The Silkworm
Private investigator Cormoran Strike investigates the bizarre murder of novelist Owen Quine, who just finished a manuscript revealing the dark secrets of almost everyone he knows.
FIC
year:
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 970
The Vanishing Season
"For Maggie Larsen, the town of Gill Creek is only a stopgap before college and freedom.
FIC
year:
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
Thankless In Death
As Thanksgiving 2060 draws near, Lieutenant Eve Dallas, thankful for having Roarke and his family in her life, investigates the murders of the Reinholds and tries to locate their son, twenty-six-year-old Jerry, who killed them and has begun targeting anyone who has crossed him in the past.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: dallas, eve (fictitious character), murder, dallas, eve (fictional character), homicide [X], criminal investigation [X]
Frog Music
"Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Cartwheel
Five weeks after arriving in Buenos Aires as part of a foreign exchange program, Lily Hayes is arrested for murdering her roommate.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: homicide [X], murder, criminal investigation [X], americans, women college students, suspense fiction
A Dying Fall
An old friend's death sends Ruth to Lancaster to investigate an important archeological discovery, but what she finds is a mystery that may have gotten her friend murdered.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: archaeology, criminal investigation [X], homicide [X], archeologists, archeology, lancashire (england)
The Outcast Dead
While on a dig at Norwich Castle, forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway uncovers the bones of Mother Hook, a serial killer who was executed in 1867 for the murder of five children, while DCI Harry Nelson investigates a serial child-abductor called the Childminder.
FIC
year:
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: criminal investigation [X], homicide [X], missing children, women forensic anthropologists, galloway, ruth (fictional character), norfolk (england)
The Tulip Eaters
After her mother is murdered and her baby girl goes missing, Nora de Jong must delve into her family's dark past to find a killer who may not be a stranger.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: secrecy, criminal investigation [X], homicide [X], missing children, mother-daughter relationship
Mission Flats
The chief of police in Versailles, Maine, Ben Truman is confronted by a difficult case when a district attorney is found murdered and he must follow a trail of fragile clues that takes him to Boston and to dark secrets and old crimes with ties to the highest echelons of the Boston Police Department.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
The Dead In Their Vaulted Arches
Young chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce uses her knowledge of poisons and her indefatigable spirit to solve a dastardly crime in the English countryside while learning new clues about her mother's disappearance.
FIC
year:
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 930
subjects: secrecy, criminal investigation [X], homicide [X], girls, de luce, flavia (fictional character)
December Dread
Mira James investigates a serial killer who uses online dating sites to seduce and kill women who look just like her--and leaves a candy cane as his calling card.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
January Thaw
In her new home in small town Minnesota, private-detective-in-training Mira James must investigate a 150-year cold case, as well as a present-day spate of drug-trafficking.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
November Hunt
When deer hunter Tom Kicker is killed in a hunting accident, Mira James braves a winter blizzard to investigate and discovers dark secrets that incriminate the town's most prominent families.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Cold Cases
Explains that old unsolved crimes called cold cases are kept on file, but when new evidence or new crime-science techniques become available these cold cases are reopened, and describes techniques that can be used including bloodstain analysis, ballistics, forensic document analysis, DNA analysis, and more.
363.25
year: 2014
copies: 3
call number/section: 363.25
lexile:
subjects: cold cases (criminal investigation), murder, dna, crime scenes, criminal investigation [X], homicide [X]
The Burning Room
When the victim of a crime succumbs to complications from a bullet wound from nine years ago, Detective Harry Bosch and his new partner, Lucia Soto must find new leads from the past.
FIC
year:
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: bosch, harry, homicide [X], criminal investigation [X], police, mystery fiction, los angeles (calif.)