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41) Cast in shadow
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Chronicles of Elantra volume 1
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English
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After fleeing Nightshade because children like herself were being murdered, Kaylin found a place with the Hawks, who patrol and police the City of Elantra. But children are dying once again, and she recognizes the pattern. Ordered back into Nightshade with a partner she doesn't trust, she must find the killer and survive the attentions of those who claim to be her allies.
42) Cold granite
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Logan McRae mysteries volume 1
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English
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It's DS Logan's first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn't get much worse. Three-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch: strangled, mutilated and a long time dead. And he's only the first. There's a serial killer stalking the Granite City and the local media are baying for blood.
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Traces the investigation of reporter Carter Ross into the house fire deaths of two boys whose mother claims she was working two jobs to support them, a story that is thrown into dispute by a corrupt government program and the disappearance of the mother's boyfriend.
44) Dark harvest
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"In the closed Amish community of Maplecreek, someone is threatening the children...Policewoman Kat Lindley is running from the big-city job that nearly got her killed, and from memories of the abused boy she failed to save. She agrees to undertake a dangerous masquerade within the peaceful Amish community of Maplecreek, desperate to save its children..."--P. [4] of cover.
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2015.
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"In such a small community as the Falkland Islands, a missing child is unheard of. In such a dangerous landscape it can only be a terrible tragedy, surely... When another child goes missing, and then a third, it's no longer possible to believe that their deaths were accidental, and the villagers must admit that there is a murderer among them. Even Catrin Quinn, a damaged woman living a reclusive life after the accidental deaths of her own two sons...
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Allison Jensen, haunted by the disappearance of her childhood friend and her own brutal attack, lashes out against the powerful leaders of her Mormon community as she struggles to bring her attacker to justice and uncover the truth about her friend's disappearance.
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Roth trilogy volume 1
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English
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The first novel in Andrew Taylor's ground-breaking Roth trilogy, which was adapted into the acclaimed drama Fallen Angel. A tense psychological thriller for fans of S J Watson.
Little Lucy Appleyard is snatched from her child minder's on a cold winter afternoon, and the nightmare begins. When Eddie takes her home to beautiful, child-loving Angel, he knows he's done the right thing. But Lucy's not like their other visitors, and unwittingly she strikes...
48) The craftsman
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Florence Lovelady's career was made when she convicted coffin-maker Larry Grassbrook of a series of child murders 30 years ago in a small village in Lancashire. Like something out of a nightmare, the victims were buried alive. Grassbrook is dead, so when events start to repeat themselves, is it a copycat? Or did she get it wrong all those years ago? When her own son goes missing, the case gets personal.
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Portland Detective Kyle Sommers, grieving the death of his young daughter Shelby, is laughed off his job when he reports the existence of a time traveler--the blue man--who is trying to save the life of his own child, Naomi, by thwarting the plots of the Cradle Robber, a serial killer who targets defenseless children.
50) Mad maudlin
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Discovering that he has an unknown younger brother named Magnus who has run away to escape his dysfunctional family, Eric the Bard races to find the missing teenager before he falls prey to Bloody Mary, an evil demon that preys on children.
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Logan McRae mysteries volume 9
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English
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When you catch a twisted killer there should be a reward, right? What Acting Detective Inspector Logan McRae gets instead is a "development opportunity" out in the depths of rural Aberdeenshire. Welcome to divisional policing -- catching drug dealers, shop lifters, vandals and the odd escaped farm animal. Then a little girl's body washes up just outside the sleepy town of Banff, kicking off a massive manhunt. The Major Investigation Team is up from...
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"After the screen of a run-down drive-in movie theater collapses and kills four people, the daughter of one of the victims asks private investigator Cal Weaver to look into a recent break-in at her father's house. Cal discovers a hidden basement room where it's clear that salacious activities have taken place -- as well as evidence of missing DVDs. But his investigation soon becomes more complicated when he realizes it may not be discs the thief was...
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"Seven-year-old Lucy Randall had been kidnapped in broad daylight fourteen years ago, and now Detective Katie Randall is determined to solve her sister's case. Her only option is to team up with the man whose family hates her. Former FBI agent Jordan Grey knows the beautiful cop isn't to blame for his brother's death, but he can't risk causing his parents more pain by falling for Katie. He'll have to focus on finding Lucy. But when Katie and Jordan...
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"Out here, in the quaint ceaseless calm of an English village, it is hard to imagine a life beyond. From the outside, everything seems to make sense. Everything has its place. My friends are open and unsuspecting. There is none of the natural suspicion of the Argentinian. . . For me, it's unbelievable in a way. For two decades after being forced to leave his native Argentina, Detective Chief Inspector Guillermo Downes has sought tranquility in...
55) Lost souls
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2004.
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Discovering the dead body of a young child, a victim of an apparent hit-and-run accident, a police officer conducts a covert investigation when the case is thwarted by both the mayor and the police chief.
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[2021]
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"Cuando los obreros que están llevando a cabo las tareas de demolición de una vieja casa en Norwich descubren el esqueleto incompleto de un niño, la arqueóloga forense Ruth Galloway intenta esclarecer su procedencia. ¿Se trata de un sacrificio ritual llevado a cabo por nuestros ancestros o de la víctima de un asesinato? Ruth intentará averiguarlo junto al detective Harry Nelson. La casa fue un orfanato en la década de 1970, y el sacerdote...
57) The stonecutter
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When a young girl's body is pulled out of the harbor in the small Swedish resort town of Fjallbacka, Det. Patrik Hedström becomes the lead investigator as he struggles with lazy and inept colleagues and an even remoter-than-usual boss. It's his grim task to discover who could be behind the murder of the child both he and his partner Erica knew well.
58) In a dark house
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"Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James investigate linked cases of a body found in a burned warehouse beside a women's shelter for victims of spousal abuse and the mysterious disappearance of a beautiful, young, emotionally fragile hospital administrator. Meanwhile, nine-year-old Harriet, a victim of parental abduction waits in an old, dark, rambling house, not knowing whether she will ever see her feuding parents again."--from NoveList....
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When a friend of Brunetti's brother, a priest recently returned from years of missionary work, calls with a request, Brunetti suspects the man's motives. A new, American-style Protestant sect has begun to meet in the city, and it's possible the priest is merely apprehensive of the competition. But the preacher could also be fleecing his growing flock, so Brunetti and Paola, along with Inspector Vianello and his wife, go undercover.
60) Bad moon
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Kat Campbell mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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"On the same night that Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, nine-year-old Charlie Olmstead jumped on his bike to see if he could get a better look. It was the last anyone ever saw of him. After Perry Hollow Police Chief Jim Campbell found Charlie's bike caught up above a waterfall, he assumed the worst, and so did everyone else except Charlie's mother. Years later, Eric Olmstead--famous author and Charlie's brother--has come back to bury his mother...
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