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81) Caged
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Washington D.C. police stumble upon a gruesome murder scene involving a girl who was slowly starved to death while held captive in a cage. When the victim is identified as the daughter of a high profile senator, FBI neuroscientist Sayer Altair is thrust into the spotlight. Now another girl has been taken and is teetering on the brink of death. Sayer races to save the second victim, but soon realizes that they are hunting a killer with a dangerous...
Author
Series
Death by chocolate mystery volume 6
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Summer in Eastport means lobsters and blueberries, though tourists and locals alike always leave a little room for baked goods from The Chocolate Moose. This year's arts festival, featuring food, games, and rollicking local musicians, means even more sweet-toothed customers. But it's also bringing competition from a new rival, Choco's, that's trying to slice into the action. Choco's owner, Brad Fairway, is pulling sneaky stunts to divert Moose patrons...
Author
Series
Rockton volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Casey first arrived at the off-the-grid town, an isolated community built as a haven for people running from their pasts, she had no idea what to expect, with no cell phones, no internet, no mail, and no way of getting in or out without the town council's approval. She certainly didn't expect to be the homicide detective on two separate cases or to begin a romantic relationship with her boss.
Author
Series
Keye Street mystery volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A killer is targeting rural Georgia, and the police look to Keye for help before another victim is claimed. But if the bodies are to be believed, Keye may be up against a very experienced predator--and is putting herself in line to be his next prey. She goes to the country, ninety miles outside of Atlanta, where the bodies of young women have been found in the woods. The remains are as fresh as six months ago, as far back in the past as a decade....
85) Night rounds
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When a nurse is murdered and another disappears during a hospital blackout, Detective Inspector Irene Huss of the Violent Crimes Unit struggles with a report by the crime's only witness, who claims she saw a nurse who died 60 years earlier.
86) Close to home
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"While investigating the hit-and-run death of a young boy, Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite is thrown headlong into the path of a killer conspiracy and the only people she can rely on to make it out alive might be those she can no longer trust"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Something big is brewing in Trenton, N.J., and it could blow at any minute. Stephanie Plum might not be the world's greatest bounty hunter, but she knows when she's being played. Ken Globovic (aka Gobbles), hailed as the Supreme Exalted Zookeeper of the animal house known as Zeta fraternity, has been arrested for beating up the dean of students at Kiltman College. Gobbles has missed his court date and gone into hiding. People have seen him on campus,...
88) Iron orchid
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Former small town police chief turned CIA Special Agent Holly Barker tracks a dangerously clever killer in this explosive thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods.
When his plane exploded off the coast of Maine, authorities thought they had seen the last of Teddy Fay—the ex-CIA tech wizard who kills his political targets for sport. But now they’ve found irrefutable evidence that he is alive and up...
When his plane exploded off the coast of Maine, authorities thought they had seen the last of Teddy Fay—the ex-CIA tech wizard who kills his political targets for sport. But now they’ve found irrefutable evidence that he is alive and up...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
As the members of the garden club in Darling, Alabama, prepare to plant roses for their annual Confederate Day celebration, they find themselves distracted by a series of mysteries involving stolen funds, a secret code, and a local resident's odd behavior.
Author
Series
Hannah Swensen mystery volume 14
Publisher
Kensington Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When someone shoots visiting Lutheran minister Matthew Walters, Hannah Swenson and cronies investigate Matthew's background, especially his relationship to his creepy, paroled convict cousin, Paul.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Death comes to Annie Darling's door as the mystery bookstore owner invesitgates the murder of a local doctor and an artist's wife, but why would somebody frame the artist and paint a gruesome picture with this grisly double murder? Death on demand series, 272pp., 40K, Auth res: Oklahoma City, OK
Author
Series
Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James volume 17
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
While Gemma James investigates the murder of a young nanny who appears to be one of a series of victims, Duncan Kincaid uncovers disturbing information about seemingly unrelated cases that may be putting his friends and family in mortal danger.
The pretty girl in the white dress looks as if she's sleeping. But Reagan Keating has been murdered, and the lead detective, DI Kerry Boatman, turns to Gemma James for help. Gemma has a personal connection...
93) Fifty, fifty
Author
Series
Detective Harriet Blue volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Sam Blue stands accused of the brutal murders of three young students, their bodies dumped near the Georges River. Only one person believes he is innocent: his sister, Detective Harriet Blue. And she's determined to prove it. But Harry's outburst at her brother's trial earns her a reassignment -- to the Outback. With no choice but to leave Sam's case alone, she relocates to Last Chance Valley, population 75, where a diary found on the roadside outlines...
94) The scam
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Nicolas Fox is a charming con man and master thief on the run. Kate O'Hare is the FBI agent who is hot on his trail. At least that's what everyone thinks. In reality, Fox and O'Hare are secretly working together to bring down super-criminals the law can't touch. Criminals like brutal casino magnate Evan Trace. Evan Trace is running a money-laundering operation through his casino in Macau. Some of his best customers are mobsters, dictators, and global...
Author
Series
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
No one needs to push Nikki Boyd to excel on the Tennessee Missing Person Task Force. The case of her own missing sister, still unsolved after ten years, is the driving force in her work. When a Polaroid photo of a missing girl shows up at a crime scene, Nikki quickly recognizes similarities to the past. The closer she gets to the abductor, the more she feels that this case is getting personal, and that she is not the hunter at all--but actually the...
96) The likeness
Author
Series
Dublin murder squad volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
�2008
Language
English
Description
"Six months after the events of In the Woods, Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to recover. She's transferred out of the murder squad and started a relationship with Detective Sam O'Neill, but she's too badly shaken to make a commitment to him or to her career. Then Sam calls her to the scene of his new case: a young woman found stabbed to death in a small town outside Dublin. The dead girl's ID says her name is Lexie Madison--the identity Cassie...
97) Shamed
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In this riveting new thriller in Linda Castillo's New York Times bestselling series, Kate Burkholder races against the clock to find a missing Amish girl. An Amish grandmother is murdered on an abandoned farm, her seven year old granddaughter abducted. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder plunges headlong into a case that quickly becomes a race against the clock. She knows the longer the girl is missing, the more likely a tragic outcome. The family of...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
Goldy Bear, recently divorced, has made a home for herself and her young son in scenic Aspen Valley, Colorado. There, calls for Goldilock's Catering have been steady enough to pay the bills. But when a mourner is felled by rat poison during a funeral buffet Goldy is serving, the police quickly close her business. Now it's up to Goldy to find the rat who has tainted her food and her reputation.
99) Cold shadows
Author
Series
Ellie Kline volume 6
Publisher
Mary Stone
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
100) Fudge cupcake murder
Author
Series
Hannah Swensen mystery volume 5
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
While her sister-in-law prepares to deliver her baby, Minnesota bakery owner Hannah Swensen's brother-in-law runs for sheriff, but Hannah discovers the body of the local sheriff in a dumpster near her cooking class with some of her cupcake frosting on his shirt. Includes recipes.