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62) Caged
Author
Series
Agent Sayer Altair novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Washington D.C. police stumble upon a gruesome murder scene involving a girl who was slowly starved to death while held captive in a cage. When the victim is identified as the daughter of a high profile senator, FBI neuroscientist Sayer Altair is thrust into the spotlight. Now another girl has been taken and is teetering on the brink of death. Sayer races to save the second victim, but soon realizes that they are hunting a killer with a dangerous...
Author
Series
Kamil Pasha novels volume 1
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
351 p. : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"Most people who go missing are never found. But Alice was the lucky one... As a child, Alice was stolen from her backyard in a tiny Indiana community, but against the odds, her policeman father tracked her down within twenty-four hours and rescued her from harm. In the aftermath of the crime, her family decided to move to Chicago and close the door on that horrible day. Yet Alice hasn't forgotten. She devotes her spare time volunteering for a website...
Author
Series
Jeremiah Spur mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
viii, 339 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Some folks think the big-bellied sheriff of Brenham, Texas, isn't smart enough to get reelected. But he's savvy enough to ask retired Texas Ranger Jeremiah Spur for help when Sissy Fletcher is dug up in a pasture outside of town. The hell-raising daughter of a popular preacher, Sissy disappeared ten years ago after a rodeo dance. Everybody thought she ran off with a cowboy. Everybody was dead wrong, and now the Houston TV stations are spotlighting...
66) The ghost house
Author
Series
Annie Graham volume 1
Publisher
Carina, an imprint of Harlequin (UK)
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"There's not much that scares Annie Graham. Not even the horrors she has witnessed during her years on the police force. When she agrees to look after her brother's farmhouse, she finds herself drawn to the crumbling old mansion in the woods nearby. But an innocent exploration of the empty ruin and the discovery of the diary of former resident Alice leaves her more than a little spooked. She knows it holds the secrets to a dark past, and she has to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When the badly decomposed remains of a young woman are discovered in an isolated wooded area just outside Birmingham, the victim is quickly identified as Amy Peters, a Manchester University student who disappeared three years earlier. She is one of five young women who vanished from the streets of Manchester within a two-year period. Called in to assist the police investigation, criminologist Will Traynor believes they are looking for an intelligent,...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
383 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A novel in prose and verse by the author of the National Book Award-longlisted Blood Water Paint follows the experiences of a teen who finds courage in the story of a 15th-century avenger when her sister's rapist is set free without prison time.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Years ago, in the town of Saxon Falls, young Kelsey Willard disappeared and was presumed dead. The tragedy left her family with a fractured life. Now another teenage girl has gone missing, ripping open old wounds for the Willards. Bureau of Criminal Investigation agent Mark Foster has stumbled on uncanny parallels in the lives of the two missing girls that could unlock clues to a serial killer's identity. That means breaking down the walls of the...
Series
Library of America volume 268
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
767 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four suspense novels of the 1940s. These four stories explore the terrors of family life, personality disorders, and horrors of the mind.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"As the sun rises, a wealthy young woman - Samantha Seabrook - is found drowned in the ornamental fountain of a deserted Cambridge courtyard, the only clue - an antique silver chain wound tightly around her throat. It's Tara Thorpe's job to discover what happened to Miss Seabrook - but the case becomes personal when she learns that Samantha had been receiving death threats... rather like the one that landed on Tara's doorstep the night the woman died....
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
viii, 311 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The start of an exciting new World War II historical mystery series featuring charming, quirky Air Raid Warden Poppy Redfern.... Summer 1942. The world has been at war for three long and desperate years. In the remote English village of Little Buffenden, the Redfern family's house and farmland has been requisitioned by the War Office as a new airfield for the American Air Force. The village's Air Raid Warden, twentysomething Poppy Redfern, spends...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
ix, 288 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times bestseller Julia Spencer-Fleming returns to her beloved Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne mystery series with new crimes that span decades. 1952. Millers Kill Police Chief Harry McNeil is called to a crime scene where a woman in a party dress has been murdered with no obvious cause of death. 1972. Millers Kill Police Chief Jack Liddle is called to a murder scene of a woman that's very similar to one he worked as a trooper in the 50s....
75) Black Summer
Author
Series
Washington Poe volume 2
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
392, 7 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jared Keaton, chef to the stars. Charming. Charismatic. Psychopath ... He's currently serving a life sentence for the brutal murder of his daughter, Elizabeth. Her body was never found and Keaton was convicted largely on the testimony of Detective Sergeant Washington Poe. So when a young woman staggers into a remote police station with irrefutable evidence that she is Elizabeth Keaton, Poe finds himself on the wrong end of an investigation, one that...
76) A steep price
Author
Series
Tracy Crosswhite novels volume 6
Language
English
Description
"Called in to consult after a young woman disappears, Tracy Crosswhite has the uneasy feeling that this is no ordinary missing-persons case. When the body turns up in an abandoned well, Tracy's suspicions are confirmed. Estranged from her family, the victim had balked at an arranged marriage and had planned to attend graduate school. But someone cut her dreams short. Solving the mystery behind the murder isn't Tracy's only challenge. The detective...
77) The liar's girl
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Will Hurley was an attractive, charming, and impressive student at Dublin's elite St. John's College--and Ireland's most prolific serial killer. He stalked and drowned his five young victims in the muddy waters of the Grand Canal, and is currently serving a life sentence in the city's Central Psychiatric Hospital. Alison Smith's world imploded when Liz, her best friend, became the victim of the Canal Killer--and then her boyfriend Will confessed....
79) The 1st victim
Author
Series
Kovac / Liska volume 3.5
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2013
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (1 hr., 31 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
New Year's Day is a time for new beginnings, but Minneapolis homicide detectives Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska are focused on endings: specifically, the tragic end of their latest murder victim, an unidentified young woman discovered on the side of the freeway. Believed to be the victim of a serial killer, Kovac and Liska are determined to do the girl the small justice of returning her body to her family as they investigate her case, but it is no simple...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
423 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Danger surrounds the World's Fair of 1893 with a killer is on the loose in Chicago. Three debutants have already been accosted by an assailant wielding a stiletto. Can a young beauty and a police detective find a way to stop the killer?
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