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Boston (Mass.) Fiction Cold cases (Criminal investigation) Cold cases (Criminal investigation) Fiction Families Massachusetts Boston Fiction Large type books Missing persons Investigation Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Rape Fiction Women detectives Fiction Women journalists FictionGrafton, Sue
Summary: "The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate--and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state's evidence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M GRAMargolin, Phillip
Summary: Robin Lockwood joined the firm of legal legend Regina Barrister not long before Regina was forced into retirement by early onset Alzheimer's. One of Regina's former clients, Robert Chesterfield, shows up in the law office with an odd request-- he's seeking help from his old attorney in acquiring patent protection for an illusion. Chesterfield is a professional magician and he has a major new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Margolin 2020Brennan, Allison
Summary: "Over a span of twenty years, four boys have been kidnapped from their bedrooms, suffocated, and buried nearby in a shallow grave. Serial killer or coincidence? That's the question investigative reporter Maxine Revere sets out to answer when an old friend begs her to help exonerate his wife, who has been charged with their son's recent murder. But Max can do little to help because the police...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M BREClark, Mary Higgins.
Summary: Emily, one of three friends inseparable since childhood, becomes a pawn in a plan to save one life at the expense of another.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC ClaGardner, 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 GarJance, J. A. (Judith A.)
Summary: With Sheriff Joanna Brady's help, a field officer from the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People's Task Force wants to reopen a cold case, as he feels a personal obligation to capture this killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: The two identical brothers seemed perfect in every way, handsome, intelligent, popular, until a shocking summer night when one brother killed his parents in cold blood while the other brother had an iron-clad alibi. But which twin was where during the murders? And is it possible the two of them planned the perfect crime together? Years later, the twins are long estranged, each of them claiming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC CLASchaffhausen, Joanna
Summary: "The highly anticipated third novel in the award-winning Ellery Hathaway mystery series. FBI agent Reed Markham is haunted by one painful unsolved mystery: who murdered his mother? Camilla was brutally stabbed to death more than forty years ago while baby Reed lay in his crib mere steps away. The trail went so cold that the Las Vegas Police Department has given up hope of solving the case. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHClark, Mary Higgins
Summary: Laurie Moran has "recently become engaged to her show's former host, Alex Buckley. Since then, the two have been happily planning a summer wedding and honeymoon, preparing for Alex's confirmation to a federal judicial appointment, and searching for the perfect New York City home ... But then Laurie is approached by Robert and Cynthia Bell, parents of Dr. Martin Bell, a ... physician who was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Clark 2018Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CLAJohansen, Iris.
Summary: "Eve Duncan is the most sought-after artist in the field of forensic sculpting. Dedicated to her work ever since her daughter Bonnie was taken and killed at the age of seven, Eve feels a sense of duty to those whose lives were lost and whose bones are now in her hands. When a sheriff in California contacts her with a request for help on the reconstruction of the skull of a nine-year-old girl...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Johansen 2015Dahl, Julia
Summary: "In the summer of 1992, a year after riots exploded between black and Jewish neighbors in Crown Heights, a black family is brutally murdered in their Brooklyn home. A teenager is quickly convicted, and the justice system moves on. Twenty-two years later, journalist Rebekah Roberts gets a letter: I didn't do it. Frustrated with her work at the city's sleaziest tabloid, Rebekah starts to dig. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAHDonlea, Charlie
Summary: "The truth is easy to miss, even when it's right in front of us. As a forensic reconstructionist, Rory Moore sheds light on cold-case homicides by piecing together crime scene details others fail to see. Cleaning out her late father's law office a week after his burial, she receives a call that plunges her into a decades-old case come to life once more. In the summer of 1979, five Chicago women...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
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Summary: "Robin Lockwood is a young criminal defense attorney and partner in a prominent law firm in Portland, Oregon. A former MMA fighter and Yale Law graduate, she joined the firm of legal legend Regina Barrister not long before Regina was forced into retirement by early onset Alzheimer's. One of Regina's former clients, Robert Chesterfield, shows up in the law office with an odd request-he's seeking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MARBox, C. J.
