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Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Paul LeRoux, a former cybersecurity entrepreneur, transformed transnational organized crime. He was Netflix to Blockbuster, Spotify to Tower Records. His criminal empire stretched from Southeast Asia to Brazil and generated hundreds of millions of dollars in sales of arms, drugs, chemicals, bombs, missile technology, and assassinations. Initially, LeRoux was a ghost, but he gained the attention of a band of DEA agents who used undercover informants...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the final gavel clapped in a rural southern courtroom in the summer of 1988, Willie J. Grimes, a gentle spirit with no record of violence, was shocked and devastated to be convicted of first-degree rape and sentenced to life imprisonment. Here is the story of this everyman and his extraordinary quarter-century-long journey to freedom, told in breathtaking and sympathetic detail, from the botched evidence and suspect testimony that led to his...
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Returning to her hometown in the Poconos to see her dying sister, Blair sets out to discover the truth about her best friend's murder fifteen years earlier after learning a shocking secret that could exonerate the man serving time for the crime.
884) Thunderstruck
Author
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the Edwardian era recounts two parallel stories--the case of Dr. Hawley Crippen, who murdered his wife and fled to America, and Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless communication--as the new technology is used to capture a killer.
Author
Series
Sunset Cove volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Audra suspects that her father's death wasn't an accident, she returns to Mermaid Beach to take over his mail boat duties and find out more with the help of her childhood sweetheart, local game warden Kevin OConnor.
886) It had to be you
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"The two identical brothers seemed perfect in every way--handsome, intelligent, popular--until a shocking summer night when one brother killed his parents in cold blood while the other had an iron-clad alibi. But which twin was where during the murders? And is it possible the two of them planned the perfect crime together? Years later, they may finally be ready to clear one name at the expense of the other and turn to Laurie Moran and her team to...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Dismas Hardy knows something is amiss with his trusted secretary, Phyllis. Her out-of-character behaviour and sudden disappearances concern Hardy, especially when he learns that her convict brother—a man who had served twenty-five years in prison for armed robbery and attempted murder—has just been released. Things take a shocking turn when Phyllis is suddenly arrested at work for allegedly being an accessory to the murder of Hector Valdez, a...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
499 p.
Language
English
Description
1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd Britton, would be found bludgeoned to death in...
889) Investigator, The
Author
Series
A Letty Davenport novel volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Letty Davenport, the brilliant and tenacious adopted daughter of Lucas Davenport, takes the investigative reins in the newest thriller from #1 bestselling author John Sandford. By age twenty-four, Letty Davenport has seen more action and uncovered more secrets than many law enforcement professionals. Now a recent Stanford grad with a master's in economics, she's restless and bored in a desk job for U.S. Senator Colles. Letty's ready to quit, but her...
Author
Series
All the wrong questions volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Young Lemony Snicket investigates a rash of fires that have plagued the town of Stain'd-by-the-Sea, revealing secrets that involve the Department of Education and the notorious villain Hangfire.
Author
Series
A Sunset Cove novel volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
x, 326 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Claire Dellamore's stay at the Grand Inn at Ocean's Edge begins with a menacing start as she suffers a panic attack set off by the vibes from the place, and when she sees what she believes to be a murder while out for a stroll, only Luke Elwell believes her.
892) The darkness knows
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Retired detective Konrad returns to a haunting cold case in The Darkness Knows by Arnaldur Indridason, the "undisputed King of the Icelandic thriller." -The Guardian (UK) A frozen body is discovered in the icy depths of Langjokull glacier, apparently that of a businessman who disappeared thirty years before. At the time, an extensive search and police investigation yielded no results-one of the missing man's business associates was briefly held in...
893) The price you pay
Author
Series
Peter Ash volume 8
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Peter Ash must follow his closest friend, Lewis, into the criminal underworld when secrets from the past threaten everything they hold dear in this propulsive new thriller from the bestselling and award-winning series"--
894) Long past dues
Author
Series
The unorthodox chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Grimsby, the newest Auditor in the magical Department of Unorthodox Affairs, finds himself in hot water when he intercepts a friend's case in this fast-paced and thrilling urban fantasy. Against all odds, Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby has become an Auditor, enforcing laws about magic for Boston's Department of Unorthodox Affairs. But Grimsby soon realizes the daily grind of his job is far removed from the glamour he imagined. Overlooked for every exciting...
895) Murder road
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deserted road in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases. July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They're looking for the small resort town where they plan to spend their honeymoon. When they spot what appears to be a lone hitchhiker along the deserted road, they stop to help. But not long...
896) NYPD red 2
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
392, 10 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After being called to a horrible crime scene in Central Park involving a brutally murdered woman on a carousel, Zach and Kylie, detectives with the elite NYPD Red, must uncover the killer while public pressure builds.
897) Return to blood
Author
Series
A Hana Westerman thriller volume 2
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover editon.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After the perils of a case that landed much too close to home, Hana Westerman turned in her badge and abandoned her career as a detective in the Auckland CIB. Hoping that civilian life will offer her the opportunity to rest and recalibrate, she returns to her hometown of Tātā Bay, where she moves back in with her beloved father, Eru. Yet the memories of the past are everywhere, and as she goes for her daily run on the beach, Hana passes a local...
898) Proof of life
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Before he retired, J. P. Beaumont had looked forward to having his days all to himself. But too much free time doesn't suit a man used to brushing close to danger. When his longtime nemesis, retired Seattle crime reporter Maxwell Cole, dies in whats officially deemed to be an accidental fire, Beau is astonished to be dragged into the investigation at the request of none other than the deceased victim himself. In the process Beau learns that just...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Squishy and her twin "bonus" sisters Vee and Jessie are intrigued when a Ming vase disappears from the apartment above them, especially when they find out it is apparently one of a set stolen during the Opium Wars--and when they hack into the apartment building's security cameras and see what appears to be the ghost of a Chinese warrior they are determined to investigate the mystery.
Author
Publisher
Berkely Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 288 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the true story of a 1913 collaboration between a notorious jewel thief and the Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard as they hunted for a precious pearl necklace, worth more than the Hope diamond.