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  Cover Art: Death and the Walking Stick : a Trudy Roundtree Mystery Berry, Linda
Death and the Walking Stick : a Trudy Roundtree Mystery
When Althea Boatright dies alone in her locked room, it looks like the natural death of a sickly old woman. But Althea's friend thinks there's something suspicious about it, based on her walking stick. Henry Huckabee, the Chief of Police in Ogeechee, Georgia, assigns his cousin, Officer Trudy Roundtree, to look into it. Trudy finds several people with grudges against the victim. Who could have gotten into Althea's room and gotten away with the wrong walking stick - and why did it lead to murder?
2005
Adult Mystery Book BERRY
  Cover Art: Dead for Life Black, Ethan.
Dead for Life
NYPD detective Conrad Voort receives a chilling message on his birthday; "Three more by tonight. Your fault." Racing to catch the killer whose threats have sent the city into a panic, Voort begins to wonder if the culprit is someone from his days as a rookie cop. Someone who has nothing left to lose....
2003
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: A Cold and Silent Dying Bland, Eleanor Taylor
A Cold and Silent Dying
When a homeless woman turns up dead, Lieutenant Nicholson dismisses the case. After all, being a suburb of Chicago, Lincoln Prairie has its share of homeless citizens, and another dead one - especially in the winter - ranks pretty low on the lieutenant's radar screen. She's more worried about an assault on a city alderman. But unable to let the woman's death go, Detective Marti McAllister takes it upon herself to figure out the truth, even if it costs Marti her job. Lt Nicholson is just itching to get rid of Marti as she considers Marti competition. Could this homicide be part of a larger pattern? Can Marti find the killer before another person turns up dead?"
2004
Adult Mystery Book BLAND
  Cover Art: The Mortician's Daughter Bloom, Elizabeth
The Mortician's Daughter
A suspended New York City policewoman returns home to a small New England mill town to investigate the murder of her best friend's son.
2006
Adult Fiction Book BLOOM
  Cover Art: When the Dead Cry Out Bonner, Hilary.
When the Dead Cry Out
Detective Inspector Karen Meadows, living near the sea, suspects that a body that washes ashore is tied to the disappearance of a woman years before. No one ever found her, or her children; her husband claimed they had left him. Can someone finally be made to pay for this crime?
2005
Adult Mystery Book BONNER
  Cover Art: 212 : a Novel Burke, Alafair
212 : a Novel
When NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher and her partner, J.J. Rogan, suspect a connection between the murder of a college co-ed and the murder of a bodyguard employed by a real estate developer, the clues lead them into the darker side of the Internet. Ellie soon ends up in the crosshairs when she refuses to stop investigating those in power who would rather their activities not be exposed.
2010
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Jolie Blon's Bounce : a Novel Burke, James Lee, 1936-
Jolie Blon's Bounce : a Novel
Dave Robicheaux, Burke's Cajun detective, encounters the mysterious, evil, seemingly indestructible Legion Guidry, who has resurfaced near New Iberia and may be linked to the murder of a teenager and a prostitute. Convinced that the drug-addicted blues singer under arrest for the first killing is innocent, Robicheaux goes after Guidry at the risk of his own life and sanity.
2002
Adult Fiction Book BURKE
  Cover Art: Nights of the Red Moon Burton, Milton T.
Nights of the Red Moon
Longtime Sheriff Bo Handel of Caddo County Texas has his hands full when the local minister's wife is murdered and dumped in front of the church. Finding out the victim was involved in drugs and having affairs adds to the list of suspects. Was the killer a jilted lover? A drug lord? Someone else? Used to a light workload, Sheriff Handel finds things getting out of hand.
2010
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Crime Frai^che Campion, Alexander
Crime Frai^che
When a peaceful trip to the countryside with her husband is interrupted by several fatal shooting accidents, Parisian Commissaire Capucine Le Tellier decides to investigate after local authorities fail to solve the crimes.
