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61) Cold granite
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Series
Language
English
Description
It's DS Logan's first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn't get much worse. Three-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch: strangled, mutilated and a long time dead. And he's only the first. There's a serial killer stalking the Granite City and the local media are baying for blood.
Its DS Logan McRaes first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldnt get much worse. Three-year-old David...
62) In her tracks
Author
Series
Tracy Crosswhite volume 8
Language
English
Description
"Returning from an extended leave in her hometown of Cedar Grove, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself reassigned to the Seattle PD's cold case unit. As the protective mother of an infant daughter, Tracy is immediately drawn to her first file: the abduction of a five-year-old girl whose parents, embattled in a poisonous divorce, were once prime suspects. While reconstructing the days leading up to the girl's disappearance, Tracy is brought into...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1965 in a tight-knit working-class neighborhood in Queens, New York, and Ruth Malone--a single mother who works long hours as a cocktail waitress--wakes to discover her two small children, Frankie Jr. and Cindy, have gone missing. Later that day, Cindy's body is found in a derelict lot a half mile from her home, strangled. Ten days later, Frankie Jr.'s decomposing body is found. Immediately, all fingers point to Ruth. As police investigate the...
64) Sound of freedom
Publisher
Angel Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Is based on an incredible true story, and shines a light on even the darkest of places. 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.
Author
Series
Bowers files volume 4
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
523 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers's cutting-edge 21st-century geospatial investigative techniques and impeccable logic have helped him track some of the country's most grisly killers. But those skills are pushed to the limit in this new installment of the highly-acclaimed, award-winning The Bowers Files series. This time it's a congressman's daughter who is found dead even as her killers launch a spree of perfect murders in the Northeast. With nothing...
67) Lost innocents
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Language
English
Description
Meet Maddy Blake, devoted wife and mom. Always stood by her husband. Getting her life back together. But now all her hard work is about to be destroyed. A teenage babysitter and the baby boy she's looking after are abducted. Her naked body is discovered in the woods. The little boy is still missing. Witnesses put Maddy's husband, Doug, at the scene of the crime. She stood by him when he was accused of the ultimate betrayal, but can she trust him now?...
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Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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Description
Adam, a nine-year-old autistic boy, is discovered hiding near the body of his classmate. They had wandered away from the school playground hours earlier, and now Adam is the only witness to an appalling crime. But he can't tell the police what he saw or heard. Barely verbal on the best of days, Adam has retreated into the silent world that Cara, his mother, knows well. With her community in shock and her son unable to help with the investigation,...
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English
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Description
"When young cook Kat Holloway learns that the children of London's Foundling Hospital are mysteriously disappearing and one of their nurses has been murdered, she can't turn away. She enlists the help of her charming and enigmatic confidant Daniel McAdam, who has ties to Scotland Yard, and Errol Fielding, a disreputable man from Daniel's troubled past, to bring the killer to justice. Their investigation takes them from the grandeur of Mayfair to the...
70) Liars, Inc
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Max, his girlfriend Parvati, and best friend Pres form Liars, Inc., expecting that forging notes and lying for their peers will lead to easy cash, but when Pres asks Max to cover for him, it may be a fatal mistake." -- Provided by publisher.
71) My lost daughter
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
447 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Following her success with The Cheater, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg returns to her most memorable character, Lily Forrester. Lily is a tough judge in Ventura County, California, who has overcome adversity and heartache to achieve a position of power to help those who can't help themselves. Like the current case before her: the sensational murder trial of a woman who tortured and killed her beautiful two-year-old son. Lily is determined to see justice done,...
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Language
English
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Terry Naughton, head of Orange County's Crimes Against Youth unit, is the champion of children. Someone calling themselves the Horridus has been abducting children from their beds, dressing them like little angels, and releasing them the next day, the only clue he leaves is a piece of snakeskin tucked into the folds of their gowns. So far he hasn't physically harmed any of them, but as Naughton well knows, it's only a matter of time. As he races to...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Former homicide detective Nicole Foster has hit rock bottom. Driven off the force by her treacherous partner and lover, she's flat broke and struggling with a gambling addiction. All Nicole has left is the dream of a warm bed at a homeless shelter and the haunting memories of three-year-old Kelsey Chase--whose murder case ended her career. As Nicole obsesses over the old facts, she realizes everything about that case felt off: a disinterested mom,...
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Language
English
Description
Rising War Office star Mycroft Holmes persuades his brother, Sherlock, to volunteer at a friend's orphanage, where the suspicious death of a street urchin and a mysterious Chinese woman lead the brothers into the London opium trade's dark underside.
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
As Lu waits in the rain after school, many people offer to take her home but she will only go with someone on the list of those allowed to pick her up. Includes resources for adults and a form for the reader to make his or her own list, with a parent or guardian's help.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The Edgar Award-winning debut of the bestselling Max Freeman mystery series: A tormented ex-cop's mission to solve a grisly murder and earn redemption for his dark past. After a shootout during a convenience store holdup led to the accidental death of a twelve-year-old, Max Freeman left behind the Philadelphia police department for a life in exile in the Florida Everglades. Since then, he has lived in seclusion, haunted by guilt, with the humid night...
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English
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Description
"When sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell goes missing, it's an utter tragedy . . . and an entertaining national obsession in this thoughtful and addictively readable novel that offers a fresh and provocative take on whodunits and true crime. Sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell disappeared without a trace on a crisp April morning in Frederick, Maryland. Her tragic story was a national obsession and the centerpiece of a controversial TV docu-series that followed...