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Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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"Cal Claxton is determined to reinvent himself as a small town lawyer in the aftermath of his wife's suicide. Once a hardcharging L.A. prosecutor, he now lives in an old farmhouse overlooking the Oregon wine country. When a scruffy, tattooed kid shows up asking for help in solving his mother's cold case murder, Cal wants to say no. But the kid, who calls himself Picasso, has ridden a bike from Portland, and something about his determination touches...
222) The awkward squad
Author
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A new crime series starring Anne Capestan a brilliant but disgraced police officer placed in charge of a team of department misfits to investigate decades old unsolved crimes ... Suspended from her job as a promising police officer for firing "one bullet too many", Anne Capestan is expecting the worst when she is summoned to H.Q. to learn her fate. Instead, she is surprised to be told that she is to head up a new police squad, working on solving...
223) Missing person
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Reclusive bookseller Shaun Ryan has always believed that his uncle Teddy died in a car accident twenty years ago. Then he learns the truth: Teddy fled his home in Catholic, deeply conservative County Wicklow, Ireland, for New York and hasn't been heard from since. None of Shaun's relatives will reveal why they lied about his uncle's death or why they want Shaun to leave the whole affair alone. But Shaun has a burning need to find out the truth. His...
224) From darkest skies
Author
Series
From darkest skies volume 1
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After a five year sabbatical following the tragic death of his wife and fellow agent Alysha, Keon Rause returns to the distant colony world of Magenta to resume service with the Magentan Intelligence Service. With him he brings an artificial recreation of his wife's personality, a simulacrum built from every digital trace she left behind. She has been constructed with one purpose -- to discover the truth behind her own death -- but Keon's relationship...
225) Secret remains
Author
Series
Coroner's daughter volume 2
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A cold case murder, a grisly discovery, and a viper's nest of resentment, betrayal, and dirty secrets converge in this mystery. It's been 12 years since Sandi Parkman went missing after being dropped off at home by her schoolmate, Nick Larson, now the Sheriff of Freeport, Michigan. When a construction crew unearths Sandi's bones--along with Nick's letterman jacket and one of his hairs--Nick becomes suspect number one in the murder. Dr. Emily Hartford,...
226) All these ashes
Author
Series
Line of sight volume 2
Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The laid-off reporter turned private investigator is almost out of clients after he stood up against the Newark police officers whose problems he used to fix for a paycheck, exposing a scandal that left him on the wrong side of one of those thin blue lines. Desperate for work, Russell is as elated as he is skeptical when a detective shows up on his doorstep, asking him to look into one of the Brick City's most haunting mysteries: The Twilight Four...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"It's not that they've been all that close in the past few years, but sisters Willa and Sawyer Stannard are bonded by the ups and downs of the life they've lived with their mercurial single mother. When Willa is found dead in her apartment from an apparent suicide, Sawyer just knows it's not possible. A cryptic note from the acclaimed broadcast journalist leads police to rule out foul play. Shattered by grief-and obsessed by the idea that her sister's...
Author
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Only three people can connect a present-day murderer to a serial killer who, fourteen years ago, terrorized a small Siberian town. And one of them is already dead. As a working mother, Lena Polyanskaya has her hands full. She's busy caring for her two-year-old daughter, editing a successful magazine, and supporting her husband, a high-ranking colonel in counterintelligence. She doesn't have time to play amateur detective. But when a close friend's...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When she was thirteen years old, Samantha Newsom's family was murdered and their Catskills farmhouse set ablaze in an unsolved crime that left nothing behind but ashes. Twenty-two years later, Sam is pulled back to her hometown of Carney, New York, under the shadows of the grim tragedy she's never forgotten or forgiven. Authorities mishandled the evidence, false rumors were seeded about her family, suspects yielded nothing, and the case went cold....
230) The last scoop
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Series
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Martin Barlow was TV news director Clare Carlson's first newspaper editor, a beloved mentor who inspired her career as a journalist. But, since retiring from his newspaper job, he had become a kind of pathetic figure--railing on about conspiracies, coverups, and other imaginary stories he was still working on. Clare had been too busy with her own career to pay much attention to him. When Martin Barlow is killed on the street one night during an apparent...
