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181) Justice
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
471, [16] p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ever since criminal attorney Jessica Ford started her dream job at a prestigious Washington, D.C., law firm she has wondered why her hunky ex, Secret Service agent Mark Ryan, has insisted on being her bodyguard. After Mark rescues Jess from an attacker outside her apartment, she begins to wonder if she is a target. Her ambitious predecessor on the case has vanished and no one has heard from the star prosecution's star witness. Will Jess and Mark find...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1973, Liz Plenty Horses was accused of betraying the militant American Indian Movement, known as AIM, to the FBI after the death of one of their members. She went into hiding with her baby daughter, never to be seen again. Now, a skeleton with a bullet hole in the back of the skull has been discovered at the bottom of a ravine on the Wind River Reservation. The body was that of a woman who was murdered sometime in 1973. With the police reluctant...
Author
Series
Rebecka Martinsson volume 4
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
323 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
As spring arrives in the far north of Sweden, a young woman's body surfaces through the breaking ice of the River Thorne. At the same time, visions of a shadowy figure haunt the dreams of Rebecka Martinsson, a prosecutor in nearby Karuna. Could the body belong to the ghost in her dreams? And where is the dead girl's boyfriend? Joining forces once again with Police Inspector Anna-Maria Mella, Rebecka finds herself drawn into an investigation that stirs...
184) Tombland
Author
Series
Matthew Shardlake novels volume 7
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
866 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a distant relative of Princess Elizabeth is found dead, Matthew Shardlake is sent to investigate the murder, which may have connections reaching to a peasant rebellion sweeping the country.
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[2011], p2011
Physical Desc
4 sound discs (4 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When his best friend disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, thirteen-year-old Theo uses his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chase down the truth and save April.
186) The secret witness
Author
Series
Shepard and Gray volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This is Reaper speaking. So begins an anonymous letter published in a Utah newspaper after a young couple is viciously murdered. Tooele County sheriff Elizabeth Gray leads the investigation into the double homicide, which is eerily reminiscent of a string of brutal killings years ago. When the letter leads detectives to yet another body, Gray calls on an old friend for help. Former prosecutor Solomon Shepard is still struggling to recover from the...
187) A death in Live Oak
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the body of Jamal Cousin, president of the pre-eminent black fraternity at the Florida's flagship university, is discovered hogtied in the Stygian water swamps of the Suwanee River Valley, the death sets off a firestorm that threatens to rage out of control when a fellow student, Mark Towson, the president of a prominent white fraternity, is accused of the crime. Contending with rising political tensions, racial unrest, and a sensational media,...
188) The black path
Author
Series
Rebecka Martinsson mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
384 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A grisly torture-murder, a haunting northern Sweden backdrop, and a dark drama of twisted sexuality collide memorably in Åsa Larsson’s masterpiece of suspense — a tale of menace, hope, longing, and darkness beyond imagining. The dead woman was found on a frozen lake, her body riddled with evidence of torture. Instantly, Inspector Anna-Maria Mella knows she needs help. Because the dead woman — found in workout clothes with lacy underwear beneath...
189) Pursuit
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
369 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After rookie lawyer Jessica Monaghan meets with the First Lady, the VIP is killed in a car accident in which Jessica manages to survive. When she suspects the accident was something else and she becomes the next target, she and experienced FBI agent Mark Ryan team up to uncover the plot behind the First Lady's murder.
190) The Bombay prince
Author
Series
Perveen Mistry novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"November, 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of India, is arriving in Bombay to begin a four-month tour. The Indian subcontinent is chafing under British rule, and Bombay solicitor Perveen Mistry isn't surprised when local unrest over the royal arrival spirals into riots. But she's horrified by the death of Freny Cuttingmaster, an eighteen-year-old female Parsi student, who falls from a second-floor gallery just as the prince's grand...
