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Chemical industry Fiction Chemical industry Waste disposal Environmental aspects Fiction Corporations Corrupt practices Fiction Medical examiners (Law) Fiction Mississippi Fiction Murder Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Pharmaceutical industry Corrupt practices Fiction Stem cells Research Fiction Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) FictionSummary: Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an OxyContin addiction tracks down the truth behind her son's involvement with narcotics, and a university professor battles unexpected revelations about his research employer, a drug company with deep government...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER CRIFinder, Joseph
Summary: Nick Heller, private spy, exposes secrets that powerful people would rather keep hidden. At the funeral of his good friend Sean, an army buddy who once saved Nick's life and had struggled with opioid addiction since returning wounded from war, a stranger approaches Nick with a job. The woman is a member of the Rhodes family, whose immense fortune was built on opiates. Now she wants to become a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FINGrisham, John.
Summary: When a judge returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste in a small Mississippi town, the company's billionaire owner seeks to influence the appeal process by using his money to "buy" a seat on the state Supreme Court.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468 FIC GRIFinder, Joseph
Summary: Nick Heller, private spy, exposes secrets that powerful people would rather keep hidden. At the funeral of his good friend Sean, an army buddy who once saved Nick's life and had struggled with opioid addiction since returning wounded from war, a stranger approaches Nick with a job. The woman is a member of the Kimball family, whose immense fortune was built on opiates. Now she wants to become a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINCook, Robin
Summary: "...New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, where she's been employed for more than two decades. Worried about whether she still has what it takes after so much time away, Laurie finds her first case back to be a dangerous puzzler of the highest order, involving organized crime and two start-up biotech companies caught in a zero...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOCoulter, Catherine.
Summary: There is a strong suspicion that pharmaceutical firm Schiffer Hartwin is manipulating production of its inexpensive chemotherapy drug. Private investigator Erin Pulaski is hired to find evidence, but when a top Schiffer Hartwin employee is found murdered behind the company's US headquarters, FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock are brought in on the case.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COUCoulter, Catherine.
Summary: Married FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich are investigating a rather unusual case: Senator David Hoffman is experiencing a ghostly apparition with possible malicious intent. They're no closer to cracking the case when a call comes in from Connecticut: A top foreign Schiffer Hartwin employee has been found murdered behind the drug company's U.S. headquarters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS COUFinder, Joseph
Summary: Nick Heller, private spy, exposes secrets that powerful people would rather keep hidden. At the funeral of his good friend Sean, an army buddy who once saved Nick's life and had struggled with opioid addiction since returning wounded from war, a stranger approaches Nick with a job. The woman is a member of the Kimball family, whose immense fortune was built on opiates. Now she wants to become a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FINCook, Robin
Summary: With her son's neuroblastoma in remission, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work, only to face the case of her career: the investigation into the death of CIA agent Kevin Markham. Markham's autopsy results are inconclusive, and though it appears he's been poisoned, toxicology fails to corroborate Laurie's suspicions. She enlists the help of her husband, Jack...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COOCook, Robin
Summary: Having just returned to work after her son's illness, medical examiner Laurie Montgomery investigates the mysterious death of a CIA agent. Toxicology fails to corroborate her theory that the agent was poisoned, but after a little digging, Laurie and husband Jack Stapleton find that there are biomed companies that will stop at nothing to prevent further snooping.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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Summary: New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, where she's been employed for more than two decades. Worried about whether she still has what it takes after so much time away, Laurie finds her first case back to be a dangerous puzzler of the highest order, involving organized crime and two start-up biotech companies caught in a zero sum...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COOSinclair, Upton
Summary: The horrifying conditions in the meatpacking industry in the early 1900's are revealed through the experiences of immigrants as they try to make a living by working in the Chicago stockyards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Willful behavior : A young woman is murdered, but Brunetti can find no sexual or financial motive. She was set to inherit a fortune from her grandmother, a woman very much alive and obsessed with clearing her husband's name from the accusation of art theft during the Mussolini years. The case draws Brunetti into a search for lost art and buried secrets from the bleakest days of modern Italian...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DONSummary: Whatever became of the "American Dream"? Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto star in the powerful, critically acclaimed drama Blue Collar. Three auto assembly line workers, fed up with union brass and tired of scraping by, hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters. Disappointed with their measly bounty, they realize they've made off with something much more valuable than cash....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLUGrant, Andrew
Summary: "For fans of Harlan Coben's Tell No One and Joseph Finder's Paranoia--a high-octane thriller featuring a tech consultant who unwittingly steps into the rabbit hole of corporate cover-ups--and finds that his highly demanding job has suddenly become highly dangerous. From Andrew Grant, the critically acclaimed author hailed by Nelson DeMille as "a little bit of le Carre and Ian Fleming, but with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRAGrisham, John.
Summary: Wall Street millionaire Carl Trudeau purchases an unsuspecting candidate to run for Supreme Court judge when a Mississippi jury rules agains one of his chemical companies for dumping toxic waste into the towns water supply, causing a cancer cluster.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2008
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIGrisham, John.
Summary: Wall street millionaire Carl Trudeau purchases an unsuspecting Mississippi State Supreme Court judge candidate when a lower court rules against one of his chemical companies for dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply causing a cancer cluster.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: LP FIC GRIDeaver, Jeffery.
Summary: ""Gabriela McKenzie's daughter has been kidnapped. In exchange for her safe return, her abductors demand two things: $400,000 in cash, and a document known only as the October List." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEACopies Available at Interlochen
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY DEAKahn, Michael A.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAHCamilleri, Andrea
Summary: On a gloomy morning in Vigàta, a call from Fazio rouses Inspector Montalbano from a nightmare. A man called Giugiù Nicotra has been found dead in the skeletal workings of a construction site--a place now entombed by a sea of mud from recent days of rain and floods. Shot in the back, he had fled into a water supply system tunnel. The investigation gets off to a slow start, but all the evidence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMRozan, S. J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's press 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROZLocke, Attica.
Summary: When African-American lawyer Jay Porter jumps into the bayou to save a drowning white woman in Houston, Texas, in 1981, he finds his practice and life in danger when he becomes embroiled in a murder investigation involving Houston's elite.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2009