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1) Dear Martin
Author
Language
English
Description
Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
Author
Series
Guardians of justice volume 2
Language
English
Description
Social worker Alison Taylor has a passion for protecting children and seeing that justice is served on their behalf, but when she starts getting harassing phone calls and bizarre "gifts, " it seems she may be the one in need of protection.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Detective, Renée Ballard, who has been exiled to the night shift after unsuccessfully challenging the LAPD's old-boy network by bringing sexual-harassment charges against her boss. Chafing at the lot of the "late show" detective, who must launch investigations only to turn them over to the day shift when morning comes, Renée continues to investigate, off the books, two crimes that land on her plate: the beating of a prostitute and the murder of...
Author
Series
Guardians of justice volume 3
Language
English
Description
When Kelly Warren claims her father's suicide was really murder, Detective Cole Taylor becomes embroiled in an investigation that reveals a startling secret.
Author
Series
Lucky Harbor novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
When she gets into trouble yet again, free-spirited Chloe finds herself at the mercy of Sheriff Sawyer Thompson, who wants to tame her wild ways and prove to her that Lucky Harbor is the perfect place to settle down.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In Khan's Blood Betrayal, even as Det. Inaya Rahman investigates the police killing of a young Black man in Blackwater falls, a drug raid in neighboring Denver ends with the killing of teenager Mateo Ruiz by a police officer whose father begs Inaya to prove his innocence—never mind that he himself was one of her major opponents when she was on the Denver police force.
Author
Series
Eagles series volume 17
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
When he exposes a conspiracy of greed and corruption in Sorrento, Texas, acting U.S. Marshal Falcon MacCallister is sentenced to hang and plots his revenge on the three men who have taken over Sorrento, refusing to go to the gallows quietly.
8) In seconds
Author
Series
Bulletproof trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"In the whole state of Montana, there's nowhere to hide. Laurel Hodges has changed her identity twice. She's been on the run for the past four years, trying to outdistance the men who blame her for the death of one of their own. She's finally found the peace and stability she needs, for herself and her two children, in the small town of Pineview, Montana. But just when she thinks they're safe-- the nightmare starts all over again. The Crew, a ruthless...
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
Nebraska, 1876. The western frontier is wild and needs a lawman who can tame it. Joe Mundy is such a man. A veteran of the Civil War and Indian wars, he once wore a badge in the booming cattle town of Baxter Springs, Kansas. A deadly gunfight with a prominent rancher costs him that badge. He finds his next job enforcing the law in Taylorsville, a new town in the sandhills of Nebraska. The little town is on the road to the lawless Black Hills gold...
Author
Publisher
GCP
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call and the only one on the property at the time of death. As far as the state is concerned, it's an open and shut case. Jack Lee, born and raised in Freeman County, knows that every man deserves a solid defense and agrees to...
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Series
Kerney Family trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Struggling with the death of his wife in childbirth at the end of the nineteenth century, John Kerney gives up his Texas ranch to pursue the outlaws responsible for his brother's murder and participates in nearly half a century of turbulent history in New Mexico Territory.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...
14) In close
Author
Series
Bulletproof trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Claire O'Toole's mother, Alana, went missing fifteen years ago. That was big news in Pineview, Montana, the kind of town where nothing ever happens. Then last year, Claire's husband David died in a freak accident - after launching his own investigation into Alana's disappearance. Is Alana dead? Or did she simply abandon her husband and daughters? Claire is determined to find out - and her former boyfriend, Isaac Morgan, wants to help. Together, Claire...
15) Wife most wanted
Author
Series
Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
16) Watched
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Moving quickly throughout his Queens immigrant neighborhood to avoid the watchful eyes of his hardworking Bangladeshi parents, their gossipy neighbors and surveillance cameras mounted everywhere, charismatic but troubled youth Naeem is offered a deal by the cops to become a community protector in ways that challenge his sense of identity.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the sleepy New Mexico backwater of Plata, Deputy Sheriff Ogden Walker spends his time humoring his portly boss, chasing vandals, and fly-fishing. But when a woman is murdered under strange circumstances, his life takes a turn for the worse. Over three disturbing cases, Walker scours the seedy underbelly of Denver, a ragtag hippie commune, and a fish hatchery. He is on the search for solutions to the questions he is foolish enough to ask. The answers,...
18) Sundown
Author
Publisher
Center Point Publishing
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Center Point large print edition.
Physical Desc
421 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hell had come a-callin' on the remote cattletown of Sand Creek, Nebraska Territory. Wide-spread rustling from the area's ranches was about to destroy the local cattle industry, and the recently opened Black Hills, with its gold camps like Custer City and Deadwood, were prime markets for the stolen beef. That's why the Cattlemen's Association brought in Luke Howard and a handful of others as Range Detectives, men experienced in the ways of cattle...
19) Inside
Author
Series
Bulletproof trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After serving fourteen years for a murder he didn't commit, Virgil Skinner still can't escape the gang he joined in order to survive. And he fears they'll go after his sister and her kids. The California Department of Corrections needs someone to infiltrate another gang, and Virgil agrees to do it in exchange for his sister's protection. But Chief Deputy Warden Peyton Adams is opposed. How will she protect him if things go bad? Besides, she's far...
20) Blind betrayal
Author
Series
Defenders of justice volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
377 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
After two years at the St. Louis U.S. Marshal's Office, Casey Sloane is tasked with escorting a reporter to D.C. to testify before a grand jury. The reporter's research on an up-and-coming environmentalist who disappeared is now even more vital than anticipated. At first, the assignment seems routine. But an attack on the Marshal's Office puts everyone on high alert. When Casey and two other marshals--one a man from her past--are forced on the run...
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