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121) Heart of ice
Author
Series
Louis Kincaid mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
While on a trip to Mackinac Island with his 10-year-old daughter, Lily, Florida P.I. Louis Kincaid, desperate to wear a badge again, must reopen the cold case of Julie Chapman, a teenager from one of the wealthiest summer families who vanished two decades ago.
122) River bodies
Author
Series
Northampton County novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Returning home to Portland, Pennsylvania care for her ailing father, the former police chief, Becca Kingsley is drawn into a murder investigation that is linked to a twenty-year-old cold case and that causes her to start questioning all her past relationships as dark secrets come to light.
123) 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.
124) Over my dead body
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
In London, the Metropolitan Police have set up a new Unsolved Murders Unit - a cold case squad - to catch the criminals nobody else can. Four victims. Four cases. All killers poised to strike again. In Geneva, millionaire art collector Miles Faulkner, convicted of forgery and theft, was pronounced dead two months ago. So why is his unscrupulous lawyer still representing a dead client? And who is the mysterious man his widow is planning to marry? On...
125) Shattered
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
With an ailing mother to support, attorney Lisa Shewmaker takes a job as a research assistant to District Attorney Scott Buchanan. While reviewing cold cases in the Fayette County courthouse, she comes across photos that may help her uncover details about her mysterious past. But when a series of catastrophes strike close to home, Lisa confides in Scott, and their relationship develops into something completely different. Together Lisa and Scott unravel...
127) What she found
Author
Series
Tracy Crosswhite novels volume 9
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Agreeing to look into the disappearance of investigative reporter Lisa Childress twenty-five years ago at the behest of Lisa's daughter, Detective Tracy Crosswhite reopens the potentially explosive investigations Lisa was following, which pushes her loyalties to the limit when she makes a shocking discovery.
128) Obsession
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"A ten-year-old murder case. An obsessed stalker. Can Natchez Trace Ranger Samuel Ryker keep his colleague and one-time love Emma Winters from the clutches of a man determined to make her his own?"--
Natchez Trace Ranger and historian Emma Winters hoped never to see Sam Ryker again after she broke off her engagement to him. When shots are fired at her at a historical landmark just off the Natchez Trace, she is forced to work alongside Sam as the...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"The second thrilling novel in the New York Times bestselling Under Suspicion series following The Cinderella Murder, featuring intrepid television producer Laurie Moran as she investigates the case of a missing bride. Five years ago Amanda Pierce was excitedly preparing to marry her college sweetheart in a lavish ceremony at The Grand Victoria Hotel in Palm Beach. Then, with their guests and families on site, Amanda disappeared. In present-day New...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"After her mother's Alzheimer's diagnosis, Billie Levine revamped her grandfather's private investigation firm and set up shop in the corner booth of her favorite North Jersey deli hoping the free pickles and flexible hours would allow her to take care of her mom and pay the bills. So when Tommy Russo, a rich kid with a nasty drug habit, offers her a stack of cash to find his missing girlfriend, how can she refuse? At first, Billie thinks this will...
Author
Series
Parker Stern novels volume 3
Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When he is forced by his estranged mother, the enigmatic leader of the cultish Church of the Sanctified Assembly, to represent the Playa Vista Bomber, attorney Parker Stern must uncover the truth about recent terrorist attacks, which are surprisingly linked to his own past.
132) Hidden in the pines
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Lew Ferris, the newly elected sherriff of McBride County, discovers an eerie parallel in the recent tragic drowning of a teenage girl to a cold case that has remained unsolved for thirty years.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hazel DeFord is a woman haunted by her past. While berry picking in a blackberry thicket in 1943, ten-year old Hazel momentarily turns her back on her three-year old sister Maggie and the young girl disappears. Almost seventy years later, the mystery remains unsolved, and the secret guilt Hazel carries has alienated her from her daughter Diane, who can't understand her mother's overprotectiveness and near paranoia. While Diane resents her mother's...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When the bodies of a murdered woman and infant wash into the shallows of Lake Superior, Kate Granger, who has seen this woman in her dreams, sets out to unravel a centuries-old mystery that, when the truth is revealed, finally rights the wrongs of the past.
Author
Series
Underwater Investigation Unit volume 4
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When a woman's body washes up on a Fort Lauderdale beach, deep diving investigator Sloan McPherson is called in to consult on this case and, out of her depth, teams up with Miami homicide detective Gwen Wylder when the dead woman is linked to a string ofunsolved serial murders.
136) Liar!
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Even though Luna and her brother Cullen seem like complete opposites, they're identical in two ways: they'll never let injustice stand and they always have each other's back. Fern Michaels blends mystery, drama and a touch of romance for the third in her Lost & Found series, as the siblings set out to unravel a cold case connected to a mysterious armoire."--
Author
Series
Truly Devious volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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138) Ballistic kiss
Author
Series
Sandman Slim volume 11
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
As the battle between warring angels continues, James Stark is focused on a simple invasion of ghosts. But his life takes a turn when he becomes entangled with a woman he saved from a zombie attack.
139) Deaf Row
Author
Publisher
WildBlue Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Retired from a big-city homicide beat to a small Colorado mountain town, ex-detective Woodrow "Mountain" Bell gets drawn into investigating a long-forgotten, unsolved murder with the help of the end-of-the-road codgers he meets for coffee every morning -- a club of old guys who call themselves Deaf Row.
140) Drawing fire
Author
Series
Cold case justice volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
With a possible serial killer stalking elderly women in Long Beach, California, Abby{u2019}s best lead is Luke Murphy, an irritating private investigator who saw a suspect flee the scene of the latest homicide.
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