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Author
Series
Vanished volume s 3 & 4
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Jessica Mastriani, after emerging from a thunderstorm with psychic ability, searches for the killer of a popular cheerleader and works with a government agent to locate a missing child, believed to have been taken by a backwoods militia.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things. Our Queen of Twists, bestselling author of Daisy Darker and Rock Paper Scissors Alice Feeney, returns with another thrilling mystery filled with drama and her trademark surprises. Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth. Edith...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In turn-of-the-20th-century London, aristocratic gay sleuth Colin Pendragon and his partner Ethan Pruitt try to solve the murder of Lady Arnifour's husband, as well as the disappearance of a street urchin's sister.
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"A crime wave has hit town. The target is a highly sought-after brand of street wear called Hybrid X, clothing that costs a fortune and resells for unbelievable prices. Houses are burgled, kids mugged on the streets . . . and finally a young man dies, all for the sake of his shoes."--Back cover.
Author
Series
Detective Kay Sharp volume 5
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Kay Sharp investigates when ex-husband Brian is accused of murdering her former best friend, Rachel, and discovers the woman's eight-year-old daughter is missing" --
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this dark, suspenseful thriller, Alex North weaves a multi-generational tale of a father and son caught in the crosshairs of an investigation to catch a serial killer preying on a small town. After the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and his young son Jake heal. A new beginning, a new house, a new town. Featherbank. But the town has a dark past. Twenty years ago, a serial killer abducted and murdered...
Author
Series
Annika Bengtzon novels volume 7
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"David Lindholm is found naked on his bed with bullets through his head and stomach. All the homicidal evidence points in the direction of his wife Julia. Julia, who is suffering from shock and trauma, rambles on about a woman who she claims entered the house, killed her husband, and ran off with her son. When journalist Annika Bengtzon is assigned to the case, she must work against the clock to clear Julia's name and find the missing child, before...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway uncovers the bones of a Victorian murderess while a baby snatcher threatens modern-day Norfolk in this exciting new entry in a beloved series. Every year a ceremony is held in Norwich for the bodies in the paupers' graves: the Service for the Outcast Dead. Ruth has a particular interest in this year's proceedings. Her recent dig at Norwich Castle turned up the body of the notorious Mother Hook, who was hanged...
10) The stranger
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Detective Patrik Hedstr�om tackles his toughest investigation yet when a string of suspicious deaths points to a potential serial killer who has turned his eye toward Fjallbacka and her dark forests, where two children vanished decades before.
Author
Series
Ash Henderson novels volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Detective Constable Ash Henderson has a dark secret. Five years ago his daughter, Rebecca, disappeared on the eve of her thirteenth birthday. A year later the first card arrived: homemade, with a Polaroid stuck to the front. Rebecca, strapped to chair, gagged and terrified. Every year another card-- each one worse than the last. The tabloids call him 'The Birthday Boy.' He's been snatching girls for years, always just before their thirteenth birthday,...
12) Cry baby
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1996, two boys run from a playground into the adjoining woods, but only one comes out. DS Tom Thorne takes on a case that quickly spirals out of control when two people connected with the missing boy are murdered. As London prepares to host the European soccer championships, Thorne fights to keep on top of a baffling investigation while also dealing with the ugly fallout of his broken marriage. A prequel to Billingham's acclaimed...
13) Blood Harvest
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Something isn't quite right in Heptonclough, including the mysterious accidental deaths of three toddlers over the last ten years. It is not until Tom Fletcher's siblings, two-year-old Milly and five-year-old Joe Fletcher, go missing in turn that the little village's evil secret turns his family's dreams of an English paradise into a nightmare.
15) The mistake
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Billy goes missing one day, out flying his kite with his sister Rose. Two days later, he is found dead. Sixteen years later, Rose still blames herself for Billy's death. Rose has never fully recovered from the trauma, and one of the few people she trusts is her neighbor Ronnie, who she has known all her life. But one day Ronnie falls ill, and Rose goes next door to help him. What she finds in his attic room turns her world upside down....
16) Dead stop
Author
Series
Sydney Rose Parnell novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The search for a missing child leads a courageous railway cop down a twisted trail of murder. It's been five months since Special Agent Sydney Parnell survived a violent confrontation with a gang of brutal thugs, an encounter that left her physically and emotionally scarred. Deep down, Sydney fears she isn't ready for another investigation. But when a woman is murdered on the train tracks and a child goes missing, she knows she's the only one who...
Author
Series
Detective Kay Sharp volume 3
Publisher
Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a sleepy mountain town a widowed mother is brutally killed in front of her three daughters, and the oldest, a 16-year-old, is missing. Three suitcases found in the hallway make it clear that the family was about to run away. Who were they trying to escape? Turning the town upside down, Detective Kay Sharp discovers that it is home to a serial killer who preys on helpless girls.
18) Cut and run
Author
Series
Lucy Kincaid thrillers volume 16
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid is dead-set on solving a cold case, even if the original investigators stonewall her every step of the way. A violent storm has uncovered the remains of a family that authorities assumed fled the country years ago to avoid prosecution. But the body of the youngest Albright son never turned up. If the child is dead, why wasn't his body found with his parents? If he's alive, where has he been, and what does he know? Now Lucy and...
19) The burn palace
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a Rhode Island nurse discovers that an infant left in her charge has been abducted, detective Woody Potter embarks on a case with ties to a dead insurance investigator, a local Wiccan sect, a yoga center, and a funeral director.
20) The creeping
Author
Publisher
SSBFYR
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Stella has no recollection of the day her best friend disappeared while the two, then six, were picking strawberries, until the corpse of a similar girl turns up and Stella not only begins to remember, she learns that something dark has been at work in their little town for generations."--provided by publisher.