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Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Former Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont may have cut himself loose from the Seattle police force, but that doesn't mean he's out of the game. As he accompanies his grandmother and her new husband on their honeymoon cruise to Alaska, murder suddenly makes waves. Mistaken for an FBI agent, Beau is inadvertently drawn into the investigation, bringing his skill and sardonic humor to bear on a case where clues are few but suspects abound.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Once the best of friends until a terrible secret tore them apart, a group of friends are suddenly brought back together under tragic circumstances and wonder if their long-ago lie is the reason for their troubles today and if someone is out to destroy them.
6) Lucky stiff
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas Day in the sleepy town of Sorenson, Wisconsin, but instead of unwrapping presents, deputy coroner Mattie Winston is at the burnt remains of a house, where a charred body has been found. The victim is none other than Jack Allen--a paraplegic who recently won a huge casino jackpot. Upon closer inspection, Mattie and detective Steve Hurley are convinced Jack was murdered to steal his winnings, giving the phrase Black Jack a whole new meaning....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control,...
Author
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Every Secret Thing is a riveting story of love and murder, guilt and innocence, adult sins and childhood darkness that the New York Times Book Review hailed as, "powerful…disturbing." Stepping away from her acclaimed, award-winning mystery series featuring Baltimore private investigator Tess Monaghan, author Laura Lippman has delivered a novel of psychological suspense that will shock and mesmerize readers, gripping them to the page while breaking...
Author
Series
Night series (John Lutz) volume 5
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A Madman's Obsession Is A City's Nightmare
He comes out when the sun goes down. He's made New York City his shooting gallery. The Night Sniper threatens to increase the body count-unless legendary homicide detective Vin Repetto is willing to engage him in a lethal game of cat and mouse. When the next victim is murdered right before Repetto's eyes, the game is set to begin. But The Night Sniper doesn't realize they're playing by Repetto's rules. ....
10) Life sentences
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"...Cassandra Fellows returns home to Baltimore, researching material for a new book, where she decides to weave the tragic story of an old classmate with memories of her school years."
Author
Series
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
With the nation's eye on Black River Falls, McCain chases a snake handler's killer Fundamentalist preacher John Muldaur isn't afraid of snakes-he uses them every week in his services-but he's convinced that the Pope is trying to kill him. Iowa lawyer Sam McCain, the poorest attorney in a thriving town, listens patiently to the self-declared reverend's outlandish theories about being targeted by a papal hit squad, and agrees to investigate the matter...
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Twelve years ago, Matthew Scudder lied to a jury to put James Leo Motley behind bars. Now the ingenious psychopath is free. And the alcoholic ex-cop-turned-P.I. must pay dearly for his sins. Friends and former lovers -- even strangers unfortunate enough to share Scudder's name -- are turning up dead. Because a vengeful maniac is determined not to rest until he's driven his nemesis back to the bottle... and then to the boneyard.
Author
Publisher
O. Penzler Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
When a topless dancer is beaten to death, police detective Joe Kiley strongly suspects her boyfriend, a mob kingpin's brother, is the killer. He isn't-but in the course of trying to track him down, Kiley's partner winds up dead during an unauthorized stakeout.
Now Kiley wants vengeance-if not for the dancer, then for his longtime fellow cop. Despite warnings from the department, he's about to be drawn deep into the world of gangs and organized crime,...
14) Second watch
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beaumont is taking some time off to get knee replacement surgery, but instead of taking his mind off work the operation plunges him into one of the most perplexing mysteries he's ever faced. His past collides with his present, explore the staggering cost of war and the debts we owe those who served in the Vietnam War, and those in uniform today.
Author
Series
Sam McCain mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
In 1950s Iowa, a murder-suicide forces a lawyer to put aside his rock-and-roll grief Sam McCain loves Buddy Holly because he's the only rock-and-roll star who still seems like a dweeb, and Sam knows how that feels. With the unrequited love of his life at his side, Sam drives more than three hours through the snow to watch his idol play the Surf Ballroom. That night, Buddy Holly dies in the most famous plane crash in music history, but Sam has no time...
16) Shell game
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sara Paretsky follows her instant New York Times bestseller Fallout--her most widely read novel in years--with an extraordinary adventure that pits her acclaimed detective, V.I. Warshawski, against some of today's most powerful figures. Legendary sleuth V.I. Warshawski returns to the Windy City to save an old friend's nephew from a murder arrest. The case involves a stolen artifact that could implicate a shadowy network of international criminals....
Author
Series
Sam McCain mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
At the height of the Cold War, a dead woman turns up in a bomb shelter Black River Falls used to be a boring small town, but at the pinnacle of the Cuban Missile Crisis, nowhere in America can be boring anymore. As the country awaits nuclear annihilation, Iowa gubernatorial favorite Ross Murdoch has a crisis of his own: There is a dead woman in his bomb shelter. Murdoch tells his lawyer, Sam McCain, that the corpse was planted there by his enemies...
18) Fire and ice
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Big-city homicide detective J.P. Beaumont and small-town sheriff/mom Joanna Brady join forces once again to solve a case involving a series of murders--six young women wrapped in tarps, doused with gasoline, and set on fire; and one elderly caretaker run over and left to die.
19) Fallout
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
V.I. Warshawski travels to Kansas to investigate the disappearances of a young film student and a faded Hollywood star, but long-simmering racial tensions stir up more mysteries as the body count rises.
20) Hush, hush
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a searing August day, Melisandre Harris Dawes committed the unthinkable: she left her two-month-old daughter locked in a car while she sat nearby on the shores of the Patapsco River. Melisandre was found not guilty by reason of criminal insanity, although there was much skepticism about her mental state. Freed, she left the country, her husband and her two surviving children, determined to start over. But now Melisandre has returned Baltimore to...
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