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161) Scream in silence
Author
Series
Marti MacAlister mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
"Life is finally going smoothly for Lincoln Prairie, Illinois, police detective Marti MacAlister. She's happily married to Ben, and they and their children are at last coming together as a family. But when an arsonist starts targeting vacant houses and detonating bombs in their sleepy Chicago suburb, Marti's personal life is put aside as she and her partner, Matthew "Vik" Jessenovik, investigate this string of troublesome events." "Early on, as Marti...
162) Bloodstream
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
"Marty has missing persons on the mind: her husband, who's always on the run and out of her reach; her ten-year-old daughter, who's thinking of following in her father's footsteps; and, finally, fourteen-year-old Johnny Donato. But that file closes; no longer a case of missing persons, it becomes a case of murder. Young Johnny's mutilated body is found floating in the East Fork of the White River, bringing a small town's deepest fears swirling to...
163) Keep still
Author
Series
Marti MacAlister mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
1996
Description
"When an old woman dies after falling down her basement stairs, the coroner proves she was pushed, and suspicion centers on her two grown sons. A few days later, another woman is found dead in a motel pool. Although her death doesn't have the marks of a random murder, Marti and her partner, Jessenovik, have little to work with: the woman, a former teacher, left few possessions and no family behind."--BOOK JACKET. "Through careful digging and help...
164) The taken ones
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Summer 1980: Despite the local superstition that the Bendy Man haunts the woods, three girls go into a Minnesota forest. Only one comes out, dead silent, her memory gone. The mystery of the Taken Ones captures the nation. Summer 2022: Cold case detective Van Reed and forensic scientist Harry Steinbeck are assigned a disturbing homicide—a woman buried alive, clutching a heart charm necklace belonging to one of the vanished girls. Van follows...
Author
Series
Jess Lambert volume 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Two women struggle toward a dark truth as a killer avenges the sins of the past in a twisting novel of suspense by the USA Today bestselling author of Do No Harm, Behind Every Lie, and The Night Olivia Fell. After a violent home invasion, Neve Maguire returns with her daughter to Black Lake, her childhood summer home, hoping for a fresh start. But when the body of a woman is found floating among the reeds in the lake behind her house, she fears she...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Rookie cop Laura Mori catches her first investigation when the fiery crash of a sports car lights up the night sky. The fire burns the body beyond recognition, but the police are able to identify the car as that of Kent Jameson, celebrity author and benefactor of Sunrise Lake. And Jameson fears that the unidentified body is his seventeen-year-old daughter Lucy, who stormed out of the house that night after an argument. When lab reports reveal that...
Author
Series
Gabriel Ash and Hazel Best mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Four years ago, Gabriel Ash was working with the British government investigating hijackings in Somalia. But when his wife and sons disappeared, presumably taken--and probably killed--by pirates, his life fell apart. He has sudden reason to hope when a senior policeman suggests that his sons might still be alive--until that policeman is murdered. Still, there seems to be some link to a local operation, and Ash, no longer a government agent, is determined...
168) Perfection
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
Walter Satterthwait gives his readers a feast of different flavors. His modern-day private-eye series was followed by his historical mysteries. In real life, Lizzie Borden may actually have killed her parents, but Satterthwait turns her into a high-spirited amateur sleuth. Satterthwait's Left Bank in 1920s Paris is alive with artists like Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein. And he has even dug up Hitler and his true-to-life Nazi pals (but, never...
Author
Series
Berger and Mitry mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Three blizzards have blanketed the village in forty inches of snow. Bryce Peck, Mitch's blue-blooded neighbor out on Big Sister Island, has just been found dead of a drug overdose. Young Kylie Champlain has slammed her car head-on into an office building after she's caught trying to shoplift a pair of Ugg boots. And a grinch has taken to stealing the mail from Hank Merrill's postal route, which happens to be the main route through the historic district....
170) Haunted in death
Author
Pub. Date
p2006
Description
"A murder at a building rumored to be haunted pulls Lieutenant Eve Dallas in otherworldly directions"--Container.
171) Sarah Jane
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Sarah Jane Pullman is a good cop with a complicated past. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered Army stint, ill-advised marriage and years slinging scrambled eggs over greasy spoon griddles, Sarah Jane unfolds her life story, a parable about memory, atonement, and finding shape in chaos. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she is named the de facto sheriff of a rural town, investigating the mysterious...
172) The grave gourmet
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Parisian policewoman Capucine LeTellier plunges into a uniquely Parisian affair of gastronomic delights and bureaucratic intrigue to close a case that could make her career or kill it.
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
[2015].
Description
Gifted fifteen-year-old Francisco Guzman has become an internationally renowned concert pianist, touring the world under the auspices of his music conservatory. That gives his mother, Posadas County Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman, plenty of reason to worry--and that's magnified when she learns that he's in Mexico's crime-ridden Mazatlan for a concert series where he may be the target for scam artists and kidnappers. Estelle's worries go from bad...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"One of Britain's most thrilling series" (Entertainment Weekly) returns as the elite squad of detectives begin investigating a string of murders with links to the police force. Could the killer be a fellow officer? The case has deeply personal ramifications for the team led by DI David Bradford, involving DS Vivienne Cole's ex-husband and threats to DC Rob Brady's family. As they try to discover if a murderer lurks among their ranks, the detectives...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Gifted fifteen-year-old Francisco Guzman has become an internationally renowned concert pianist, touring the world under the auspices of his music conservatory. That gives his mother, Posadas County Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman, plenty of reason to worry--and that's magnified when she learns that he's in Mexico's crime-ridden Mazatlan for a concert series where he may be the target for scam artists and kidnappers. Estelle's worries go from bad...