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Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her friend Karen stumbles upon a dead body, chief of campus police Skeet Bannion investigates the man's pre-death allegations that Karen's husband's accidental death years earlier was actually a murder.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
337 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas keeps the streets of a near-future New York City safe in this extraordinary series. But even she makes mistakes, and is haunted by those she couldn't save-and the killers she couldn't capture. When the body of a young brunette is found in East River Park, artfully positioned and marked by signs of prolonged and painful torture, Eve is catapulted back to a case nine years earlier. The city was on edge from a killing spree...
83) Exit wounds
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Juggling the demands of her career and her family, Southwestern Sheriff Joanna Brady faces her most unsettling case yet in the disturbing murder of a loner and her seventeen dogs.
85) Naked in Death
Author
Series
In death volume 1
Language
English
Description
Eve Dallas, a New York police lieutenant, is in over her head when she breaks the rules and falls in love with Roarke, an Irish billionaire and a suspect in her most recent case.
86) The fields
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A breakneck procedural that is beautifully written and masterfully crafted, Erin Young's The Fields is a dynamite debut-crime fiction at its very finest. Some things don't stay buried. It starts with a body-a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agriculture. When Sergeant Riley Fisher, newly promoted to head of investigations for the Black Hawk County Sheriff's...
87) Breaking silence
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Solly and Rachel Slabaugh, along with Solly's brother Abel, are found dead in a hog pit, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates the gruesome scene. Once again teaming up with Agent John Tomasetti, Kate reveals that the death may not have been accidental, but one of the most horrific hate crimes ever to befall the Amish community of Painter's Creek.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Appointed to serve out her late husband's term as sheriff of their Depression-era Tennessee mountain town, Ellie struggles to reconcile her responsibilities with societal expectations for women and forges unexpected ties with a condemned killer she is scheduled to execute.
89) Shadow girl
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The brutal murder of a business tycoon leaves Afton Tangler and the Twin Cities reeling, but that's just the beginning of a gruesome crime spree ... Leland Odin made his fortune launching a home shopping network, but his millions can't save his life. On the list for a transplant, the ailing businessman sees all hope lost when the helicopter carrying his donor heart is shot out of the sky. Now with two pilots dead and dozens injured, Afton Tangler,...
90) Now we are dead
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
382 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Sergeant Roberta Steel sacrifices everything to bring the man who destroyed her career to justice for violent attacks on women.
Author
Language
English
Description
A one-night stand spirals into a web of dark secrets in James Patterson's steamy thriller of love, lust, and murder. Lauren Stillwell is not your average damsel in distress. When the NYPD cop discovers her husband leaving a hotel with another woman, she decides to beat him at his own game. But her revenge goes dangerously awry, and she finds her world spiraling into a hell that becomes more terrifying by the hour. In a further twist of fate, Lauren...
92) Branded
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
�2011
Physical Desc
280 pages (large print) ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Responding to a 911 call, Whitehorse Deputy Halley Robinson is stunned to find herself face-to-face with her teenage crush, Colton Chisholm. The schoolboy who had teased her is now a strong and sexy man--and he's on a mission to solve a case! But if he plans on unmasking a killer, he's going to need her help. Colton can no longer run from the truth ... someone in his small town has gotten away with murder. Now it's up to him to bring the killer to...
93) After the storm
Author
Series
A Kate Burkholder novel volume 7
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this electrifying thriller by New York Times bestseller Linda Castillo, Kate Burkholder must uncover a family's long-hidden past to solve a brutal murder... When a tornado tears through Painters Mill and unearths human remains, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder finds herself tasked with the responsibility of identifying the bones-and notifying the family. Evidence quickly emerges that the death was no accident and Kate finds herself plunged into...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amarylis Coltraine had recently transferred to the New York City police force from Atlanta, but she's been a cop long enough to know how to defend herself against an assailant. When she's taken down just steps away from her apartment, disarmed, and killed with her own weapon, for Eve Dallas, the victim isn't just one of us.
Author
Series
Hamish macbeth volume 25
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Announcing his engagement to associate Josie McSween, police sergeant and once-confirmed bachelor Hamish Macbeth struggles with prenuptial jitters while investigating the murder of a woman whose complicated case introduced him to his fiancee.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
pages ; cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles investigate the murder of a big game hunter whose demise is linked to several seemingly unrelated deaths and a camping safari in Botswana.
97) Paradise lost
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
What begins as an innocent Girl Scout camping trip quickly turns to a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse when Sheriff Joanna Brady uncovers the body of a murdered woman in the woods.
98) Damage control
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
At first glance, it appears to be an accident . . . A car carrying an elderly couple goes off the side of a mountain and tumbles into oblivion on a beautiful sunny day in the Coronado National Monument. A note pulled from the twisted wreckage suggests the tragedy may have been a double suicide-but an autopsy later suggests something different. A deadly fire and a fatal home invasion may or may not have some connection to the terrible crash. And miles...
99) Angels burning
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"On the surface, Chief Dove Carnahan is a true trailblazer who would do anything to protect the rural Pennsylvanian countryside where she has lived all fifty of her years. Traditional and proud of her blue-collar sensibilities, Dove is loved by her community. But beneath her badge lies a dark and self-destructive streak, fed by a secret she has kept since she was sixteen. When a girl is beaten to death, her body tossed down a fiery sinkhole in an...
Author
Series
Detective Inspector Alex Morrow volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
390 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a notorious millionaire banker hangs himself, his death attracts no sympathy. But the legacy of a lifetime of selfishness is widespread, and the carnage most acute among those he ought to be protecting: his family.
Meanwhile, in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow, a young woman is found savagely murdered. The community is stunned by what appears to be a vicious, random attack. When Detective Inspector Alex Morrow, heavily pregnant with twins, is called...