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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories. An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective...
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English
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Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photography, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it's across Massachusetts or across the country. Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2...
3) In the woods
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Dublin Murder Squad novels volume 1
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English
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As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours. Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin...
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English
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On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills--and unearths a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirs up memories of his childhood as an orphan. He can't let it go. As the investigation takes Bosch deeper into the past, a beautiful rookie cop brings him alive in the present. No official warning can break them apart--or prepare Bosch for the explosions when the case takes...
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Guilty one volume 1
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English
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London solicitor Daniel Hunter finds his life changed when he meets an eleven-year-old boy accused of murdering an eight-year-old boy--a case that forces him to confront his own childhood and unearths memories he'd long buried.
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Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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The disappearances of two young girls bring back terrifying memories for Rouge Kendall, a young policeman whose twin sister was murdered in a similar case fifteen years earlier, and his classmate, forensic psychologist Ali Cray.
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Series
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English
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New York Times bestselling author John Connolly brings his "visionary brand of neo-noir" (The Irish Times) to this "riveting and chilling" (San Francisco Examiner) Charlie Parker thriller about new secrets buried and old secrets unearthed.
There are some truths so terrible that they should not be spoken aloud. Here is one of those truths: after three hours, the abduction of a child is routinely treated as a homicide.
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There are some truths so terrible that they should not be spoken aloud. Here is one of those truths: after three hours, the abduction of a child is routinely treated as a homicide.
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Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Cheyenne Ashby knows the dark and disturbing history of her hometown of Blue Cliff, Virginia, all too well. It's why she left. Growing up deep within the woods with her eccentric mother, Constance, she was raised on the unusual customs and generational superstitions linked to the local legend of an evil entity that haunts the forest. Five years ago, the bodies of three children were found in the woods. It was a man-not a mythical beast-named Jasper...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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"A chance phone call throws the biggest murder case in southern England into the hands of provincial attorney Leo Curtice. Twelve-year-old Daniel Blake stands accused of murdering an eleven-year-old girl. But who is truly responsible when one child kills another? As Curtice sets out to defend the indefensible, he soon finds himself pitted against an enraged community calling for blood. When the build-up of pressure takes a sinister turn, he fears...
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Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
©2018.
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English
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We've heard it said that there is no justice in this world. But what if there really was? What if the souls of murdered children were able to briefly return, inhabit adult bodies and wreak revenge on the monstrous killers who stole their lives? Such is the unthinkable mystery confronting ex-NYPD detective Willow Wylde, fresh out of rehab and finally able to find a job running a Cold Case squad in suburban Detroit. When the two rookie cops assigned...
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Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 17
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English
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"Unexpectedly called in to the Charlotte PD's Cold Case Unit, Dr. Temperance Brennan wonders why she's been asked to meet with a homicide cop who's a long way from his own jurisdiction. The shocking answer: Two child murders, separated by thousands of miles, have one thing in common--the killer. Years ago, Anique Pomerleau kidnapped and murdered a string of girls in Canada, then narrowly eluded capture. It was a devastating defeat for her pursuers,...
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Series
Deeper than the dead novels volume 3
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
1980s California FBI agent Vince Leone taps into the powers of science-based forensic techniques to unveil dark secrets and stop a killer who is terrorizing the citizens of Oak Knoll.
Author
Series
Laurence Bartram novels volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When the body of an unknown woman is discovered on the grounds of the Easton manor house, a World War I veteran is drawn into a dangerous labyrinth of secrets. A gripping new installment in Elizabeth Speller's literary mystery series set in England between the wars.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
In California, a pedophile is kidnaping little girls to photograph them and police officer Terry Naughton sets out to capture him. Naughton is head of Orange County's crimes against youth division and is convinced the man will progress to rape and murder. By the author of The Triggerman's Dance.
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A podcaster with personal ties to two twenty-year-old murders returns to his hometown to investigate, but someone doesn't want the truth to come out -- and they will kill to keep it secret.
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
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Catrin Quinn's job at Falkland Conservation is to protect the sea life in the Falklands' fragile ecology. Why would her goal, her passion, lie in nursing a plan to kill her former best friend, Rachel Grimwood?
"In such a small community as the Falkland Islands, a missing child is unheard of. In such a dangerous landscape it can only be a terrible tragedy, surely... When another child goes missing, and then a third, it's no longer possible to believe...
18) Bad moon
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Series
Kat Campbell mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"The case of a boy missing for 40 years explodes into the present in Todd Ritter's second novel, featuring Perry Hollow Police Chief Kat Campbell. On the same night that Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, nine-year-old Charlie Olmstead jumped on his bike to see if he could get a better look. It was the last anyone ever saw of him. After Perry Hollow Police Chief Jim Campbell found Charlie's bike caught up above a waterfall, he assumed the worse,...
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Series
Inspector Akyl Borubaev thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"We uncovered the last of the bodies in the red hour before dusk, as the sun stained the snowcaps of the Tian Shan mountains the color of dried blood and the spring air turned sharp and cold. Inspector Akyl Borubaev of the Bishkek Murder Squad has been exiled to the far corner of Kyrgyzstan, but death and corruption still haunt him in the remote town where he has been stationed. Borubaev soon finds himself caught up in a mysterious and gruesome new...
20) Bonnie
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When Eve Duncan gave birth to Bonnie, she experienced a love she never knew existed. And then, on an ordinary class trip to a local park, seven-year-old Bonnie vanished. Eve found herself in the throes of a nightmare. But a new Eve emerged: a woman who would use her remarkable talent as a forensic sculptor to find closure when the unthinkable happens to someone else's child. A woman who would stop at nothing to find her own daughter's killer and bring...
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