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Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
287 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Wexford is reminded of his first murder case and his suspicions against Eric Targo when Targo reappears in Kingsmarkham after a long absence; and meanwhile, Wexford's partner's wife suspects Tamima Rahman's parents are forcing her to accept an arranged marriage.
Author
Series
Woods cop mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
299 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Grieving over the deaths of his fiancée and his son, Grady Service is put on the case of a serial killer who murders conservation officers using an ancient Viking ritual--and soon Service suspects that the deaths of his loved ones were not accidents.
4) 212: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
353 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ellie Hatcher, an NYPD detective, investigates the murder of New York University sophomore Megan Gunther who had been receiving threats from a stalker via the Internet, but when phone records expose a connection between Megan and other murder victims and Megan's roommate disappears, Ellie races to find the killer before it is too late.
Author
Series
Inspector Van Veeteren mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is called in to help the local police find a suspected serial killer who seems to choose his victims at random, but the case becomes more personal when a colleague is taken by the murderer, leading Veteren and the police on a chase to find their friend before it is too late.
Author
Series
Publisher
NAL Accent
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sally promised her father before he died that she would always look after her sister Troo, but the task becomes complicated in the summer of 1959 when her mother is hospitalized, her older sister becomes caught up in a teen romance, her stepfather takes up drinking, and a murderer and molester is terrorizing the town.
Author
Series
Maggie O'Dell novels volume 6
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
332 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
O'Dell and Cunningham believe they're responding to a threat made at Quantico. Instead they walk into a trap. Now, inside an isolation ward at a biosafety containment hospital, she must analyze clues to catch the killer... knowing she may not live long enough to discover who it is.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
562 p.[large print] ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After journalist Eliza Blake arrives her friend's newly renovated New York estate for a gala, she finds the host has perished in a grotesque suicide, but while she investigates within the mansion, Eliza uncovers clues that lead to a killer determined to expose the sins of respected local citizens.
9) The alienist
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a madman begins stalking victims on the streets of 1896 New York, a team of investigators is forced to apply radical and untested techniques that include fingerprinting and the controversial science of psychology.
10) Shoot to thrill
Author
Series
Monkeewrench volume 5
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The cyber-investigators at Monkeywrench Software in Minnesota join with straight-laced FBI agent John Smith in an effort to track down a killer who is posting his murders on the Web.
11) Killing me
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Amber Jamison cannot believe she's about to become the latest victim of a serial killer--she's savvy and street smart, so when she gets pushed into, of all things, a white windowless van, she's more angry than afraid. Things get even weirder when she's miraculously saved by a mysterious woman... who promptly disappears. Who was she? And why is she hunting serial killers? You'd think escaping one psychopath would be enough, but Amber's problems are...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
377 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The discovery of a murdered teen in a community garden reminds homicide detective Gus Ramone of an unsolved case he worked as a rookie twenty years earlier, and he enlists his now-retired mentor T.C. Cook, and his former partner Dan Holiday, who has since been disgraced as a cop, in an effort to find a killer they dubbed the Night Gardener and finally bring him to justice.
13) The search
Author
Language
English
Description
Fiona Bristow, the only survivor of the Red Scarf serial killer who shot and killed her fiancé and his K-9 partner, is living quietly on Orca Island off the Seattle coast where she runs a thriving dog-training business, when her life is disrupted by artist Simon Doyle who is desperate for help in calming his wild puppy, and by the emergence of a copycat killer who wants the woman that got away.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Joe Gunther puts a murder investigation on hold to help his girlfriend Lyn solve her father's mysterious death in Maine. Discovering that Lyn's father and brother weren't the good guys that Lyn always believed them to be and that they might have been involved with vicious smugglers who murdered them, Gunther sets out to protect Lyn from the same fate.
15) Chinese whispers
Author
Series
Publisher
Poison Pen Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U. S. ed.
Physical Desc
349 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The media and the terror-stricken public are demanding the arrest of the Beijing Ripper and Li Yan, the head of Beijing's serious crime squad, has been put in the spotlight. American pathologist Margaret Campbell is invited to perform an autopsy on one of the victims and her results send shockwaves through the investigation. Then Li begins receiving personal letters from the killer, and his life and career start falling apart.
16) Spider bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (9 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John Lowery was declared dead in 1968 - the victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam, his body buried long ago in North Carolina. Four decades later, Temperance Brennan is called to the scene of a drowning in Hemmingford, Quebec. The victim appears to have died while in the midst of a bizarre sexual practice. The corpse is later identified as John Lowery. But how could Lowery have died twice, and how did an American soldier end up in Canada? Tempe sets off...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (12 hr., 32 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Police officer Kirby Wayland is on his way home late one day when he sees a stray dog along the highway and decides to shelter it. From that moment on, Kirby experiences a continuing strangeness about this canine. Man and dog quickly develop a bond, though there is always something very unsettling about it. Kirby takes a six-month leave from the force and decides to take a road trip. On the road, Kirby and the dog have a series of rapidly escalating...
18) The devil's star
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 5
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
452 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Oslo is sweltering in the summer heat when a young woman is murdered in her flat. One finger has been cut off and a tiny red diamond in the shape of a pentagram--a five-pointed star--is found under her eyelid. Detective Harry Hole is assigned the case with Tom Waaler, a colleague he neither likes nor trusts. He believes Tom is behind a gang of arms smugglers--and the murder of his partner. But Harry, an off-the-rails alcoholic, is barely holding on...
19) Cruel intent
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Former television journalist Ali Reynolds tries to defend her contractor Brian when he is named a prime suspect in his wife's murder and in the process uncovers a sadistic killer who finds his prey by hacking into a dating sight for housewives looking for a sexual relationship with married men.
Author
Series
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ashley Hanes calls her friend, true-crime writer and amateur detective, Bailey Weggins, when two bridesmaids, from a wedding she and Bailey were also in, turn up dead; after Ashley becomes the third casualty from the wedding, Bailey must discover the murderer before she becomes the fourth victim.
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