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Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"These are the true confessions of an assassin. Martin Corona started out life seemingly as American as a midcentury American kid could be. He was the son of a US marine, bouncing from one warm beach base to another. But the combination of an abusive father, ill-advised medication, and some bad choices before he was even a teenager led him into a brutal, murderous outlaw life. In and out of prison, Corona, aka 'Nite Owl,' soon came into contact with...
Author
Series
City blues volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
483 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Chicago, 1928. In the stifling summer heat three disturbing events take place. A clique of city leaders is poisoned in a fancy hotel. A white gangster is found mutilated in an alleyway in the Blackbelt. And a famous heiress vanishes without a trace. Pinkerton detectives Michael Talbot and Ida Davis are hired to find the missing heiress by the girl's troubled mother. But it proves harder than expected to find a face that is known across the city, and...
Author
Series
Dead Kid Detective Agency volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
318 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
13-year-old October Schwartz is new in town, short on friends and the child of a clinically depressed science teacher. She spends most of her time in the Sticksville Cemetery, which borders her back garden, and just happens to be the home of five dead teenagers, each from a different era of the past. Soon October befriends the five kids and together, using October's smarts and the dead kids' ability to walk through walls, they form The Dead Kid Detective...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Revisits the much-publicized case of Matthew Shepard, the young man tortured and killed in 1998 in Laramie, Wyoming for being gay. Family and friends recount Shepard's life and the circumstances surrounding his murder.
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
358 pages
Language
English
Description
This book is about Ron Goldman and the members of his blended family. Family members provide a wrenching account, in their own words, of the ripple effect that occurs when a beloved son and brother is murdered, and the extra burdens that develop when grief becomes a public spectacle.
686) Celebrity cases
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes criminal cases involving celebrities and the investigations surrounding the crimes, including such high profile personalities as O.J. Simpson, Martha Stewart, and Anna Nicole Smith.
687) Another man's ground
Author
Series
Sheriff Hank Worth mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It starts out as an interesting little theft case. Branson, Missouri's new Sheriff Hank Worth is called out to look at stands of trees that have been stripped of their bark, which the property owner had planned to harvest for the booming herbal supplement market. At first, Hank easily balances the demands of the investigation with his fledging political career. He was appointed several months earlier to the vacant sheriff position, but he needs to...
688) Indian burial ground
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A man lunges in front of a car. An elderly woman silently drowns herself. A corpse sits up in its coffin and speaks. On this reservation, not all is what it seems, in this new spine-chilling mythological horror from the author of Sisters of the Lost Nation. All Noemi Broussard wanted was a fresh start. With a new boyfriend who actually treats her right and a plan to move from the reservation she grew up on-just like her beloved Uncle Louie before...
689) Falso testigo
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
500 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Leigh Collier ha trabajado duro para construir lo que parece una vida normal. Ella es una abogada defensora prometedora en un prestigioso bufete de abogados en Atlanta, haría cualquier cosa por su hija Maddy, de dieciséis años, y se las está arreglando para ser una madre exitosa en una pandemia después de una separación amistosa de su esposo Walter. ero la vida cotidiana de Leigh enmascara una infancia que nadie debería tener que soportar...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
x, 287 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes how Jeannie and Kevin McDonough become heroes after saving their daughter from Adam Leroy Lane, a long-haul trucker and serial killer, and how they vowed to make sure that Lane's other victims were never forgotten.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
x, 306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Coors family's gilded American dream turned into a nightmare when a meticulously plotted kidnapping went horribly wrong. In the 1950s and '60s, the Coors dynasty reigned over Golden, Colorado, seemingly invincible. When rumblings about labor unions threatened to destabilize the family's brewery, Adolph Coors, Jr., the septuagenarian president of the company, drew a hard line, refusing to budge. They had worked hard for what they had, and no one...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
8 videodiscs (1,385 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide
Language
English
Description
In the late 1890s, Brisco is a tough-as-rawhide cowpoke, debonair ladies' man, and Harvard-educated smarty-britches who roams from Frisco to Jalisco in pursuit of outlaws who killed his legendary lawman father. He is hired by rich tycoons as a bounty hunter and teams up with their liaison, nervous lawyer Socrates Poole, and rival African-American bounty hunter Lord Bowler to hunt down the evil John Bly. Both sides are aided by mysterious, futuristic...
694) The unquiet heart
Author
Series
Sarah Gilchrist series volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Gilchrist finds herself trying to prove her fiancé's innocence in the midst of his murder trial. Edinburgh, 1893. Sarah Gilchrist has no intention of marrying her dull fiancé Miles, the man her family hopes will restore her reputation and put an end to her dreams of becoming a doctor, but when he is arrested for a murder she is sure he didn't commit, she finds herself his reluctant ally. Beneath the genteel façade of upper class Edinburgh...
695) An Aegean April
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
307 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The beautiful Greek island of Lesvos, birthplace of the poet Sappho, and for centuries an agrarian paradise famed for anise-flavored ouzo and tasty sardines, sees its serenity turn into chaos as the world watches boatloads of refugees daily flee onto its shores from Turkey across the narrow Mytilini Strait. Mihalis Volandes is one of Lesvos' elite, the patriarch of a storied shipping clan. He's weathered many changes in his long life, and when a government...
Author
Series
Jim Brodie thrillers volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"San Francisco antiques dealer Jim Brodie recently inherited a stake in his father's Tokyo-based private investigation firm, which means the single father of six-year-old Jenny is living a busy intercontinental life, traveling to Japan to acquire art and artifacts for his store and consulting on Brodie Security's caseload at home and abroad. One night, an entire family is gunned down in San Francisco's bustling Japantown neighborhood, and Brodie is...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
viii, 341 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In winter 1952, London automobiles and thousands of coal-burning hearths belched particulate matter into the air. But the smog that descended on December 5th of 1952 was different; it was a type that held the city hostage for five long days. Mass transit ground to a halt, criminals roamed the streets, and 12,000 people died. That same month, there was another killer at large in London: John Reginald Christie, who murdered at least six women. In a...
Author
Series
Elizabethan spy novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
England, 1586. Tensions rise as threats to the realm abound. Traitors are plotting for Mary Queen of Scots to depose Elizabeth I and take the throne. Rumors of a Spanish invasion by sea mount daily. And the body of one of Sir Francis Walsingham's agents is found floating in the Thames as other agents face enemies armed with crossbows and vials of poison. Nicholas Holt, a spy in Walsingham's employ, narrowly averts the same fate while setting off in...
699) Attica
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Survivors, observers and expert government officials recount the 1971 uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility, when a violent five-day standoff between mostly Black and Latino inmates and law enforcement took place.
700) The glamorous dead
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in the dream factory of the 1940s, this glittering debut novel follows a young Hollywood hopeful into a star-studded web of scandal, celebrity, and murder... The chipped pink nail polish is a dead giveaway-- no pun intended. When a human thumb is discovered near a Hollywood nightclub, it doesn't take long for the police to identify its owner. Miss Penny Harp would recognize that pink anywhere: it belongs to her best friend, Rosemary. And...
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