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Author
Series
Darktown novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Responding to orders from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers, including war veterans Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith. The newly minted policemen are met with deep hostility by their white peers: they aren't allowed to arrest white suspects, drive squad cars, or set foot in the police headquarters. When a black woman who was last seen in a car driven by a white man turns up dead, Boggs and Smith suspect...
Author
Series
Jerusalem mysteries volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"A murder plot seeded in the wild mountains of Ethiopia bears its poison fruit years later in modern Jerusalem as a serial killer targets a prominent Beta Israel family. Confronting racial politics, police corruption, and human trafficking, Israeli intelligence agent Maya Rimon tries to stop the killer before his double-edged blade finishes off the entire family. A refugee's discovery of a buried diary in a UN camp holds the key to solving a series...
Author
Series
42nd Street Library mystery volume 5
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
An invitation from a prestigious liberal arts college to buy their mystery-novel collection comes as a welcome surprise for Raymond Ambler, crime-fiction curator at New York City's prestigious 42nd Street Library. But his pleasure quickly turns sour when the collection's curator - Ambler's friend Sam Abernathy - tells him he plans to fight the acquisition tooth and nail. Why would Abernathy kill - and was it for his collection, for college politics,...
24) Body heat
Author
Series
Dept. 6 Hired guns volume 2
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
441 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The heat is on ... Twelve people have been shot at point-blank range and left to rot in the desert sun. It's Sophia St. Claire's job to do something about it. She's Bordertown, Arizona's new chief of police--and she's out of her depth. Help arrives in the form of Department 6 hired gun Roderick Guerrero. As far as Sophia's concerned, his involvement only makes things worse. Maybe he's managed to turn his life around. And maybe he's a good investigator....
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Here and Gone is a gripping, wonderfully tense suspense thriller about a mother's desperate fight to recover her stolen children from corrupt authorities. It begins with a woman fleeing through Arizona with her kids in tow, trying to escape an abusive marriage. When she's pulled over by an unsettling local sheriff, things soon go awry and she is taken into custody. Only when she gets to the station, her kids are gone. And then the cops start saying...
26) Long gone
Author
Series
Detective Annalisa Vega novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"Long Gone is the next thrilling installment in Joanna Schaffhausen's critically acclaimed Detective Annalisa Vega series. Chicago detective Annalisa Vega shattered her life, personally and professionally, when she turned in her ex-cop father for his role in a murder. Her family can't forgive her. Her fellow officers no longer trust her. So when detective Leo Hammond turns up dead in a bizarre murder, Annalisa thinks she has nothing to lose by investigating...
Author
Series
King Oliver novels volume 1
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Ten years after serving time at Rikers Island for assault, Joe King Oliver, an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to find out who on the police force wanted him out. He also agrees to help a radical black journalist accused of killing two on-duty police officers who had been abusing their badges to traffic in drugs and prostitutes in the city's poorest...
28) The burn
Author
Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"There's not much that can make Detective Betty Rhyzyk flinch. But her wounds are still fresh from an encounter with an apocalyptic cult known as The Family, and she's having trouble readjusting to life as it once was. She's back at work as a narcotics detective, but something isn't right -- at work, where someone has been assassinating confidential informants, or at home, where she struggles to connect with her loving wife, Jackie. To make matters...
29) Lady of bones
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"Carolyn Haines's Lady of Bones is the next novel in the series that Kirkus Reviews characterizes as "Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney. It's Halloween season in Mississippi as Sarah Booth and the gang gather to decorate and gush over Tinkie's new baby, Maylin. Sarah Booth is just about to refresh the cocktails when she hears a knock on the door and opens it to find a woman...
Author
Series
Underwater Investigation Unit volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Coming from scandalous Florida treasure hunters and drug smugglers, Sloan McPherson is forging her own path, for herself and for her daughter, out from under her family's shadow. An auxiliary officer for Lauderdale Shores PD, she's the go-to diver for evidence recovery. Then Sloan finds a fresh kill floating in a canal--a woman whose murky history collides with Sloan's. Their troubling ties are making Sloan less a potential witness than a suspect....