2011
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Accused Cantore, Janice
Accused
Following a shooting in which she was involved, detective Carly Edwards is put on desk duty, and hates it. Then she is called to the murder scene of Long Beach's mayor, and the top brass suspect teenager Londy Atkins. But after investigating the case, Carly believes not only that Londy is innocent but that he is the victim of a cover-up.
2011
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Out of Cabrini : a Macbeth Novel Case, Dave, 1961-
Out of Cabrini : a Macbeth Novel
When Lonnie Huggins is released from prison, he is rewarded for his silence by being handed four kilos and the task of starting a drug territory for the notorious Cabrini Green Gang in Chicago. After hiding it in his car, he is arrested again and the car is auctioned off. Huggins' gang is desperate to get the car back, and Officer Stacy MacBeth must find them before more innocents die.
2006
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Breaking Silence Castillo, Linda.
Breaking Silence
When Solly and Rachel Slabaugh, along with Solly's brother Abel, are found dead in a hog pit, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates the gruesome scene. Once again teaming up with Agent John Tomasetti, Kate reveals that the death may not have been accidental, but one of the most horrific hate crimes ever to befall the Amish community of Painter's Creek.
2011
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The 37th Hour Compton, Jodi.
The 37th Hour
On a chilly Minnesota morning, Sarah comes home to the house she shares with her husband and fellow cop, Michael Shiloh. Shiloh was supposed to be in Virginia, starting his training with the FBI. But he never arrived at Quantico. Now, beneath the bed, Sarah finds Shiloh's neatly packed bag, and realizes her husband has disappeared. As Sarah turns over more and more unknown ground in her husband's past, she is about to discover that her worst fear - that Shiloh is dead - may be less painful than what she will learn next.
2004
Adult Fiction Book COMPTON
  Cover Art: Echo Park : a Novel Connelly, Michael, 1956-
Echo Park : a Novel
Detective Harry Bosch, now in the Open-unsolved Unit, receives a call from the DA telling him a serial killer has confessed to several murders. Harry must interview the man about a case he couldn't crack involving the murder of a 22-year-old woman whose body was never found.
2006
Adult Mystery Book
  Cover Art: Vegas Nerve Cooper, Susan Rogers.
Vegas Nerve
Milt Kovak, Sheriff of Prophesy County, OK, and his wife are off to Las Vegas for a second honeymoon. Their vacation is just starting when Milt gets dragged into a family dispute that ends up in a murder. Trying to cope with "helpful" cousins, a disappearing suspect, and clearing his family members name is all in a days work. So much for vacation....
2007
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: A Mammoth Murder Crider, Bill, 1941-
A Mammoth Murder
Sheriff Dan Rhodes investigates two murders: the first murder is of Bud Turley, a man who claimed he had found one of Bigfoot's teeth, and given it to Sheriff Rhodes for safekeeping the day before his murder; the second is the murder of an elderly woman who ran a small store at the edge of the woods where Turley's body was found.
2006
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: In the Shadow of the Glacier Delany, Vicki, 1951-
In the Shadow of the Glacier
Trafalgar, British Columbia rookie constable Molly Moonlight Smith is assigned to the murder of developer Reginald Montgomery. She discovers that Montgomery had no shortage of enemies, meaning lots of suspects. To further complicate matters, her investigation leads to a group committed to dedicating a memorial to U.S. draft dodgers; and Molly's mother happens to be the group's leader.
2007
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Death in West Wheeling Dymmoch, Michael Allen.
Death in West Wheeling
Homer Deters is the acting sheriff of a rural Illinois town, West Wheeling. A sudden rash of missing persons livens things up on Deters's watch, and when he discovers body parts in the Swamp, Deters realizes he may be dealing with murder. Truancy, a restless KKK group, and a circus tiger vanishes. Even with federal agents breathing down his neck, Homer keeps his cool and outsmarts them all.
