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African American detectives Fiction Family secrets Fiction Female friendship Fiction FICTION / Thrillers / Crime FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense Missing persons Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Serial murder investigation Fiction Washington (D.C.) FictionSlaughter, Karin
Summary: Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father--Pikeville's notorious defense attorney--devastated. And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night. Charlie has followed in her father's footsteps to become a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SLAScottoline, Lisa
Summary: Jason Bennett is a suburban dad and an elite court reporter, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving with his family home after his daughter's field hockey game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them on a dark stretch or road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. He complies, getting his family and their dog out of the car....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Audio 2022
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Summary: "TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm--except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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Summary: Alex Cross and Detective Sampson venture into the Montana wilderness. They become the prey when they're attacked by assassins controlled by the mastermind who has stalked Alex for years. No backup. No way out.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATPatterson, James
Summary: A jet crashes at a DC airport, shot down by a Vietnam War-era machine gun. The list of experts who can operate the weapon is short. Even shorter is the time until Alex Cross is the next target.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HachetteAudio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC PATPatterson, James
Summary: A methodical killer is targeting multigenerational families in and around Washington, DC, leaving behind no shred of evidence. Detective Alex Cross must manage the investigation, with the dubious help of a charismatic true-crime author.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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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 Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC SCOPatterson, James
Summary: "Alex Cross enters the final battle with the all-knowing genius who has stalked him and his family for years. Dr. Alex Cross and Detective John Sampson venture into the rugged Montana wilderness--where they will be the prey. They're not on the job, but on a personal mission. Until they're attacked by two rival teams of assassins, controlled by the same mastermind who has stalked Alex and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PATWillingham, Stacy
Summary: Margot finds herself living in an off-campus house with three other girls. But by the middle of their sophomore year, one of the fraternity boys from next door has been brutally murdered, and Lucy Sharpe is missing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: NYPD Detective Michael Bennett finds the body of a college student in the Hudson River. As the killer extends his spree, a pattern emerges that Bennett's own daughter fits to a disturbing degree.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC PATWare, Ruth
Summary: "April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford. Together, they cultivated a group of inseparable friends during their first term. By the end of the second, April was dead. Now, a decade later, Hannah is expecting her first child, and the man convicted of killing April, former Oxford porter John Neville, has died in prison. Relieved to have finally put the past behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper. Hours later, Avery's family declares her missing. Suddenly Stanhope doesn't feel so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAPMichaels, Fern
Summary: "Mateo Castillo is a rising star chef on the Manhattan culinary scene, but just as he's about to reap the rewards of his skill and hard work by being featured on a major TV cooking competition, Mateo collapses in his restaurant's kitchen and regains consciousness in a hospital emergency room. The cause of his sudden illness is as mysterious as it is worrying, and Mateo and his family undergo a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MICBohjalian, Chris
Summary: Crissy Dowling has created a world that suits her perfectly. She passes her days by the pool in a private cabana, she splurges on ice cream but never gains an ounce, and each evening she transforms into a Princess, performing her musical cabaret inspired by the life of the late Diana Spencer. Some might find her strange or even delusional, an American speaking with a British accent, hair...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Summer has come to Atlantic City but the boardwalk is empty of tourists, the casino lights have dimmed, and two Jane Does are laid out in the marshland behind the Sunset Motel, just west of town. Only one person even knows they're there. Meanwhile, Clara, a young boardwalk psychic, struggles to attract clients for the tarot readings that pay her rent. When she begins to experience very real and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Lucas Vega is obsessed with the death of Candace Swain, who left a sorority party one night and never came back. Her body was found after two weeks, but the case has grown cold. Three years later while interning at the medical examiner's, Lucas discovers new information, but the police are not interested. Lucas knows he has several credible pieces of the puzzle. He just isn't sure how they fit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2021
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Summary: "Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. As a named partner at her firm, life is going exactly how she planned. The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He's a struggling writer who has had little success in his career and he tires of his and Sarah's relationship as she is constantly working. Out in the secluded woods, at the couple's lake house, Adam...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloodhound Books 2020
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Summary: A decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors on a school trip crashed into a Tennessee ravine--a tragedy that claimed the lives of multiple classmates and teachers. The nine students who escaped the river were irrevocably changed. A year later, after one of the survivors dies by suicide, the rest of them make a pact to come together each year to commemorate that terrible night. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: "Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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Summary: Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JEWKing, Stephen
Summary: When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl's desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down. Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC KINWahrer, Caitlin
Summary: "When a small-town family is pushed to the brink, how far will they go to protect one of their own? Tony has always looked out for his younger brother, Nick. So when he's called to a hospital bed where Nick is lying battered and bruised after a violent attack, his protective instincts flare, and a white-hot rage begins to build. Nick didn't ask for any of this. One moment he was partying at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books / Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAHBarker, J. D. (Jonathan Dylan)
Summary: Detective Porter and the team have been pulled from the hunt for Anson Bishop, the Four Monkey Killer, by the feds. When the body of a young girl is found beneath the frozen waters of Jackson Park Lagoon, she is quickly identified as Ella Reynolds, missing three weeks. But how did she get there? The lagoon froze months earlier. More baffling- She's found wearing the clothes of another girl,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BARHannah, Sophie
Summary: The girl Cara Burrows saw alive and well in a hotel room is the most famous murder victim in the country--Melody Chapa, whose parents are serving natural life sentences for her murder. Did she really see Melody? And is she prepared to answer that question if it means risking her own life?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017