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Summary: After a childhood friend is shot down while attempting to atone for past sins, Scudder is drawn into a murder investigation that threatens to upset his path toward recovery--and get him killed in the process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLOBox, C. J.
Summary: Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOXCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M BOXBlock, Lawrence.
Summary: New York private detective and recovering alcoholic Matthew Scudder is already struggling with his sobriety when his friend and fellow AA member Jack Ellery is found murdered. Now the only thing keeping Scudder from the bottle is his obsession with finding the culprit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD M BLOFante, Dan
Summary: A recovering alcoholic with a bad attitude and an ex-private investigator, J.D. Fiorella, having returned home to California, gets back in the game when his only friend is brutally murdered by a serial killer with an axe to grind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bourbon Street Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FANPyper, Andrew.
Summary: During a visit to Venice, Professor David Ullman -- one of the world's leading authorities on demonic literature -- witnesses a terror in a tiny attic room. Then his 11-year-old daughter Tess disappears before his eyes. Now he will go to any length to find his daughter and confront an unspeakable darkness along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PYPScottoline, Lisa
Summary: TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their eponymous law firm, except him. He works at the firm as its investigator, after rehab for alcoholism and a stint in prison. One night, TJ's older brother John tells him that he killed his client, an accountant, in self-defense, during a fight that ensued after John had confronted the accountant with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SCOGardner, Lisa
Summary: Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will, searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking. A new case brings her to Mattapan, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fic GarBruen, Ken
Summary: Juggling a precarious balance between his physical and addiction recovery efforts, former cop Jack Taylor investigates the work of a vigilante killer who has been sending him cryptic invitations to join him, an effort that jeopardizes Taylor's livelihood, friends and mental health.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRULupica, Mike
Summary: "When a body is discovered at the lake in Paradise, Police Chief Jesse Stone is surprised to find he recognizes the murder victim--the man had been at the same AA meeting as Jesse the evening before. But otherwise, Jesse has no clue as to the man's identity. He isn't a local, nor does he have ID on him, nor does any neighboring state have a reported missing person matching the man's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020