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Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the crisp, early hours of an autumn morning, the police are called to investigate two deaths. The first is a suspected murder at a farm on the outskirts of a small village. A beautiful young woman has been found dead, her cottage drenched with blood. The second is a reported suicide at a nearby quarry. A car with a woman's body inside was found at the bottom of the pit. As DI Louisa Smith and her team gather evidence, they discover a shocking link...
242) The last witness
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
244) Arctic chill
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
246) The lost witness
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 339 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
247) The good cop
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the fourth in Brad Parks's award-winning series, Newark investigative journalist Carter Ross must uncover the truth behind a beloved cop's alleged suicide.
248) Cold hit
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Cannell delivers non-stop action and intrigue in the latest installment of his New York Times bestselling Shane Scully series… Shane Scully and his partner are assigned to the case of "the Fingertip Killer"-a serial murderer preying on homeless veterans in Los Angeles. Every two weeks he strikes: he beats his victims, then shoots them in the back of the head. Once they're dead, he cuts off their fingertips, closes their eyes, and tosses them in...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
434 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Detective Jessica Niemi has a score to settle. She has taken some time off from her work with Helsinki Police to track down the coven that nearly killed her. But Jessica never expected its members would be lurking in the shadows, waiting to seek their own revenge. Yusuf, Jessica's partner and friend, calls her in to help him solve the murder of powerful executive Eliel Zetterborg, who was found stabbed to death in his upscale Helsinki home. What...
250) Dark fissures
Author
Series
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
La Jolla Chief of Police Tony Moretti is convinced PI Rick Cahill killed a missing person. No body has been found, but the evidence that is piling up says murder, and it all points to Rick. With the bank about to foreclose on his house, Rick takes the case of country singer Brianne Colton, who is convinced her estranged husbands suicide was really murder. As each new piece of evidence convinces him shes right, Rick breaks his number one rule and...
251) Cut, paste, kill
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lomax and Biggs are on the hunt for a vigilante stalking unpunished criminals and must race to decode the scrapbooks left at the murder scenes before the avenger has time to cut and paste the story for another kill.
252) Cruel acts
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Leo Stone is a killer. A year ago, he was convicted of murdering two women and sentenced to life without parole. But now, a juror from his trial has revealed the jury was prejudiced, and a retrial is called. Detectives Maeve Kerrigan and Josh Derwent are tasked with re-examining the evidence. Before long, they uncover links between Stone and a possible third victim. But with Stone behind bars, a fourth woman disappears in similar circumstances. Is...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A storm is brewing in Dorset. Poochie Vickers, the local aristocrat, is becoming even more eccentric in her old age. She's taken up shoplifting and reckless driving but refuses to see a doctor. Her worrisome daughter, Claudia, is angling to take over the family fortune, which makes some of the would-be beneficiaries uneasy. Two of Dorset's biggest troublemakers are being released from prison. And the bad blood between these two families, rich on the...
254) Chelsea mansions
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The annual Chelsea Flower Show is one of the tourist highlights of London. But this year, the event is tainted by the murder of an American tourist in a random act of violence. But when DCI David Brock's Serious Crime division of Scotland Yard investigates, they quickly discover that the killer somehow avoided having both his face and his escape captured on any of the many closed circuit cameras in the area. The conclusion is inescapable - what seemed...
256) The sultan's seal
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
[Book club ed.]
Physical Desc
351 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Rich in sensuous detail, this first novel brilliantly captures the political and social upheavals of the waning Ottoman Empire. The naked body of a young Englishwoman washes up in Istanbul wearing a pendant inscribed with the seal of the deposed sultan. The death resembles the murder by strangulation of another English governess, a crime that was never solved. Kamil Pasha, a magistrate in the new secular courts, sets out to find the killer, but his...
257) No one near
Author
Series
A DCI Evan Warlow novel volume 10
Publisher
Wyrmwood Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
High in the Welsh hills, a honeymoon getaway takes a dark turn when a rotting corpse is discovered in the rental property's bedroom. In a dark, damp December, DCI Evan Warlow and his team head out to investigate. They find a victim who may not be as innocent as he first seems, and a rural community harbouring the worst kind of secrets. When a second victim is attacked and a third goes missing, Evan knows he's up against a rogue killer with a Christmas...
Author
Series
Kate Morgan thrillers volume Book 1
Publisher
Valley Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021].
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Newly promoted detective Kate Morgan stands up for the victims in the world, never backing down or giving up. From a family of victims, Kate will not tolerate those who take advantage of others. The worst ones prey on the hopes of desperate people to line their own pockets. And when Kate finds a connection between more than a half-dozen cold cases to a recent case--where a child's life is in jeopardy--she'll make a deal with the devil himself to...
259) A body of water
Author
Series
Publisher
Wyrmwood Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The egg man cometh. When a delivery driver stumbles across the dead body of a reclusive author in a remote area within a stone's throw of the Llyn Brianne dam, his first thoughts are that the elderly man has had a heart attack. But the knife sticking out of the corpse's chest tells a different story. Dial in some missing walkers, a secretive cult, and the unwelcome presence of paranormal-hunting podcasters and DCI Warlow has his work cut out getting...