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Series
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Description
A young couple find their daughter in her pram covered in blood and Inspector Sejer is called to the hospital to interview the parents, and although the child is unharmed, Sejer decides to investigate but when more cruel practical jokes begin to emerge, Sejer must find the pankster before the jokes escaclate.
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Forensic expert Maggie Gardiner continues her uneasy partnership with vigilante homicide detective Jack Renner to investigate the murder of a newspaper copy editor.
A copy editor at the Cleveland Herald is found hanging above the grinding wheels of the newspaper assembly line. Forensic investigator Maggie Gardiner has her suspicions about this apparent suicide, and when the evidence suggests murder, Maggie has no choice but to place her trust in...
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Series
Bruno Johnson novels volume 5
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Bruno Johnson, a newly minted LA County Sheriff Violent Crimes detective, gets the worst assignment possible--infiltrate a sheriff's narcotics team that may be involved in murder for hire. Gain their trust and be brought into the scheme. If he succeeds, he will have to arrest and testify against his fellow deputies. To make matters worse, his ex-girlfriends shows up on his doorstep with their daughter, stunned and terrified, he now faces immediate...
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Series
Tracy Crosswhite volume 4
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
When a womanś body is discovered submerged in a crab pot in the chilly waters of Puget Sound, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself with a tough case to untangle.
1125) Green and pleasant land
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Newly-retired, ex-Chief Superintendent Fran Harman and her partner Mark have volunteered to assist West Mercia police in reinvestigating an unsolved crime. Twenty years ago, a car was found abandoned on an isolated road running through the Wyre Forest, its hazard lights still flashing, the passenger door open. In the back, were two child seats. One was empty; in the other lay a desperately ill baby. Neither the baby's mother nor the elder child were...
1126) Dark pattern
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Series
Naturalist novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Dr. Theo Cray has a legendary mathematical knack for catching serial killers. Until his exposure to a mind-altering pathogen knocks him off his game. It has upended an investigation, destroyed his reputation, and left him to question his own sanity. One person still trusts him to finish the job. His former professor Amanda Paulson is helping point Cray down a logical path to his prey: a nomadic health-care worker whose murder spree stretches back...
1127) The final silence
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"In Belfast, Northern Ireland, memories of the city's troubled history haunt every street corner, but for one tortured soul, the incredible violence in his past is also his most cherished legacy. Rea Carlisle--daughter of influential Stormont politician Graham Carlisle--has inherited a house from an uncle she never knew. It doesn't take her long to clear out the dead man's remaining possessions, but one of the upstairs rooms remains stubbornly locked....
1128) Slaughter
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Series
Frank Quinn novel volume 10
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A PI pieces together a serial killer's bloody puzzle in this edge-of-your-seat thriller from the New York Times—bestselling author of Frenzy.
Frank Quinn was once New York City's top homicide detective-until a setup forced him into early retirement. Now running his own detective agency, he assists the NYPD on some of their most disturbing cases...
A woman's body is found in Central Park drained of blood, dismembered, and reassembled. Her killer...
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Series
Women's Murder Club volume 18
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Detective Lindsay Boxer fights to protect the streets of San Francisco from an international war criminal in the latest Women's Murder Club thriller.
When three female schoolteachers go missing in San Francisco, Detective Lindsay Boxer must unravel the mystery of their disappearance. But what starts as a missing person case quickly escalates to a troubling murder investigation.
As pressure at work mounts, Lindsay must rely on her husband, Joe, to...
1130) Secret of the white rose
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Series
Simon Ziele mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
"The murder of Judge Hugo Jackson is out of Detective Simon Ziele's jurisdiction in more ways than one. It's high profile enough to command the attention of the notorious new police commissioner, since Judge Jackson was presiding over the sensationalist trial of Al Drayson. Drayson, an anarchist, set off a bomb at a Carnegie wedding, but instead of killing millionaires, it killed passersby, including a child. Furthermore, Simon's assigned precinct...
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Women's Murder Club volume 21
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
As SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer prepares to celebrate her daughter's birthday, she learns of a theory that connects the dots on a constellation of killings. Soon, there won't be a woman in California who's safe.
Detective Lindsay Boxer vows to protect a young woman from a serial killer long enough to see her twenty-first birthday.When a distraught mother pleads with San Francisco Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas to investigate the disappearance of...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Thirty years ago, a teenage Vincent King was sent to prison. But now, he's served his sentence and is returning to his hometown. The hometown where his childhood best friend, Walk, is now the chief of police. The town where his childhood sweetheart, Star Radley, still lives. The same Star Radley whose sister he killed. Duchess, Star's daughter, is a self-proclaimed outlaw. She needs to be. Who else is going to take care of her and her five-year-old...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Praise for the Billy Boyle series: “The brash kid from Southie is still open, direct and fearless in his manner (and in his wonderfully loose-jointed use of the English language) and in no danger of losing his cover as a ‘happy-go-lucky Yank.’ But even amid the excitement of the spirited wartime storytelling, Benn allows Boyle’s experiences to change him in ways both subtle and dramatic.”—Marilyn Stasio, -- Deadly Pleasures “Great...
1135) The night women
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Series
The Louise Rick/Camilla Lind volume Book 8
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Detective Louise Rick is investigating the murder of a young woman when her friend calls with news that her ten-year-old son found an abandoned baby on his way to school. As Louise digs deeper into the parallel mysteries, every clue points to organized human trafficking.