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41) One last kill
Author
Series
Tracy Crosswhite novels volume 10
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Tracy Crosswhite is reopening the investigation into Seattle's Route 99 serial killer. After thirteen victims, he stopped hunting and the trail went cold, stirring public outrage. Now, nearly three decades after his first kill, Tracy is expected to finally bring closure to the victims' families and redeem the Seattle PD's reputation. Even if it means working with her nemesis, Captain Johnny Nolasco. Lead detective of the original task force, Nolasco...
42) Sleepless city
Author
Series
Nick Ryan novels volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Every cop in the city knows his name, but no one says it out loud. In fact, they don't talk about him at all. He doesn't wear a uniform, but he is the most powerful cop in New York. Nick Ryan can find a criminal who's vanished. Or he can make a key witness disappear. He has cars, safe houses, money, and weapons hidden all over the city. He's the mayor's private cop, the fixer, the first call when the men and women who protect and serve are in trouble...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Clement Mansell knows how easy it is to get away with murder. The seriously crazed killer is already back on the Detroit streets -- thanks to some nifty courtroom moves by his crafty looker of a lawyer -- and he's feeling invincible enough to execute a crooked Motown judge on a whim. Homicide Detective Raymond Cruz thinks the "Oklahoma Wildman" crossed the line long before this latest outrage, and he's determined to see that the hayseed psycho does...
44) Blood is the sky
Author
Series
Alex McKnight mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Reluctant investigator Alex McKnight finds himself drawn by friendship into a long drive north. Alex's friend Vinnie has a brother who works as a hunting guide for the rich. But Vinnie's brother and his most recent group have vanished in northern Ontario and Vinnie is scared enough to ask Alex to find them. This sets in motion a lethal series of events, events that could end Alex's life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"When a young woman from the Ojibwa tribe asks McKnight for shelter from her violent boyfriend, McKnight agrees. But after letting her stay in one of his cabins, he finds her gone the next morning. His search for her brings on a host of suspects, bruising encounters, and a thickening web of crime, all obscured by the relentless whiplash of brutal snowstorms. From the secret world of the Ojibwa reservation to the Canadian border and deep into the silent...
46) Little drummer
Author
Series
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When a woman is found dead in her car in a Norwegian parking garage, everyone suspects an overdose... until a forensics report indicates that she was murdered. Oslo detectives Frolich and Gunnarstranda discover that the victim's Kenyan scientist boyfriend has disappeared, and their investigations soon lead them into the shady world of international pharmaceutical deals. While Gunnarstranda closes in on the killers in Norway, Frolich and Lise, his...
47) Wishbones
Author
Series
Mississippi Delta mysteries volume 8
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Southern gal Sarah Booth Delaney packs up her hound dog and her P.I. business and sets off for Hollywood to take a shot at stardom. No stranger to acting, she aces the screen test for a racy remake of the movie Body Heat alongside leading man Graf Miliau. The chemistry between them is undeniable, and why not? Graf has already starred in one of Sarah's previous affairs and is well on his way to landing a big part in the sequel. Thrilled as Sarah is,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Arte P�ublico Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Willie Cuesta, former Miami Police Department detective-turned-private investigator, is swinging in his hammock, estimating the number of mango daquiris he can squeeze from a ripe piece of fruit about to fall from his tree. He's also waiting for a prospective client who refused to discuss her case over the phone. Ellie Hernandez hasn't seen her fianc�e, Roberto "Bobby" Player, in ten days, and she wants Willie to find him. Bobby has been obsessed...
49) Best served cold
Author
Series
Rick Montoya Italian mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When an old college friend leading a religious tour in Assisi asks interpreter Rick Montoya to fill in for their guide who's gone missing, Rick is happy to oblige. He's looking forward to seeing his old friend, and the food and wine of Umbria sound like the perfect reward for a tense translation job he's just completed for the police in Palermo involving witness testimony against the mafia. But when the shady tour guide is found dead the next morning...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Lana, now officially manager of her family's restaurant, the Ho-Lee Noodle House, is headed to sunny Irvine, California to attend a restaurant convention with her sister, Anna May, along for the ride. The girls' very Americanized Aunt Grace has asked them to stay in her posh rental, and as the trip begins, it seems to be just what they both needed. Even the restaurant convention proves to be worthwhile and entertaining, especially when Lana witnesses...
