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The good samaritan : a novel / by Halleen, Toni,author.;
"A college professor is offered a chance at redemption-if he can figure out the right thing to do in this thoughtful psychological thriller from the author of The Surrogate. Sociology professor Matthew Larkin is barely holding on. After the death of his toddler son, his wife divorced him, his teenage daughter abandoned him, and he lost a job he loved. Landing a rare tenure track position at a small college in southern Minnesota, he's trying to cope with the disaster his life has become. While driving down an empty highway in the middle of nowhere one gloomy Sunday evening, Matthew gets caught in a hailstorm. Pulling off the road to find shelter, he spies a disturbing sight. Caught in the car's headlights is a child curled up beneath a plastic tarp. The boy is alive but unconscious, soaked to the bone and possibly hypothermic. Knowing an ambulance would take too long to reach them, Matthew impulsively puts the boy in his car, intending to get medical help. On the way, the boy awakens and becomes agitated, begging Matthew not to take him to a hospital or to call the police. Matthew sympathizes with the panicked boy, who looks to be the same age his son would have been. Overcome by longing, grief, and a need to make sense of everything that's happened to him, Matthew makes a dangerous choice-risking everything for a chance to face his past, move on from the pain, and forgive both his family and himself"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Bereavement; Choice (Psychology); College teachers; Helping behavior; Redemption;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Stolen prey / by Sandford, John,1944 Feb. 23-author.;
"Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the small Minnesota town of Deephaven, an entire family has been killed--husband, wife, two daughters, dogs. There's something about the scene that pokes at Lucas's cop instincts--it looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched-earth retribution he's seen in drug killings sometimes. But this is a seriously upscale town, and the husband was an executive vice president at a big bank. It just doesn't seem to fit. Until it does. And where it leads Lucas will take him into the darkest nightmare of his life"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Davenport, Lucas (Fictitious character); Private investigators; Families;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Deep freeze / by Sandford, John,1944 February 23-author.;
"Class reunions: a time for memories--good, bad, and, as Virgil Flowers is about to find out, deadly--in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series . Virgil knows the town of Trippton, Minnesota, a little too well. A few years back, he investigated the corrupt - and as it turned out, homicidal - local school board, and now the town's back in view with more alarming news: A woman's been found dead, frozen in a block of ice. There's a possibility that it might be connected to a high school class of twenty years ago that has a mid-winter reunion coming up, and so, wrapping his coat a little tighter, Virgil begins to dig into twenty years' worth of traumas, feuds, and bad blood. In the process, one thing becomes increasingly clear to him. It's true what they say: High school is murder"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Flowers, Virgil (Fictitious character); Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Class reunions;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Deep freeze [sound recording] / by Sandford, John,1944 February 23-author.; Conger, Eric,narrator.; Penguin Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Eric Conger."Class reunions: a time for memories--good, bad, and, as Virgil Flowers is about to find out, deadly--in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series . Virgil knows the town of Trippton, Minnesota, a little too well. A few years back, he investigated the corrupt - and as it turned out, homicidal - local school board, and now the town's back in view with more alarming news: A woman's been found dead, frozen in a block of ice. There's a possibility that it might be connected to a high school class of twenty years ago that has a mid-winter reunion coming up, and so, wrapping his coat a little tighter, Virgil begins to dig into twenty years' worth of traumas, feuds, and bad blood. In the process, one thing becomes increasingly clear to him. It's true what they say: High school is murder"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Flowers, Virgil (Fictitious character); Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Class reunions;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Gathering prey / by Sandford, John,1944 February 23-;
"The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winner John Sandford. They call them Travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, committing no crimes-they just like to stay on the move. And now somebody is killing them. Lucas Davenport's adopted daughter, Letty, is home from college when she gets a phone call from a woman Traveler she'd befriended in San Francisco. The woman thinks somebody's killing her friends, she's afraid she knows who it is, and now her male companion has gone missing. She's hiding out in North Dakota, and she doesn't know what to do. Letty tells Lucas she's going to get her, and, though he suspects Letty's getting played, he volunteers to go with her. When he hears the woman's story, though, he begins to think there's something in it. Little does he know in the days to come, he will embark upon an odyssey through a subculture unlike any he has ever seen, a trip that will not only put the two of them in danger-but just may change the course of his life"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Davenport, Lucas (Fictitious character); Homeless persons; Private investigators; Serial murder investigation;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The Good Girl / by Kubica, Mary,author.;
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Kidnapping; Rich people; Extortion; Man-woman relationships; Police; Amnesia;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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Stolen prey [sound recording] / by Sandford, John,1944 Feb. 23-; Ferrone, Richard.;
Read by Richard Ferrone."Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the small Minnesota town of Deephaven, an entire family has been killed--husband, wife, two daughters, dogs. There's something about the scene that pokes at Lucas's cop instincts--it looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched-earth retribution he's seen in drug killings sometimes. But this is a seriously upscale town, and the husband was an executive vice president at a big bank. It just doesn't seem to fit. Until it does. And where it leads Lucas will take him into the darkest nightmare of his life"--
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Audiobooks.; Davenport, Lucas (Fictitious character); Families; Private investigators;
© p2012., Penguin Audio,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Neon prey / by Sandford, John,1944 February 23-author.;
"Lucas Davenport tracks a prolific serial killer ... Clayton Deese looks like a small-time criminal, muscle for hire when his loan shark boss needs to teach someone a lesson. Now, seven months after a job that went south and landed him in jail, Deese has skipped out on bail, and the U.S. Marshals come looking for him. They don't much care about a low-level guy--it's his boss they want--but Deese might be their best chance to bring down the whole operation. Then, they step onto a dirt trail behind Deese's rural Louisiana cabin and find a jungle full of graves. Now Lucas Davenport is on the trail of a serial killer who has been operating for years without notice. His quarry is ruthless, and--as Davenport will come to find--full of surprises"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Davenport, Lucas (Fictitious character); Private investigators; Serial murder investigation; Serial murderers; Organized crime;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Thief River Falls / by Freeman, Brian,1963-author.;
"Lisa Power is a tortured ghost of her former self. The author of a bestselling thriller called Thief River Falls, named after her rural Minnesota hometown, Lisa is secluded in her remote house as she struggles with the loss of her entire family: a series of tragedies she calls the 'Dark Star.' Then a nameless runaway boy shows up at her door with a terrifying story: he's just escaped death after witnessing a brutal murder--a crime the police want to cover up. Obsessed with the boy's safety, Lisa resolves to expose this crime, but powerful men in Thief River Falls are desperate to get the boy back, and now they want her too. Lisa and her young visitor have nowhere to go as the trap closes around them. Still under the strange, unforgiving threat of the Dark Star, Lisa must find a way to save them both, or they'll become the victims of another shocking tragedy she can't foresee"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Murder; Grief; Child witnesses; Murder; Women authors; Police corruption;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Fargo [videorecording (DVD)] by Coen, Joel; McDormand, Frances; Macy, William H.,1950-; Buscemi, Steve,1958-;
Director of photography, Roger Deakins ; production design, Rick Heinrichs ; editor, Roderick Jaynes ; music, Carter Burwell.Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Harve Presnell, Peter Stormare.Based on actual events that took place in Minnesota in 1987. A midwestern policewoman tracks down killers responsible for a brutal series of crimes resulting from a bungled kidnapping.CHV rating: R.MPAA rating: R.NTSC 1, Dolby digital stereo surround.Academy Awards: Best Actress, Best Screenplay
Subjects: Kidnapping; Police films; Comedy films; Feature films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired;
© c2000., MGM Home Entermain,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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