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1) 11th hour
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the discovery of severed heads in a movie star's garden - and a vigilante targeting the city's most despised criminals. Print run 750,000.
2) Soft target
Author
Series
Dan Shepherd thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The crack of a handgun shatters the silence of a warm summer night.... A notorious local felon and former child magician vanishes, seemingly without a trace.... A corrupt police force applies a stranglehold to a failing town.... An ailing old man hatches a last-ditch plan to save the police department he once headed, and the community he still loves.... An outsider arrives, bearing a simple recipe for death that could destroy them all.... The town...
Author
Series
William Warwick novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Going undercover to expose corruption in the Metropolitan Police Force, Detective Inspector William Warwick is compromised by a high-profile trial and a teammate's romantic relationship with his suspect.
6) The betrayal
Author
Series
Precinct 11 volume 2
Language
English
Description
Detective Boone Drake has successfully conducted an operation to bring down street gangs and crime bosses. A leak somewhere in the Chicago PD, however, threatens the life of his key witness, and Drake must figure out who the betrayer is before it's too late.
7) Canary
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Language
English
Description
After being arrested, Sarie Holland becomes a confidential informant at the mercy of a desperate detective looking for a career making bust and targeted by crooked cops and killers.
Author
Series
Wolfhound century volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sent to the capital, Mirgorod, to capture a terrorist, Inspector Vissarion Lom finds the city a corrupt world of secret police, revolutionaries, cabarets, and lost artists and slowly comes to the realization of exactly why he was chosen for this job.
Author
Language
English
Description
"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...
11) The white lady
Author
Language
English
Description
WHITE LADY introduces yet another extraordinary heroine/sleuth. This heart-stopping adventure follows the coming of age and maturity of former wartime operative Elinor White - veteran of two wars, trained killer, and protective of her anonymity. A reluctant ex-spy with demons of her own, Elinor finds herself facing down one of the most dangerous organized crime gangs in London, and exposing corruption from Scotland Yard to the highest levels of government....
Author
Series
Malcolm Fox mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Orion Books
Language
English
Description
A major inquiry into a neighbouring police force sees Malcolm Fox and his colleagues cast adrift, unsure of territory, protocol, or who they can trust. An entire stationhouse looks to have been compromised. But as Fox digs deeper, he finds the trail leads him back a couple of decades to the suicide of a prominent politician and activist.
15) The son
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Language
English
Description
Serving time for crimes he did not commit in exchange for heroin payouts, Sonny Lofthus uses his spiritual charisma to navigate corrupt and violent elements in his life before learning disturbing truths about his police officer father's suicide.
Author
Publisher
Knopf Canada
Language
English
Description
Sophie Brinkmann had no idea her former patient was an international crime lord. Hector Guzman had a Latin charm and easy smile she couldn't deny, so she agreed to a date ... Jens Vall is in Paraguay facilitating a delivery of very dangerous weapons when he's attacked by angry Russians. They think he stole their drugs ... Lars Vinge is a beat cop with a nasty drug habit he thought he kicked. He's given an important assignment that soon turns into...
17) Seven girls gone
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Series
Language
English
Description
"For three years, women have been disappearing--and eventually turning up dead in the small bayou town of St. Augustine, Louisiana. Police detective Beau Hebert is the only one who seems to care, but with every witness quickly silenced and a corrupt police department set on keeping the cases unsolved, Beau's investigation stalls at every turn. With nobody else to trust, Beau calls in a favor from his friend on the FBI's Mobile Response Team. While...
18) Payback in death
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Lt. Eve Dallas is just home from a long overdue vacation when she responds to a call of an unattended death. The victim is Martin Greenleaf, retired captain, Internal Affairs Bureau. At first glance, the scene appears to be suicide, but the closer Eve examines the body, the more suspicious she becomes. An unlocked open window, a loving wife and family, a too-perfect suicide note--Eve's gut says it's a homicide. After all, Greenleaf put a lot of dirty...
19) The savage shore
Author
Series
Nic Costa mysteries volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Roman police detective Nic Costa has been sent undercover to Italy's beautiful, remote Calabrian coast to bring in the head of the feared mob, the 'Ndrangheta, who has offered to turn state witness for reasons of his own. Hoping to reel in the biggest prize the state police have seen in years, the infamous Butcher of Palermo, Costa and his team are aware the stakes are high. But the constant deception is taking its toll. Out of their depth in a lawless...
20) Traitors gate
Author
Series
William Warwick novels volume 6
Language
English
Description
"The Tower of London. Impenetrable. Well protected. Secure. Home to the most valuable jewels on earth. But once a year, when the Queen attends the State Opening of Parliament, the police must execute the most secret operation in their armory as they transport the Crown Jewels across London. For decades, the elite squad at Scotland Yard have been in charge of the operation. But this year, everything is about to change. Because a master criminal has...
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