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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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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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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...
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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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Pegasus Books
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English
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When a young girl's body is pulled out of the harbor in the small Swedish resort town of Fjällbacka, Det. Patrik Hedström becomes the lead investigator as he struggles with lazy and inept colleagues and an even remoter-than-usual boss. It's his grim task to discover who could be behind the murder of the child both he and his partner Erica knew well.
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English
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Against a teeming canvas of Borgia politics, Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci come together to unmask an enigmatic serial killer, as we learn the secret history behind one of the most controversial works in the western canon, The Prince... When Pope Alexander dispatches a Vatican courtesan, Damiata, to the remote fortress city of Imola to learn the truth behind the murder of Juan, his most beloved illegitimate son, she cannot fail, for the...
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Deeper than the dead novels volume 3
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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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.
10) Field of blood
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Paddy Meehan novels volume 1
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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When her fiancé's cousin is implicated in the murder of a young boy and a rival reporter leaks the story, fledgling Scottish journalist Paddy Meehan is forced to salvage her relationship with her future in-laws by clearing the cousin's name.
11) Arctic chill
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Series
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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A detective whose inner turmoil threatens to consume him, Erlendur Sveinsson is charged with investigating the death of an Asian boy--and confronting forces colder than Iceland's frigid clime.
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Hyperion
Pub. Date
1998.
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English
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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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Laurence Bartram novels volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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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.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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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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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...
16) Hallowed bones
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Publisher
RB Large Print
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney follows a winding trail of murder and deception into a world where ghosts make fashion statements and where one person's miracle is another person's mayhem.
17) The Judas child
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Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
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.
18) Hotwire
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English
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In this thrilling installment of the New York Times bestselling series, Special Agent Maggie O’Dell investigates the death of three teenagers, only to find herself in the middle of a conspiracy involving biological warfare.
On a crisp fall evening in western Nebraska, two teenagers are seemingly electrocuted when their drug-fueled party turns into an explosive light show. While Maggie O’Dell
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Series
Patrik Hedström mystery volume 3
Publisher
Embolsillo
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
When a young girl's body is pulled out of the harbor in the small Swedish resort town of Fjällbacka, Det. Patrik Hedström becomes the lead investigator as he struggles with lazy and inept colleagues and an even remoter-than-usual boss. It's his grim task to discover who could be behind the murder of the child both he and his partner Erica knew well.
20) 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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