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By Don D'Ammassa. 2004
Recuperating from a nervous disorder on the planet Meadow, Wes Avery discovers a corpse that subsequently disappears. When local authorities…
seem intent on concealing the truth, Wes and artificial intelligence programmer Dona Tharmody attempt to identify the body. They discover possible ties between the murder and a secretive politician. 2004By Anne Perry. 2005
Cambridge, England; 1916. After being wounded at Flanders, chaplain Joseph Reavley returns home to recuperate. When someone murders scientist Theo…
Blaine, Joseph searches the Scientific Establishment for the traitor, who may have also betrayed his parents. Sequel to Shoulder the Sky (RC 59439, BR 15592). 2005By Karin Slaughter. 2005
Georgia medical examiner Sara Linton and her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, investigate the death of a girl who was…
buried alive. They suspect a religious cult at the victim's farming collective after yet another grave is discovered. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2005By Margaret Truman. 2006
Washington Tribune crime reporter Joe Wilcox is pressured to compete with TV and tabloid news counterparts, including his daughter Roberta,…
a broadcast journalist. After a reporter is murdered in the newsroom, Joe investigates and Roberta hunts for a suspect. Meanwhile Joe's ex-con brother returns to town. Some strong language. 2005By Robert Crais. 2006
After serving ten years in prison, forty-six-year-old bank robber Max Holman is released on parole only to discover his estranged…
son--an LAPD policeman--has been murdered. Max contacts ex-FBI agent Katherine Pollard--the very agent who arrested him--to help him find his son's killers. Strong language and some violence. Bestseller. 2006By Joyce Krieg. 2005
Sacramento radio talk show host Shauna Bogart struggles with work problems when her boss forces her to give air time…
to a psychic. Then someone kills Shauna's former intern during a drug deal, and the grandmother of the accused killer asks Shauna to prove the grandson's innocence. 2005By James Patterson. 2006
Attorney Tom Dunleavy defends African American high school basketball player Dante Halleyville against murder charges in the wealthy beach community…
of East Hampton. Tom recruits help from his ex-lover, lawyer Kate Costello, while dogged Detective Raiborne uncovers startling revelations. Strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some violence. Bestseller. 2006By Anne Perry. 2005
Cantankerous Grandmama from the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series solves a mystery of her own after a visiting relative is…
murdered during the holidays. The family's indifference to the death raises Grandmama's suspicions. Along the way she uncovers secrets and discovers the meaning of Christmas. 2005By Jon Courtenay Grimwood. 2005
After escaping from prison, ZeeZee flies to Ottoman North Africa and assumes the identity of Pashazade Ashraf al-Mansur. Suspected of…
murdering a woman claiming to be his aunt, Ashraf searches for the real killer and his own true heritage. Strong language, some explicit descriptions of sex, and some violence. 2001By Scott Westerfeld. 2004
Hunter, a New York City teenager paid by corporations to spot what is "cool," combines his analytical skills with his…
girlfriend Jen's creative talents to find his missing boss Mandy. They thwart a plot to subvert a consumer system based on trends and profit. For senior high readers. 2004By Stephen King. 2005
Vince Teague and Dave Bowie, elderly editors of a small Maine island's newspaper, relate a twenty-five-year-old murder case to their…
young intern Stephanie McCann. It is 1980; a man discovered dead on the local beach remains unknown until the men track his identity back to Colorado. Some strong language. 2005By Michael Simmons. 2005
When his father is framed for murder and bioterrorism, sixteen-year-old Evan uses clues from a laptop he stole to find…
the real culprit. Joined by his friends Erika and Ruben, Evan travels from Seattle to Paris with his father's credit card to learn the truth. For senior high readers. 2005By Michele Jaffe. 2006
While vacationing with her family in Las Vegas, seventeen-year-old Irish Jamaican Jasmine Callihan stumbles upon a murder. With the help…
of her friends from California, aspiring police detective Jasmine investigates--and also falls in love. For senior high readers. 2006By Roland Smith. 2005
With his trial date approaching, drug czar Alonzo Aznar kidnaps Jack and his sister Joanne. They attempt a daring escape…
while their parents, aided by some old friends, plan a rescue. Sequel to Zach's Lie (BR 14667). For grades 6-9. 2005By Jacqueline Winspear. 2005
London, 1930. Psychologist/investigator Maisie Dobbs is hired by Sir Cecil Lawton to discover the fate of his son Ralph, who…
was supposedly killed in France during the Great War. Maisie, a former battlefield nurse, faces her own demons from the past when she returns to the continent. 2005By Karen Harper. 2006
London, 1566. Someone has murdered the royal household's starcher. Elizabeth Tudor goes undercover with the help of her herb mistress…
Meg Milligrew to expose the culprit desperate enough to kill for the monopoly in the new starch industry. 2006By Ralph McInerny. 2005
Twenty-two-year-old Martha Lynch seeks to find the identity of her birth mother while her biological father, Nathaniel Fleck, simultaneously tries…
to learn the fate of his child. Both Father Dowling and attorney Amos Cadbury know the truth but have doubts about sharing it. Then someone murders Fleck. 2005By Michael Robotham. 2006
Detective Vincent Ruiz from Suspect (RC 59810, BR 15893) has amnesia when police find him wounded in the Thames River.…
He enlists psychologist Joe O'Loughlin's help to regain his memory and learn why he's been investigating the case of a girl kidnapped three years ago. Violence and strong language. 2006By Melinda Leigh. 2021
Twenty-seven years ago, sheriff Bree Taggert's father killed her mother and then committed suicide. Now Bree and her younger brother…
Adam find human remains on their family farm, murdered in the same manner. The two suspects are Bree's dad and an unlikely squatter. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2021By Don Winslow. 2023
30th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by the author From domestic war to barroom brawls, grad-student-turned-PI Neal Carey's got…
more than studying on his plate. Neal Carey's three-year confinement in a Chinese monastery is finally over, but his troubles are just beginning. The elusive financial benefactors who have bought his freedom expect a return on their investment. They want him to find Cody McCall, a two-year-old boy recently abducted by his father in a bitter Hollywood custody battle, a task that will propel Neal from the glittering Hollywood hills to the remote wilds of Nevada. To find Cody, Neal has to turn outlaw in a land of two-bit casinos and roadside cathouses to infiltrate a vicious white supremacist group spouting hatred and dealing in terror. But the deeper undercover he goes, the deadlier the game becomes. Now Neal must force a showdown with the group's crazed leader and find Cody before the missing toddler ends up lost in a world of unspeakable evil