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Donlea, Charlie

Summary: "The truth is easy to miss, even when it's right in front of us. As a forensic reconstructionist, Rory Moore sheds light on cold-case homicides by piecing together crime scene details others fail to see. Cleaning out her late father's law office a week after his burial, she receives a call that plunges her into a decades-old case come to life once more. In the summer of 1979, five Chicago women...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DON

Hunter, Stephen

Summary: In the City of Meat, Charles Swagger is on the hunt for notorious bank robber Baby Face Nelson when he traces a tip to the Chicago stock yards. While there, he's brutally assaulted and discovers that the madman who attacked him is involved in a nearby narcotics ring with plans to spread its new drug to the residents of the disenfranchised 7th District of Chicago. Worse, this is no ordinary...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books 2024

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Sandford, John

5 holds on 1 copy

Summary: Lucas Davenport and his daughter, Letty, team up to track down a dangerous scientist with connections to sensitive research into virus and pathogen spread whose latest project could endanger the entire world.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Audio 2024

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Smith, Ian

Summary: Fired for refusing to cooperate in a police cover-up, Chicago detective-turned-private investigator Ashe Cayne searches for a missing woman who has been hiding dangerous secrets from her wealthy family.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMI

Paretsky, Sara

Summary: For V. I. Warshawski, saving a friend's nephew from a murder arrest turns into a tangle with the Russian mob, ISIS backers, and shady thieves, proving the only one you can trust is yourself.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2018

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

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M PAR

Blædel, Sara

Summary: A woman is haunted by a heartwrenching decision she made as a teenager in this darkly atmospheric, deeply emotional thriller from #1 internationally bestselling global superstar Sara Blaedel. Detective Louise Rick is on a beach in Thailand when the panicked call from her father comes through. Louise′s beloved brother, Mikkel, has attempted suicide. His wife, Trine, left him days earlier,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BLA

Kava, Alex

Summary: "In Alabama: A deadly outbreak of tornadoes sends K9 handlers, Ryder Creed and Jason Seaver with their scent dogs, Grace and Scout to search for survivors. As storms intensify and Ryder and Jason race against time to save victims, they end up racing to save themselves. In Chicago: Francine "Frankie" Russo is irritated when her young co-worker calls at 5:00 am for a video-chat and catches her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Prairie Wind Publishing 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAV

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kav

Child, Lee

Summary: Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants. That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun, until he comes upon a curious scene. A Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. A woman is slumped over the wheel. Dead? No, nothing is what it seems. The woman is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent trying to find her twin brother, who might be mixed...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

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

Campbell, Lucy

Summary: 1987: It's late summer and a time of change when 17-year-old Tess Dawes leaves the local shopping centre in the sleepy town of Lowbridge and is never seen again. Tess's unsolved disappearance is never far from the town's memory. There's those who grew up with Tess, and never left. And those who know more than they're saying ... It just takes an outsider to ask the right questions. 2018:...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ultimo Press 2023

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAM

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Campbell

Bohjalian, Chris

Summary: A spine-tingling novel of lies, loss, and buried desire--the mesmerizing story of a wife and mother who vanishes from her bed late one night.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017

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

Patterson, James

Summary: For a trio of colleagues, an innocent night out after class ends in a deadly torture session. They vanish without a clue -- until a body turns up. With the safety of San Francisco's entire school system as stake, Lindsay Boxer has never been under more pressure. To solve the School Night case, Lindsay turns to her best friend, investigative journalist Cindy Thomas, as the chief of police and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PAT

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAT

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAT

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PAT

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Patterson 2019

Barker, J. D. (Jonathan Dylan)

Summary: "For detective Sam Porter, the words 'Father, forgive me' conjure memories long forgotten--a past intentionally buried. For Anson Bishop, these three words connect a childhood to the present as he unleashes a truth concealed for decades. Found written on cardboard near each body, these words link multiple victims to a single killer--discovered within minutes of each other in both Chicago and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hampton Creek Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAR

