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Summary: No one dares to cross the machine (organized crime) in Phenix City, Alabama; but when crime-fighting attorney Albert Patterson is gunned down in a Phenix City alley in the spring of 1954, a small group of men meet and decide that they have had enough.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gale Cengage Learning 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M ATKAtkins, Ace.
Summary: "The extraordinary new novel in New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins' acclaimed series about the real Deep South-"a joy ride into the heart of darkness" (The Washington Post). Thirty-six years ago, a nameless black man wandered into Jericho, Mississippi, with nothing but the clothes on his back and a pair of paratrooper boots. Less than two days later, he was accused of rape and murder,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: ATKCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ATKAtkins, Ace.
Summary: "What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston Harbor. When he set up a prank Twitter account for his vice principal, he never dreamed he could be brought up on criminal charges, but that's exactly what happened. This is Blackburn, Massachusetts, where zero tolerance for minors is a way of life. Leading the movement is tough-as-nails...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Atkins 2015Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS ATKAtkins, Ace.
Summary: After setting up a prank twitter account for his vice principal, Dillon Yates is facing criminal charges, Judge Scali is notorious for handing out tough sentences for minor infractions and Dillon's mother is determined to find out why so she hires P.I. Spenser.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ATKAtkins, Ace.
Summary: When fourteen-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Spenser to look into her mother's murder, he's not completely convinced by her claim that the police investigation four years ago was botched. Mattie is gruff, street-smart, and wise beyond her years, left to care for her younger siblings and an alcoholic grandmother in a dilapidated apartment in South Boston. But her need for closure and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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Summary: When silent-film star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle is accused of crushing an actress to death during a wild 1920s party, Pinkerton agent Dashiell Hammett struggles to sort out conflicting testimony from witnesses, while William Randolph Hearst's newspapers demand a guilty verdict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ATKAtkins, Ace.
Summary: "The iconic, tough-but-tender Boston PI Spenser returns in an outstanding new addition to the New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace Atkins. Kinjo Heywood is one of the New England Patriots' marquee players-a hard-nosed linebacker who's earned his reputation as one of the toughest guys in the league. When off-field violence repeatedly lands Heywood in the news, his slick agent hires...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATKCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATKAtkins, Ace.
Summary: The murder of mob boss Charlie Wall in Tampa, Florida sparks a scramble among local cops, reporters, and former associates to discern the truth about his death and the many secrets that marked his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATKAtkins, Ace.
Summary: Spenser takes up a seemingly open and closed cold case at the behest of a street-wise teen-age girl, who believes her mother's murderers went free. As Spenser digs deeper into the mystery, he finds a much more dangerous and complex mystery than he bargained for. When fourteen-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Spenser to look into her mother's murder, he's not completely convinced by her claim that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATKCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY ATKAtkins, Ace.
Summary: When fourteen-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Spenser to look into her mother's murder, he's not completely convinced by her claim that the police investigation four years ago was botched. Mattie has been left to care for her younger siblings and an alcoholic grandmother in a dilapidated apartment in South Boston. But her need for closure and her determination to make things right hit Spenser...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP IFC ATKAtkins, Ace.
Summary: Mississippi sheriff Quinn Colson had to admit he admired the bank robbers. A new bank was hit almost every week, and the robbers rushed in and out with such skill and precision it reminded him of raids he'd led back in Afghanistan and Iraq when he was an army ranger. In fact, it reminded him so much of the techniques in the Ranger Handbook that he couldn't help wondering if the outlaws were...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ATKAtkins, Ace.
Summary: "A year after becoming sheriff, Quinn Colson is faced with the release of an infamous murderer from prision. Jamey Dixon comes back to Jericho preaching redemption, and some believe him; but for the victim's family, the only thought is revenge. Another group who doesn't believe him--the men in prison from Dixon's last job, an armored car robbery. They're sure he's gone back to grab the hidden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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Summary: "Thirty-six years ago, a nameless black man wandered into Jericho, Mississippi, with nothing but the clothes on his back and a pair of paratrooper boots. Less than two days later, he was accused of rape and murder, hunted down by a self-appointed posse, and lynched. Now evidence has surfaced of his innocence, and county sheriff Quinn Colson sets out not only to identify the stranger's remains,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ATKAtkins, Ace.
Summary: He is only in his early thirties, but now Quinn Colson is jobless--voted out of office as sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, thanks to the machinations of county kingpin Johnny Stagg. He has offers, in bigger and better places, but before he goes, he's got one more job to do--bring down Stagg's criminal operations for good. At least that's the plan. But in the middle of the long, hot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ATKAtkins, Ace.
Summary: When boxing trainer and long-time friend Henry Cimoli asks for Spenser's help with a heavy-handed developer who is sending thugs to pressure Henry to sell his beachfront condo, Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, follow a trail to a beautiful woman, a megalomaniac Vegas kingpin, and plans for a sprawling casino in Boston.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Atkins 2013Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS ATKCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY ATKAtkins, Ace.
Summary: When infamous murderer Casey Dixon is released from prison and returns to Jericho preaching redemption, skeptical sheriff Quinn Colson is forced to confront Dixon's former partners in crime and the vengeance-seeking family of Dixon's victim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Atkins 2013Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ATKAtkins, Ace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1998