Hummel, Maria
Summary: Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women--the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others--and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUMMontgomery, Marin
Summary: When Levin Crowdley stumbles upon evidence that suggests her adoring fiance is behind the murder of her childhood best friend, she knows fleeing from him is the only way to stay alive. But Alec won't be left that easily. In fact, nobody has ever left him and lived to tell. The moment Alec finds their dream home empty and Levin's engagement ring lying in the crib he'd purchased for the baby he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONMontgomery, Marin
Summary: "Alastair has found the perfect partner in husband, Steven. Together they've built a successful life, had a beautiful child, and still behave like newlyweds long since the day he carried her over the threshold. But all of that changes in an instant thanks to a thoughtless deed that has lifelong repercussions. With secrets bubbling to the surface, the pair find their American dream life suddenly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 2018
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Summary: When 17-year-old Maddy Pruitt vanishes from her sleepy town, word on the street is that she ran away. The daughter of an abusive alcoholic with a quick temper, she had every reason to leave in search of something better, and everyone who knew Maddy knew the type of company she kept wasn't always ideal. But when a second 17-year-old girl from a local, affluent family turns up missing shortly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Marin Montgomery] 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONPerry, Marta.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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Summary: Former FBI agent Sam Delvecchio brings the keen skills of a profiler to his new position as a Mercy Street Foundation operative, and not a moment too soon. His first assignment, the cold-case murder of a local soup kitchen volunteer, has all the telltale signs of a serial killer's work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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Summary: "January in Gotland. The days are short, the air is cold, and all the roads are covered in snow. On a deserted, icy backroad, these wintery conditions will soon bring together a group of strangers with a force devastating enough to change their lives forever when, in the midst of a brief period, a deadly accident and two separate crimes leave victims in their wake. Four years later a single...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scarlet, an imprint of Penzler Publisher 2021
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Summary: A beautiful co-ed mysteriously disappears from her sorority house, and the Mercy Street Foundation is summoned to find her -- the first investigation for a brilliant crime scene analyst and a first forensic psychologist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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Summary: In this powerful new book from an esteemed novelist and acclaimed short-story writer, Marian Thurm expertly draws a chilling portrait of a marriage and the downward spiral of a loving husband and father who has bought a handgun as the novel opens.Stacy and Roger seem to have it all: a wonderful marriage, a luxurious Upper East Side apartment with all the accoutrements of the wealthy, and two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Permanent Press 2016
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Summary: "As the youngest of the five Walsh girls, Helen has had a tough time finding her way in the world--at thirty-three, she has her job as a private investigator that has proven less than fruitful and after losing her flat, she's moved back in with Mammy Walsh. Her hunky new boyfriend, Artie, and his three adorable children are a great distraction, but his beautiful ex-wife lives a little too close...
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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 KEYClark, Marcia
Summary: "Lives and lies are inextricably linked by a high-profile murder trial in The Fall Girl, the latest exhilarating legal thriller from bestselling author Marcia Clark. When Charlie Blair left Chicago behind--and her old life as Lauren Claybourne--for a gig in the Santa Cruz DA's office, things were supposed to be easier. Or at least nothing that a couple of Xanax and a tumbler of vodka couldn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rare Bird 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAMuller, Marcia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Summary: Samantha Brinkman, an ambitious, hard-charging Los Angeles criminal defense attorney, is struggling to make a name for herself and to drag her fledgling practice into the big leagues. Sam lands a high-profile double-murder case in which one of the victims is a beloved TV star, and the defendant is a decorated veteran LAPD detective. It promises to be exactly the kind of media sensation that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2016
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Summary: Los Angeles District Attorney Rachel Knight teams up with Detective Bailey Keller to investigate the murder of a homeless man whose death is shockingly connected to the brutal death of an LAPD police officer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2011
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Summary: When the daughter of prominent civil litigator Graham Hutchins is found with her throat slashed, the woman's spurned ex-boyfriend seems the likely suspect. But only days later, the young man dies in what appears to be a suicide. Or was it? Now authorities are faced with a possible new crime. And their person of interest is Hutchins. After all, avenging the death of his daughter is the perfect...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2017
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Summary: A high-profile murder trial brings together the lives of three women: hot-shot lead prosecutor Erika Lorman, young up-and-coming co-prosecutor Charlie Blair, and a teenage girl standing trial for the murder of her mother. Secrets from the past threaten to undo not just the case, but Erika and Charlie, too.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "A murder investigation draws firebrand attorney Samantha Brinkman into her boyfriend's past in this novel of high-risk suspense by bestselling author Marcia Clark. When it comes to relationships and self-preservation, defense attorney Samantha Brinkman has always been cut and run. But it's different with her new lover, Niko, an ambitious and globally famous entrepreneur. Sam is putting her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2020
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Summary: While interviewing students in the aftermath of a school shooting in the San Fernando Valley, prosecutor Rachel Knight and Detective Bailey Keller realize the facts don't add up and the real killers may still be out there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co. 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLABuckley, Carla (Carla S.)
Summary: Eve Lattimore's family is like every other on their suburban street, with one exception. Her son Tyler has a rare medical condition that makes him fatally sensitive to light, which means heavy curtains and deadlocked doors protect him during the day and he can never leave the house except at night. For Eve, only constant vigilance stands between an increasingly restless teenage son and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2014
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Summary: "Eve Lattimore's family is like every other on their suburban street, with one exception. Her son Tyler has a rare medical condition that makes him fatally sensitive to light, which means heavy curtains and deadlocked doors protect him during the day and he can never leave the house except at night. For Eve, only constant vigilance stands between an increasingly restless teenage son and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Buckley 2014Neggers, Carla.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Summary: "Reeve LeClaire is a college student, dammit, not Daryl Wayne Flint's victim. Not anymore-not when Reeve is finally recovering a life of her own after four years of captivity. Flint is safely locked up in Olshaker Psychiatric Hospital, where he belongs. He is walking the grounds of the forensic unit, performing his strange but apparently harmless rituals. It seems that he is still suffering the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NORPatterson, James
Summary: Supermodel Syd disappears while on a photo shoot in Hawaii. LA Times reporter Ben Hawkins is conducting his own research into the case, hoping to help the victim and get an idea for his next bestseller.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2009
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Summary: While tracking down stolen artifacts, Emma Sharpe, the granddaughter of a world-renowned art detective, and her fiancé, FBI agent Colin Donovan, must outwit one of the smartest, most ruthless killers they have ever encountered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin MIRA 2014