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Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles—the inspiration for the hit TNT series—continue their crime-solving streak.
The bestselling author of The Surgeon returns—and so does that chilling novel’s diabolical villain. Though held behind bars, Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, seeming to bequeath his evil legacy to a student all-too-diligent . . . and all-too-deadly.
It is a boiling hot Boston...
The bestselling author of The Surgeon returns—and so does that chilling novel’s diabolical villain. Though held behind bars, Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, seeming to bequeath his evil legacy to a student all-too-diligent . . . and all-too-deadly.
It is a boiling hot Boston...
42) Monkeewrench
Author
Series
Monkeewrench volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
373 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A new cops-and-crooks computer game becomes a nightmare when someone starts duplicating the fictional murders in real life. Now the game's designer, Grace, and her oddball programmers must rethink their game to deduce the killer's next target.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. Daniel Hudson Burnham, a renowned architect, was the brilliant director of works for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor, was the satanic murderer of scores of young women in a torture palace built for the purpose near the fairgrounds. Burnham overcame great obstacles...
Author
Series
Mortal instruments volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Someone is murdering Shadowhunters, provoking tensions between Downworlders and Shadowhunters that could lead to a second, bloody war. Clary's best friend, Simon, can't help her -- his mother just found out that he's a vampire, and now he's homeless. When Jace begins to pull away from her without explaining why, Clary is forced to delve into the heart of a mystery whose solution reveals her worst nightmare: she herself has set in motion a terrible...
45) Ashes to ashes
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
484 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
As a serial killer known as The Cremator terrifies the city, witness advocate Kate Conlan must cope with a homeless teenage witness with a hidden agenda, a legendary FBI profiler, and a powerful businessman whose estranged daughter may have been a victim of the predator.
Author
Series
Atlee Pine novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
'My sister was abducted from here nearly thirty years ago. The person who took her was never found. And neither was she. Her abductor nearly killed me. So I'm back here now trying to find the truth.' Atlee Pine has spent most of her life trying to find out what happened that fateful night in Andersonville, Georgia. Her six-year-old twin sister, Mercy, was taken and Atlee was left for dead while their parents were apparently partying downstairs. One...
47) No going back
Author
Series
Sawyer Brooks volume 3
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Some call it murder. Others, karma. The female vigilantes dubbed The Black Wigs call it justice. The victims? Sexual predators who never paid for their sins. For three months, The Black Wigs byline has belonged to Sawyer Brooks, a crime reporter still struggling with her own demons. But for Sawyer, there's suddenly more to the story than just catching the dark web avengers. Copycat vigilantes are cornering the unchecked abusers of Sacramento and...
48) 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
Series
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Introducing veteran Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Peter Cammon, this novel finds Cammon journeying to the Jurassic Coast to solve a seemingly ordinary domestic crime. At first glance, the perpetrator appears to have murdered his wife before drowning in the English Channel, but Cammon soon learns that his case is merely a sideshow. A broader series of murders has been unfolding along the cliffs, baffling the local police. Realizing that his assignment...
50) Sleepyhead
Author
Series
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a variation on the serial killer theme, newcomer Billingham's villain doesn't want to actually kill his victims (those who do die he considers 'mistakes') so much as induce massive strokes that will leave them cerebrally conscious while otherwise in a completely comatose state known as 'locked-in syndrome.' Combining elements of both police and medical procedural thriller, the novel follows frayed, middle-aged London detective inspector Tom Thorne...
51) Firestorm
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2004
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (72 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For Kerry Murphy, the inferno is never far away. The flames of that long-ago night still burn in her nightmares: the heat, the choking smoke, the helplessness. She can never run fast enough... Now Kerry works as an arson investigator with her evidence-sniffing dog, Sam. Together they're a great team, but her life is about to change in the time it takes to strike a match. The deadly flames of her past are back, and from out of the ashes a stranger...
52) Cane and Abe
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Wrongfully implicated in the disappearance of his second wife, Miami prosecutor Abe Beckham is forced to consider his missing wife's accusations about his enduring love for his dead first wife.
53) Twisted: a novel
Author
Series
Petra Connor novels volume 2
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st large print ed.
Physical Desc
596 p. (large print) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hollywood homicide detective Petra Connor becomes obsessed with finding the killer of a young unidentified girl who was a victim of a drive-by shooting and teams up with grad student Isaac Gomez, who is convinced there is a connection between several unsolved murders.
54) Wild justice
Author
Series
Amanda Jaffe novels volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
362 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the severed heads of two women are found in a cabin next to the site of a mass grave of long-missing bodies, all signs point toward one man: a surgeon with a history of violence and drug abuse. When evidence amassed against him is overturned due to procedural misconduct, the surgeon disappears and a second series of murders begins.
55) The dragon man
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2004, c1999
Physical Desc
239 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A serial killer is on the loose in a small coastal town near Melbourne. Detective Inspector Hal Challis and his team must apprehend him before he strikes again. But first Challis must contend with the editor of a local news-paper who undermines his investigation at every turn and with his wife, who is attempting to resurrect their marriage through long-distance phone calls from a sanitarium where she has been imprisoned for the past eight years for...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
c2008 Boston
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
United in their obsession with a grisly Italian serial murder case almost three decades old, thriller writer Preston (coauthor, Brimstone) and Italian crime reporter Spezi seek to uncover the identity of a vicious serial killer in this chilling true crime saga. The murders took place outside of Florence where Preston had moved with his family. From 1974 to 1985, seven pairs of lovers parked in their cars in secluded areas were brutally killed. With...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals," Sherlock Holmes observed during one of his most baffling investigations. "He has nerve and he has knowledge." In the span of fifteen years, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered as many as ten people in the United States, Britain, and Canada, a death toll with almost no precedent. Poison was his weapon of choice. Largely forgotten today, this villain was as brazen as the notorious Jack the Ripper....
58) Field of prey
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The night after the fourth of July, Layton Carlson Jr., of Red Wing, Minnesota, finally got lucky. And unlucky. He' picked the perfect spot to lose his virginity to his girlfriend, an abandoned farmyard in the middle of cornfields: nice, private, and quiet. The only problem was something smelled bad -- like, really bad. He mentioned it to a county deputy he knew, and when the cop took a look, he found a body stuffed down a cistern. And then another,...
59) Charade
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
405 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Cat Delaney's heart transplant, she moves to San Antonio where her life changes. Then she discovers someone is killing heart transplant recipients.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
ix, 436 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the serial murders of the notorious Green River Killer, profiling Gary Ridgway as a happily married man who worked for the same company for thirty years, the case's approximate 40,000 suspects, the killer's disturbing capacity for luring and hiding his victims, and the DNA breakthroughs that established his link to the killings.
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