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1) Outsider
Author
Series
Kate Burkholder volume 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Chief of Police Kate Burkholder's past comes back to haunt her when she receives a call from Amish widower Adam Lengacher. While enjoying a sleigh ride with his children, he discovered a car stuck in a snowdrift and an unconscious woman inside. Kate arrives at his farm and is shocked to discover the driver is a woman she hasn't seen in ten years: fellow cop Gina Colorosa. Ten years ago, Kate and Gina were best friends at the police academy, graduating...
2) The secret
Author
Series
Jack Reacher volume 28
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
1992. Eight respectable, upstanding people have been found dead across the United States. These deaths look like accidents and don’t appear to be connected until one body—the victim of a fatal fall from a hospital window—generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the secretary of defense, who promptly calls for an interagency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher is assigned as the army’s representative. His mission is...
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 10
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When the world's largest cities are seized by terrorists who threaten to set off deadly bombs, Alex Cross heads a joint investigation by the FBI, CIA, and Interpol to outmaneuver two vicious criminals known as the Weasel and the Wolf.
5) Split image
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
What initially appears to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach. Jesse Stone and private investigator Sunny Randall team up to solve two cases involving the gunshot murder of Petrov Ognowski and a religious cult holding an 18-year-old girl against her wi
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Detective Michael Bennett takes his family to upstate New York in an effort to escape a lawless crime wave erupting in Manhattan only to find themselves immersed in another nightmare, one that endangers his relationship with his wife.
7) The red book
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
To Detective Billy Harney, the newest member of Chicago PD's elite strike force -- Special Operations Section (SOS) -- getting shot in the head, stalked by a state's attorney, and accused of murder by his fellow cops is all part of breaking a case. So when a drive-by shooting on the Chicago's west side turns political, he leads the way to a quick solve. But Harney's instincts -- his father was once chief of detectives and his twin sister, Patti, is...
8) Double cross
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Rejoining the police force in the wake of a series of elaborate murders in Washington, D.C., detective Alex Cross, teaming up with his girlfriend and colleague, finds himself also working to outmaneuver the attention-seeking killer's penchant for inducing hysteria with increasingly sensational killings.
Author
Series
Monkeewrench volume 8
Language
English
Description
When Minneapolis homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are called to a crime scene in a heavily wooded city park, everything about the setting is all too familiar. And when they discover a playing card on the victim's body, their worst fears are confirmed--there's a serial killer operating in the city for the first time in years. Across town, Grace MacBride and her unconventional partners at Monkeewrench Software find themselves at both...
10) Payback in death
Author
Series
In death volume 57
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Lt. Eve Dallas is just home from a long overdue vacation when she responds to a call of an unattended death. The victim is Martin Greenleaf, retired Internal Affairs Captain. At first glance, the scene appears to be suicide, but the closer Eve examines the body, the more suspicious she becomes. An unlocked open window, a loving wife and family, a too-perfect suicide note Eve's gut says it's a homicide. After all, Greenleaf put a lot of dirty cops...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When a Member of Parliament shows up at New Scotland Yard requesting an investigation into the suicide of the son of one of his constituents in the beautiful town of Ludlow, the Assistant Commissioner sees two opportunities in this request. The first is to have an MP owing him a favor, and the second is to get rid of Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, whose career at the Met has been hanging by a thread for quite some time. So he assigns Havers to...
Author
Language
English
Description
"We didn't call the police right away." Those are the first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean-American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing. Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything--which is why she isn't initially concerned when her father and younger brother Eugene don't return from a walk in a nearby park. They...
13) The K Team
Author
Series
K Team volume 1
Language
English
Description
Laurie Carpenter, a former cop missing the action, reinvents herself as a PI, along with retired K-9 cop Corey Douglas and a retired K-9, a German shepherd named Simon Garfunkel. Marcus Clark, the mysteriously inarticulate muscle man from the earlier series, rounds out the group. Their first client is a federal judge surprised when a whopping $390,000 turns up on his bank statement. Then comes a photo of His Honor smooching a hooker. He claims a frame-up,...
14) Still life
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The village of Three Pines, a refuge from the modern world in the beautiful Eastern Townships, basks in the tranquil glory of its autumn colours. But the blazing woods conceal the body of a much-loved teacher - shot through the heart with an arrow. A tragic hunting accident or murder? Charismatic Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team of officers probe to discover deep layers of deceit, resentment, and murderous rage in the pretty village.
16) The black book
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Being a cop runs in Billy Harney's family. The son of Chicago's Chief of Detectives whose twin sister, Patty, also followed in their father's footsteps, there's nothing Billy won't give up for the job, including his life. Left for dead alongside his tempestuous former partner and a hard-charging assistant district attorney out for blood, Billy miraculously survives. But he remembers nothing about the events leading up to the shootout. Charged with...
17) Never go back
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Never go back--but Jack Reacher does, and the past finally catches up with him. Never Go Back is #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child's new novel of action-charged suspense starring "one of the best thriller characters at work today" (Newsweek). Former military cop Jack Reacher makes it all the way from snowbound South Dakota to his destination in northeastern Virginia, near Washington, D.C.: the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th...
18) Criminal
Author
Series
Will Trent volume 6
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A Georgia Bureau of Investigation search into a shocking crime from 1975 poses unprecedented personal and professional challenges for top agent Will Trent, who encounters threats against his life and everything he thought he understood about his past.
19) Memory man
Author
Series
Amos Decker volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A man with perfect memory must solve his own family's murder. --Provided by publisher.
20) The hate u give
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor black neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend, Khalil, at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, Khalil's death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger....
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