51) Adam's rib
Author
Series
Rocco Schiavone novels volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Six months after being exiled from his beloved Rome, Deputy Police Chief Rocco Schiavone has settled into a routine in the cold, quiet, chronically backward alpine town of Aosta: an espresso at home, breakfast in the piazza, and a morning joint in his office. A little self-medication helps Rocco deal with the morons that almost exclusively comprise the local force. Especially on a day like today. It's his girlfriend's birthday (if you could call...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Winter 1940: With soldiers parading down the Avenue des Champs-�Elys�ees, Nazi flags dangling from the Arc de Triomphe, and the Eiffel Tower defaced with German propaganda, Parisians have little to celebrate as Christmas approaches. Police Inspector Henri Lefort's wishes for a quiet holiday season are dashed when the Gestapo orders him to investigate the disappearance of Dr. Viktor Brandt, a neurologist involved in a secret project at one of...
53) In the cut
Author
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Frannie Thorstin is a divorced English professor, living in a two room New York apartment. She spends much of her time alone, working on a book about dialects and idiomatic language. One evening at a bar, Frannie stumbles upon a man and a woman engaged in a sexual act. A week later a detective shows up at her door. The woman's body has been discovered in the park across the street. What follows is a chilling tale of lust and murder as Frannie finds...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"A friend in his cigar club asks Antoine to visit René Rouquet, a retired postal worker who has found a rolled-up canvas in his apartment. As the apartment once belonged to Cézanne, Rouquet is convinced he's discovered a treasure. But when Antoine arrives at the apartment, he finds René dead, the canvas missing, and a mysterious art history professor standing over the body. When the painting is finally recovered, the mystery only deepens. The brushwork...
55) The grave singer
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After a traumatic injury took him off the job, prosecuter Solomon Shepard is back to work, teaming up with Sheriff Billie Gray to hunt down Utah's most dangerous criminals. Shepard has spent years away from crime scenes and courtrooms, but one of those criminals still holds a grudge. Alonso Hafeez is out of prison after eleven years, and he's determined to prove that Shepard tried him for a crime he didn't commit. And he's got something special...
Author
Series
Thomas Austin crime thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Darkness and Light Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When the matriarch of a rich Seattle family dies under suspicious circumstances, private investigator Thomas Austin is on the case. This time, the suspect list is easy. Seven people were in the lakefront mansion with the millionaire when she died: a spoiled son, a jealous brother-in-law, a beloved chef, a rebellious grandson, an arrogant memoirist, and a pair of successful daughters. All had motive. All had opportunity. But which one is the killer?...
Author
Series
Thomas Austin crime thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Darkness and Light Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Thomas Austin was once a prominent NYPD detective, known for locking up a psychopathic serial killer dubbed "The Holiday Baby Butcher." Now retired in a small beach town in the Pacific Northwest, Austin runs a little café, trying to overcome the loss of his wife, a DA who was gunned down only one year ago. But when a mysterious bag of bones appears on a nearby beach, Austin is dragged back into a world he thought he'd left behind. The Holiday Baby...
Author
Publisher
Scarlet Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
1949: During the coldest winter Seattle has seen in decades, pregnant sixteen-year-old Brigid Ryan arrives at Fairmile, a home for "fallen women" run by the Catholic Church on a remote island in Puget Sound. She and her baby will disappear before the snow melts. 2013: Ex-cop Frankie Gray is escaping a career in ruins and hoping to reconnect with her teenage daughter, Izzy, while summering with her mother at The Fairmile Inn, soon to be a boutique...
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A delightful day in 1910 at the Haxford Spring Fair turns horrifying and deadly when a balloonist plummets to the earth from the blue skies above. However unlikely, it's soon discovered that this unfortunate corpse was not done in by his precipitous plunge but instead from an arrow fatally lodged in his chest. Unraveling the twisted web of intrigue that took the man's life requires the expert skills of Haxford's brilliant and sartorially splendid...
60) Fire with fire
Author
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A pair of desperate parents. A man on the run. A rookie cop. Four people with everything on the line. What will be left in the ashes of the next 24 hours? Following their daughter's mysterious disappearance, Ryan and Elsie Delaney have taken the LAPD forensic lab hostage, and have given law enforcement an ultimatum: Find their daughter, Tilly, or they will destroy all the evidence they can find to other cold cases. Detective Charlie Hoskins has been...
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