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Author
Series
Halfling saga volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Keera navigates political scheming, backstabbing, and her own grief as she moves against the cruel king that holds her kingdom hostage"--
"The highly anticipated second installment of the new adult fantasy saga that took BookTok by storm picks up where A Broken Blade left off... To the kingdom, Keera is the king's Blade, his most feared and trusted spy and assassin. But in the shadows, she works with Prince Killian and his Shadow-the dark, brooding...
2) Cry wolf
Author
Series
Hannah Wester volume 1
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
When human remains are found in the stomach of a dead wolf in the remote northern town of Haparanda, Sweden, policewoman Hannah Wester knows that this summer won't be like any other.
Author
Series
Book of the ice volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The second pulse-pounding novel in an epic fantasy series set in the same world as the wildly popular Red Sister. Yaz must fight for survival in this thrilling novel set on the unforgiving planet of Abeth"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
451 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"She is a woman of a thousand faces, an assassin who could be anyone, anywhere. The Trinidad contract was supposed to be simple: to make a living man become a dead man. When the job goes bad under the watchful eye of a bank security camera, there is nowhere for agent MX-401, known as Reaper, to hide from the fearsome local warlords, the Laventille Killers. Her employers, the Barbarians, send her to Barbados, the next island over, barely two hundred...
Author
Series
Elemental assassin volume 12
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
357 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
After unfortunate "coincidences" befall her friends, Gin Blanco, aka the Spider, discovers that she has a new enemy, the mysteriously named M. M. Monroe, who, trying to get her framed for murder, has a master plan that will take more than her powerful Ice and Stone magic to stop.
Author
Series
Kate Rees WWII volume 2
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"October 1942: it's been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. Since then, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney, her former handler, drags her back into the fray for a dangerous three-pronged mission in Paris. Each task is more dangerous than the next:...
Author
Series
Elemental assassin volume 15
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the current queen of the Ashland underworld, you would think that I, Gin Blanco, would know all about some secret society controlling things from behind the scenes. I might be the Spider, the city’s most fearsome assassin, but all my Ice and Stone elemental magic hasn’t done me a lick of good in learning more about “the Circle”. Despite my continued investigations, the trail’s gone as cold as the coming winter. So when Finnegan Lane,...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set against the darkly glamorous backdrop of New York City, a young woman from Harlem is drawn into the glittering underworld of Manhattan, where she's hired to use her knives to strike fear among its most dangerous denizens. Ten years later, Phyllis LeBlanc has given up everything - not just her own past, and Dev, the man she loved, but even her own dreams. Still, the ghosts from her past are always by her side - and history has appeared on her...
9) Snared: #16
Author
Series
Elemental assassin volume 16
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
If you dont know Gin "the Spider" Blanco, you dont know dangerous female heroines.Irony 101The Spider herself snared in someone elses webAnother week, another few clues trickling in about the Circle, the mysterious group that supposedly runs the citys underworld. Gathering intel on my hidden enemies is a painstaking process, but a more immediate mystery has popped up on my radar: a missing girl. My search for the girl begins on the mean streets of...
Author
Series
Miss Fortune mystery volume 2
Publisher
CreateSpace
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
271 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When aspiring actress Pansy Arceneaux returns to Sinful, Louisiana, to head up the beauty pageant portion of the Summer Festival, CIA assassin Fortune Redding knows she's in for trouble. Her undercover identity as a former beauty queen makes Fortune the perfect choice to chair the event with Pansy, but Pansy's abrasive personality makes it impossible to get through a single rehearsal without a fight. When Pansy turns up dead, Fortune is the prime...
11) Deadly sting: #8
Author
Series
Elemental assassin volume 8
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
369 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
When assassin Gin Blanco, a.k.a. the Spider, is robbed and taken hostage at gunpoint during the biggest gala event of the summer at Ashland's fanciest art museum, she is more than happy to show these unlucky thieves that red is her favorite color.
