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In death volume 58
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Jenna's parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club with her best friends, watching the legendary band Avenue A, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade. Then, from the stage, Jake catches her eye, and smiles. It's the best night of her life. It's the last night of her life. Minutes later, Jake's in the alley getting some fresh air, and the girl from the dance floor comes stumbling out, sick...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
22-year-old Olivia has been missing for one day…and counting. She was last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley. And not coming back out again. Julia, the detective heading up the search for Olivia, thinks she knows what to expect. A desperate family, a ticking clock, and long hours away from her husband and daughter. But she has no idea just how close to home this case is going to get. Because the criminal at the heart of the disappearance has...
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
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Chief Superintendent Liam Stark and Superintendent Dea Torp of the Danish police investigate the disappearance of two people in Tommerup, Denmark and discover a strange note linking the second missing person to the first crime scene.
5) You know her
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two hours before he vanished, Mark Dixon stole a glass of wine. That's what bartender Sophie Braam told the cops when they questioned her about the customer whose mutilated body was just found. What she didn't tell them is that she's the one who killed him. Officer Nora Martin is new to the Bellair Police Department and trying very hard to learn the ropes from Detective Murphy while ignoring all the men in the department snapping about a diversity...
Author
Series
(Lisa L.).Detective Josie Quinn volume 19
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Blood roars in Josie’s ears as they circle the tree in the deep snow. A woman lies still on the freezing ground. The howling wind lifts the last of the snow clinging to her face, exposing her lovely features, frozen in forever sleep. Detective Josie Quinn is still recovering from the killing of a beloved member of her team when she and her husband Noah receive yet more devastating news. Close to her breaking point, Josie heads to a specialist...
Author
Series
Inspector Cecilie Mars volume 1
Publisher
Podium/Saga Egmont
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
When a newly promoted police inspector becomes the target of a blackmailer, she struggles to clear her name. But is she fighting for justice--or revenge?
Author
Series
Underwater Investigation Unit volume 5
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
After the Underwater Investigation Unit's disbandment, public outcry ushers Sloan McPherson and her partner, former navy diver Scott Hughes, back into the depths of crime solving. But Sloan's return comes with a personal case. Longtime family friend Fred Stafford has disappeared. Left behind: his abandoned truck in the vicinity of an unmarked sinkhole and new findings that have Sloan second-guessing everything she thought she knew about the man. There...
Author
Series
(Lisa L.).Detective Josie Quinn volume 17
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Detective Josie Quinn arrives at the scene, she finds few clues and a victim with no enemies. Nineteen-year-old Sharon Eddy was cherished by her beloved grandmother, who raised her, and her death shocks the Denton community where she worked at the local animal hospital. She is horrified to see that a mark has been burned on to Sharon’s left hip with a cattle brand: a horseshoe shot through with an arrow. Shaken and terrified, the usually cool...
Author
Series
Jess Lambert volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After a violent home invasion, Neve Maguire returns with her daughter to Black Lake, her childhood summer home, hoping for a fresh start. But when the body of a woman is found floating among the reeds in the lake behind her house, she fears she has made a horrible mistake. Neve is hiding secrets, though. Detective Jess Lambert can tell. Recently back after her own personal tragedy, Jess knows what it's like to live with skeletons in your closet, and...
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Series
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
A search for a missing young woman becomes a nightmare for K-9 deputy Charlotte Walker when she stumbles on a trafficking ring and is captured. Death seems certain until she's rescued by rancher Jonas Knowles. Together, they take shelter in the Amish community he left behind. But they can't hide forever-not when the criminals are still after them and countless girls are at risk.
12) The seventh girl
Author
Series
Detective Kat Ballantyne volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years ago, a serial killer was on a rampage murdering young women in Middlehampton. Then, suddenly, the killings stopped, and the murderer was never found... So when the body of another young woman is found bearing the twisted killer's unique hallmark-the overpowering stench of lavender and an origami heart-DS Kat Ballantyne knows this can only mean one thing: the killer is back. For Kat, whose best friend was the killer's last victim all...
13) Purity in death
Author
Series
In death volume 15
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Louie Cogburn spent three days holed up in his apartment, staring at the computer screen message: Absolute Purity Achieved. When someone knocks at his door, he picks up a baseball bat, and starts swinging, only to be killed by a cop's gun. Detective Eve Dallas takes over the investigation but there is no explanation for the man's sudden rage or death. When a second man dies under nearly identical circumstances, Dallas racks her brain for answers,...
Author
Series
Rooker Lindström volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Still reeling from a personal tragedy, investigative journalist Rooker Lindström finds a grim hideaway from the world. It's the dilapidated cabin on Minnesota's Deer Lake bequeathed to him by his late father--one of the most notorious serial killers in the state. If the walls of this murder house could talk, they'd scream. Detective Tess Harlow needs something from Rooker only he can provide: a window into the mind of a murderer. A copycat is on...
Author
Series
Malabar House volume 3
Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Bombay, 1950. When the body of a white man is found frozen in the Himalayan foothills near Dehra Dun, he is christened the Ice Man by the national media. Who is he? How long has he been there? Why was he killed? As Inspector Persis Wadia and Metropolitan Police criminalist Archie Blackfinch investigate the case in Bombay, they uncover a trail left behind by the enigmatic Ice Man - a trail leading directly into the dark heart of conspiracy. Meanwhile,...
Author
Series
Steinbeck and Reed volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Summer 1980: Despite the local superstition that the Bendy Man haunts the woods, three girls go into a Minnesota forest. Only one comes out, dead silent, her memory gone. The mystery of the Taken Ones captures the nation. Summer 2022: Cold case detective Van Reed and forensic scientist Harry Steinbeck are assigned a disturbing homicide-a woman buried alive, clutching a heart charm necklace belonging to one of the vanished girls. Van follows her gut....
17) Cheater
Author
Series
San Diego case files volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Death is not an unfamiliar visitor to Shady Oaks Retirement Village, which provides San Diego's premier elderly support from independent retiree housing to full-time hospice care. But when a resident's body is found brutally stabbed and his apartment ransacked, it's clear there's someone deadly in their community. Detective Katherine "Kit" McKittrick quickly discovers that Shady Oaks is full of skeleton-riddled closets, and most tenants prefer to...
18) 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...
20) The dying day
Author
Series
Malabar House volume 2
Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
For over a century, one of the world's great treasures, a six-hundred-year-old copy of Dante's The Divine Comedy, has been safely housed at Bombay's Asiatic Society. But when it vanishes, together with the man charged with its care, British scholar and war hero, John Healy, the case lands on Inspector Persis Wadia's desk. Uncovering a series of complex riddles written in verse, Persis - together with English forensic scientist Archie Blackfinch -...
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