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Detective and mystery stories, American FICTION / Suspense Homicide investigation Fiction Large type books Murder Investigation Fiction Payne, Matt (Fictitious character) Fiction Pennsylvania Philadelphia Philadelphia (Pa.) Fiction Police Pennsylvania Philadelphia Fiction Still, William 1821-1902Griffin, W. E. B.
Summary: There's a sudden spike in murders in Philadelphia, but no one seems to mind much, because the victims are street thugs and lowlifes. But as Homicide sergeant Matt Payne starts looking under the right rocks, he gets a feeling there's more going on than just bad guys burning one another. In fact, he starts seeing signs that these guys are maybe getting whacked by professionals, from out of state,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnams Sons 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIDublin, D. H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M DUBLeigh, Melinda
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 LEIGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne is used to murder, but lately there's been an awful lot of it in Philadelphia. A gangland shooting in a popular tourist location has left six dead, most of them innocent bystanders, and days later the body of a headless Latina turns up in the Schuykill River. Everybody assumes they're not related, but Payne can't shake the hunch that there's something more to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRIGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: While investigating the death of a young socialite, sergeant Matt Payne begins to doubt reports of her long struggle with mental illness and uncovers secrets that place lives at risk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Griffin 2016Griffin, W. E. B.
Summary: Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne must locate the lone living witness to a sex trade ring connected to the Mexican drug cartels and the Russian mob.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIMontanari, Richard
Summary: Billy is an excellent killer: strategic, methodical, ritualistic. If only he knew what his victims looked like. Plagued with a rare disease that prevents him from recognizing faces, Billy carries a photograph in his pocket that is his only way of identifying his next target. Killing is in Billy's bloodline, as a member of Philadelphia's dangerous Farren crime family. While Billy stalks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONGriffin, W. E. B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 1993
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Summary: Recently promoted to sergeant and assigned to the homicide department, detective Matt Payne finds more than his share of challenges in three assignments involving a fast-food shooting, a guru murderer, and a police movie star.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: Suffering among the country's highest murder rates; the tension between the Philadelphia PD and its Citizens Oversight Committee has long been reaching a boiling point. That turmoil turns from bad to worse shortly after the committee begins targeting police shootings; especially those of twenty-seven-year-old Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne, the Wyatt Earp of the Main Line, and then the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Griffin 2015Griffin, W. E. B.
Summary: "The dramatic new novel in the Philadelphia police saga by #1 New York Times-bestselling author W. E. B. Griffin. In Philadelphia--suffering among the country's highest murder rates--the tension between the Philadelphia Police Department and its Citizens Oversight Committee has long been reaching a boiling point. That turmoil turns from bad to worse shortly after the committee begins targeting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Griffin 2015Montanari, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MONGriffin, W.E.B.
Summary: In Philadelphia, a policeman suspected of drug dealing is murdered, a bar owner and his wife are gunned down and a young woman dies from drug overdose. It is up to detectives Matt Payne and Jason Washington to put together the pieces. Sixth novel in a police series by the author of The Assassin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1994
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Summary: "Detectives Byrne and Balzano return to the streets of Philadelphia to put an end to a macabre succession of murdered children. A quiet Philadelphia suburb. A woman cycles past a train depot with her young daughter. There she finds a murdered girl posed on a newly painted bench. Beside her is a formal invitation to a tea dance in a week's time. Seven days later, two more young victims are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Montanari 2015Swierczynski, Duane
Summary: "Three generations torn apart--by bullets fired fifty years ago ... Philadelphia, 1965: Two street cops--one black, one white--are gunned down in a corner bar. One of the fallen officers, Stan Walczak, leaves behind a 12-year-old boy, Jimmy. Philadelphia, 1995: Homicide detective Jim Walczak learns that his father's alleged killer, Terrill Lee Stanton, has been sprung from prison. Jim stalks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWIMontanari, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONGriffin, W. E. B.
Contents: Men in blue -- Special operations -- The victim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIGriffin, W. E. B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 1989
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Summary: Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne is used to murder, but lately there's been an awful lot of it in Philadelphia. A gangland shooting in a popular tourist location has left six dead, most of them innocent bystanders, and days later the body of a headless Latina turns up in the Schuykill River. Everybody assumes they're not related, but Payne can't shake the hunch that there's something more to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIJones, Solomon
Summary: Awakening in the night covered in her murdered husband's blood with no knowledge of what happened, defense lawyer Andrea Wilson flees the police and turns for help to detective Mike Coletti, a man from her past who she entreats to help prove her innocence. By the author of The Gravedigger's Ball.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONDexter, Pete
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEXGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: Special Operations detective Matt Payne and his colleagues find themselves drawn into two dangerous cases simultaneously as an ongoing investigation into a squad of dirty cops turns deadly and a chance encounter at a party leads Payne to a woman who may hold the key to a gang of urban terrorists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GriffAlbee, Jay
Summary: Nonbinary fourth grader Riley and their friends learn how small, simple parks can be just as important and fun as fancy new parks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ALBDiemer, Andrew K.
Summary: "The remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia--the free state directly north of the Mason-Dixon line--helping hundreds of people escape from slavery"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022