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81) Free fall
Author
Series
Quantico files volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"FBI behavioral analyst Alex Donovan and her colleague Logan Hart have been called upon to write a profile for a missing woman, but a little digging quickly turns up more disappearances in Virginia with the same physical description. Alex is in a race against the clock to rescue the missing victims, so when the UNSUB makes demands of her in exchange for information, Alex takes the bait. But when her life is put in jeopardy, Logan must do whatever...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
1050L
Physical Desc
166 pages (1-14 pages) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes seeks the missing Duquessa Del Campo in the seedy underbelly of nineteenth-century London, she finally reaches an understanding with her brothers Sherlock and Mycroft.
Author
Series
Shades of death volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Joanna Guthrie was free. She had been for eighteen years--or so she needed everyone to believe. What really happened during the longest fourteen days of her life, when she and two other women were held captive by a dangerous serial killer, wasn't something she could talk about. Not with him watching. Not unless she wanted to end up like the ones who didn't make it out. But when more women go missing in an eerily similar manner, Jo knows her prolonged...
84) Harm done
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Acknowledged as one of today's premier mystery writers, Ruth Rendell has won three Edgar Awards and four Gold Dagger Awards. She received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and was awarded the Commander of the British Empire. Among her most popular books are those in the Inspector Wexford series. Harm Done presents the inspector with a most volatile challenge: the various guises of domestic abuse. The residents of a shabby...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
In this historical fiction mystery, early twentieth century black composer Scott Joplin finds himself accused of murder, while at the same time trying to recover a musical drama he wrote and gave to Irving Berlin, who denies having received it.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After FBI agent Jade Powell's sister is abducted, K-9 trainer Ethan Connors is determined to help the woman who once saved his life. But an enemy from Jade's past will stop at nothing to keep his agenda hidden. With a storm brewing and a killer hunting them deep into Amish country, can Jade and Ethan survive the treacherous weather long enough to bring a criminal mastermind to justice?" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
310 pages : illustration ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In order to save her boyfriend, who has been kidnapped, Jane Steward is forced to lead his captor to a historic estate that he believes houses Ernest Hemingway's lost suitcase, a search that leads instead to murder.
89) All he has left
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"After Jake Slater's wife dies in a tragic hit-and-run, all he has left is his daughter, Piper--nearly lost, too, in a brutal custody battle with his wealthy in-laws. A year later, Jake reluctantly agrees to a reunion with the estranged family for Piper's thirteenth birthday. Then a single gunshot rings out, and a new nightmare begins. Piper is kidnapped, and her cousin Caitlin is murdered. Caitlin's cryptic dying words: Piper knows the truth. Jake...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two true-crime tales relate the stories of a wealthy man buried alive with only forty-eight hours of air, and a grisly shooting high in the Sierra Nevada mountains involving the locals and rich developers.
Murder beyond the grave: "Stephen Small has it all -- a Ferrari, fancy house, loving wife, and three sons. But the only thing he needs right now is enough air to breathe. Kidnapped, buried in a box, and held for ransom, Stephen has forty-eight...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Widow Danielle Collins runs into her ex, Reece Bradley, just in time--right after she and her daughter are abducted from their campsite. Only the former navy SEAL can save them from a mystery enemy who shot her brother. Now as they run for their lives, Danielle must figure out why they're being hunted...and how to tell Reece the little girl he's protecting is his daughter." -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On a run through the woods outside her north Georgia hometown, defense attorney Ama Chaplin encounters a mysterious hiker and recognizes him, too late, as a sociopath she successfully defended when he was a teenager. In the intervening seventeen years, Ama changed her name and moved to Atlanta, anxious to put her past behind her. Michael Walton, her young client, grew into a ruthless and inventive murderer. And now that he's caught her, he can put...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Suspense
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Police chief Dani Pearce's investigation of a missing twelve-year-old girl has made her some unexpected enemies in her small Alaskan town. Saved from a near-death attack by secretive newcomer Simon Walker, she's finding his unexplained expertise suspicious. But with time running out and threats on every corner, Dani and Simon must trust each other enough to solve this crime--or risk becoming victims." -- Page [4] cover.
94) Abduction rescue
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Suspense
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Desperate to find his missing sister, Ethan McClure seeks out private investigator Melissa 'Mel' Carter--only to be attacked right outside her agency's door. Though she's reluctant to help after her last case turned violent, Mel won't turn Ethan away. Following a clue left by his sister is their only chance, but can they avoid becoming pawns in the abductor's dangerous game?" -- Page [4] cover.
95) Water's edge
Author
Series
Detective Megan Carpenter volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The young woman's body is lying with her arms stretched out to each side. Her lips slightly parted. Her face untouched by injury and her hair spread around her head like a fan. A redhead. Just like the others. When the body of Leann Truitt is found in a secluded cove in Mystery Bay, Detective Megan Carpenter is one of the first on the scene. The victim has tell-tale marks on her wrists, ankles and neck where she has been bound. But that's not all....
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
311 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Gwen Marcey has done a good job keeping the pain of her past boxed up. But as she investigates the case of a missing child in Lapwai, Idaho, details keep surfacing that are eerily similar to her childhood traumas. She doesn't believe in coincidences. So what's going on here? No one knows more about the impact of the past than the Nez Perce people of Lapwai. Gwen finds herself an unwelcome visitor to some, making her investigation even more difficult....
97) Hangman: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A boy vanishes on his way home from school. His frantic mother receives a ransom call: pay or else. It's only hours before the deadline, and the police have no leads. Enter Timothy Blake, an FBI consultant with a knack for solving impossible cases but whose expertise comes at a price. Every time he saves a life, he takes one, trying to satisfy an urge he fears he can only control for so long. And this time Blake may have met his match. The kidnapper...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Suspense
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"FBI agent Sawyer Eldridge is forced into a race against time when his sister is kidnapped by a serial killer. It's a vicious act of revenge, and to save her, Sawyer is sent on a scavenger hunt in the mountains with bodyguard Bridget Vincent. But as Sawyer and Bridget work together to follow the killer's clues, will they find Sawyer's sister in time or are they being led into a trap?" -- Page [4] cover.
99) The good turn
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Police corruption, an investigation that ends in tragedy and the mystery of a little girl's silence--three unconnected things that will prove to be linked by one small town. While Detective Cormac Reilly faces enemies at work and trouble in his personal life, Garda Peter Fisher is relocated out of Galway with the threat of prosecution hanging over his head. But even that is not as terrible as having to work for his overbearing father, the local copper...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Whisked out of Paris ahead of the Prussian army in 1870, twelve-year-old Irene Adler is reunited in London with her friends, Sherlock Holmes and Arsène Lupin--but Arsène's father has been arrested for murder and the kidnapping of a famous opera singer, and it is up to the three young detectives to solve the mystery.