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Discover A New Series (WPL-ADULT)
OBD First in Series - ADULT
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OBD First in Series - ADULT
OBD Patron Picks Winter Reading 2023-2024 (Adult)
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"Renee Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. It's a frustrating assignment for a once up-and-coming detective, but it's no accident. She's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night Ballard catches two assignments she doesn't want to part with. First, a prostitute...
2) The last lie
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New York Times bestselling author Stephen White returns to his beloved Alan Gregory series with a taut, ripped-from-the-headlines crime story.
Thankfully Alan and Lauren Gregory aren't on the guest list when their affluent new neighbors hold a housewarming party—because the next morning, a rape accusation rocks the town of Boulder. And though Alan discovers he has a most unusual perspective into what truly happened after the party,...
Thankfully Alan and Lauren Gregory aren't on the guest list when their affluent new neighbors hold a housewarming party—because the next morning, a rape accusation rocks the town of Boulder. And though Alan discovers he has a most unusual perspective into what truly happened after the party,...
3) Vigilante
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"Lita Mendez was a thorn in the LAPD's side. An aggressive police critic and gang activist, she'd filed countless complaints against the department. So when she's found dead in her home, Detective Scully and his partner Hitchens fear the worst: that there's a killer in their ranks. Outside the crime scene, Nixon Nash and his television crew have set up shop. Nash is the charismatic host of a hit reality show called "Vigilante TV," dedicated to beating...
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In Philadelphia -- suffering among the country's highest murder rates -- the tension between the Philadelphia Police Department and its Citizens Oversight Committee has long been reaching a boiling point. That turmoil turns from bad to worse shortly after the committee begins targeting police shootings -- especially those of twenty-seven-year-old Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne, the "Wyatt Earp of the Main Line" -- and then the committee's combative...
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The Woodburys cherish life in the affluent, bucolic suburb of Avalon Hills, Connecticut. George is a beloved science teacher at the local prep school, a hero who once thwarted a gunman, and his wife, Joan, is a hardworking ER nurse. They have brought up their children in this thriving town of wooded yards and sprawling lakes. Then one night a police car pulls up to the Woodbury home and George is charged with sexual misconduct with students from his...
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When Thomas Magner's business partner is found dead in his car on the outskirts of St. Andrews, all evidence points to suicide. Meanwhile Magner, a wealthy property developer, is under investigation for a series of alleged rapes almost thirty years ago. In total, eleven women are prepared to go to court to testify against him, but one by one they withdraw their complaints until only six remain. Was Magner a serial rapist in his youth? Or was he something...
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Panorama de narrativas volume 1044
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Cuando los padres de Adélaïde la encuentran llorando, casi muda e incapaz de explicar completamente lo sucedido, la llevan a la comisaría y presentan una denuncia contra un agresor desconocido por agresión sexual. Pasan los años, años en los que no dice nada y lleva una sonrisa estampada en su rostro. Los innumerables días de sufrimiento y soledad pasan mientras ella lucha contra las medusas. Veintitrés años después del día de su asalto,...
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