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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"A freewheeling, small-town attorney takes on a national murder trial when an out-of-town client is accused of killing a federal judge in Texas. In the town of Marshall sits the Federal courthouse of the Eastern District of Texas, a place revered by patent lawyers for its speedy jury trials and massive punitive payouts. Marshall is flooded with patent lawyers, all of whom find work being the local voice for the big-city legal teams that need to sway...
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English
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For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area. Three decades later, Michelle McNamara, a true crime journalist who created the popular website TrueCrimeDiary.com, was determined to find the violent psychopath she...
63) Cold case
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Series
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English
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Controversial author and scholar David Etheridge is not the kind of company an aspiring politician wants to keep. But ambitious senator Robert McCrutchen has a history with Etheridge that he's desperately trying to keep under wraps. Twenty-two years ago, both men were investigated in the death of a young coed, but the case was never solved. When Etheridge returns to Oregon, McCrutchen is his grudging host—until the senator is found shot dead. Now,...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the detective who found The Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America's toughest cold cases and the rewards--and toll--of a life solving crime. I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don't even know how I got here, to this place, to this point. Something is happening to me lately. I'm drinking too much. My sheets are soaking wet when I wake up from nightmares of decaying corpses. I order another...
65) Truth
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
Inspector Stephen Villani investigates a series of murders which seem to be connected to Melbourne's biggest crime bosses as as well as the city's elite, while dealing with problems at home involving his shaky marriage and rebellious teenager daughter.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"When her husband of a year disappears, Hannah quickly learns he is not who he said he was and is left to sort out the truth with just one ally- her husband's teenage daughter, who hates her"--
70) The lost years
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Jonathan Lyons, after discovering a letter that may have been written by Jesus, is found shot dead with his wife holding the murder weapon, and it is up to their daughter to clear her mother's name and prove that her father's death had something to do with the letter.
71) Breaking cover
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Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Tony Wolf, an undercover agent for the FBI who dropped off the grid years earlier, becomes the target of a massive federal manhunt, as well as a disgruntled biker gang, after being forced out into the open during the rescue of two kidnapped children, but in typical fashion, Wolf refuses to run and instead turns his talents against his pursuers.
72) The lost boys
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An exclusive short story from the DS Cross Thriller series. DS George Cross's father, Raymond, always takes an annual holiday in a local care home. He enjoys the company it brings him. He busies himself repairing the residents' wheelchairs and has become their self-appointed tech guru. But this time it's different. A new arrival causes a stir – he's convinced one of the older residents, suffering with dementia, is the man who killed his father decades...
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Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old friends Nora and Charlotte fail in their efforts to find their missing teenage babysitter Rose, and when her remains turn up over a decade later, Charlotte insists a reluctant Nora join her in trying to solve the possible murder.
74) The secret place
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English
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"The photo on the card shows a boy who was found murdered, a year ago, on the grounds of a girls' boarding school in the leafy suburbs of Dublin. The caption says I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM. Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to get a foot in the door of Dublin's Murder Squad--and one morning, sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey brings him this photo. "The Secret Place," a board where the girls at St. Kilda's School can pin up their secrets...
75) Stay close
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English
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Three people--suburban housewife Megan, who is dissatisfied with her life; her husband, Ray, who once had a promising career as a documentary photographer, but now works as a paparazzo; and Broome, a detective who cannot let go of a cold case involving a missing man--find their pasts coming back to haunt them as they keep secrets from their loved ones.
76) Sunday Silence
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Language
English
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It started with Monday. But it doesn't end with Sunday.
Read Sunday Silence, the new novel in the series that LOUISE PENNY calls "fabulous, unsettling, and riveting" — and brace yourself for the breathtaking series finale in summer 2018.
Lover of London, gifted psychologist,
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English
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"In the center of historic Edinburgh, builders are preparing to convert a disused Victorian Gothic building into luxury flats. They are understandably surprised to find skeletal remains hidden in a high pinnacle that hasn't been touched by maintenance for years. But who do the bones belong to, and how did they get there? Could the eccentric British pastime of free climbing the outside of buildings play a role? Enter cold case detective Karen Pirie,...
78) The last stand
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Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-133
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A tarnished former cop goes on a crusade to find a politician's killer and avoid the .45-caliber slug with his name on it. A pilot forced to make an emergency landing in the desert finds himself at the center of a struggle between FBI agents, unsavory fortune hunters, and members of the local Indian tribe to control a mysterious find that could mean wealth and power - or death.
79) Minority report
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Washington, D.C. has been murder-free thanks to astounding technology which identifies killers before they commit their crimes. But when the chief of the Pre-crime unit is himself accused of a future murder, he has just 36 hours to discover who sets him up.
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Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Police academy-trained former reporter Ali Reynolds is contacted to investigate the grisly murder of a gold-digging divorcee on behalf of a woman accused of the crime. Lynn Martinson is dating the dead woman's ex-husband, and she and her boyfriend Chip Ralston have been charged. Ali is simultaneously drawn to the case of A.J. Sanders, a frightened teen with secrets of his own. He's the first to find the body in the Camp Verde desert when he goes...
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