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681) Ripley under ground
Author
Series
Ripley novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
Tom Ripley has a lovely house in the French countryside, a beautiful and very rich wife, and an art collection worthy of a connoisseur. But this gracious life has not come easily; it is based on murder, forgery, and smuggling, and could topple at any moment.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
288 p. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
In this first omnibus volume from Geary's increasing storied Treasuries of Murder: The trilogy of murders from the Victorian Age that made up the very first volume of this series ; "Jack the Ripper" as only Geary can narrate it with his slightly ghoulish sense of irony ; "The Fatal Bullet" about the assassination of President James Garfield ; and "The Beast of Chicago" about H.H. Holmes, possibly the first series murderer with chilling methodical...
683) Cold threat
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Series
Formats
Description
"Twenty years ago, several people were murdered in Des Moines, and the only evidence left behind was a snowman ornament hanging ominously on a tree in the victims' front lawns. With a suspect behind bars, the killings have come to an end -- or so everyone thought. But now crimes with a similar MO are happening in a small Iowa town, and a local detective believes the killer is back and ready to strike again. With little time left on the clock before...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this homage to Agatha Christie, set in England, an amateur detective finds herself caught up in a real-life whodunit! Miranda Green is summoned to the remote mansion of billionaire Lewis Findley along with five mysterious strangers. What do they all have in common? What's become of their absent host? And who just murdered one of the guests in cold blood? Now Miranda must hunt for hidden clues, interview witnesses, and find the killer before she...
Author
Series
Thomas Austin crime thrillers volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
254 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Description
"Thomas Austin was once a prominent NYPD detective, known for locking up a psychopathic serial killer dubbed "The Holiday Baby Butcher." Now retired in a small beach town in the Pacific Northwest, Austin runs a little café, trying to overcome the loss of his wife, a DA who was gunned down only one year ago. But when a mysterious bag of bones appears on a nearby beach, Austin is dragged back into a world he thought he'd left behind. The Holiday Baby...
687) Frailty
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Meiks brothers, Fenton and Adam, have an idyllic relationship with their father. Their world is turned upside-down when their father suddenly announces that he has been visited by an angel who entrusted him with the holy mission of destroying "demons". Now, years after terrorizing a small Texas community, the God's Hand Killer has returned - leaving in his wake a perplexing trail of fear and death.
688) Beneath the darkness
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After watching their best friend get murdered, a group of teens struggle to expose a local hero as the vicious killer and keep from becoming his next victims.
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (147 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1738 in Paris, a baby is born under a fishmonger's bloody table in a marketplace and abandoned. Orphaned, passed over to the monks as a charity case, already there is something about the tiny infant that is unsettling. No one will look after him; he is somehow too demanding and, even more disturbing, something is missing: he doesn't smell the way a baby should; indeed, he has no scent at all. Yet Jean-Baptiste Grenouille clings stubbornly to life,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm
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Description
"A sinister novel based on the real Bloody Benders, a family of serial killers in the old West bound by butchery and obscured by the shadows of American history. The winds shift nervously on the Kansas plain whispering of travelers lost and buried, whispering of witches. Something dark and twisted has taken root at the Bender inn. At first the townspeople of Cherryvale welcome the rising medium Kate Bender and her family. Kate's messages from the...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"In 1969, the body of a young woman was discovered in the woods of Renton, rocking the communities along Puget Sound. Three more brutal murders followed, drawing the attention of multiple police agencies as they tried to piece together the meager clues left behind. The seemingly unrelated cases challenged detectives, who struggled to realize they were all connected to one man: Gary Gene Grant. Before the term "serial killer" was even coined, Grant...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young woman is unconscious, bleeding from a head wound. Hiding in the cellar is her husband, ready to wield a knife at anyone who tries to enter, desperate to protect his secret. What happens next leaves one of the officers dead, the other fighting for her career and Inspector Banks with a chilling murder investigation that will test him to the limit. The beauty and tranquility of England's Yorkshire Dales provides a striking and contrasting backdrop...
Author
Series
Ann Rule's crime files volume 14
Pub. Date
[2013].
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 11 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
Explores cases of people killed by trusted spouses, lovers, family members, or helpful strangers who turned on them, including the murder of Chuck Leonard, a middle school counselor who was an odd mix of family man and wild man.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 390 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A town wrapped in secrets. When the body of eleven-year-old Danny Latimer is found on the beach in Broadchurch on the Dorset coast, Detective Sergeant Ellie Miller and her newly-appointed boss, Detective Inspector Alec Hardy, are called to investigate. As suspicions mount and the mystery deepens, a national spotlight descends upon Broadchurch, threatening to pull the town, its residents and their secrets apart.
695) Prophet: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
468 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been nemeses and reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence officer and Rao is an ex-MI6 agent, an addict and rudderless pleasure hound, with the uncanny ability to discern the truth of things--about everyone and everything other than Adam. When an American diner turns up in a foggy field in the UK and is followed by a mysterious death, Adam and Rao are...
Author
Series
Colleen Hayes novels volume 5
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"As the '70s draw to a close in San Francisco, things do not bode well for the city--or for ex-con PI Colleen Hayes, whose daughter Pam, in a tragic turn of events, has lost her baby. Pam leaves San Francisco, and Colleen, who moved there to reunite with her, starts to wonder what she's doing in the Bay Area. Meanwhile, a serial killer given the name "Night Candy" is targeting sex workers, both male and female. The situation doesn't improve when Colleen's...
697) The fall: series 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 366 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DSI Stella Gibson continues her game of cat and mouse with serial killer Paul Spector in the third series of this smart psychological thriller. She has arrested Spector, but will he survive the gunshot wounds? Will he ever face justice?
698) Dark city
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When John Murdoch wakes with no memory at the scene of a grisly murder, he soon finds himself hunted by the police, a woman claiming to be his wife, and a mysterious group of pale men.
700) Child 44
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1953 Soviet Russia, secret police agent Leo Demidov loses status, power, and home when he refuses to denounce his own wife, Raisa, as a traitor. Exiled from Moscow to a grim provincial outpost, Leo and Raisa join forces with General Mikhail Nesterov to track down a serial killer who preys on young boys. Their quest for justice threatens a system-wide cover-up by Leo's psychopathic rival Vasili, who insists there is no crime in paradise.
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