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Pub. Date
2009
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The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways. Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of Investigation's foremost kinesics expert, and Deputy Michael O'Neil follow a lead to Travis Brigham, a troubled teenager whose role in a fatal car accident has inspired vicious attacks against him on a popular blog, The Chilton Report. But as the investigation progresses, Travis vanishes--and Dance is forced...
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Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2005
Description
A parent's worst nightmare. A lawyer's biggest challenge. A young boy's life on the line. The unimaginable has happened. A thirteen-year-old boy has fired a rifle into a baseball game, killing several of the kids on the field. Parents are devastated. The townspeople are horrified. When public opinion swells to an enraged cry for justice, an ambitious deputy district attorney sees his opportunity-a sensational trial that will catapult him into the...
4) Deep waters
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Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Charity Truitt facing crises of career and heart falls in love with her opponent from a failed corporate merger only to discover that they are caught up in a series of murders and must catch the killer before they become the next to die.
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"Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century. Actually, her charmless client might've committed several murders. She's also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt. But Jane doesn't have much time. She's just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months. Unless she's murdered before her expiration date" --
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SelectBooks, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
""When publisher of a struggling independent weekly newspaper in Florida's Panhandle exposes his friend and beloved Pansacola philanthropist as an embezzler, he's gone too far in his uncovering of secrets of the town's feuding members and their corruption, racism, and injustice. He's blamed when someone is found dead, and more than his reputation is at stake"--Provided by the publisher.
8) The runaway
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Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Tom and Son Jesus, two inseparable twelve-year-old boys, one white and one African-American, spark a rash of hate crimes in their rural Georgia town when their discovery of the skeletal remains of Son's long-missing father forces Sheriff Frank Rucker to begin an investigation into the unsolved murders of three African-American men.
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Luisa "Lu" Brant is the newly elected-- and first female-- state's attorney of Howard County, Maryland, a job in which her widower father famously served. Fiercely intelligent and ambitious, she sees an opportunity to make her name by trying a mentally disturbed drifter accused of beating a woman to death in her home. It's not the kind of case that makes headlines, but peaceful Howard County doesn't see many homicides. As Lu prepares for the trial,...
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"An annual backpacking trip has deadly consequences in a chilling new novel from the bestselling author of The Lost Night and The Herd. Emily is having the time of her life--she's in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than ever. But on the last night of their trip, Emily enters their hotel suite to find blood and broken glass on the floor. Kristen says the cute backpacker...
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After losing her husband, Derrick, in what appears to have been a random street crime, thirtysomething Emma has built a new life with widower Tom, who is kind, and successful. Emma is finally able to feel safe again, both in her relationship with Tom and in the home they've made together on the Connecticut shore. Then one day a homicide detective shows up at Emma and Tom's door asking questions. Though Emma had been cleared of her husband's murder,...
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Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
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"Rosalind Thorne may not have a grand fortune of her own, but she possesses virtues almost as prized by the haut ton: discretion, and a web of connections that enable her to discover just about anything about anyone...Mrs. Gerald Douglas, nee Bethany Hodgeson, presents Rosalind with a particularly delicate predicament. A valuable pearl necklace has gone missing, and Bethany's husband believes the thief is Nora, Bethany's disgraced sister...The intrigue...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Jane and William are enjoying their honeymoon at an exclusive couples-only resort until Jane receives a chilling note warning her to "Beware of the couple at the table nearest to yours." At dinner that night, five other couples are present, and none of their tables is any nearer or farther away than any of the others. It’s almost as if someone has set the scene in order to make the warning note meaningless-but why would anyone do that? Jane has...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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In the still-segregated town of West Mills, North Carolina, in 1975, Marian, Marva, and Lazarus Harmon - 3 enigmatic siblings - are found shot to death in their home. The people of West Mills - on both sides of the canal that serves as the town's color line - are in a frenzy of finger-pointing, gossip, and wonder. The crime is the first reported murder in the area in decades, but the white authorities don't seem to have any interest in solving the...
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"Tucked into the mountains of North Wales, the village of Cwm Coed is bordered by a shimmering lake on one side and an army of pine trees on the other. But the tranquility is shattered when homegrown celebrity Rhys Lloyd returns to develop a luxury resort on the shore opposite the village. Old resentments begin to rise to the surface, and new tensions emerge between the locals and the outsiders. Still, when the resort throws open its doors for a New...
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Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Part-time reporter Lucy Stone is writing a piece for the Courier about four Irish step dancing students from Tinker's Cove on the cusp of making it big. But the story becomes headline news for all the wrong reasons when one girl's mother is found dead in her bathtub. Did a stage mom take rivalry too far, or is some other motive at play?
As owner of Bar Harbor's hottest new restaurant, Hayley Powell offers to cater the after-party for popular comedian...
17) Cold
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Told in alternating perspectives, Todd replays the events that lead to his death in the local park, watching as detectives investigate his murder and talk to the students responsible for it, and meanwhile Georgia, who does not know Todd, cannot stop thinking about him.
18) Murder road
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"A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deserted road in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Cold Cases.
19) Snuffed out
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Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
30-year-old twins Tabby and Sage Winslow own the Book and Candle Shop in Savannah. Sage is hotheaded and impulsive, while Tabby is calm and collected, making them the perfect partnership. When one of their customers is found murdered, that partnership is put to the test. Blithe McAdam had been seen in a heated argument with shop clerk Gerard, which immediately makes him suspect number one. The twins are convinced of Gerard's innocence and start digging...
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2023.
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"Initially brought in as a consultant to determine if the racketeering is severe enough to require an all-out investigation by the FBI, Duncan quickly finds himself in conflict with a syndicate far more violent than first suspected. As the investigation develops, he begins compiling a "murder book," the notebook in which a detective keeps records, interviews, photos - everything he needs to build his case. But his scrutiny of the gang soon make Duncan...
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