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21) Daddy love
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c2013
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Kidnapping a latest victim in a string of young boys he tortures and rapes, a self-styled preacher confines the child in a small box and gradually brainwashes him over subsequent years into believing that they are father and son; while the boy's mother, who was savagely injured during the abduction, clings to hope that her son is alive.
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Alex Cross novels volume 25
Pub. Date
2017
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"The charges: explosive. Alex Cross has never been on the wrong side of the law -- until now. Charged with gunning down followers of his nemesis Gary Soneji in cold blood, Cross is being turned into the poster child for trigger-happy cops who think they're above the law. Cross knows it was self-defense. But will a jury see it that way? The evidence: shocking. As Cross fights for his professional life and his freedom, his former partner John Sampson...
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Carter Ross mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
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Traces the investigation of reporter Carter Ross into the house fire deaths of two boys whose mother claims she was working two jobs to support them, a story that is thrown into dispute by a corrupt government program and the disappearance of the mother's boyfriend.
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2020.
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For fans of David Joy and Christopher J. Yates, comes Ian Pisarcik's haunting debut novel exploring the fraught nature of families and the inescapable secrets that are out to cripple them. On the outskirts of a town too tired for its own happenings, the boys were found dead inside a tent. Three years later, their fathers have disappeared, too. Ruth Fenn's son was the boy they blamed. For three years, Ruth has accepted her lot as pariah, focusing on...
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Paddy Meehan novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2005
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A neophyte journalist becomes intimately involved in her first assignment: a brutal murder. The explosive start of a new series by the author of the acclaimed Garnethill trilogy. Little Brian Wilcox's murder is the hottest story in Scotland. Every major newspaper crowds its pages with stories examining the crime from every angle. If only Paddy Meehan could get a scoop on the case. A nationally syndicated story would surely launch her fledgling journalism...
26) Tabula rasa
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Pub. Date
c2005
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
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Arson investigator Billy Nightingale and his brother-in-law, Sebastian Bly, are called in to investigate a house fire that killed two young children, and the discovery of a baby hiding under the porch and suspicious details at the fire scene lead the two men on a search for a muderous mother.
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Pub. Date
p2002
Description
Everyone has a breaking point . . . "Probably no other suspense writer takes readers as deeply into the heart of darkness as Cook." -Chicago Tribune
There are no witnesses nor evidence to link him to the crime, but the police are sure that vagrant Albert Jay Smalls killed a child. Their interviews have led nowhere, but now-with a 6:00 a.m. deadline looming at which he must be released from custody-they will try one more interrogation. Detective...
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Pub. Date
2020
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What if you discovered your husband was a serial killer? Megan Miller is an ordinary woman with a young family -- until a shocking discovery shatters her perfect world. When two young boys are brutally murdered in their tight-knit village community, Megan slowly begins to realise the signs all point to the lovable local primary school teacher -- her husband. But when she begins to delve deeper into her husband's secret life, she makes discoveries...
29) My lost daughter
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Lily Forrester novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2010
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Lily is a tough judge in Ventura County, California, who has overcome adversity and heartache to achieve a position of power to help those who cant́ help themselves. Like the current case before her, the sensational murder trial of a woman who tortured and killed her beautiful two-year old son. Lily is determined to see justice done but sheś thrown for a loop when she receives word that her own daughter, Shana, months away from graduating from...
30) Cold Granite
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Logan McRae mysteries volume 1
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It's DS Logan McRae's first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn't get much worse. Four-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch, strangled, mutilated and a long time dead. There's a killer stalking the Granite City and the local media are baying for blood. If that wasn't enough, Logan also has to contend with a new boss, DI Insch, who doesn't suffer fools gladly and thinks everyone's a fool, and his own ex-girlfriend,...
31) Lethal White
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Cormoran Strike novels volume 4
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When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. Trying to get to the bottom of Billy's...
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Pub. Date
[2006]
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Working mother Kate Warner's life in suburban Pickard, Ill., is shattered when her eight-year-old daughter, Jenny, gets off the school bus one afternoon and disappears just steps away from home. To make matters worse, Kate's husband and Jenny's dad, Richard, becomes the prime suspect. Other suspects include Richard's business associate, a local physician and the anonymous caller who keeps taunting the Warners.
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Pub. Date
[1996]
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After a busload of Asian children is massacred and the killer commits suicide, two California investigators are assigned to perform a psychological autopsy. They are Dr. Leander Heartwood, a white forensic psychiatrist, and Gabriel Chin, an Asian agent of the state's justice department. They uncover evidence the killer was acting for another and proceed to look for him.
35) Arctic chill
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Erlendur Sveinsson mysteries volume 5
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On an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach extinguishes any hope that this was a tragic accident. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation with little to go on but the news that the boy's Thai half-brother is missing. Is he implicated, or simply...
36) Bone Lake
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A fast-moving plot sketched in brilliant detail, Bone Lake is a riveting story about healing the wounded child within us all.
When she came to Bone Lake back before November, she had thought it the ugliest place in the world, dry as stale bread. But in February, rain had transformed Cat Valley miraculously, and everywhere she looked there was green. All around Callen the world seemed to be opening up, showing her its true beauty. One morning Eli...
37) Hotwire
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[2011]
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Investigating the bizarre deaths of three hard-partying teens, Special Agent Maggie O'Dell sifts through conflicting accounts only to discover that surviving partygoers are being targeted and systematically killed.
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The clues are hidden in the kidnapper's words. Can the message be decoded in time? When Zoe, the five-year-daughter of a powerful Senator, is abducted, the FBI brings in Special Agent MacKenzie Graham, a forensic psycholinguist, to analyze the written threats of the vengeful kidnapper. An expert at what she does, Kenzie probes criminal minds more accurately than she does her own heart. Working alongside fellow FBI agent John Crowfeather, Kenzie refuses...
40) Hallowed Bones
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Pub. Date
[2004]
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Doreen Mallory claims to have the gift of healing. So why is she unable to prevent the mysterious death of her own child? With nearly everyone convinced of her guilt and law enforcement determined to bring her down, Doreen has only the sleuthing southern belle Sarah Booth Delaney to turn to.