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2) Compulsion
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Series
Max Revere novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Investigative reporter Maxine Revere has a theory: that the five New York City murders for which Adam Bachman is being tried are just part of his killing spree. In probing the disappearance of a retired couple who vanished the prior summer, Max uncoversstriking similarities to Bachman's MO and develops a theory that Bachman wasn't working alone. Max wins a coveted pre-trial interview with the killer, whose disarming composure in the face of her...
Author
Series
Will Trent series volume 8
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Husbands and wives. Mothers and daughters. The past and the future. Secrets bind them. And secrets can destroy them. The author of Pretty Girls returns with an electrifying, emotionally complex thriller that plunges its fascinating protagonist into the darkest depths of a mystery that just might destroy him. With the discovery of a murder at an abandoned construction site, Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is brought in on a case...
Author
Series
Private justice volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
Tenacious reporter Moira Harrisons turns to a handsome private detective to help her solve a mysterious disappearance the police say never happened--but someone will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden.
Author
Series
Chet and Bernie mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Appears on list
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Description
Introducing two-legged Bernie and his four-legged pal Chet--a canine with a penchant for solving mysteries--their first case is to track down a teenager who's out way past curfew.
6) Watch her
Author
Series
Hester Thursby novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the third intelligently dark suspense novel by two-time Agatha Award-nominated author Edwin Hill, Harvard librarian Hester Thursby becomes enmeshed with a powerful Boston family desperate to keep their deepest secrets from coming to light... Kensington mystery series, 304pp., 50K
Author
Series
Private justice volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"Spotting a familiar-looking child in the mall, Kate Marshall is convinced he is the son she thought died in a boating accident along with her husband three years ago. With police skeptical of her story, she turns to private investigator Connor Sullivan, a former Secret Service agent, to discover the truth"--
8) Deceit
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Joanne Weeks knows Baxter Jackson killed Linda--his second wife and Joanne's best friend--six years ago. But Jackson, a church elder and beloved member of the town, walks the streets a free man. -- p. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Aaron Falk novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When five colleagues are forced to go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness, they reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking down the muddy path. But one of the women doesn't come out of the woods. And each of her companions tells a slightly different story about what happened. Federal Police Agent Aaron Falk has a keen interest in the whereabouts of the missing hiker. In an investigation that takes him deep into isolated forest, Falk...
Author
Series
Joplin chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Assigned to find the kidnapped daughter of a mob boss, Pinkerton operative Calista York is sent to a rowdy mining town in Missouri. But she faces the obstacle of missionary Matthew Cook. He's as determined to stop a local baby raffle as he is the reckless Miss York whose bad judgement consistently seems to be putting her in harm's way"--
11) The missing
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A harrowing psychological thriller about a missing teenage boy whose mother must expose the secrets within their own family if she wants to find her son-perfect for fans of Reconstructing Amelia.
You love your family. They make you feel safe. You trust them. Or do you...?
When fifteen-year-old Billy Wilkinson goes missing in the middle of the night, his mother, Claire Wilkinson, blames herself. She's not the only one. There isn't a single member...
12) Edited out
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Mystery author Rachel Goldman is getting used to the idea that her fictional creation Duffy Madison has somehow taken flesh-and-blood form and is investigating missing person cases not far from where Rachel lives. Wait. No. She's not getting used to it at all, and the presence of this real-life Duffy is making her current manuscriptwhat's the word?lousy. So she doesn't want to see Duffythe living oneat all. To make matters worse, when he shows...
13) Street freaks
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It begins with a dire call-right before his father disappears and his skyscraper home's doors explode inward. "Go into the Red Zone. Go to Street Freaks." his father directs Ashton Collins before the vid feed goes suddenly silent. The Red Zone is the dangerous heart of mega-city Los Angeles; it is a world Ash is forbidden from and one he knows little about. But if he can find Street Freaks, the strangest of aid awaits-human and barely human alike....
Author
Series
Louise Rick and Camilla Lind novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Sara Blaedel, author of the #1 international bestseller The Forgotten Girls--which was roundly praised as "gripping" with "uncompromising realism" (Washington Post) and "tautly suspenseful" (BookPage)--returns with the thrilling next book in her series featuring police investigator Louise Rick. THE KILLING FORESTFollowing an extended leave, Louise Rick returns to work at the Special Search Agency, an elite unit of the National Police Department....
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Series
Krewe of Hunters volume 36
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Women are being taken in Virginia, and FBI agent Mark Gallagher is determined to put a stop to it. Certain he's closing in on the killer known as The Embracer, Mark is less than thrilled when he's partnered with rookie agent Colleen Law, worried she's a liability when there's so much at stake. But like everyone in the Krewe of Hunters, Colleen has talents that extend beyond the usual investigative toolbox. She can hear the voices...
16) Beautiful liars
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the photograph Martha Benn has kept for two decades, three girls lounge on the grass during a school field trip. Beside Martha, there's Liv, petite and wickedly funny, and Juliet, their unofficial leader, brave, kind, and effortlessly beautiful. Back then, they meant the world to each other. But when Juliet disappeared, the bond between Martha and Liv unraveled too. Martha was the last known person to see Juliet alive, and she still has no idea...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Haunted by the disappearance of his mother when he was eight years old, detective Hud Matthews begins his own investigation to find out what really happened so many years before. When a rare murder occurs in the lakeside community, Hud's veteran skills are called upon to capture the killer. Pulled deep into the threads of the community with ties to the past, Hud quickly becomes a target, not only of the killer, but of those who wish the past to be...
18) Dark rites
Author
Series
Krewe of Hunters volume 22
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
A series of bizarre assaults is mystifying Boston police-an unknown attacker is viciously beating random strangers and leaving a note quoting an old warning about witchcraft. History professor Alex Maple was one of the victims, and now he's gone missing. Vickie Preston is certain that someone has taken her friend for malicious purposes. She's having blood-drenched visions that seem to be staining her waking life, and the escalating attacks suggest...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
For fans of Miranda James and Jenn McKinlay, the third conspiratorially delightful third entry in Victoria Gilbert's critically acclaimed Blue Ridge Library mysteries. Has a curse fallen on the small town of Taylorsford, Virginia? After a young woman goes missing during a spring bonfire, library director Amy Webber must wade through the web of lies only to find a truth that she may not want to untangle. Spring has sprung in quaint Taylorsford, Virginia,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A childhood spent in a dangerous cult left Sunday Night never with a bone-deep instinct for survival that's kept her alive into adulthood but left her mostly friendless. Forced into early retirement from the police force due to an injury, Sunnie retreats from an outside world she doesn't trust and sees little use for, until a wealthy woman contacts her with a plea: her teenage granddaughter has been missing since the day of a bombing near a Jewish...
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