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Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, but after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before -- the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals. Bosch brings the...
Author
Series
Men of valor volume 1
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Former Chicago homicide detective and current small town police chief Lisa Grant works with former Navy SEAL and detective Mac McGregor to investigate the discovery of an unmarked grave, which puts the two in danger from someone desperate to stop the investigation.
3) Double take
Author
Series
Lake City heroes volume 1
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Detective James Holton has been honorably discharged from the Army Criminal Investigation Division. Now with the Lake City Police Department, he's rooming with his good buddy and partner, Cole. Physician assistant Lainie Jackson is eighteen months out from an attempted murder by her ex, which ended when she managed to grab the weapon and shoot him. When he appears to have survived and is back to finish the job, Lainie insists it's not possible. But...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
J. P. Beaumont and Brandon Walker, two of New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance's most acclaimed series characters, join forces for the first time in one of the most suspenseful works of her career.Prospector Amos Warren and Big Bad John Lassiter, his young protégé, were as close as father and son until a violent argument tore them apart. The next day, Amos disappeared, never to be seen again. Years later, his bones were found in the desert....
5) The good son
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When her son is released from prison after serving time for the negligent homicide of his girlfriend, Thea is committed to helping him make amends until attempts on their lives are made, leading her to believe that those who are threatening them have something to hide.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
As he grieves his best friend Benny's death, Mason and his friend Calvin, who are targeted by the neighborhood bullies, create an underground haven for themselves, but when Calvin goes missing Mason finds himself in trouble.
Author
Series
Irish Village Mystery volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-two-year-old Siobhán O'Sullivan runs the family bistro named for her mother. It's been a rough year for Siobhán, but it's about to get rougher. One morning they discover a man seated at a table with a pair of scissors protruding from his chest. It's up to Siobhán to solve the crime.
Siobhán O'Sullivan runs the family bistro named for her mother, along with her five siblings. It's been a rough year for them, but it's about to get rougher...
8) Long shadows
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Amos Decker is called to South Florida to investigate a double homicide, the case appears straightforward: A federal judge and her bodyguard have been found dead, the judge's face sporting a blindfold with two eye holes crudely cut out, a clear sign that she'd made one too many enemies over her years on the bench. What at first seems cut and dry is anything but: Not only did the judge have more enemies than Decker can count--from violent gang...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge Western
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Retired ranger David Shannon is being asked to reenlist in the company to help protect settlers against Indian raids, but David has other plans in mind, including marriage and a family, but when an unspeakable tragedy changes David's plans, he joins the Rangers in search of revenge.
10) Over the line
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In this high-stakes romantic suspense novel where tensions mount on both sides of the border, bestselling author Kelly Irvin explores what happens when the past explodes against the present and the only person you can turn to is the one who broke your heart"--
Laredo, Texas. When a man she's never met shows up at her restaurant, a bullet in his chest and her brother's name on his lips, Gabriella realizes he is connected to a powerful ring of criminals...
11) Scowler
Author
Publisher
Ember
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a 1981 meteor shower in Iowa, a homicidal maniac escapes from prison and returns to the farm where his nineteen-year-old son, Ry, must summon three childhood toys, including one called Scowler, to protect himself, his eleven-year-old sister, Sarah, and their mother.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In this gritty and gripping new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Eve Dallas fights to save the innocent--and serve justice to the guilty--on the streets of New York. Homicide cop Eve Dallas and her billionaire husband, Roarke, are building a brand-new school and youth shelter. They know that the hard life can lead kids toward dangerous crossroads--and with this new project, they hope to nudge a few more of them onto the right path....
13) Her Deadly Game
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Keera Duggan was building a solid reputation as a Seattle prosecutor, until her romantic relationship with a senior colleague ended badly. For the competitive former chess prodigy, returning to her family's failing criminal defense law firm to work for her father is the best shot she has. With the right moves, she hopes to restore the family's reputation, her relationship with her father, and her career. Keera's chance to play in the big leagues...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When a mutilated body is found hanging in a seedy motel in Philadelphia, forensics specialist Liam Dwyer assumes the crime scene will be business as usual. Instead, the victim turns out to be a woman he'd had an affair with before breaking it off to save his marriage. But there's a bigger problem: Liam has no memory of where he was or what he did on the night of the murder. Panicked, Liam turns to his brother, Sean, a homicide detective. Sean has...
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Christmas Cocoa Murder: Siobhan O'Sullivan's hopes for a quiet Irish Christmas are dashed when the local Santa turns up dead in a carnival dunk tank of hot cocoa. Now instead of hunting down holiday gifts, she's pursuing a heartless killer. Seems the dead Santa was no angel either, stealing neighborhood dogs to guide his sleigh. But was it his holiday antics--or worse--that led to his death by chocolate?
Christmas Cocoa and a Corpse: When local businessman...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart, a riveting new novel of legal suspense featuring Dismas Hardy and his daughter, Rebecca, now grown up and an associate in Hardys law firm.Late one night, a teenage African American foster child named Tanya Morgan plummets to her death from the overpass above San Franciscos Stockton tunnel. But did she fall...or was she pushed?Rushing to produce a convictable suspect in the glare of the media spotlight,...
17) Rogue lawyer
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"On the right side of the law. Sort of. Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who's also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy. He lives alone in a small but extremely safe penthouse...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2000, c1853
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup is a memoir of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped, sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, DC, as well as describing at length cotton cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.
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