MacBride, Stuart.
Summary: Detective Sergeant Logan MacRae has been bumped to the "Screw-up Squad," a team made up of the most worthless or inexperienced members of the homicide department, and Logan will do anything to prove he doesn't belong there. Including working overtime on two baffling cases: the murder by arson of six people, and the beating to death of a prostitute down by the docks, not a high priority compared...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMcDermid, Val.
Summary: Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan turns to clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill to help solve the grotesque murder of a prostitute, a crime that bears a striking resemblance to an earlier series of solved crimes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDDeMille, Nelson
Summary: Detective John Corey has been forced into retirement, but he's restless and looking for action. So when his former lover, Detective Beth Penrose, appears with a job offer, Corey has some decisions to make. He takes the job and finds himself on a dangerous hunt for an apparent serial killer who has murdered at least nine prostitutes and hidden their bodies in the thick undergrowth on a lonely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DEMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DEMMcDermid, Val.
Summary: Devastated after the vicious assault she suffered in The Last Temptation, Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan has returned to Bradfield to resume her career. But she is surprised to discover that clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill has followed her there to take up a post in a high security mental hospital. When she is assigned a case involving the grotesque murder of a prostitute, she turns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCDPerry, Anne.
Summary: Pitt investigates the murder of a maid at Buckingham Palace, narrowing his group of suspects down to several house guests who are meeting with the Prince of Wales to discuss the funding of a huge project: the Cape to Cairo railway. While the Prince might overlook the unfortunate loss of a maid, the Queen, who is due back soon, will likely veto any Royal support in the scheme if she finds out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M PERPerry, Anne.
Summary: When scandal threatens the monarchy after a female guest turns up dead following one of the debauched stag parties of Edward, the Prince of Wales, the Palace calls in Thomas Pitt of the Special Branch to solve the murder with utmost discretion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M PERBlack, Ingrid.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAHarris, C. S.
Summary: London, 1812. The brutal slaughter of eight young prostitutes in a house of refuge near Covent Garden leaves only one survivor -- and one witness: Hero Jarvis, reform-minded daughter of the Prince Regent's cousin, Lord Jarvis. When the Machiavellian power broker quashes any official inquiry that might reveal his daughter's unorthodox presence, Hero launches an investigation of her own and turns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HARBear, Elizabeth
Summary: "Steampunk novel set in Seattle in the late 19th century--an era when the town was called Rapid City, when the parts we now call Seattle Underground were the whole town (and still on the surface), when airships plied the trade routes bringing would-be miners heading up to the gold fields of Alaska, and steam-powered mechanicals stalked the waterfront. Karen is a "soiled dove," a young woman on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEALeotta, Allison.
Summary: Investigating the falling death of a high-paid escort at the U.S. Capitol building, Assistant U.S. Attorney Anna Curtis teams up with brash FBI Special Agent Samantha Randazzo to examine clues implicating a powerful elected official.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEOBurton, Mary (Mary T.)
Summary: "At the grisly murder scene of a teen prostitute, Virginia state trooper Riley Tatum's past roars back to haunt her. When she was a teenage runaway, she was kidnapped, drugged, and left unconscious on the streets. She has no memories of what happened, only strange recurring dreams of two men playing cards. Former FBI agent Clay Bowman, Riley's old flame, is Shield Security's newest member. He's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BURCameron, Kenneth M.
Summary: London, 1900. When a terrified man shows up one evening and says he is being pursued by Jack the Ripper, Denton dismisses him as a lunatic. When the mutilated body of a teenaged prostitute is found, Denton decides to pursue the murderer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMJackson, Lisa
Summary: Father John, the notorious serial killer, is back for revenge, as well an all new killing spree. He hires prostitutes and then strangles them with rosary beads, leaving behind a hundred dollar bill with Ben Franklin's eyes burned out. Also in his cross-hairs is Bentz's daughter, Kristi, a true crime writer, who survives an attack when the novel opens but it ends with her husband Jay's death....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction JacksonTruman, Margaret
Summary: President Burton Pyle and candidate Robert Colgate are seeking the presidency in a coming election; two crimes begin to connect with the presidential race, the death of Rosalie Curzon, a Washington call girl, and the kidnapping of the daughter of Robert Colgate's close friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M TRUDe Giovanni, Maurizio
Summary: Springtime proffers fragrant temptations to the men and women of Naples. But evil also lurks in the sweet-smelling spring air. It is one week before Easter, Naples, 1932. At the high-class brothel in the center of town known as Paradiso, Viper, the most famous prostitute of all, is found dead. Suffocated with a pillow. Her last client swears that when he left her she was alive and well. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DE GThompson, Victoria (Victoria E.)
Summary: When a philanthropist's involvement in the rescue of a prostitute leads to murder, Sarah Brandt's significant other, Detective Sgt. Frank Malloy, can't prevent her from investigating. Set at the end of the 19th century in New York City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOSmiley, Jane
Summary: "From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author: a rollicking murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. The madam, Mrs. Parks, is kind, the men are (relatively)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022