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Mycroft Holmes : a novel2015
Summary: When his fiancee abruptly departs for Trinidad after hearing disturbing news, Mycroft Holmes and his best friend Cyrus Douglas follow and find themselves drawn in to a treacherous investigation.- place hold (0)
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Victim 21172020
Summary: "The newspaper refers to her only as Victim 2117-the two thousand one hundred and seventeenth refugee to die in the Mediterranean Sea. But to three people, the unnamed victim is so much more, and the... more »- place hold (0)
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A conspiracy of faith2013
Summary: Receiving a sealed bottle with a years-old plea for help by two young victims imprisoned in a boathouse by the sea, Detective Carl Morck follows leads to a desperate woman trapped in a brutal... more »- place hold (0)
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The hanging girl2015
Summary: "New York Times and internationally bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen returns with the sixth book in his exhilarating Department Q series, featuring Detective Carl Morck and his enigmatic... more »- place hold (0)
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The Marco effect2014
Summary: All fifteen-year-old Marco wants is to become a Danish citizen and be a normal teenager. But his uncle Zola forces the children of his former gypsy clan to beg and steal for him. Then Marco discovers... more »- place hold (0)
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The purity of vengeance : a Department Q novel2013
Summary: International superstar Jussi Adler-Olsen, with more than fourteen million copies of his books sold worldwide, delivers his latest in the bestselling Department Q series, a perplexing cold case with... more »- place hold (0)
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The scarred woman : a Department Q novel2017
Summary: "Detective Carl Morck of Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division, meets his toughest challenge yet when the dark, troubled past of one of his own team members collides with a sinister unsolved... more »- place hold (0)
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Green sun : a novel2018
Summary: An Oakland, California police officer is torn between his duties and his friendships after an off-duty shooting.- place hold (0)
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Turn a blind eye2021
Summary: William Warwick, now a Detective Inspector, is tasked with a dangerous new line of work, to go undercover and expose crime of another kind: corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police Force.... more »- place hold (0)
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Alone in the wild : a Rockton novel2020
Summary: "In #1 New York Times bestseller Kelley Armstrong's latest thriller, the hidden town of Rockton is about to face a challenge none of them saw coming: a baby. Every season in Rockton seems to bring a... more »- place hold (0)
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A rip through time2022
Summary: May 20, 2019: Homicide detective Mallory is in Edinburgh to be with her dying grandmother. While out on a jog one evening, Mallory hears a woman in distress. She's drawn to an alley, where she is... more »- place hold (0)
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A stranger in town : a Rockton novel2021
Summary: Detective Casey Duncan has noticed fewer and fewer residents coming in to the hidden town of Rockton, and no extensions being granted. Her boyfriend, Sheriff Eric Dalton, presumes it's the natural... more »- place hold (0)
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Watcher in the woods : a Rockton novel2019
Summary: "Watcher in the Woods is the next gripping installment of #1 bestselling Kelley Armstrong's riveting Casey Duncan series. The secret town of Rockton has seen some rocky times lately; understandable... more »- place hold (0)
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City of the lost2016
Summary: "Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret: when she was in college, she killed a man. She was never caught, but he was the grandson of a mobster and she knows this crime will catch up to... more »- place hold (0)
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A darkness absolute : a novel2017
Summary: "When experienced homicide detective Casey Duncan first moved to the secret town of Rockton, she expected a safe haven for people like her, people running from their past misdeeds and past lives. She... more »- place hold (0)
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This fallen prey : a Rockton novel2018
Summary: The off-the-grid town of Rockton is an isolated community in Canada, built as a haven for people running from their pasts. There's no cell phones, no internet, no mail, and no way of getting in or... more »- place hold (0)
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Among the dead : a Rachel Carver mystery2017
Summary: Former North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation agent Rachel Carver blames herself for the collateral death of an innocent woman in her last case. Unable to accept her superior's attempts to... more »- place hold (0)
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The fix2017
Summary: "Amos Decker witnesses a murder just outside FBI headquarters. A man shoots a woman execution-style on a crowded sidewalk, then turns the gun on himself. Even with Decker's extraordinary powers of... more »- place hold (0)
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Death in Brittany2016
Summary: Commissaire Georges Dupin, a Parisian-born caffeine junkie recently relocated from the glamour of Paris to the remote (if picturesque) Breton coast, is not happy when he is dragged from his morning... more »- place hold (0)
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The Fleur de Sel murders2019
Summary: The old salt farmers have always said that the violet scent of the Fleur de Sel at harvest time on the salt marshes of the Gǔrande Peninsula has been known to cause hallucinations. Commissaire... more »- place hold (0)
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The missing corpse2020
