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21) Do no harm
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Small-town doctor Katie LeClair is drawn back into an old murder investigation, a mysterious disappearance, and a dark undercurrent of violence --
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Forced to come back home and reunite with her remaining siblings, July Weaver, whose testimony nine years earlier put her father -- the Pacific Lake Killer -- away for the murder of her sister and other girls, uncovers new evidence that makes her question everything, including if she blamed the wrong person.
25) The hot beat
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-155
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A disgraced LA music star faces execution for a crime he didn't commit in the long-lost crime novel of Robert Silverberg, SFF Writers of America Grand Master, available for the first time in over 60 years.
26) The chase
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Chase is a modern The Fugitive with characters only #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Candice Fox can write. "Are you listening, Warden?" "What do you want?" "I want you to let them out." "Which inmates are we talking about?" "All of them." When 650 of the world's most violent human beings pour out of the Pronghorn Correctional Facility into the Nevada Desert, the biggest manhunt in US history begins. For John Kradle, this...
27) That night
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Toni Murphy was eighteen when she and her boyfriend, Ryan, were wrongly convicted of the murder of her younger sister. Now she is thirty-four and back in her hometown, working every day to forge and adjust to a new life on the outside. She's doing everything in her power to avoid violating her parole and going back to prison. But nothing is making that easy--not Ryan, who is convinced he can figure out the truth; not her mother, who clearly doubts...
28) The Guardians
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In the small north Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues behind. There were no witnesses, no real suspects, no one with a motive. The police soon settled on Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russos. Quincy was framed, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison with no lawyer, no advocate...
29) The razor
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Marcus Flynn has been sentenced to the terrifying prison planet known as 11-H37. There's only one problem. He's innocent. He's barely made it through the first day when everything changes: All the guards and prison personnel suddenly abandon the planet, leaving the inmates there to die. There is more to 11-H37 than meets the eye and Flynn soon finds himself making unlikely allies and the most dangerous of enemies" --
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"According to the courts, Jacko Argyle bludgeoned his mother to death with a poker. The sentence was life imprisonment. But when Dr. Arthur Calgary arrives with the proof that confirms Jacko s innocence, it is too late Jacko died behind bars following a bout of pneumonia. Worse still, the doctor s revelations reopen old wounds in the family, increasing the likelihood that the real murderer will strike again."-- provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A decade ago, Delaney Broward discovered her brother's murdered body at the San Antonio art co-op he founded with friends. Her artist boyfriend, Hunter Nash, went to prison for the murder, despite his not-guilty plea.This morning, Hunter walks out of prison a free man, having served his sentence.This afternoon, Delaney finds her best friend dead, murdered in the same fashion as her brother. Stay out of it or you're next, the killer warns.Hunter never...
33) All these ashes
Author
Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The laid-off reporter turned private investigator is almost out of clients after he stood up against the Newark police officers whose problems he used to fix for a paycheck, exposing a scandal that left him on the wrong side of one of those thin blue lines. Desperate for work, Russell is as elated as he is skeptical when a detective shows up on his doorstep, asking him to look into one of the Brick City's most haunting mysteries: The Twilight Four...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"After witnessing a wrongful conviction as a young girl, Rebecca Whitman - the first female court reporter in Montana - is now determined to defend the innocent. During a murder trial, something doesn't sit well with her about the case, but no one except the handsome new Carnegie librarian will listen to her. When a patron seeks help with research in hopes of proving a man's innocence, librarian Mark Andrews is immediately drawn to her and her cause....
Author
Series
Robin Lockwood novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Phillip Margolin's Murder at Black Oaks, Attorney Robin Lockwood finds herself at an isolated retreat in the Oregon mountains, one with a tragic past and a legendary curse, and surrounded by many suspects and confronted with an impossible crime. Defense Attorney Robin Lockwood is summoned by retired District Attorney Francis Hardy to meet with him at Black Oaks, the manor he owns up in the Oregon mountains. The manor has an interesting history...
Author
Series
King Oliver novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators, until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is framed for assault by his enemies within the NYPD, a charge which lands him in solitary at Rikers Island. A decade later, King is a private detective, running his agency with the help of his teenage daughter, Aja-Denise. Broken by the brutality he suffered and committed in equal measure while behind bars, his work and his daughter...
Author
Series
Baltimore novels (Karen Rose) volume 2
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"A car crashes in front of rookie PI Paige Holden's home. And suddenly, she finds one of her pro bono clients dying in her arms-from a gunshot wound. With her last breath, the woman whispers cryptic words into her ear and hands her a blood-smeared flash drive. Five years ago, State's Attorney Grayson Smith put a murderer behind bars. But when Paige Holden shares the flash drive with him, its contents cast doubts on the conviction-and lead him and...
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 29
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Nearly twenty years ago, college freshman April Goss was found dead in her bathtub, an apparent suicide. Suspicion soon fell on her boyfriend; Dan Corbeil was convicted of her murder and sent to prison. Case closed. Or is it? After Campbell's sister has a chance meeting with Amos Walker, she hires him to prove her brother's innocence. But nobody else is eager to see this very cold case reopened... even Dan himself, who has given up any hope of bring...
Author
Series
Bitter Creek series volume 7
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
FBI Special Agent Breed Grayhawk has the hottest sex in his life with a stranger who calls herself Grace Smith, only to discover early the next morning that her real name is Merle Raye Finkel -- and she's a convicted double murderer who broke her parole a year ago and disappeared. Now she's his prime suspect in a terrorist threat against the U.S. president. Grace Caldwell is determined to find the killer who framed her for the murder of her father...
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Christopher Thomas, a ruthless curator at San Francisco's McFall Art Museum, is murdered and his decaying body is found in an iron maiden in a Berlin museum, his wife, Rosemary, is the primary suspect, and she is tried, convicted and executed. Ten years later, Jon Nunn, the detective who cracked the case, is convinced that the wrong person was put to death. In the years since the case was closed, he's discovered a web of deceit and betrayal surrounding...
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