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Series
Will Trent series volume 6
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom Amanda's motivation until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they have both been drawn to for different reasons. Decades...
2) Smash cut
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The murder of Paul Wheeler has all the elements of a blockbuster: family rivalries, incalculable wealth, and a prominent man dying in the arms of his beautiful mistress. It's a case that could earn Derek Mitchell even greater star power. When the Wheeler family approaches him about defending Creighton for his uncle's murder -- even before he's charged -- he jumps at the chance. But the more Derek learns about Creighton and his darker side, the more...
Author
Series
Winnie years volume 4
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Winnie counts down the days until she begins high school, but turmoil in her relationships with Lars, Dinah, Cinnamon, and her family provide Winnie with a distraction that allows her to ignore her own issues.
4) Deep dish
Author
Language
English
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Description
The Cooking Channel is looking for its next big star, and Gina is certain that she fits the bill. Trouble is, the execs also have their eyes on Mr. "Kill It and Grill It" Tate Moody, the star of a hunting, fishing, and cooking show named Vittles. Tate is the ultimate man's man, with a dog named Moonpie and a penchant for flannel shirts. He's also a tasty side of beef with a swooning female fan base. All Gina has on her side are a free-spirited, college-dropout...
5) Fractured
Author
Series
Will Trent series volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Will Trent is called in to investigate the murder of a teenage girl in an affluent Atlanta suburb, and soon realizes that another girl is missing, sending Will on a wild chase through the city to find the missing girl before it is too late.
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Language
English
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A story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon's two families, the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters. It is a relationship destined to explode when secrets are revealed and illusions shattered....
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Language
English
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Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
x, 306 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Longtime friends Georgia, SuSu, Teeny, Diane, and Linda, known as the Red Hat Club, plot a special form of revenge when they learn that Diane's husband has used the couple's retirement money to buy a condo for his mistress.
Author
Series
Callahan Garrity mysteries volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
291 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Callahan Garrity is the owner of house mouse, a cleaning service that tidies up after Atlanta's elite. She's also a former cop and a part-time sleuth. She and her coterie of devoted helpers can ransack a house for clues faster than it takes a fingerprint to set. Keeping Rita Fontaine, a washed-up 1960s teenage rock star, out of jail is a tough job. It's nothing less than murder when Stu Hightower, the vain, temperamental president of a thriving Atlanta...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
271 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Callahan Garrity is the owner of House Mouse, a cleaning service that tidies up after Atlanta's elite. She's also a former cop and a part-time sleuth. She and her coterie of devoted helpers can ransack a house for clues faster than it takes a fingerprint to set. From her time on the Atlanta police force, Callahan has excelled at mopping up messes of all kinds. But she has no idea what she's getting into when she agrees to work for infamous antiques...
Author
Series
Will Trent series volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Investigating the killing of a prisoner during a riot inside a state penitentiary, GBI investigator Will Trent is confronted with disturbing information. One of the inmates claims that he is innocent of a brutal attack for which he has always been the prime suspect. The man insists that he was framed by a corrupt law enforcement team led by Jeffrey Tolliver and that the real culprit is still out there--a serial killer who has systematically been preying...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the story behind the case that earned Salt her promotion to homicide, describing her early career work as a beat cop in Atlanta's most at-risk housing project, where a cast of misfits and criminals have a profound impact on her later cases.
15) Beyond reach
Author
Series
Grant County series volume 6
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a malpractice wrongful death suit, medical examiner and pediatrician Sara Linton travels to Reese, Georgia, with her husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, where they investigate a deadly explosion and the disappearance of detective Lena Adams and unknowingly become the targets of a methamphetamine business ran by a white supremacy group.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Atlanta, 1974. It's Kate Murphy's first day on the job and the Atlanta Police Department is seething after the murder of an officer. Before the day has barely begun, she already suspects she's not cut out for the job as a cop. Her male uniform is too big, she can't handle a gun, and she's rapidly learning that the APD is hardly a place that welcomes women. Worse still, in the ensuing manhunt, she'll be partnered with Maggie Lawson, a cop with her...
Author
Language
English
Description
Ellice Littlejohn seemingly has it all: an Ivy League law degree, a well-paying job as a corporate attorney in midtown Atlanta, great friends, and a "for fun" relationship with a rich, charming executive, who just happens to be her white boss. But everything changes one cold January morning when Ellice arrives in the executive suite and finds him dead with a gunshot to his head. And then she walks away as if nothing has happened. Why? Ellice has been...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
647 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Officer Denny Rakestraw, "Negro Officers" Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith, and Sergeant McInnis have their hands full in an overcrowded and rapidly changing Atlanta. It's 1950 and color lines are shifting and racial tensions are simmering. Black families-including Smith's sister and brother-in-law-are moving into Rake's formerly all-white neighborhood, leading some residents to raise money to buy them out, while others advocate a more violent solution....
19) Ten
Author
Series
Winnie years volume Prequel
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winnie celebrates her unique style through her first year with a double-digit age as she has many new experiences, from the high of spending time in New York City with her aunt and big sister, to the low of her two best friends suddenly becoming interested in boys.
Author
Series
Darktown novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Responding to orders from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers, including war veterans Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith. The newly minted policemen are met with deep hostility by their white peers: they aren't allowed to arrest white suspects, drive squad cars, or set foot in the police headquarters. When a black woman who was last seen in a car driven by a white man turns up dead, Boggs and Smith suspect...
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