Library Greeting: A few thrillers

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Starri Knight is a big believer in fate. How else to explain the compelling connection she feels to the stranger she pulls out of a wrecked car on the very same road where her parents died twenty years earlier?

Alongside Auntie Ona-May, the only mother she’s ever known, Starri saves Rusty O’Sullivan’s life, just as Ona-MayoncedidwhenStarriwasan orphaned babe. But convincing Rusty he has something to live for is going to take all of Starri’s faith in miracles.

Like a wish he hadn’t even known to make, Starri landed in Rusty’s life, filling him with a longing for a family. Then Jackson Landry, a new lawyer, turns up to present a surprise that will change the direction of his life: An inheritance from the father Rusty never knew and the promise of the family he’d never had. It’s a lot for the hard-bitten loner to accept as love rushes into his life .

A sense of duty has Rusty heading to Honey Creek to deal with his father’s estate and find his lost siblings. But having family is one thing, learning to love them is another. Good thing new friends are by his side to help him along the way.

Set in the charming small town of Honey Creek, Texas, Strawberry Lane by author Jodi Thomas tells the heartwarming, tenderly romantic tale of a man who drives his car off a cliff—straight into a life he never imagined .

Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennanwho,following a series of bizarre disappearances ontheislandsofTurksand Caicos, is called in to examine what is left of a person thought to have been struck by lightning, Tempe traces an unusual tattoo to its source and is soon embroiled in a much larger case. Young men-tourists-have been disappearing on the islands of Turks and Caicos for years.

Seven years ago, the first victim was found in a strange location with both hands cut off; the other visitors vanished without a trace. But, recently, tantalizing leads have emerged and only Tempe can unravel them.

Maddeningly, the victims seem to have nothing in common- other than the strange locations where their bodies are eventually found, and the fact that the young men all seem to be the least likely to be involved in foul play. Do these attacks have something to do with the islands' seething culture of gang violence?

Tempe isn't so sure. And then she turns up disturbing clues that what's at stake may actually have global significance. It isn't long before the sound of a ticking clock grows menacingly loud, and then Temper herself becomes a target. The Bone Hacker is Kathy Reichs’ newest thriller.

Summoned by an old friend to the Amalfi coast, Gabriel Allon finds a murder scene and an empty stretcher that could have held only one painting of inestimable value that has been missing for decades. Vermeer’s “The Concert” was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Garden Museum in Boston in 1990. Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world’s most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West.

The Collector is a thriller by author Daniel Silva.