(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
1) Double take
Author
Series
Lake City heroes volume 1
Summary
"Detective James Holton has been honorably discharged from the Army Criminal Investigation Division. Now with the Lake City Police Department, he's rooming with his good buddy and partner, Cole. Physician assistant Lainie Jackson is eighteen months out from an attempted murder by her ex, which ended when she managed to grab the weapon and shoot him. When he appears to have survived and is back to finish the job, Lainie insists it's not possible. But...
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 39
Summary
LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis sees it all the time: Reinvention's a way of life in a city fueled by fantasy. But try as you might to erase the person you once were, there are those who will never forget the past . . . and who can still find you. A pool boy enters a secluded Bel Air property and discovers two bodies floating in the bright blue water: Gio Aggiunta, the playboy heir to an Italian shoe empire, and a gorgeous, even wealthier neighbor...
Author
Appears on these lists
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Asian American and Pacific Islander Reads
Best Books of 2023
Asian American and Pacific Islander Reads
Best Books of 2023
Summary
"We didn't call the police right away." Those are the electric first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing. Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything--which is why she isn't initially concerned when her father and younger brother Eugene don't return from a walk in a nearby...
Author
Summary
"Third Rail gets off to a ripping start and never lets off the gas. Rory Flynn is a suspense writer to watch."-Jess Walter, author of the best-selling Beautiful Ruins
Harvard-educated Eddy Harkness was a rising star in an elite Boston Police Department narcotics unit-until he was blamed for the death of a Red Sox fan in the chaotic aftermath of a World Series win. Scapegoated and exiled, Harkness now empties parking meters in the sleepy town...
Author
Series
Summary
When Marti MacAlister and her partner Matthew "Vik" Jessenovik respond to a report of skeletal remains found on a wooded piece of land, the pair has no idea it's just the first indication of a convoluted case of murder and conspiracy dating back hundreds of years. The skeleton turns out to be quite a mystery in itself, leading Native American groups and historians specializing in the Underground Railroad to flock to the site.
Unfortunately, for all...
6) Play to win
Author
Series
Risky business volume 3
Summary
PLAY FAIR . . . OR PLAY TO WIN?
Falling in love with polar-opposite men was an intoxicating ride that nearly ended Sage Reese's life. Now it's time for Sage to decide: Parker, the clean-cut, filthy-rich business magnate . . . or Ryker, the tough-as-nails undercover detective. Her choice? Neither. Because she can't stand the thought of coming between two brothers-in-arms finally trying to repair their friendship.
Yet not everyone feels the same way,...
7) Safe harbor
Author
Series
Summary
When he finds Nicole Harris cowering in a closet--a terrified witness to murder--Detective Alex Donovan's only priority is keeping the beautiful redhead alive. But Nicole is harboring a deep, dark secret--a childhood trauma that stops her from counting on anyone. Haunted by the violence in his own past, Alex knows he shouldn't get personally involved, but his own feelings blindside him. With a killer targeting Nicole as his next victim, Alex's toughest...
Author
Series
Berlin wartime thrillers volume 2
Summary
After the SS rules a doctor's mysterious death a suicide, the man's widow and Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke investigate while trying not to run afoul of the Gestapo.
Author
Series
Summary
Chicago detective Marti MacAlister has her work cut out for her these days. First, during the filming of a big Hollywood movie on location in Lincoln Prairie, the body of one of the film's stars turns up dead, along the shores of the Des Plaines River. Then, the skeletal remains of another gunshot victim turn up in a hundred year old building that is being renovated. The closer Marti comes to piecing the clues of each case, the closer they come to...
Author
Summary
"All Is Not Forgiven is the debut crime novel by Investigation Discovery star Joe Kenda, a former homicide detective, whose hit series Homicide Hunter and American Detective have been watched by as many as 3.8 million viewers in 186 countries. In this first novel, the rookie Det. Kenda investigates a 1975 case that begins with the murder of a beloved Colorado philanthropist and society figure whose husband, a gambler and womanizer, appears to have...
Author
Series
Summary
A fine rain was falling as Detective Marti MacAlister made her way through the tall grass to the wooded area where the arm had been found. It was cool for early September, and the rain, little more than a mist, felt cold. Marti stared at the hand. The fingers were curled in a beckoning gesture.
Eleanor Taylor Bland's popular African-American heroine, homicide detective Marti MacAlister, and her partner are assigned a most unusual case-all that's...
Author
Summary
Miami, 1981. Cocaine Central. Murder Capital, USA.
A city about to catch fire.
Detective Max Mingus and his partner, Joe Liston, are anticipating a routine murder investigation when they are called to the scene of death at Miami's Primate Park-until the victim's family is found slaughtered, and a partly digested tarot card, the King of Swords, is discovered in the victim's stomach.
A trail that's growing bloodier by the hour is leading Max and...
13) Perfect fling
Author
Series
Summary
"Assistant D.A. Erin Marsden is Serendipity's quintessential good girl. The only daughter of the ex-police chief, she has never made a misstep, content with her quiet, predictable life ... or so she thinks. Until Cole Sanders returns to town with heated interest in his eyes and shadows in his past. After seven years of deep under cover work in New York City, Cole returns to Serendipity to help his aging father and to find his moral compass once more....
14) Killer dolphin
Author
Series
Roderick Alleyn volume 24
Summary
London's chattering about a new playhouse and spreading theater gossip until a murder takes center-stage.
15) Wake to darkness
Author
Series
Summary
Drawing on an uncanny sense of perception and her experience with temporary blindness to achieve success as a self-help celebrity, Rachel struggles to maintain a professional relationship with Detective Mason Brown, with whom she investigates a series of murders at a snowbound resort.
16) The double human
Author
Series
Summary
Post-apocalypse Florida peace-keeper Tom goes undercover to outmaneuver a brutal serial murderer whose fifty-year killing spree has revealed his supernatural qualities as well as the bizarre characteristics of his victims.
18) Laws of wrath
Author
Series
Appears on list
Summary
"When the butchered body of a transgender woman is found in a dumpster, it's up to Detective Phee Freeman to solve the crime. But this case is personal. The victim is Freeman's sister. At first, the slaying looks like the random act of a vicious killer, but Freeman, his partner Quincy Cavanaugh, and FBI agent Janet Maclin soon discover this is something much more sinister. Similar ritualistic murders are taking place across the city. They're willing...
19) The secret
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novel volume 28
Summary
"1992. Eight respectable, upstanding people have been found dead across the US. These deaths look like accidents and don't appear to be connected. Until one body--the victim of a fatal fall from a hospital window--generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who promptly calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher is assigned as the Army's representative. Reacher may be an exceptional...
20) Scent of murder
Author
Summary
Two years after being tossed from the detective bureau for using questionable tactics while catching a child molester, deputy Tim Hallett's life is finally on track. Assigned to a special K-9 unit with the best partner in the world, a Belgian Malinois named Rocky, Hallett has finally learned to balance police work with his family life. But that all changes in the heat of a Florida sugarcane field.
