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Series
Ruth Galloway mystery volume 2
Language
English
Description
Ruth Galloway is called in to investigate when builders, demolishing a large old house in Norwich to make way for a housing development, uncover the bones of a child beneath a doorway -- minus the skull. Is it some ritual sacrifice or just plain straightforward murder? DCI Harry Nelson would like to find out -- and fast. It turns out the house was once a children's home. Nelson traces the Catholic priest who used to run the home. Father Hennessey...
Author
Series
Bosch volume 8
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Confronted by his own tragic past when the bones of a twelve-year-old boy are found in the Hollywood Hills, Harry Bosch attempts to unearth the boy's identity, which leads to startling discoveries and the possible destruction of his career.
3) In the Woods
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Series
Language
English
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Description
The debut novel of an astonishing voice in psychological suspense
As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours....
As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours....
Author
Series
detective Patrick Hedstrom volume 3
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
489 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a young girl's body is pulled out of the harbor in the small Swedish resort town of Fjallbacka, Det. Patrik Hedström becomes the lead investigator as he struggles with lazy and inept colleagues and an even remoter-than-usual boss. It's his grim task to discover who could be behind the murder of the child both he and his partner Erica knew well.
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Language
English
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Description
"Eve Duncan is the most sought-after artist in the field of forensic sculpting. Dedicated to her work ever since her daughter Bonnie was taken and killed at the age of seven, Eve feels a sense of duty to those whose lives were lost and whose bones are now in her hands. When a sheriff in California contacts her with a request for help on the reconstruction of the skull of a nine-year-old girl whose body has been buried for eight years, his intensity...
Author
Series
Oak Knoll volume 3
Publisher
Dutton
Physical Desc
viii, 432 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
1980s California FBI agent Vince Leone taps into the powers of science-based forensic techniques to unveil dark secrets and stop a killer who is terrorizing the citizens of Oak Knoll.
Author
Series
Charlie Parker volume 10
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigating sinister threats against a man hiding a criminal past, detective Charlie Parker stumbles into a web of corruption and deceit involving the FBI, a doomed mobster, and a missing teenage girl.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Description
Victorial McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photography, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it's across Massacusetts or across the country. Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2...
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Language
English
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Description
"Twenty years ago, eleven-year-olds Charlie Paige and Scott Ashby were murdered in the city of Bristol, their bodies dumped near a dog racing track. A man was convicted of the brutal crime, but decades later, questions still linger. For his whole life, filmmaker Cody Swift has been haunted by the deaths of his childhood best friends. The loose ends of the police investigation consume him so much that he decides to return to Bristol in search of answers....
10) Cold granite
Author
Series
Logan McRae novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
458 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Sgt. Logan McRae, just back on the job in Aberdeen, Scotland, after recuperating from a knife wound received from a murder suspect, becomes caught up in the investigation of a serial killer who is targeting some of the youngest members of the community, and to make things even more difficult, someone inside the department is leaking confidential information to the press.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories. An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective...