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1) Killing moon
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Detective Harry Hole volume 13
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"Two young women are missing, their only connection a party they both attended, hosted by a notorious real-estate magnate. When one of the women is found murdered, the police discover an unusual signature left by the killer, giving them reason to suspect he will strike again. And exposing him calls for a detective like no other. But the legendary Harry Hole is gone--fired from the force, drinking himself to oblivion in Los Angeles. It seems that nothing...
3) The trap
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"One year ago, Lucy's sister, Nicki, left to meet friends at a pub in Dublin and never came home. The third Irish woman to vanish inexplicably in as many years, the agony of not knowing what happened that night has turned Lucy's life into a waking nightmare. So, she's going to take matters into her own hands. Angela works as a civilian paper-pusher in the Missing Persons Unit, but wants nothing more than to be a fully-fledged member of An Garda Síochána,...
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When it comes to picking jurors, Calla Gentry is one of the best. She can discern the right people to serve, steering trials towards acquittals or convictions before they even begin. It's both an art and a science, knowing people better than they know themselves. And Calla plays the system like a master. Her newest case seems open and shut: get the wealthy son of a rancher acquitted of rape and murder. But as Calla investigates, she discovers evidence...
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Book four of the bestselling Max Freeman mystery series: Max's investigation of a string of murders in south Florida leads him to the most shocking of suspects. After three young female bartenders were murdered in Miami and one went missing in Philadelphia, Freeman's ex-girlfriend Sherry Richards hires him to help with the case. Freeman grudgingly accepts the job, despite Sherry's insistence that a retired police officer who saved Freeman's life back...
6) Belladonna
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Who is Belladonna?
In New York City, she's known only as the mysterious masked woman who presides over the most exclusive, opulent club of the times.
In Virginia's blue-blood countryside, she's known as the Contessa, the elusive heiress who flaunts convention and shuns human contact.
But then there are a wretched few who remember her from "The Club" and knew her as a fresh-faced innocent whom they desired...and misled...and left to the sadistic...
7) Sock
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Twisting the buddy cop story upside down and inside out, Penn Jillette has created the most distinctive narrator to come along in fiction in many years: a sock monkey called Dickie. The sock monkey belongs to a New York City police diver who discovers the body of an old lover in the murky waters of the Hudson River and sets off with her best friend to find her killer. The story of their quest swerves and veers, takes off into philosophical riffs,...
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In Dallas, after his client breaks out of jail, a defense lawyer becomes the object of two manhunts. The police want him, convinced he arranged the escape, and the mob is after him because they don't want him to help the client, whom they want dead. In desperation the lawyer turns to his archenemy, a lady prosecutor.
9) Skin River
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Skin River is the story of Buddy Bayes, a man with a past trying desperately for a second chance at a peaceful life as a tavern owner in small-town Gunnar, Wisconsin. His hopes for a new start are shattered, however, when he finds the severed hand of a missing young woman and falls headlong into a harrowing situation which has Buddy convinced that his past has come back to haunt him. Things aren't what they seem, though, and jumping to conclusions...
10) I can see you
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Eve Wilson's face was once marred by a vicious assault. Terrified and ashamed, she retreated to the virtual realm where no one could see her. Now, years later, her outer scars faded and inner scars buried, she's fought her way back to the real world, and is determined to help others do the same. Then her test subjects on the addictive powers of the Internet start turning up as "suicides." Detective Noah Webster is one of the few people who believe...
11) Trigger city
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Ray Dudgeon novels volume 2
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"A riveting and terrifying novel-a true thriller in every sense of the word. . . . Masterful." - Sara Paretsky, author of Burning Kansas and Fire Sale
"Packed with action and heart-breaking moments of truth." - Robert Crais, author of The Watchman
"Taut, hair-raising and ultimately enriching. You will not be disappointed." - Andrew Gross, author of The Blue Zone and The Dark Tide
"The writing is superb-dark poetry and violence in a seamless narrative...
