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Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"The House of the Whispering Pines" is a gripping mystery novel by Anna Katharine Green. The story revolves around the mysterious death of a young woman named Louise Armstrong at the Whispering Pines estate. As Inspector Gryce investigates the case, he discovers a web of secrets, lies, and conflicting testimonies among the residents of the house. With each revelation, the tension rises, and the true nature of the crime becomes more elusive.
This atmospheric...
Author
Publisher
Legend Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
“A well-crafted mystery . . . Crime writing at its best” from the bestselling author of Beneath the Ashes and Before It’s Too Late (David Evans, international bestselling author).
Be under no illusions by her kind face and eloquent manner . . . This woman is guilty of murder . . .
Grace Daniels is distraught after her daughter’s body is found
...Be under no illusions by her kind face and eloquent manner . . . This woman is guilty of murder . . .
Grace Daniels is distraught after her daughter’s body is found
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
This is a chapter from The Criminal Act: The Role and Influence of Routine Activity Theory edited by Martin A. Andresen and Graham Farrell. This chapter is available open access under a CC BY license. Target suitability is a cornerstone of Marcus Felson's routine activities approach, and critical in determining crime rates. Recent research identifies reduced target suitability, via improved security, as central to the 'crime drop' experienced in...
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Ex-NYPD homicide detective Nico Doyle investigates the murder of a local bartender in the Tuscan countryside.
On a late October Sunday morning in Gravigna, local maresciallo Perillo is having breakfast with ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle when he is called back to the station in Greve. Laura Benati, the young manager of Hotel Bella Vista, is worried—her bartender and good friend eighty-year-old Cesare Costanzi has been missing for...
On a late October Sunday morning in Gravigna, local maresciallo Perillo is having breakfast with ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle when he is called back to the station in Greve. Laura Benati, the young manager of Hotel Bella Vista, is worried—her bartender and good friend eighty-year-old Cesare Costanzi has been missing for...
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
“Peter Lovesey tosses off a real brain-banger in Bloodhounds, the fourth book in a challenging series . . . I am mad for these pyrotechnic teasers, and this one had my head spinning.”—The New York Times Book Review
A rare stamp and a corpse are discovered in Bath within hours of each other. As he investigates, Inspector Peter Diamond discovers that both the person who found the stamp and the victim...
A rare stamp and a corpse are discovered in Bath within hours of each other. As he investigates, Inspector Peter Diamond discovers that both the person who found the stamp and the victim...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this #1 New York Times bestseller,an attention-seeking copycat from the Women’s Murder Club’s past is recreating murders by a famous killer—with devastating new twists.
Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan Burke in jail.Reporter Cindy Thomas wrote a book that put him on the bestseller list.
An obsessed maniac has turned Burke’s true-crime story into a...
Publisher
Springer
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This Brief presents new approaches and innovative challenges to address bringing technology into community-oriented policing efforts. “Community-oriented policing” is an approach that encourages police to develop and maintain personal relationships with citizens and community organizations. By developing these partnerships, the goal is to enhance trust and legitimacy of police by the community (and vice versa), and focus on engaging the community...
Author
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Finalist 2016 RONE Award
Jock Algren arrives on Longboat Key in a state of depression and hopelessness. His most recent mission for his secretive U.S. government intelligence agency has been disastrous and his friends Matt Royal and J. D. Duncan aren't sure they'll be able to pull him out of his despair then the bad guys show up and danger erupts on all fronts.
Longboat Key Detective J. D. Duncan is investigating a cold case when the brother of the...
Author
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Murder leads to the White House Marko Zorn, a Washington D.C. homicide detective with expensive tastes in art, classic cars, and women, must take on extra work—not always strictly legal, often unorthodox and usually dangerous—to supplement his income—work which requires his special combination of skill and steel nerves. Although he's skilled at navigating the corridors of law enforcement and the hideouts of criminal gangs, he'd prefer to stay...
Author
Publisher
BCcampus
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In this book, you will examine the moral and ethical issues that exist within law enforcement. This book will also familiarize you with the basic history, principles, and theories of ethics. These concepts will then be applied to the major components of the criminal justice system: policing, the courts, and corrections. Discussion will focus on personal values, individual responsibility, decision making, discretion, and the structure of accountability....
