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341) The hanging girl
Author
Series
Department Q volume 6
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times and internationally bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen returns with the sixth book in his exhilarating Department Q series, featuring Detective Carl Morck and his enigmatic assistants, Assad and Rose. In the middle of his usual hard-won morning nap in the basement of police headquarters, Carl M�rck, head of Department Q, receives a call from a colleague working on the Danish island of Bornholm. Carl is dismissive when he realizes...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"NONE OF YOU ARE SAFE. "KILLER": Jack Queen has been exonerated and freed from prison thanks to retired LAPD officer Cato Hightower. But when guilt gnaws at Jack, he admits: "I actually did it." To which Hightower responds: "Yeah, no kidding." You see, the ex-cop has a special job in mind for the ex-con.... THE GIRL DETECTIVE: Fifteen-year-old Matilda Finnerty has been handed a potential death sentence in the form of a leukemia diagnosis. But that's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In the magnificent and brutal terrain of Glacier National Park, a devastating forest fire reveals a long ago crime that may be connected to the recent disappearance of a young boy, from the award-winning author of The Wild Inside and Mortal Fall--perfect for fans of Nevada Barr and C.J. Box. In a land sculpted by glaciers, the forest is on fire. Thick smoke chokes the mountain air and casts a twilight glow over the imposing mountains and vistas of...
344) The housemate
Author
Publisher
Polis Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Dubbed the Housemate Homicide, it's a mystery that has baffled Australians for almost a decade. Melbourne-based journalist Olive Groves worked on the story as a junior reporter and became obsessed by the case. Now, nine years later, the missing housemate turns up dead on a remote property. Olive is once again assigned to the story, this time reluctantly paired with precocious millennial podcaster Cooper Ng. As Oli and Cooper unearth new facts about...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The #1 internationally bestselling thriller, and ingenious book within a book, about the disappearance of a 15-year-old New Hampshire girl and, 30 years later, a young American writer's determination to clear his mentor's name-and find the inspiration for his next bestseller August 30, 1975: the day fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan is glimpsed fleeing through the woods before she disappears; the day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence. Thirty-three...
Author
Series
True crime junkies volume 1
Publisher
River Heights
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Disgraced attorney Andi Grey came to Alaska to find justice after a friend's murder. In order to find answers, she's gone undercover in the dangerous world of ice road trucking. Former CID investigator Duke McAllister is searching for his fiancée who disappeared two years ago on the Dalton Highway. Though the trail has gone cold, he hasn't given up hope he'll find her alive, along with the other women who've disappeared along the remote stretch...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Robert Reid moved his family to Scotland's Outer Hebrides in the 1990s, driven by hope, craving safety and community, and hiding a terrible secret. But despite his best efforts to fit in, Robert is always seen as an outsider. And as the legendary and violent Hebridean storms rage around him, he begins to unravel, believing his fate on the remote island of Kilmeray cannot be escaped. For her entire life, Maggie MacKay has sensed something was wrong...
Author
Series
Coroner's daughter mystery volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It's been ten years since Sandi Parkman went missing after being dropped off at home by her schoolmate, Nick Larson, now the sheriff of Freeport, Michigan. When a construction crew unearths Sandi's bones -- along with Nick's letterman jacket and one of his hairs -- Nick becomes suspect number one in the murder. Dr. Emily Hartford, the daughter of Freeport's medical examiner, is called in to investigate, but the case is about to get personal. Nick...
349) The missing ones
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The hole they dug was not deep. A white flour bag encased the little body. Three small faces watched from the window, eyes black with terror. The child in the middle spoke without turning his head. "I wonder which one of us will be next?" When a woman's body is discovered in a cathedral and hours later a young man is found hanging from a tree outside his home, Detective Lottie Parker is called in to lead the investigation. Both bodies have the same...
350) Up on the woof top
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Chet the dog, "the most lovable narrator in all of crime fiction" (Boston Globe) and his human partner Bernie Little find themselves high in the mountains this holiday season to help Dame Ariadne Carlisle, a renowned author of bestselling Christmas mysteries, find Rudy, her lead reindeer and good luck charm, who has gone missing. At Kringle Ranch, Dame Ariadne's expansive mountain spread, Chet discovers that he is not fond of reindeer. But the case...
351) The hurricane blonde
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A former child starlet is plunged back into the dangerous glitter of Hollywood after discovering the body of a young actress"--
Hollywood is a sickness. Few people understand this better than Salma Lowe, progeny of Hollywood royalty and a former child-star turned guide of the Stars Six Feet Under tour bus. Salma spends her days leading tourists around the star-studded avenues of Hollywood, pointing out where actresses have met spectacular or untimely...
Author
Series
Billie Levine volume 1
Publisher
Datura Books, an imprint of Watkins Media Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After her mother's Alzheimer's diagnosis, Billie Levine revamped her grandfather's private investigation firm and set up shop in the corner booth of her favorite North Jersey deli hoping the free pickles and flexible hours would allow her to take care of her mom and pay the bills. So when Tommy Russo, a rich kid with a nasty drug habit, offers her a stack of cash to find his missing girlfriend, how can she refuse? At first, Billie thinks this will...
353) All these ashes
Author
Series
Line of sight volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Russell Avery, laid-off reporter turned private investigator, is almost out of clients after he stood up against the Newark police officers whose problems he used to fix for a paycheck, exposing a scandal that left him on the wrong side of one of those thin blue lines. Desperate for work, Russell is as elated as he is skeptical when a detective shows up on his doorstep, asking him to look into one of the Brick City's most haunting mysteries: the...
354) Black coral
Author
Series
Underwater Investigation Unit volume 2
Publisher
Bolinda Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Sloan McPherson and the Underwater Investigation Unit have discovered a van at the bottom of a murky Florida pond. Sealed inside the watery tomb are the bodies of four teenagers who disappeared 30 years ago after leaving a rock concert. To authorities, it looks like a tragic accident. To Sloan, it looks like murder. Every piece of evidence is starting to connect to a string of cold case vanishings throughout Florida. Clue by clue, Sloan navigates...
355) In her tracks
Author
Series
Tracy Crosswhite novels volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Returning from an extended leave in her hometown of Cedar Grove, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself reassigned to the Seattle PD's cold case unit. As the protective mother of an infant daughter, Tracy is immediately drawn to her first file: the abduction of a five-year-old girl whose parents, embattled in a poisonous divorce, were once prime suspects. While reconstructing the days leading up to the girl's disappearance, Tracy is brought into...
356) All the best lies
Author
Series
Ellery Hathaway novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The highly anticipated third novel in the award-winning Ellery Hathaway mystery series. FBI agent Reed Markham is haunted by one painful unsolved mystery: who murdered his mother? Camilla was brutally stabbed to death more than forty years ago while baby Reed lay in his crib mere steps away. The trail went so cold that the Las Vegas Police Department has given up hope of solving the case. But then a shattering family secret changes everything Reed...
357) Hideout
Author
Series
Alice Vega novels volume 3
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
""Alice Vega is sensational--I want to see lots more of her"--Lee Child. A powerful new thriller from Louisa Luna. Alice Vega and Max Caplan return, uncovering a network of white supremacists in their search for a long-lost counter-culture hero. Alice Vega has made a career of finding the missing and vulnerable against a ticking clock, but she's never had a case like that of Zeb Williams, missing for thirty years. It was 1984, and the big Cal-Stanford...
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