12) Breaking faith
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Brodie Farrell novels volume 5
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When she called her business "Looking for Something?" Brodie Farrell hoped to receive challenging commissions from interesting clients. Even by her standards, though, demon rock musician Jared Fry is hard to please. Fortunately his manager, the charismatic Eric Chandos, is easier to like, and it's with him that Brodie works to find a new home for the rock star.
An old coaching inn on the Downs seems the perfect choice. Though the locals are appalled---and...
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Marti MacAlister mysteries volume 12
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Lincoln Prairie Homicide Detective Marti MacAlister does not get along with her new boss. Lieutenant Gail Nicholson disapproves of what she calls Marti's sloppy work habits, and regards her success as a fluke rather than the result of hard work and skill. Marti thinks the woman just may be feeling overly competitive with her, as one of the only other women on the job, and a black woman at that, but Marti knows she must put up with her boss's ill will...
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1940's Detroit: the war effort is in full swing and racial tensions are running high. When a vivacious white heiress is murdered in the black part of town, the city threatens to erupt into mob violence, bringing the factories to a grinding halt and imperiling Allied forces around the world.
Newly minted Detective Pete Caudill is charged with covering up the crime in the interests of civic peace and finding some kind of justice for the dead girl....
15) Ash child
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Crystal meth, brushfires, and a murderer on the loose threaten Du Pré's tranquil Montana town Drought has come to Toussaint, Montana, and appendicitis has stricken the Métis Indian tracker and investigator Gabriel Du Pré. His appendix is bad enough, but what really hurts is being trapped in the hospital when he learns that Maddy Collins has been killed. As far as Du Pré knows, no one in town had cause to dislike the harmless old coot, much less...
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"Philadelphia, 1875: It is the start of term at Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. Dr. Lydia Weston, professor and anatomist, is immersed in teaching her students in the lecture hall and hospital. When the body of a patient, Anna Ward, is dredged out of the Schuylkill River, the young chambermaid's death is deemed a suicide. But Lydia is suspicious and she is soon brought into the police investigation. Aided by a diary filled with cryptic passages...
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2023 Best Adult Fiction & Nonfiction (SCPL)
2024 Summer Reading: Parlor (Investigative Mysteries)
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2024 Summer Reading: Parlor (Investigative Mysteries)
Best Fiction of 2023
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"January 15, 1978, is a night of promise, excitement, and desire. A serial killer's murderous spree in the Pacific Northwest couldn't be further from the minds of the vibrant young women at the top sorority on Florida State University's campus in Tallahassee. That night, Pamela Schumacher, president of the sorority, makes the unpopular decision to stay home. Startled awake at 3 a.m. by a strange sound, she makes the fateful decision to investigate....
18) The presence
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The presence: Toni McNally has a plan, buy a ancient, run-down Scottish castle and turn it into a tourist destination with a ghost theme, the ghost of Laird MacNiall. However when Bruce MacNiall the ghost they "made up" shows up, and young women start turning up dead in the nearby town. Bruce and Toni have to quickly solve this case or lose everything.
When twilight comes: When Jenna Dante is stranded with her child in a storm, she has no choice...
19) Now we are dead
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Detective Chief Inspector Roberta Steel got caught fitting up Jack Wallace - that's why they demoted her and quashed his sentence. Now he's back on the streets and women are being attacked again. Wallace has to be responsible, but if Detective Sergeant Steel goes anywhere near him, his lawyers will get her thrown off the force for good. The Powers That Be won't listen to her, not after what happened last time. According to them, she's got more than...
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Elsa Klensch, former host of CNN's "Style with Elsa Klensch," has an insider's knowledge of the fashion industry's most flamboyant personalities coupled with an outsider's sharp-eyed objectivity.
In Live at 10, Dead at 10:15, Klensch brilliantly evokes the worlds of fashion and design through the eyes of Sonya Iverson, ambitious Midwesterner striving to succeed in New York City. As a producer for the network newsmagazine "The Donna Fuller Show,"...
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