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Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Harry Bosch, now in the Open-unsolved Unit, receives a call from the DA telling him a serial killer has confessed to several murders. Harry must interview the man about a case he couldn't crack involving the murder of a 22-year-old woman whose body was never found.
2) The 9th girl
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Minneapolis investigators Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska find themselves in pursuit of a serial killer whose latest victim is a bullied adolescent who desperately sought a normal life.
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Maisie Dobbs is back and this time she has been hired to find a wealthy grocery magnate's daughter who has fled from home. What seems a simple case at first becomes complicated when Maisie learns of the recent violent deaths of three of the heiress's old friends. Is there a connection between her mysterious disappearance and the murders? Who would kill such charming young women? As Maisie investigates, she discovers that the answers to all her questions...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When two young female hikers disappear in the Hundred Mile Wilderness--the most remote stretch along the entire two-thousand mile Appalachian Trail--Maine game warden Mike Bowditch joins the search to find them. The police interview everyone they can find who came in contact with the college students and learn that the women were lovers who had been keeping their relationship secret from their Evangelical parents in Georgia. When two corpses are...
Author
Series
KEY News thrillers volume 8
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
303 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Diane Mayfield, a correspondent for the television news magazine "Hourglass," reluctantly travels to Ocean Grove on the New Jersey shore to interview Leslie Patterson, a troubled young woman who is widely believed to have faked her own kidnapping, but the story gets interesting when a second victim disappears, only to be found dead days later.
6) The search
Author
Language
English
Description
Set in the Pacific Northwest. An island provides sanctuary, the lush forests seduce the unwary, and a man and a woman find in each other the strength to carry on. Now a killer has emerged out of the shadows, a man whose bloodlust has been channeled by a master with one motive: to reclaim the woman who slipped out of his hands.
7) Trespasser
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Stumbling on a case that suggests that a man convicted of murder seven years earlier may have been framed, game warden Mike Bowditch ignores warnings by local authorities and risks his relationship with his girlfriend to conduct a secret investigation.
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 13
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The wayward son of Israeli intelligence, Allon is plunged into a high stakes game of murder, espionage, and corruption after a beautiful young British woman vanishes on the island of Corsica, which threatens to destroy a prime minister's career.
9) Thirty girls
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Esther is a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities, who is struggling to survive, to escape, and to find a way to live with what she has seen and done. Jane is an American journalist who has traveled to Africa, hoping to give a voice to children like Esther and to find her center after a series of failed relationships. In unflinching prose, Minot interweaves their stories, giving...
10) The distant echo
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
404 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Some things just won't let go. The past, for instance. That night in the cemetery. The girl's body in the snow. On a freezing Fife morning four drunken students stumble upon the body of a woman in the snow. Rosie has been raped, stabbed and left to die in an ancient Pictish cemetery. And the only suspects are the four young men now stained with her blood. Twenty-five years later the police mount a cold case' review of Rosie's unsolved murder and the...
11) The silent girls
Author
Series
Publisher
Witness Impulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
396 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Frank Rath thought he was done with murder when he turned in his detective's badge to become a private investigator and raise a daughter alone. Then the police in his remote rural community of Canaan find an '89 Monte Carlo abandoned by the side of the road, and the beautiful teenage girl who owned the car seems to have disappeared without a trace. Soon Rath's investigation brings him face-to-face with the darkest abominations of the human soul.
12) 1st case
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323, 14 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Recruited into the FBI when her unorthodox programming skills get her kicked out of MIT, a computer genius tracks a killer who has been targeting young women through a sophisticated messaging app."--
Author
Series
Inspector Devlin mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Devlin investigates the murders of a young woman and an ex-convict, pinpointing a local bodybuilder as the killer and unknowingly putting his family in danger.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. The madam, Mrs. Parks, is kind, the men are (relatively) well behaved, and Eliza has attained what few women have:...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
328 p.
Language
English
Description
Ullmann’s characters are complex and paradoxical: neither fully guilty nor fully innocent.
Siri Brodal, a chef and restaurant owner, is married to Jon Dreyer, a famous novelist plagued by writer’s block. Siri and Jon have two daughters, and together they spend their summers on the coast of Norway, in a mansion belonging to Jenny Brodal, Siri’s stylish and unforgiving mother.
Siri and Jon’s marriage is loving but difficult, and troubled by...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
375, 11 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Most people who go missing are never found. But Alice was the lucky one...
As a child, Alice was stolen from her backyard in a tiny Indiana community, but against the odds, her policeman father tracked her down within twenty-four hours and rescued her from harm. In the aftermath of the crime, her family decided to move to Chicago and close the door on that horrible day.
Yet Alice hasn’t forgotten. She devotes her spare time volunteering for a website...
18) Malice
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
352 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
19) A steep price
Author
Series
Tracy Crosswhite novels volume 6
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
503 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Called in to consult after a young woman disappears, Tracy Crosswhite has the uneasy feeling that this is no ordinary missing-persons case. When the body turns up in an abandoned well, Tracy's suspicions are confirmed. Estranged from her family, the victim had balked at an arranged marriage and had planned to attend graduate school. But someone cut her dreams short. Solving the mystery behind the murder isn't Tracy's only challenge. The detective...
20) Thief of souls
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The brutal murder of a young woman in a rural village in Northern China sends shockwaves all the way to Beijing--but seemingly only Inspector Lu Fei, living in exile in the small town, is interested in justice for the victim. Lu Fei is a graduate of China's top police college but he's been assigned to a sleepy backwater town in northern China, where almost nothing happens and the theft of a few chickens represents a major crime wave. That is until...
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