Summary: Along the picturesque Belon River, home of the world famous oyster beds, between steep cliffs, ominous forests and the Atlantic Ocean, a stubborn elderly film actress discovers a corpse. By the time... more »- place hold (0)
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Murder on Brittany shores2017
Summary: Ten miles off the coast of Brittany lie the fabled Glenan Islands. Boasting sparkling white sands and crystal clear waters, they seem perfectly idyllic, until one day in May three bodies wash up on... more »- place hold (0)
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When the devil doesn't show2013
Summary: "A housefire leads to the discovery of not just the bodies of the homeowners, but also a third, unidentified corpse. The search for the man's identity will lead Detective Gil Montoya not too far from... more »- place hold (0)
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Boar Island2016
Summary: "Anna Pigeon, in her career as a National Park Service Ranger, has had to deal with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors, but cyber-bullying and stalking is a new one. The target is Elizabeth, the... more »- place hold (0)
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Burn : an Anna Pigeon novel2010
Summary: "Anna Pigeon, a Ranger with the National Park Service...decides to go stay with an old friend from the Park Service, Geneva, who works as a singer at the New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park...it... more »- place hold (0)
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Destroyer angel2014
Summary: Anna Pigeon, a ranger for the U.S. Park Services, sets off on vacation--an autumn canoe trip in the Iron Range in upstate Minnesota. With Anna is her friend Heath, a paraplegic; Heath's... more »- place hold (0)
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The rope : an Anna Pigeon novel2012
Summary: "In The Rope, the latest in Nevada Barr's bestselling novels featuring Anna Pigeon, Nevada Barr gathers together the many strings of Anna's past and finally reveals the story that her many fans have... more »- place hold (0)
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Carved in bone2006
Summary: Investigation of the discovery of a woman's body, mummified after 30 years in a Tennessee cave, brings forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton of the Body Farm into conflict with inhabitants of a... more »- place hold (0)
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The pale blue eye : a novel2006
Summary: At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October evening is shattered by the discovery of a young cadet's body swinging from a rope. The next morning, an even greater horror comes to light.... more »- place hold (0)
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Death of a green-eyed monster2022
Summary: No one in Lochdubh expects Constable Dorothy McIver to stay long. She's used to a fancy lifestyle in the big city of Glasgow and seems entirely unsuited for a quiet life in the countryside. What's... more »- place hold (0)
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Death of a ghost2017
Summary: "When Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth hears reports of a haunted castle near Drim, he assumes the eerie noises and lights reported by the villagers are just local teenagers going there to smoke pot... more »- place hold (0)
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Death of a nurse2016
Summary: "The Hamish Macbeth series continues with a new mystery featuring Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman. James Harrison has recently moved to a restored hunting lodge in Sutherland... more »- place hold (0)
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Death of an honest man2018
Summary: Paul English moved to a house in Cnothan, a sour village on Hamish's beat. He attended church in Lochdubh, and told the minister, Mr. Wellington, that his sermons were boring. He told tweedy Mrs.... more »- place hold (0)
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The demands2012
Summary: Detective Tom Thorne is forced to re-consider an old case when a grieving father takes one of Thorne's colleagues hostage and demands to know the truth about how his son died in prison from the man who put him away.- place hold (0)
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The killing habit2018
Summary: "From "one of the most consistently entertaining, insightful crime writers working today" (Gillian Flynn), The Killing Habit again brings together favorite wild-card detective Tom Thorne and... more »- place hold (0)
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Talking to the dead : a novel2013
Summary: "At first, the murder scene appears sad, but not unusual: a young woman undone by drugs and prostitution, her six-year-old daughter dead alongside her. But then detectives find a strange piece of... more »- place hold (0)
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The owl always hunts at night2017
Summary: "The thrilling follow-up to Samuel Bjork's internationally bestselling I'm Traveling Alone, which The Wall Street Journal calls "tense and smartly constructed." When a troubled teenager disappears... more »- place hold (0)
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Close to the bone2014
Summary: Forensic scientist Theresa MacLean stumbles across a murder rather too close for comfort when she returns to the Medical Examiner's office following a late night call to find one deskman missing and... more »- place hold (0)
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Trace of evil2019
Summary: "There's something wicked in Burning Lake... Natalie Lockhart is a rookie detective in Burning Lake, New York, an isolated town known for its dark past. Tasked with uncovering the whereabouts of nine... more »- place hold (0)
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The wicked hour : a Natalie Lockhart novel2020
Summary: The day after Burning Lake's notorious, debauched Halloween celebration, Detective Natalie Lockhart uncovers a heartbreaking scene -- a young woman, dead and lying in a dumpster. There's no clue to... more »- place hold (0)
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