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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In this novel of psychological suspense, a young journalist struggles to keep the demons of her alcoholism at bay as she finds her purpose again in tackling the mystery of a shocking headline-making crime, still unsolved after fifteen years"--
102) Stay with me
Author
Series
Brenna Spector novels volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Unable to recall the night of her sister Clea's mysterious disappearance 28 years earlier despite having a perfect memory, Brenna Spector finds her obsession with finding the truth hitting too close to home when her own teenage daughter goes missing.
Author
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years ago, a teenage girl fell into a canal late at night. Unable to swim, she went under and started to drown, only surviving thanks to a nearby man, an alcoholic, who heard her splashes and pulled her out, though not before she suffered irreparable brain damage that left her in a state of permanent childhood, unable to learn or mature. The drunk man claimed he saw her thrown into the canal by another man, but the following day he couldn't...
104) Anonymous
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A San Diego private investigator and true-crime podcaster investigates the threats of an unknown adversary who has possible ties to the unsolved disappearances of two young women from the Gaslamp Quarter's club district.
Author
Series
Department Q volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Chief detective Carl Mørck, recovering from what he thought was a career-destroying gunshot wound, is relegated to cold cases and becomes immersed in the five-year disappearance of a politician.
106) Absolution
Author
Series
Anderson and Costello volume 1
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Police detective Alan McAlpine is haunted by a decades-old case as he returns to Glasgow's Patrickhill Station after a long absence to investigate a serial killer who positions his victims' bodies as if they have been crucified.
Author
Series
Dave Gurney novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The most decorated homicide detective in NYPD history, Dave Gurney is still trying to adjust to his life of quasi-retirement in upstate New York when a young woman who is producing a documentary on a notorious murder spree seeks his counsel. Soon after, Gurney begins feeling threatened: a razor-sharp hunting arrow lands in his yard, and he narrowly escapes serious injury in a booby-trapped basement. As things grow more bizarre, he finds himself reexamining...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When her true-crime podcast becomes an overnight sensation, a young woman is pulled into the web of a case that may offer a surprising connection to her own sister's disappearance years earlier"--
Eight-year-old Marti Reese watched her sister Maggie get into a car-- and she never returned. Twenty years later, after countless false leads, Marti has abandoned her marriage, is drinking to forget, and documents her never-ending search via a true-crime...
110) Wormhole
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot, an imprint of Watkins Media Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Inspectors Gordon Kemp and Danni Bellini are pulled off their routine cold case investigations and ordered to investigate a murder from 2109: eighty years ago ..."--Back cover.
111) Ghostly echoes
Author
Series
Jackaby volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The highly anticipated third volume of the paranormal detective series perfect for "readers who enjoy Doctor Who, Supernatural, Grimm...and of course, Sherlock Holmes stories, and who are ready to say up into the wee hours." Jenny Cavanaugh, the ghostly landlord of 926 Augur Lane, has enlisted the services of her detective-agency tenants to solve a decade-old murder--her own. Abigail Rook and her eccentric employer, R. F. Jackaby, dive into the cold...
112) In dust and ashes
Author
Series
Hanne Wilhelmsen novels volume 10
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Author
Series
Keene and Frohmann novels volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In this dark, twisty mystery from the acclaimed author of Jane Doe January, two Cambridge detectives investigating a cold case murder become mired in a web of old secrets and deceit"--
114) The night fire
Author
Series
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
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gabriel Thane is the sheriff and lifetime resident of Carin County Illinois, committed to upholding the law and keeping the residents safe. Lieutenant Evie Blackwell is a State Police Detective skilled at investigations. She launches a new task force to reexamine unsolved crimes across the state. She begins work with the sheriff's department on a few of its most troubling missing-persons cases, a deputy, his wife and eleven-year old son's disappearance,...
117) Cold case true crime
Author
Series
Harlequin intrigue volume 2012
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
True crime blogger Samantha Vincent partners with Detective Gregory Harris to try to solve a cold case murder, centered on small-town Gattenburg, Illinois.
118) Girl forgotten
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Piper Gray starts a true crime podcast investigating a seventeen-year-old murder cold case, she puts her life in danger as she digs deep into the mysteries of the past.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Daisy has a lot to celebrate this summer, but the main event is her upcoming wedding to her fiancé Jonas. Somehow Daisy still finds time to be a guest on local journalist Trevor Lundquist's crime podcast to discuss the last murder she solved. After the podcast, Trevor receives an anonymous tip from a caller who claims a travel chest that's about to be auctioned holds a clue to a twenty-year-old unsolved murder. When a body turns up in Willow Creek,...
Author
Series
Fethering mysteries volume 21
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Jude's decision to redecorate her cottage leads to a meeting with a local decorator and a surprising discovery behind a wall panel in a Victorian building: a woman's handbag! The discovery becomes serious when the police identify the handbag's owner as Anita Garner, a young woman who vanished in suspicious circumstances twenty years earlier.
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