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James Renner
(6,920)
Summary: When an eleven year old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That...
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Call #: 363.2336 REN
Location: Adult Displays - Face-out Shelving
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James Patterson
Series:
Murder Is Forever
(7,724)
Summary: Two true crime stories in one book. In Murder, Interrupted, rich, cheating financier Frank Howard wants his wife dead, and he is willing to pay Billie Earl Johnson whatever it takes. When his bullet...
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Call #: 364.1523 PAT
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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James Patterson (read by Jay Snyder )
Series:
Murder Is Forever
(7,736)
Summary: Two true crime stories in one book. In Murder, Interrupted, rich, cheating financier Frank Howard wants his wife dead, and he is willing to pay Billie Earl Johnson whatever it takes. When his bullet...
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Call #: CD BOOK 364.1523 PAT
Location: Adult CD Books Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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James Patterson
Series:
Murder Is Forever
(6,085)
Summary: Two true crime thrillers that inspired the Investigation Discovery series. In Home Sweet Murder, lawyer Leo Fisher and his wife Sue are a sixty-one-year-old couple enjoying a quiet Sunday dinner at...
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Call #: 364.1523 PAT
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
James Patterson (read by Peter Ganim)
Series:
Murder Is Forever - #2
(6,090)
Summary: Two true crime thrillers that inspired the Investigation Discovery series. In Home Sweet Murder, lawyer Leo Fisher and his wife Sue are a sixty-one-year-old couple enjoying a quiet Sunday dinner at...
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Call #: CD BOOK 364.1523 PAT
Location: Adult CD Books Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Melissa Del Bosque
(694)
Summary: Drugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead he's deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Then,...
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Melissa Del Bosque
(693)
Summary: Drugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead he's deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Then,...
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Call #: 364.177 DEL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Bill James
(7,181)
Summary: Using unprecedented, dramatically compelling sleuthing techniques, legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applies his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery...
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Call #: 364.1523 JAM
Location: Adult Displays - Face-out Shelving
copies in: 1 of 1
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Bill James
(7,197)
Summary: Using unprecedented, dramatically compelling sleuthing techniques, legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applies his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery...
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Bill James
Summary: Using unprecedented, dramatically compelling sleuthing techniques, legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applies his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery...
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by
Michelle McNamara
(215,229)
Summary: A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer-- the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade-- from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who...
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Michelle McNamara
Summary: A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer-- the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade-- from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK 364.1532 MCN
Location: Adult CD Books Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Michelle McNamara
(215,474)
Summary: A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer-- the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade-- from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who...
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by
Sarah Weinman
(6,124)
Summary: In 1948, Sally Horner was just eleven years old when she was kidnapped by a man claiming to be an FBI agent. Seven years later, Vladimir Nabokov published Lolita, perhaps the most seminal novel of...
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Call #: 362.88 WEI
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
James Patterson
(4,798)
Summary: True-crime thrillers as seen on Discovery's Murder Is Forever TV series. In Murder beyond the Grave, wealthy Stephen Small is held for ransom, buried in a box, with just forty-eight hours of oxygen....
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by
T. Christian Miller
(7,486)
Summary: On August 11, 2008, eighteen-year-old Marie reported that a masked man broke into her apartment near Seattle, Washington, and raped her. Within days police and even those closest to Marie became...
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Call #: 364.1532 MIL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
T. Christian Miller
(7,530)
Summary: On August 11, 2008, eighteen-year-old Marie reported that a masked man broke into her apartment near Seattle, Washington, and raped her. Within days police and even those closest to Marie became...
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by
Kate Winkler Dawson
(3,135)
Summary: In winter 1952, London automobiles and thousands of coal-burning hearths belched particulate matter into the air. But the smog that descended on December 5th of 1952 was different; it was a type that...
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Call #: 364.1523 DAW
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Kate Winkler Dawson
(3,089)
Summary: In winter 1952, London automobiles and thousands of coal-burning hearths belched particulate matter into the air. But the smog that descended on December 5th of 1952 was different; it was a type that...
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by
James Patterson
(3,771)
Summary: In the first story, Kathi Spiars can't believe she's found such a good man to marry as Stephen Marcum. Twelve years later, she starts to suspect that he isn't who he says he is. As she digs into his...
