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Chicago (Ill.) Fiction Cold cases (Criminal investigation) Fiction Documentary television programs Fiction Murder Fiction Murder Investigation Murder Investigation Fiction Suspense fiction Television producers and directors Fiction Women forensic scientists Fiction Young women FictionHuston, Charlie.
Summary: "Skinner founded his career in "asset protection" on fear. To touch anyone under his protection was to invite destruction. A savagely effective methodology, until Skinner's CIA handlers began to fear him as much as his enemies did and banished him to thehinterlands of the intelligence community. Now, an ornate and evolving cyber-terrorist attack is about to end that long exile. His asset is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSHuston, Charlie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSHuston, Charlie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSHuston, Charlie.
Summary: Seeking revenge for the theft of a bicycle, four teenage friends discover that the missing item is in the hands of the Arroyo brothers, one of whom is just out of prison, and set out to retrieve it, stumbling upon a methamphetamine lab in the process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSBolton, S. J.
Summary: Going undercover as a vulnerable college student when a suspicious rash of suicides occurs at Cambridge University, DC Lacey Flint finds her tragic past and insecurities rendering her a more susceptible target than she realized.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOLBolton, S. J.
Summary: "Sharon Bolton returns with her creepiest standalone yet, following a young cop trying to trace the disappearances of a small town's teenagers. Florence Lovelady's career was made when she convicted coffin-maker Larry Grassbrook of a series of child murders 30 years ago in a small village in Lancashire. Like something out of a nightmare, the victims were buried alive Florence was able to solve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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Summary: "No matter how far you run, some secrets will always catch up with you... The remote Antarctic island of South Georgia is about to send off its last boat of the summer - which signifies safety to resident glaciologist Felicity Lloyd. Felicity lives in fear - fear that her ex-husband Freddie will find her, even out here. She took a job on this isolated island to hide from him, but now that he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOLBolton, S. J.
Summary: "In such a small community as the Falkland Islands, a missing child is unheard of. In such a dangerous landscape it can only be a terrible tragedy, surely... When another child goes missing, and then a third, it's no longer possible to believe that their deaths were accidental, and the villagers must admit that there is a murderer among them. Even Catrin Quinn, a damaged woman living a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M BOLBolton, S. J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOLBolton, S. J.
Summary: "Now living in a houseboat on the River Thames, Lacey Flint is becoming a part of London's weird and wonderful riverboat community. But at dawn one hot summer morning, Lacey finds the body of a shrouded young woman in the river. She assumes it was chance--after all she's recently joined the marine policing unit--but further investigation leads her team to suspect it was deliberately left for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOLBolton, S. J.
Summary: Just before dawn in the hills near the Scottish border, a man murders a young woman. At the same time, a hot-air balloon crashes out of the sky. There's just one survivor. She's seen the killer's face - but he's also seen hers. And he won't rest until he's eliminated the only witness to his crime. Alone, scared, trusting no one, she's running to where she feels safe - but it could be the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017
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Summary: "He's a serial killer. A murderer of young women, all killed in brutal attacks. But despite Hamish Wolfe's conviction, he's always stuck to his story--he's innocent and he's been wrongly imprisoned. And now he wants someone to investigate and, more importantly, to write his story. Maggie Rose is a notorious defense attorney and writer whose specialty is getting convictions overturned. At first,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bolton 2016Winton, Tim.
Summary: "An exhilarating new book from Australia's most acclaimed writer Tim Winton is Australia's most decorated and beloved literary novelist. Short-listed twice for the Booker Prize and the winner of a record four Miles Franklin Awards for Best Australian Novel, he has a gift for language virtually unrivaled among English-language novelists. His work is both tough and tender, primordial and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINDutton, Hugh
Summary: Welcome to paradise, a.k.a. Heron Point, a glamorous Florida beach community where money is the religion and excess the way of life. Newly arrived Brady Spain is oblivious to any hint of corruption beneath the glitter, seeing only a land of swaying palm trees, stunning sunsets, and hot bodies glistening against the sand. Until paradise's facade begins cracking under the weight of its own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2016
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC DUTEphron, Hallie
Summary: Los Angeles, 1986. Discovering her bitter father's drowned body in his 1980s Beverly Hills swimming pool, Deirdre reconnects with an old friend who confessed to killing her mother's boyfriend decades earlier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EPHLupton, Rosamund.
Summary: Set in the extreme landscape of Alaska, THE QUALITY OF SILENCE follows the story of Yasmin and her deaf daughter Ruby. Yasmin arrives in Alaska to be told her husband, Matt, is dead, the victim of a catastrophic accident. Yasmin, unable to accept this as truth, sets out into the frozen winter landscape, taking Ruby with her in search of answers. But as a storm closes in, Yasmin realizes that a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lupton 2016Lupton, Rosamund.
Summary: When her mother calls to tell her that Tess, her younger sister, is missing, Bee returns home to London. When Tess is found dead, Bee refuses to believe Tess committed suicide. Bee puts herself in harms way as she sets out to solve the mystery in this suspenseful thriller..
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lupton 2011Donlea, Charlie
Summary: Accused of murder, Victoria Ford made a final call from the North Tower on the morning of 9/11. Emma has waited twenty years to put her sister to rest, but she won't have closure until she can clear Victoria's name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Twenty-five years after a gruesome murder rocked Chicago, a local newspaper runs an exposé on new evidence in the case, a smear campaign that stirs up bad blood for officer Bobby Vargas and his brother Ruben, a high-ranking detective.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWEphron, Hallie
Summary: Seven-year-old Lissie Woodham and her four-year-old sister Janey were playing with their porcelain dolls in the front yard when an adorable puppy scampered by. Eager to pet the pretty dog, Lissie chased after the pup as it ran down the street. When she returned to the yard, Janey’s precious doll was gone . . . and so was Janey. Forty years after Janey went missing, Lis—now a mother with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EPHDonlea, Charlie.
Summary: Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are both high school seniors in the small town of Emerson Bay, North Carolina. When they disappear from a beach party one warm summer night, police launch a massive search. No clues are found, and hope is almost lost until Megan miraculously surfaces after escaping from a bunker deep in the woods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Pub Corp 2017
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Summary: The Girl of Sugar Beach is the most watched documentary in television history--a riveting, true-life mystery that unfolds over twelve weeks and centers on a fascinating question: Did Grace Sebold murder her boyfriend, Julian, while on a Spring Break vacation, or is she a victim of circumstance and poor police work? Grace has spent the last ten years in a St. Lucian prison, and reaches out to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONDonlea, Charlie
Summary: Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are both high school seniors in the small town of Emerson Bay, North Carolina. When they disappear from a beach party one warm summer night, police launch a massive search. No clues are found, and hope is almost lost until Megan miraculously surfaces after escaping from a bunker deep in the woods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DONDonlea, 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