Catalog Search Results
1) Blood memory
Author
Language
English
Description
Forensic expert Cat Ferry is called in by the New Orleans police department to investigate a series of murders, and, when old, bloody footprints are discovered in the carpet fibers of her childhood bedroom, she is faced with the trauma of her father's murder years earlier and demons from her past.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Miami crime scene investigator--and a serial killer dedicated to eliminating evil people--Dexter Morgan confronts his ultimate adversary, a sinister enemy that even terrifies Dexter's inner monster, and must use his sharpest investigative talents to find and destroy his enemy.
3) Skinny dip
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Doctoring water samples to help his corrupt agribusiness employer to continue illegal dumping in the Everglades, biologist Chaz Perrone attempts to murder his wife, who has figured out his scam and who survives to plot her husband's downfall.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This thriller pits forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme and his partner Amelia Sachs against an unstoppable "invisible" killer. As the fatalities rise and the minutes tick down, they must move beyond the smoke and mirrors to prevent a terrifying act of vengeance that could become the greatest vanishing act of all.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In 1780s London, Dr. Thomas Silkstone investigates the mysterious disappearance of the sole survivor of an ill-fated scientific expedition, which is linked to a potion that has the power to raise the dead, drawing him into a dark world of vengeance, murder and the trafficking of corpses for profit.
Author
Series
Dexter books volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Life's tough for Dexter Morgan. It's not easy being the world's only serial killer with a conscience, especially when you work for the Miami police. To avoid suspicion, Dexter's had to slip deep into his disguise: spending time with his girlfriend and her kids, slowly becoming the world's first serial killing couch potato. Then a particularly nasty psychopath starts cutting a trail through Miami - a killer whose twisted techniques leave even Dexter...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Renowned criminologist Lincoln Rhyme faces his ultimate opponent: a kidnapper and murderer dubbed the Insect Boy. But Rhyme is in for a surprise when he learns that catching a criminal is one thing... and keeping him is another. Now the quadriplegic Rhyme, who is in North Carolina to undergo risky spinal cord surgery, finds himself hunting a ruthless killer in the heart of a southern swampland--and going head-to-head with his protégé, Amelia Sachs,...
Author
Language
English
Description
In Oklahoma, a woman scientist on the verge of a medical breakthrough in genetics becomes the target of a hired assassin. She is Kate Denby, a single mother in her thirties, and the incident leads to her becoming involved romantically with two men. One is a fellow scientist who spirits her away where she can continue her research, the other is the mercenary protecting them.
11) Arizona dreams
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a former student turns up in David Mapstone's office, she seems to have the perfect case for this history-professor-turned-deputy: a letter left by her deceased father, confessing to a forty-year-old murder and providing directions to the body. But things are never what they seem in Phoenix, a fast-buck city of newcomers seeking fresh starts from sometimes dark pasts.
Just ask David's wife, Deputy Lindsey Faith Mapstone. One morning
...Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When a perfectly preserved "mummy" is discovered in the dusty basement of Boston's Crispin Museum and an archaeologist turns up missing, medical examiner Maura Isles and Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli have precious little time to derail the Archaeology Killer before he adds another chilling piece to his monstrous collection.
14) Dry heat
Author
Series
David Mapstone mystery volume 03
Language
English
Formats
Description
Half a century after the unsolved murder of an FBI agent, the victim?s missing badge is found on the body of a dead transient. The case seems a perfect fit for David Mapstone, history-professor-turned-Maricopa-County-deputy-sheriff. That is, if he can get past a forced partnership with rival cold-case expert Sgt. Kate Vare and the FBI?s strange stonewalling about the details of the agent?s killing. To complicate matters, there are the crimes making...
Author
Series
Libby Clark novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Libby Clark, a gutsy Bryn Mawr graduate, is determined to find her place as a scientist in a world where women are thought better suited to housework and marriage. As the only female scientist in the top secret facility, Libby is excited to begin what she believes is important government research. She soon begins to suspect, however, that not all is as it seems. And to make matters worse, one frosty night she discovers a dead body sprawled behind...
16) Unpunished
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
It begins with the kind of bizarre death that makes headlines-literally. A copy editor at the Cleveland Herald is found hanging above the grinding wheels of the newspaper assembly line, a wide strap wrapped around his throat. Forensic investigator Maggie Gardiner has her suspicions about this apparent suicide inside the tsunami of tensions that is the news industry today-and when the evidence suggests murder, Maggie has no choice but to place her...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A cat-and-mouse game between New York police and a killer, hired to eliminate a trio of witnesses in a trial. He has already killed one and detectives Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic, and Amelia Sachs have to catch him before he kills the other two. By the author of The Bone Collector.
18) The sixth idea
Author
Series
Monkeewrench volume 7
Language
English
Description
The peaceful Christmas season in Minneapolis is shattered when two friends, Chuck Spencer and Wally Luntz, scheduled to meet in person for the first time, are murdered on the same night, two hours and several miles apart, dramatically concluding winter vacation for homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth. An hour north of Minneapolis, Lydia Ascher comes home to find two dead men in her basement. When Leo and Gino discover her connection to...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Quadriplegic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme has learned over time that he can still fight crime using his best weapon of all, his brilliant mind. His able assistant, NYPD officer Amelia Sachs is more than his helper, she's also his lover and wants to have a child with him one day. Their latest case involves a man who smuggles desperate people out of China for an outrageous fee. This time something goes wrong with the assignment and the smuggler known...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli is already at the crime scene when medical examiner Maura Isles arrives on the Chinatown rooftop. Rizzoli's gut says they're on the trail of a twisted predator and when a monkey hair is found on the body, other clues point Rizzoli and Isles in the direction of the fable of the Monkey King."--from NoveList.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request