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7161) Stop them dead
Author
Series
Roy Grace novels volume 19
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
455 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Description
In the dead of night, a farmer hears a suspicious noise. It's everyone's worst nightmare: a break-in. When he confronts the intruders, he has no idea that just minutes later he will be left lying in a pool of blood. But the chilling truth lies not in the act itself, but what the perpetrators were willing to kill for. At the scene of the crime, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace senses something amiss. This is no mere botched robbery; it's the tip...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
"London, April 1882. When cool-headed Phyllida visits the World's End Investigation Bureau to offer a curious case concerning her fiancae, proprietor Lily Raynor is intrigued - and privately excited. For accepting the case means taking an unexpected tripabroad, to France. Phyllida's fiancae, Wilberforce, is currently in an asylum in Brittany, after a tragic incident which resulted in the death of his father. Did he kill him on purpose - or was it...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"May, 1937, London: The country is still reeling from Edward VIII's shocking decision to abdicate the throne in order to marry the woman he loves, Wallis Simpson. As London prepares for the historic Coronation of his brother, George, bestselling writer Josephine Tey is in town to oversee a BBC radio production of her play, Queen of Scots. When one of the BBC's best-known broadcasters is murdered at the height of the Coronation celebrations, Josephine...
7164) Cold frame
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
11 CDs (12.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in contemporary Washington, DC, amid the Byzantine counterterrorism bureaucracy, Cold Frame is a compelling thriller by a masterful novelist whose insider knowledge of how the military, federal, and local intelligence agencies work?or don?t?illuminates the dark world of Washington?s War on Terror. -- Blackstone Audio.
7165) In her tracks
Author
Series
Tracy Crosswhite novels volume 8
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Returning from an extended leave in her hometown of Cedar Grove, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself reassigned to the Seattle PD's cold case unit. As the protective mother of an infant daughter, Tracy is immediately drawn to her first file: the abduction of a five-year-old girl whose parents, embattled in a poisonous divorce, were once prime suspects. While reconstructing the days leading up to the girl's disappearance, Tracy is brought into...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In 1955, Emmett Till was lynched when he was 14 years old. That remains an undisputed fact of the case that ignited a flame within the civil rights movement that has yet to be extinguished. Yet the rest of the details surrounding the case remain distorted by time and too many tellings. What does justice mean in the resolution of a 66 year-old cold case? In A Few Days Full of Trouble, this question drives a new telling of the story of Emmett Till,...
7168) One last kill
Author
Series
Tracy Crosswhite novels volume 10
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Tracy Crosswhite is reopening the investigation into Seattle's Route 99 serial killer. After thirteen victims, he stopped hunting and the trail went cold, stirring public outrage. Now, nearly three decades after his first kill, Tracy is expected to finally bring closure to the victims' families and redeem the Seattle PD's reputation. Even if it means working with her nemesis, Captain Johnny Nolasco. Lead detective of the original task force, Nolasco...
7169) Wisting: Seasons 2 & 3
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (371 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Norwegian senior police detective leads an investigation of a serial killer.
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (310 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1850s London, Miss Eliza Scarlet continues her father's detective agency after his death, investigating crime with the help of a reluctant family friend, Detective Inspector William "the Duke" Wellington of Scotland Yard.
7171) Harper
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hard-boiled private investigator Lew Harper is hired to locate a missing millionaire.
7172) Arsenic and old lace
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 1153
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (1 hr. 58 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness...and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who's a dead ringer for Boris Karloff, and a seriously slippery plastic surgeon are among the outré oddballs populating Arsenic and Old Lace, a diabolical delight that...
7173) Field of Bones
Author
Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
9 CDs (645 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sheriff Joanna Brady's best intentions to stay on maternity leave take a hit when a serial homicide case rocks Cochise County, dragging her into a far-reaching investigation to bring down a relentless killer.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiv, 270 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"The amateur DNA sleuth who solved one of the most infamous cold cases in American history-the Golden State Killer crime spree-tells the incredible true story of how she did it, and explains how her methods have forever changed criminal investigations. In the span of just a few years, Barbara Rae-Venter went from researching her family history as a retiree to finding a serial killer who had baffled law enforcement for decades. I Know Who You Are tracks...
7175) Blackbird
Author
Series
Blackbird (Anna Carey) volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A teenage girl wakes up on the Los Angeles subway tracks with no memory of who she is or how she got there. One thing she does know is that people are trying to kill her, and she must race to uncover her past and outwit her hunters before it's too late"--
Author
Series
My favorite thing is monsters volume 2
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2016-
Physical Desc
volumes (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Description
"Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late 1960s Chicago, and narrated by 10-year-old Karen Reyes, Monsters is told through a fictional graphic diary employing the iconography of B-movie horror imagery and pulp monster magazines. As the precocious Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her beautiful and enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, we watch the interconnected and fascinating stories of those around...
7177) A slight case of murder
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 85 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Prohibition's ban on booze is over and bootlegger Remy Marco must make some changes and go legit. He finds that his ties to his former colleagues are holding him back. Furthermore, his daughter has fallen in love with a cop, and he can't get over his distrust of the police.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the small town of Edna, Texas, in 1951, field hand Pete Hernández killed a tenant farmer after exchanging words in a cantina. From this murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that would change the lives and legal standing of tens of millions of Americans. Tells the story of an underdog band of Mexican American lawyers who took their case all the way to the Supreme Court, where they challenged Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican...
Author
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (408 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Chief Inspector Tanner arrives at the house of Lord and Lady Lebanon to investigate the murder of their chauffeur, he quickly notices a lot of strange things about the household; when a priceless Buddhist artefact is stolen from a Japanese temple, apopular radio personality accidentally becomes involved in the case; a gambler falls in love with a young woman and believes she is bringing him luck, but his gambling rival also becomes interested...
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