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1) The Outsider
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories. An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective...
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Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Tribal Lighthorse policeman Bill Maytubby and county deputy Hannah Bond discover a body in a remote area of Oklahoma, and set out to investigate her murder and recreate her last days. Maytubby and Bond crisscross Oklahoma, meeting a myriad of characters and suspects. Maytubby travels to Louisiana, and uncovers a potential conspiracy. He and Bond eventually reunite in the Chickasaw Nation for a final face-off at Nail's Crossing.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
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 mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more...
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Badly wounded and estranged from his partner and love interest, Anna Turnipseed, Emmett Parker has come home. After thirteen years of federal law enforcement assignments that took him to every Indian nation but his own, the veteran investigator for the Bureau of Indian Affairs has finally arrived in Oklahoma on convalescent leave. At once a son of the Nuhmuhnuh ("the People," as the Comanche call themselves) and a government investigator, he has ties...
Author
Series
Dust Bowl mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Kaylie Jones Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Already suffering the privations of the 1930s Dust Bowl, an Oklahoma town is further devastated when a passenger train derails, flooding its hospital with the dead and maimed. Among the seriously wounded is Etha, wife of Sheriff Temple Jennings. Overwhelmed by worry for her, the sheriff must regain his footing to investigate the derailment, which rapidly develops into a case of sabotage. The following night, a local recluse is murdered. Temple has...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"When Rowan finds a skeleton on her family's property, investigating the brutal, century-old murder leads to painful discoveries about the past. Alternating chapters tell the story of William, another teen grappling with the racial firestorm leading up to the 1921 Tulsa race riot, providing some clues to the mystery"--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In May 1934, outside of Hugo, Oklahoma, a homeless man and his thirteen-year-old daughter are befreinded by a charasmitic drifter, newly released from the frderal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. The drifter, Clint Palmer, lures father and daughter to Texas, where the father Dillard Garrett, mysteriously disappears, and where his daugher, Lucile, begins a one-year ordeal in captivity, traversing the American West on a crime and killing spree that...
Author
Publisher
RoadRunner Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When a burglary goes bad, the end result is not one but two men dead. Gayla Early knows who did the first murder but now she's wanted for the second ... and it turns out her supposed victim is the most powerful man in town, the same man she blames for the first murder and for holding her hostage for two years. Albert Raeder may be dead, but he wields power from the grave thanks to the good old boys he left behind. His buddies want someone to pay for...
Author
Publisher
RoadRunner Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
From the dust jacket. Revisit six Oklahoma cases that remain the talk of the courtroom... Oklahoma has had more than its share of sensational legal battles, but for the first ime in one volume, attorney and historian Kent Frates reveals the facts behind six cases that helped shape the history of the state. From bloody murders, to political scandal, to an act of domestic terrorism, Oklahoma's Most Notorious Cases captures the stories, the times, and...
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Language
English
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Description
When Lucy Moon learns of her mama's murder, she cuts short her honeymoon and returns to the Pistol Barrel of Oklahoma with her new husband in tow. It's a wild and raucous land full of the kind of gunfighters, backshooters, gamblers and pimps who could have shot Belle out of the saddle. Determined to get revenge by whatever means necessary, Lucy never counted on being seduced by the mysterious half-breed Red Dog -- who just might have been the assassin....
11) Letter from home
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In small-town Oklahoma in the summer of 1944, a young reporter investigates the murder of her acquaintance.
12) The fire carrier
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
In Oklahoma's Cherokee county, police chief Bushyhead investigates the death of the director of a center for rehabilitating drug addicts. A murder mystery, as well as a look at Cherokee life and customs. By the author of Ghostland.
13) Dead last
Author
Series
Thorn novels volume 12
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011, c2012
Language
English
Description
Thorn must confront an assassin whose victims and methods are taken directly from the script of a popular TV show and pits Thorn against a killer--or killers--whose motives are as elusive as their identities. The killings take place in Miami, where Thorn joins forces with a young policewoman from Oklahoma who is investigating the murders.
Author
Series
Simms and Fennimore novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Kate Simms is in the United States on sabbatical with St Louis PD. She is working with a 'method swap' team, reviewing cold cases, sharing expertise. Forensic expert Professor Nick Fennimore also happens to be in the States on a book tour and is engineering his trip to get down to St Louis--the last thing Simms wants . . . But a call for help from a sheriff's deputy in Oklahoma distracts the professor: a mother dead, her...
Author
Series
Searchers volume 1
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"At the reading of her father's will, Maria Slade receives shocking news--as a four-year-old, she'd witnessed her prostitute mother's murder and been taken into hiding by the well-meaning preacher who'd raised her as his own. Maria remembers none of that. But now she's determined to flush her mother's killer out of hiding and discover the identity of her birth father. She heads to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she meets Detective Bodie Scott. Empathizing...
16) The yard dog
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Set in Oklahoma during World War II. When Spark Dugan, a "coal picker," is found dead in the rail yards that are close to a Nazi POW camp, local detective Hook Runyon decides Dugan's death is murder. He begins an investigation that quickly becomes dangerous, and little is as it first seems.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The stranger-than-fiction cold case from rural Oklahoma that has stumped authorities for two decades, concerning the disappearance of two teenage girls and the much larger mystery of murder, police cover-up, and an unimaginable truth... On December 30, 1999, in rural Oklahoma, sixteen-year-old Ashley Freeman and her best friend, Lauria Bible, were having a sleepover. The next morning, the Freeman family trailer was in flames and both girls were missing....
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Language
English
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No one called her Mud in Silicon Valley. There, she was Mae, a high-powered professional who had left her Kiowa roots behind a decade ago. But a cryptic voice message from her grandfather, James Sawpole, telling her to come home sounds so wrong that she catches the next plane to Oklahoma. She never expected to be plunged into a web of theft, betrayal, and murder. Mud discovers a tribe in disarray. Fracking is damaging their ancestral lands, Kiowa...
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Series
Bailey Ruth mysteries volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In her toughest case yet, Bailey Ruth, the irrepressible ghost sleuth, returns to earth to protect Kay Clark, a former Adelaide, Okla., acquaintance, from danger -- and discover who killed Kay's husband.
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Series
Faye Longchamp archaeological mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A woman waits under five feet of dirt-a woman who is by now nothing but bones stained the deep red of Oklahoma clay. A delicate silver necklace, a handful of ancient pearls, and a priceless figurine rest with her. Twenty-nine years is a long time to wait for a proper burial. Faye Longchamp-Mantooth, who runs a small and shakily financed archaeological consulting firm with her husband, Joe, has come to Sylacauga so she and Joe can join his father,...