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The skeleton plot : a Lambert & Hook police procedural / by Gregson, J. M.(CARDINAL)730194;
When a human skeleton is discovered on the boundary of a 20-year-old property development, it seems there are a large number of people who may know the identity of the corpse and how it got there. But twenty years is a long time and those individuals were very different people back then. Skeletons are being revealed in all senses and there are many prominent local figures who are beginning to feel uncomfortable and afraid. It's up to Detective Chief Superintendent Lambert and Detective Sergeant Hook to dig around in the past and unearth the truth of how and why the body ended up buried in the ground all those years ago.
Subjects: Fiction.; Lambert, John (Fictitious character); Hook, Bert (Fictitious character); Police investigation;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Star fall : a Bill Slider British police procedural [large print] / by Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia.(CARDINAL)353917;
Who would kill a charming antiques expert Rowland Egerton, the darling of daytime TV? Bill Slider and his team are on the case . . ." It's quiet out there, says DS Atherton, at Bill Slider's office window. Too quiet. Right on cue, the phone rings. Now look what you've done, says Slider. It's a homicide. The post-Christmas lull is officially over. The deceased is antiques expert Rowland Egerton, the darling of daytime TV, stabbed to death in his luxurious West London home. The press are going to be all over this one like a nasty rash: the pressure's on Slider for a result, and soon. Egerton's partner, the bulky, granite-faced John Lavender, found the body; did he also do the deed? Or was it a burglary gone wrong? A missing Faberge box and Impressionist painting point that way. But as Slider and his team investigate, none of the facts seem to fit. And it soon becomes clear that the much-loved, charming Mr. Egerton wasn't as universally loved, or perhaps as charming, as Slider was first led to believe.
Subjects: Large print books.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Slider, Bill (Fictitious character); Murder; Police; Police.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Janes / by Luna, Louisa,author.(CARDINAL)421552;
Men pretty much have a triangle. Sex, drugs, money, she said, drawing a triangle in the air with her finger. Every man who commits a criminal act does it in service to one or more of those three thingsMost men, actually, do everything because of them.On the outskirts of San Diego, the bodies of two young women are discovered. They are Jane Does: no names, no IDs, no families looking for them. Fearing a human trafficking ring, the police and FBI ask Alice Vega to help find out who the Janes wereand find the other missing women.Alice Vega has a mind like a steel trap. Along with her partner Cap, she will stop at nothing to find the Janes before it is too late.Louisa Luna is writing new, smart, insightful, relevant classics of crime fiction. Vega and Cap rightfully join the pantheon of the most memorable partnerships in crime fiction.Louisa Luna is the author of Two Girls Down (featuring Vega and Cap) as well as Brave New Girl and Crooked. She was born and raised in San Francisco and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughter.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Fiction.; Police procedural; Women detectives; Suspense Fiction.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Another sun / by Williams, Timothy,author.(CARDINAL)727891;
The sun-drenched Caribbean island of Guadeloupe is technically part of France, subject to French law and loyal to the French Republic. But in 1980, the scars of colonialism are still fresh, and ethnic tensions and political unrest seethe just below the surface of everyday life. French-Algerian judge Anne Marie Laveaud relocated to this beautiful Caribbean island confident that she could make it her new home. But her day-to-day life is rife with frustration. Now she is assigned a murder case in which she is sure the chief suspect, an elderly ex-con named Hégésippe Bray, is a political scapegoat. Her superiors are dismissive of her efforts to prove Bray innocent, and to add insult to injury, Bray himself won't even speak to her because she's a woman. But she won't give up, and Anne Marie's investigations lead her into a complex tangle of injustice, domestic terrorists, broken hearts, and maybe even voodoo.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Police procedural; Women detectives;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Snow Creek:An absolutely gripping mystery thriller / by Olsen, Gregg,author.(CARDINAL)350999;
Footprints were scattered about like fallen leaves. She looked down into the ravine, and once more her lungs filled with fear. A body, blackened and motionless lay splayed out in the bushes.When Ruth Turner walks into the Sheriffs office in Jefferson Countys Port Townsend claiming her sister Ida Watson has been missing for over a month, Detective Megan Carpenters instincts tell her that she needs to do more than just file a report.Racing over to Idas secluded farmhouse in the hills above Snow Creek, Megan finds Idas teenage children alone and frightened. She cant help but notice theres no TV. No video games. Nothing of the outside world. Something about the Watson family doesnt add up.Then the body of a woman is discovered in an abandoned pickup truck close to the Watsons home and Megans convinced the cases are connected.If she has any chance of catching the killer, Megan must first unravel the secrets of the isolated Snow Creek community.But Megan has dark secrets of her own too. Hidden in the back of her closet is a box of tapes containing every single recording of her therapy sessions over thirteen years ago. Can she finally confront the past shes spent years trying to block out? And will reliving her own painful story help her solve the complex case before another innocent life is lost?