Author
Publisher
Random House Canada
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"On mean Harp Bittlemore's blighted farm, hidden away in the Backhills, nothing has gone right for a very long time. Crops don't grow, the pigs and chickens stay skinny and the three aged dairy cows, Berle, Crilla and Dally, are so desperate they are plotting an escape. The one thing holding them back is the thought of abandoning young Willa, the single bright point in their life since her older sister, Margaret, ran away. But Willa Bittlemore, just...
232) A reasonable doubt
Author
Series
Robin Lockwood novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"A magician linked to three murders and suspicious deaths years ago disappears in the middle of his new act in New York Times bestseller Phillip Margolin's latest thriller featuring Robin Lockwood Robin Lockwood is a young criminal defense attorney and partner in a prominent law firm in Portland, Oregon. A former MMA fighter and Yale Law graduate, she joined the firm of legal legend Regina Barrister not long before Regina was forced into retirement...
233) The vanishing
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Decades ago in the small town of Fogg Lake, "The Incident" occurred: an explosion in the cave system that released unknown gases. The residents slept for two days. When they woke up they discovered that things had changed--they had changed. Some started having visions. Others heard ominous voices. And then the scientists from a mysterious government agency arrived. Determined not to become research subjects of strange experiments, the residents of...
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Language
English
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"Growing up in a beautiful house in the English countryside, Katie Shaw lived a charmed life. At the cusp of graduation, she had big dreams, a devoted boyfriend, and a little brother she protected fiercely. Until the day a violent stranger changed the fate of her family forever. Years later, still unable to live down the guilt surrounding what happened to her brother, Chris, and now with a child of her own to protect, Katie struggles to separate the...
235) The silenced women
Author
Series
Violent Crime Investigations Team volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"Who will speak for those who no longer can? When a young woman is found strangled to death and left on a park bench in Santa Rosa, California, Detective Eddie Mahler and his Violent Crime Investigations (VCI) Team are called to the scene. The crime immediately thrusts Mahler back to two unsolved homicides-young women who were also strangled-at this same location a couple of years earlier. His inability to find evidence against the man he knows was...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1983, deep in New Mexico's Gila National Forest, the bodies of a young woman and two children were found. Who were they? How did they get there? Thirty years later, two women find themselves drawn to the cold case. Librarian Laura MacDonald begins her own investigation as a way to distract herself from breast cancer treatments and becomes consumed by her search for answers. Jean Martinez is a veteran detective determined to keep working cold cases...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones Destino
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"Lisbeth Salander está cumpliendo condena en la cárcel de Flodberga, en la que intenta a toda costa evitar cualquier tipo de conflicto con el resto de las presas. Cuando Lisbeth se convierte en la protectora de la joven de Bangladesh que ocupa la celda vecina, la peligrosa líder de las internas la coloca en su punto de mira. Holger Palmgren visita a Lisbeth y le explica que ha recibido una serie de documentos que contienen información sobre los...
238) Last one alive
Author
Series
Coroner's daughter volume 3
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Back in Chicago, Dr. Emily Hartford is ready to leave the past behind, until a new investigation sends her into the path of a killer. Seventeen months after the Parkman case, Dr. Hartford has returned to Chicago to finish her surgical residency. But when she is contacted out of the blue by Solange McClelland, the only survivor of a decade-old triple homicide, Emily is compelled to dig deeper. She doesn't know the details of the event but is familiar...
239) Shattered
Author
Series
Max Revere novels volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Over a span of twenty years, four boys have been kidnapped from their bedrooms, suffocated, and buried nearby in a shallow grave. Serial killer or coincidence? That's the question investigative reporter Maxine Revere sets out to answer when an old friend begs her to help exonerate his wife, who has been charged with their son's recent murder. But Max can do little to help because the police and D.A. won't talk to her--they think they have the right...
240) The dancing girls
Author
Series
Detective Jo Fournier novels volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When Jennine Hammond is found dead in a hotel in the picture-perfect town Oakhurst, newly-promoted Detective Jo Fournier is thrown into a disturbing case. Who would murder this shy, loving wife and leave her body posed like a ballerina? Jo wants to know why Jeanine's husband is so controlling about money, and where Jeanine"s wedding ring is, but before she and her team can get close to the truth, another woman is found strangled in a hotel, arms...
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