Patterson, James
Summary: Two true-crime thrillers include "Murder of Innocence," in which a global effort captures a serial predator; and "A Murderous Affair," in which a rookie FBI agent is set up by his informant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 PATPatterson, James
Summary: Two true-crime tales relate the stories of a couple who were tortured and left for dead after a home invasion, and a double homicide in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: "At ten months old, Holly Marie was brought to the door of a church by three barefoot women in white robes and head coverings. Adopted by the pastor and raised in a loving Christian home, Holly nevertheless struggled with the ache of not knowing what had happened to her biological parents. She still felt their absence even as she married and started a family of her own. When two detectives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Worthy Publishing, a division of Hachett Book Group, Inc. 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned a case involving a monstrous serial killer, she seeks counsel from an imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, whose fascination with the young woman is as great as his hunger for murder. As their relationship develops, Starling must confront her own demons, and an evil so powerful that she may not have the courage or strength to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER SILSummary: Two partners discover their real feelings for one another when one is bitten by a poisonous snake; A young boy witnesses an escaped mental patient and can't tell anyone about it; It's hard to tell who's the bigger cheater when a wife and her husband's jealous mistress sit down for some lethal negotiating; When two old men need a miracle in order to keep their home the answer arrives in the form...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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Summary: The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson' is the story of Clarence Henderson, a wrongfully accused Black sharecropper who was sentenced to die three different times for a murder he didn't commit, and the prosecution desperate to pin the crime on him despite scant evidence. His first trial lasted only a day and featured a lackluster public defense. The book also tells the story of Homer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.134 JOYPatterson, James
Summary: It's impossible to resist Andrew Luster. He's rich, charming, and good-looking, and dozens of women have fallen under his spell. But Andrew is no mere womanizer. He's a predator, and it'll take a global effort to put him behind bars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 364.1523 PATPhillips, Mark J.
Summary: "In every decade of the twentieth century, one sensational murder trial riveted public attention and at the time was called "the trial of the century." This book tells the story of each murder case and the dramatic trial that followed. Starting with the murder of famed architect Stanford White in 1906 and ending with the O.J. Simpson trial of 1994, the authors recount ten compelling tales...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 PHIPatterson, James
Summary: Two true-crime tales relate the stories of a couple who were tortured and left for dead after a home invasion, and a double homicide in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364 PATPatterson, James
Summary: Murder beyond the grave: "Stephen Small has it all -- a Ferrari, fancy house, loving wife, and three sons. But the only thing he needs right now is enough air to breathe. Kidnapped, buried in a box, and held for ransom, Stephen has forty-eight hours of oxygen. The clock is ticking..." -- Back cover. Murder in paradise: "High in the Sierra Nevada mountains, developers Jim and bonnie Hood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 364 PATPatterson, James
Summary: MURDER, INTERRUPTED. Rich, cheating financier Frank Howard wants his wife dead, and he's willing to pay Billie Earl Johnson whatever it takes, to the tune of $750,000. When his bullet misses the mark, Billie Earl and Frank will turn on each other in a fight for their lives...MOTHER OF ALL MURDERS. Dee Dee Blancharde is a local celebrity. Television reports praise her as a single mother who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 PATHess, Charlie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 HESSummary: Whether due to acts of terrorism, hate, or mental instability, mass shootings have become all too commonplace. This documentary series examines this disturbing phenomenon from the points of view of victims, family members, emergency medical workers and first responders, who bravely risk their own lives in the face of grave danger. Each episode recounts a specific incident using archival...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ACTJensen, Billy
Summary: "Have you ever wanted to solve a murder? Gather the clues the police overlooked? Put together the pieces? Identify the suspect? Journalist Billy Jensen spent 15 years investigating unsolved murders, fighting for the families of victims. Every story he wrote had one thing in common - it didn't have an ending. The killer was still out there. But after the sudden death of a friend, crime writer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 JENCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 JENMichaud, Stephen G.
Summary: On March 30, 2000, a middle-aged tree farmer named Robert Charles Browne, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of Heather Dawn Church, writes some rhyming verse to authorities and says "The score is, you one, the other team forty-eight!"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1523 MICWesthoff, Ben
Summary: "In the tradition of such intimate, piercing explorations of race and inequality in America as The Other Wes Moore and The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, Little Brother tells the story of investigative journalist Ben Westhoff's relationship with Jorell Cleveland through the Big Brother, Big Sister program in St. Louis, Missouri, and investigates Jorell's tragic unsolved murder at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 WESMacLean, Harry N.
Summary: "On January 21st, 1958, Charles Starkweather and his fourteen-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate changed the course of crime in the United States when they murdered her parents and sister in a house on the edge of Lincoln, Nebraska. They then drove to the nearby small town of Bennet, where they robbed and killed a farmer. When Starkweather's car broke down, the man and woman who stopped to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2023
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Summary: "A groundbreaking portrait of Vincent Chin and the murder case that took America's Asian American community to the streets in protest of injustice. America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiments simmer, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving Vincent Chin--a Chinese...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crime Mur YooCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.895 YOOCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.895 YOOPatterson, James
Summary: Two true-crime tales relate the stories of a married woman who suspects her husband isn't who he says he is and a teenage girl who moves to Arizona and finds her perfect life is about to turn on its head.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 PATVelez-Mitchell, Jane.
Summary: Television journalist Velez-Mitchell asks a disturbing question: Are killers like Scott Peterson and Andrea Yates all that different from the rest of us? When journalists break the story of a kidnapping, a brutal rape, or a family slaughtered, we ask: What kind of monster would do this? This book exposes the hidden motivations behind 21 recent crimes. People lie to protect secrets, big and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1097 VELSummary: Arizona in the late 1800s. Infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the train that will take the killer to trial. On the trail, Evans and Wade, each from very different worlds, begin to earn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THR RATED RSummary: An essential examination of the rise and fall of Orenthal James Simpson, and parallels between his incredible story with that of race in America. This critically-acclaimed documentary series reveals how he first became a football star, why America fell in love with him off the field, what happened in the trial for his ex-wife's murder, and finally, why he is now sitting in jail for another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC O.J.Rule, Leslie
Summary: In the tradition of her acclaimed mother, Ann Rule, author of The Stranger Beside Me, bestselling author Leslie Rule delivers a riveting true story for our time--as she exposes the years-long trail of a sadistic sociopath, identity thief, and killer at the dark heart of a real-life fatal attraction. It was a bleak November in 2012 when Cari Lea Farver vanished from Omaha, Nebraska. Cari,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 RULLauren, Jillian
Summary: "It all started when journalist Jillian Lauren asked LAPD Homicide Detective Mitzi Roberts about which case Roberts was most proud of closing. "Samuel Little," Roberts answered. The now 79-year-old Little had murdered approximately 90 women over six decades and repeatedly got away with the murders due to lack of evidence (or jurisdiction); Roberts finally brought him to justice by tying him to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023