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Kidnapping; Murder; Police procedural;
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Goodbye to the Dead: A Novel [sound recording] by Freeman, Brian.; Barrett, Joe.;
Nine years. It has been almost a decade since Duluth said goodbye to its innocence. The city creeps ever closer to the tenth anniversary of the year in which it found itself both gripped by murder and united in terror; and during which the pillar of its community, DS Jonathan Stride, had his home and heart torn to ribbons by the claws of cancer.Nine LivesCat Mateo, an orphan with a knack for landing on her feet, has bid farewell to a life on the streets. This once-stray teenager owes her rescue to Detective Stride, the father figure she holds close to her heart. But Cat holds something else to her chest: a secret, the sheer power of which she could not possibly comprehend. A secret that, once out of the bag, will viciously scratch at Duluth's still-healing wounds. It will make Stride wave goodbye to his convictions and say hello to his darkest fears.
Subjects: Suspense; Police Procedural; Psychological.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Dead Man's Daughter / by Watkins, Roz,author.;
A gripping and powerful thriller set in the atmospheric Peak District that will have you on the edge of your seat. Perfect for fans of Val McDermid, Susie Steiner and Broadchurch.***She was racing towards the gorge. The place the locals knew as Dead Girl's DropDI Meg Dalton is thrown headlong into her latest case when she finds a ten-year-old girl running barefoot through the woods in a blood-soaked nightdress. In the house nearby, the girl's father has been brutally stabbed to death.At first Meg suspects a robbery gone tragically wrong, but something doesnt add up. Why does the girl have no memory of what happened to her? And why has her behaviour changed so dramatically since her recent heart transplant?The case takes a chilling turn when evidence points to the girls involvement in her own fathers murder. As unsettling family secrets emerge, Meg is forced to question her deepest beliefs to discover the shocking truth, before the killer strikes again.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Fiction.; International crime fiction.; Police procedural; Women detectives;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The new home:An absolutely gripping psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist / by Merritt, Chris W.,author.;
Freya loves her new home on a quiet suburban street. And her beautiful neighbour Emily is everything shes ever wanted in a best friend. Finally, she has somebody to share her secrets with over a glass of wine. But as Freya watches her new friend setting the table for dinner one evening, she sees something shocking that makes her think that Emilys life might not be as perfect as it seems. Days later, Emily and her daughter vanishWhen you meet Emilys husband, you will think you know what hes hiding.You will ask yourself whether Emily and Freya really did meet by chance.You will think you know what happened to Emily and her little girl the night they went missing.But when you discover the truth, it will shake you to your core and you will lie awake at night wondering if you can ever really trust the people in the house next doorFans of Claire McGowan, Shalini Boland and Lisa Jewell will love the gripping tension and unexpected twists of The New Home. Once you start reading, youll be hooked!
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Murder; Police procedural; Women detectives;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Her Last Call / by Gray, Elle,author.(CARDINAL)864125;
Come out, come out, wherever you are...A beautiful young woman trapped within a killers sick and twisted game.Stella Hughes called for help, but help did not come in time.She could not hide, fight, or escape.Stella was ensnared in the killers web.The victim of a twisted serial killers mind.Shortly after detective Paxton takes on the case of Stella Hughes, he realizes this is no ordinary murder. It becomes clear very quickly that Stella, the girl Paxton had known, was the victim of another serial killer - a theory thats quickly confirmed by a bright, quirky independent journalist named Marcy. As they dig deeper into this killer, they soon learn of his twisted obsession.With his friend FBI Special Agent Blake Wilder by his side, Paxton engages in a hunt for a killer that will take him on winding, twisting paths he never thought he would tread.The killer will make him do what nobody else has been able to do before... confront himself and confront his past.As the killer rampages through town and proves to be as elusive as anybody Paxton has ever hunted, the stakes for he and everybody around him rise.And unless Paxton can find and capture him, nobody will be safe.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Murder; Police procedural; Private investigators;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Devil's Dice / by Watkins, Roz,author.;
A SHOCKING DEATHA lawyer is found dead in a Peak District cave, his face ribboned with scratches.A SINISTER MESSAGEAmidst rumours of a local curse, DI Meg Dalton is convinced this is cold-blooded murder. There's just one catch chiselled into the cave wall above the body is an image of the grim reaper and the dead man's initials, and it's been there for over a century.A DEADLY GAMEAs Meg battles to solve the increasingly disturbing case, it's clear someone knows her secrets. The murderer is playing games with Meg and the dice are loadedA white-knuckle crime debut introducing DI Meg Dalton, perfect for fans of Broadchurch and Happy Valley.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); International crimes; Police procedural; Women detectives;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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