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61) Hit list
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
The adventures of U.S. Marshal and vampire hunter Anita Blake continue when word is leaked to her that hit men are headed to St. Louis and that she, Jean-Claude, and Richard are targets.
62) The cutthroat
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this. Hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape who ran away from home to become an actress, Bell gets a shock when her murdered body turns up instead. Vowing to bring the killer to justice, he begins a manhunt which leads him into increasingly more alarming territory. Anna Pape was not alone in her fate--petite...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo USA
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Clarice Starling es una aprendiza joven y vulnerable del FBI. Hannibal Lecter es un genio brillante, el mal. La suya es una lucha fascinante entre el bien y el mal dise?adas para detener a un asesino, y garantizado para enfriar la sangre."--Worldcat.org.
FBI Academy trainee Clarice Starling hopes that Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a criminally insane psychiatrist imprisoned in a Boston hospital, can lead her to the serial killer known only as Buffalo Bill...
Author
Series
Truly Devious volume 4
Language
English
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Description
After solving the greatest unsolved mystery of the century, Stevie Bell goes undercover as a camp counselor to investigate the strange things going on at Camp Wonder Falls--the site of the infamous "Box in the Woods" murders.
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English
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The truth is easy to miss, even when it's right in front of us. As a forensic reconstructionist, Rory Moore sheds light on cold-case homicides by piecing together crime scene details others fail to see. Cleaning out her late father's law office a week after his burial, she receives a call which plunges her into a decades-old case come to life once more. In the summer of 1979, five Chicago women went missing. The predator, nicknamed The Thief, left...
66) The circle
Author
Series
Commandant Martin Servaz thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Language
English
Description
"They find the boy by the swimming pool, dolls floating on its surface. Inside the house, his teacher lies dead. But he claims to remember nothing. June 2010. In the middle of a World Cup match, Martin Servaz receives a call from a long-lost lover. A few miles away in the town of Marsac, Classics professor Claire Diemar has been brutally murdered. As if that weren't disturbing enough, Servaz receives a cryptic e-mail indicating that Julian Hirtmann,...
67) Blind fury
Author
Series
Anna Travis mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Helping to investigate a series of killings, Detective Inspector Anna Travis accepts an offer of assistance from Cameron Welsh, a convicted murderer she helped arrest in the past, but Welsh's obsession with Anna brings terrible consequences.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It begins with a nursery rhyme. Nineteen minutes later you die. A masked stranger stands in the shadows. He watches his victim through the window. He will kill him slowly?make him pay. Soon the Rabbit Hunter has claimed another three victims. This predator will stop at nothing to reap his ultimate revenge. It?s up to Joona Linna and Saga Bauer to untangle one of the most complex cases of their career, and follow the killer?s trail of destruction...
69) Afraid to die
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli investigate after two women's bodies are found frozen and deliberately displayed with both victims wearing a piece of Selena's jewelry.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath is its beating heart: a biting critique of American colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and gentrification, and a heartbreaking portrait of a broken young girl who uses horror movies to cope with the horror of her own life. Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in...
72) Buried prey
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Back in 1985, two girls disappeared, and fledgling cop Lucas Davenport couldn't get over it, even when his boss declared the case closed. Now a house has been torn down, the bodies of two girls wrapped in plastic have been found, and Davenport is back on the case.
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Series
Wilde (Harlan Coben) volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After months away, Wilde has returned to the Ramapo Mountains in the wake of a failed bid at domesticity that confirms what he?s known all along: He belongs on his own, free from the comforts and constraints of modern life. Suddenly, a DNA match on an online ancestry database brings Wilde closer to his past than he?s ever dreamed, and finally gives Wilde the opening he needs to track down his father. But meeting the man brings up more questions than...
Author
Series
Pierce Quincy novels volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Bantam Books mass market edition.
Language
English
Description
When the daughter of FBI Special Agent Pierce Quincy dies suddenly, the death is ruled an accident, until investigator Rainie Conner uncovers evidence that points to a killer with the ability to unleash his victims' innermost fears.
75) Jane: a murder
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane's murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area between 1967 and 1969. Nelson was born a few years after Jane's death, and the narrative is suffused with the long shadow her murder cast over both the family and...
76) Scre4m
Publisher
distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Language
English
Description
The newest installment in the acclaimed franchise that ushered in a new wave of horror in the 1990s. In Scream 4, Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill. Unfortunately, Sidney's appearance also brings about the return of Ghost Face, putting her friends and the whole town of Woodsboro...
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English
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While Britain is obsessed with the newest hit true-crime television show, Fact or Fable?, detectives Ruth Lake and Greg Carver are tormented by a fiendish flesh-and-blood killer on the loose. Lured to a "crime scene" by a mysterious digital invitation, Ruth Lake is horrified by what she finds: a bizarre and gruesome tableau surrounded by a crowd of gawkers. The deadly work is the latest "art installation" designed by a diabolical criminal dubbed the...
Author
Language
English
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2022 YA Award Winners
YA Genres: Historical Fiction (Alternate Histories & Historical Fantasies)
YA Reads: Books about Grief and Loss
YA Genres: Historical Fiction (Alternate Histories & Historical Fantasies)
YA Reads: Books about Grief and Loss
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In 1893 Chicago, after his best friend becomes the latest victim in a long line of murdered Jewish boys, Alter Rosen is plunged into a nightmare where he is thrown back into the arms of a dangerous boy from his past.
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 17
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
""FOR GOD'S SAKE, TELL US WHAT'S HAPPENED!" "VENGEANCE. VENGEANCE IS WHAT'S HAPPENED." It begins as a manhunt for Grace Ozmian, the missing daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire. At first, the NYPD assumes Grace, beautiful, reckless, and a regular feature of the local tabloids, has simply sped off on another wild adventure. But the case becomes something altogether different when the young woman's body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse in...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Between 2005 and 2009, the bodies of eight women were discovered around the town of Jennings, in Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana. They had all engaged in sex work as a means of survival, and they came to be called the Jeff Davis 8. The investigations into their deaths, originally searching for a serial killer, raised questions about police misconduct and corruption.
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