2006
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Hanging Wood : a Lake District Mystery Edwards, Martin, 1955-
The Hanging Wood : a Lake District Mystery
Twenty years ago, a teenage boy, Callum Hinds, went missing in England's Lake District. His uncle was suspected, and interviewed by the police. When he committed suicide, everyone assumed it was a sign of guilt. Callum's body was never found, but his sister, Orla never believed their uncle to be guilty. Orla wants to find the truth about Callum's disappearance but is soon murdered herself, leading DCI Hannah Scarlett, head of Cumbria's Cold Case Review Team, to take the case and find the truth about what happened to Callum--and to Orla.
2011
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Cold Room Ellison, J. T.
The Cold Room
Homicide detective Taylor Jackson thinks she's seen it all in Nashville-- but she's never seen anything as perverse as The Conductor. Once his victim is captured, he contains her in a glass coffin, slowly starving her to death. Only then does he give in to his attraction. Later, he creatively disposes of the body by reenacting scenes from famous paintings.
2010
Adult Fiction Book
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AUTHORS
• Aird, Catherine
C.D. Sloan
• Bannister, Jo
Liz Graham (police officer)
• Barr, Nevada
Anna Pigeon (park ranger)
• Beaton, M. C.
Hamish Macbeth
• Blunt, Giles
John Cardinal
• Brown, Steve
Susan Chase (state investigator)
• Burcell, Robin
Kate Gillespie (homicide detective)
• Clausen, Lowen
Katherine Murphy/Grace Stevens (police officers)
• Crombie, Deborah
Gemma James (police officer)
• D'Amato, Barbara
Suze Figeroa (police officer)
• Dexter, Colin
Inspector Morse
• Dibden, Michael
Aurelio Zen
• Eddy, Paul
Grace Flint (police officer)
• Erickson, K.J.
Marshal (Mars) Bahr
• Fanning, Dianne
Lucinda Pierce (Homicide detective)
• Forrest, Katherine V.
Kate Delafield (police officer)
• George, Elizabeth
Barbara Havers (police officer)
• Gill, Bartholomew
Peter McGarr
• Glass, Leslie
April Woo (police officer)
• Grimes, Martha
Richard Jury
• Gunn, Elizabeth
Jake Hines
• Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia
Bill Slider
• Havill, Stephen
Estelle Reyes-Guzman (undersheriff)
• Hess, Joan
Arly Hanks (police chief)
• Hightower, Lynn
Sonora Blair (police officer)
• Hill, Reginald
Andy Dalziel and Peter Pascoe
• Jance, J.A.
Joanna Brady (sheriff)
• Kaminsky, Stuart
Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov
• Kaminsky, Stuart
Abe Lieberman
• Kava, Alex
Maggie O'Dell (FBI agent)
• Keating, H. R. F.
Ganesh Ghote
• Kellerman, Faye
Peter Decker
• Kellogg, Marne Davis
Lily Bennett (U.S. marshal)
• Konrath, J.A.
Jacqueline Daniels (Police Lieutenant)
• Leon, Donna
Guido Brunetti
• Mahoney, Dan
Brian McKenna
• Maron, Margaret
Sigrid Harald (N.Y.C. Police)
• Marsh, Ngaio
Roderick Alleyn
• McBain, Ed
87th Precinct
• McGarrity, Michael
Kevin Kerney
• McGown, Jill
Judy Hill (police inspector)
• O'Connell, Carol
Kathleen Mallory (police officer)
• Parker, Robert B.
Jesse Stone
• Parker, T. Jefferson
• Perry, Anne
William Monk
• Rendell, Ruth
Reginald Wexford
• Simenon, Georges
Jules Maigret
• Smith, Julie
Skip Langdon (police officer)
• Spencer, Sally
Charlie Woodend
• Stabenow, Dana
Liam Campbell
• Tooley, S.D.
Sam Casey (detective sergeant)
• Wambaugh, Joseph
• Wetering, Janwillem van de
Grijpstra and deGier
• Wishnia, K.J.A.
Filomena Buscarsela (police officer)
• Woods, Paula
Charlotte Justice (police officer)
• Woods, Paula
Charlotte Justice
• Wright, Eric
Charlie Salter
• Zubro, Mark Richard
Paul Turner
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