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Series
Frankie Elkin novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Frankie Elkin is an expert at finding the missing persons that the rest of the world has forgotten, but even she couldn’t have anticipated this latest request--to locate the long-lost sister of a female serial killer facing execution in three weeks’ time. She has called herself 'death,' but people called her the devil. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. Despite the media’s chronicling...
Author
Series
J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 23
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
Before he retired, J.P. Beaumont had looked forward to having his days all to himself. But too much free time doesn't suit a man used to brushing close to danger. When his longtime nemesis, retired Seattle crime reporter Maxwell Cole, dies in what's officially deemed to be an accidental fire, Beau is astonished to be dragged into the investigation at the request of none other than the deceased victim himself. In the process, Beau learns that just...
103) Little girl lost
Author
Series
Foundlings volume 1
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
From New York Times Bestselling Author Wendy Corsi Staub comes a gripping novel of psychological suspense, as a young foundling's path to her biological parents leads to a killer with a chilling agenda.
MAY, 1968
On a murky pre-dawn Mother's Day, sinister secrets play out miles apart in New York City. In Harlem, a church janitor finds an innocent newborn in a basket. In Brooklyn, an elusive serial killer prowls slumbering
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English
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"He went searching for the truth. Now a killer has found him. The more you know, the more there is to fear ... Three years ago, sixteen-year-old Ellen Vicksburg went missing from the quiet town of River Remez, New Mexico. Ellen was kind, studious, and universally liked. Her younger brother, Ben, could imagine nothing worse than never knowing what happened to her--until, on the first anniversary of her death, he found her body in a deep grave by the...
105) Cold pursuit
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
"Ex-FBI profiler River Ryland still suffers from PTSD after a case went horribly wrong. Needing a fresh start, she moves to St. Louis to be near her ailing mother and opens a private investigation firm with her friend and former FBI partner, Tony St. Clair. They're soon approached by a grieving mother who wants them to find out what happened to her teenaged son, who disappeared four years ago. River knows there's almost no hope the boy is still alive,...
106) Murder in the family
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
"In December 2003, Luke Ryder, the stepfather of acclaimed filmmaker Guy Howard, was found dead in the garden of their suburban family home. Guy was only a child, asleep upstairs at the time of the murder. His mother and two half sisters were also in the house that night -- but all swear they saw nothing. Despite a high-profile police investigation and endless media attention, no suspect was ever charged, and Guy's family has been haunted ever since....
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Crossed Over, another masterful account of a horrible crime: the murder of four girls, countless other ruined lives, and the evolving complications of the justice system that frustrated the massive attempts--for twenty-five years now--to find and punish those who committed it. The facts are brutally straightforward. On December 6, 1991, the naked, bound-and-gagged bodies of the four girls--each one shot in the head--were found...
108) La caja negra
Author
Series
Harry Bosch volume 18
Publisher
RBA
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1a ed.
Language
Español
Description
¿Qué relación puede guardar un asesinato acontecido dos décadas atrás con una serie de nuertes sucedidas tiempo después sin explicación aparente? El inspector Harry Bosch debe plantearse dicha pregunta cuando la investigación de un antiguo homicidio le retrotrae a la peor época que recuerda de su larga trayectoria profesional: las revueltas raciales que arrasaron Los Ángeles en 1992. A medida que avance en la investigación del viejo caso...
109) At risk
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Massachusetts district attorney running for governor decides to use a radical new DNA technology to solve a long-ago murder, but his efforts only result in another outbreak of violence.
110) A darker domain
Author
Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 2
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"It seemed like an unsolvable mystery at the time: a wealthy heiress and son kidnapped in Fife, then a botched payoff, leaving her dead with no trace of the child." "So when, over twenty-five years later, a possible clue is discovered by a journalist in Tuscany, cold-case expert DI Karen Pirie doesn't hold much hope of unravelling the infamous enigma." "She's already investigating a case from the same year. At the height of the miner's strike, Mick...
111) Dead mountain
Author
Series
Nora Kelly novels (Preston & Child) volume 4
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their final campsite, searchers found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only six bodies were found, two violently crushed and inexplicably missing their eyes. The case, given...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school and theyear that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd Britton, would be found bludgeoned to death in...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Standedge Tunnel, the longest canal tunnel in England, has become one of the rural village of Marsden's main tourist attractions. Now it's also a crime scene. Six students went into the tunnel on a private boat. Two and a half hours later, the boat reappeared at the other end of the tunnel carrying only one of the students, who had been knocked unconscious" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Missing Clarissa volume 1
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
High school juniors and best friends Blair and Cameron start a true crime podcast to investigate an unsolved murder in their hometown, and after making a startling discovery, they accuse a potentially innocent man of murder on one of their episodes.
115) The coldest case
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"After attending an exhibit on the facial reconstruction of ancient skulls, Bruno wonders if this technology might provide an invaluable clue to a 30-year-old cold case. But learning the identity of the murder victim is only the beginning. The investigation quickly turns thorny and leads Bruno to a reclusive vintner, Henri Bazaine, whose education at a vocational school in a formerly communist region has raised a red flag. An inquiry into the defunct...
116) A divided loyalty
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Chief Inspector Brian Leslie, a respected colleague of Ian Rutledge's, is sent to Avebury, a village set inside a great prehistoric stone circle not far from Stonehenge. A young woman has been murdered next to a mysterious, hooded, figure-like stone, but no one recognizes her - or admits to it. And how did she get there? Despite a thorough investigation, it appears that her killer has simply vanished. Rutledge, returning from the conclusion of...
117) The last stone
Author
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, age 10 and 12, vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washington, D.C. As shock spread, then grief, a massive police effort found nothing. The investigation was shelved, and mystery endured. Then, in 2013, a cold case squad detective found something he and a generation of detectives had missed. It pointed them toward a man named Lloyd Welch, then serving time for child molestation in Delaware....
118) The counterfeit lady
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"A cousin of Georgia's dear friend Lady Phyllida Monthalf is brutally murdered in her home during the theft of blueprints of a new battleship designed by her husband--who now stands accused of her murder...and treason. The Duke of Blackford, in service to Whitehall, enlists Georgia and the Archivist Society to assist in the investigation. Playing the part of the duke's new paramour, Georgia gains entry into the upper echelons of London's elite, where...
119) The vanishing season
Author
Series
Collector trilogy volume 4
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Author
Series
Unsolved case files volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A corrections officer at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary tries to awaken inmate AZ-1441, Frank Morris. But when he shakes the unresponsive man, his head rolls off the pillow and crashes to the floor! Soon the guards realize that Morris and two other inmates, brothers John and Clarence Anglin, had done the seemingly impossible: escaped from the notorious island prison. This is the incredible true story of the daring and inventive escape and a decades-long...
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