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Call #: 364.1523 PAT
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
James Patterson
Summary: Everyone thought they knew Aaron Hernandez. He was an NFL star who made the game of football look easy. Until he became the prime suspect in a gruesome murder. Rich with in-depth, on-the-ground...
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James Patterson
(10,581)
Summary: Everyone thought they knew Aaron Hernandez. He was an NFL star who made the game of football look easy. Until he became the prime suspect in a gruesome murder. Rich with in-depth, on-the-ground...
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Call #: 364.1523 PAT
Location: Adult Displays - Face-out Shelving
copies in: 1 of 1
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James Patterson (read by Alex Abramovich )
(10,568)
Summary: Everyone thought they knew Aaron Hernandez. He was an NFL star who made the game of football look easy. Until he became the prime suspect in a gruesome murder. Rich with in-depth, on-the-ground...
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Call #: CD BOOK 364.1523 PAT
Location: Adult CD Books Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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James Patterson
(10,622)
Summary: Everyone thought they knew Aaron Hernandez. He was an NFL star who made the game of football look easy. Until he became the prime suspect in a gruesome murder. Rich with in-depth, on-the-ground...
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by
Lee Israel
(3,935)
Summary: Before turning to her life of crime -- running a one-woman forgery business out of a phone booth in a Greenwich Village bar and even dodging the FBI, Lee Israel had a legitimate career as an author...
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Call #: 364.163 ISR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Stephan Talty
(1,994)
Summary: Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave filled New York City, and then the entire country, with fear. The children of Italian immigrants were kidnapped and dozens of innocent victims...
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Stephan Talty
(1,988)
Summary: Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave filled New York City, and then the entire country, with fear. The children of Italian immigrants were kidnapped and dozens of innocent victims...
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Call #: 364.106 TAL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Jake Bernstein
(1,168)
Summary: A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale. Jake Bernstein offers a...
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Call #: 364.168 BER
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
David Grann
(189,911)
Summary: In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built...
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Call #: 364.1523 GRA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Del Quentin Wilber
(645)
Summary: "February 2013 was a good month for murder in suburban Washington, D.C. After gaining unparalleled access to the homicide unit in Prince George's County, which borders the nation's capital, Del...
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Call #: 363.25 WIL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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David Grann
(188,080)
Summary: In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built...
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Call #: BK CLUB 364.1523 GRA
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 18
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by
Tyler Wetherall
(651)
Summary: Tyler had lived in fifteen houses and five countries by the time she was nine. She didn't think this was strange until Scotland Yard showed up in her bucolic English village, and she discovered her...
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Call #: B WETHERALL
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Peter Schweizer
(1,384)
Summary: Peter Schweizer has been fighting corruption -- and winning -- for years. In past books, he exposed insider trading by members of Congress, uncovered how politicians use mafia-like tactics to enrich...
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Call #: 364.1323 SCH
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Peter Schweizer
Summary: Peter Schweizer has been fighting corruption -- and winning -- for years. In past books, he exposed insider trading by members of Congress, uncovered how politicians use mafia-like tactics to enrich...
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Call #: CD BOOK 364.1323 SCH
Location: Adult CD Books Nonfiction
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by
John Ferak
(588)
Summary: In 2016-2017, while working for the USA Today network's Wisconsin investigative team, author John Ferak wrote dozens of articles examining the murder case again Steven Avery, who had already beat one...
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Call #: 364.1523 FER
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jennifer Wright
(1,503)
Summary: In every tragic story, men are expected to be the killers. There are countless studies and works of art made about male violence. However, when women are featured in stories about murder, they are...
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Call #: 364.1523 WRI
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Patrick Radden Keefe
(8,928)
Summary: Patrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the Orwell Prize to the National Book Critics Circle Award for his meticulously-reported, hypnotically-engaging...
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Call #: 364.163 KEE
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Katherine Dykstra
(733)
Summary: In July 1970, eighteen-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling left her house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and never returned. Four months later, her remains were discovered just beyond the mouth of a culvert...
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Call #: 364.1523 DYK 2021 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Dashka Slater
(31,258)
Summary: One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school...
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Call #: 364.155 SLA YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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