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Body farm mysteries volume 9
Language
English
Description
It’s been ten years since Dr. Bill Brockton created the Body Farm — the world’s first postmortem research facility dedicated to advancing the frontiers of forensic science — and the researcher is at the pinnacle of his career. Under his leadership, the University of Tennessee’s forensic anthropology program has become the most prominent in the world, and Brockton’s skills and knowledge are in high demand among top law enforcement. Calling...
82) Without mercy
Author
Series
Body farm mysteries volume 10
Language
English
Description
Forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton has spent twenty-five years solving brutal murders -- but none so bizarre and merciless as his latest case: A ravaged set of skeletal remains is found chained to a tree on a remote mountainside. As Brockton and his assistant Miranda dig deeper, they uncover warning signs of a deadly eruption of hatred and violence. But the shocking case is only the beginning of Brockton's trials. Mid-case, the unthinkable happens:...
83) Redemption road
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
Elizabeth Black is a hero, a cop who single-handedly rescued a young girl from a locked cellar and shot her kidnappers dead. But she is also a cop with a past, and more than one secret. Adrian Wall is finally free after thirteen brutal years in prison. The very first room he walks into, a boy with a gun is waiting to kill him. Adrian was safer behind bars. And deep in the forest, on the alter of an abandoned church, a body cools in pale linen. Another...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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"Best friends Neena and Josie spent high school as outsiders, but at least they had each other. Now, with college and a two-thousand-mile separation looming on the horizon, they have one last chance to be together--a three-day hike deep into the woods of the Pisgah National Forest. Simmering tensions lead to a detour off the trail and straight into a waking nightmare ... then into something far worse. Something that will test them in horrifying ways."--...
Author
Series
Jack Carpenter novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
In South Florida, Jack Carpenter is infamous. Heś the cop who busted the notorious serial killer Simon Skell -- aka the Midnight Rambler -- and sacrificed his badge and marriage in the process. Haunted by the Skell case, Carpenter now works as an abduction specialist in Fort Lauderdale, reuniting families with their missing children. But the body of one of the Midnight Ramblerś victims has just been uncovered -- and forensic evidence suggests Carpenter...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 27
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"In a Virginia penitentiary, Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped convict. Hours later, they are called to the scene of a copycat crime. A note signed 'M' rests on the corpse. 'You messed up big time, Dr. Cross.' Was an innocent man just put to death? Alex soon realizes he may have much to answer for, as 'M' lures the detective out of the capital to the sites of multiple homicides, all marked with...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
357 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Miriam, imprisoned in Siberia after inadvertently involving herself with revolutionaries in 1911 Kiev, tells the story of her turbulent life in a Jewish village, writing journal entries to the daughter she gave up at birth.
Author
Series
Bryant and May volume 5
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
339 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
From using crackpot psychics to cutting-edge forensics, Arthur Bryant and John May are famous for their maddeningly unorthodox approach to solving crimes that the ordinary police cannot. Now Christopher Fowler, “a new master of the classical detective story,”* brings back crime detection's oddest — and oldest — couple to solve the ultimate locked room mystery. It's an “impossible” crime — a member of the Peculiar Crimes Unit killed inside...
Author
Series
Charlie Parker volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
467 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Former NYPD detective Charlie Parker, teetering on the verge of madness after the unsolved slayings of his wife and daughter, finds his old instincts for survival, compassion, love, and killing reawakening when he agrees to help his old partner track down a missing girl.
Author
Series
Castle Knoll files volume 1
Language
English
Description
"A dual narrative, feel good mystery in which a woman, Frances, spends a lifetime trying to prevent her murder as predicted by a fortune teller at a country fair when she was just 17. When she is in fact murdered nearly 60 years later, her great niece Annie must solve the crime to avenge her great aunt's death, and in so doing uncovers the dark heart of the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, where she might just find herself in the path of the...
Author
Series
F.B.I. trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
viii, 434 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Renegade Jack Kincaid is forced to team up with "by the book" FBI agent Megan Elliott to stop a killer who is targeting soldiers with ties to Jack's mysterious past.
Author
Series
Jack Carpenter novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Abb Grimes is famous. Just ask the ghoulish tourists who flock to his former home to take photographs. Years ago, Grimes killed eighteen women, some never found. As the head of the Broward County Missing Persons Unit, Jack Carpenter was intimately involved in the Grimes case. Now, days away from execution, the notorious serial killer reaches out to ex-cop Carpenter with a surprising request. Abb Grimes' grandson was lured from his home. The cops are...
Author
Series
Krewe of Hunters volume 32
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sparring with a new partner who considers her underqualified, a rookie Krewe of Hunters agent uses her supernatural prophetic dreams to outmaneuver a killer who has been targeting vulnerable young women in Washington, D.C.
94) Joe Pepper
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2007, c1975
Physical Desc
236 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Joe Pepper is a Texas badman with a nasty past. There isn't much that Joe hasn't done in his 40 years of living on both sides of the law, except face the hangman. Now, convicted of murder, Joe is about to do just that. But before he goes, Joe has a few things he wants to say, and a few stories he wants to set straight."--p. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1950's Glasgow, a household of women were found slaughtered in their beds. The father, William Watt, had a cast iron alibi but police were convinced he was guilty. Determined to clear his name, Watt let it be known that he would pay for information. Step forward career criminal Peter Manuel, with compelling details only the murderer could know. Watt agreed to meet him. They spent twelve hours together, driving and drinking in Glasgow pubs and clubs....
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
370 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Manhattan D.A. Alex Cooper investigates the murders of three victims while dodging infuriated gang members packing heat. Her interrogation skills lead to someone with a twisted obsession concerning the military, and things grow increasingly dangerous when the chase leads to a chain of small, abandoned islands around New York harbor.
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 27
Language
English
Description
Not since Jack the Ripper terrorized the London slums has there been such a gruesome crime scene. By all accounts, acid-tongued Vita Berlin hadn't a friend in the world, but whom did she cross so badly as to end up arranged in such a grotesque tableau? One look at her apartment-turned-charnel house prompts hard-bitten LAPD detective Milo Sturgis to summon his go-to expert in hunting homicidal maniacs, Alex Delaware. But despite his finely honed skills,...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper delivers once again with this chilling novel in which the Special Crimes Unit sends a Haven operative undercover to catch a charismatic killer who promises his victims heaven in exchange for more than their lives. . .
Young, vulnerable, attractive, Tessa Gray looked like the perfect victim. Which was why Noah Bishop of the FBI’s Special Crimes Unit recruited the novice operative...
Young, vulnerable, attractive, Tessa Gray looked like the perfect victim. Which was why Noah Bishop of the FBI’s Special Crimes Unit recruited the novice operative...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
394 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inspector John Rebus must disinter all four cases to nail just one killer. And do it while facing the glare of an internal inquiry led by a man he has just accused of taking backhanders from Glasgow's Mr Big, and with TV cameras at his back investigating a miscarriage of justice. One mistake is likely to mean an unpleasant and not particularly speedy death or, worse still,losing his job.
Author
Series
Krewe of Hunters volume 34
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Playing the victim of a vampire king on an island off New Orleans is actress Avalon Morgan's creepiest role to date. When the victim of a real killer is discovered on set, Avalon can't stop thinking about the chilling crime scene, or Grayson Avery, the investigator working the case.
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