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81) Fatal threat
Author
Series
Fatal series volume 11
Publisher
HQN Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
With a killer on the loose, it's the worst time to be on lockdown...
It's just another day at the office for Washington Metro Police lieutenant Sam Holland when a body surfaces off the shores of the Anacostia River. But before Sam can sink her teeth into the new case, Secret Service agents seize her from the crime scene. A threat has been made against her family, but nobody will tell her anything—including the whereabouts...
It's just another day at the office for Washington Metro Police lieutenant Sam Holland when a body surfaces off the shores of the Anacostia River. But before Sam can sink her teeth into the new case, Secret Service agents seize her from the crime scene. A threat has been made against her family, but nobody will tell her anything—including the whereabouts...
82) Hunted
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Twas the night before Christmas, and dozens of rich, influential hostages are trapped inside a sprawling lakefront mansion in New Orleans. The perp? Detective Reed Ware, model cop turned outlaw. After receiving a panicked call from Hollis "Holly" Bayard, a teenage street tough with a penchant for amateur sleuthing who stumbles upon the scene of a drug-deal-turned- murder, Ware finds his and his friend's lives in dire danger. The crime Holly witnessed...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A cautionary tale, a gripping cleverly told story of intrigue and deception, a heartfelt denunciation of contemporary online culture, Delphine de Vigan's new novel is all these things and more. The first time Mélanie met Clara, she was stunned by Clara's sense of authority. For her part, Clara was struck by Mélanie's pink, glittery nails. "She looks like a child," thought the first. "She looks like a doll," pondered the second. Two women who could...
84) The snow raven
Author
Series
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The 1980's are a time when the streets of Hollywood are no longer the home of movie legends or a place where dreams of fame and glory might come true. Restaurants like the Brown Derby are replaced by Denny's and fast food. Nearly every block in the area has a cheap souvenir shop, voucher hotel for parolees or a dingy bar aka street gang hangout. The cinema's famous boulevard is overrun with drug dealers, drunks, homeless teenagers and sleezy impersonators...
85) Nowhere safe
Author
Series
Nowhere novels volume 3
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
She senses their twisted desires before she meets them. It's as if fate is helping her stop these monsters from preying on others the way she was preyed upon. After she has delivered brutal justice, she will let the whole world see their guilt. "I must pay for what I've done." The first victim - naked, bound, frozen to death - wore the note strung around his neck. Now there's another note - this one attached to Detective September Rafferty's own stepbrother....
86) Blood orchid
Author
Series
Holly Barker novels volume 3
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Darkness is nothing new to LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan, but in P.J. Tracy's The Devil You Know, even she isn't prepared for the scandalous deception of deadly proportions that shakes the very foundation of Hollywood and its untouchables...and leaves her entangled in its rotten core. Los Angeles has many faces: the real LA where regular people live and work, the degenerate underbelly of any big city, and the rarefied world of wealth, power, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly accepting help from her ex-husband after major surgery, Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef consults on a case that eerily resembles a recently serialized publication and causes Hazel and her associates to draw links between the murder, the story, and a cold case.
89) Little boy blue
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Helen Grace faces her own dark compulsions in the twisty new thriller from the author of Pop Goes the Weasel and Eeny Meeny. In the darkest corners of the city, there is a thriving nightlife where people can let loose and cross the lines of work and play, of pleasure and pain. But now that sanctuary has been breached. A killer has struck and a man is dead. In a world where disguises and discretion are the norm, one admission could unravel...
Author
Series
Kate Martinelli mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
In this thrilling new crime novel that ingeniously bridges Laurie R. King’s Edgar and Creasey Awards—winning Kate Martinelli series and her bestselling series starring Mary Russell, San Francisco homicide detective Kate Martinelli crosses paths with Sherlock Holmes–in a spellbinding dual mystery that could come only from the “intelligent, witty, and complex” mind of New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King….
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93) Heaven and earth
Author
Series
Three Sisters Island trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
94) 16th seduction
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 16
Language
English
Description
Detective Lindsay Boxer faces a heart-stopping threat in the newest Women's Murder Club thriller.Fifteen months ago, Detective Lindsay Boxer's life was perfect--she had a beautiful child and a doting husband, Joe, who helped her catch a criminal who'd brazenly detonated a bomb in downtown San Francisco, killing twelve people. But Joe wasn't everything that Lindsay thought he was, and she's still reeling from the betrayal as a wave of mysterious, and...
95) In her blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House, an imprint of Canongate Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When a body is discovered in the water at Connel Bridge, the police assume it's an open-and-shut case of suicide. But when DCI Christine Caplan is called in to take a closer look, she discovers that darker truths lurk beneath the surface, and suspicion begins to turn to a young woman recently out of care. Known only as Girl A, her identity remains anonymous, protected under law. Her violent past includes an allegation of the murder of a younger sibling,...
Author
Series
Abbot and Lowell forensic mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Homicide detective Leigh Abbott has something to prove both to herself and to the men in her department. She s been assigned a difficult challenge: solve a murder where the only evidence is a single bone. To identify the victim and find the killer she must join forces with forensic anthropologist Matt Lowell. Matt s initial refusal is only the first in a series of setbacks. Matt and Leigh s skills and tenuous partnership are tested when the evidence...
97) Dead famous
Author
Series
Kathleen Mallory mysteries volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jurors on a controversial trial are being killed off one by one, and only Detective Kathleen Mallory can figure out why. But the FBI has told her to lay off and leave it to the Feds. That's never stopped Mallory before.
98) The dead house
Author
Series
Publisher
Sheep Street Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Midnight in a country churchyard. A corpse lying at peace. The dead woman looks totally peaceful and there are no marks of violence.. But why is she here, in this remote spot? Why does no one come forward to identify her? And why is she wearing a thin white dress on this howling October night? When Fiona Griffiths starts to investigate, she finds a crime creepier than anything she's been able to imagine. And she's about to become the very next victim....
99) Other countries
Author
Series
Gabriel Ash and Hazel Best mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Returning to work after an extended leave of absence, DC Hazel Best's first task is to shadow TV historian Oliver Ford, who has arrived in Norbold to open a new museum. What should have been a routine assignment takes a decidedly dramatic turn however when Hazel saves Ford from a murderous attack that would appear to be an act of jihad. But why would someone fly thousands of miles to firebomb an obscure little museum in a quiet English village? Hazel...
100) Vanish: a novel
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis. An apparent suicide victim, a nameless woman, opens her eyes as the medical examiner unzips the body bag. The woman is rushed to the hospital, where with shockingly cool precision, she murders a security guard and seizes hostages . . . one of them a pregnant patient, Jane Rizzoli.
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