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Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

Summary: "Aldis hates her job working in a juvenile detention center in rural Iceland. The boys are difficult, the owners are unpleasant, and there are mysterious noises at night. And then two of the boys go astray. Decades later, single father Odinn is looking into alleged abuse at the center. The more he finds out, though, the more it seems the odd events of the 1970s are linked to the accident that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YRS

French, Tana

5 holds on 2 copies

Summary: It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC FRE

Preston, Douglas J.

Summary: In the wake of a series of bizarre murders in which claw prints are found near each of the victims, agent Pendergast teams up with officer Vincent d'Agosta in an investigation with apparent ties to the supernatural.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC Prest

Shine, A. M.

Summary: "Renowned academic Dr Sparling seeks help with his project on a remote Irish village. Historical researchers Ben and Chloe are thrilled to be chosen - until they arrive. The village is isolated and forgotten. There is no record of its history, its stories. There is no friendliness from the locals, only wary looks and whispers. The villagers lock down their homes at sundown. It seems a nameless...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Head of Zeus Ltd. 2022

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Ragnar Jónasson

Summary: "Young policeman Ari Thór tries to solve a 50-year-old murder when new evidence surfaces. But the case proves difficult in a town where no one wants to know the truth, where secrets are a way of life. He's assisted by Ísrún, a news reporter in Reykjavik who is investigating an increasingly chilling case of her own. Things take a sinister turn when a child goes missing in broad daylight. With a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAG

Freeman, Philip

Summary: "In an evocative Celtic novel set in a time when druids roamed the land, lively young sister Deirdre embarks on a mission to find the stolen bones of her convent's patron saint. In ancient Ireland, an island ruled by kings and druids, the nuns of Saint Brigid are fighting to keep their monastery alive. When the bones of Brigid go missing from their church, the theft threatens to destroy all...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRE

Arnaldur Indridason

Summary: "A deeply compassionate story of old crimes and their consequences, The Shadow District is the first in a thrilling new series by internationally bestselling author Arnaldur Indridason. THE PAST In wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled in 'the shadow district', a rough and dangerous area of the city. An Icelandic detective and a member of the American military police are on the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: HOT TITLE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: M IND

Gaylin, Alison

Summary: More than four decades after a 1976 killing spree by two teens, a young podcaster blames his troubled upbringing on the murders before receiving a terrifying message that one of the killers may still be alive.

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAY

Bruen, Ken

Summary: "Jack Taylor has finally escaped his violent life in Galway for a quiet retirement in the country. But on a day trip back into the city to sort out his affairs, Jack is hit by a truck in front of Galway's Famine Memorial, left in a coma but mysteriously without a scratch on him. When he awakens weeks later, he finds Ireland in a frenzy over the so-called "Miracle of Galway." People have become...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRU

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRU

Arnaldur Indriðason

Summary: The loner Erlendur has recently joined the police force as a young officer and immediately sinks into the darkness of Reykjavík's underworld. The beat on the streets in Reykjavik is busy: traffic accidents, theft, domestic violence, contraband, and an unexplained death. When a homeless man he met regularly on the night shift is found drowned in a ditch, no one seems to care. But his fate haunts...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ARN

Ragnar Jonasson

Summary: "Chilling, and complex, Nightblind is an extraordinary thriller from undeniable new talent Ragnar Jonasson. Ari Th©đr Arason: a local policeman, whose tumultuous past and uneasy relationships with the villagers in an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland--where no one locks their doors--continue to haunt him. The peace of this close-knit community is shattered by the murder of a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAG

Black, Benjamin

Summary: Ahead of the German Blitz during World War II, English parents from every social class sent their children to the countryside for safety, displacing more than three million young offspring. In The Secret Guests, the British royal family takes this evacuation a step further, secretly moving the princesses to the estate of the Duke of Edenmore in "neutral" Ireland. A female English secret agent,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Black 2020

McKinty, Adrian.

