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1) Damage
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
His career derailed by the vengeful billionaire Curtlee family for his part in convicting one of their number for murder, former homicide detective Abe Glitsky learns that the killer has won a retrial at the same time a star witness has been murdered.
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this thrilling novel from the acclaimed Dismas Hardy series, Hardy’s friend and client finds himself the prime suspect in a homicide investigation.
While Dismas Hardy has built a solid legal practice and a happy family, his friend John Holiday, a proprietor of a rundown local bar, has not followed the same path. Despite this, Hardy has remained Holiday’s attorney and confidant, and when Holiday is suspected of murder,...
While Dismas Hardy has built a solid legal practice and a happy family, his friend John Holiday, a proprietor of a rundown local bar, has not followed the same path. Despite this, Hardy has remained Holiday’s attorney and confidant, and when Holiday is suspected of murder,...
3) Code triage
Author
Series
Mercy Hospital (Candace Calvert) volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Language
English
Formats
Description
ER doctor Leigh Stathos has accepted that nothing lasts forever-- including her marriage to San Francisco police officer Nick Stathos. He, however, is determined to save their relationship. An unexpected emergency at Golden Gate Mercy Hospital may just give them the chance they both need.
Author
Language
English
Description
On a residential Bay Area block struggling with the collision of gentrifier condos and longtime residents, stymied recent MFA grad Philip Kim is sleeping the night away when bullets fly through a window in his apartment building and end up killing one of his neighbors. Philip only learns about the murder the next day when bored and Googling himself. But when he gets caught up in the investigation he becomes the focus of an elaborate, violent scheme....
5) Sacrifice
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
6) Squeeze play
Author
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
456 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
7) White rabbit
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Kate Martinelli mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
Night Work
Kate and her partner, Al Hawkin, are called to a scene of carefully executed murder: the victim is a muscular man, handcuffed and strangled, a stun gun's faint burn on his chest and candy in his pocket. The likeliest person to want him dead, his often-abused wife, is meek and frail—and has an airtight alibi. Kate and Al are stumped, until a second body turns up—also zapped, cuffed, and strangled...and carrying a candy bar....
Kate and her partner, Al Hawkin, are called to a scene of carefully executed murder: the victim is a muscular man, handcuffed and strangled, a stun gun's faint burn on his chest and candy in his pocket. The likeliest person to want him dead, his often-abused wife, is meek and frail—and has an airtight alibi. Kate and Al are stumped, until a second body turns up—also zapped, cuffed, and strangled...and carrying a candy bar....
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
566 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Experiencing vivid dreams about serial murders taking place in San Francisco, homicide detective Bryan Clauser fears he is losing his sanity and discovers a link between the victims and a young boy who is gripped by the same nightmares.
10) Last seen
Author
Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In August, San Francisco is a cold beauty...and the perfect place for a killer targeting young women visiting the Bay Area. The latest victim is Emma Barre, a deaf French teenager. Emma is also brilliant and due to enter one of France?s best universities. Her only hope is troubled SFPD Detective Michael O'Higgins, currently taking Acid as part of an experimental program for PSTD patients. but can O'Higgins see clearly enough to track down an elusive...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
San Francisco Inspector Vincent Gratelli is charged with finding the killer of young women-- all murdered in the same way, all left with an intimate mark. The most recent victim was beaten and raped in her weekend cabin. There appears to be only one difference-- she is still alive. Which leaves Gratelli with two questions: how can these murders be stopped... and how does the killer feel about unfinished business?
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 18
Language
English
Description
Detective Lindsay Boxer and her husband Joe Molinari team up to protect San Francisco from an international war criminal in the newest Women's Murder Club thriller. For a trio of colleagues, an innocent night out after class ends in a deadly torture session. They vanish without a clue -- until a body turns up. With the safety of San Francisco's entire school system as stake, Lindsay Boxer has never been under more pressure. To solve the School Night...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
San Francisco homicide inspector Ben Raveneau, and his ambitious new partner, Elizabeth la Rosa, catch their first case together when a young woman is found strangled in an empty building in China Basin. The victim's identity is unknown, a false confession leads nowhere, and the case spins unresolved. Meanwhile, the death of cancer-ridden homicide inspector Ted Whiteacre raises questions about an old case Whiteacre solved years before when he arrested...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-two years to the day, a videotape of an unsolved 1989 murder arrives at the San Francisco Homicide Detail. So begins homicide inspector Ben Raveneau's toughest cold case. The victim, Alan Krueger, a former Secret Service agent, carried in his coat sixty-one $100 bills. In 1989, the Secret Service inspected the bills and called them legitimate. They take another look now and say, counterfeit. But there's more. There's a link to the present...
15) The dark room
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
""Suspense that never stops. If you like Michael Connelly's novels, you will gobble up Jonathan Moore's The Dark Room." --James Patterson ; The heart-pounding follow-up to the "electrifying" Poison Artist shows what happens when our deepest secrets are unburied." --Stephen King ; Gavin Cain, an SFPD homicide inspector, is in the middle of an exhumation when his phone rings. San Francisco's mayor is being blackmailed and has ordered Cain back to the...
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