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Enquêteurs de la fonction publique Romans, nouvelles, etc Government investigators Fiction large print books Large type books Livres en gros caractères Meurtre Enquêtes Romans, nouvelles, etc Murder Investigation Murder Investigation Fiction Serial murder investigation Fiction Women Crimes against FictionCoyle, Matt
Summary: "A phone call thrusts Rick Cahill's past and all its tragic consequences into his present. Krista Landingham, his former partner on the Santa Barbara Police Department, is dead. When Rick goes to the funeral in the city where his wife was murdered and where he is seen as guilty for her death in the eyes of the police, he discovers that Krista's death may not have been a tragic accident, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oceanview Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COYMcDermid, Val
Summary: "Crime-writing powerhouse Val McDermid is back with an explosive new thriller that sees psychological profiler Tony Hill and ex-detective Carol Jordan grappling with the consequences of their actions and the legacy of abuse in the Catholic Church. Construction is halted on the redevelopment of an orphanage after dozens of skeletons are found buried on the grounds dating from between twenty and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M MCDMcDermid, Val
Summary: "In the northern England, psychologist Tony Hill and former police detective Carol Jordan are on the hunt for a serial killer who picks up women at weddings without a date, only to leave the victims' bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote locations"--
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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 MCDWashburn, L. J.
Summary: The chili in Texas is red-hot ... and so is murder! Phyllis, Sam, Carolyn, and Eve head for West Texas to compete in a Fourth of July chili cookoff. Thousands of people have descended on a sleepy little ghost town, turning it into a boomtown for chili mavens, gamblers, musicians, and media. Raucous excitement fills the air, but so does chili when a sabotaged propane cooker explodes, killing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WASBlædel, Sara
Summary: "A young woman is found strangled in a park, and a male journalist has been killed in the backyard of the Royal Hotel in Copenhagen. Detective Louise Rick is put on the case of the young girl, but very soon becomes entangled in solving the other homicide too when it turns out her best friend, journalist Camilla Lind, knew the murdered man. Louise tries to keep her friend from getting too...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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Summary: "In Insidious Intent, Tony and Carol are on the hunt for a serial killer who forces the duo to confront their most haunting moral dilemma so far. In the north of England, single women are beginning to disappear from weddings. A pattern soon becomes clear: someone is crashing the festivities and luring the women away--only to leave the victims' bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDSpencer, Sally
Summary: "When Mary Corbet walks into private investigator Jennie Redhead's rundown Oxford office one pleasant spring day in 1974, she is a desperate woman. Although sh'e convinced her daughter has been murdered, she can get neither the police nor her husband to agree with her. Jennie is not convinced either, but more out of compassion than conviction agrees to take the case. The only clue she has to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers Ltd. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPEChild, Lee
Summary: 1992. Eight respectable, upstanding people have been found dead across the US. These deaths look like accidents and don't appear to be connected. Until one body, the victim of a fatal fall from a hospital window, generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who promptly calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher is assigned as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC CHIHillerman, Anne
Summary: Sergeant Jim Chee's vacation to beautiful Antelope Canyon and Lake Powell has a deeper purpose. He's on a quest to unravel a sacred mystery his mentor, the Legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, stumbled across decades earlier. Chee's journey takes a deadly turn when, after a prayerful visit to the sacred Rainbow Bridge, he spots a body floating in the lake. The dead man, a Navajo with a passion...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M HILThompson, Victoria (Victoria E.)
