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Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
They call him the Wolfman -- because he takes a bite out of his victims and because they found the first victim in the East End's lonely Wolf Street. Scotland Yard are anxious to find the killer and Inspector Rebus is drafted in to help. But his Scotland Yard opposite number, George Flight, isn't happy at yet more interference, and Rebus finds himself dealing with racial prejudice as well as the predations of a violent maniac. When Rebus is offered...
Author
Series
Harry Hole volume 5
Publisher
Harper Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
452 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the heat of a sweltering Oslo summer, a young woman is found murdered in her flat—with one of her fingers cut off and a tiny red star-shaped diamond placed under her eyelid. An off-the-rails alcoholic barely holding on to his job, Detective Harry Hole is assigned the case with Tom Waaler, a hated colleague whom Harry believes is responsible for the murder of his partner. When another woman is reported missing five days later, and her severed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 41
Physical Desc
624 p. : 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mystery and fantasy intertwine in this bizarre story of parallel universes being attacked by evil forces that only Jack Sawyer seems capable of dealing with.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
339 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the body of the first victim is discovered, the bite mark on her neck prompts the media to name the killer "The Rottweiler". But as the death toll rises, it becomes clear that the bite mark was incidental. For, what distinguishes this killer is not bite marks but rather his taking a small trinket from each of his victims as a macabre souvenir. Focusing their investigation near Lisson Grove, the ethnically diverse London neighborhood where all...
Author
Series
Flynn brothers trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
395 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aidan Flynn, a private investigator and eldest of the Flynn brothers, scoffs at the rumors the New Orleans plantation his family has inherited is haunted. After he finds a human bone on the grounds, Aidan is joined by the tarot card reader Kendall Montgomery to uncover the truth.
86) NYPD Red 2
Author
Series
NYPD red novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When NYPD Red arrives at a crime scene, everyone takes notice. Known as the protectors of the rich, famous, and connected, NYPD Red is the elite task force called in only for New York City's most high-profile crimes. And Detective Zach Jordan is the best of the best, a brilliant and relentless pursuer of justice. He puts professionalism above all, ignoring his feelings for his partner, Detective Kylie MacDonald, the woman who broke his heart when...
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
x, 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
For thirty-one years, a monster terrorized the residents of Wichita, Kansas. A bloodthirsty serial killer, self-named "BTK"—for "bind them, torture them, kill them"—he slaughtered men, women, and children alike, eluding the police for decades while bragging of his grisly exploits to the media. The nation was shocked when the fiend who was finally apprehended turned out to be Dennis Rader—a friendly neighbor . . . a devoted husband . . . a helpful...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1977. Ike and Lucy, the kids of Senator Charlie and Margaret Marder, are grown up--and in trouble. US Marine Ike has gone AWOL after a military operation gone horribly wrong. Now he's off the grid, working on the pit crew of the moody stunt master Evel Knievel and hanging in the roughest dive bar in Montana. His sister Lucy has become the star reporter of a brand-new Washington, DC tabloid breaking stories about a serial killer and falling...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An investigation into the 1980 murder of two women in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, recreates the events of the tragedy, the targeting of vulnerable suspects and the history of mysterious violence that continues to overshadow the region.
90) Breakneck
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary Catherine (M.C.) Riggio and Kitt Lundgren, detectives in the Violent Crimes Bureau in Rockford, Illinois, are called out to a college student's apartment where a young man with no criminal records appears to have been murdered in his sleep. The trail seems cold, until another victim turns up, and then another. The growing list of kills leaves M.C. and Kitt little to follow--all the targets are kid-next-door types. Meanwhile, the case starts to...
Author
Series
In Death volume 17
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her husband Roarke embark on their latest investigation that once again places both of their lives in grave danger as a clever killer traps them in a deadly game.
92) Copy cat
Author
Series
Kitt Lundgren volume 1
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
473 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Five years ago, three young victims were found dead, posed like little angels. There were no witnesses. Strangely clean scenes. The Sleeping Angel Killer called his despicable acts "the perfect crimes." The case immobilized the close-knit community of Rockford, Illinois, and nearly destroyed homicide detective Kitt Lundgren's career -- and her life. During the investigation, Kitt tragically lost her own child to illness. She was overwhelmed by the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
They are the victims no one has ever cared about, until now... She was a forgotten girl, a runaway found murdered on the High Line train through the northern Rocky Mountains and, with little local interest, put into a dead file. But she was not alone. When Kirk Stevens and Carla Windermere of the joint FBI-BCA violent crime force stumble upon the case, they discover a horror far greater than anyone expected -- a string of murders on the High Line,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
On July 15, 1997, Gianni Versace was shot and killed on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion by serial killer Andrew Cunanan. But months before Versace’s murder, award-winning journalist Maureen Orth was already investigating a major story on Cunanan for Vanity Fair. Culled from interviews with more than four hundred people and insights gleaned from thousands of pages of police reports, Vulgar Favors tells the complete story of Andrew Cunanan, his...
Author
Series
Savannah volume 1
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
464 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the dark shadows of a sultry southern town, a serial killer strikes. It's an act of sinister precision that has happened many times before... every victim an offering to a hunger that can never be sated... The next morning, Caitlyn Montgomery Bandeaux wakes covered in blood. But Caitlyn has no memory of the night before, when her estranged husband was brutally murdered like so many others she has known. Wanted by the police and haunted by horrifying,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A comprehensive and intriguing exposé of one of the world’s most chilling cases of serial murder — and the police force that failed to solve it. Vain and charismatic Walter Sickert made a name for himself as a painter in Victorian London. But the ghoulish nature of his art -- as well as extensive evidence -- points to another name, one that's left its bloody mark on the pages of history: Jack the Ripper. Cornwell has collected never-before-seen...
Author
Series
Dexter books volume 7
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lights. Camera. Mayhem. You won't find this story on television. Hollywood gets more than it bargained for when television's hottest star arrives at the Miami Police Department and develops an intense, professional interest in a camera-shy blood spatter analyst named Dexter Morgan. Mega-star Robert Chase is famous for losing himself in his characters. When he and a group of actors descend on the Miami Police Department for "research," Chase becomes...
98) Far gone
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
447 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
To save her only brother, Andrea Finch must face down a criminal mastermind, the FBI, and her own demons. Police detective Andrea Finch is a rising star in her department until a split-second decision derails her career. Disgraced and disillusioned, she’s on leave from her job when she gets an urgent call from her younger brother. She’d prefer to ignore his latest plea for cash, but this time instinct tells her something is very wrong. Andrea’s...
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 3
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
Physical Desc
466 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
New York archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Special Agent Pendergast try to solve a 130-year-old serial murder case after the dismembered remains of thirty-six people are found on the site of a nineteenth-century moneymaking spectacle called a "cabinet of curiosities."
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 7
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
454 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the New York Museum of Natural History prepares for the gala opening of an ancient Egyptian tomb, FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast sits in prison for a murder he did not commit and his psychotic brother lays the groundwork for his crowning criminal achievement.
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