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Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 5
Language
English
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Description
"Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough--who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974. Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are...
2) The reaper
Author
Language
English
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Description
Otis Joy, the popular and handsome young rector of St. Bartholomew's Church in Oxford, England, is accused of embezzling church funds and ordered to resign, but only until the bishop who accuses him commits suicide, followed by another death, and then another.
Author
Publisher
Summersdale
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
"Recently-discovered archive photographs of the Ripper's victims, together with atmospheric images of the crime scenes as they are today, make this book utterly compelling and an essential companion to the most famous serial murders in history"--Cover.
5) The shadows
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"The haunting new thriller from Alex North, author of the New York Times bestseller The Whisper Man You knew a teenager like Charlie Crabtree. A dark imagination, a sinister smile--always on the outside of the group. Some part of you suspected he might be capable of doing something awful. Twenty-five years ago, Crabtree did just that, committing a murder so shocking that it's attracted that strange kind of infamy that only exists on the darkest corners...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Whisper Man and The Shadows comes a dark, suspenseful new thriller about the mysteries of fate, the unbreakable bond of siblings, and a notorious serial killer who was said to know the future. Growing up in a beautiful house in the English countryside, Katie Shaw lived a charmed life. At the cusp of graduation, she had big dreams, a devoted boyfriend, and a little brother she protected fiercely. Until...
Author
Series
Good girl's guide to murder volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"Pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by the way her last investigation ended. She's used to online death threats in the wake of her viral true-crime podcast, but she can't help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her: Who will look for you when you're the one who disappears? Soon the threats escalate and Pip realizes that someone is following her in real life. When she starts to find connections between her stalker...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
A journalist recounts his own journey to come to terms with his brother's terrible crimes of sexual violence against women and to find justice for the 15-year-old girl he kidnapped and murdered.
Author
Series
Good girl's guide to murder volume 3
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pippa Fitz-Amobi is haunted by the two murder cases she solved, by the victims, by the attention her crime podcast garnered, and by the survivors, which is bad enough--but then it starts to feel like someone is watching her.
Author
Series
Tony Hill and Carol Jordan mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
Forensic profiler Dr. Tony Hill is called in to track a vicious killer across northern Europe, a case that he takes on when the next victim is an old friend and that is soon complicated by his former partner, Detective Carol Jordan.
12) Revelation
Author
Series
Matthew Shardlake novels volume 4
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The first three Shardlake mysteries have won over critics and readers alike. In Revelation, Sansom's newest book in the series, the year is 1543 and King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, a woman sympathetic to reform, whom he wants for his sixth wife--much to the dismay of Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court. Meanwhile, Matthew Shardlake is working to defend a teenage boy, a religious fanatic who is being held...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Over the years there have been several unsolved, apparently motiveless murders in the town of Kingsmarkham, and Wexford (as a young policeman) quietly suspected that the increasingly prosperous Targo -- van driver, property developer, kennel owner, and animal lover -- was behind them. Now, half a lifetime later, Inspector Wexford spots Targo back in Kingsmarkham after a long absence.
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...
15) Jane Steele
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Description
"A sensitive orphan, Jane Steele suffers first at the hands of her spiteful aunt and predatory cousin, then at a grim school where she fights for her very life until escaping to London, leaving the corpses of her tormentors behind her. After years of hiding from the law while penning macabre "last confessions" of the recently hanged, Jane thrills at discovering an advertisement. Her aunt has died and her childhood home has a new master: Mr. Charles...
16) Cold blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Bookouture, an imprint of StoryFire Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The suitcase was badly rusted, and took Erika several attempts, but it yielded and sagged open as she unzipped it. Nothing could prepare her for what she would find inside... When a battered suitcase containing the dismembered body of a young man washes up on the shore of the river Thames, Detective Erika Foster is shocked. Shes worked on some terrifying cases but never seen anything like this before. As Erika and her team set to work, she makes the...
17) The good doctor
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Fifty-five-year-old Dr. Harold "Fred" Shipman has a noble dedication to his profession, winning the trust of his patients with ingratiating charm and an old-school bedside manner. In fact, he even made house calls--but his unsuspecting patients has no idea of the evil that lurked behind the friendly facade of the kindly doctor. After thirty years of practice, Dr. Shipman's true nature was finally expoosed--that of a calculating killer who delivered...
18) Dark Angel
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A cold blooded Victorian serial killer kills three husbands and eleven children. Based on a true story, she was eventually caught and hung for her crimes in 1873.
19) Normal
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A seemingly mild-mannered, neighborly man who kidnaps young women and holds them in a cage in his basement meets a grocery store checkout girl who becomes his ultimate target before he intends to cease his violent activities.
20) The lantern men
Author
Series
Ruth Galloway mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway changed her life--until a convicted killer tells her that four of his victims were never found, drawing her back to the place she left behind"--