Elston, Ashley
Summary: After using their family business to embezzle millions and drain the employees' retirement accounts, Owen's father vanished without a trace, leaving Owen and his mother to deal with the fallout. When Owen and his mother receive increasingly frightening threats from someone out for revenge, he knows he must get to the bottom of what really happened.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: Cub reporter Joe Talbert, Jr. investigates the murder of a man with the same name as him in a small town in Minnesota and discovers the deceased was a loathsome lowlife who may be his father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2018
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Summary: Earl Marcus thought he had left the mountains of Georgia behind forever, and with them, the painful memories of a childhood spent under the fundamentalist rule of his father RJ's church--a church built on fear, penance, and the twisting, writhing mass of snakes. But then an ominous photo of RJ is delivered to Earl's home. The photograph is dated long after his father's burial, and there's no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EARHiaasen, Carl
Summary: "Snakes, grizzlies, a missing dad, a menacing drone... Carl Hiaasen delivers a wickledly funny, slightly subversive tale in his latest New York Times bestseller. Some facts about Billy Dickens: * He once saw a biker swerve across the road in order to runover a snake. * Later, that motorcycle somehow ended up at the bottom of a canal. * Billy isn't the type to let things go. Some facts about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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Summary: Billy Dickens discovers that his mysterious father lives in Montana, so this summer Billy will fly across the country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot down a spy drone, and save his own father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION HIAGaus, Paul L.
Summary: An Amish man exiled from his community in Ohio for fast living, returns to kidnap his son from his grandparents. Sleuth and professor Michael Branden is hired to find the boy, only to learn that the father has been murdered and the boy is missing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ohio University Press 1999
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Summary: When an Amish, or "plain" boy is kidnapped, Bishop Eli Miller reluctantly seeks help from outsiders, the "vain ones" known as English. Pastor Caleb Troyer and Professor Michael Branden, boyhood friends and lifelong residents of the county the Amish and English share, understand better than anyone that the bishop would not have enlisted their help unless it were a matter of gravest concern, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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Summary: Leaving behind a stressful law enforcement career to become a private investigator in his small Minnesota hometown, Cork O'Connor is asked by an Ojibwe healer to help him find the son the man fathered years earlier, a case that culminates in an attempt on the Ojibwe's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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Summary: Leonid McGill, a New York City private detective, tries to put his past life behind him. But it's not that easy when someone like Tony "The Suit" Towers expects you to do a job; when an Albany PI hires you to track down four men known only by their youthful street names; and when your 16-year-old son, Twill, is getting in over his head with a suicidal girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2009
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Summary: Laura Gantt doesn't mind being home in Prospect, Georgia. What she does mind are the Southern niceties and mini-sermons she has to endure after her mother's unexpected death. On her summer break from teaching in Colorado, Laura wants to focus on wrapping up her mother's estate. Turns out dodging painful memories becomes impossible when her lifelong friend and former beau Sean Halloran reveals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: When unlikely partners FBI agent Kate O'Hare and con man Nicholas Fox investigate a missing Silicon Valley billionaire known as the Big Kahuna, they go undercover as a married couple in Paia, Maui, to find the man's son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House 2019
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Summary: When twelve-year-old Cork O'Connor stumbles upon a body hanging from a tree, it is up to his father, the town sheriff, to find answers. But meanwhile, a determined Cork begins to look for answers on his own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
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Summary: Just before the Christmas holiday, distinguished London mathematician Henry Rathbone comes to the aid of an old friend whose son Lucien has gone missing. Enlisting the aid of Squeaky Robinson and Crow, Henry soon discovers that Lucien may be involved with a murdered prostitute and a major drugs dealer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Perry 2010Goldberg, Paul
Summary: Facing daunting prospects after losing a prestigious job, a once-successful science reporter investigates the suspicious death of his college roommate, a Miami Beach plastic surgeon, in an all-or-nothing case that is shaped by the schemes of the reporter's political dissident father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Goldberg 2018Mejia, Mindy
Summary: "There is a place in Minnesota with hundreds of miles of glacial lakes and untouched forests called the Boundary Waters. Ten years ago a man and his son trekked into this wilderness and never returned. Search teams found their campsite ravaged by what looked like a bear. They were presumed dead until a decade later ... the son appeared. Discovered while ransacking an outfitter store, he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2018
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Summary: "Straight as an arrow special agent Kate O'Hare and international con man Nick Fox have brought down some of the biggest criminals out there. But now they face their most dangerous foe yet, a vast, shadowy international organization known only as the Brotherhood. Directly descended from the Vatican Bank priests who served Hitler during World War II, the Brotherhood is on a frantic search for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC EVAMaltman, Thomas James
Summary: Their family farms devastated by a Minnesota drought in 1987, a father searches for answers after his son commits a heinous murder, while a pastor's wife returns to the town for mysterious reasons of her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALHart, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: After receiving an unexpected call from the Australian consulate, Matt Santos becomes aware of a painting that he believes was looted from his family in Hungary during the Second World War. To recover the painting, he must repair his strained relationship with his harshly judgmental father, uncover his family history, and restore his connection to his own Judaism. Along the way to illuminating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SARHoag, Tami.
Summary: California, 1984. Detective Tony Mendez, fresh from a law enforcement course at FBI headquarters, is charged with discovering the identity of a brutal, calculating psychopath. His search pushes him ever deeper into the lives of three children, and closer to the young teacher whose interest in recent events becomes as intense as his own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2010
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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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M BOXLanday, William.
Summary: Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: his fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2012
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Summary: Introducing Buddy Steel, LAPD homicide detective whose father, Burton Steel, sheriff in the town of Freedom, a nearby privileged community falls ill with Lou Gehrig's disease. Returning home, Buddy learns that a world-renowed broadcast minister's wife has gone missing. Following leads, Buddy finds a link to complex web of twisted families, con artists, corrupt public officials, violent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press, Inc. 2017
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Summary: Leonid McGill, a New York City private detective, tries to put his past behind him. But it's not that easy when someone like Tony "The Suit" Towers expects you to do a job; when an Albany PI hires you to track down four men known only by their youthful street names; and when your 16-year-old son, Twill, is getting in over his head with a suicidal girl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009