Fox, Candice

Summary: "Six minutes in the wrong place at the wrong time-- that's all it took to ruin Sydney detective Ted Conkaffey's life. Accused but not convicted of a brutal abduction,Ted is now a free man-- and public enemy number one. Maintaining his innocence, he flees north to keep a low profile amidst the steamy, croc-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake. There, Ted's lawyer introduces him to eccentric...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOX

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Fox 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY FOX

Moretti, Kate

Summary: In a quiet Pennsylvania town, a thousand dead starlings fall onto a high school baseball field. Baseball coach and teacher Nate Winters and his wife, Alicia, are well respected throughout town, until a reporter investigating the bizarre bird phenomenon catches Nate embracing a wayward student, Lucia Hamm, in front of a sleazy motel. Lucia soon buoys the scandal by claiming that she and Nate are...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

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Ahlborn, Ania

Summary: "--a small-town boy investigates the mysterious disappearance of his cousin and uncovers a terrifying secret kept hidden for years. Young Jude Brighton has been missing for three days, and while the search for him is in full swing in the small town of Deer Valley, Oregon, the locals are starting to lose hope. They're well aware that the first forty-eight hours are critical and after that, the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2017

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Box, C. J.

Summary: As Cassie closes in on the serial killer she's been hunting for years, the troubled teen she's taken under her wing goes missing. Cassie must take down a killer who is as ruthless as he is cunning. But can she do it alone, without losing her own humanity or her own life?

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2017

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Hoag, Tami

Summary: "When Detective Nick Fourcade enters the home of Genevieve Gauthier outside the sleepy town of Bayou Breaux, Louisiana, the bloody crime scene that awaits him is both the most brutal and the most confusing he's ever seen. Genevieve's seven-year-old son, KJ, has been murdered by an alleged intruder, yet Genevieve is alive and well, a witness inexplicably left behind to tell the tale. There is no...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2018

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: Fiction Hoag 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M HOA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY HOA

Jance, Judith A.

Summary: "Years ago, when he was a homicide detective with the Seattle PD, J. P. Beaumont's partner, Sue Danielson, was murdered. Volatile and angry, Danielson's ex-husband came after her in her home and, with nowhere else to turn, Jared, Sue's teenage son, frantically called Beau for help. As Beau rushed to the scene, he urged Jared to grab his younger brother and flee the house. In the end, Beaumont's...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Child, Lee

Summary: "Jack Reacher is back in the brand-new, page-turning thriller from acclaimed #1 bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child. Reacher isn't one to back down from a fight. And when a shadowy crew raises the stakes, he won't hesitate to teach them a lesson: When you pick a fight with Reacher, you're better off dead"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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

Patterson, James

Summary: When Jack Morgan, head of the world's foremost investigation agency receives at invitation to meet Princess Caroline, third in line to the British throne, he boards his Gulfstream jet and flies straight to London. The Princess needs Morgan's skills, and his discretion. Sophie Edwards, a close friend of the Princess, has gone missing. She needs to be found before the media become aware of it....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2018

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

Gardner, Lisa

Summary: Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will, searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking. A new case brings her to Mattapan, a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2021

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

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

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fic Gar

Tudor, C. J.

Summary: "The thrilling second novel from the author of The Chalk Man, about a teacher with a hidden agenda who returns to settle scores at a school he once attended, only to uncover a darker secret than he could have imagined. Joe never wanted to come back to Arnhill. After the way things ended with his old gang--the betrayal, the suicide, the murder--and after what happened when his sister went...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2019

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

Strawser, Jessica

Summary: An innocent night of fun takes a shocking turn in Not That I Could Tell , the next page-turner from Jessica Strawser. When a group of neighborhood women gathers, wine in hand, around a fire pit where their backyards meet one Saturday night, most of them are just ecstatic to have discovered that their baby monitors reach that far. It's a rare kid-free night, and they're giddy with it. They drink...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STR

Putnam, David

Summary: "Pushed to his emotional limit, Los Angeles County Sheriff Deputy Bruno Johnson struggles to hold his family together while immersed in his unrelenting career. His daughter, Olivia, is a teen mom to twin toddlers; her common-law husband, Derek Sams, is a thug; and one of their little boys has disappeared under his care. The overwhelming intensity demanded of Bruno on this personal level is...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oceanview Publishing 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUT

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