DeKok, David.
Summary: " On Nov. 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma, a 22-year-old graduate student in English at Penn State, was stabbed to death in the stacks of Pattee Library at the university's main campus in State College. For more than forty years, her murder went unsolved, though detectives with the Pennsylvania State Police and local citizens worked tirelessly to find her killer. The mystery was eventually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Globe Pequot 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 DEKGraham, Heather
Summary: Kerri Wolf has joined the crew of The Seekers, a show that searches for paranormal phenomena, as they explore a supposedly haunted old inn on the road between Philadelphia and Harrisburg. The place is famous for its warm welcome - and infamous for being the site of an ax murder rampage in the 1920s. They've barely begun when a very real dead body is discovered in the basement. As a nonfiction...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Graham 2019Gerardot, Mark
Summary: Mark and Jennair Gerardot had been married nearly 25 years when Mark met someone who changed everything he had known about love. When what had begun as a harmless flirtation blossomed into a passionate love affair, Mark confessed his infidelity and began taking the painful steps toward what he thought was an amicable but long-overdue divorce. What he didn't realize, however, was that Jennair...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Green Heart Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 GERSummary: Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne begins making a film for Zachary, son of his oldest friend who was murdered by Zachary's mother. The film's focus shifts to Zachary's grandparents as they fight to win custody of Zachary from the woman who took their son's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2009
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEABurcat, Joel R.
Summary: "In this romantically-charged environmental legal thriller, two teenagers die after swimming through chemicals illegally dumped into the Susquehanna River. Mike Jacobs, a young environmental prosecutor for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is assigned his first big case and must find, and stop the dumpers. Mike's alluring new friend Sherry Stein, an ambitious young Deputy Attorney General, is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Publisher Page, an imprint of Headline Books, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACSummary: Academy Award-winner Kate Winslet plays Mare Sheehan, a small-town Pennsylvania detective who investigates a local murder as life crumbles around her. From creator and writer Brad Ingelsby, with all episodes directed by Craig Zobel, the seven-part limited series is an exploration into the dark side of a close community and an authentic examination of how family and past tragedies can define our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2021
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Summary: In 2013 Dr Kermit Gosnell was convicted of killing four people, including three babies, but is thought to have killed hundreds, perhaps thousands more in a 30-year killing spree. Gosnell is currently serving three life sentences (without the possibility of parole) for murdering babies and patients at his "House of Horrors" abortion clinic. This book--now a major movie starring Dean Cain (Lois &...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.152 MCESummary: A collection of essays by regional journalists, academics, and religious and community leaders commemorates the October 2018 mass shooting at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue while describing how neighbors are working together to heal and help preventfuture tragedies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 BOUSummary: In a continuous monologue, former death-row inmate Nick Yarris tells the story of how he was charged with the murder of a woman in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, sentenced to death, and, after twenty-one years behind bars, exhonerated based on DNA evidence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FEAButcher, Amy
Summary: "In this powerful and unforgettable memoir, award-winning writer Amy Butcher examines the shattering consequences of failing a friend when she felt he needed one most. Four weeks before their college graduation, twenty-one-year-old Kevin Schaeffer walked Amy Butcher to her home in their college town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Hours after parting ways with Amy, he fatally stabbed his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUTCHER, AMY BUTLashner, William.
Summary: Victor Carl is a defense attorney who skates the edge of legal ethics; but he is loyal to his clients--even when they're dead. Joey Cheaps tells Victor his part in a crime, and is then murdered, leading Victor to search for the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LASSummary: Clyde Shelton is a brilliant planner and inventor. One night two robbers invade his Philadelphia home and brutally kill his wife and daughter, almost killing him. When the killers are caught, Assistant DA Nick Rice is assigned the case. Nick makes a deal with one of the killers to testify against his partner for a 10 year plea bargain prison sentence. Clyde doesn't want Nick to make the deal,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2010
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Summary: "The shocking assassination of a major rival to UMWA president Tony Boyle catalyzed groundbreaking reform in the coal mining industry. In the early hours of New Year's Eve 1969, in the small soft-coal mining borough of Clarksville, Pennsylvania, longtime trade union insider Joseph "Jock" Yablonski and his wife and daughter were brutally murdered in their old stone farmhouse. Seven months...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 BRASummary: In an economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, a complicated and compromised chief of police is forced to decide how far he's willing to go when the son of the woman he loves is accused of murder. A harrowing journey into the lives of a small town with big secrets, where people are driven by loyalty, love, and desperation, and bad choices come far too easy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "When her sister Erin is murdered and Erin's husband goes missing, Philadelphia homicide detective Bree Taggert vows to uncover the secrets of her sister's life and death but when the danger hits close to home, her own family is caught in a death grip."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Montlake 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEIO'Dell, Tawni.
Summary: Embarking on the worst case of her long career when a girl is beaten to death, rural Pennsylvania police chief Dove Carnahan is approached by a man who was imprisoned for killing Dove's mother years earlier and who forces her to confront her own shadowy past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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Summary: "Although the culinary fare at Magdalena Yoder's new restaurant, Asian Sensations - a unique combination of Asian and Amish cuisine - is not to everyone's taste, the good citizens of Hernia are unanimously agreed that the desserts concocted by the restaurant chef, Barbara Hostetler, are to die for. Not literally however. When a guest at the PennDutch Inn drops dead shortly after consuming a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2019
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Summary: In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: What could cause a man, when all the stars of fortune are shining upon him, to suddenly snap and destroy everything he has built? This is the question that haunts Sergeant Ryan DeMarco after the wife and children of beloved college professor and bestselling author Thomas Huston are found slaughtered in their home. Huston himself has disappeared and so is immediately cast as the prime suspect....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SILCastillo, Linda
Summary: "The discovery of an Amish bishop's remains leads chief of police Kate Burkholder to unearth a chilling secret in this new thriller from bestselling author Linda Castillo. Over a decade ago, beloved Amish bishop Ananias Stoltzfus disappeared without a trace. The mystery of what happened to the esteemed old man has haunted his small Pennsylvania community for years. When skeletal remains showing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022
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Summary: The perfect family. The perfect house. The perfect life. All gone now. What could cause a man, when all the stars of fortune are shining upon him, to suddenly snap and destroy everything he has built? This is the question that haunts Sergeant Ryan DeMarco after the wife and children of beloved college professor and bestselling author Thomas Huston are found slaughtered in their home. Huston...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P SILBaldacci, David
Summary: Amos Decker and his journalist friend Alex Jamison are visiting the home of Alex's sister in Barronville, a small town in western Pennsylvania that has been hit hard economically. When Decker is out on the rear deck of the house talking with Alex's niece, a precocious eight-year-old, he notices flickering lights and then a spark of flame in the window of the house across the way. When he goes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Signet 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARJensen, Jane
Summary: "With its peaceful, hardworking Amish population, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is a rural paradise. But former NYPD homicide detective Elizabeth Harris knows that evil lurks there--it's just easier to hide... By solving the murders of two local girls, Elizabeth has gained some trust from the Amish community. So she's the first person its members turn to when a fast and fatal illness takes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2016