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In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other, Mickey, walks those same blocks on her police beat. They don't speak anymore, but Mickey never stops worrying about her sibling. Then Kacey disappears, suddenly, at the same time that a mysterious string of murders begins in Mickey's district, and Mickey becomes dangerously...
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Ballad novels volume 11
Pub. Date
2016.
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Suddenly thrust into the role of primary caretaker for her family following the tragic death of her husband, Ellie Robbins is appointed to serve out his term as sheriff of their rural Tennessee mountain town. The year is 1936, and her role is largely symbolic, except for the one task that only a sheriff can do: execute a convicted prisoner. Ellie has long proven she can handle herself. But becoming sheriff is altogether different, and the demands...
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Kathryn Dance novels volume 1
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
428 p. ; 25 cm.
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Georgia Bureau of Investigations Detective Faith Mitchell, her partner Will Trent, and trauma doctor Sara Linton join forces to find Faith's mother, missing after a deadly hostage situation that leaves Faith a murder suspect--and the scapegoat for police corruption, bribery, and murder.
5) Avenged
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Pacific Coast justice volume no. 3
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When Officer Carly Edwards finds three young gangbangers shot execution style, she and her husband, Sergeant Nick Anderson, head of the gang unit, fear Las Playas may be on the verge of a gang war.
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Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
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134 pages ; 19 cm.
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It's almost summer in small town Port Ainslie. Or is it? Temperatures are so far below normal that Police Chief Maxine Benson and her team are wearing sweaters. But is it cold enough to freeze the body of the man found in a ditch on the outskirts of town one morning? Maxine starts to investigate, but she is elbowed aside by the mostly-male provincial police force so she takes charge on her own. Soon she's visiting the victim's cold-hearted widow,...
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"22-year-old Olivia has been missing for one day...and counting. She was last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley. And not coming back out again. Julia, the detective heading up the search for Olivia, thinks she knows what to expect. A desperate family, a ticking clock, and long hours away from her husband and daughter. But she has no idea just how close to home this case is going to get. Because the criminal at the heart of the disappearance...
8) The taken
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
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415 p. ; 24 cm.
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Reluctantly accepting help from her ex-husband after major surgery, Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef consults on a case that eerily resembles a recently serialized publication and causes Hazel and her associates to draw links between the murder, the story, and a cold case.
9) Broken
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Pub. Date
2010
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When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own and far too many unanswered questions about a prisoner's death. He doesn't understand why Officer Lena Adams is keeping secrets from him. He doesn't understand her role in the death of Grant County's popular police chief. And he doesn't understand why that man's widow, Dr. Sara Linton, needs him now more than ever.
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2020.
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"In A Small Town, twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the town burning down homes and businesses. An immense manhunt ensues, but the twelve who plotted it all get away. After two years, all efforts by the local and federal police agencies have been...
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Posadas County mysteries volume 13
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
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288 p. : map ; 22 cm.
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In Death series volume 58
Pub. Date
2024.
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"Jenna's parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club with her best friends, watching the legendary band Avenue A, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade. Then, from the stage, Jake catches her eye, and smiles. It's the best night of her life. It's the last night of her life. Minutes later, Jake's in the alley getting some fresh air, and the girl from the dance floor comes stumbling out, sick...
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Joanna Brady mysteries volume 16
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
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389 pages ; 24 cm.
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An old woman, a hoarder, is dying of emphysema in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In cleaning out her house, her daughter, Liza Machett, discovers a fortune in hundred dollar bills hidden in the tall stacks of books and magazines that crowd every corner. Tracing the money's origins will take Liza on a journey that will end in Cochise County, where Sheriff Joanna Brady is embroiled in a personal mystery of her own. A man she considers a family friend...
14) The murder house
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Against department policy, Police constable Helen Anderson takes some case files home to study, but when these files are stolen from her home, Helen's life is turned upside down as she struggles to cover-up her mistake.
15) Eeny meeny
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New American Library
Pub. Date
[2015]
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420 p. ;
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Two people are abducted, imprisoned, and left with a gun. As hunger and thirst set in, only one walks away alive. It's a game more twisted than any Detective Helen Grace has ever seen. If she hadn't spoken with the shattered survivors herself, she almost wouldn't believe them. Helen is familiar with the dark sides of human nature, including her own, but this case?́?with its seemingly random victims?́?has her baffled. But as more people go missing,...
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
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388 pages ; 25 cm
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Investigating the discovery of human remains that have been frozen for a decade, DI Fiona Griffiths learns that the victim was a missing student with possible connections to Griffiths' father, a case that is further complicated by a recent murder.
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Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
2013.
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398 pages ; 21 cm
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Fifteen years ago, a psychotic killer abducted seventeen-year-old Melissa Walker. For 83 days she was raped, tortured, and then left for dead in a deserted churchyard ... but she was still alive. Melissa begins a new life as homicide inspector Sabrina Vaughn. With a new face and a new name, it's her job to hunt down murderers, a job she does very well. But when Michael O'Shea, a childhood acquaintance with a suspicious past, suddenly finds her, he...
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Alex Morrow novels volume 2
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When a notorious millionaire banker hangs himself, his death attracts no sympathy. But the legacy of a lifetime of selfishness is widespread, and the carnage most acute among those he ought to be protecting: his family. Meanwhile, in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow, a young woman is found savagely murdered. The community is stunned by what appears to be a vicious, random attack. When Detective Inspector Alex Morrow, heavily pregnant with twins, is called...
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
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294 p. ; 22 cm.
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After Deputy Sara Ross discovers that her ex-partner fatally shot a man during a routine traffic stop and the details do not support his story that the man had pulled a gun, Sara must follow the truth no matter where it leads in order to protect herself and her son.
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