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Author
Series
New York confidential volume 3
Language
English
Description
Wrapping up a normal day at the office, criminal psychologist Kieran Finnegan is accosted by a desperate woman who shoves an infant into her arms and then flees, only to be murdered minutes later on a busy Manhattan street. Who was the woman? Where did the baby come from? Kieran can't stop thinking about the child and the victim, so her boyfriend, Craig Frasier, does what any good special agent boyfriend would do--he gets the FBI involved. And asks...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Richard Chapman hosts his brother's bachelor party, his wife Kristin takes their young daughter to Manhattan for the evening. What she does not expect is bacchanalian drunkenness, her husband sharing a dangerously intimate moment in the guest room, and two women stabbing and killing their Russian bodyguards before driving off into the night. As their life rapidly spirals into nightmare, their home now a crime scene, Richard's investment banking...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan volume 16
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"The latest from Kathy Reichs finds Tempe Brennan investigating the connections between a long-dead business man, the smuggling of mummified dogs from Peru, and the death of a teenage girl killed in a hit and run. When she discovers a human trafficking enterprise at the center of it all, the scope of the case extends from South America to Afghanistan. And Tempe's soon-to-be ex might have connections that run to the very heart of the trafficking ring"--...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"en years ago, Spenser helped a teenage girl named Mattie Sullivan find her mother's killer and take down an infamous Southie crime boss. Now Mattie--a college student with a side job working for the tough but tender private eye--dreams of being an investigator herself. Her first big case involves a fifteen-year-old girl assaulted by a much older man at one of Boston's most prestigious private clubs. The girl, Chloe Turner, only wants the safe return...
7) Taken
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hired along with Joe Pike to investigate the alleged kidnapping of a wealthy industrialist's son, Elvis Cole goes undercover to infiltrate a ring of professional border kidnappers only to be abducted himself.
8) Storm rising
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
FBI special agent Meg Jennings and her K-9 partner Hawk head to Virginia Beach to help with search and rescue after a hurricane, but they uncover a human trafficking ring run by the powerful and influential.
9) Traffick
Author
Series
Tricks volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First Margaret K. McElderry Books paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
505 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Five teenagers struggle to find their way out of prostitution.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the lives of two orphan girls, one from the Caucasus who is sold into the sex trade, the other who is adopted into the wealthy Zane family of New York, whose unwitting involvement in the world of international crime precipitates their downfall.
11) Southern comfort
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miami, Florida DEA agent Kate Rush and bestselling but reclusive author Tick Kelly team up to uncover a web of betrayal, blackmail, and ruthless greed at the center of a human trafficking ring. As the danger mounts, Tick realizes how far he'll go to protect the rare and surprising gift that's come his way: a second chance at a happy ending.
12) Cold aim
Author
Series
The line of duty volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xxvii, 348 pages : illustration ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Police Chief Tess O'Rourke is asked by the FBI to shelter a witness in a high-profile human trafficking case, but Tess does not know that her small town is already home to a suspect from a twenty-five-year-old murder case.
Author
Publisher
Signet Select
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xii, 590 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Special Agent Patrick Bowers and his team uncover a ring of online sexual predators targeting children and, to stop them, he must unlock answers from an eight-year-old cold case by entering the world of cybercrimes himself.
14) An honest man
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After discovering seven men murdered aboard their yacht--including two Senate rivals--Israel Pike is regarded as a prime suspect. A troubled man infamous on Salvation Point Island for killing his own father a decade before, Israel has few options, no friends, and a life-threatening secret. Elsewhere on the island, 12-year-old Lyman Rankin seeks shelter from his alcoholic father in an abandoned house only to discover that he is not alone. A mysterious...
15) Whisper no lies
Author
Series
Black Ops Inc volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
427 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
16) Saint death
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"A novel about the illicit human and drug trade at the US-Mexican border."--
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"The Dane family's roots tangle deep in the Ozark Mountain town of Henbane, but that doesn't keep sixteen-year-old Lucy Dane from being treated like an outsider. Folks still whisper about her mother, a bewitching young stranger who inspired local myths when she vanished years ago. When one of Lucy's few friends, slow-minded Cheri, is found murdered, Lucy feels haunted by the two lost girls--the mother she never knew and the friend she couldn't protect....
Author
Series
Intervention volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Lance Covington finds an abandoned baby in the backseat of a car, he knows she's the newborn daughter of a meth addict he's been trying to help. But when police arrest him for kidnapping, Lance is thrust into a criminal world of baby trafficking and drug abuse. His mother, Barbara, looks for help from Kent Harlan--the man whom she secretly, reluctantly loves and who once helped rescue her daughter from a mess of her own. Kent...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
While exploring her grandmother's past at an ashram in India with her cousin Anandi, seventeen-year-old Raya finds herself and, perhaps, true love in this modern retelling of the legend of Dushyanta and Shakuntala.
20) The chaos kind
Author
Series
John Rain novel volume 11
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Assistant US Attorney Alondra Diaz hates traffickers. And she's determined to put one of America's most powerful financiers, Andrew Schrader, in prison forever for his crimes against children. But Schrader has videos implicating some of the most powerful members of the US national security state. To eliminate Diaz, the powers that be bring in a contractor: Marvin Manus, an implacable assassin whose skills have been forged in intelligence, the military,...