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1) Bad bird
Author
Series
Jackie Swaitkowski mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
Investigating an unusual set of photos taken by a plane crash victim, Jackie Swaitkowski is surprised to discover familiar, notorious faces in the pictures and realizes that the plane crash may be tied to a mystery from Jackie's own past.
2) The prophet
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Language
English
Description
Two brothers, estranged since their sister's abduction and murder when they were teens, are forced into a reunion through a new killing in their small Midwestern town.
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 10
Language
English
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Description
After receiving a threatening letter from the Countess of Norhumberland, Ursula Blanchard, special aide to Queen Elizabeth I, witnesses a series of strange events in her household and is soon accused of being a witch.
Author
Series
Liberty Lane novels volume 5
Language
English
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Description
Private investigator Liberty Lane faces the most challenging case of her career in this absorbing mystery|London, 1840. Private investigator Liberty faces a conundrum when her younger brother Tom, an East India Company employee, is unexpectedly summoned to London to give evidence at an official enquiry into the murder of a wealthy merchant's assistant, found with his throat cut en route to Bombay. A connection between the dead man and escalating rows...
8) Ice cap
Author
Series
Jackie Swaitkowski mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Language
English
Description
Pulled by a murder case back into the heart of her late husband's eccentric family during a harrowing Hamptons winter, Jackie Swaitkowski finds her principles of right and wrong challenged by criminal intrigues, a romantic prospect, organized crime, and digital wizardry.
9) Simple
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Series
Richard Christie mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Description
When beautiful and talented Pittsburgh law student Cassie Price is found murdered, the authorities initially investigate a local handyman before suspicion falls on the victim's ambitious boss, a golden boy gubernatorial candidate.
Author
Series
Joe Gunther mysteries volume 23
Language
English
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Description
Investigating a series of seemingly unrelated burglaries targeting high-end electronics and antiques, Joe Gunther and his team discover ties between their case, the murder of an elderly woman from Boston, and the activities of a powerful purchaser of stolen goods.
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Series
Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 9
Language
English
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Description
Investigating the theft of a valuable painting that was supposed to be donated to the Scottish National Gallery, Isabel harbors a growing suspicion that the thieves may be close to the painting's wealthy owner.
Author
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Language
English
Description
Felix Francis, bestselling author of "Gamble" returns with a gripping mystery in the classic Dick Francis novel series. Devastated and guilty over his sister's death, accomplished jockey, Mark goes in search of answers. What led Clare to take her own life? Or was it not suicide at all?
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Series
Bell Elkins mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Language
English
Description
Prosecuting attorney Bell Elkins and her estranged teenage daughter, Carla, try to protect their town and each other in the aftermath of a shocking triple murder committed by an unknown shooter whose identity is gradually realized by Carla.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Language
English
Description
In 1963 Boston, with a killer known as the Boston Strangler stalking the city, the three Daley brothers--Joe, a cop; Michael, a prosecutor; and Ricky, a master thief--track down a criminal with ties to their family's own lethal secrets.
16) The absent one
Author
Series
Department Q volume 2
Language
English
Description
Detective Carl Mørck investigates the twenty-year-old murders of a brother and sister whose confessed killer may actually be innocent, a case with ties to a homeless woman and powerful adversaries.
The author of "The Keeper of Lost Causes" returns with the second novel in his Department Q Series. A brother and sister were brutally murdered two decades earlier, and one of the suspects - part of a group of privileged boarding-school students - confessed...
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Series
Dan Rhodes mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murder of a hair stylist and party girl who was killed in her salon while waiting to meet a mysterious client, Sheriff Dan Rhodes finds the case complicated by the theft of copper and car batteries and the terrorizing antics of a pregnant nanny goat.
18) Mad River
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Series
Virgil Flowers mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Description
"Bonnie and Clyde, they thought. And what's-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, and chips on their shoulders, and guns. The first person they killed was a highway patrolman. The second was a woman during a robbery. Then, hell, why not keep on going? As their crime spree cuts a swath through rural Minnesota, some of it captured on the killers' cell phones and sent to a local television station, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension...
19) The bone bed
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Description
In Alberta, an eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, and at the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. Scarpetta fears she just may be on her own this time against an enormously powerful and cunning enemy who seems impossible to defeat.
20) NYPD red
Author
Series
NYPD red novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
NYPD Red is a special task force charged with the city's highest-profile cases affecting the powerful, rich, and famous - and a criminal mastermind has plotted a script of total destruction. Print run 750,000.
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