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1) The escape
Author
Series
John Puller novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When John Puller's older brother Robert inexplicably escapes from the military's most secure prison, where he's being held for national security crimes, Puller finds himself part of an investigation to hunt down his own brother. As he digs more deeply into the case, Puller discovers troubling details about his brother's conviction and that someone is out there who doesn't want the truth to ever come out." --
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English
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"In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 20
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Police detective Dave Robicheaux faces off with the most diabolical villain he has ever faced in the twentieth installment of the Dave Robicheaux series. Sadistic serial killer Asa Surette avoids the death penalty for murders he committed while capital punishment was banned. But when Robicheaux's daughter Alafair writes a series of articles implicating Surrette in other murders which could get him death, he decides to escape prison and make her pay....
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Language
English
Description
"In A Small Town, twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the town-burning down homes and businesses. An immense manhunt ensues, but the twelve who plotted it all get away. After two years, all efforts by the local and federal police agencies have been...
6) Wrong alibi
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Series
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Evelyn Jones lands a job in small-town Alaska, working for a man in his isolated mountain home. But her bright hopes for the future are shattered when Donald White disappears, leaving her to face charges of theft, embezzlement--and a brutal double murder. Her protestations of innocence count for nothing. Convicted, she faces life in prison...until fate sends her on the run. Evie's escape leaves her scarred and in hiding, isolated...
8) Escape
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling detective Billy Harney of The Black Book is chasing down a billionaire crime boss and a prison escape artist while a young girl's life hangs in the balance. As Chicago PD's special-ops leader, Detective Billy Harney knows well that money is not the only valuable currency. The filthy rich man he's investigating is down to his last twenty million. He's also being held in jail. For now. Billy's unit is called in when an escape...
9) Zebra forest
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Annie first started lying to her social worker, she had been taught by an expert: Gran. She told Annie and her little brother, Rew, the one thing they know about their father: that he was killed in a fight with an angry man who was sent away. Annie tells stories, as she and Rew laze under the birches and oaks of Zebra Forest -- stories about their father the pirate, or pilot, or secret agent. But then something shocking happens...
10) Paradox
Author
Series
FBI suspense thriller series volume 22
FBI thriller) volume 22
An FBI thriller volume 22
FBI thrillers volume 22
FBI thriller) volume 22
An FBI thriller volume 22
FBI thrillers volume 22
Language
English
Description
"The next chilling thriller in the New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series"--
With unparalleled suspense and her trademark explosive twists, #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter delves into the terrifying mind of an escaped mental patient obsessed with revenge in this next installment of her riveting FBI series. When he fails to kidnap five-year-old Sean Savich, agents Sherlock and Savich know they're in his crosshairs and...
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English
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"Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch return to confront an escaped criminal in the grittiest entry yet of the New York Times bestselling series. Territorial marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch figured things had finally settled down in Appaloosa when Boston Bill Black's murder charge was dropped. But all that changed when Augustus Noble Driggs was transferred to a stateside penitentiary just across the border from Mexico. Square-jawed,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
457 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Four years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is overturned. But life beyond bars takes a dangerous turn as soon as she returns to Proofrock. Convicted serial killer, Dark Mill South, seeking revenge for thirty-eight Dakota men hanged in 1862, escapes from his prison transfer due to a blizzard, just outside of Proofrock, Idaho"--
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
viii, 280 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In June 2015, two vicious convicted murderers broke out of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, in New York's North Country, launching the most extensive manhunt in state history. Aided by prison employee Joyce Mitchell, double murderer Richard Matt and cop-killer David Sweat slipped out of their cells, followed a network of tunnels and pipes under the thirty-foot prison wall, and climbed out of a manhole to freedom. For three weeks, the...
14) Fugitive hunt
Author
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
365 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Surviving an attack by her serial killer cousin five years ago left police officer Morganne Kimball his number one target. But she refuses to be his next victim, even if he has now escaped prison and is seeking revenge. Her only choice is to team up with US deputy marshal Colt Nelson, who is determined to capture the fugitive before he's able to strike at Morganne again..."--
Author
Series
Lizzie Snow thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
[2016].
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
pages ; cm.
Language
English
Description
"After ten years as a captive of kidnapper Henry Gemmerle, Joan Crimmins eludes the media and spurns the family who failed to search for her. Instead, she settles in the remote Maine town of Bearkill. But when Gemmerle flees a prison clinic and a 16-year-old Bearkill girl vanishes, Aroostook County Sheriff's deputy Lizzie Snow knows that Joan's painful past has just become another young woman's horrifying future"--
Author
Series
Jake Paynter novels volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
455 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jake Paynter is in deep trouble. With a $1000 bounty on his head, every law man, bounty hunter, and desperado west of the Mississippi is gunning for him. Jake's plan to lay low with the Shoshone quickly falls apart, but before he can leave for far Yellowstone, his two best friends, Gus Rivers and Stacy Blue, show up with a dilemma. Miners at South Pass City are getting murdered by a man or beast - no one is certain - and his immigrant friends from...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
363 pages (large print) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"To save a woman from being kidnapped, Officer Chris Fuller and his K-9 partner, Teddy, have no choice but to let the fugitive they're tracking get away. But when the escaped murderer returns to hunt tour pilot Lexie McDaniels again, Chris knows the attempted kidnapping wasn't a chance encounter. Lexie won't be safe until he catches the criminal... but are her secrets what is endangering them all?"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Scotland Yard's Murder Squad faces the most shocking case of its existence, in the extraordinary new historical thriller from the author of the acclaimed national bestseller The Yard. London, 1890. Four vicious murderers have escaped from prison, part of a plan gone terribly wrong, and now it is up to Walter Day, Nevil Hammersmith, and the rest of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad to hunt down the convicts before the men can resume their bloody spree....
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xi, 269 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The inspiring, dramatic, and heartwarming true account of an escaped convict and his wife of thirty-five plus years who never knew his secret, which captured the imaginations of millions on Humans of New York"--
"The inspiring, dramatic, and heartwarming true account of an escaped convict and his wife of thirty-five plus years who never knew his secret, which captured the imaginations of millions on Humans of New York.Bobby and Cheryl Love were...
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
74 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Banana Fox has a real mess on his hands this time! When the jail is left in ruins and Sour Grapes is on the run, Banana Fox has very few clues to work with to find him. He's coming across a number of red herrings, so it's clear that something fishy is going on... With the help of Sharyanna, William, and Sour Grapes Jr. (?!), can Banana Fox get to the bottom of this caper, or will the baddies run wild forever?"--
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