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Summary: While attending the funeral of a loved one, Lieutenant Jacqueline Daniels receives a phone call from homicidal escapee Alex Kork, who reinitiates their deadly game of cat and mouse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KONHunter, Stephen
Summary: In the City of Meat, Charles Swagger is on the hunt for notorious bank robber Baby Face Nelson when he traces a tip to the Chicago stock yards. While there, he's brutally assaulted and discovers that the madman who attacked him is involved in a nearby narcotics ring with plans to spread its new drug to the residents of the disenfranchised 7th District of Chicago. Worse, this is no ordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books 2024
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Summary: "In Alabama: A deadly outbreak of tornadoes sends K9 handlers, Ryder Creed and Jason Seaver with their scent dogs, Grace and Scout to search for survivors. As storms intensify and Ryder and Jason race against time to save victims, they end up racing to save themselves. In Chicago: Francine "Frankie" Russo is irritated when her young co-worker calls at 5:00 am for a video-chat and catches her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prairie Wind Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction KavParetsky, Sara
Summary: Chicago's legendary detective, V. I. Warshawski, knows her city's rotten underbelly better than most, but she's unable to avoid it when her goddaughter drags her into a fight over lakefront land use.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2020
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARChild, Lee.
Summary: In a plot to overthrow the U.S. government, Montana neo-Nazis abduct the daughter of the nation's top general and her male companion, Jack Reacher, a former military policeman who turns the tables on the captors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike/Windsor/Paragon 2010
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Summary: Chicago forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling the autopsy and the case of a missing heiress from Montreal--an investigation that becomes more complicated when two more bodies of elderly women are found in Montreal and Tempe faces the very real possibility that a colleague has sabotaged work in the lab.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M REIReichs, Kathy.
Summary: It is pitch black, and Tempe is trapped in a frigid, tiny space. Trying to piece things together, she remembers accompanying the bones of a wealthy heiress to the Chicago morgue. A phone call was made, and Tempe was accused of mishandling the autopsy. The, two more women's bodies were discovered. But how did she end up imprisoned? Confused and scared, she knows only that someone, possibly a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M REIGreeley, Andrew M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GREReichs, Kathy.
Summary: Chicago forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling the autopsy and the case of a missing heiress from Montreal--an investigation that becomes more complicated when two more bodies of elderly women are found in Montreal and Tempe faces the very real possibility that a colleague has sabotaged work in the lab.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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1 available in Stacks, 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 2009Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS REIGreeley, Andrew M.
Summary: When a young man from her Chicago neighborhood vanishes in Iraq and the U.S. government denies knowledge of his whereabouts, Nuala launches a personal investigation to uncover the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GREGreeley, Andrew M.
Summary: While Nuala Anne and her daughter take karate classes to protect themselves from bullies, shy nanny Julie is courted by a new beau, and Dermot examines a famine refugee's memoir for clues about the mysterious fever that killed his family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M GREParetsky, Sara.
Summary: A shooting in Chicago is nothing new, certainly not to V.I., who is hired by a veteran's family to clear his name after his arrest for the murder of a performer known as the Body Artist. As V.I. seeks answers, her investigation will take her from the North Side of Chicago to the far reaches of the Gulf War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Paretsky 2010Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PARParetsky, Sara
Summary: This is a story of secrets and betrayals that stretch across four generations-secrets political, social, sexual, financial: all of them with the power to kill. Eager for something physical to do in the spirit-exhausting wake of 9/11, V.I. accepts a request from an old client to check up on an empty family mansion; subsequently surprises an intruder in the dark; and, giving chase, topples into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARParetsky, Sara.
Summary: Private eye V.I. Warshawski, inspecting an empty house as part of a routine case, discovers an intruder and a forty-year-old corpse. Each of these lead her in turn to a McCarthy-era scandal and a modern-era terrorist investigation, both of which pit her against adversaries who will do anything to keep their secrets buried.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARParetsky, Sara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ImPress Mystery 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARGreeley, Andrew M.
Summary: Nuala Anne McGrail, a fey, Irish-speaking woman blessed with the gift of second sight, and her husband and accomplice, Dermot Michael Coyne, investigate the brutal beating of Finnbar Burke, the "nice fella" with whom their shy, golden-haired nanny has fallen in love, who is found floating in the Chicago River. Set in late nineteenth-century Chicago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREParetsky, Sara.
Summary: When tweens in Chicago's Carmilla Club hold an initiation ritual in an abandoned cemetery, they stumble on an actual corpse, a man stabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying. For V.I. Warshawski, the questions multiply faster than the answers. As V.I. struggles for answers, she finds herself fighting enemies who are all too human.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PARParetsky, Sara.
Summary: When V.I. Warshawski returns to her Chicago office, she finds her once tidy work space in ruins. Ripped documents, upended drawers, and framed pictures have been strewn about. The most chilling find, though, is a bracelet belonging to Warshawki's cousin, Petra. With Petra missing, the cops spring into action, labeling the episode as kidnapping, assault, and aggravated burglary. As they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARParetsky, Sara.
Summary: Lotty was a child of nine when she came to England in 1939 as a refugee from Austria. Having lost her entire family to the Nazi terror, she grew up and completed her medical training in London - and there fell in love with a fellow refugee. She ended the affair when she discovered she was pregnant and bore the child in secrecy, giving it up for adoption. Now, that long-held secret may be exposed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARChurchill, Jill
Summary: Encumbered by her overbearing future mother-in-law's schemes for her wedding, Jane Jeffry signs up for a self-defense class but finds herself enmeshed in a dangerous investigation when one of her classmates is murdered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUParetsky, Sara.
Summary: V.I. Warshawski isn't crazy about going back to her old neighborhood, but she always keeps a promise. Caroline, a childhood friend, has a dying mother and after twenty-five years she wants V.I. to find the father she never knew. When V.I. starts probing into the past, she not only finds out where all the bodies are buried, she stumbles onto a very new corpse. Now she's stirring up a deadly mix...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARParetsky, Sara.
Summary: No one would accuse V. I. Warshawski of backing down from a fight, but there are a few she'd be happy to avoid. High on that list is tangling with Chicago political bosses. Yet that's precisely what she ends up doing when she responds to Frank Guzzo's plea for help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Paretsky 2015Paretsky, Sara.
Summary: Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski knows from the start that Consuelo Alvarado's baby is going to be trouble. Consuelo is sixteen, a diabetic, and the daughter of a friend. When she goes into labor too early, even V.I.'s wild drive to get her to the hospital can't save either Consuelo or her child. Soon V.I. is investigating possible malpractice at the emergency room, and falling for a doctor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PARParetsky, Sara.
Summary: "New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky's brilliant protagonist V.I. Warshawski returns in another hard-hitting entry, combining razor-sharp plotting and compelling characters with a heady mix of timely political and social themes. V.I. Warshawski's closest friend in Chicago is the Viennese-born doctor Lotty Herschel, who lost most of her family in the Holocaust. Lotty escaped to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013