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Series
Sheriff Chris Cherry novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"In this gritty crime debut set in the stark Texas borderlands, an unearthed skeleton will throw a small town into violent turmoil" --
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 17
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A series of shootings exposes San Francisco to a methodical yet unpredictable killer, and a reluctant woman decides to put her trust in Sergeant Lindsay Boxer. The confidential informant's tip leads Lindsay to disturbing conclusions, including that something has gone horribly wrong inside the police department itself. The hunt for the killer lures Lindsay out of her jurisdiction, and gets inside Lindsay in dangerous ways. She suffers unsettling medical...
Author
Series
Brinkmann trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Crown
Language
English
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Description
Sophie Brinkmann had no idea her former patient was an international crime lord. Hector Guzman had a Latin charm and easy smile she couldn't deny, so she agreed to a date... Jens Vall is in Paraguay facilitating a delivery of very dangerous weapons when he's attacked by angry Russians. They think he stole their drugs... Lars Vinge is a beat cop with a nasty drug habit he thought he kicked. He's given an important assignment that soon turns into deadly...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
325 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Max Holman's estranged son who happens to be a police officer is gunned down the night before Max's release from prison. The hit is labeled a revenge killing and rumours of police corruption began to circulate. It is ultimately up to Max to clear his son's name and find the murderer.
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 11
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Lindsay Boxer is pregnant at last! But her work doesn't slow for a second. When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, she discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Francisco's most untouchable criminals. And it was taken from her own department's evidence locker. Anyone could be the killer -- even her closest friends. Lindsay is called next to the most bizarre crime scene she's ever seen: two bodiless heads...
Author
Series
Malcolm Fox mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
The Complaints: that's the name given to the Internal Affairs department who seek out dirty and compromised cops, the ones who've made deals with the devil. And sometimes The Complaints must travel. A major inquiry into a neighboring police force sees Malcolm Fox and his colleagues cast adrift, unsure of territory, protocol, or who they can trust. An entire station-house looks to have been compromised, but as Fox digs deeper he finds the trail leads...
Author
Series
Death and Texas western volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sheriff McCabe knew he'd make a lot of enemies when he agreed to be a special agent for the Texas governor. But now that he's managed to keep the peace in the hopeless town of New Hope, he's hoping he can go home to Two Forks and get back to business as usual. No such luck. The corrupt marshal of East City, Micah Moran, and his murdering band of kill-crazy cutthroats are running wild, leaving the folks in East City in a deadly grip of terror. Now,...
8) The son
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Sonny Lofthus is a strangely charismatic and complacent young man. Sonny’s been in prison for a dozen years, nearly half his life. The inmates who seek out his uncanny abilities to soothe leave his cell feeling absolved. They don’t know or care that Sonny has a serious heroin habit — or where or how he gets his uninterrupted supply of the drug. Or that he’s serving time for other peoples’ crimes. Sonny took the first steps toward addiction...
Author
Series
King Oliver novels volume 1
Language
English
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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
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller must defend himself against murder charges ... On the night he celebrates a big win, defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a former client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is immediately charged with murder but can't post the exorbitant $5 million bail slapped on him by a vindictive judge. Mickey elects to represent himself and is forced to mount his defense from his jail cell...
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Language
English
Description
"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...
13) The whisper
Author
Series
BPD-FBI volume 4
Publisher
Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
465 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A year ago Sophie Malone barely survived being left for dead in a blood-soaked Irish cave. Haunted by her experience, she immerses herself in her archeology research. But now the fabled Celtic treasure she believes disappeared from that cave has resurfaced in Boston, in the hands of a serial killer. Boston detective Cyrus "Scoop" Wisdom has recovered from an explosion that nearly took his life. Now he's after the person who planted the bomb -- and...
14) Seven girls gone
Author
Series
Quinn and Costa volume 4
Language
English
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"For three years, women have been disappearing--and eventually turning up dead in the small bayou town of St. Augustine, Louisiana. Police detective Beau Hebert is the only one who seems to care, but with every witness quickly silenced and a corrupt police department set on keeping the cases unsolved, Beau's investigation stalls at every turn. With nobody else to trust, Beau calls in a favor from his friend on the FBI's Mobile Response Team. While...
15) Traitors Gate
Author
Series
William Warwick novels volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Impenetrable. Well protected. Secure. Home to the most valuable jewels on earth. But once a year, when the Queen attends the State Opening of Parliament, the Metropolitan Police must execute the most secret operation in their armory as they transport the Crown Jewels across London. For decades, the elite squad at Scotland Yard have been in charge of the operation. And for decades, it's run like clockwork. But this year, everything is about to change....
Author
Series
Derek Strange and Terry Quinn volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
487 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are ex cops turned private detectives in Washington, DC. Hired to investigate the death of an off duty black police officer at the hands of a white policeman, Strange and Quinn are faced with the institutionalised racism of the nation's most poorly trained and dangerous police force. As the two private detectives confront the degradation of the city's flourishing drug trade, they find themselves up against some of the...
Author
Series
William Warwick novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Newly promoted to Detective Inspector, William Warwick is tasked with a dangerous new line of work: to go undercover and expose crime of another kind--corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police Force. Along with detectives Rebecca Pankhurst and Nicky Bailey, his team is focused on following Detective Jerry Summers, a young officer whose lifestyle exceeds his income. But the investigation risks being compromised when Nicky falls for Summers....
18) Outsider
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Series
Language
English
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"While enjoying a sleigh ride with his children, Amish widower Adam Lengacher discovers a car stuck in a snowdrift and an unconscious woman inside. He calls upon Chief of Police Kate Burkholder for help, and she is surprised to recognize the driver: a fellow cop and former friend, Gina Colorosa. Years before, Kate and Gina were best friends at the police academy and patrol officers in Columbus, but time and distance have taken them down two very different...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012, 2012.
Physical Desc
445 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
For Virgil Cain, a day of fishing on the Hudson River yields more than he bargained for when, while pulling up anchor, he hooks on to a mysterious steel cylinder. As word of Virgil's strange catch spreads around the local marina, it draws the attention of a crooked city cop, who seizes both the cylinder and Virgil's boat. Soon, an old drug deal gone sour surfaces, and to get to the bottom of it -- and to get his boat back -- Virgil teams up with a...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Philomena McCarthy is a young, ambitious police office with the elite Metropolitan Police in London. When she responds to a domestic violence call, she finds the victim, Tempe Brown, trying to protect her abuser, a married man named Darren Goodall, a decorated Scotland Yard detective afraid of no one. As Philomena pursues the case against him, she not only encounters resistance from her police force colleagues but also becomes dangerously entangled...
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