Summary: "Former police officer Cassie Dewell is trying to start over with her own private investigation firm. Guilty about not seeing her son and exhausted by the nights on stakeout, Cassie is nonetheless managing...until an old friend calls in a favor: she wants Cassie to help exonerate a man accused of assaulting a young girl from an influential family. Against her own better judgment, Cassie agrees....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOXCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BOXBagshawe, Tilly
Summary: New York Times bestselling author Tilly Bagshawe, continuing the enduring legacy of #1 bestselling suspense author Sidney Sheldon, is back with a new tale of glamour, suspense, and unexpected twists in Sidney Sheldon's The Silent Widow. A young American au pair, Charlotte Clancy, vanishes without a trace in Mexico City. The case is left cold, but its legacy will be devastating. A decade later,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane, an imprint of The Quick Brown Fox & Company LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAGCastillo, Linda.
Summary: "In this electrifying thriller by New York Times bestseller Linda Castillo, Kate Burkholder must uncover a family's long-hidden past to solve a brutal murder... When a tornado tears through Painters Mill and unearths human remains, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder finds herself tasked with the responsibility of identifying the bones-and notifying the family. Evidence quickly emerges that the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M CASCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CASCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY CASReichs, Kathy
Summary: "Hazel 'Lucky' Strike--a strident amateur detective who mines the Internet for cold cases--comes to Brennan with a tape recording of an unknown girl being held prisoner and terrorized. Strike is convinced the voice is that of eighteen-year-old Cora Teague, who went missing more than three years earlier. Strike is also certain that the teenager's remains are gathering dust in Temperance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Reichs 2015Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M REICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS REICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY REISlaughter, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLAElo, Elisabeth.
Summary: "Dennis Lehane meets Smilla's Sense of Snow: a big discovery in the world of female suspense, about an edgy young woman with the rare ability to withstand extreme conditions Elisabeth Elo's debut novel introduces Pirio Kasparov, a Boston-bred tough-talking girl with an acerbic wit and a moral compass that points due north. When the fishing boat Pirio is on is rammed by a freighter, she finds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELOGardner, Lisa
Summary: Requesting the help of kidnapping survivor Flora Dane, who has become obsessed with the abductions of other girls, Detective D.D. Warren becomes suspicious of Flora's agenda upon discovering her relationships with other kidnapping victims.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GARKatzenbach, John.
Summary: After the police falter in their investigation, a retired college professor vows to track down a young woman he witnessed being snatched off the street, kidnapped by a sadistic couple who put their victim's slow torture up for public display on the Internet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KATDugoni, Robert
Summary: Seattle police officer Tracy Crosswhite lost her sister Sarah over 20 years ago, and she has never forgiven herself. With no corpse discovered, there was still enough evidence to convict the man thought responsible for Sarah's disappearance. Now a body has been found and Tracy learns the remains are of her sister. Tracy has had her doubts about the guilt of the man behind bars, and she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC DUGGardner, Lisa.
Summary: Justin and Libby Denbe have the kind of life you'd find in the pages of a glossy magazine. A beautiful fifteen-year-old daughter. A gorgeous brownstone on a tree-lined street in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. A great marriage, admired by all. A perfect life. When investigator Tessa Leone arrives at the crime scene in the foyer of the Denbes' home, she finds scuff marks on the floor and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2013
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Summary: Justin and Libby Denbe have the kind of life you'd find in the pages of a glossy magazine. A beautiful fifteen-year-old daughter. A gorgeous brownstone on a tree-lined street in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. A great marriage, admired by all. A perfect life. When investigator Tessa Leone arrives at the crime scene in the foyer of the Denbes' home, she finds scuff marks on the floor and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2013