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361) Cold granite
Author
Series
Logan McRae novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
458 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Sgt. Logan McRae, just back on the job in Aberdeen, Scotland, after recuperating from a knife wound received from a murder suspect, becomes caught up in the investigation of a serial killer who is targeting some of the youngest members of the community, and to make things even more difficult, someone inside the department is leaking confidential information to the press.
362) The midwife murders
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"To Senior Midwife Lucy Ryuan, pregnancy is not an unusual condition, it's her life's work. But when two kidnappings and a vicious stabbing happen on her watch in a university hospital in Manhattan, her focus abruptly changes. Something has to be done, and Lucy is fearless enough to try. Rumors begin to swirl, blaming everyone from the Russian Mafia to an underground adoption network. The feisty single mom teams up with a skeptical NYPD detective...
363) You are dead
Author
Series
Detective Superintendent Roy Grace volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The last words Jamie Ball hears from his fiance, Logan Somerville, are in a terrified mobile phone call from her. She has just driven into the underground car park beneath the apartment block where they live in Brighton, and seen a man acting strangely. Then she screams and the phone goes dead. The police are on the scene within minutes, but Logan has vanished, leaving behind her neatly parked car and cell phone. That same afternoon, workmen digging...
364) Dying light
Author
Series
Detective Sergeant Logan McRae volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
370 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Sergeant Logan MacRae has been bumped to the "Screw-up Squad," a team made up of the most worthless or inexperienced members of the homicide department, and Logan will do anything to prove he doesn't belong there. Including working overtime on two baffling cases: the murder by arson of six people, and the beating to death of a prostitute down by the docks, not a high priority compared to the fire. At least not until another prostitute ends...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the summer of 1988, the mutilated bodies of several missing girls begin to turn up in a small Maryland town. The grisly evidence leads police to the terrifying assumption that a serial killer is on the loose in the quiet suburb. But soon a rumor begins to spread that the evil stalking local teens is not entirely human. Law enforcement, as well as members of the FBI are certain that the killer is a living, breathing madman--and he's playing games...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1942 London, Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend Watson track down a serial killer, Crimson Jack, who is murdering women on the exact dates of the infamous Jack the Ripper killings of 1888.
367) Killing moon
Author
Series
Harry Hole volume 13
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
489 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Two young women are missing, their only connection a party they both attended, hosted by a notorious real-estate magnate. When one of the women is found murdered, the police discover an unusual signature left by the killer, giving them reason to suspect he will strike again. And exposing him calls for a detective like no other. But the legendary Harry Hole is gone--fired from the force, drinking himself to oblivion in Los Angeles. It seems that nothing...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A true tale of justice in the Jim Crow south relates the story of George Dinning, a freed slave who was wrongfully convicted of murder after defending himself against a white mob and later won damages against them in court with the help of a Confederate war hero-turned-lawyer.
Author
Series
Arkady Renko volume 8
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition."
Physical Desc
292 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Tatiana, Martin Cruz Smith, 'the master of the international thriller' (The New York Times) creates the most compelling heroine of his career and the most realistic, damning portrait of modern Russia in contemporary literature. One of the iconic investigators of contemporary fiction, Arkady Renko -- cynnical, analytical, and quietly subversive -- has survived the cultural journey from the Soviet Union to the New Russia, only to find the nation...
Author
Series
Lucy Stone volume 19
Language
English
Description
Chocolate covered murder: Despite the frigid winter temperatures, to boost the economy, Tinker's Cove is launching a travel promotion for Valentine's Day. Lucy is assigned a puff piece on upscale Chanticleer Chocolate--and its deliciously handsome owner. But there's another tantalizing tart behind the counter--sultry store manager Tamzin Graves. Leaving a throng of jealous women in her wake, it's almost no surprise when Tamzin turns up dead, her body...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"New York, 1942: Willowjean "Will" Parker is a scrappy circus runaway whose knife-throwing skills have just saved the life of private investigator, Lillian Pentecost. Lillian's multiple sclerosis means she can't keep up with her old case load alone, so she wants to hire Will to be her right-hand woman. In return, Will is to receive a salary, room and board, and training in Lillian's very particular art of investigation. Three years later: Will and...
372) Grave surprise
Author
Series
Harper Connelly mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market ed.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
While giving a college class a demonstration of her unique talent to find the dead and see their final moments of life, Harper Connelly is stunned to discover two bodies in a single grave.
373) Why kings confess
Author
Series
Sebastian St. Cyr mystery volume 9
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The gruesome murder of a young French physician draws aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and his pregnant wife, Hero, into a dangerous, decades-old mystery as a wrenching piece of Sebastian's past puts him to the ultimate test. Regency England, January 1813: When a badly injured Frenchwoman is found beside the mutilated body of Dr. Damion Pelletan in one of London's worst slums, Sebastian finds himself caught in a high-stakes tangle of murder...
374) Strawberried alive
Author
Series
Cupcake bakery mystery volume 14
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Life is smooth as buttercream at the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery, and newlyweds Mel and Joe are stopping to smell the flours. But things start to crumble one night when an unknown gunman takes a shot at Mel. Though the bullets miss their mark, the cupcake crew goes on high alert to figure out who would want to kill a small-town baker, and why. When more business owners are attacked, things turn fatal, and locals begin to wonder if the killer could...
375) Dead street
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
257 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
For twenty years, former NYPD cop Jack Stang has lived with the memory of his girlfriend's death in an attempted abduction. But what if she weren't actually dead? What if she somehow secretly survived-but lost her sight, and her memory, and everything else she had except her enemies? Now Jack has a second chance to save the only woman he ever loved-or to lose her for good.
376) Never die alone
Author
Series
New Orleans volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It should be the best day of their lives. Too bad they never get to see it. On the cusp of their twenty-first birthday, he strikes. His victims are always twins, their ritualistic murders planned in exquisite detail, down to the moment when they breathe their last together... A possibly innocent man is in prison, and Brianna Hayward needs to convince the New Orleans police. Not just to free her cousin, but to save others who will suffer until the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will--searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking.
A new case brings her to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Making the acquaintances of a young widow and her German grandfather, new arrivals in the Depression-era Hudson Valley, Robert Brewster and his sister, Lily, fear for their new friends' safety when a swastika is found painted on the widow's window.
379) Thread and buried
Author
Series
Mainely needlepoint mystery volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Haven Harbor is an authentic coastal Maine town, which makes it the perfect location for a new film production. But now it's become the scene of a crime when the director is killed. Meanwhile, a local woman's tragic story about a true love lost at sea, which originally inspired the film, may lead to murderous revelations from long ago.
380) The walled flower
Author
Series
(Lorraine L.)Victoria Square mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When the bones belonging to Heather Winston, who went missing 22 years ago, are found in the walls of the Webster mansion, Katie Bonner delves into this cold case at the behest of Heather's aunt, a jewelry vendor at Artisans Alley.