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1) The nurse
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nell Sweeney has led an ordinary life. Every day she walks to and from the hospital where she works as a nurse, believing that no harm can befall her. Until one day she is taken. Because someone out there has a secret. Someone out there has been watching Nell - and they've been watching others like her too. Nell is the unlucky one - she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. And if she isn't found soon, someone will make sure that she isn't the...
2) Cruel summer
Author
Series
Criminal volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of '88, Teeg Lawless comes home to plan the biggest heist of his career. But Teeg's son Ricky and his friends are starting down the same dark path their fathers are on, and this is about to become the worst summer of their lives" --Amazon
Author
Series
Human target volume 1
Publisher
DC Black Label
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Christopher Chance has made a living out of being a human target-a man hired to disguise himself as his client to invite would-be assassins to attempt his murder. He's had a remarkable career until his latest case protecting Lex Luthor when things go sideways. An assassination attempt Chance didn't see coming leaves him vulnerable and left trying to solve his own murder, as he has 12 days to discover just who in the DC Universe hated Luthor enough...
Author
Series
Bad machinery volume 2
Publisher
Oni Press, an Oni Press Publication
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Eighty-nine-year-old Jules Feiffer delivers the tour de force of his illustrious career in this epic finale that dares "to try things that film noir could only dream of" (Chris Ware). In The Ghost Script, Feiffer plunges us into the blowzy, boozy world of Blacklist Hollywood, circa 1953: witch hunts and Reds and pinkos and starlets and a mysterious, orchid-growing mastermind, the renamed "Cousin Joseph," running a back-channel clearinghouse for victims...
Author
Series
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
"Tony Chu is a detective with a secret. A weird secret. Tony Chu is Cibopathic, which means he gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats. It also means he's a hell of a detective, as long as he doesn't mind nibbling on the corpse of a murder victim to figure out whodunit, and why. He's been brought on by the Special Crimes Division of the FDA, the most powerful law enforcement agency on the planet, to investigate their strangest, sickest, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yen Press, LLC
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Regaining consciousness after nearly losing his life to Akutagawa, Atsushi is paralyzed by the thought of inviting more death and destruction upon his companions at the Armed Detective Agency. But before he can make good on his vow to leave the agency, the Mafia sends Ryuurou Hirotsu -- of the merciless Black Lizard group -- to storm their offices! Between the Black Lizards and the bomb-tossing Motojirou Kajii, and the demure, kimono-wearing Kyouka...
13) Blacksad
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Private investigator John Blacksad is up to his feline ears in mystery and intrigue, digging up the backstories behind murders, child abductions, and nuclear secrets during the 1950s Red Scare in the United States. Former Disney artist Juanjo Guarnido reinvents anthropomorphism in these pages, with sumptuous paintings and a rich cinematic style that brings the world of midcentury America to vibrant life, and writer Juan Díaz Canales weaves fascinating...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"As Kyouka fights her past demons, the threat of a three-way war between the Armed Detective Agency, the Guild, and the Port Mafia looms. With each side fortifying their defenses, who will seize the initiative and land the first crushing blow? After an attack by the Guild's fellowcrafts, the Agency's chances for survival might just be gone with the wind ..."--Page 4 of cover
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