191) Syriana
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a career CIA operative, Bob Barnes begins to uncover the disturbing truth about the work he has devoted his life to. An up-and-coming oil broker, Bryan Woodman faces an unimaginable family tragedy and finds redemption in his partnership with idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir al-Subaai. Corporate lawyer, Bennett Holiday faces a moral dilemma as he finesses the questionable merger of two powerful U.S. oil companies Across the globe, a disenfranchised...
Author
Series
Jonquil brothers volume 4
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
viii, 238 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
London barrister Jason Jonquil has spent his entire life working to establish his identity as a gentleman, a man of refinement like his father and brothers. But when fiery Spanish beauty Mariposa Thornton walks into his office, he finds himself losing his grasp on his dignified character. The woman is infuriating, pushing him to the limit of his legendary patience. However, her case seems simple enough -- a small matter of inheritance. Or so he believes....
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 18
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dismas Hardy knows something is amiss with his secretary, Phyllis. Her out-of-character behavior and sudden disappearances concern Hardy, especially when he learns that her convict brother--a man who had served twenty-five years in prison for armed robbery and attempted murder--has just been released. Things take a shocking turn when Phyllis is suddenly arrested at work for allegedly being an accessory to the murder of Hector Valdez, a coyote who'd...
194) Find Me: A Novel
Author
Series
Ellie Hatcher novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Alafair Burke's latest propulsive thrill-ride is a suspenseful, twisty mystery about memory, friendship and secrets. A page-turner of the highest order." -Laura Dave, author of The Last Thing He Told Me
The disappearance of a young woman leaves her best friend reeling and an NYPD homicide detective digging into her own past in this twisty mystery about the power of female friendships. From the New York Times bestselling
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Series
Andy Carpenter volume 23
Publisher
Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lawyer Andy Carpenter and his golden retriever, Tara, work to free a man who risked it all to help a dog in need ... Lawyer Andy Carpenter and his wife, Laurie, enjoy walking their dogs, Tara and Sebastian. By this point in their marriage, it's routine. When out for one of their strolls, their simple ritual isn't so simple anymore. Across the street, a man is mistreating his dog. Three things happen at once: Andy yells, Laurie runs to stop the abuse,...
196) The dream stalker
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Series
Language
English
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Description
When a woman lawyer teams up with a Catholic priest to stop the building of a nuclear storage facility on an Indian reservation she must cope with death threats, an attempt on her life, and an intense attraction to the priest.
197) Winter's child
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a blizzard, Myra and Eldon Little Shield found an abandoned baby on their doorstep and brought her inside. Five years later, no one has come back to claim the little girl now known as Mary Anne Little Shield. But now that she's old enough to start school, her foster parents fear social services will take her -- a white child -- away from them. Determined to adopt Mary Anne, the Little Shields hire lawyer Clint Hopkins, who wants Vicky...
198) Terminal city
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
379 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the world’s largest Tiffany clock decorating the 42nd Street entrance to its spectacular main concourse, Grand Central has been a symbol of beauty and innovation in New York City for more than one hundred years. But “the world’s loveliest station” is hiding more than just an underground train system. When the body of a young woman is found in the tower suite of the Waldorf Astoria — one of the most prestigious hotels in Manhattan —...
199) Entombed
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
400 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It was a crime scene Edgar Allan Poe himself could have conjured, only it was all too real: workers demolishing a nineteenth-century Greenwich Village brownstone where Poe once lived unearthed the skeleton of a young woman -- buried standing upright behind a brick wall. Manhattan Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper takes on the gruesome case while in pursuit of the Silk Stocking Rapist, who is terrorizing the Upper East Side. But Alex discovers that one...
200) Pudd'nhead Wilson
Author
Publisher
Book-of-the Month Club
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
202 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two half brothers look so similar as infants that no one can tell them apart. One, the legitimate son of a rich man, is destined for a life of comfort, while the other is condemned to be a slave as he is part black. The mother of the would be slave is also the nurse of the other; to give her son the best life possible she switches the two. Soon the boy who is given every advantage becomes spoiled and cruel. He takes sadistic pleasure in tormenting...
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