Summary: "Sarah Malloy has just helped with the delivery of a bouncing baby girl at her women's clinic, when she receives a visit from an engaging and determined young woman writing an article for New Century magazine. Louisa Rodgers explains that she is researching the dangers of patent remedies. Sarah is only too happy to tell Louisa exactly what she thinks of the so-called medicines whose ingredients...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC THOMiloszewski, Zygmunt
Summary: It is spring 2009, and prosecutor Teodor Szacki is no longer working in Warsaw--he has said goodbye to his family and to his career in the capital and moved to Sandomierz, a picturesque town full of churches and museums. Hoping to start a "brave new life," Szacki instead finds himself investigating a strange murder case in surroundings both alien and unfriendly. The victim is found brutally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bitter Lemon 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILChild, Lee
Summary: 1992. Eight respectable, upstanding people have been found dead across the United States. These deaths look like accidents and don't appear to be connected until one body--the victim of a fatal fall from a hospital window--generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the secretary of defense, who promptly calls for an interagency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CHIPerry, Anne
Summary: When a desperate woman comes to Daniel seeking a lawyer for her boyfriend, Rob Adwell, Daniel is convinced of the young man's innocence. Adwell has been accused of murder and setting a fire to conceal the body, but Daniel is sure that science can absolve him. Working together with Miriam, Daniel reveals Adwell's innocence by showing that an accidental fire caused the victim's death. But it's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PERPatterson, James
Summary: "In a Virginia penitentiary, Detective Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped to 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Patterson 2019Slaughter, Karin
Summary: "For GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton, McAlpine Lodge seems like the ideal getaway to celebrate their honeymoon. Set on a gorgeous, off-the-grid mountaintop property, it's the perfect place to unplug and reconnect. Until a bone-chilling scream cuts through the night. Mercy McAlpine, the manager of the Lodge, is dead. With a vicious storm raging and the one access...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SLAHand, Elizabeth
Summary: Photographer Cass Neary is desperate to get home, and she's already lost her camera--like losing a limb. Now her only chance is to cash in on a deal that a friend is about to cut for a legendary illuminated manuscript: The Book of Lamps and Banners. Rumored to have been rescued from the Library at Alexandria, the Book is said to contain ancient esoteric knowledge, even an otherworldly power. So...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: After a woman is killed in an arson-homicide, Jessica Nelson, an intern-reporter at the local paper, is assigned to cover the story. When Jessica disappears, China Bayles is determined to find her, before she becomes a headline herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, LLC 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALBFluke, Joanne
Summary: After an extravagant honeymoon, Hannah's eager to settle down in Lake Eden and turn domestic daydreams into reality. But when her mother's neighbor is discovered murdered in the condo downstairs, reality becomes a nightmarish investigation. Victoria Bascomb, once a renowned stage actress, was active in the theater community during her brief appearance in town . . . and made throngs of enemies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLUCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Fluke 2017Faye, Lyndsay
Summary: Internationally bestselling author Lyndsay Faye was introduced to the Sherlock Holmes mysteries when she was ten years old and her dad suggested she read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." She immediately became enamored with tales of Holmes and his esteemed biographer Dr. John Watson, and later, began spinning these quintessential characters into her own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M FAYAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: Now ex-lawyer and current herbalist, China Bayles must stop a killer who is burning through Texas. Set to solve the mystery-homicide case, China must find the reporter assigned to the case before Jessica Nelson becomes a headline herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBLawson, Michael
Summary: "The latest pulse-pounding thriller from Edgar and Barry Award finalist Mike Lawson starring his beloved Washington DC "troubleshooter" Joe DeMarco. Carson Newman doesn't wear tracksuits. He doesn't have a consigliere or operate out of the back room of a restaurant. And as evidenced by his ever-growing Boston empire, he doesn't get his hands dirty. Usually. Joe DeMarco, on the other hand, is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWChristie, Agatha
Summary: Thirteen guests gather for drinks at actor Charles Cartwright?s seaside escape. Benign Reverend Babbington, who rarely imbibes, takes one sip of his beverage and keels over dead. Soon after Sir Bartholomew Strange convenes the same party and meets his own end after swallowing port. One death could be natural, but two mean murder. Hercule Poirot, who was present at both affairs, stages a third...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRCooper, Susan Rogers.
Summary: While on a seven-day cruise with his family, Sheriff Milt Kovak gets caught between two murder investigations when a body turns up on his cruise ship and another one is found back home in Prophesy County.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOGardner, Lisa.
Summary: Charlene Rosalind Carter Grant believes she will be murdered in four days and she wants Boston's top detective, D.D. Warren, to handle the death investigation. Each year at 8:00 pm on January 21st a woman has died, and all have been childhood friends from a small town in New Hampshire. Grant is the only remaining member of the group, but is she the next victim or the perfect perpetrator?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2012