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  • Zero avenue
    Author:
    Kalteis, Dietrich
    Summary:

    "If you like your crime hard and fast, Kalteis is for you."-The Globe and Mail Set to the cranking beat and amphetamine buzz of Vancouver's early punk scene, Zero Avenue follows Frankie Del Rey, a talented and rising punk...
  • You don't know me
    Author:
    Foster, Sara
    Summary:

    Tom Carruso left home soon after Lizzie Burdett disappeared under a darkening cloud of suspicion, and now he's back for the inquest into Lizzie's disappearance, intent on telling his side of the story.
  • Westwind
    Author:
    Rankin, Ian
    Summary:

    The world is erupting in turmoil--tragedy, isolationism, and loss. Something strange is going on. The most advanced satellite in Europe loses signal, but there is much more at stake than anyone realize.
  • Walk the wire
    Author:
    Baldacci, David
    Summary:

    Amos Decker and Alex Jamison investigate the death of a woman whose body was expertly autopsied and then dumped in the open, which is only the beginning of the oddities surrounding the case.
  • The stolen ones
    Author:
    Laukkanen, Owen
    Summary:

    Cass County, Minnesota: A sheriff's deputy steps out of a diner on a rainy summer evening, and a few minutes later, he's lying dead in the mud. When BCA agent Kirk Stevens arrives on the scene, he discovers local authorities have taken...
  • The lies you told
    Author:
    Tyce, Harriet
    Summary:

    When Sadie Roper moves back to London, she's determined to pick up the pieces of her shattered life by getting her daughter into an exclusive school, and then restarting her law career. Nothing goes quite as planned until Liza,...
  • The last trial
    Author:
    Turow, Scott
    Summary:

    Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer ready to retire, is pulled back to the courtroom when an old friend faces criminal charges. But his belief in the power of the judicial system will face a final, terrible...
  • The hunting dogs
    Author:
    Horst, Jorn Lier
    Summary:

    Seventeen years ago William Wisting led the investigation into one of Norway's most notorious criminal cases, the murder of young Cecilia Linde. When it is discovered that evidence was falsified he is suspended from duty. It looks like...
  • The girl with the deep blue eyes
    Author:
    Block, Lawrence
    Summary:

    Florida private eye Doak Miller agreed to help the local cops by posing as a hit man to catch a woman looking to get rid of her husband. But then he met the wife -- and fell, hard. Now he's plotting with her to commit a murder that...
  • The broken token
    Author:
    Nickson, Chris
    Summary:

    Pickpockets, pimps and prostitutes: All in a day's work for the city constable - until work moves too close to home. When Richard Nottingham, Constable of Leeds, discovers his former housemaid murdered in a particularly sickening manner...
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell shadows
    Author:
    Lovegrove, James
    Summary:

    Sherlock Holmes deduces a connection between several deaths and a sinister drug lord who is seeking to expand his criminal empire.
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic monstrosities
    Author:
    Lovegrove, James
    Summary:

    It is the spring of 1895, and more than a decade of combating eldritch entities has cost Dr. John Watson his beloved wife Mary, and has nearly broken the health of Sherlock Holmes. Yet the companions do not hesitate when they are called...
  • Second sight
    Author:
    Sala, Sharon
    Summary:

    Tara Bien calls PI Charlie Dodge to report that her twelve year old daughter, Jordan, has been kidnapped by her ex-husband, who has been an absentee father most of his daughter's life. Jordan barely knows him, and Tara fears he...
  • Research
    Author:
    Kerr, Philip
    Summary:

    If you want to write a murder mystery, you have to do some research...In a luxury flat in Monaco, John Houston's supermodel wife lies in bed, a bullet in her skull. Houston is the world's most successful novelist, the playboy head of a...
  • Never Going Back
    Author:
    Wiebe, Sam
    Summary:

    Before she went to prison, Alison Kidd was the best thief in the city. But Ali has changed. All she wants now is to clean up her act and work in her brother Dean’s restaurant. She never wants to go back inside.On the day she gets out,...
  • In a cottage in a wood
    Author:
    Green, Cass
    Summary:

    As Neve's wreck of a life in London collapses, an unexpected lifeline falls into her lap, a charming cottage in Cornwall. But her dream home quickly becomes her worst nightmare.
  • Hang them slowly
    Author:
    Johnstone, J. A., Johnstone, William W.
    Summary:

    Vance Brewster and the two new ranch hands by his side, Stovepipe and Wilbur, are caught up in a brewing, trigger-happy Montana range war between the Rafter M and Three Rivers.
  • Funeral for a friend : Jonathan Stride, book 10
    Author:
    Freeman, Brian
    Summary:

    Jonathan Stride's best friend makes a shocking deathbed confession: he protected Stride by covering up a murder. Now Stride's partner, Maggie Bei, is forced to ask: Did Stride kill him?
  • Fair warning
    Author:
    Connelly, Michael
    Summary:

    Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy makes a shocking discovery that connects a crime to other mysterious deaths across the country. But his inquiry hits a snag when he himself becomes a suspect.
  • Daylight
    Author:
    Baldacci, David
    Summary:

    Atlee Pine's twin sister, Mercy, was abducted at the age of six and never seen again. Now, Atlee finally learns the identity of her sister's kidnapper and discovers the truth about what happened to Mercy.

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