Patterson, James
Summary: On his first night with Detroit PD, Officer Walter O'Brien is called to a murder scene. A terrified twenty-year-old has bludgeoned her kidnapper with skill that shocks even O'Brien's veteran partner. The young woman is also a brilliant escape artist. Her bold flight from police custody makes the case impossible to solve, and, for Walter, even more impossible to forget. By the time Walter's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATPatterson, James
Summary: On his first night with Detroit PD, Officer Walter O'Brien is called to a murder scene. A terrified twenty-year-old has bludgeoned her kidnapper with skill that shocks even O'Brien's veteran partner. The young woman is also a brilliant escape artist. Her bold flight from police custody makes the case impossible to solve, and, for Walter, even more impossible to forget. By the time Walter's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATSummary: A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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Summary: The voices of the past cannot stay silent forever. In 1910 Michigan, Perliett Van Hilton is a self-proclaimed rural healer, leaving the local doctor convinced she practices quackery. It doesn't help that her mother is a spiritualist who regularly offers her services to connect the living with their dearly departed. But when Perliett is targeted by a superstitious killer, she must rely on both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRILescroart, John T.
Summary: "Having joined the "dark side" after years spent prosecuting criminals as the San Francisco DA, defense attorney Wes Farrell is experiencing a crisis of faith. How can he in good conscience defend clients whom, in his estimation, are most likely guilty? In his role as DA, Farrell had helped put away Paul Riley, a young man charged for the rape and murder of his then-girlfriend Dana Rush, only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LESDornbush, Jennifer
Summary: Dr. Emily Hartford is back in Chicago, ready to move forward and leave the past behind, until an unexpected request for help sends her deep into an investigation, and into the path of a killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "The book opens on a Saturday night in 1978, hours before a soon-to-be-infamous murderer descends upon a Florida sorority house with deadly results. The lives of those who survive, including sorority president and key witness, Pamela Schumacher, are forever changed. Across the country, Tina Cannon is convinced her missing friend was targeted by the man papers refer to as the All-American Sex...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KNOGoldberg, Lee
Summary: "A catastrophic wildfire scorches the Santa Monica Mountains, exposing the charred remains of a woman who disappeared years ago. The investigation is assigned to Eve Ronin, the youngest homicide detective in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, a position that forces her to prove herself again and again. This time, though, she has much more to prove. Bones don't lie, and these have a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GOLCollins, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLHunter, Lindsay
Summary: "Jackie Newsome's best friend is dead, and everyone knows who killed her. Jackie is an ex-emotional eater and mother of four, who has finally lost the weight she long yearned to be free of. But leaving her old self behind proves harder than she ever imagined. She believes she should be happier, but misery still chases her, and motherhood threatens to consume her. Her only salve is Theresa, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roxane Gay Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HUNSummary: Based on the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria that resulted in her husband, Russ' conviction. When his conviction was overturned, the crime set off a chain of events that exposed a diabolical scheme deeply involving Pam Hupp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV THIReardon, Lisa.
Summary: As Ray Johnson searches for the killer of his brother, a man whom the whole town wanted dead, he tries to explain what caused the brother to be a bad man. A tale of child abuse and incest in rural Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REABoulley, Angeline
Summary: Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that was entirely not her fault, she's stuck working to pay back her Auntie Daunis for repairs to the Jeep. Thankfully she has the other outcasts of the summer program, Team Misfit Toys, and even her twin sister Pauline. Together they ace obstacle courses, plan vigils for missing women in the community,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Marc Seidman awakens to find himself in an ICU, hooked up to an IV, his head swathed in bandages. Twelve days earlier, he had an enviable life as a successful surgeon, living in a peaceful suburban neighborhood with his beautiful wife and a baby he adored. Now he lies in a hospital bed, shot by an unseen assailant. His wife has been killed, and his six-month-old daughter, Tara, has vanished....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COBSummary: Saw: Would you kill someone to save your own life or the lives of your loved ones? For the victims of the psychopath known as the Jigsaw Killer, this isn't just a hypothetical question, and two men abducted and held in chains by the madman are faced with playing his gruesome game for their own survival. Gripping, spine-chilling shocker stars Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Monica Potter, and Leigh...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Batman begins: After his parents' murders, disillusioned heir Bruce Wayne travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice. With the help of his trusted butler Alfred, detective Jim Gordon and his ally Lucius Fox, Bruce returns to Gotham City and unleashes his alter-ego: Batman, a masked crusader who uses strength, intellect and high-tech weaponry to fight evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE DARCornwell, Patricia Daniels.
Summary: The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field. The victim is oddly draped in ivory linen and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's first strike. A preliminary examination also reveals a bizarre residue that fluoresces blood red, emerald green and sapphire blue. Physical evidence links the case to a series of uniquely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CORHeaberlin, Julia.
Summary: "As a sixteen-year-old, Tessa Cartwright was found in a Texas field, barely alive amid a scattering of bones, with only fragments of memory as to how she got there. Ever since, the press has pursued her as the lone surviving "Black-Eyed Susan," the nickname given to the murder victims because of the yellow carpet of wildflowers that flourished above their shared grave. Tessa's testimony about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Heaberlin 2015Heaberlin, Julia.
Summary: As a sixteen-year-old, Tessa Cartwright was found in a Texas field, barely alive amid a scattering of bones, with only fragments of memory as to how she got there. Ever since, the press has pursued her as the lone surviving 'Black-Eyed Susan,' the nickname given to the murder victims because of the yellow carpet of wildflowers that flourished above their shared grave. Tessa's testimony about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HEACornwell, Patricia Daniels.
Summary: "The new Kay Scarpetta novel . . . . After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Exhausted and ill, she's recovering at home when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field. The victim, a graduate student named Gail Shipman, is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cornwell 2013Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CORErickson, J. R.
Summary: "Deep in the forest, far back on Spellway Road, sits a long forgotten mansion. The curtains billow despite the still day, and in the dark, shadowy rooms lie a secret kept under lock and key for two decades. The cursed, however, do not simply stay dead and buried. Twenty years ago, Liv did a horrible thing. Now the past seeks to right those wrongs. Skeletal fingers reach into her dreams. They...
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.R. Erickson 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERISummary: Robocop: "Set in Detroit sometime in the near-future, the film is about a policeman killed in the line of duty, who the department decides to resurrect as a half-human, half-robot supercop. The robocop is indestructible, and within a matter of weeks he has removed crime from the streets of Detroit. However, his human side is tortured by his past, and he wants revenge on the thugs who killed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM 2014
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ROBCalkins, Susanna
Summary: "A 1920s Chicago speakeasy... Gina Ricci takes on a job as a cigarette girl to earn money for her ailing father - and to prove to herself that she can hold her own at Chicago's most notorious speakeasy, the Third Door. She's enchanted by the harsh, glamorous world she discovers: the sleek socialites sipping bootlegged cocktails, the rowdy ex-servicemen playing poker in a curtained back room,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALPenny, Louise
Summary: It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has. As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûrét du Québec investigators' lives after...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2022