Author
Series
42nd Street Library mystery volume 4
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 229 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Hardboiled crime writer Will Ford might be critically acclaimed, but he's every bit as debauched and disreputable as the ne'er-do-well private eye in his novels. So when Ford offers Raymond Ambler - crime-fiction curator at New York City's prestigious 42nd Street Library - a collection of his papers, Ambler wonders if the project will be more trouble than it's worth. Still, the disgraced author is an important talent, and Ambler's never been afraid...
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Océano de México
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
Allí se sumerge en una relación apasionada con una mujer tormentosa, la cual lo impulsa a tomar las decisiones más arriesgadas. Un día presencia la caída y el hundimiento de una avioneta en un solitario paraje del río Paraguay. Al abordarla descubre que el piloto es un rico heredero y agoniza sin remedio. Entonces comienza su aventura más peligrosa: ¿debe dar parte a la justicia o aoiderarse de las pertenencias del piloto, incluyendo el...
33) One last kill
Author
Series
Tracy Crosswhite novels volume 10
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tracy Crosswhite is reopening the investigation into Seattle's Route 99 serial killer. After thirteen victims, he stopped hunting and the trail went cold, stirring public outrage. Now, nearly three decades after his first kill, Tracy is expected to finally bring closure to the victims' families and redeem the Seattle PD's reputation. Even if it means working with her nemesis, Captain Johnny Nolasco. Lead detective of the original task force, Nolasco...
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Atria paperback edition.
Physical Desc
436 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Making a Murderer meets Scandal in this story of police corruption, family secrets, and illicit affairs from bestselling author K.A. Tucker, celebrated for her "dark, twisty tale[s]" (Lisa Gardner) filled with "clever twists and turns" (Publishers Weekly). Noah Marshall has had a privileged life thanks to his mother, the highly decorated chief of the Austin Police Department. But all that changes the night she reveals a skeleton that's been rattling...
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Series
Language
English
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"John Rebus stands accused: on trial for a crime that could put him behind bars for the rest of his life. But what drove a good man to cross the line? Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke may well find out. Clarke is tasked with the city's most explosive case in years, an infamous cop, at the center of decades of misconduct, has gone missing. Finding him will expose not only her superiors, but her mentor John Rebus. And Rebus himself may not have her...
36) Head wounds
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Detective Clayton Istee investigates New Mexico borderland killings by an elusive Mexican assassin with ties to a drug cartel. In Michael McGarrity's final, propulsive Kevin Kerney novel, the nightmare of the Mexican drug wars spills across the border with the discovery of a couple in a Las Cruces hotel, scalped with their throats cut. Because of the unusual MO, Detective Clayton Istee suspects that the murders are drug related, but a lack of evidence...
37) The 17th suspect
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 17
Language
English
Description
A series of shootings exposes San Francisco to a methodical yet unpredictable killer, and a reluctant woman decides to put her trust in Sergeant Lindsay Boxer. The confidential informant's tip leads Lindsay to disturbing conclusions, including that something has gone horribly wrong inside the police department itself. The hunt for the killer lures Lindsay out of her jurisdiction, and gets inside her head in dangerous ways. She suffers unsettling medical...
38) The son: a novel
Author
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
401 p. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The author of the internationally best-selling Harry Hole series now gives us an electrifying stand-alone novel set amid Oslo's hierarchy of corruption, from which one very unusual young man is about to propel himself into a mission of brutal revenge.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First Pocket Books paperback edition.
Physical Desc
490 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Two minutes can be a lifetime. Ask anyone on the wrong side of the law about the two-minute rule and they'll tell you that's as long as you can hope for at a robbery before the cops show up. Break the two-minute rule and it's a lifetime in jail. But not everyone plays by the rules ..." "When ex-con Max Holman finally gets out of jail, freedom doesn't taste too sweet. The only thing on his mind is reconciliation with his estranged son, who is, ironically,...
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