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121) Dead of night
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Mira
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Dancers in the dark: Layla Rue Le May is no ordinary dancer--her partner, Sean McClendon, is a three-hundred-year-old redheaded vampire. When Layla Rue acquires a stalker, she's forced to face the music ... and wonder if this will finally be her last dance.
The Devil's footprint: Years after her sister's unsolved murder, Sarah DeLaune is haunted by the mysteries of her past when two mutilated bodies are found near Sarah's New Orleans home, the crime...
Author
Language
English
Description
"After Aggie Dunkirk's career is unceremoniously ended by her own mistakes, she finds herself traveling to Wisconsin, where her grandmother, Mumsie, lives alone in her rambling old home. She didn't plan for how eccentric Mumsie has become, obsessing over an old, unsolved crime scene--even going so far as to re-create it in the attic. Mystery seems to follow her when she finds work as a secretary helping to restore the flooded historical part of the...
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Fifty years ago, a serial killer prowled the quiet city of London, Ontario, marking it as his hunting grounds. As young women and boys were abducted, raped, and murdered, residents of the area held their loved ones closer and closer, terrified of the monster -- or monsters -- stalking the streets. Homicide detective Dennis Alsop began hunting the killer in the 1960s, and he didn't stop searching until his death 40 years later. For decades, detectives,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lyla Moody loves her sleepy little town of Sweet Mountain, Georgia. She likes her job as receptionist for her uncle's private investigative firm, her fellow true crime obsessed Jane Doe members are the friends she's always wanted, and her parents just celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. But recently, with her best friend Melanie on vacation, and her ex-boyfriend and horrible cousin becoming an item and moving in next door to her, her idyllic...
126) Cold cold heart
Author
Language
English
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag delivers a shocking new thriller...Dana Nolan was a promising young TV reporter until a notorious serial killer tried to add her to his list of victims. Nearly a year has passed since surviving her ordeal, but the physical, emotional, and psychological scars run deep. Struggling with the torment of post-traumatic stress syndrome, plagued by flashbacks and nightmares as dark as the heart of a killer,...
127) Roses & violets
Author
Series
Rosenholm trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Arctis
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Four girls receive invitations to apply for a school they've never heard of and make it through the unusual testing process to find themselves placed in a magical boarding school for students with powers. Once the school year begins, a young woman's spirit urges the new girls to solve her murder which has been cold since the 1980s -- but unbeknownst to them, doing so will put them in mortal danger.
129) Justice buried
Author
Series
Memphis Cold Case novels volume 2
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In an effort to get her security consulting business off the ground, Kelsey Allen has been spending a lot of time up in the air, rappelling down buildings and climbing through windows to show business owners their vulnerabilities to thieves. When she is hired to pose as a conservator at the Pink Palace Museum in order to test their security weaknesses after some artifacts go missing, she's ecstatic. But when her investigative focus turns from theft...
130) The 12th commandment
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Dönme sect -- a group of Jewish-Islamic adherents with ancient roots -- lives in an isolated community on rural land outside of smalltown Mt. Izmir, Ohio. Self-sustaining, deeply-religious, and heavily-armed, they have followed their self-proclaimed prophet, Natan of Flatbush, from Brooklyn to this new land. But the brutal murder of Natan's teenage son throws their tight community into turmoil. When Zeke Leger, a thirty-year-old writer at a...
131) Shadow sands
Author
Series
Kate Marshall volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Kate Marshall was a promising young police detective when she caught the notorious Nine Elms serial killer. But her greatest victory suddenly turned into a nightmare. Traumatized, betrayed, and publicly vilified for the shocking circumstances surrounding the cannibal murder case, Kate could only watch as her career ended in scandal. Fifteen years after those catastrophic events, Kate is still haunted by the unquiet ghosts of her troubled past. Now...
132) The comforts of home
Author
Series
Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 9
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Investigating a cold case while recovering from a near-fatal injury, Simon Serrailler finds his personal and professional lives intertwining in unexpected ways when his constable brother-in-law suffers a setback at the same time an arsonist begins a deadly rampage.
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
This book revisits the life and crimes of Ted Bundy. It seeks to reconcile the contradictions and controversies about his life that underscore the broader US unsolved murder problem, one that is estimated at between 250,000 to 350,000 open, unresolved, or cold cases. The incidence of crime is far greater than is captured by official statistics; most offenses are never detected, a concept known as the dark figure of crime which is explored here. Drawing...
Author
Publisher
Mindy's Book Studio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When a crazy twist of fate sends him back to 1985, Justin Warren meets determined optimist Rose Yin, and in a series of events that reverberate through multiple lifetimes, they have a week to get him unstuck in time and solve a murder that hasn't happened yet.
136) Those we left behind
Author
Series
Serena Flanagan novels volume 1
Publisher
SOHO Crime
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Returning to work after battling breast cancer, Belfast DCI Serena Flanagan re-opens a closed case after Ciaran Devine, the "schoolboy killer" who, at the age of twelve, confessed to killing his foster father, is released from prison.
137) Freeze frame
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
This case takes Enzo to a tiny island off the coast of Brittany in France, where he must confront the hostility of locals who have no desire to see the infamous murder back in the headlines. An attractive widow, a man charged but acquitted of the murder (but still a viable suspect), a crime scene frozen in time, a dangerous hell hole by the cliffs, and a collection of impenetrable messages make this one of Enzo's most difficult cases.
138) Darkness falls
Author
Series
Kate Marshall volume 3
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Kate Marshall's investigation into a journalist's disappearance sends her down an unexpectedly twisted path in a riveting thriller by the author of Shadow Sands. Kate Marshall's fledgling PI agency takes off when she and her partner, Tristan Harper, are hired for their first big case. It's a cold one. Twelve years before, journalist Joanna Duncan disappeared after exposing a political scandal. Most people have moved on. Joanna's mother refuses to...
140) A reasonable doubt
Author
Series
Robin Lockwood novels volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A magician linked to three murders and suspicious deaths years ago disappears in the middle of his new act in New York Times bestseller Phillip Margolin's latest thriller featuring Robin Lockwood Robin Lockwood is a young criminal defense attorney and partner in a prominent law firm in Portland, Oregon. A former MMA fighter and Yale Law graduate, she joined the firm of legal legend Regina Barrister not long before Regina was forced into retirement...
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