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Author
Series
Harry Bosch volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
LAPD detective Harry Bosch simultaneously investigates a killer who has been operating undetected for thirty years and a political conspiracy that has its origins in his police department.
2) 11th hour
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 11
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, Lindsay Boxer discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Francisco's most untouchable criminals. Then she's called next to the most bizarre crime scene she's ever witnessed: two bodiless heads elaborately displayed in the garden of a world-famous actor.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later and approaching 40, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered 20 years earlier,...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When Arlen Wagner, who can see impending death in people's eyes, warns fellow rail passengers that the train is going to crash, only Paul Brickhall heeds his warning, but the two end up stranded at The Cypress House, an isolated Gulf Coast boarding house.
Author
Series
William Warwick novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Newly promoted to Detective Inspector, William Warwick is tasked with a dangerous new line of work, to go undercover and expose crime of another kind: corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police Force. Along with detectives Rebecca Pankhurst and Nicky Bailey, his team is focused on following Detective Jerry Summers, a young officer whose lifestyle exceeds his income. But the investigation risks being compromised when Nicky falls for Summers....
8) Sharpshooter
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
411 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Western Heritage and Western Writers of America Spur Award-winning author Dusty Richards spins a thrilling new tale in the epic Byrnes family saga . . .
In the brutal, unforgiving wastes of the Arizona desert, Chet Byrnes built a cattle ranching empire with his bare hands, steel will, and a fast draw. As the U.S. marshal, he risks his life to bring law to a lawless land.
When a new railroad route is planned to pass through Navajo territory, Chet...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Framed for the murder of an FBI agent after testifying against David Chen and his illegal businesses, Kara Quinn goes on the run, determined to clear her name without putting her partner, Matt Costa, in danger"--
10) Collusion
Author
Series
Parker Crime volume 2
Publisher
Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
c2018
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In D.C.'s cutthroat political arena, revenge is the ultimate nuclear option...
Framed for a high-profile murder, Abrianna Parker finds herself hurtling down a conspiracy rabbit hole in a desperate attempt to clear her name. Her only way out is to go after the most powerful man in the country. But the powers that be play dirty-and expose her billionaire adoptive father, Cargill Parker, and his criminal activity.
With charges of collusion swirling...
11) Serena: a novel
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Language
English
Description
Traveling to the mountains of 1929 North Carolina to forge a timber business with her new husband, Serena Pemberton champions her mastery of harsh natural and working conditions but turns murderous when she learns she cannot bear children.
Author
Series
Moses Lake volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
379 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A whirlwind romance--and a leap of faith--has overnight made Mallory Hale a mother and a rancher's wife in the small town of Moses Lake, Texas, but she soon find secrets and questions beneath her rosy new life.
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1930s Omaha, ex-cop-turned-PI Jim Beely teams up with local crooked cop Frank Tvrdik to take down the man vying for city commissioner. This moody crime story with a high body count melds fact and fiction into an unforgettable tale of danger and deceit"--
Author
Series
Carter Ross mystery volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
17) Rough justice
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
After ten years' absence, Carl Burns returns to his hometown seeking justice for his estranged daughter, who is testifying against the towns former mayor in a rape case, but as Carl searches for the truth, he incurs the wrath of powerful enemies.
Author
Series
Malcolm Fox volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Description
A major inquiry into a neighboring police force sees Malcolm Fox and his colleagues cast adrift, unsure of territory, protocol, or who they can trust. An entire station-house looks to have been compromised, but as Fox digs deeper he finds the trail leads him back in time to the suicide of a prominent politician and activist. There are secrets buried in the past, and reputations on the line.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When boxing trainer and long-time friend Henry Cimoli asks for Spenser's help with a heavy-handed developer who is sending thugs to pressure Henry to sell his beachfront condo, Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, follow a trail to a beautiful woman, a megalomaniac Vegas kingpin, and plans for a sprawling casino in Boston.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Wrongly arrested after fleeing from her abusive husband, a mother desperately fights corrupt authorities to recover her stolen children; while a man across the country hears the story on the news and identifies links to similar events in his own past.