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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A biting novel from an electrifying new voice, Kristi DeMeester's Such a Pretty Smile is a heart-stopping tour-de-force about powerful women, angry men, and all the ways in which girls fight against the forces that try to silence them. There's something out there that's killing. Known only as The Cur, he leaves no traces, save for the torn bodies of girls, on the verge of becoming women, who are known as trouble-makers; those who refuse to conform,...
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st large print ed.
Physical Desc
597 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The family of a notorious serial killer whom homicide detective Harry Bosch shot during an arrest four years ago has accused him of killing the wrong man, and has filed a civil suit against the LAPD. The allegation becomes horrifyingly plausible when a new murder occurs with all the hallmarks of the dead slayer's style.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bookouture, an imprint of StoryFire Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a battered suitcase containing the dismembered body of a young man washes up on the shore of the river Thames, Detective Erika Foster is shocked. She's worked on some terrifying cases but never seen anything like this before."
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2004, c2001
Edition
Bantam reissue ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 387 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
FBI Special Agent Pierce Quincy calls upon his friend Rainie Conner, a private investigator, for help when it becomes clear that a sadistic murderer is planning to kill everyone Quincy loves.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 314 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
""A triumph on every level. One of the losses to literature is that Harper Lee never found a way to tell a gothic true-crime story she'd spent years researching. Casey Cep has excavated this mesmerizing story and tells it with grace and insight and a fierce fidelity to the truth." --David Grann, best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 11
Publisher
Time Warner Audiobooks
Pub. Date
p2005
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
7 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"FBI agent Alex Cross is on vacation with his family in Disneyland when he gets a call from the director. A top actress has been shot outside her home in Beverly Hills. Shortly afterward, an editor for the Los Angeles Times receives an e-mail recounting the murder in shocking detail, signed Mary Smith. Authorities fear this is only the beginning. More killings follow, and more e-mails arrive immediately after. Mary Smith is targeting Hollywood stars...
87) The surgeon
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Formats
Description
A female heart surgeon, terrorized by a serial killer in Boston using the same MO as a killer who attacked her during her internship years in Savannah, works with a detective to solve the crime while trying to stay alive.
88) My murder
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A tautly paced novel in which a young mother who was cloned and brought back to life following her own murder comes to suspect that there is more to the story of her life and death than anyone is telling her. What if the murder you had to solve was your own? Lou is a happily married mother of an adorable toddler. She's also the clone of the original Louise who, along with four other victims of a local serial killer, has been brought back to life...
89) Finding Dawn
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 74 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
Dawn Crey. Ramona Wilson. Daleen Kay Bosse. These are just three of the estimated 500 Aboriginal women who have gone missing or been murdered in Canada over the past thirty years. Directed by acclaimed Métis filmmaker Christine Welsh, Finding Dawn is a compelling documentary that puts a human face to this national tragedy. This is an epic journey into the dark heart of Native women’s experience in Canada. From Vancouver’s skid row, where more...
90) Dead run
Author
Series
Monkeewrench volume 3
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (164 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Darren McGavin portrays crusading reporter Carl Kolchak. In the first episode, Kolchak tries to solve a series of Las Vegas murders. In the second, he's after a killer hiding in Seattle's underground city.
92) 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.
93) The craftsman
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sharon Bolton returns with her creepiest standalone yet, following a young cop trying to trace the disappearances of a small town's teenagers. Florence Lovelady's career was made when she convicted coffin-maker Larry Grassbrook of a series of child murders 30 years ago in a small village in Lancashire. Like something out of a nightmare, the victims were buried alive. Florence was able to solve the mystery and get a confession out of Larry before...
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lizzie has been accused of murdering her husband, and her death by hanging seems all but inevitable. That is until Detective Inspector John Kildare is assigned to the case of a serial killer who murders innocent victims while leaving his distinctive signature in blood.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2001, c2000
Physical Desc
443 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Still suffering from the murder of his family, Charlie "Bird" Parker returns to the Maine of his childhood and uncovers a legacy of evil that has haunted Maine citizens for decades. This masterful and menacing second novel is the sequel to Every Dead Thing.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Colette 'Coco' Weber has relocated to her Catalina Island home, where, twenty years before, she was the sole survivor of a deadly home invasion. All Coco wants is to see her aunt Gwen, get as far away from her ex as possible, and get back to her craft -- writing obituaries. Thankfully, her college best friend, Maddy, owns the local paper and has a job sure to keep Coco busy, considering the number of elderly folks who are dying on the island. But...
97) 2666
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Collects a series of five novellas from Roberto Bolaño, in which individuals are drawn for various reasons to the small Mexican border town of Santa Teresa, where hundreds of women have disappeared over the span of a decade.
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.
99) The pledge
Publisher
Warner Bros. Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A veteran police detective, on the day of his retirement, handles the case of a seven-year-old girl who has been brutally murdered. When a mentally retarded man confesses to the murder and then kills himself, the detectives consider the case closed, but was he actually the murderer? Before long evidence is uncovered that suggests the the girl was just one in a series of brutal killings involving young girls and a mysterious man.
100) Blinded
Author
Series
Alan Gregory novels volume 12
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
388 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Psychologist Alan Gregory skirts a fine line between professional confidentiality and social duty when he enlists his detective friend Sam Purdy in the investigation of missing ex-client Sterling Storey who has been accused by his wife of killing his lovers.
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