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Author
Publisher
Redhook/Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant. As his search for clues takes him across the teeming city of Mumbai, from its grand high rises to its sprawling slums and deep into its murky underworld, Chopra begins to suspect that there may be a great deal more to both his last case and his new ward than he thought. And he soon learns that when the going gets tough, a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An elderly couple are worried about their granddaughter. They know she's been smuggling drugs, and now she's gone missing. Looking for help, they turn to Konrad, a former policeman whose reputation precedes him. Always absent-minded, he constantly ruminates on the fate of his father, who was stabbed to death decades ago. But digging into the past reveals much more than anyone set out to discover, and a little girl who drowned in the Reykjavik city...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books / Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After serving time in Rikers Island solitary for assault, Joe King Oliver, who is an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to investigate.
84) Body & soul
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Frank Elder struggles to protect his estranged daughter and prove her innocence after her breakup with a controversial artist ends in murder.
85) 2 fast 2 furious
Language
English
Description
Now an ex-cop on the run, Brian, hooks into outlaw street racing. When the Feds strong-arm him back, Brian's no rules, win-or-die skills are unleased against an international drug lord. With his velocity-addicted buddy riding shotgun, and a drop-dead-georgeous undercover agent dialing up the heat ... it becomes a desperate race for survival and justice.
86) Before Buckhorn
Author
Series
Buckhorn Montana volume 4
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Former cop Jasper Cole has come home to Buckhorn to ranch--and to find some peace. But there's one part of his past he doesn't object to facing again. Darby Fulton acts like she's forgotten the searing one-night stand they shared in college, but to Jasper, she's as fascinating and tempting as ever. And when she's drawn into an unsettling local mystery, he follows, despite his misgivings. Bad things have been happening to Buckhorn residents, and Darby's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
During a summer street dance in Gainesboro, North Carolina, an elderly tourist from Florida opens fire, wounding several people including Sheriff Tommy Lee Wadkins. Wadkins asks funeral home owner and former cop Barry Clayton to take over the investigation, and Clayton travels to Florida to learn more about the shooter. He soon uncovers a nefarious medical scam that preys upon senior citizens and before he can track down the culprits, he is forced...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
After his father develops Alzheimer's, Barry Clayton returns home to take over the family funeral home business in Gainesboro, North Carolina. During a grave side service for an elderly woman, her grandson arrives and kills the surviving family members and shoots Barry. Soon, Barry joins the hunt for the killer, Dallas Willard, but when Willard is found dead in the bottom of a quarry pond, the mystery grows much more serious.
89) Pretty girl gone
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A serial killer who vanished 40 years prior emerges from hibernation and is being tracked by a retired LAPD officer, a teenager with a terminal disease, and a genealogist trying to repair her marriage.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Cooper Harrison, a member of the Boston K-9 unit, never thought he would even go back to his hometown, Harmony Farms. But when his faithful canine partner, Argos, is killed in the line of duty, Cooper finds himself mired in grief. Jobless, on the verge of a divorce, and in a self-destructive rut, Cooper has little choice but to accept an offer for the position of animal control officer in Harmony Farms. And so he finds himself back where he started....
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Moving a grave on a snowy mountainside should be a normal assignment for undertaker Barry Clayton. But when an unknown skeleton is found on top of the original occupant, Barry recognizes this is anything but ordinary. To complicate matters further, there's a photograph of Barry's girlfriend Susan Miller in the murdered man's wallet. With the help of his friend Sheriff Tommy Lee Wadkins, Barry sets off to uncover the truth about the man's death but...
93) Trigger
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Working as a vigilante robbing drug dealers after achieving hard-won sobriety, retired cop-turned-private investigator Frank Marr is drawn back into the world of police corruption to prove an old friend's innocence.
95) Head wounds
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Michael McGarrity's final, propulsive Kevin Kerney novel, the nightmare of the Mexican drug wars spills across the border with the discovery of a couple in a Las Cruces hotel, scalped with their throats cut. Because of the unusual MO, Detective Clayton Istee suspects that the murders are drug related, but a lack of evidence stalls his investigation. Turning to the victims for a possible motive, he learns that two years ago the couple had stolen...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In another enthralling bestseller by "master yarn spinner" John Dunning, rare book dealer and relentless private eye Cliff Janeway unravels a deadly plot marked by stolen classics and stable secrets. When wealthy horse trainer H. R. Geiger dies, Denver bookman Cliff Janeway encounters the legacy of the man's wife, Candice, a true book woman who left behind an assortment of rare first-edition children's books. Sent to assess the collection, Janeway...
97) Vapor trail
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
It's hot.
The snow is gone, the ice is gone -- winter is long forgotten. When the phone wakes Phil Broker at five a.m. on the morning of his forty-eighth birthday -- six months removed from his surviving a January cold snap that (in Absolute Zero) nearly claimed his life -- it's already ninety-two degrees. It's July, and Stillwater, Minnesota, finds itself in the middle of the worst heat wave in local memory.
The news on the phone has nothing...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Inspector John Madden is back in a new tale of murder. Filled with historical detail, this novel is not only a mystery, but also a haunting portrait of the social struggles in post-World War I England and the unrest throughout Europe as Hitler begins his rise to power. It is 1932, and former Inspector John Madden has retired from Scotland Yard. He leads a quiet life in rural England with his wife and children until their idyll is shattered when Madden...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The newest headspinning thriller from the breakout South African crime writer, author of "Heart of the Hunter," is the story of an ex-cop, Zet van Heerden, who has seven days to solve a seemingly unsolvable crime--the answer to which lies in his own dark past.
100) American blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"After a botched undercover operation, ex-NYPD officer Marshall Grade is living in witness protection in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Marshall's instructions are to keep a low profile: the mob wants him dead, and a contract killer known as the Dallas Man has been hired to track him down. Racked with guilt over wrongs committed during his undercover work, and seeking atonement, Marshall investigates the disappearance of a local woman named Alyce Ray. Members...