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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Out of the frozen depths of a forest in Omberg, Sweden, a woman stumbles onto the road. Her arms are covered with scratches, her feet are bare, and she has no memory of what has happened. Local police identify her as psychological profiler Hanne Lagerlind-Schoen who, together with her partner, had been helping them investigate a cold case of a young woman's murder. Hanne begins to recover, but cannot recall anything about where her partner is, or...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, is understandably upset. It isn't like her p.i. husband Max to abruptly disappear—and homicide is definitely not his style. But when his car is found abandoned on a remote road with a brutally slain, once-beautiful young woman nearby and the murder weapon stashed in the trunk, Annie's worst fears seem justified.
The police have Max all but tried and convicted—except for Chief Billy...
1866) The summer children
Author
Series
Collector trilogy volume Book 3
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"This FBI agent has come to expect almost anything--just not this..When Agent Mercedes Ramirez finds an abused young boy on her porch, covered in blood and clutching a teddy bear, she has no idea that this is just the beginning. He tells her a chilling tale: an angel killed his parents and then brought him here so Mercedes could keep him safe. His parents weren't just murdered. It was a slaughter--a rage kill like no one on the Crimes Against Children...
Series
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
It's Christmas Eve at Mossy Bottom Farm and Shaun's seasonal excitement turns to dismay when a farmhouse raid to get bigger stockings inadvertently leads to Timmy getting lost in the local Christmas market. Shaun's rescue mission to town goes wrong when a gift box containing Timmy disappears off in a 4x4 driven by Farmer Ben, a local celebrity and influencer. Can Shaun save the day and get Timmy home in time for Christmas? Or has Shaun finally met...
Publisher
Sony Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Hoping to distance himself from the fallout of a libel conviction, journalist Mikael Blomkvist retreats to a remote island in Sweden's far north where the unsolved murder of a young girl still haunts her industrialist uncle forty years later. Ensconced in a cottage on the island where the killer may still roam, Blomkvist's investigation draws him into the secrets and lies of the rich and powerful, and throws him together with one unlikely ally: tattooed,...
1869) Bone canyon
Author
Series
Eve Ronin volume Book 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
A catastrophic wildfire scorches the Santa Monica Mountains, exposing the charred remains of a woman who disappeared years ago. Eve Ronin, the youngest homicide detective in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, is assigned to the case. She discovers the bones have a horrific story to tell, and Eve unearths dark secrets that reveal nothing about the case is as it seems. With almost no one she can trust, her relentless pursuit of justice for...
1870) The downstairs neighbor
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"From her downstairs apartment in suburban London, Emma has often overheard the everyday life of the seemingly perfect family upstairs--Steph, Paul and teenage daughter Freya--but has never got to know them. Until one day, she hears something that seizes her attention: Freya has vanished and the police are questioning Steph and Paul about their life. Do either of you have any enemies? Anyone who might want to harm or threaten you? The effects of Freya's...
1873) Flock
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Erroll Babbage has spent his career tracking sex offenders, and his unorthodox methods are nearly as brutal as the criminals he monitors. When he links one of his deranged parolees to the disappearance of a local girl, he and his new partner must scour the S&M underground to find her before it's too late.
1874) Hurricane child
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.
1875) The Water child
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Tora Hayashi has always been irresistibly drawn to the ocean, lulled by the dream of becoming a pearl diver like her free-spirited, adventurous mother. But when their family moves to Tokyo, Tora's beloved Okaasan becomes increasingly withdrawn, opening up an impassable chasm between mother and daughter.
Then Tora's mother vanishes in the middle of the night, taking only her most precious possession: a pearl-white diving suit, locked...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Nine-year-old Alicia lost her parents during the Spanish Civil War when the Nacionales (the fascists) savagely bombed Barcelona in 1938. Twenty years later, she still carries the emotional and physical scars of that violent and terrifying time. Weary of her work as an investigator for Spain's secret police in Madrid, a job she has held for more than a decade, the twenty-nine-year old plans to move on. At the insistence of her boss, Leandro Montalvo,...
1879) A confession
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"When 22 year old Sian O'Callaghan goes missing after a Friday night out with friends, Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher ... quickly realizes that this is no ordinary missing persons case. A prime suspect is identified but when Fulcher questions him about Sian's whereabouts it sets both men on a journey which will change their lives forever as well as reveal the fate of Sian and another local girl, Becky Godden-Edwards. In this fight to get justice...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison finds herself searching for Sallie Sturdy, a fourteen-year-old girl presumed murdered. Facing the hospitalization of her father, descending deeper into alcoholism, and resisting pressure to retire quietly, Tennison vows to bring Sallie's killer to justice before ending her career. She forges a surprising friendship with Penny Philips, Sallie's best friend.
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