Kovac, Christina
Summary: "There's something about the disappearance of a beautiful young attorney--she leaves a Georgetown restaurant after a dispute with her husband, and is never seen alive again--that grips television news producer Virginia Knightly from the moment the 'MISSING' notice lands on her desk. A brilliant producer, but also a tormented soul and an isolated workaholic, Virginia--the only woman of power at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 37 INK 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOVTucker, Neely
Summary: While investigating the death of the son of Washington, D.C.'s most influential African-American family, veteran metro reporter Sully Carter discovers the real story--one that forces him to strike a dangerous balance between the city's violent back streets and its highest corridors of power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TUCO'Dell, Claire
Summary: Set in a near future Washington, DC, this novel offers a feminist twist on Sherlock Holmes, in which Dr. Janet Watson and covert agent Sara Holmes unmask a murderer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC O'DECornwell, Patricia Daniels.
Summary: "The new Kay Scarpetta novel . . . . After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Exhausted and ill, she's recovering at home when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field. The victim, a graduate student named Gail Shipman, is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CORMargolin, Phillip.
Summary: When private detective Dana Cutler is hired by an attorney with powerful political connections, the assignment seems simple enough: follow a pretty college student named Charlotte Walsh and report on where she goes and whom she sees. But then the unexpected happens. One night, Cutler follows Walsh to a secret meeting with Christopher Farrington, the president of the United States. The following...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M MarBain, Donald
Summary: "Private investigator Robert Brixton has always hated Washington. Against his better judgment, he decides to stick around and take a job as an agent in a new State Department security agency headed by his former boss at the Washington P.D. After work one day he meets his youngest daughter Janet for a drink at an outdoor cafe. Shockingly, a young Arabic woman blows herself up, killing Janet and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Bain 2014Patterson, James
Summary: As Detective Alex Cross contends with a D.C. sniper, FBI agent Siegel, and his upcoming wedding to Bree, he receives a call from his deadliest adversary, Kyle Craig. The Mastermind is in D.C. and will not relent until he has eliminated Cross and his family for good.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PATCornwell, Patricia Daniels.
Summary: The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field. The victim is oddly draped in ivory linen and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's first strike. A preliminary examination also reveals a bizarre residue that fluoresces blood red, emerald green and sapphire blue. Physical evidence links the case to a series of uniquely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CORPatterson, James
Summary: "The charges: explosive. Alex Cross has never been on the wrong side of the law -- until now. Charged with gunning down followers of his nemesis Gary Soneji in cold blood, Cross is being turned into the poster child for trigger-happy cops who think they're above the law. Cross knows it was self-defense. But will a jury see it that way? The evidence: shocking. As Cross fights for his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Patterson 2017Gleason, Colleen
Summary: With the Confederate Army firing on Fort Sumter, the Civil War has begun--and an invasion of Washington, DC, from Secessionist Virginia seems imminent. As the population evacuates, the President is in desperate need of men to defend the capital. Lincoln's trusted aide, Adam Speed Quinn, and Quinn's old friend from the Bloody Kansas conflict, Senator Jim Lane, hastily assemble a motley crew of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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Summary: Just when Alex thought his life was calming down into a routine of patients and therapy sessions, he finds himself back in the game--this time to catch a criminal mastermind like no other. A spate of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. With each murder, the case...
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Publisher / Publication Date: LIttle, Brown and Co. 2007
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Summary: "Detective Alex Cross hunts down a serial killer who targets entire families--and who will next be coming for the Crosses. A methodical killer is targeting multigenerational families in and around Washington, DC--striking under cover of darkness, triggering no alarms, leaving no physical evidence of any kind. Alex isn't the only one investigating. Also on the case is a charismatic true-crime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: ""The test of a crime series is its main character, and Sully is someone we'll want to read about again and again."--Lisa Scottoline, The Washington Post "Tucker raises the stakes and ramps up the darkness in this series and makes you wonder, and even worry a little about, what's coming next."--Kirkus Reviews(starred review) "Provocative. Tucker realistically depicts the newspaper industry in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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Summary: Hired by a prestigious D.C., attorney and Presidential confidant, ex-cop turned private eye Dana Cutler shadows campaign volunteer Charlotte Walsh--documenting the lovely political science major's whereabouts with pictures and voicemails. The boring surveillance becomes interesting one night when Charlotte has a clandestine meeting with the President of the United States. After the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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Summary: When a prominent Washington D.C. police official is murdered, Alex Cross steps in to investigate but his efforts are impeded by a series of deadly attacks by a vigilante killer who is targeting suspected criminals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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Summary: When a prominent Washington D.C. police official is murdered, Alex Cross steps in to investigate but his efforts are impeded by a series of deadly attacks by a vigilante killer who is targeting suspected criminals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PATShogan, Colleen J.
Summary: Life is good for Kit Marshall. She's a staffer in D.C. for a popular senator, and she lives with an adoring beagle and a brainy boyfriend with a trust fund. Then, one morning, Kit arrives at the office early and finds her boss, Senator Langsford, impaled by a stainless steel replica of an Army attack helicopter. Panicked, she pulls the weapon out of his chest and instantly becomes the prime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHOPelecanos, George P.
Summary: Since he got home from Iraq, Spero Lucas has carved out a good life for himself, enjoying his youth and his independence, and making a name as the kind of person who gets jobs done quietly and effectively, usually just on the right side of the law. A quick case for a criminal defense attorney leads him into the world of a high-profile marijuana dealer, currently in prison but with a long reach,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PELWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: The Aldens are visiting friends for a big Dia de los Muertos celebration. The kids love learning about the holiday and helping out - that is until mysterious events threaten to ruin everyone's preparations. Can the Aldens figure out what's going on and help their friends save the celebration?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2018
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Summary: Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has just returned from working one of the worst mass murders in U.S. history when she's awakened at an early hour by Detective Pete Marino. A body, oddly draped in an unusual cloth, has just been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT and it's suspected the identity is that of missing computer engineer Gail Shipton, last seen the night...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, Penguin Group 2013
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Summary: "In a Virginia penitentiary, Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped convict. Hours later, they are called to the scene of a copycat crime. A note signed 'M' rests on the corpse. 'You messed up big time, Dr. Cross.' Was an innocent man just put to death? Alex soon realizes he may have much to answer for, as 'M' lures the detective out of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Patterson 2019Hillerman, Tony
Summary: After Sgt. Jim Chee discovers the body of a Navajo man with horribly flayed feet and hands, a number of apparently unrelated events leads him along a path of confusion. Was Chee being duped in a magician's elaborate sleight of hand?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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Summary: After a career terrorist threatens to destroy the Supreme Court in a single horrible act, defense attorney Paul Madriani must put his life on the line in order to stop the sinister deed before it comes to fruition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2010
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Summary: In Washington, D.C., twelve-year-old Florian Bates, a consulting detective for the FBI, and his best friend Margaret must uncover the truth behind a series of private middle school pranks that may or may not involve the daughter of the President of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2017