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Get even / by Cole, Martina,author.;
Sharon Conway and Lenny Scott are childhood sweethearts. Everyone says they are too young, but nothing can keep them apart. Sharon doesn't question Lenny's business dealings and it isn't long before his reputation as a hard man destined for the top means they are living the good life with their sons. But one night Lenny doesn't come home. It isn't the first time he has gone AWOL ... but it is his last. He is found murdered - beaten to death in an act of brutality that shocks even the police. And Sharon never knows why. Now, 20 years later, she's about to find out the truth. Such a crime cannot go unpunished. Revenge is long overdue. The time has come to ... get even!
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Revenge;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Alibi / by La Plante, Lynda,author.;
Identical and brutal assaults on three women. One woman survives to give a detailed description of her attacker. The police arrest a suspect, Damon Morton, confident he is their man. But three of his employees admit to the crimes and Morton's wife and girlfriend provide him with an alibi. They all declare Damon Morton innocent. The police know he did it. But if people lie under oath in a court of law -- who can the jury believe?
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Legal fiction (Literature); Novels.; Police; Serial murders; Trials (Murder); Women;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Not dark yet / by Robinson, Peter,1950-author.;
Investigating the murder of a property developer in Yorkshire, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and his team begin scanning the victim's security tapes only to discover that a brutal second crime was also captured.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Banks, Alan (Fictitious character); Murder; Police;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Cop Killer A Martin Beck Police Mystery (9) [electronic resource] : by Sjowall, Maj.aut; Wahloo, Per.aut; Marklund, Liza.; cloudLibrary;
The shocking ninth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö finds Beck investigating parallel cases that have shocked a small rural community.   In a country town, a woman is brutally murdered and left buried in a swamp. There are two main suspects: her closest neighbor and her ex-husband. Meanwhile, on a quiet suburban street a midnight shootout takes place between three cops and two teenage boys. Dead, one cop and one kid. Wounded, two cops. Escaped, one kid. Martin Beck and his partner Lenart Kollberg are called in to investigate. As Beck digs deeper into the murky waters of the young girl’s murder, Kollberg scours the town for the teenager, and together they are forced to examine the changing face of crime.  
Subjects: Electronic books.; International Mystery & Crime; Crime; Police Procedural;
© 2010., Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group,
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The Marlow Murder Club : a novel / by Thorogood, Robert,author.;
"Judith Potts is seventy-seven years old and blissfully happy. She lives on her own in a faded mansion just outside Marlow, there's no man in her life to tell her what to do or how much whisky to drink, and to keep herself busy she sets crosswords for The Times newspaper. One evening, while out swimming in the Thames, Judith witnesses a brutal murder. The local police don't believe her story, so she decides to investigate for herself, and is soon joined in her quest by Suzie, a salt-of-the-earth dog-walker, and Becks, the prim and proper wife of the local vicar. Together, they are the Marlow Murder Club. When another body turns up, they realize they have a real-life serial killer on their hands. And the puzzle they set out to solve has become a trap from which they might never escape ..."--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Crossword puzzles; Female friendship; Murder; Older women; Serial murder investigation; Serial murderers; Witnesses;
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Luther. [videorecording] / by Amuka-Bird, Nikki.; Brown, Warren,1978-; Cross, Neil.; Elba, Idris.; Miller, Sam,1962 Sept. 28-; Swinden, Katie.; 2 Entertain (Firm); BBC Video (Firm); BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.; British Broadcasting Corporation.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Idris Elba, Warren Brown, Nikki Amuka-Bird.Originally broadcast by BBC1 June 14-July 5, 2011.John Luther, the near-genius detective struggling with his own demons, returns with two distinctive, thrilling crime stories. Devastated by the brutal murder of his wife, John Luther returns to policing in a different world. His old unit has gone and he's working in the newly created Serious and Serial unit, headed by former police complaints officer Martin Schenk. Luther quickly gathers together his team, rescuing his old partner Detective Justin Ripley from uniform.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Detective and mystery television programs.; Gifted persons; Police; Serial murderers; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
For private home use only.
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Crimson Lake / by Fox, Candice,author.;
Six minutes in the wrong place at the wrong time--that's all it took to ruin Sydney detective Ted Conkaffey's life. Accused but not convicted of a brutal abduction,Ted is now a free man--and public enemy number one. Maintaining his innocence, he flees north to keep a low profile amidst the steamy, croc-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake. There, Ted's lawyer introduces him to eccentric private investigator Amanda Pharrell, herself a convicted murderer. Not entirely convinced Amanda is a cold-blooded killer, Ted agrees to help with her investigation.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Police; Ex-police officers; Missing persons; Women private investigators;
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Crimson Lake [sound recording] / by Fox, Candice,author.; Morton, Euan,1977-narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Euan Morton.Six minutes in the wrong place at the wrong time--that's all it took to ruin Sydney detective Ted Conkaffey's life. Accused but not convicted of a brutal abduction,Ted is now a free man--and public enemy number one. Maintaining his innocence, he flees north to keep a low profile amidst the steamy, croc-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake. There, Ted's lawyer introduces him to eccentric private investigator Amanda Pharrell, herself a convicted murderer. Not entirely convinced Amanda is a cold-blooded killer, Ted agrees to help with her investigation.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Police; Ex-police officers; Missing persons; Women private investigators;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Moonflower murders : a novel / by Horowitz, Anthony,1955-author.;
"Farlingaye Hall is a beautiful hotel in Suffolk on the east coast of England. Unfortunately, it is also the site of the brutal murder of Frank Parris, a retired advertising executive. Stefan Codrescu, a Romanian maintenance man, is arrested after police find blood spatter on his clothes and bed linen. He is found guilty and spends eight years in prison. It appears an open-and-shut case, but there is more [here] than meets the eye"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Missing persons; Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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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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