Preston, Douglas J.
Summary: With Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta's assistance, Pendergast embarks on a quest to uncover the mystery of his wife's murder. As he probes more deeply into the riddle--the answer to which is revealed in a night of shocking violence, deep in the Louisiana bayou--he finds himself faced with an even greater question: who was the woman he married?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2010
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Summary: On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. While Lynley works on the case in London, his former colleagues Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata follow the murder trail south to the New Forest--and to an outcome that is both tragic and shocking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2010
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Summary: In the wake of a series of bizarre murders in which claw prints are found near each of the victims, agent Pendergast teams up with officer Vincent d'Agosta in an investigation with apparent ties to the supernatural.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PrestSlaughter, Karin
Summary: Detective Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation takes on the case of a girl who has been savagely murdered in one of Atlanta's most desirable neighborhoods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2008
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Summary: Elizabeth Shaw of the Boston law firm Shaw & Cartwright hires sleuthing extraordinaire Spenser to investigate Gary Eisenhower. Notorious for his affairs with wealthy married women, Gary is now being accused of blackmailing his former lovers. Spenser's investigation quickly shifts from blackmail to murder, though, when the blackmailed women turn up murdered one by one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARPeacock, Justin.
Summary: Peacock's novel features Joel Deveraux, a former corporate-law hotshot whose downward slide finds him plying his trade at Brooklyn's Public Defender's office. Thrust into a high-profile case involving black-on-white crime, Joel quickly discovers he is in over his head.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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Summary: When a parish priest is brutally murdered in cold blood, a rural community is left in shock - and fear. New to the Vale of the White Horse, Detective Sergeant Mark Turpin discovers the murder bears the hallmark of a vicious killer who shows no remorse for his victim, and leaves no trace behind. After a second priest is killed, his broken body bearing similar ritualistic abuse, the police are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saxon Publishing 2020
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Summary: " ... the Dordogne's great pleasures--wine, romance, and intrigue--threaten Bruno's beloved village of Saint-Denis."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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Summary: June, 1925. Elizabeth Fairchild lives a quiet life in genteel Oak Park Village, Illinois. There, she forms a close friendship with gentle Mr Anthony. But tragedy strikes when Mr Anthony is found stabbed to death in the alley behind his shop. Why would anyone murder a mild-mannered antiques dealer? Could it have something to do with the mysterious customer who bought a gold pocket watch from Mr...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DAMRose, Jeneva
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: Attending the lavish birthday celebration of a World War II hero, police chief Bruno becomes intimately tangled in the family's dynamics when one of their close friends dies under suspicious circumstances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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Summary: The theater department at Athena is putting on a play by a fledgling playwright with local connections. Charlie's son-in-law, Frank Salisbury, will be calling the directorial shots, and his daughter, Laura, will be taking on the lead female role. Luke Lombardi, the guest artist, is someone she knew in Hollywood. The older male actor - whose career in film has been on the wane - arrives with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2020
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Summary: "Charlie Harris has sworn off investigating murder and mayhem after a recent close call. Instead, he's delighted to cheer on his daughter, Laura, who's starring in a production of Careless Whispers. The theater department at Athena College is debuting the play written by a fledgling playwright with local connections and Charlie's son-in-law, Frank Salisbury, will be calling the directorial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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Summary: The last time homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite was in Cedar Grove, it was to see her sister's killer put behind bars. Now she's returned for a respite and the chance to put her life back in order for herself, her attorney husband, Dan, and their new daughter. But tragic memories soon prove impossible to escape. Dan is drawn into representing a local merchant whose business is jeopardized by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: When the handsome but dissolute young gentleman Lord Ashworth is found brutally murdered, Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is called in by Bow Street magistrate Sir Henry Lovejoy to help catch the killer. Just seven months before, Sebastian had suspected Ashworth of aiding one of his longtime friends and companions in the kidnapping and murder of a string of vulnerable street children. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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Summary: "Hope Smith can’t stand rich people—the dictionary magnate family the Wintertons most of all. Not since she and her twin brother, Gordon, learned that their dad was one. So when Gordon enters the family into the Winterton’s charity spelling bee, Hope wants nothing to do with it. But with their mom losing her job and the family facing eviction from the motel where they live, they desperately...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pixel+Ink 2023
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Summary: Aunt Saffronia drops the Sinister-Winterbottoms off at the Sanguine Spa, which is possibly owned by vampires, and where they must continue to complete the tasks they have been set if they are to see their parents again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022
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Summary: The Sinister-Winterbottoms, twins Alexander and Theo and their older sister Wil, find themselves at a mysterious summer camp where they meet other families whose parents are missing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023
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Summary: In this novel Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man's uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012
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Summary: "Married at eighteen, divorced at twenty eight, Sarah Blair reluctantly swaps her luxury lifestyle for a cramped studio apartment and a law firm receptionist job in the tired hometown she never left. But things fall apart completely when her ex drops dead, seemingly poisoned by Emily's award-winning rhubarb crisp"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: Hercule Poirot's vacation in the Holy Land is interrupted by death in Petra, where the lifeless body of Mrs. Boynton, a detestable English woman who cowed her family and strangers alike, is found atop the rose red cliffs. Though her family claims her heart failure was a natural event, the tiny puncture mark on her wrist is a clear sign of the fatal injection that really killed her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2007
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Summary: "No matter how you come into this world, you come out broken ... In six intense short novels connected by the themes of crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss, betrayal, guilt and redemption, Broken is #1 international bestseller Don Winslow at his nerve-shattering, heart-stopping, heartbreaking best. In Broken, he creates a world of high-level thieves and low-life crooks, obsessed cops...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: A young rising star in the legal world lands the job of a lifetime when he takes a position at a prestigious law firm. Despite a little uneasiness, things seem to be going well. Unfortunately, though, an FBI probe puts this young lawyer in the middle of a dangerous nightmare, which includes some dark and sinister secrets within the firm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2012
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Summary: "The breathtakingly propulsive and stunningly assured debut thriller, perfect for readers of Tana French, Don Winslow and Dennis Lehane A detective goes undercover in Manchester ... The mission is suicide. Infiltrating the inner circle of enigmatic criminal Zain Carver is dangerous enough. Pulling it off while also rescuing Isabelle Rossiter, a runaway politician's daughter, from Zain's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of Crown Publishing Group 2018