Catalog Search Results
421) The family bones
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Psychology student Olivia Eriksen's family is notorious among true-crime buffs. Faced with a legacy of psychopathy that spans generations, Olivia has spent much of her academic life trying to answer one chilling question: Nature or nurture? Although she's kept a safe distance from her blood relatives for years, Olivia agrees to attend a weekend reunion. After all, her fiancé is eager to meet his future in-laws, and the gathering may give her a chance...
422) Bring them home
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When two young girls disappear from their primary school, the village of Heighington is put on high alert--and not for the first time. Called in to investigate, Detective Karen Hart is sure that parallels with a previous disappearance are anything but coincidental. DS Hart is still reeling from a case she tried and failed to solve eighteen months ago, when a young woman vanished without a trace. She's no nearer to the truth of what happened to Amy...
423) From darkest skies
Author
Series
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"After a five year sabbatical following the tragic death of his wife and fellow agent Alysha, Keon Rause returns to the distant colony world of Magenta to resume service with the Magentan Intelligence Service. With him he brings an artificial recreation of his wife's personality, a simulacrum built from every digital trace she left behind. She has been constructed with one purpose -- to discover the truth behind her own death -- but Keon's relationship...
424) Vestida de blanco
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"Five years ago Amanda Pierce was excitedly preparing to marry her college sweetheart in a lavish ceremony at The Grand Victoria Hotel in Palm Beach. With their guests and families on site, Amanda disappeared. In present-day New York City, Laurie Moran realizes a missing bride is the perfect cold case for her investigative television series, Under Suspicion. She and her team set out to recreate the night of the disappearance at the Florida resort...
Author
Series
Publisher
[Nathan Dylan Goodwin]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
April 2020, Twin Falls, Idaho. A serial killer is on the loose. A nameless man is kidnapping young women from their own homes, taking them out of the city to kill them before returning their bodies to random locations around the city. Detective Maria Gonzalez heads up the investigation but has very few leads to pursue. As time passes and fears rise that the killer might strike again with a fifth victim, Maria turns to Venator-an investigative genetic...
Author
Series
Lotte Meerman ; 4
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"It's hard for anyone to have their work scrutinised in public. For Amsterdam-based detective Lotte Meerman, listening to the Right to Justice podcast as they dissect one of her old cases is made even more harrowing as every episode makes fresh accusations of a bungled operation. As the podcast reveals hidden facts about the arrest of Ruud Klaver, the one thing Lotte is still convinced of is that it was Ruud who was guilty of the murder of a student...
427) Picture you dead
Author
Series
Roy Grace ; 18
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Harry and Freya, an ordinary couple, dreamed for years of finding something priceless buried amongst the tat in a car boot sale. It was a dream they knew in their hearts would never come true - until the day it did...They buy the drab portrait for a few pounds, for its beautiful frame, planning to cut the painting out. Then studying it back at home there seems to be another picture beneath, of a stunning landscape. Could it be a long-lost masterpiece...
428) A Florentine revenge
Author
Publisher
Sphere, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"On a scorching summer afternoon in the suburbs of Florence, a small girl goes missing at a crowded swimming pool and is never seen alive again. For fifteen years a terrible crime lies unsolved, becoming one of the city's darkest and most shameful secrets, until one bitter winter night another body is found, at another swimming pool, and the case is reopened. Celia Donnelly had just arrived in Florence at the time of the girl's disappearance and can...
429) Secret remains
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A cold case murder, a grisly discovery, and a viper's nest of resentment, betrayal, and dirty secrets converge in this mystery. It's been 12 years since Sandi Parkman went missing after being dropped off at home by her schoolmate, Nick Larson, now the Sheriff of Freeport, Michigan. When a construction crew unearths Sandi's bones--along with Nick's letterman jacket and one of his hairs--Nick becomes suspect number one in the murder. Dr. Emily Hartford,...
430) Asesinato en directo
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"A los tres años, Timmy fue el único testigo del asesinato de su padre. Solo él le vio la cara al culpable. Pasados cinco años todavía tiene pesadillas y recuerda con ansiedad los ojos azules y penetrantes del asesino; pero a su madre, Laurie, lo que más le atormenta es la amenaza que le hizo a su hijo: "Dile a tu madre que ella será la siguiente y después irás tú". Ahora otro crimen ocupa la vida de Laurie, esta vez como productora de un...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones Destino
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"Lisbeth Salander está cumpliendo condena en la cárcel de Flodberga, en la que intenta a toda costa evitar cualquier tipo de conflicto con el resto de las presas. Cuando Lisbeth se convierte en la protectora de la joven de Bangladesh que ocupa la celda vecina, la peligrosa líder de las internas la coloca en su punto de mira. Holger Palmgren visita a Lisbeth y le explica que ha recibido una serie de documentos que contienen información sobre los...
432) Last one alive
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen months after the Parkman case, Dr. Hartford has returned to Chicago to finish her surgical residency. But when she is contacted out of the blue by Solange McClelland, the only survivor of a decade-old triple homicide, Emily is compelled to dig deeper. She doesn't know the details of the event but remembers it as one of the few cases her deceased father never solved. On her thirtieth birthday, Solange opens a long-forgotten safe-deposit...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
"Estaré muerto en tres meses. Vengo a contar mi historia. Esta es la escalofriante invitación de Sebastian Trapp, reconocido novelista de misterio, a Nicky Hunter, la profesora y crítica experta en su obra con la que mantiene una relación epistolar. Desde la mansión del autor en San Francisco, Nicky comienza a desentrañar la historia de la vida de Trapp bajo las atentas miradas de su enigmática esposa y de su hija mayor. Pero Sebastian Trapp...
Author
Series
Publisher
Adams Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"You can now explore new RPG character ideas with this character backstory guide to the most popular RPG genres beyond fantasy, from sci-fi to horror and superhero to western-themed games. This latest guide from One Shot creator and RPG expert James D'Amato helps you build out an existing character or create a new one, with these activities that provide plenty of RPG fun before you even hit the gaming table. With activities to help you flesh out characters...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request