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61) The Sandbox
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
When the CEO of the world's leading artificial intelligence company is found murdered in his home, former Army CID officer Valerie Marks is thrust into her first case as a homicide detective
Print Book, English, 2023
63) I, Mona Lisa
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Florence, April 1478: The handsome Giuliano de Medici is brutally assassinated in Florences magnificent Duomo. The shock of the murder ripples throughout the great city, from the most renowned artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, to a wealthy wool merchant and his extraordinarily beautiful daughter, Madonna Lisa. More than a decade later, Florence falls under the dark spell of the preacher Savonarola, a fanatic who burns paintings and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"From mystifying heists to shocking murders, Cold Cases: A True Crime Collection features case file facts, fascinating details, and chilling testimonies of the world's most famous cold cases. Written for true crime junkies who love to speculate on the facts and theories surrounding their favorite cases, this book reads like you're having a conversation with a friend or listening to your favorite crime podcast. Each chapter delves deep into the facts,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Teenage troublemakers, Zipp and Andreas unwittingly commit murder when they accidentally kill a baby in the course of a petty crime. Unaware, the pair move onto their next crime. At first, there is no reason for Inspector Sejer to see a connection between the infant's death and the later disappearance of the town troublemaker. With Zipp too frightened to come forward, the police must wait for the evidence to present itself before they can begin to...
Author
Series
Joe Court novel volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Detective Mary Joe Court sleeps with a shotgun beside her head and a loveable bullmastiff at her feet. For the past twelve years, she's hidden from the nightmares of her past, but with every passing day, her scars fade, and her heart grows lighter. For the first time in her life, she now looks forward to her future. Then she finds the body. Now, she has to face her past or lose everything she cares about. Because the killer hunting her will tear apart...
69) Thunderheart
Pub. Date
℗♭2005
Description
A young, part-Sioux FBI agent is sent to solve a murder on an Indian reservation. There he meets the irreverent local sheriff and the tribe's religious leader, who helps the agent begin to understand his lost heritage. Gradually, he comes to believe that the U.S. government has framed an innocent man, but finds that he and those around him are thrown into danger because of his suspicions.
70) Alex Cross
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Follows the young homicide detective/psychologist as he meets his match in a serial killer. The two face off in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, but when the mission gets personal, Cross is pushed to the edge of his moral and psychological limits in this taut and exciting action thriller.
71) Red Dragon
Series
Hannibal Lecter volume 2
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Will Graham is an FBI agent who brought Hannibal Lecter to justice; however, his confrontation with Lecter proved to be a bloody, near-death experience. Retiring from the Bureau, he moves to Florida. However, a particularly grisly killer is on the loose, and Jack, Graham's one-time mentor at the Bureau, asks him to return to duty to find him. "The Tooth Fairy" is a vicious murderer who kills entire families at once, covering the eyes of his victims...
73) Grantchester
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
It's 1956 -- a year since Amanda left Grantchester, and the post-war rulebook is being torn up. Sidney Chambers (James Norton) is feeling adrift, a man without a cause -- until American civil rights activist Violet Todd arrives and fires up his need for social justice. But with a cause this dangerous, Sidney might not be around forever. Soon there's a new Vicar of Grantchester, firebrand Will Davenport (Tom Brittney). Idealistic and energetic, Will...
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
One day, two-year-old Renee Goode was playing happily with her sisters and cousin, as the four of them enjoyed an impromptu "slumber party" at the home of her father, Shane Goode. The next day she was dead. The local medical examiner could not determine the cause of little Renee's death. But her mother Annette and grandmother Sharon were convinced she'd been murdered, and that they knew the identity of Renee's killer: her father, Shane Goode, a manipulative,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
For investigators, the story is often the same: they know a murder took place, they may even know who did it. But without key evidence, pursuing a conviction is nearly impossible. That's when they call NecroSearch International. NecroSearch boasts a brain trust of the nation's top scientists, specialists, and behaviorists who use the latest technology and techniques to help solve "unsolvable" crimes, no matter how decayed the corpse, no matter how...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Between 2005 and 2009, the bodies of eight women were discovered around the murky canals and crawfish ponds of Jennings, Louisiana, a bayou town of 10,000 in the heart of the Jefferson Davis parish. Local law enforcement officials were quick to pursue a serial killer theory, opening a floodgate of media coverage-from CNN to The New York Times. Collectively the victims became known as the 'Jeff Davis 8,' and their lives, their deaths, and the ongoing...
79) A thief of time
Pub. Date
2004]
Description
An archaeologist turned pottery poacher thinks she has cracked the secret of the vanished Anasazi culture, when she herself vanishes. Leaphorn and Chee must piece together a case as complicated as the decorated pots that seem to motivate the killer.