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61) The stalking
Author
Series
Krewe of Hunters volume 29
Language
English
Description
"With the execution of a serial killer known as the Artiste, Cheyenne Donegal thinks a grim part of her past is finally put to rest. Her cousin had been the twisted killer's final victim, and then-teenage Cheyenne was integral in bringing him to justice. That tragedy drove her to become an FBI agent. And now she's back in Louisiana because someone is murdering young women in the same manner as the Artiste. Krewe of Hunters agent Andre Broussard has...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 322 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1937, Captain Korolev of Moscow's Criminal Investigation Division looks into the suicide of a young loyal party member who was intimately involved with a party director, a case that is unexpectedly linked to a treasonous plot.
Author
Publisher
Kregel Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Lochiel Ogle was born with a red-wine birthmark and it put her life in jeopardy from the moment she entered the world. Mountain folks called it "the mark of the devil," and for all the evil that has plagued her nineteen-year existence, Lochiel is ready to believe that is true. And the evil surely took control of the mind of the boy who stole her as an infant, bringing her home for his mother to raise.
64) Death amid gems
Author
Publisher
Avalon Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
183 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, in a jewelry television studio on Long Island, a young woman has been found beaten to death. Detective Zenoni and his partner Wildow soon realize it's not an open-and-shut case.
65) The ville rat
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
South Korea, 1974 : a young Korean woman dressed in a traditional chima-jeogori is found strangled to death on the frozen banks of the Sonyu River with only a carefully calligraphed poem in her sleeve.
66) 1st case
Author
Language
English
Description
Angela Hoot's unorthodox programming skills get her kicked out of MIT's graduate school-- and into the FBI's cyber-forensics unit as an intern. There's a messaging app with sophisticated tracking capabilities surfaces. Its beta users, all young women, are only identified as they turn up dead in their bedrooms. As Angela races to crack the killer's digital code, their technical rivalry escalates. She must deny the killer access to her personal life,...
Author
Series
Claire Watkins mystery volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deputy Sheriff Claire Watkins has had an easy summer in Fort St. Antoine, Wisconsin, the only problem is that her daughter Meg is leaving for college soon. When Claire walks down to the park to watch the Burning Boat, a large replica of a Norwegian longboat set on the shores of Lake Pepin, burned at the autumnal equinox she has no idea that more than just a wooden structure is going up in flames. The next day, the bones of a young woman are found...
68) Ghost month
Author
Series
Taipei Night Market volume 1
Language
English
Description
"August is Ghost Month in Taiwan--a time to commemorate the dead: burn incense, visit shrines, honor ancestors, and avoid unlucky situations, large purchases, and bodies of water. Jing-nan, a young man who runs a food stand in a bustling Taipei night market, doesn't consider himself superstitious, but this August is going to haunt him no matter what he does. He is shocked to the core when he learns his ex-girlfriend from high school has been murdered....
69) The current
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the dead of winter, outside a small Minnesota town, state troopers pull two young women and their car from the icy Black Root River. One is found downriver, drowned, while the other is found at the scene -- half frozen but alive. What happened was no accident, and news of the crime awakens the community's memories of another young woman who lost her life in the same river ten years earlier, and whose killer may still live among them. Determined...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's mid-September of 1893, and Eloisa Carstairs is the reigning beauty of Gilded Age Chicago society. To outsiders she appears to have it all. But Eloisa is living with a dark secret. Several months ago, she endured a horrible assault at the hands of Douglass Sloane, heir to one of Chicago's wealthiest families. Fearing the loss of her reputation, Eloisa has confided in only one friend. That is, until she meets Detective Sean Ryan at a high-society...
71) Thief of souls
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The brutal murder of a young woman in a rural village in Northern China sends shockwaves all the way to Beijing--but seemingly only Inspector Lu Fei, living in exile in the small town, is interested in justice for the victim. Lu Fei is a graduate of China's top police college but he's been assigned to a sleepy backwater town in northern China, where almost nothing happens and the theft of a few chickens represents a major crime wave. That is until...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Summer 1942. The world has been at war for three long and desperate years. In the remote English village of Little Buffenden, the Redfern family's house and farmland has been requisitioned by the War Office as a new airfield for the American Air Force. The village's Air Raid Warden, twentysomething Poppy Redfern, spends her nights patrolling the village and her days writing a novel of passion. It is a far cry from the experience of the other young...
73) Thirty girls
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Esther is a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities, who is struggling to survive, to escape, and to find a way to live with what she has seen and done. Jane is an American journalist who has traveled to Africa, hoping to give a voice to children like Esther and to find her center after a series of failed relationships. In unflinching prose, Minot interweaves their stories, giving...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First St. Martin's Press edition.
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this ingenious new twist on Mansfield Park, the famously meek Fanny Price---whom Jane Austen's own mother called "insipid"--has been utterly transformed; she is now a rich heiress who is spoiled, condescending, and generally hated throughout the county. Mary Crawford, on the other hand, is now as good as Fanny is bad, and suffers great indignities at the hands of her vindictive neighbor. It's only after Fanny is murdered on the grounds of Mansfield...
75) The Russian
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A series of gruesome murders in New York City has Michael Bennett angry -- but when he identifies similar cases in Atlanta and San Francisco, his feelings escalate into all-out alarm. All of the victims are young women. And each one is killed in a horrifyingly distinct fashion.In the midst of such devastating loss of life, Bennett's longtime love, Mary Catherine, is soon to become his bride. As Bennett toils to connect the cases, the killer strikes...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the small, affluent town of Fairview, Connecticut, everything seems picture perfect. Until one night when young Jenny Kramer is attacked at a local party. In the hours immediately after, she is given a controversial drug to medically erase her memory of the violent assault. But, in the weeks and months that follow, as she heals from her physical wounds, and with no factual recall of the attack, Jenny struggles with her raging emotional memory....
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 268 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set in first-century Jerusalem during the Feast of Tabernacles, a murdered servant girl is found in the palace of King Herod Antipas. The prefect, Pontius Pilate, is in attendance. The populace has already been buzzing over the brutal death of one of their prophets, John, known familiarly as the Baptizer, and scandal is in the air. Pilate wants no trouble and insists that there be an independent investigation into the murder. But Antipas will have...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A missing young woman, ten years gone. A town still held in the grip of an unsolved mystery. A decade ago in upstate New York, art student Emma McCullough walked into the woods and was never seen again. It's a mystery that still haunts her bucolic university town and her broken family, especially her sister Haley, whose need for closure has become an obsession. But now, finally, the first piece of evidence in the vanishing has been found: Emma's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The winter around Cheyenne, Wyoming, that year was devastating, killing both people and livestock. John Henry Cole was three miles out of town on his small ranch, waiting out the storm that was quickly killing his cattle and horses, and starting to feel a little crazy himself. Everything he owned was dying before his eyes, and there wasn't anything that he could do about it. When the storm finally blew itself out and the Chinook came, Cole surveyed...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In his many years as a commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known intuitively how to navigate the various pathways in his native city, Venice, to discover the person responsible. Now, in Transient Desires, the thirtieth novel in Donna Leon's masterful series, he faces a heinous crime committed outside his jurisdiction. He is drawn in innocently enough: two young American women have been badly injured in a boating accident,...
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