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Freeman, Brian

Summary: "Lisa Power is a tortured ghost of her former self. The author of a bestselling thriller called Thief River Falls, named after her rural Minnesota hometown, Lisa is secluded in her remote house as she struggles with the loss of her entire family: a series of tragedies she calls the "Dark Star." Then a nameless runaway boy shows up at her door with a terrifying story - he's just escaped death...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRE

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRE

Unger, Lisa

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: "It's been a year since Poppy's husband, Jack, was brutally murdered during his morning run through Manhattan's Riverside Park. In the immediate aftermath, Poppy spiraled into an oblivion of grief, disappearing for several days only to turn up ragged and confused wearing a tight red dress she didn't recognize. What happened to Poppy during those lost days? And more importantly, what happened to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2018

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UNG

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UNG

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION UNG

Krentz, Jayne Ann

Summary: Decades after a mysterious explosion causes the members of their community to develop strange otherworldly symptoms, local investigator Cat teams up with an enigmatic scientist to stop a killer who may be behind Cat's partner's disappearance.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

McAllister, Gillian

Summary: "From Gillian McAllister comes an astonishing, compulsively twisty psychological thriller about a mother who witnesses her teenage son stab a man and then seizes on an unconventional way to try to save him. Can you stop a murder after it's already happened? Late October. After midnight. You're waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He's late. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MCA

Child, Lee

Summary: "The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child. The plan: It's coming Fall 2022. No Plan B. In Gerrardsville, Colorado, two witnesses to the same tragedy give two different accounts. One guy sees a woman throw herself in front of a bus in what authorities will call a suicide. The other witness is Jack Reacher. And he sees what...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHI

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHI

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHI

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Child

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CHI

Deaver, Jeffery.

Summary: After an emergency police call from a lake house on Wisconsin's Lake Mondac, Deputy Brynn drives up to the deserted lake in search of answers. There, Brynn uncovers not only a gruesome murder, but a terrified witness to the murder, city-girl Michelle. And thus, a heart-pounding chase through the Wisconsin wilderness commences as the murderers pursue Brynn and Michelle, who must learn to trust...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Keller, Julia.

Summary: A triple homicide launches a page turning ride to a twisting conclusion, peopled with wonderfully nuanced characters that reveal so much about human nature and what motivates us all, and along the way Keller illuminates the social realities faced by such communities, as Bell uncovers a bigger, more violent crime ring than anyone could have imagined.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC KEL

Keller, Julia.

Summary: In this novel a mother and a daughter try to do right by a town and each other before it is too late. What is happening in Acker's Gap, West Virginia? Three elderly men are gunned down over their coffee at a local diner, and seemingly half the town is there to witness the act. Still, it happened so fast, and no one seems to have gotten a good look at the shooter. Was it random? Was it...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY KEL

Roberts, Nora.

Summary: A woman witnesses a murder on a remote mountain, but only one man, and killer, believe her.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2006

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Oates, Joyce Carol

Summary: Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one's family ever justified? Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it? The follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC OAT

Scottoline, Lisa

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: "Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a court-reporting business, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving his family home after his daughter's field hockey game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them, on a dark stretch of road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. A horrific flash of violence changes his life forever." --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCO

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCO

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Scottoline

Lane, Andrew

Summary: Kidnapped and taken to China, young Sherlock Holmes enjoys adventure on the high seas before encountering a puzzling case of three men bitten by the same poisonous snake in different parts of Shanghai. Includes historical notes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2014

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LAN

Deaver, Jeffery.

Summary: When a small-town Wisconsin cop is called to a remote lake house, she witnesses a gruesome crime scene. Soon she is cut off from her radio--and her firearm--and she embarks on a desperate race into the forest to escape with her life.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Deaver 2008

Goodman, Carol

Summary: Journalist Joan Lurie has written a seething exposé about a notorious newspaper tycoon. Traumatized after being brutally attached, she moves into a highly secure apartment called the Refuge. Lillian Day is Joan's new 96-year-old neighbour, who, in 1941, witnessed a mysterious murder that sent her into hiding. Another resident, Melissa Osgood, discovers a suspicious paper trail that leaves her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GOO

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOO

Hasburgh, Patrick

Summary: "Keynote From former 21-Jump Street writer and creator Patrick Hasburgh, a part thriller, party family novel about an ex-pat American living and surfing in Mexico, the family he loves, and the murder he witnesses, in the vein of Don Winslow's The Dawn Patrol" --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAS

Kurian, Vera

Summary: "There's something sinister under the surface of the idyllic, suburban town of Wesley Falls, and it's not just the abandoned coal mine that lies beneath it. The summer of 1995 kicks off with a party in the mine where six high school students witness a horrifying crime that changes the course of their lives. The six couldn't be more different. Maddy, a devout member of the local megachurch....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2024

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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Scottoline, Lisa

Summary: "Jason Bennett is driving his family home after his daughter's lacrosse game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them. Two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. Later that night, Jason and his family receive a visit from the FBI. The agents tell them that the carjackers were members of a dangerous drug-trafficking organization. The agents advise the Bennetts to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SCO

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC SCO

Archer, Jeffrey

Summary: A man framed for the murder of his best friend seeks revenge against the four men who put him in Belmarsh prison, the highest-security jail in the land, from where no inmate has ever escaped.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ARC

Scottoline, Lisa

Summary: "Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a court-reporting business, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving his family home after his daughter's field hockey game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them on a dark stretch of road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. A flash of violence changes his life forever. Later that...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2022

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Seligman, Katherine

Summary: "When Maddy Donaldo, a homeless woman who has made a family of sorts in the dangerous spaces of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, witnesses the murder of a young homeless boy and is seen by the perpetrator, her relatively stable life is upended"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SEL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEL

Archer, Jeffrey

Summary: A man framed for the murder of his best friend seeks revenge against the four men who put him in Belmarsh prison, the highest-security jail in the land, from where no inmate has ever escaped.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Bolton, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOL

Hollander, Jenny

4 holds on 4 copies

Summary: "What if everything you know about the worst night of your life turns out not to be true? Nine years ago, with the world's eyes on her, Charlie Colbert fled. The press and the police called Charlie a "witness" to the nightmarish events at her elite graduate school on Christmas Eve--events known to the public as "Scarlet Christmas"--though Charlie knows she was much more than that. Now, Charlie...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

McAllister, Gillian

3 holds on 6 copies

Summary: From UK bestselling author Gillian McAllister comes an astonishing, compulsively twisty psychological thriller about a mother who witnesses her teenage son stab a man and then seizes on an unconventional way to try to save him. Can you stop a murder after it's already happened? Late October. After midnight. You're waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He's late. As you watch from the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCA

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction McAllister

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