Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On October 22, 1989, in the small town of St. Joseph, Minnesota, eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped at gunpoint. Twenty-seven years later, on September 3, 2016, Danny Heinrich led authorities to the boy's remains. What lies between is the riveting story of the search for Jacob Wetterling, told by his mother, Patty. With her trademark candor and down-to-earth honesty, she details the investigation as it unfolds, discusses her family's struggles,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Philadelphia, 1875: It is the start of term at Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. Dr. Lydia Weston, professor and anatomist, is immersed in teaching her students in the lecture hall and hospital. When the body of a patient, Anna Ward, is dredged out of the Schuylkill River, the young chambermaid's death is deemed a suicide. But Lydia is suspicious and she is soon brought into the police investigation. Aided by a diary filled with cryptic passages...
Author
Series
Pentecost and Parker volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1947; the location is New York City. The pair has been hired to look into the disappearance of retiree Vera Bodine, who has embarked on a late-in-life mission to expose Nazis hiding in postwar America, an uncommon and dangerous avocation for an 80-year-old. Bodine is reputed to have a photographic memory, and there are some villainous characters who would like to pick her brain or silence her forever. Perhaps both. Lillian, the senior...
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 29
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An airport killer targeting pilots expands his scope. Alex Cross Must Die. "Drop whatever you're doing, Detective Cross, and head to Reagan Airport," DC Metro Police dispatch says. "A jet just crashed and exploded on the runway. The chief and the FBI want you and John Sampson there pronto." Cross and Sampson race to the crash site. The plane didn't fail--it was shot down by a stolen Vietnam War-era machine gun. The list of experts who can operate...
Author
Publisher
Marysue Rucci Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Serious, studious Pamela Schumacher is traumatized when a man enters her sorority house in the middle of the night and brutally maims two of her sorority sisters and kills two others, including her best friend, Denise. Pamela sees the man on his way out, briefly mistaking him for Denise's on and-off again boyfriend. Convincing the police that her confusion was momentary proves a challenge, but Pamela soon finds an ally in the glamorous Tina Cannon,...
Author
Series
(Judith Ann).Joanna Brady volume 20
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Driven by a compulsion that challenges his self-control, the man calling himself Charles Milton prowls the rodeo circuit, hunting young women. For years, he has been meticulous in his methods, abducting, murdering, and disposing of his victims while leaving no evidence of his crimes--or their identities--behind. Indigenous women have become his target of choice, knowing law enforcement's history of ignoring their disappearances. A cold case has just...
Author
Series
Record shop mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It's springtime in Cedar River, Texas. The annual Bluebonnet Festival is brewing and the whole town is in harmony. Juni Jessup and her sisters Tansy and Maggie thought opening Sip & Spin Records was going to be their biggest hurdle, but the Frappuccino hits the fan when the mayor drops dead--poisoned by their delicious coffee. Since Tansy was the one to brew the coffee, and Juni was the unfortunate citizen who stumbled upon the mayor's body, the sisters...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Maine, 1789: The Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice. Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As the local midwife and healer, Martha is good at keeping secrets. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, every murder and debacle that unfolds in the town of Hallowell. In that diary she also documented the details of an alleged rape that occurred four months earlier. Now, one...
10) Sound of freedom
Publisher
Angel Studios
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
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.
11) The return
Author
Series
Remember me volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Shari Cooper died the victim of a vicious attack. After time spent among her loved ones as a ghost, she is on the other side--a place of spirits, an eternal realm of light and love. But in the midst of her peace, she receives a rare offer: to return to Earth without having to be reborn. When she's back in a human body, she has no memory of her life as Shari Cooper or of the afterlife. Little does she know, not remembering keeps her safe. Because if...
12) The last story
Author
Series
Remember me volume 3
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Shari Cooper has died, felt eternal peace in the afterlife, and returned to Earth as a Wanderer--a soul given permission to take the place of another soul in a human body. After regaining her memory of all the incredible things she's seen and experienced, Shari realizes what she's meant to do with the opportunity she's been given: write stories to help young people understand the immortal life that awaits them. Shari records the ancient tale about...
13) Liar's beach
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Michael Linden--or just Linden to his preppy boarding school pals--doesn't belong in wealthy, storied Martha's Vineyard. But when his roommate Jasper invites him to spend the end of summer at his massive beachfront home, August House, Linden tries his best to fit in. Linden wouldn't call it lying, exactly. Though it turns out August House is full of liars. Then someone is found unconscious in Jasper's pool, and everyone has something to hide--Jasper,...
Author
Series
Cupcake bakery mystery volume 15
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When up-and-coming singing sensation Shelby Vaughn arrives in town for two weeks of concert dates, she hires her old friend Angie and the rest of the bakery crew to supply cupcakes for the VIP guest lounge every night. After overhearing Shelby in a heated argument with her manager, Mel is concerned, but she and the crew decide to make the best of their time working with the star. Just as the bakers fall into the rhythm of the job, Shelby's manager...
15) Cheddar off dead
Author
Series
Cheese shop mystery volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Cheesemonger Willa Bauer is proving that sweet dreams are made of cheese. She's opened her very own French-inspired cheese shop, Curds & Whey, in the heart of the Sonoma Valley. The small town of Yarrow Glen is Willa's fresh start, and she's determined to make it a success--starting with a visit from the local food critic. What Willa doesn't know is that this guy never gives a good review, and when he shows up, nothing goes according to plan. She...
16) Remember me
Author
Series
Remember me volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After a night spent out with friends, Shari Cooper wakes up in her bed not sure how she got home. And things only get stranger when her family acts like she's not even there. Nothing Shari says gets a response and nothing she does can get someone to even glance at her. Then the hospital calls. Shari's mom starts to cry. The blood drains from her dad's face. And still no one will tell her what's wrong. But when they arrive at the hospital, Shari follows...
17) Glory be
Author
Series
Glory Broussard mystery volume 1
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It's a hot and sticky Sunday in Lafayette, Louisiana, and Glory has settled into her usual after-church routine, meeting gamblers at the local coffee shop, where she works as a small-time bookie. Sitting at her corner table, Glory hears that her best friend--a nun beloved by the community--has been found dead in her apartment. When police declare the mysterious death a suicide, Glory is convinced that there must be more to the story. With her reluctant...
18) The fallout
Publisher
Allied Vaughn
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
High school student Vada survives a school tragedy but then is faced with navigating relationships and life while coming to grips with her experience.
19) Fall
Author
Series
Detective Harriet Foster thriller volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Marin Shaw's release from prison draws attention from all sides--from the press, from her family, and from the other Chicago aldermen who let her take the fall for their corruption. For three years Shaw has stayed silent, claiming that all she wants is to fade into anonymity with her daughter, Zoe. Meanwhile, detectives Harri Foster and Vera Li are assigned to the murder of an alderman--one of Shaw's coconspirators. They sift through the evidence,...
Author
Series
Malabar House volume 4
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Can a white man receive justice in post-colonial India? Bombay, 1950 James Whitby, sentenced to death for the murder of prominent lawyer and former Quit India activist Fareed Mazumdar, is less than two weeks from a date with the gallows. In a last-ditch attempt to save his son, Whitby's father, arch-colonialist, Charles Whitby, forces a new investigation into the killing. The investigation leads Inspector Persis Wadia of the Bombay Police to the...
In MNLINK
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by East Central Regional Library can be requested from other MNLINK libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request