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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"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...
Author
Series
Murphy Shepherd volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Murphy Shepherd lives alone, doing maintenance work for a church that no one attends and trying to heal from scars gained rescuing others who dwell in the margins. His specialty is finding young girls bought and sold in the flesh trade, and leading them from brokenness to freedom, but Shepherd thinks he has given everything he has and it may be time to retire. His hermetic healing process is interrupted when he rescues a woman named Summer in Florida's...
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Series
Language
English
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"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...
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
Murphy Shepherd novel volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Murphy Shepherd has made an incredible career of finding those no one else could, the ones abducted into the horrific world of human trafficking. His life's mission is helping others find freedom. But then the nightmare strikes too close to home. When his new wife and three teenage girls are stolen, Murphy is left questioning all he has thought to be true. With more dead-ends than leads, he has no idea how to find those he loves. He knows one thing:...
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
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
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On an isolated farm in the United Kingdom, a woman is trapped by the monster who kidnapped her seven years ago. When she discovers she is pregnant, she resolves to protect her child no matter the cost, and starts to meticulously plan her escape. But when another woman is brought into the fold on the farm, her plans go awry. Can she save herself, her child, and this innocent woman at the same time? Or is she doomed to spend the remainder of her life...
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"I Am Not Your Slave is the shocking true story of a young African girl, Tupa, who was abducted from southwestern Africa and funneled through an extensive yet almost completely unknown human trafficking network spanning the entire African continent"--
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Murphy Shepherd's last rescue mission very nearly cost him his life. He'd like nothing more than to stay close to his wife and daughters for a while. But Bones's brother must be stopped, and there are so many who still need to know they are worth rescuing. As the cat-and-mouse game moves into the open, Murphy is tested at every turn--both physically and mentally. Then the unthinkable happens: his beloved mentor and friend is taken. Gone without a...
13) Voice of fear
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When a botched undercover mission is semi-salvaged by criminal psychologist Patrick Law, FBI agent Jordan Wallace, who was close to cracking a human trafficking case, must partner with this man whose innate ability to get inside a criminal's head may be the only thing keeping them alive.
14) Sound of freedom
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Is based on an incredible true story, and shines a light on even the darkest of places. After rescuing a young boy from ruthless child traffickers, a federal agent learns the boy's sister is still captive and decides to embark on a dangerous mission to save her. With time running out, he quits his job and journeys deep into the Colombian jungle, putting his life on the line to free himself from a fate worse than death.
15) 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
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
294 p. : col. ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes how the author's three-month service as a volunteer at the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal became a commitment for advocacy and reform when he discovered that many of his young charges were victims rescued from human traffickers.
17) 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
Series
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.
Author
Publisher
H. D. Carlton
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Molly Devereaux has been missing for more than two weeks, and police are still searching for the girl who seemed to vanish out of thin air. The world still wants to know... Where's Molly?"