Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter usually tries to avoid taking on new cases at all costs. But this time, he's happy--eager, even--to take the case that's just come his way. Andy's long-time friend Martha "Pups" Boyer takes in stray puppies that the local dog rescue center can't handle, raises them until they're old enough to adopt, and then finds good homes for them. Not everyone admires the work Pups does as much as Andy does, however. With Christmas...
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"He appears in the darkness like a ghost, made of shadows and fear--the Midnight Man. He comes for the parents but leaves the children alive, tiny witnesses to unspeakable horror. The bedroom communities of Los Angeles are gripped with dread, and the attacks are escalating. Still reeling from her best friend's close call in a bombing six months ago, FBI behavioral analyst Caitlin Hendrix has come to Los Angeles to assist in the Midnight Man investigation...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
318 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Illinois senator Lyle Simmons returns from a political fundraiser to find his wife murdered, Detective Charles Chang is assigned to the investigation, in a case that draws him into the dangerous world of political lobbyists with whom the senator has a close relationship.
86) Glory in death
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Suspecting a link between the murders of two beautiful and highly successful women, police lieutenant Eve Dallas follows up on a long list of suspects that includes her own lover, Roarke.
87) The professional
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Hired to counter a blackmailer who has had affairs with several wealthy women, Boston private eye Spenser finds the case turning violent when the women are systematically murdered.
Author
Series
Harry Bosch volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Investigating the shooting death of a Chinese liquor store owner, detective Harry Bosch identifies a suspect as a Los Angeles member of a Hong Kong triad only to have his daughter go missing, a situation that prompts his high-stakes search across the Pacific.
89) Dream town
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
It's the eve of 1953, and Aloysius Archer is in Los Angeles to ring in the New Year with an old friend, aspiring actress Liberty Callahan, when their evening is interrupted by an acquaintance of Callahan's: Eleanor Lamb, a screenwriter in dire straits. After a series of increasingly chilling events--mysterious phone calls, the same blue car loitering outside her house, and a bloddy knife left in her sink--Eleanor fears that her life is in danger,...
90) Absolute power
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An unlikely witness threatens a high-level government cover-up--orchestrated by the Secret Service and a ruthlessly loyal White House chief-of-staff--of a brutal murder involving the president and his mistress
Author
Series
In death novel volume 53
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the latest novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, homicide detective Eve Dallas sifts through the wreckage of the past to find a killer. The body was left in a dumpster like so much trash, the victim a woman of no fixed address, known for offering paper flowers in return for spare change-and for keeping the cops informed of any infractions she witnessed on the street. But the notebook where she scribbled her intel on litterers and...
92) Faithless
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
393 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When medical examiner Sara Linton and her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, discover the body of a teenage girl buried in the woods of Grant County, Georgia, their investigation takes them on a terrifying path that leads to a deadly secret.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Santosh Wagh isn't struggling out of a bottle of whisky he's head of Private India, the Mumbai branch of the world's finest PI agency. In a city of over thirteen million he has his work cut out at the best of times. But now someone is killing women--seemingly unconnected women murdered in a chilling ritual, with strange objects placed carefully at their death scenes. As Santosh and his team race to find the killer, an even greater danger faces...
Author
Series
Tea shop mystery volume 11
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
303 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Theodosia Browning discovers the body of the local map store owner in an alley behind her tea shop, and is alarmed by Detective Tidwell's theory that she was the intended victim.
Author
Series
Tea shop mystery volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Upset when the Poet's Tea event at Charleston's Spoleto festival is forced indoors by rain, tea shop proprietor Theodosia Browning finds her life further complicated when a local auction house owner plummets to his death from a balcony.
97) The unseen
Author
Series
Krewe of Hunters volume 5
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
337 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When San Antonio becomes a dumping ground for the battered bodies of young women, Texas Ranger Logan Raintree must use his powerful ability to commune with the dead and lead a brand-new group of elite paranormal investigators to solve this disturbing case.
Author
Series
Joe Pike volume 2
Language
English
Description
Elvis Cole's taciturn partner, Joe Pike, investigates an attack on former associate Frank Meyer, a one-time mercenary whose family has been murdered by a professional hit crew and who police suspect has been keeping a dangerous secret.
99) Body work
Author
Series
A V. I. Warshawski novel volume 14
Language
English
Description
A shooting in Chicago is nothing new, certainly not to V.I., who is hired by a veteran's family to clear his name after his arrest for the murder of a performer known as the Body Artist. As V.I. seeks answers, her investigation will take her from the North Side of Chicago to the far reaches of the Gulf War.
100) Cast on, kill off
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 294 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a wedding gown seamstress is found dead, Kelly Flynn and her knitting partners must tie up all the loose ends before their friend's big day arrives.
