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41) Purgatory Bay
Author
Series
Bleak Harbor novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Former reporter Michaela "Mikey" Deming and Bleak Harbor police chief Katya Malone track a woman bent on revenge for the murders of her family members 12 years prior.
42) Paradise Falls
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Caitlin Whittington is the second girl in Paradise Falls to disappear in five months. When Caitlin's mother discovers information that seems to implicate her stepson, Adam, it splits her once happily blended family. Detective Rayna Godwin, assigned to the case, is hampered by memories of her own murdered daughter.
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Struggling with her mother's marriage and her ex's attempts to gain custody of their daughter, Ella Clah investigates the murder of a New Mexico National Guard soldier whose death points to corruption in the victim's unit.
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Searching for an FBI agent who has gone missing on the reservation, Navajo Police investigator Ella Clah learns that the agent was involved in a social security fraud case and may have been targeted by one of Ella's FBI colleagues.
Author
Series
Berger and Mitry mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Under pressure to capture a flasher who has been targeting wealthy women in the Dorset Historic District, police officer Desiree Mitry becomes convinced about the culprit's identity and is wrongly accused of murder when her suspect turns up dead after a heated public confrontation.
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Ella Clah, a special investigator with the Navajo Police, finds herself at a loss for clues when a rash of murders accompanies the proposal by a group of businessmen to open a uranium mine and nuclear power plant on the Navajo Reservation.
47) Live to tell
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Even for hardened Detective D.D. Warren, the crime scene appeared shocking: a father methodically killing his entire family before mortally wounding himself. When other families meet a similar fate, D.D. must race against the clock to identify a twisted killer, before there{u2019}s no one left to live to tell."--Author's website.
48) Fractured truth
Author
Series
Bone Gap travellers volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When the mutilated remains of a young woman are found in an Appalachian Mountain cave, newly sworn-in deputy sheriff Brynn Callahan is forced to track down a killer driven by twisted motives.
49) Movieland
Author
Series
Eve Ronin novels volume 4
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"For decades Malibu Creek State Park was the spectacular natural setting where Hollywood fantasies were made. But when a female camper is gunned down, it becomes a real-life killing ground. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department homicide detectives Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone are assigned the case ... which Duncan fears is the latest in a series of sniper attacks that began long before Eve came to Lost Hills." --
51) Oath of honor
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This inspirational thriller from Eason (Moving Target) nicely mixes crime and romance in rural South Carolina. Childhood friends police officer Izzy St. John and rookie Kevin Marshall are now police partners. One night, acting on a tip from an informant he wasn't supposed to be in contact with, Kevin drags Izzy to an abandoned warehouse to do surveillance on a high-level arms deal. But when Kevin goes rogue and sprints into the warehouse where the...
52) Just desserts
Author
Series
Savannah Reid mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
53) Break of day
Author
Language
English
Description
Law enforcement officer Annie Pederson's life has been rocked by tragedy, but things finally seem to be heading in the right direction. Her relationship with the love of her life -- who's also the biological father of her precious daughter -- has never been better, and it looks like an engagement ring is in Annie's future. She's also slowly building back trust with her sister, Sarah, after a separation that lasted for decades. When a man escapes law...
Author
Series
Jess Lambert thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Moving to Black Lake, her childhood summer home, after a violent home invasion, Neve Maguire, when a body is found behind her house, realizes she's made a horrible mistake and must help Detective Jess Lambert catch a killer in a place where deadly secrets are only just beginning to surface.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Shocked by the murder of a young Navajo woman, Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah calls in FBI Agent Dwayne Blalock for help, but she soon realizes that the murderer may have a link to her own past and to her father, murdered a decade earlier.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Leaving behind the stress of being the highest-ranking woman in the Kansas City Police Department, Marquitta "Skeet" Bannion looks forward to the relative tranquility of running the police force on a peaceful college campus.
58) The Ursulina
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The mythical beast goes by many names. Bigfoot. Sasquatch. Yeti. In Black Wolf County, he's called...the Ursulina. But to Deputy Rebecca Colder, the beast is no myth. A serial killer has taken on the identity of the monster--and with each body left behind, there's a chilling message written in blood: I am the Ursulina." -- Inside front jacket flap.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The priest at a Catholic funeral mass brings the chalice to his lips--and falls over dead. When Detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas confirms that the consecrated wine contained potassium cyanide, she's determined to solve the murder of Father Miguel Flores, despite her discomfort with her surroundings. It's not the bodegas and pawn shops of East Harlem that bother her, though the neighborhood is a long way from the stone mansion she shares with her billionaire...
60) Split second
Author
Series
Maggie O'Dell novel volume 2
Publisher
Prairie Wind Publishing
Pub. Date
©2001.
Language
English
Description
FBI profiler Maggi O'Dell is still physically and mentally scarred by the two years she spent on Albert Stucky's case and she's fighting to get back on it. She gets her wish. Before she can even unpack the boxes in her new home, one of her neighbors disappears, leaving behind a bloody mess, and another is found dead in a Dumpster.
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