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Female friendship Fiction Kidnapping Fiction Mental illness Social aspects Mentally ill offenders Fiction Murderers Fiction San Francisco (Calif.) Fiction Women and psychoanalysis Women detectives California San Francisco Fiction Women in the professions Fiction Women Mental healthRoth, Alisa
Summary: An expose of the mental-health crisis in America's courts and prisons reveals that nearly half of the nation's inmates are actually afflicted by a psychiatric problem, examines how inmates are denied treatment, and suggests a more humane approach.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 ROTParrish, P. J.
Summary: Florida's Gulf Coast community of Sereno Key has been shaken to the core by a grisly ritualistic murder. Though an arrest is quickly made, Detective Louis Kincaid feels strangely unsettled. His uncertainty is confirmed as a second body is discovered, and then a third--each branded with the bizarre trademarks of a serial killer whose blood lust is growing. Now in a race against time, Kincaid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Our Noir Publishing 2018
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1 available in Local Author, Call number: FIC PARPatterson, James
Summary: In The 4th of July, after losing one of its own, Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club make a courageous return for their fourth and most chilling case ever--one that could easily be their last. A young girl is killed in crossfire after a routine arrest goes terribly wrong, and Lt. Lindsay Boxer has to defend herself against a charge of police brutality. While awaiting trial, Lindsay...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATGilmer, Benjamin
Summary: "A rural physician learns that a former doctor at his clinic committed a shocking crime, leading him to uncover an undiagnosed mental health crisis in our broken prison system--a powerful true story expanding on one of the most popular This American Lifeepisodes of all time. When family physician Dr. Benjamin Gilmer began working at the Cane Creek clinic in rural North Carolina, he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.3 GIL1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.3 GILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crime GilmerSummary: Presents the story of Rollen Stewart, also known as the Rainbow Man, who achieved notoriety in the late 1970s by appearing in the crowd at thousands of televised sporting events wearing a rainbow-colored afro wig and carrying signs encouraging the audience to be saved by Jesus Christ. Follows his obsession with attracting attention from the media, and his descent into violent behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Cinema DVD 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RAIPatterson, James
Summary: When an unthinkable tragedy leaves one of the members of the Women's Murder Club in critical condition, the others must fight to keep a deranged man locked away. Meanwhile, a series of ransomless child kidnappings rocks the city and confounds law enforcement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M PATMcMahon, Neil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMKellerman, Jonathan.
Summary: "Well-used to elevated emotions, psychologist Alex Delaware shrugs off a joking death threat from beautiful Beverly Hills physician Constance Sykes, whose attempt to secure legal custody of her baby niece is thwarted by Alex's forthright report to the court. Alex plays down the threat until LAPD's Milo Sturgis rushes to his side with the shocking word on the street that a hit's been taken out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Kellerman 2014Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS KELFisher, Tarryn
Summary: As a teen, Iris Walsh narrowly escaped the kidnapping, trafficking and murder suffered by her twin sister. With few clues to go on, the case quickly goes cold. As an adult, Iris is determined to find out what happened, so she interns at the isolated Shoal Island Hospital for the criminally insane, to seek out its secrets. But there is something sinister beneath the surface, and Iris is in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: "The story of America's first Mental Health Court as told by its presiding judge, Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren--from its inception in 1997 to its implementation in over 400 courts across the nation As a young lawyer, Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren bore witness to the consequences of an underdeveloped mental health care infrastructure. Unable to do more than offer guidance, she watched families being torn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345 LERClark, Jerry
Summary: Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, as one judge described her, as "a coldly calculated criminal recidivist and serial killer." She had experienced a lifetime of murder, mayhem, and mental illness. She killed two boyfriends, including one whose body was stuffed in a freezer. And she was convicted in one of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's strangest cases: the Pizza Bomber case, in which a pizza...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 CLADeaver, Jeffery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2001
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Summary: A horrifying burst of gunfire on a crowded ferry leaves several people dead- -and one woman fighting for her life. That victim is a member of the Women's Murder Club, four friends who join forces on their toughest cases when traditional methods get them nowhere. Inspector Lindsay Boxer pursues one tantalizing lead after another in her attempt to bring in the man who tried to kill her friend....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FICTION PattersonKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: Martin Stillwater, successful mystery writer and loving father to his two daughters, senses the approach of a threatening and destructive presence. His enemy is a clone of himself, accidentally loosed upon Martin's family and other innocent citizens by a high-level conspiracy of power seekers. The clone's hunger for an identity, fed by countless movies viewed between assigned assassinations,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOOPatterson, James
Summary: A horrifying burst of gunfire on a crowded ferry leaves several people dead- -and one woman fighting for her life. That victim is a member of the Women's Murder Club, four friends who join forces on their toughest cases when traditional methods get them nowhere. Inspector Lindsay Boxer pursues one tantalizing lead after another in her attempt to bring in the man who tried to kill her friend....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PATSummary: The number of Americans who live behind bars has increased by 550 percent over the last 40 years. This has been the result of aggressive tough-on-crime legislation that had more harmful effects than lawmakers could have foreseen. Experts now see the problem but disagree on the solutions. Does incarceration limit crime, or does it simply feed into a cycle of problems that harm society and create...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenhaven Publishing, LLC 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 365 MASPratt, Misty
Summary: "Why are so many women feeling anxious, stressed out, and depressed, and why are they not getting the help they need? Over the past decade, mood disorders have skyrocketed among women, who are twice as likely to be diagnosed as men. Yet in a healthcare system steeped in gender bias, women's complaints are often dismissed, their normal emotions are pathologized, and treatments routinely fail to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2024