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21) Proving ground
Author
Series
Lourdes Robles novels volume Book 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Nathaniel Dresden never really got along with his father, an infamous civil rights lawyer who defended criminals and spearheaded protest movements. As an act of rebellion, Natty joined the U.S. Army and served in Iraq, coming back with a chest full of commendations and a head full of disturbing memories. But when his father is found murdered near the peaceful confines of Brooklyn's Prospect Park, Natty is forced to deal with the troubled legacy of...
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Series
Publisher
Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
A heart-stopping crime thriller with "a tense, twisty storyline . . . [and] a terrific climax"—first in the Manchester Murders series (Love Books, Read Books).
When DI Joe Burton and DS Sally Fielding are called to investigate a suspicious death in a care home, it is just the start of their problems.
As further bodies are discovered, with playing cards placed beside their bodies, the Manchester police realise they have their...
When DI Joe Burton and DS Sally Fielding are called to investigate a suspicious death in a care home, it is just the start of their problems.
As further bodies are discovered, with playing cards placed beside their bodies, the Manchester police realise they have their...
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Series
Language
English
Description
As a militia movement invades Arizona's Cochise County, a gun dealer dies mysteriously, and his stock of high-powered weapons vanishes, Sheriff Joanna Brady investigates two other murders that point to armed separatist Alton Hosfield, a probe that threatens her own life and those of her family
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
True Detective meets X-Files in the first installment of the Luke McWhorter series Nine physicists are dead. The medical examiner has determined that the victims died from drinking coffee laced with rat poison. The owner of the house, Professor Thaddeus Huntgardner, isn't suspected, but his claim that a piece of the debris from Roswell's 1947 UFO crash was hidden in Flagler might be true. Enter Luther "Luke" Stephens McWhorter, a Yale Divinity School–educated...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
During a state funeral for a former first lady at a New York City cathedral, armed men disguised as monks seize the church and dozens of hostages, and NYPD officer Michael Bennett takes on the dangerous role of lead negotiator in the standoff.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Across Brattleboro, Vermont, rich people (some with dark secrets) are waking up in their high security, alarm-equipped homes to find a Post-it note stuck to their bedside tables reading, "You're it." There is little sign of disturbance anywhere, nothing stolen (that anyone admits,) and only a bit of expensive food eaten as a signature. The Press loves the story and dubs the burglar the Tag Man. But who is he? And what's he actually doing? In fact,...
27) Dirt: a novel
Author
Series
Stone Barrington volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
When poison-pen columnist Amanda Dart herself becomes the victim of an anonymous gossipmonger, she enlists the help of New York P.I. Stone Barrington to uncover the culprit, someone out to expose the peccadilloes of other influential gossip columnists as well
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
" When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes. Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering secrets. To an old friend and older adversary. It leads the former Chief of Homicide for the Surete du Quebeck to places even he is afraid to go. But...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
443 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Captain Patti O'Shay, still grieving over the murder of her husband, is stunned when skeletal remains of a female victim, who is missing her right hand, are unearthed in City Park along with her husband's police badge.
31) The hunt
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Series
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Detective Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus return to Los Angeles when a kidnapping hits close to home--in this breathtaking new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman. Peter and his partner, Detective Tyler McAdams, are thrown into an unsolved case and propelled into action when a body is found in the very woods where a man previously went missing in upstate New York. But that's not the only crisis that Peter has to deal with....
33) False witness
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Language
English
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Description
"AN ORDINARY LIFE ... Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She has a good job as a defense attorney, a daughter doing well in school, and even her divorce is relatively civilized-her life is just as unremarkable as she'd always hoped it would be. HIDES A DEVASTATING PAST ... But Leigh's ordinary life masks a childhood which was far from average ... a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and finally torn...
34) The night fire
Author
Series
A Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch novel volume 3
Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch volume 2
Harry Bosch volume 22
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Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch volume 2
Harry Bosch volume 22
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, but after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before -- the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals. Bosch brings the...
35) Dark in death
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Series
Language
English
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On a chilly February night, during a screening of Psycho in midtown, someone sunk an ice pick into the back of Chanel Rylan's neck, then disappeared quietly into the crowds of drunks and tourists in Times Square. As Eve Dallas puzzles over a homicide that seems carefully planned and yet oddly personal, she receives a tip from an unexpected source, an author of police thrillers who recognizes the crime from the pages of her own book. This killer seems...
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Language
English
Description
While probing the murder of an elderly woman torched to death in her bed, Seattle homicide detective J.P. Beaumont finds himself distracted by the domestic problems of his new partner, Sue Danielson, until a series of terrifying events threatens to shatter their investigation
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged edition.
Physical Desc
416 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Two detectives hunt a killer amidst the lawless streets and high society of 1930's Glasgow in this "brilliant" (Times UK) mystery that "serves up a delicious slice of thirties gangster noir" (Adrian McKinty)-inspired by the true story of the Scottish Untouchables."A Glaswegian version of Peaky Blinders, with razor gangs brawling in the street and festering family secrets . . . a dark and powerful story."?Sunday TimesGlasgow, 1932. When the son-in-law...
38) Tell me
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Just as a woman who was convicted of killing her daughter, Amity, twenty years prior is about to be set free after her son recants his testimony, reporter Nikki Gillette, a childhood friend of Amity, seeks the real truth.
40) Boar Island
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Language
English
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"Anna Pigeon, in her career as a National Park Service Ranger, has had to deal with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors, but cyber-bullying and stalking is a new one. The target is Elizabeth, the adopted teenage daughter of her friend Heath Jarrod. Elizabeth is driven to despair by the disgusting rumors spreading online and bullying texts. Until, one day, Heath finds her daughter Elizabeth in the midst of an unsuccessful suicide attempt. And then...