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41) Enemy Within
Author
Series
Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi thrillers volume 13
Publisher
Pocket Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
NYC chief assistant district attorney Butch Karp faces a difficult case when a serial killer begins stalking the homeless, a situation that is complicated when his daughter volunteers at the shelters where the murders are occurring.
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 11
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, Lindsay Boxer discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the death of four of San Francisco's most untouchable criminals. And it was taken from her own department's evidence locker.
Author
Series
Callahan Garrity mysteries volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"When Callahan was an Atlanta cop, her partner, Bucky, was a stand-up guy, and he and Callahan have remained the best of pals. Now Bucky needs a date for the annual St. Paddy's Day bash, and Callahan grudgingly goes along. With Mac, her longtime beau, talking about a possible move to Nashville, she's in need of a fun night out. What she gets instead is the shock of her life." "On the way home, Bucky is shot in what looks like a liquor-store holdup...
44) Beyond the law
Author
Series
Hardy boys casefiles volume 55
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Summary: When the veteran Bayport police chief is accused of bribery and attempted murder, the Hardys investigate to clear his name and uncover a thirty-five-year-old police cover-up.
Author
Series
Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi thrillers volume 13
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Author
Series
Second L. A. quartet volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
January, 1942. War has been declared and the Japanese internment is in full swing. Los Angeles is gripped by war fever and racial hatred. Sergeant Dudley Smith of the Los Angeles Police Department is now Army Captain Smith and a budding war profiteer. He's shacked up with Claire De Haven in Baja, Mexico, and spends his time sniffing out fifth column elements and hunting down a missing Japanese Naval Attache. Hideo Ashida is cashing LAPD paychecks...
47) The judgment
Author
Series
Charley Sloan legal thrillers volume 3
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charley Sloan must face some tough decisions which could destroy his career and love interest when he investigates a case of police corruption and tries to uncover a serial killer's identity.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Kara Quinn is back in Los Angeles to testify against a notorious human trafficker, finally moving past the case that upended her life. But when the accused is shot in broad daylight, the chaotic scene of the crime turns up few reliable bystanders. And one witness, a whistleblower who might be the key to everything, has disappeared. After another person close to the case is killed, it's clear that anyone who knows too much is in danger, and...
49) Payback: a novel
Author
Series
Tank Rizzo novels volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Payback is personal for a former NYPD detective taking on a corrupt cop and a dirty accounting firm in this adrenaline-laced thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sleepers and Tin Badges. If there's one kind of person Tank Rizzo hates most in this world, it's a dirty cop. Criminals are at least honest about being dishonest; dirty cops are a disgrace to the badge they carry. Detective Eddie Kenwood is one such disgrace. He's got...
50) Cold threat
Author
Series
Ellie Kline volume 3
Publisher
[Mary Stone]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Ellie Kline is compiling a mountain of evidence about a dirty detective, but as the anniversary of her escape from a serial killer nears, she may be in danger from many sides.
51) Lakeview Terrace
Author
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
An LAPD officer will stop at nothing to force out the interracial couple who just moved in next door.
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Making a Murderer meets Scandal in this story of police corruption, family secrets, and illicit affairs from bestselling author K.A. Tucker, celebrated for her "dark, twisty tale[s]" (Lisa Gardner) filled with "clever twists and turns" (Publishers Weekly). Noah Marshall has had a privileged life thanks to his mother, the highly decorated chief of the Austin Police Department. But all that changes the night she reveals a skeleton that's been rattling...
Author
Series
Ezekiel Flagg volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Zeke Smith is a drifter, a former bounty hunter, army scout, and lawman trying to escape from, and make up for, his violent and passionate past. Along his journey of self-imposed penance and exile, he aids others in difficulty wherever he stops and stays. Arriving in the quiet Arizona town of Pleasant Grove, he discovers that the town does not live up to its name. A corrupt marshal and his criminal deputies run roughshod and unchecked over the citizens...
Author
Series
King Oliver novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators, until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is framed for assault by his enemies within the NYPD, a charge which lands him in solitary at Rikers Island.A decade later, King is a private detective, running his agency with the help of his teenage daughter, Aja-Denise. Broken by the brutality he suffered and committed in equal measure while behind bars, his work and his daughter...
55) The whistlers
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Romanian
Description
Not everything is as it seems for Cristi, a police inspector in Bucharest who plays both sides of the law. Embarking with the beautiful Gilda on a high-stakes heist, both will have to navigate the twists and turns of corruption, treachery and deception. A trip to the Canary Islands to learn a secret whistling language might just be what they need to pull it off
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An invitation from a prestigious liberal arts college to buy their mystery-novel collection comes as a welcome surprise for Raymond Ambler, crime-fiction curator at New York City's prestigious 42nd Street Library. But his pleasure quickly turns sour when the collection's curator - Ambler's friend Sam Abernathy - tells him he plans to fight the acquisition tooth and nail. Why would Abernathy kill - and was it for his collection, for college politics,...
58) Public enemy #1
Author
Series
Public Enemy volume 1
Publisher
DAFINA, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Hired to investigate the so-called suicide of a disgraced narcotics detective, Khloe Mercer, determined to make a name for herself, turns the toughest streets of Norfolk, Virginia, upside-down to uncover the truth, placing her life in the crosshairs.
Author
Series
The Crocketts' western saga volume 1
Publisher
Wolfpack Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Will Crockett and his brother Gid go from card players to bar owners when the winning poker pot includes the deed to a Belle Springs saloon. But Belle Springs is run by a crooked sheriff who is determined to get his special sheriff's tax."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
New Orleans, 1967. A Texas Ranger, a string of murders, a leaky DA's office, cops and pimps in each others' pockets, and a missing blues singer. In New Orleans, Texas Ranger John Q is out of his jurisdiction and possibly out of his depth. Every time he asks questions there's trouble: from the pharmacist to the detective running scared to the pimp who turned to him as a last resort. Suddenly, John Q himself is looking like the only link between a series...