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Hard to kill / by Patterson, James,1947-author.; Lupica, Mike,author.;
"Jane Smith is being hailed as James Patterson's greatest character yet, a tough-as-nails attorney up against a relentless killer. Hard to Kill features possibly the author's most stunning twist ever. Attorney Jane Smith is mounting an impossible criminal defense. Her client, Rob Jacobson, is the unluckiest of the unlucky. No sooner is he accused of killing a family of three in the Hamptons than a second family is gunned down. It's not double jeopardy. It's not double murder. It's double triple homicide. Jane's career has spanned from NYPD beat cop to Hamptons courtroom. She's tough to beat. She's even tougher to kill. The defense may never rest"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Legal fiction (Literature); Novels.; Attorney and client; Man-woman relationships; Murder; Serial murder investigation; Trials (Murder); Women lawyers;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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Hard to kill [text (large print)] / by Patterson, James,1947-author.; Lupica, Mike,author.;
"Jane Smith is being hailed as James Patterson's greatest character yet, a tough-as-nails attorney up against a relentless killer. Hard to Kill features possibly the author's most stunning twist ever. Attorney Jane Smith is mounting an impossible criminal defense. Her client, Rob Jacobson, is the unluckiest of the unlucky. No sooner is he accused of killing a family of three in the Hamptons than a second family is gunned down. It's not double jeopardy. It's not double murder. It's double triple homicide. Jane's career has spanned from NYPD beat cop to Hamptons courtroom. She's tough to beat. She's even tougher to kill. The defense may never rest"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Large print books.; Legal fiction (Literature); Novels.; Attorney and client; Man-woman relationships; Murder; Serial murder investigation; Trials (Murder); Women lawyers;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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The spider and the fly : a reporter, a serial killer, and the meaning of murder / by Rowe, Claudia,1966-author.;
Subjects: Francois, Kendall, 1971-2014; Francois, Kendall, 1971-2014.; Rowe, Claudia, 1966-; Serial murderers; Serial murders;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The night watch / by Lancaster, Neil(Crime author),author.;
He'll watch you. A lawyer is found dead at sunrise on a lonely clifftop at Dunnet Head on the northernmost tip of Scotland. It was supposed to be his honeymoon, but now his wife will never see him again. He'll hunt you. The case is linked to several mysterious deaths, including the murder of the lawyer's last client -- Scotland's most notorious criminal -- who had just walked free. DS Max Craigie knows this can only mean one thing: they have a vigilante serial killer on their hands. He'll leave you to die. But this time the killer isn't on the run; he's on the investigation team. And the rules are different when the murderer is this close to home. He knows their weaknesses, knows how to stay hidden, and he thinks he's above the law.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Detectives; Lawyers; Serial murder investigation; Vigilantes;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Raised by a serial killer : discovering the truth about my father / by Balascio, April,author.;
"One evening in 2009, April Balascio was searching online, as she had been every night, for unsolved murders in the towns her family had lived growing up, when she stumbled across the latest investigations into the "Sweetheart Murders" cold case. All at once, the buried memories of her father's dark history were awakened, and she knew she had to take action. She picked up the phone to call a detective and the rest is infamous true crime history. In her unflinching memoir, Balascio bravely reveals an astonishing tale of a lifetime of manipulation, unexplained upheavals, and silent fear. Some part of her had always known what her father was capable of, but the full truth of how she came to these revelations is as riveting as it is quietly terrifying. Through searing storytelling, dedicated research, and intimate insight, Raised by a Serial Killer is a gripping, courageous memoir unlike any other"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; True crime stories.; Personal narratives.; Balascio, April.; Edwards, Edward, 1933-2011.; Fathers and daughters.; Serial murder investigation; Serial murderers; Serial murders; Serial murders;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cruel acts / by Casey, Jane(Jane E.),author.;
"Leo Stone is a ruthless killer--or the victim of a miscarriage of justice. A year ago, he was convicted of the murder of two women and sentenced to life in prison. But now he's free, and according to him, he's innocent. DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent are determined to put Stone back behind bars where he belongs, but the more Maeve finds out, the less convinced she is of his guilt. Then another woman disappears in similar circumstances. Is there a copycat killer, or have they been wrong about Stone from the start?"--Jacket flap.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Women detectives; Police; Serial murder investigation; Women; Judicial error;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The prey : a novel / by Brennan, Allison.;
Staying in a borrowed Malibu beach house while her best-selling novel is made into a Hollywood film, Rowan Smith, a former FBI agent haunted by her past, finds her life becoming a nightmare when a dismembered body is found in Colorado, a victim who bears a striking resemblance to a character in her novel.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Romance fiction.; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Bodyguards; Serial murderers; Murder victims; Stalking victims; Children; Women novelists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The house of Cross / by Patterson, James,1947-author.;
Supreme Court candidates are being murdered. Alex Cross and John Sampson are handed the case. In Washington DC, the president-elect is planning her inauguration. The list of Supreme Court candidates is highly confidential--until it becomes evidence in Detective Alex Cross's toughest investigation. One candidate is gunned down. A second is stabbed. A third is murdered near midnight on a city street. Cross is the FBI's top expert in criminal behavior. For the sake of his family, his city, and his country, he must put himself in the most dangerous place there is: inside the mind of a diabolical killer.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Cross, Alex (Fictitious character); African American detectives; Detectives; Judges; Murder; Serial murderers;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The house of Cross [text (large print)] / by Patterson, James,1947-author.;
Supreme Court candidates are being murdered. Alex Cross and John Sampson are handed the case. In Washington DC, the president-elect is planning her inauguration. The list of Supreme Court candidates is highly confidential--until it becomes evidence in Detective Alex Cross's toughest investigation. One candidate is gunned down. A second is stabbed. A third is murdered near midnight on a city street. Cross is the FBI's top expert in criminal behavior. For the sake of his family, his city, and his country, he must put himself in the most dangerous place there is: inside the mind of a diabolical killer.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Large print books.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Cross, Alex (Fictitious character); African American detectives; Detectives; Judges; Murder; Serial murderers;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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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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