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Summary: When Stieg Larsson died, the author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had been working on a true mystery that out-twisted his Millennium novels: the assassination on February 28, 1986, of Olof Palme, the Swedish prime minister. It was the first time in history that a head of state had been murdered without a clue who had done it, and on a Stockholm street at point-blank range. Internationally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 STOGoff, Chris
Summary: "When People's Republic Flight 91 crashes in northeastern Ukraine with a U.S. diplomatic agent onboard, U.S. Diplomatic Secruity Service agent Raisa Jordan is sent to investigate. The agent was escorting a prisoner home from Guangzhou, China, along with sensitive documents, and it quickly becomes apparent that the plane was intentionally downed. Was it to silence the two Americans onboard? To...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOFSwanson, James L.
Summary: Dramatically portraying John Wilkes Booth's brutal crime and pulse-pounding escape, Swanson takes listeners on the unrelenting chase for the killer. Having sacrificed his wealth and theatrical legacy for a single bullet, the frantic Booth flees from D.C.'s streets, through Maryland's marshes, and into Virginia's woodlands. Trying to soothe the stunned nation, federal and local authorities...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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Summary: Explores the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HUNSwanson, James L.
Summary: The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry and detectives on a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia, while the nation, still reeling from the just-ended Civil War, watched in horror. A Confederate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 SWABlake, Heidi
Summary: "The untold story of how Russia refined the art and science of targeted assassination abroad-while Western spies watched in horror as their governments failed to guard against the threat. They thought they had found a safe haven in the green hills of England. They were wrong. One by one, the Russian oligarchs, dissidents, and gangsters who fled to Britain after Vladimir Putin came to power...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/ Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.47 BLAPersson, Leif G. W.
Summary: The first entry in a trilogy inspired by the unsolved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme traces an investigation into an unknown American's death in Stockholm that reveals a complex web of espionage and intelligence failures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERPatterson, James
Summary: After he witnesses a hit on a mob lawyer that sparks an all-out mafia war, reporter Nick Daniels captures a key piece of evidence and launches a relentless investigation, during which he endures humiliation, threats, and violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Patterson 2010Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PATSummary: A Greek pacifist leader is murdered at a rally. Despite the official police report of accidental death, a journalist's persistant questioning leads to a full-scale investigation, revealing corruption in high places.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ZSummary: A mysterious wave of assassinations is sweeping the San Francisco underworld. Detective "Dirty Harry" Callahan (Eastwood) discovers why: sharpshooting rookie policemen have turned vigilante.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MAGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Magnum 2001Patterson, James
Summary: The good: New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons, the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. The bad: Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Patterson 2010Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PATPaz Soldan, Edmundo
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAZMukherjee, Abir
Summary: The fabulously wealthy kingdom of Sambalpore is home to tigers, elephants, diamond mines, and the beautiful Palace of the Sun. But when the heir to the throne is assassinated in the presence of Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant 'Surrender-Not' Banerjee, they discover a kingdom riven with suppressed conflict. Prince Adhir was a modernizer whose attitudes--and romantic relationships--may have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUKBox, C. J.
Summary: When the governor of Wyoming gives Joe Pickett the thankless task of taking a tech baron on an elk hunting trip, Joe reluctantly treks into the wilderness with his high-profile charge. But as they venture into the woods, a man-hunter is hot on their heels, driven by a desire for revenge. Finding himself without a weapon, a horse, or a way to communicate, Joe must rely on his wits and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BOXBox, C. J.
Summary: Assisting an investigation into a fatal grizzly attack that is not what it seems, Joe Pickett becomes embroiled in the case of a prominent judge's wife by a would-be assassin who was shooting from a confoundingly long distance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Box 2020Carroll, Rory
Summary: "A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded at 2:54 a.m. on October 12, 1984. It was the last day of the Conservative Party Conference at the Grand Hotel in the coastal town of Brighton, England. Rooms were obliterated, dozens of people wounded, five killed. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was in her suite when the explosion occurred; had she been just a few feet in another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 CARHurwitz, Gregg Andrew
Summary: Helping a murder victim's cousin who is being violently pursued for a mysterious key, Nowhere Man Evan Smoak eliminates a series of dangerous threats before discovering that he is being personally targeted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: The governor of Wyoming gives Joe the thankless assignment of taking a tech baron on a hunting trip. Unbeknownst to them, as they trek further into the wilderness, a hunter is hot on their heels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BOXDiSilverio, Laura A. H
Summary: Mistaking a killer’s phone for her own, Sydney Ellison is drawn back to a past she thought she’d left behind for good. After living through the media shaming of a political sex scandal when she was in college, Sydney Ellison fears notoriety above all. So when she stumbles onto a plot to assassinate a senator, she resists contacting the police. Before she can make herself do the right thing, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Midnight Ink 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DISSummary: In 1961, Secretary General of the UN Dag Hammarskjold died in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia while en route to ceasefire negotiations between non-combatant UN forces and troops from the breakaway state of Katanga. What started as conspiracy theories have evolved into a growing consensus that Hammarskjold and fifteen other people were shot down, inciting the UN to reopen the case on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change. In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHUAsaro, Catherine
Summary: "Selei City is the capital of the Imperialate and one of the most desired locales in all of the Skolian Empire. But its thin veneer of civilization is cracked when a series of brutal crimes implicates those in political power in a vast conspiracy. Three prominent scientists have lost their lives to a serial killer-and notes at the scenes of the crimes lead to a connection to the Royalist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2022