Catalog Search Results
21) Cemetery road
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The new novel from a critically acclaimed and award-winning author - When Errol 'Handy' White returns to his native Los Angeles to attend the funeral of his old friend R.J. Burrow, who has been brutally murdered, a terrible secret threatens to reveal itself. Twenty-six years earlier, Handy, R.J. and O'Neal Holden pulled a heist that went horrible awry, and Handy's been waiting for it to come back and haunt them ever since. Was the murder linked to...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The first book in an exciting new classic mystery series created in partnership with the Library of Congress, That Affair Next Door follows Miss Amelia Butterworth, an inquisitive single woman who becomes involved in a murder investigation after the woman next door turns up dead. Miss Amelia Butterworth is unmarried but quite content as an observer of human nature-until late one evening she notices a man and woman enter the supposedly empty house...
23) Riding the rap
Author
Series
Raylan Givens thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Before U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens began electrifying TV viewers across America (in the hit series Justified), he "starred" in Elmore Leonard's Riding the Rap-an explosive, twisty tale of a brazen Florida kidnap caper gone outrageously wrong. Chock full of wildly eccentric and deliciously criminal characters-including a psycho enforcer with a green thumb, a Bahamian bad man, and the beautiful, unabashedly greedy psychic Reverend Dawn-Riding the Rap...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
While vacationing, homicide detective J.P. Beaumont comes across a beautiful blonde and her murdered escort, two State Parole Board members, and becomes involved in the case of a murderer seeking vengeance for a Parole Board's fatal mistake.
25) The day he left
Author
Series
Violent Crime Investigations Team volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A middle school teacher leaves home one morning and never arrives at his job. He leaves behind his briefcase and his phone, along with photographs of some of his female students. Across town, a detective on Santa Rosa's Violent Crimes Investigations team joins a colleague from the narcotics division as they investigate the killing of a dealer and local heroin smuggling operation. As the two cases converge in unexpected ways, secrets rise to the surface,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Agreeing to help an acquaintance from the past track down a missing child, Beau launches an investigation that forces him to confront his troubled past.
Former Seattle homicide cop J. P. Beaumont, is learning to enjoy the new realities of retirement-- doing morning crossword puzzles by a roaring fireplace; playing frisbee with his new dog; having quiet lunches with his still working wife. When an acquaintance from long ago, Alan Dale, shows up on...
27) Life sentences
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"...Cassandra Fellows returns home to Baltimore, researching material for a new book, where she decides to weave the tragic story of an old classmate with memories of her school years."
28) Nothing to lose
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty years after he lost his partner Susan to her husband's murderous rage, Beau is drawn into a missing persons case when Susan's son needs his help, becoming tangled in a web of family secrets where a killer with nothing left to lose waits to take another life.
29) Hush, hush
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a searing August day, Melisandre Harris Dawes committed the unthinkable: she left her two-month-old daughter locked in a car while she sat nearby on the shores of the Patapsco River. Melisandre was found not guilty by reason of criminal insanity, although there was much skepticism about her mental state. Freed, she left the country, her husband and her two surviving children, determined to start over. But now Melisandre has returned Baltimore to...
30) No good deeds
Author
Series
Tess Monaghan mysteries volume 9
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan-first introduced in the classic Baltimore Blues-becomes involved in a complicated investigation that will force her to question her loyalties. For Tess Monaghan, the unsolved murder of a young federal prosecutor is nothing more than a theoretical problem, one of several cases to be deconstructed in her new gig as a consultant to the local newspaper. But it becomes all...
31) Trial by fury
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The dead body discovered in a Seattle dumpster was shocking enough-but equally disturbing was the manner of death. The victim, a high school coach, had been lynched, leaving behind a very pregnant wife to grieve over his passing, and to wonder what dark secrets he took to his grave. A Homicide detective with twenty years on the job, J.P. Beaumont knows this case is a powder keg and he fears where this investigation will lead him. Because the answers...
32) Blaze
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
In the roughest parts of Brooklyn, a brilliant female detective goes after a psychotic loan shark Capt. Nora Riter is a cop with a future, assuming her deadbeat husband doesn't mess it up first. He's hocked her jewelry, stolen her gun, and had cocaine delivered to their home. Their marriage is a toxic mess that could end her career-unless Blaze Longo ends it first. On the streets of Red Hook, Blaze is a legend: a merciless loan shark who wields a...
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
There are excellent reasons why New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has won the Edgar®, Agatha, Anthony, Nero Wolfe, and every other major award the mystery genre has to offer. To the Power of Three is just one of those reasons. Lippman's brilliant and disturbing tale of three inseparable high school girlfriends in an affluent Baltimore suburb who share dark secrets literally until death. Not merely crime fiction, but fiction that gets...
34) Lucky stiff
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas Day in the sleepy town of Sorenson, Wisconsin, but instead of unwrapping presents, deputy coroner Mattie Winston is at the burnt remains of a house, where a charred body has been found. The victim is none other than Jack Allen--a paraplegic who recently won a huge casino jackpot. Upon closer inspection, Mattie and detective Steve Hurley are convinced Jack was murdered to steal his winnings, giving the phrase Black Jack a whole new meaning....
35) Everybody dies
Author
Series
Matthew Scudder mysteries volume 14
Publisher
W. Morrow and Co
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Matt Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life. The crime rate's down and the stock market's up. Gentrification's prettying-up the old neighborhood. The New York streets don't look so mean anymore.
Then all hell breaks loose.
Scudder quickly discovers the spruced-up sidewalks are as mean as ever, dark and gritty and stained with blood. He's living in a world where the past is a minefield, the present is a war zone, and the future's an open question....
36) Dead land
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Chicago may be the city of broad shoulders, but its political law is "Pay to Play." Money changes hands in the middle of the night, and by morning, buildings and parks are replaced by billion-dollar projects. Chicago PI V.I. Warshawski gets pulled into one of these clandestine deals through her impetuous goddaughter, Bernie Fouchard. Bernie tries to rescue Lydia Zamir, a famed singer-songwriter now living on the streets; Zamir's life fell apart when...
37) Taking the fifth
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Seattle Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont thought he had seen all the bizarre and terrible ways to die until he saw this body. The murder weapon was an elegant woman's shoe, its stiletto heel gruesomely caked with blood. Beaumont finds the scent of a stylish killer is pulling him into a world of drugs, corruption, and murder.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control,...
40) Partner in crime
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Sent to Cochise County in Arizona by the Washington State attorney general to investigate the murder of a star witness, J.P. Beaumont teams up with Sheriff Joanna Brady and is surprised to find in her a savvy fellow detective.
In MnLINK
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Plum Creek Library System can be requested from other MnLINK libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.