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603) The Laramie project
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
"On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of brutality and hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard's death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the event was deeply personal, and it is their voices we hear in this stunningly effective theater piece." Moises Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater...
604) Perfect stranger
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Rowena is a journalist dedicated to uncovering greed and corruption among people in positions of power. She does this with the help of her tech-savvy partner in crime, Miles. Grace is a friend and seems to know all about Rowena's secret writing identity, and hands Rowena evidence of adultrey as a story. Grace is involved with Harrison Hill, the owner of the largest advertising agency in New York, H2A. Grace met Hill in an Internet chat room and became...
605) Helsinki white
Author
Series
Inspector Vaara novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
After recovering from surgery for a brain tumor, Kari Vaara assumes leadership of a rogue black-ops unit while investigating the assassination of an immigrants' rights advocate at the height of xenophobic uprisings in Finland.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
When Dr. Philip Taiwo is called on by a powerful Nigerian politician to investigate the public torture and murder of three university students in remote Port Harcourt, he has no idea that he's about to be enveloped by a perilous case that is far from cold. Philip is not a detective. He's an investigative psychologist, an academic more interested in figuring out the why of a crime than actually solving it. But when he steps off the plane and into the...
607) Green for danger
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
A postman dies on the operating table at a rural English hospital, in the midst of the Nazi blitz. But was his death accidental?
608) The Lovely Bones
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
When 14-year-old Susie Salmon was murdered, she left her unfinished life behind. Now from her place in a strange but beautiful in-between world, she must help her father catch her killer and protect her family before she can finally move on.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
After a particularly successful evening of sales, Charleston's Theodosia Browning discovers the body of map store owner Daria. Locals have shown interest in buying her shop--but enough to kill? Plus there's been a customer hell-bent on acquiring a not-for-sale map. Most alarming of all theories, however, is Detective Tidwell's: the killer mistook Daria for Theodosia. And if that theory holds, the killer's work isn't done.
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
"When a call girl from Kiev dies in the line of duty, detectives Chuck Knolls and Brian McCartin seek her killer among a circle of Russian women who have been sold unwittingly into white slavery. When a gangsterʼs daughter, brought up in Las Vegas, takes a bullet, veterans Jerry Stephens and Paul Coulter trace clues scattered across the country to one of Manhattanʼs wealthiest real estate magnates. A cold case is reopened a suspicious mother-daughter...
Author
Series
Carolyn Blue mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
When her newfound friend, a lovely Italian woman named Paolina, is found dead in the hotel pool, food writer Carolyn Blue sets out to find the truth and put a clever killer behind bars, while sampling some of Italy's finest cuisine.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Judge Ramsey Hunt, longtime friend to FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich, begins the murder trial of Clive and Cindy Cahill only to have federal prosecutor Mickey O'Rourke suddenly go missing and when Judge Hunt gets shot in the back, Savich and Sherlock rush to San Francisco to find out why someone is out to kill their friend.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Description
While investigating a terrorist attack on a congressman's plane over Washington, FBI profiler Jake Donovan suddenly is called in to search for a missing weapons researcher and a missing young woman, a case that draws him into the deadly orbit of a terrorist group that will stop at nothing to stop him.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
From a lethal chemistry classroom to a fatal medical marijuana clinic to a deadly memorabilia convention, the evidence leads to Sin City's most twisted corners. Whatever the case, lead investigator D.B. Russell knows he can rely on the brilliance of blood-work expert Julie Finlay, and veteran investigators Nick Stokes, Sara Sidle, and Greg Sanders.
616) First shot
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Description
As David enters his senior year of high school, a family secret emerges that could solve the mystery of why his mother was murdered two years ago.
617) Quantum of solace
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Seeking revenge for the death of his love, secret agent James Bond sets out to stop an environmentalist from taking control of a country's water supply.
Author
Series
Leonid McGill mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
When Zella Grisham is accused of both shooting her boyfriend and stealing more than six million dollars from the Rutgers Assurance Corp., Leonid McGill investigates, while his own family life begins to unravel around him.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
In the fourteenth gripping season, from a serial slaughter and arson to mysterious disappearances and cannibal killings, lead investigator D.B. Russell uses science to shed light on the darkest crimes. With the help of blood-work expert Julie Finlay and veteran investigators Nick Stokes, Sara Sidle and Greg Sanders, the evidence never slips through the cracks.
620) Hart's war
Description
Hart's war: Honor, courage, and sacrifice are revealed in unexpected ways as a ranking U.S. prisoner in a Nazi POW camp is joined in December 1944 by a law-student lieutenant who'd been captured despite his father's powerful military connections. When a black pilot from the famous Tuskeegee airmen is falsely accused of murdering a fellow prisoner, Lt. Hart tries his case and discovers the real motivation behind the ranking officer's kangaroo court....