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Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
What is the connection between the number 13 and Jack the Ripper? Why was the number 18 crucial in catching Acid Bath murderer John George Haigh? And what is so puzzling about the number 340 in the chilling case of the Zodiac killer? The answers to all these questions and many more are revealed in a unique, number-crunching history of the ultimate crime. James Moore's Murder by Numbers tells the story of murder through the centuries in an entirely...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Peter Greene spends his days taking care of his toddler, Luke; staying on the right side of The Moms in his local beach town; and hanging out with his surf buddy, Frank. Isolated from his former life in finance, and frustrated by his current "out of work" existence, he worries that if he sits around the house for much longer, his workaholic wife might start to lose patience with him. He has few escapes aside from surfing and the love he has for his...
3) Still waters
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Moments after they learn their brother is dead, estranged siblings Liv and Gabe receive a scheduled email from him, claiming he was murdered, and returning home to investigate, they risk everything to unearth the secrets in a small town where someone is willing to kill for the truth to stay buried.
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Series
Gabriel Allon ; 24
Language
English
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Description
"Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into London to attend a reception at the Courtauld Gallery celebrating the return of a stolen self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh. But when an old friend from the Devon and Cornwall Police seeks his help with a baffling murder investigation, he finds himself pursuing a powerful and dangerous new adversary. The victim is Charlotte Blake, a celebrated professor of art history from Oxford...
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Would you kill for love? In 1974 Alice, a desperate young mother in a gritty Wyoming boomtown, kills her husband and dumps his body where it will never be found, then slips away and starts a new life with Gerald Uden. But when her new man's ex-wife and two kids start demanding more of him, Alice delivers an ultimatum: Fix the problem or lose her forever. With Alice's help, Gerald 'fixes' the problem in an extraordinary ghastly way...and they live...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The definitive, inside story of the Idaho murders from bestselling author Howard Blum, whose groundbreaking coverage of the story was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Timed for a trial that will capture national attention, When the Night Comes Falling examines the mysterious murders of the four University of Idaho students. Having covered this case from its start, Edgar award winning investigative reporter Howard Blum takes readers behind the scenes...
Author
Series
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
Some said that the killer couldn't be a local. Others claimed that he was the wealthy son of a prominent Morgantown family. Whispers spread that Mared and Karen were sacrificed by a satanic cult or had been victims of a madman poised to strike again. Then the handwritten letters began to arrive: "You will locate the bodies of the girls covered over with brush--look carefully. The animals are now on the move." Investigators didn't find too few suspects--they...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In the new Vintage Kitchen Mystery from the author of A Calculated Whisk, Jaymie's not sure who to believe when every suspect's alibi has as many holes as a sieve . . . Vintage cookware collector Jaymie Müller is stunned when an irate woman accuses her pharmacist friend Val of tampering with her prescription. When more unfounded accusations follow, it seems clear the woman has a personal grudge against Val. But before they can figure out why, Jaymie...
Author
Series
Dorset crime ; 3
Publisher
Ackroyd Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An isolated community, a web of secrets, a mysterious death. When a body washes up on the shores of Brownsea Island, DCI Lesley Clarke initially suspects suicide. But as she gets closer to the island's close-knit community, she starts to suspect foul play. Why did the victim argue with her closest friend days before her death? What secrets is the victim's manager keeping? And can Lesley get to the bottom of the mystery before someone else dies?
12) Saguaro sanction
Author
Series
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Janelle Ortega's cousin from Mexico is found brutally murdered at a remote petroglyph site in Saguaro National Park, she and her husband, archaeologist Chuck Bender, are drawn deep into a threatening web of hostility and deceit stretching south across the US-Mexico border and back in time a thousand years, to when the Hohokam people thrived in the Sonoran Desert"--
Author
Language
English
Description
""Laurent Fontaine has an obsession with spectacle. That is precisely the reason why he is the most famous art curator of the 20th century and why the Fontaine Museum of Art has more success than any other museum has ever seen. That is, of course, until he shuts it down. When Laurent’s wife, Marie, is found dead during an exhibition opening at the museum in 1967, the police are quick to determine suicide. Laurent is quick to determine otherwise....
14) Damaged
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"When a sadistic murderer surfaces in Scotland, terrified local authorities call on a Chicago detective who investigated a killing spree with the same horrific pattern five years earlier. Now, two detectives with tortured pasts must try to stop a merciless serial killer before he claims his next victim."--
Author
Publisher
Zondervan Reflective
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"For decades, cold-case homicide detective J. Warner Wallace investigated the causes behind deaths and murders, chasing one lead after another for months as he attempted to solve the case. Several of these cases remain open, unsolved mysteries. Wallace also investigated the most notable death in human history--the death of Jesus Christ--and it transformed him from an atheist into a follower of Jesus. Investigating death, surprisingly, taught him a...
17) Heart condition
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When a cop suffers a heart attack and gets a heart transplant, he finds out the the heart he received is from a black lawyer whom he hated and whose ghost is now his constant companion asking the cop to find the people who murdered him.
18) Stick
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When his former cellmate is murdered, an ex-convict sets out to find the killer.
Author
Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Carl Siciliano met Ali Forney-a Black nonbinary teenager overflowing with life-in 1994 while working at a daytime center for homeless youth in New York City. Nineteen years old and driven from home, Forney was the heart of the community, known for infectious laughter, fierce loyalty to friends, and an unshakeable faith that "my God will love me for who I am." Then Forney was murdered, a moment of horror and devastation that exposed the brutality...
Publisher
Shout! Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Wallace and Gromit take a vacation on the moon where they hope to find cheese; Wallace finds himself the victim of a criminal penguin trying to steal his mechanical trousers; Wallace and Gromit find themselves in the middle of a sheep rustling scheme; Gromit must save Wallace from a madwoman killing bakers; collection of short films featuring Wallace's ideas to make life easier."--
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