he had signed over his property to an insurance company in return for a subscription to a luxury retirement home. Bruno discovers that both the retirement home and the insurance company are scams with links to a Russian oligarch whose dealings are already being tracked by the French police. Meanwhile an aging British...

Domestic disturbance: A father discovers that his son's new stepfather is not who he pretends to be -- Face/off: Government agent Sean Archer, whose son was killed in an assassination attempt by Castor Troy, years later assumes Castor's face in order to bring down Troy's terrorist group, while Castor uses the same technique to assume Archer's identity -- The general's daughter: A military investigator is determined to uncover the truth behind a...