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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"What would you do if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thinks so too? What if the truth doesn't matter? As Lucy Chase's Texas hometown begins to tell versions of what happened and who Lucy is to a nationwide, true crime obsessed audience, at the bequest of her grandmother, she returns to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend's murder, even if she is the one that did it"--
2) Murder road
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Language
English
Description
"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. July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They're looking for the small resort town where they plan to spend their honeymoon. When they spot what appears to be a lone hitchhiker along the deserted road, they stop to help. But not long...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Deep in the Florida Everglades, the body of a woman is discovered in pieces, presumably ravaged by an alligator. Upon closer inspection, it's determined no animal could make such perfectly precise cuts. Only a blade could do that. Wielded by a human. Soon, dozens of oil drums emerge amid the river of grass. Each one packed to the brim with body parts. FDLE special agent Amy Larson and her partner, FBI special agent Hunter Forrest, share a bad feeling...
4) Cold threat
Author
Series
Ryland and St. Clair volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Twenty years ago, several people were murdered in Des Moines, and the only evidence left behind was a snowman ornament hanging ominously on a tree in the victims' front lawns. With a suspect behind bars, the killings have come to an end -- or so everyone thought. But now crimes with a similar MO are happening in a small Iowa town, and a local detective believes the killer is back and ready to strike again. With little time left on the clock before...
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Language
English
Description
"Iris Walsh saw her twin sister, Piper, get kidnapped--so why does no one believe her? Iris narrowly escaped her pretty, popular twin sister's fate as a teen: kidnapped, trafficked and long gone before the cops agreed to investigate. With no evidence to go on but a few scattered memories, the case quickly goes cold. Now an adult, Iris wants one thing--proof. And if the police still won't help, she'll just have to find it her own way; by interning...
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Language
English
Description
"It's 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances's night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn't happened yet, compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise. For decades, no one takes Frances seriously, until nearly...
Publisher
Yavapai College Library
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The silence of the lambs (R) (1991) (1 hr. 58 min.) -- A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
Hannibal (R) (2001) (2 hr. 11 min.) -- Living in exile, Dr. Hannibal Lecter tries to reconnect with now disgraced F.B.I. Agent Clarice Starling, and finds himself a target for revenge from a powerful victim.
Red dragon (R) (2002)...
10) Night shadows
Author
Series
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The small community of Akranes is devastated when a young man dies in a mysterious house fire, and when Detective Elma and her colleagues from West Iceland CID discover the fire was arson, they become embroiled in an increasingly perplexing case involving multiple suspects. What's more, the dead man's final online search raises fears that they could be investigating not one murder, but two. A few months before the fire, a young Dutch woman takes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When he sees dog handler Anna Trent during a search-and-rescue mission, Deputy Lucas Malone is stunned. Two years ago, they met when she lost her husband on the same cancer ward where Lucas's girlfriend died. As Lucas now wonders about their mutual attraction, the case they're working turns into a murder investigation--and Anna becomes a target. Lucas was powerless to save his past love. Now he'll do whatever it takes to protect Anna..."--
Author
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When a body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, it soon becomes clear that she's no stranger to the area. Chief Investigating Officer Elma, who has returned to Akranes following a failed relationship, and her colleagues Saevar and Hoerdur, commence an uneasy investigation, which uncovers a shocking secret in the dead woman's past that continues to reverberate in the present day ... But as Elma and her team make...
14) Purrfect setup
Author
Series
Mysteries of Max volume 30
Publisher
Nic Saint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When we were called to the home of a banker who'd taken his own life, little did I suspect this would lead to an actual case. But then the banker's daughter asked Odelia to investigate, convinced her father had been murdered. And so we set out to prove the impossible. The police were satisfied with a verdict of suicide, and we had nothing to go on except the girl's plea. Meanwhile Dooley had his own theories about the case, and then there was his...
Author
Series
Mysteries of Max volume 31
Publisher
Nic Saint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
I was going about my usual business (napping, eating... more napping) when I was approached by a client to take on a very intriguing case. Yes, I know cats aren't supposed to take on cases, since A) we aren't licensed and B) we're not allowed to carry a weapon, not even a concealed one, and C) we don't have the opposable thumbs to count the fees. But I'm getting sidetracked here. The case involved a woman whose boyfriend was kidnapped then murdered,...
Author
Series
Darcy Gaughan mystery volume 1
Publisher
Level Best Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When the manager of Marysburg Music, Darcy Gaughan, returns to work after a vacation, she expects to jump right back, into work as the store gets ready for the upcoming Record Store Day celebrations. She's also celebrating five years of sobriety and is confident that there are good things in her future. She doesn't expect to find her boss in his office, dead from an apparent self-inflicted stab wound."--Page 4 of cover
17) The vanishing
Author
Series
Publisher
Kane Miller, A Division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
"Jazz's best friend, Annika, has been kidnapped. She can't call the cops, so she forges a truce with her nemesis, Phoenix. In a race against time, Jazz and Phoenix only have 48 hours to collect the evidence, profile the kidnapper and find their schoolmate's location, or Anika will die"--Page [4] of cover.
18) All the rage
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Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After being abducted and assaulted, a teenage girl somehow managed to escape from her captor. She is traumatized and needs to heal, but the police need her help to catch her assailant-information she clearly knows, but is unwilling to give. Without the girl's assistance, DI Adam Fawley's investigation is at a dead end. When another girl vanishes under the same circumstances, he recognizes a disturbing pattern-and a link to something long buried in...
19) Purrfect yacht
Author
Series
Mysteries of Max volume 60
Publisher
Nic Saint
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When Gran announced that she wanted to spend her vacation cruising along the French Riviera, I should have known it was a sign of things to come. Before long we, too, temporarily relocated to France, to conduct an undercover investigation into a blackmail attempt targeting Odelia?s cousin. A marriage had been arranged and was going to take place between Emily King, Zumba instructor, and Harry Griffiths, scion of the well-known Griffiths family. Only...
20) Amish fugitive
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
An Amish outcast. A woman willing to help. A killer determined to silence them. Daniel Miller's Amish community won't accept him even though he's been acquitted of a crime he didn't commit. When Lela Borntrager offers to help him find the real culprit, Daniel has a chance to prove his innocence. But a killer on the loose puts them both in danger. Will Daniel accept Lela's help, or will he sacrifice clearing his name to keep her safe?