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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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When the bones of a 12-year-old boy are found scattered in the Hollywood Hills, Harry Bosch is drawn into a case that brings up the darkest memories from his own haunted past. The bones have been buried for years, but the cold case doesn't deter Bosch. Unearthing hidden stories, he finds the child's identity and reconstructs his fractured life, determined that he not be forgotten. At the same time, a new love affair with a female cop begins to blossom...
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Series
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English
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Previously Hoag introduced millions of fans to Oak Knoll, a small California town that, in the mid-eighties, seemed idyllic until the See-No-Evil killer shattered that notion. It took FBI agent Vince Leone and a new technique called "profiling" to put an end to the trauma. Now, through Leone's pioneering science-based investigative skills, Hoag explores the early days of forensic police work.
Author
Series
Max Freeman mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Ex-Philadelphia cop Max Freeman now lives in a self-imposed exile on the edge of the Florida Everglades. Against his will, Max is pulled into a baffling string of child murders and his old police habits kick in
4) In the woods
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Series
Dublin Murder Squad novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Detective Rob Ryan and his partner, Cassie Maddox, investigate the murder of a 12-year-old girl near a Dublin suburb. The case resonates with similarities to a murder committed twenty years before that involved two children and the young Ryan.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2012, c2010
Language
English
Description
It's been only a few months since archaeologist Ruth Galloway found herself entangled in a missing persons case, barely escaping with her life. But when construction workers demolishing a large old house in Norwich uncover the bones of a child beneath a doorway—minus its skull—Ruth is once again called upon to investigate. Is it a Roman-era ritual sacrifice, or is the killer closer at hand?
Ruth and Detective Harry Nelson would
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The gripping tale of a boy gone missing in 1950s suburbs and of those whose lives are enveloped, tangled and changed by the mystery: the missing boy's sister, his best friend, and the divorced working mom who can't fit into the neighborhood.
7) 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
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Traces the investigation of reporter Carter Ross into the house fire deaths of two boys whose mother claims she was working two jobs to support them, a story that is thrown into dispute by a corrupt government program and the disappearance of the mother's boyfriend.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Near retirement after years of rescuing children, Alan Carmichael embarks on one last mission--to rescue a teenager from an abusive parent--but after the boy is safely hidden away, Alan begins to doubt his decision to intervene.
Author
Series
Paddy Meehan novels volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A neophyte journalist becomes intimately involved in her first assignment: a brutal murder. The explosive start of a new series by the author of the acclaimed Garnethill trilogy. Little Brian Wilcox's murder is the hottest story in Scotland. Every major newspaper crowds its pages with stories examining the crime from every angle. If only Paddy Meehan could get a scoop on the case. A nationally syndicated story would surely launch her fledgling journalism...
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Series
Harper Connelly mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2002
Language
English
Description
Everyone has a breaking point . . . "Probably no other suspense writer takes readers as deeply into the heart of darkness as Cook." -Chicago Tribune
There are no witnesses nor evidence to link him to the crime, but the police are sure that vagrant Albert Jay Smalls killed a child. Their interviews have led nowhere, but now-with a 6:00 a.m. deadline looming at which he must be released from custody-they will try one more interrogation. Detective...
14) The end game
Author
Series
Moriah Dru and Richard Lake novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Gilly Macmillan comes this original, chilling and twisty mystery about two shocking murder cases twenty years apart, and the threads that bind them.
Twenty years ago, eleven-year-olds Charlie Paige and Scott Ashby were murdered in the city of Bristol, their bodies dumped near a dog racing track. A man was convicted of the brutal crime, but decades later, questions still linger.
For his whole life, filmmaker...
18) Bonnie
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Series
Language
English
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"When Eve Duncan gave birth to her daughter, she experienced a love she never knew existed. Nothing would stand in the way of giving Bonnie a wonderful life, until the unthinkable happened and the seven-year-old vanished into thin air. Eve found herself in the throes of a nightmare from which there was no escape. But a new Eve emerged: a woman who would use her remarkable talent as a forensic sculptor to help others find closure in the face of tragedy....