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81) Last words
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Grieving the death of his wife, private investigator Mark Novak reluctantly accepts a case from a suspected murderer who may or may not be innocent. Novak knows all too well that some crimes never get solved. But it's not often that the man who many believe got away with murder is the one calling for the case to be reopened. Ten years ago, a teenage girl disappeared inside an elaborate cave system beneath rural farmland. Days later, Ridley Barnes...
Author
Language
English
Description
After losing her husband, Derrick, in what appears to have been a random street crime, thirtysomething Emma has built a new life with widower Tom, who is kind, and successful. Emma is finally able to feel safe again, both in her relationship with Tom and in the home they've made together on the Connecticut shore. Then one day a homicide detective shows up at Emma and Tom's door asking questions. Though Emma had been cleared of her husband's murder,...
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Language
English
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Description
"Florida state prosecutor Claire Talbot is as tough as they come, and not everyone loves her for it. Newly promoted Felony Division Chief, Claire has about as many jealous detractors as she does supporters. Some colleagues are openly skeptical about her youth, her abilities, and even her gender. When a highway project construction crew unearths two skeletons in a common grave, Claire reopens an investigation into a string of abductions that took place...
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Series
Medlar mystery volume 5
Language
English
Description
Retired romance novelist Sara Medlar has been comfortably sharing her large home with her niece Kate and her "honorary grandson" Jack. It's a convenient arrangement given the Medlar Three, as they've become known, are often working closely together to solve mysteries in their small town of Lachlan, Florida. But when real estate agent Kate announces she's been given the listing for the town's storied Lachlan House, it sets off alarm bells for Sara...
85) Echo Park
Author
Series
Harry Bosch volume 12
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
More than a decade ago, Harry Bosch worked on the case of Marie Gesto, a twenty-two-year-old who went missing but was never found. Now, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a call from the District Attorney: A serial killer has confessed. Did Harry miss a key clue? Or is something more going on here? In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn't crack it, and the twenty-two-year-old...
86) Freeze frame
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Forensics expert Enzo Macleod heads to a tiny island off the coast of Brittany to solve a decades-old murder and encounters hostility from the locals, a suspect who has already been acquited of the killing, and a crime scene frozen in time.
Author
Series
Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 8
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When a series of flash floods throughout Lafferton exposes the skeleton of a teenager who went missing twenty years earlier, Simon Serrailler investigates the girl's tragic family story and uncovers bizarre complexities and dangers.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Singer, actress, and celebrity Bibi Fortunata fled Hollywood Hills and headed for Barcelona two years ago after being arrested for murder--then set free. But when Bibi's daughter comes to private investigators Mac Reilly and Sunny Alvarez for help, they can't resist the temptation to solve the cold case once and for all. Who really killed Bibi's lover? Who would want to frame Bibi? And who is beckoning them from Barcelona?
89) River bodies
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Returning home to Portland, Pennsylvania care for her ailing father, the former police chief, Becca Kingsley is drawn into a murder investigation that is linked to a twenty-year-old cold case and that causes her to start questioning all her past relationships as dark secrets come to light.
90) Girl forgotten
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Piper Gray starts a true crime podcast investigating a seventeen-year-old murder cold case, she puts her life in danger as she digs deep into the mysteries of the past.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When the body of a college friend is discovered twenty years after her disappearance, Judith, the only witness who can testify to the innocence of the chief suspect, is forced to confront dark secrets from her past that compromise the healthy life she has built for her family.
92) Blacklight blue
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 3
Publisher
Poisoned Pen
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Beginning an investigation into a third cold case described in a book by Parisian journalist Roger Raffin, Scottish scholar and amateur detective Enzo MacLeod finds himself confronting a diagnosis of a terminal illness and attacks by someone out to frame him for murder.
Author
Series
[Emma Graham series] volume 4
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Emma Graham continues her investigation into the disappearance of the Slade baby from the Belle Ruin Hotel more than 20 years before. The sudden appearance in town of the baby's father makes her even more determined to learn the truth.
94) Firewatching
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A taut and ambitious police procedural debut introducing Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler, a cold case reviewer who lands a high-profile murder investigation only to find the main suspect is a recent one-night stand.."--
95) The hanging wood
Author
Series
Lake District mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
DCI Hannah Scarlett is prompted to investigate the cold case of a missing teenage boy when his sister, who returns to the Lake District to persuade Hannah to reopen the case, dies under suspicious circumstances.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"As Charlotte Pitt's grandmother Mariah Ellison finds herself investigating a long-unsolved slaying, it becomes clear that grappling with intrigue and foul play runs in the family. A festive Christmas package left on Mariah's doorstep contains an ominous present, sparking memories of a twenty-year-old murder that shattered her friendship with the victim's widow. Though the gift is a bitter reminder of that tragic time, in the spirit of the season...
97) Distant thunder
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Series
Language
English
Description
"During an intense storm in Dark Harbor, Maine, a perplexing murder lands a dead man on Stone Barrington's doorstep. As secrets swirl around this mystery man's identity, Stone quickly sets out to unravel a web of cunning misdirections and lies. Soon enough, he is embroiled in an elaborate game of cat and mouse between the CIA and nefarious foreign forces, including a bewitching new companion who comes under his protection. But when Stone's actions...
98) Invisible boy
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A work based on a true story finds outspoken socialite Madeline Dare prompted by the discovery of a three-year-old's body to examine her own troubled history in the public class and racial warfare of 1990s New York City society.
Author
Language
English
Description
Four years ago Ellen Vicksburg went missing in River Remez, New Mexico. Her younger brother, Ben, found her body in a shallow grave by the river's edge on the first anniversary of her death. Now he's committed to finding her murderer; police believe she was the victim of a psychopath known as the Demon. In the police files, Ben's analytical mind sees patterns that don't fit, and he compares them to similar unsolved murders. As the body count rises,...
100) Forgotten in death
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Series
Language
English
Description
"In the latest novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, homicide detective Eve Dallas sifts through the wreckage of the past to find a killer. The body was left in a dumpster like so much trash, the victim a woman of no fixed address, known for offering paper flowers in return for spare change-and for keeping the cops informed of any infractions she witnessed on the street. But the notebook where she scribbled her intel on litterers and...
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