12) Ebony Gate
Author
Series
Phoenix hoard volume 1
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group, Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle's Ebony Gate is a female John Wick story with dragon magic set in contemporary San Francisco's Chinatown. Emiko Soong belongs to one of the eight premier magical families of the world. But Emiko never needed any magic. Because she is the Blade of the Soong Clan. Or was. Until she's drenched in blood in the middle of a market in China, surrounded by bodies and the scent of blood and human waste as a lethal perfume. The Butcher...
Author
Series
Killing Eve volume 2
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Venice, where she's just completed a routine assassination, Villanelle receives a late-night call. Eve has discovered that a senior intelligence officer is in the pay of the Twelve-the secretive and subversive organization that employs Villanelle-and she is about to debrief him. As Eve interrogates her subject, desperately trying to fit the pieces of the puzzle together, Villanelle moves in for the kill. The duel between the two women intensifies,...
Author
Series
Elemental assassin volume 11
Publisher
Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gin Blanco is hard-nosed, sexy, and lethal. Nicknamed "The Spider," she's a stone elemental assassin who brings her unique mix of magic and tact to every assignment, no matter the target. There's a new drug on the streets of Ashland, and its name "Burn" sums up the potent effect it has on its users. When one of her restaurant employees is threatened by dealers of the drug, Gin steps in to set things straight...
Author
Series
To gaze upon wicked gods volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
ix, 351 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm + 1 poster
Language
English
Description
"Ruying, born with the power over death, must weigh if her family's life is worth betraying her country to strike a deal with an enemy prince. Heroes die, cowards live. Daughter of a conquered world, Ruying hates the invaders who descended from the heavens long before she was born and defeated the magic of her people with technologies unlike anything her world had ever seen. Blessed by Death, born with the ability to pull the life right out of mortal...
Author
Series
Flesh and fire volume 2
Publisher
Blue Box Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
572 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes book two in her Flesh and Fire series.¦ The only one who can save Sera now is the one she spent her life planning to kill. The truth about Sera's plan is out, shattering the fragile trust forged between her and Nyktos. Surrounded by those distrustful of her, all Sera has is her duty. She will do anything to end Kolis, the false King of Gods, and his tyrannical rule of Iliseeum,...
Author
Series
Flesh and fire volume 1
Publisher
Blue Box Press, an imprint of Evil Eye Concepts
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
633 pages : 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Born shrouded in the veil of the Primals, a Maiden as the Fates promised, Seraphena Mierel's future has never been hers. Chosen before birth to uphold the desperate deal her ancestor struck to save his people, Sera must leave behind her life and offer herself to the Primal of Death as his Consort. However, Sera's real destiny is the most closely guarded secret in all of Lasania, she's not the well protected Maiden, but an assassin with one mission,...
Author
Series
Killing Eve volume 1
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Villanelle (a codename, of course) is one of the world's most skilled assassins. A catlike psychopath whose love for the creature comforts of her luxurious lifestyle is second only to her love of the game, she specializes in murdering the world's richest and most powerful. But when she murders an influential Russian politician, she draws a relentless foe to her tail.
19) Blood jade
Author
Series
Phoenix hoard volume 2
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xiii, 429 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It takes a killer to catch a killer. Emiko Soong, newly minted Sentinel of San Francisco, just can't catch a break. Just after she becomes the guardian for a sentient city, a murder strikes close to home. Called by the city and one of the most powerful clans to investigate, she traces the killer whose scent signature bears a haunting similarity to her mother's talent. The trail will lead her back to Tokyo where the thread she pulls threatens to unravel...
Author
Series
Flesh and fire volume 3
Publisher
Blue Box Press, an imprint of Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
524 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a startling betrayal ends with both Sera and the dangerously seductive ruler of the Shadowlands she has fallen madly in love with being held captive by the false King of the Gods, there is only one thing that can free Nyktos and prevent the forces of the Shadowlands from invading Dalos and igniting a War of Primals. Convincing Kolis won't be easy, though - not even with a lifetime of training. While his most favored Revenant is insistent that...