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1) Obsessed
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Aboard a police boat on the Hudson River, Detective Michael Bennett casts a wary eye into the cold, rough water. NYPD is searching for a murder victim--a young college student. They find her tossed in the dark waves, dressed for a night out in a sparkly black gown. The gruesome sight fills Bennett with the dread only a father could fathom. As the obsessive killer extends his spree, a pattern emerges. One that Bennett's eldest daughter fits to a disturbing...
Author
Language
English
Description
The two Minnesota towns couldn't be more different: in affluent Barron, a powerful and secretive scientific research corporation enriches its residents, while downriver in blue-collar St. Croix, victims of that company's carcinogenic waste struggle to survive. The bad blood between the communities escalates into open warfare when the beautiful Ashlynn, daughter of the corporation's president, is found shot dead--and a St. Croix girl, Olivia Hawk,...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Mariah Lyons risks her life to solve the brutal murder of her father, Dr. Jonathan Lyons, a well-respected academic, who in a stroke of luck comes into the possession of an ancient and highly valuable parchment stolen from the Vatican in the 15th century.
4) You can die
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Series
Language
English
Description
Men are dying in the Pacific Northwest, their bodies found near churches, charities, and counselling centers--each with valentine candy hearts shoved down their throats. They're good men with families and community ties--or so they seem until Laurel Snow and her team begin to investigate. Then the case takes a shockingly personal turn when the father she's never met, a former pastor, is attacked in exactly the same way. Now, besides solving the case,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Ask anyone on the wrong side of the law about the two minute rule and they'll tell you that's as long as you can hope for at a robbery before the cops show up. Break the two minute rule and it's a lifetime in jail. But not everyone plays by the rules. When ex-con Max Holman finally gets out of jail, freedom doesn't taste too sweet. The only thing on his mind is reconciliation with his estranged son, who is, ironically, a cop. But then he hears the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
A knock on the door in the middle of the night. It can only be bad news, and it is: Sharon's father Elwood has been the victim of a vicious, racially-motivated attack. A nationally recognized Shoshone Indian artist, he'd been visiting Sharon for the holidays, browsing for gifts in San Francisco's exclusive Marina district when he was set upon by a mob of angry young men. Now, Elwood lies in a coma, hovering between life and death. With little...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Description
At the big, aggressive newspaper The Washington Tribune, a young woman has been murdered. And the hunt for her killer is making sensational and lethal headlines. The victim, fresh out of journalism school, hoped to make a splash at the Trib -- and then a maintenance man found her in a supply closet, brutally strangled to death. The Trib's journalists are at once horrified and anxious to solve the crime before the cops do, and put this scandal to rest....
Author
Series
Guardians of justice volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Kelly Warren claims her father's suicide was really murder, Detective Cole Taylor becomes embroiled in an investigation that reveals a startling secret.
12) Shadow game
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Jove ed.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Publishers Weekly calls Christine Feehan's Shadow Game a "sensational offering" of supernatural romance. Scientist Lily Whitney is recruited by her father to help on a top-secret government experiment involving a group of psychic soldiers. Blessed with the gift herself, Lily is immediately drawn to the brooding Captain Ryland Miller. But when her father is murdered, Lily will need Ryland's help to catch the killer.
13) Dream town
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English
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Hidden Hills is a private celebrity enclave of white picket fences and horse trails that seems to exist in a dreamworld. But when reality superstar Kitty Winslow is killed within their gates and corpses are found in the vast state park outside them, LASD detective Eve Ronin realizes there is a deadly, razor-thin line between what's real and what's imagined. Eve discovers that Kitty's surreal on- and off-camera life, a blur of fact and fantasy, shockingly...
14) Chasing destiny
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Language
English
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Description
Bobby Eckstrum is known around the town of Columbia as a drunk. In a surprising turn of events, he is thought to have murdered and robbed Roger Simms, a local rancher. A posse is organized and they hunt down and kill the man they believe to be Bobby. Destiny Eckstrum, Bobby's daughter, does not believe they killed her father, but rather his equally shiftless brother who lives elsewhere in Colorado. When no one believes her, she decides to set out...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Babur "Bobby" Singh, single parent and owner of fledging Uber business "Move with Bobby," remains ever hopeful about ascending the ladder of American success. He lives in an affluent suburb of New York with his daughter Angie, an introverted teenager who is uncomfortable in her own skin unless she's swimming. During summer break, Angie is walking home after training at the high school pool when she finds Henry McCleary, a classmate from a wealthy,...
16) Blood and bone
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
William Lashner is the brilliant creator of the Victor Carl series. This stand-alone novel introduces Kyle Byrne, the illegitimate son of a prominent lawyer. Living on the edge, with loose women and constant money problems, Kyle isn't particularly motivated to change his lifestyle. But when his father's former law partner is murdered, he becomes a prime suspect. Now Kyle must dive into the complex web of his father's life to find answers-and a killer....
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Series
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In The Corners of the Globe, Max is sent on his first mission for legendary German spy Fritz Lemmer, the very man who claims responsibility for the murder of Maxs father. As Max travels to Scotlands remote Orkney Islands to collect a mysterious grey file from a German captain, he must keep his true allegiances in mind. Further complications arise when a fellow tourist recognizes Max from their school days and threatens to blow his cover. Meanwhile,...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Historian Lucas Page visits St. Louis to give a reading. Among the attendees is someone he does not expect: Lola Faye Gilroy, the "other woman" he has long blamed for his father's murder decades earlier. Now he must discover why Lola Faye has come and what she is after--before it is too late.
19) The followers
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Molly Sullivan is used to sharing intimate details of her life with millions of followers. A thirty-one-year-old single mom, she has built a career out of fearless posts about parenthood and dating. But when Molly shares a photo of her new fiancé, Scott, she is shocked by his negative reaction. For the sake of their relationship, Molly agrees to remove the post and keep Scott and his ten-year-old daughter out of her social media spotlight. But it's...
20) Bleed for me
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Psychologist Joe O'Loughlin is being pushed away. His marriage is ending. Charlie, his eldest daughter, will barely speak to him. And Charlie's rebellious best friend Sienna is getting into more and more trouble, and taking Charlie along for the ride. Sienna has been almost like family to O'Loughlin-a troubled child who for years spent more time in the O'Loughlin residence than her own home. O'Loughlin's worst fears are confirmed when Sienna turns...