Summary: Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the 1990s are going to be better for him and the people of Northern Ireland. As a Catholic cop in the mainly Protestant RUC he still has a target on his back, and with a steady girlfriend and a child the stakes couldn't be higher. After handling a mercurial triple agent and surviving the riots and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCK

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCK

Li, Winnie M.

Summary: "One bright spring afternoon in West Belfast, cosmopolitan Taiwanese-American tourist Vivian's path collides with fifteen-year-old Irish teenager Johnny and culminates in a horrifying act of violence. Inspired by true events, a riveting novel of suspense about of the dark chapters and chance encounters that can irrevocably determine the shape of our lives"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LI

Arnaldur Indriðason

Summary: "Into Oblivion, the follow-up to the gritty prequel Reykjavik Nights, gives devoted fans another glimpse of Erlendur in his early days as a young, budding detective. A woman swims in a remote, milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water and as it clears, a body is revealed in the ghostly light. Miles away, a vast aircraft hangar rises behind the perimeter fence of the US military base. A...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARN

Bruen, Ken

Summary: "Jack Taylor has never quite been able get his life together, but now he has truly hit rock bottom. Still reeling from a violent family tragedy, Taylor is busy drowning his grief in Jameson and uppers when a high-profile officer in the local Garda is murdered. After another Guard is found dead, and then another, Taylor's old colleagues from the force implore him to take on the case. The plot is...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRU

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRU

Neville, Stuart

Summary: When Detective Inspector Jack Lennon tries to track down his former lover Marie McKenna and their daughter, his superiors tell him to back off. But now an assassin stalks Belfast, tying up loose ends for a vengeance-driven old man. As Lennon unravels a conspiracy that links his daughter to a killer named Fegan, the line between friend and enemy blurs.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEV

Bruen, Ken

Summary: "Ken Bruen has been called "hard to resist, with his aching Irish heart, silvery tongue, and bleak noir sensibility" (New York Times Book Review). His prose is as characteristically sharp as his outlook in the latest Jack Taylor novel, In the Galway Silence. After much tragedy and violence, Jack Taylor has at long last landed at contentment. Of course, he still knocks back too much Jameson and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRU

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M BRU

Ragnar Jónasson

Summary: Hailed for combining the darkness of Nordic Noir with classic mystery writing in the tradition of Agatha Christie, author Ragnar Jonasson's books are haunting, atmospheric, and complex. Blackout, the latest Ari Thór thriller, delivers another dark mystery that is chillingly stunning with its complexity and fluidity. On the shores of a tranquil fjord in Northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018

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French, Tana

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Summary: "Being on the Murder Squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be. Her partner, Stephen Moran, is the only person who seems glad she's there. The rest of her working life is a stream of thankless cases, vicious pranks, and harassment. Antoinette is savagely tough, but she's getting close to the breaking point. Their new case looks like yet another by-the-numbers lovers'...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M FRE

King, Stephen

Summary: Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction King 2012

Neville, Stuart

Summary: "In Belfast, Northern Ireland, memories of the city's troubled history haunt every street corner, but for one tortured soul, the incredible violence in his past is also his most cherished legacy. Rea Carlisle--daughter of influential Stormont politician Graham Carlisle--has inherited a house from an uncle she never knew. It doesn't take her long to clear out the dead man's remaining...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Neville 2014

Bruen, Ken

Summary: Juggling a precarious balance between his physical and addiction recovery efforts, former cop Jack Taylor investigates the work of a vigilante killer who has been sending him cryptic invitations to join him, an effort that jeopardizes Taylor's livelihood, friends and mental health.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRU

O'Donovan, Gerard

Summary: Detective Inspector Mike Mulcahy takes on a case involving a Dublin gangster's murder, while reporter Siobhan Fallon investigates clues surrounding a suspicious suicide story, and turns to Mulcahy for help.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ODO

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