11) The Squandered
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Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Bruno Johnson believes so passionately in justice that he’ll lie, cheat, and steal to achieve it—and he’ll pulverize anybody who gets in his way."—Booklist
The Squandered propels Bruno into an emotionally charged high-speed chase as he and Marie leave their rescued kids in Costa Rica and risk returning to the US at the request of Bruno’s terminally ill father. Bruno’s estranged and incarcerated brother needs Bruno to help rescue his abducted...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden to escape the ravages of Cromwell's raiders.
Now into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective...
Now into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
An RT Book Review “Top Pick” and “Best First Mystery" nominee
A Library Journal “Debut of the Month”
Fans of K-9 mysteries and C.J. Box will love this debut police procedural that introduces Colorado’s best crime-fighting duo: Mattie Cobb and police dog, Robo.
While investigating the mysterious death of a young girl, Officer Mattie Cobb...
A Library Journal “Debut of the Month”
Fans of K-9 mysteries and C.J. Box will love this debut police procedural that introduces Colorado’s best crime-fighting duo: Mattie Cobb and police dog, Robo.
While investigating the mysterious death of a young girl, Officer Mattie Cobb...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The chilling debut mystery in the Brighton Mysteries series from Edgar Allen Poe Award-winner Elly Griffiths—author of the Ruth Galloway Mysteries—about a band of magicians who served together in World War II tracking a killer who’s performing their deadly tricks.
“Captivating.”—Wall Street Journal
“An absorbing read, the debut of another great series.”—San Jose Mercury News
“A...
“Captivating.”—Wall Street Journal
“An absorbing read, the debut of another great series.”—San Jose Mercury News
“A...
Author
Publisher
Newman Springs Publishing, Inc.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
For over five years, an individual has been writing checks that do not have sufficient funds in the accounts. He is able to obtain state driver's licenses that he uses to open checking accounts with just enough money to keep the accounts open. He does not really steal other people's identification, he just makes up the names that he uses. For over five years, he has cost communities in Southern California thousands of dollars and has caused police
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Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Winner: WILLA Literary Award for Fiction, Contemporary Fiction
Silver Award: IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, Mystery
Finalist: Colorado Authors League, Mystery
Reunite with Officer Mattie Cobb and her canine companion, Robo, in the sixth gripping installment of the Timber Creek K-9 mysteries—“guaranteed to delight every dog lover” (Booklist)
Murder stalks the...
Silver Award: IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, Mystery
Finalist: Colorado Authors League, Mystery
Reunite with Officer Mattie Cobb and her canine companion, Robo, in the sixth gripping installment of the Timber Creek K-9 mysteries—“guaranteed to delight every dog lover” (Booklist)
Murder stalks the...
Author
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
USA Today best-selling author
When the 10th richest man in the world is brutally murdered—along with his prized Borzoi dogs in a luxurious East Hampton beach house—only one man is suspected of committing the crime: Juan Suarez, a handsome, charismatic, and illegal Mexican immigrant who worked for the victim. Now, renowned trail lawyer Raquel Rematti must take on the defense of the man the media has dubbed “The Blade of the Hamptons.” Not only...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In 1964, farmer and part-time Constable Ned Parker combine forces with John Washington, the almost mythical black deputy sheriff from nearby Paris, to track down a disturbed individual who is rapidly becoming a threat to the entire small Texas community of Center Springs. When Ned is summoned to a hot cornfield one morning to examine the remains of a tortured bird dog, he finds a dark presence in their quiet community. A farmer by trade, Ned is usually...
19) Killer Dolphin
Author
Publisher
Felony & Mayhem Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
“Miss Marsh works her characteristic storyteller's magic with the elements of theater and suspense.” —Kirkus Reviews
The impresario Peregrine Jay has fulfilled a long-cherished dream: Thanks to a very generous gift, he now owns the Dolphin Theatre, and has restored it to its former glory. To celebrate the reopening, a no-expenses-spared production of The Glove, a new play about the discovery
...The impresario Peregrine Jay has fulfilled a long-cherished dream: Thanks to a very generous gift, he now owns the Dolphin Theatre, and has restored it to its former glory. To celebrate the reopening, a no-expenses-spared production of The Glove, a new play about the discovery
Author
Publisher
Hodgkin and Blount
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Come to Missouri! See the sights! Solve a murder!
When Teancum Leon, a wildlife veterinarian, and his husband, semi-reformed conman Jeremiah Berger, go to a conference in central Missouri, they're expecting a short and uneventful trip. Tean will present a paper, attend a few panels, and network (under duress). Jem is looking forward to unlimited poolside drinks, some well-deserved couple time, and peace and
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