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In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land, Jonathan Whicher of Scotland Yard. Whicher quickly believed the unbelievable--that someone within the family was responsible for the murder of young Saville Kent. Without...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
As a veteran of the Royal Navy and longtime police officer, Colin Butcher was no stranger to dangerous situations. But a career in uniform can wear anyone down, so, in 2003, Colin left the force to start his own private detective agency, specializing in helping reunite people with their missing pets. And yet, despite his hundreds of successes, there were still heartbreaking cases where Colin couldn't find the missing on his own. He knew he needed...
Author
Publisher
Headline Book Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
D. I. Marnie Rome has faced many dangerous criminals but she has never come up against a man like Harm. She thinks that she knows families, their secrets and their fault lines. But as she begins investigating the girl's disappearance nothing can prepare her for what she's about to face.
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Publisher
Dundurn Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"After years working in homicide, retired Toronto detective Steve Ryan reflects on six cases he will never forget. Retired detective Steve Ryan worked in Toronto's homicide squad for over a decade. For him, the stories of Toronto's most infamous crimes were more than just a headline read over morning coffee -- they were his everyday life. After investigating over one hundred homicides, the tragedies Steve saw will never leave him and he'll never forget...
Author
Series
Sarah Deane mysteries volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Author
Series
Maddie Castle volume 3
Publisher
Liquid Mind Media, LLC
Pub. Date
©2023
Language
English
Description
A killer has returned and his reign of terror has only just begun. An unstoppable killer stalks the city, leaving a mounting body count in his wake. As panic and fear grip Pittsburgh, the FBI is brought in to assist the local police with the manhunt, hoping to prevent further bloodshed. Retired Pittsburgh K9 Handler Maddie Castle is pulled into the manhunt. She has experienced the killer's deadly handiwork firsthand. He left her crippled in body and...
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Series
(Lisa L.).Detective Josie Quinn thriller volume 13
Publisher
Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the thin glow of moonlight, a mess of auburn curls gleams against the rocks. Hands bound, the girl's fragile body is limp and still. Seconds later, a wall of raging white water crashes down, swallowing her whole... A knock on the door late in the evening can only mean trouble for Detective Josie Quinn, but fear chokes her at the news that one of her own team is missing. No one has seen Denton PD's Press Liaison Amber for days. Sweet-natured and...
Author
Series
Miss Seeton mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1993, c1990
Language
English
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Publisher
Audio Renaissance
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
With an Updated Epilogue by the Author
When a call girl from Kiev dies in the line of duty, detectives Chuck Knolls and Brian McCartin seek her killer among a circle of Russian women who have been sold into white slavery. When a gangster's daughter takes a bullet, veterans Jerry Stephens and Paul Coulter trace clues scattered across the country to a Manhattan real-estate magnate. A cold case is reopened; a mother-daughter drowning and a baffling...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A wide-ranging portrait of the legendary leader of the Untouchables traces his years after his famous confrontation with Al Capone, documenting his efforts to end corruption in Cleveland and his achievements throughout the Torso Murderer case
Author
Publisher
Down East Books, an imprint of Globe Pequot
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Tim Cotton has been a police officer for more than thirty years. The writer in him has always been drawn to the stories of the people he has met along the way. Dealing with the standard issue ne'er-do-wells as a patrol officer, homicide detective, polygraph examiner, and later as the lieutenant in charge of the criminal investigation division certainly provides an interesting backdrop--but more often he writes about the regular folks he encounters,...
16) Save her soul
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Series
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Josie flinches as she takes in the faded blue sports jacket wrapped around the girl they just pulled from the water. Josie knew someone who'd once owned that jacket. He had died in her arms five years ago. Heavy rain pours on the small town of Denton causing the riverbanks to break and the body of a young girl to float quietly to the surface. With no crime scene to examine, the odds are against Detective Josie Quinn and her team. Mercifully, the...
19) Charlie Chan: the untold story of the honorable detective and his rendezvous with American history
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Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A biography of cinematic hero Charlie Chan, based on the real-life Chinese immigrant detective, Chang Apana, whose bravado inspired mystery writer Earl Derr Biggers to depict his fictional sleuth as a wisecracking and wise investigator rather than a stereotype
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