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Detective Renee Ballard is working the graveyard shift again, and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find that an older man has snuck in and is rifling through old file cabinets.The intruder is none other than legendary LAPD detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard kicks him out, but eventually Bosch persuades her to help and she relents. Bosch is investigating the death of fifteen-year-old...
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When the newly promoted captain of the NYPSD and his wife return a day early from their vacation, they were looking forward to spending time with their bright and vivacious sixteen-year-old daughter who had stayed behind.
Not even their worst nightmares could have prepared them for the crime scene that awaited them instead. Brutally murdered in her bedroom, Deena?s body showed signs of trauma that horrified even the toughest of cops; including our...
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In Death volume 35
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English
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When a downtown bar erupts in sudden violence that leaves eighty people dead, Lieutenant Eve Dallas discovers that the bar's patrons were exposed to a lethal cocktail of chemicals and illegal drugs that a sinister killer administered through an airborne method.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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First edition.
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365 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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Protecting a brilliant freshman whose homeschooled life has left her unprepared for the outside world, Jennifer invites the vulnerable girl home for a Christmas break that embroils Sheriff Joanna Brady in a volatile missing-persons case.
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"Atlanta, 1974. It's Kate Murphy's first day on the job and the Atlanta Police Department is seething after the murder of an officer. Before the day has barely begun, she already suspects she's not cut out for the job as a cop. Her male uniform is too big, she can't handle a gun, and she's rapidly learning that the APD is hardly a place that welcomes women. Worse still, in the ensuing manhunt, she'll be partnered with Maggie Lawson, a cop with her...
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Providence Falls volume 1
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English
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In 1844 Ireland, Liam O'Connor, a rogue and a thief, fell madly in love with a squire's daughter and unwittingly altered the future. Shy and naive Cora McLeod thought Liam was the answer to her prayers. But the angels disagreed and they've been waiting for the right moment in time to step in. Now Liam finds himself reunited with his beloved Cora in Providence Falls, North Carolina. The angels have given Liam a task. He must make sure Cora falls in...
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In death volume 54
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2022.
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English
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The woman’s body was found in the early morning, on a bench in a New York City playground. She was clean, her hair neatly arranged, her makeup carefully applied. But other things were very wrong—like the tattoo and piercings, clearly new. The clothes, decades out of date. The fatal wound hidden beneath a ribbon around her neck. And the note: Bad Mommy, written in crayon as if by a child.
Eve Dallas turns to the department’s top profiler, who...
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Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
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320 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Deep in the Florida Everglades, the body of a woman is discovered in pieces, presumably ravaged by an alligator. Upon closer inspection, it’s determined no animal could make such perfectly precise cuts. Only a blade could do that. Wielded by a human. Soon, dozens of oil drums emerge amid the river of grass. Each one packed to the brim with body parts.
FDLE special agent Amy Larson and her partner, FBI special agent Hunter Forrest, share a bad feeling...
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Will Trent volume 4
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English
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Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton and Georgia Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Will Trent have their work cut out for them when the prime suspect in a shoreside murder winds up dead in his holding cell.
10) Nowhere safe
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The Guilty
She senses their twisted desires before she meets them. It's as if fate is helping her stop these monsters from preying on others the way she was preyed upon. And after she has delivered brutal justice, she'll let the whole world see their guilt.
Will Atone
"I must pay for what I've done." The first victim--naked, bound, frozen to death--wore the note strung around his neck. Now there's another note--this one attached to Detective September...
11) Find me: a novel
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Ellie Hatcher volume 6
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English
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"She calls herself Hope Miller, but she has no idea who she actually is. Fourteen years ago, she was found in a small New Jersey town thrown from an overturned vehicle, with no clue to her identity. Doctors assumed her amnesia was a temporary side effect of her injuries, but she never regained her memory. Hope eventually started a new life with a new name in a new town that welcomed her, yet always wondered what she may have left behind--or been running...
12) Sworn to silence
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Kate Burkholder volume 1
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English
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Kate Burkholder, a former Amish resident of Painters Mill, is returning as police chief sixteen years after a series of brutal murders took place there, but when a new victim is found under her watch, she struggles with a secret that could hurt both her and her family.
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Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
c2007
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373 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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When Julian Stubs, Ogeechee's oldest living ex-mayor, is murderd the day after the town's bicentennial celebration, Chief of Police Henry Huckabee and Officer Trudy Roundtree soon discover more family mysteries and wonder if the solution is tangled in the branches of the Stubbs family tree.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
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335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Driven by a compulsion that challenges his self-control, the man calling himself Charles Milton prowls the rodeo circuit, hunting young women. For years, he has been meticulous in his methods, abducting, murdering, and disposing of his victims while leaving no evidence of his crimes--or their identities--behind. Indigenous women have become his target of choice, knowing law enforcement's history of ignoring their disappearances. A cold case has just...
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"A suspense novel that also looks at the anatomy of a Philadelphia family rocked by the opioid crisis and the relationship between two sisters--one, suffering from addiction, who has suddenly gone missing amid a series of mysterious murders; the other a police officer who patrols the neighborhood from which she disappeared: a story about the formidable ties between place, family, and fate" --
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
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318 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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Detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are baffled by a series of bizarre murders staged like scenes from horror films and uncover a tenuous tie to an infamous child abuse case at a day care center.
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Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Although serial killer Warren Hoyt is behind bars, a copycat-at-large continues his legacy of murders performed with twisted medical techniques.
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Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Detective Elise King investigates a man's disappearance in a seaside town where the locals and weekenders are at odds with each other in this rich and captivating new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow. Elise King is a successful and ambitious detective-or she was before a medical leave left her unsure if she'd ever return to work. She now spends most days watching the growing tensions in her small seaside town of Ebbing-the...
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Rizzoli and Isles volume 13
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"Rizzoli & Isles is back! From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen, the most harrowing installment has Jane and Maura investigating a brutal murder with dire implications, and this time, with Jane's intrepid mother, Angela, looking into a mystery of her own. "Suspense doesn't get any smarter than this." -LEE CHILD, on the Rizzoli & Isles series Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are newly plagued by...
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The Detective Margaret Nolan volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Darkness is nothing new to LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan, but in P.J. Tracy's The Devil You Know, even she isn't prepared for the scandalous deception of deadly proportions that shakes the very foundation of Hollywood and its untouchables...and leaves her entangled in its rotten core. Los Angeles has many faces: the real LA where regular people live and work, the degenerate underbelly of any big city, and the rarefied world of wealth, power, and...