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Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When women are being kidnapped and murdered, including a bright young college student he bought coffee from every morning, in the dead of an Alaskan winter, Anchorage homicide detective DeHavilland Beans and his team are determined to stop a serial killer's spree before it's too late.
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Miranda Abbott, once known for the crime-solving, karate-chopping church pastor she played on network television, has hit hard times. She's facing ruin when a mysterious postcard arrives, summoning her to Happy Rock, a small town in the Pacific Northwest. But when she gets there, nothing is what she expected. In dire straits, she signs up for an amateur production at the Happy Rock Little Theater. On opening night, one of the actors is murdered,...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A warrant service in the San Bernardino Mountains goes horribly wrong when an IED blast kills four police officers. Devastated by the loss of her team, the lone survivor, Long Beach sergeant Jodie King, struggles with her guilt and grief, especially as the case remains open with no clear leads or suspects. Weeks after the explosion, Jodie retires from the police department and returns to the mountain bomb site seeking peace and resolution . . . only...
Author
Series
Locard Institute volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When the pregnant daughter of software pioneer Martin Post, the third richest man in America, is murdered, expert forensic analysts Ellie Carr and Rachael Davies, called in to investigate, are drawn into the Posts' increasingly dangerous family dynamic to determine who--and what--is at the heart of the crime.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The two identical brothers seemed perfect in every way--handsome, intelligent, popular--until a shocking summer night when one brother killed his parents in cold blood while the other had an iron-clad alibi. But which twin was where during the murders? And is it possible the two of them planned the perfect crime together? Years later, they may finally be ready to clear one name at the expense of the other and turn to Laurie Moran and her team to...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"New York City, 1911. Edith Wharton, almost equally famed for her novels and her sharp tongue, is bone-tired of Manhattan. Finding herself at a crossroads with both her marriage and her writing, she makes the decision to leave America, her publisher, and her loveless marriage. And then, dashing novelist David Graham Phillips--a writer with often notorious ideas about society and women's place in it--is shot to death outside the Princeton Club. Edith...
Author
Publisher
Evets Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Thirty years after the shocking and never-solved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme on a snowy street in Stockholm, an activist priest is found gruesomely sacrificed on the altar of a Swedish-American church in Minneapolis. The church's immigrant janitor is also slain, execution style. The crime shocks Hennepin Island, the church's time-forgotten riverfront neighborhood, where Span Lokken, a demoralized newspaperman and his improbable...
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In 1863, after the end of the US-Dakota War, a group of white men in Mankato, Minnesota, formed a secret society, pledging to expel the Ho-Chunk people from the nearby Blue Earth reservation with the goal of claiming for themselves some of the richest farmland in the world." -- Page 4 of cover.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Based on David Grann's broadly lauded best-selling book, "Killers of the Flower Moon" is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the Reign of Terror.
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In 1924 London, when shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, these unlikely allies investigate the murders of Chinese immigrants, all stabbed to death with a butterfly sword and must connect the dots to catch a killer before they become victims themselves.
11) The black mass
Publisher
Cleopatra Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by real events, this film is set over a 24-hour period in Florida during the winter of 1978 when a serial killer was stalking college girls.
12) Thief of souls
Author
Series
Inspector Lu Fei mystery volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The brutal murder of a young woman in a rural village in Northern China sends shockwaves all the way to Beijing--but seemingly only Inspector Lu Fei, living in exile in the small town, is interested in justice for the victim. Lu Fei is a graduate of China's top police college but he's been assigned to a sleepy backwater town in northern China, where almost nothing happens and the theft of a few chickens represents a major crime wave. That is until...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Though it took some time to settle into his new life in Gravigna, Italy, following the death of his wife, former NYPD detective Nico Doyle has figured out a thing or two. When Nico receives a phone call before dawn, he wants to ignore it. It's Perillo of the local carabinieri. A woman has been found dead in her home, and the sole witness speaks only English. Nico reluctantly agrees to help Perillo with the case.
14) Gray after dark
Author
Publisher
Dynamite Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A merciless wilderness. A harrowing attack. A desperate escape. When a tragic accident sidelines Miley's dreams of Olympic gold, she takes a summer job at a mountain guest lodge. The Frank Church Wilderness is remote, but it's the perfect place to train and recover. Local lore about a staffer who died years ago doesn't scare her. But it should. Miley's plans take a terrifying detour when she's abducted during a morning run. Held captive in a desolate...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a black man in rural Mississippi while her grandfather was the local sheriff--a cold case that sheds new light on the hidden legacy of racial terror in America.
Publisher
New Friday, a Lev Gleason imprint
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
This graphic novella recounts the true story of Zumrat Dawut, as originally published in the independent online news organization, Insider, through interviews conducted by Anthony Del Col and testimony given to the United Nations Human Rights Council. Zumrat Dawut is a mother of three in the Xinjiang autonomous region in China, who was arrested and sent to a detention facility for simply being a Muslim. There she endured brutal living conditions,...
17) One last breath
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the death of her sister and the decades-old cold case of best friends Bailey and Celeste, eighteen-year-old Tru becomes entangled with a mysterious girl named Rio, as their pursuit of the truth unveils an otherworldly connection to the victims and puts them in the crosshairs of a potentially resurfaced killer.
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